All In

I should have known better, I rarely enjoy romance books with revenge plotlines. I hate romance novels where one character (it's usually the hero, in cases like this) uses the heroine to enact some sort of revenge plot against her male family members. In this case, he didn't necessarily use her, but he engaged in a relationship with her knowing full well, that he planned on ruining her family and their business, which she was very strongly tied to. I don't care how valid his reasons for revenge were, his actions towards the heroine were murky at best and despicable at worst. Their relationship could perhaps have started in the aftermath of the takeover and could have been an enemies-to-lovers romance where both parties were fully aware of the score. But instead, we got this entire situation, whatever it was. Will probably not be reading anything else from this author.