Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with six directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamourous family’s mansion. The next items?

• Enjoy a drunken night out.
• Ride a motorcycle.
• Go camping.
• Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
• Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
• And… do something bad.

But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.

Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.

But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…

Chloe and Red both have unseen struggles: she has fibromyalgia and has some relationship trauma. They both try to mask their struggles (she with her biting comments and he with his overwillingness to help and be nice), but it’s not until they lower their shields a bit that they start to see the truths about each other, and in that seeing, they start to fall.

There’s so much that I love about this novel–the dialogue, the sarcastic humor, the sincere concern, the forgiveness. I laughed so many times. However, the sexual descriptions were a bit much for me. I’m not a fan of play-by-play descriptions in any context (whether it’s sexual, an attack scene, or even the mundane), but these particular descriptions made me uncomfortable (especially the verbiage used). I LOVED the characters so much, though, that I wanted to keep reading because I was so invested.

Overall, I LOVED the story; I just could have done without so much sexual description. If you like rom-coms with lots of steam, I highly recommend this book.

Rated R for sex and language. Get your copy here.

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