Thank you to Forever and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

CW: death of a parent (past), sexual harassment (past), broken foot, allergy incident

I would recommend if you're looking for (SPOILERS)

-m/f contemporary romance
-second chance
-work place
-this is just a hookup
-gruff tattooed simp
-dual timelines
-competency kink
-he falls first and hard

I was so hyped to read this book and gosh did it deliver. It had just the right amount of second chance angst, while overall just being fun. Ama loves being a wedding planner, but has zero desire to ever get married after her mother's sixteen marriages. A dash of doubt in her abilities and ambitious, the wedding world in Sacramento in small and her biggest wedding yet puts her smack dab in the circle of her ex Elliott.

Gosh Elliott. Tattooed in his favorite flowers, gruff, but with his heart on his sleeve. I adored getting his POV in those flashbacks. Because he just was so soft on Ama, just adored her. This was competency kink at its finest. He's a flower mastermind, with the architecture skills to match and just finds joy taking care of her. He may huff around about it but he's all in from the beginning and just pining away. He was epic and just had me swooning. Even with the end it wasn't saving Ama these two are very much a partnership and I was just screaming at the sweetness. And gosh the chemistry, this book delivers on the steam and I was here for it.

Ama and Elliott were such a solid couple. Continuing to be thrown together despite being broken up in all of these situations. Despite the breakup neither ever doubted the other's skills to deliver on this wedding. Add in some step siblings, A meddlesome ex boss and just wedding shenanigans this book was fun and honestly I could see it playing out on the screen. But the beating heart of this book is Ama and Elliott and I loved every moment of them past and present as they figured out what they wanted on different services, Elliott's truck, his work table. This book had so much heart, great chemistry and just a propulsive read.

Steam: 3.75