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If Opposites Do Actually Attract, Then Gunnar Erickson And Frankie Reeves Take The Cake. Frankie Reeves Is Complicated, Even Though She Won’t Admit It. She Fills Her Days Working As An Er Nurse, Taking Care Of Her Mom, And Searching For The Father She Never Knew. Anything Else Has No Place In Her Perfectly Compartmentalized, Purposefully Simple Life. Attachments? No Thank You. She Has No Time For That. Gunnar Erickson Recently Moved To Green Valley To Train At Viking Mma With His Brother Cage. Being The Youngest Of The Erickson Clan, He’s Always Felt Like He Has Something To Prove, And Now That He’s Finished With College, It’s His Time To Shine. But Before He Can Step Into The Ring, A Freak Accident Sends Him To The Er And Into The Care Of One Frankie Reeves. While He’s Immediately Smitten, She Pretends To Be Unfazed By This Six-foot-three, Two Hundred And Thirty-pound Beef Cake. Gunnar Sets Out To Prove To Frankie That, Not Only Does She Like Him More Than She Wants To Admit, But He’s Not The Uneducated, Brute She Assumes He Is. To Frankie, He’s The Worst Kind Of Complication, But That Doesn’t Make It Easy To Stay Away. ‘beef Cake’ Is A Full-length Contemporary Romance, Can Be Read As A Standalone, And Is Book #4 In The Donner Bakery Series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
A no-nonsense ER nurse finds her carefully compartmentalized life disrupted by a charming MMA fighter who lands in her care. Frankie Reeves is determined to keep her life simple, focusing on her demanding job, her mother, and a search for her father. Her resolve is tested when Gunnar Erickson, a rising MMA star, is admitted to her ER after a freak accident. Despite her best efforts to remain unfazed by the imposing athlete, Gunnar is immediately smitten and sets out to prove he's more than just an uneducated brute, challenging Frankie's carefully constructed emotional barriers.
The premise sets up a classic enemies-to-lovers or opposites-attract romance narrative, common within the contemporary romance genre. The focus on an ER nurse and an MMA fighter suggests a blend of high-stakes personal lives and the potential for intense emotional and physical conflict. Readers likely anticipate a story that explores themes of vulnerability, preconceived notions, and the challenges of opening oneself up to love. The inclusion of a search for a father adds a layer of personal depth to the protagonist's arc, promising a resolution that intertwines romantic and familial discovery.
Page Count:
248
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
Smartypants Romance
ISBN-10:
1949202283
ISBN-13:
9781949202281
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