Thank you so much for the opportunity to review this book and to be an early reader via NetGalley! However, I will not be writing a review for this title at this time, as my reading preferences have since changed somewhat. In the event that I decide to review the book in the future, I will make sure to purchase a copy for myself or borrow it from a library. Once again, thank you so much for providing me with early access to this title. I truly appreciate it. Please feel free to contact me with any follow-up questions or concerns.

Cassidy has student loans out the wazoo, but has paid her own way. Imagine her surprise when she finds out her late father was filthy rich! She will inherent a good amount of money, but there are stipulations. She has to deal with her half-siblings, that are spoiled brats, for one year at the familys business.

Mason is super hot and the sparks between him an Cass are off the charts!! Will they give in to the sparks?

I would give this book 3.5 stars. I did enjoy the story and the characters. Thanks to Kensington Books via NetGalley for a copy of this book.

DNF at 57%.

I gave it the old college try (as they say) but I found Mason's behaviour predatory and disturbing and Cassidy was a bit of a wet doormat.

Cassidy Calhoun has been brought up by a single mother, life has been hard and she never knew anything about her father. Then one day she is brought into a lawyer's office to discover that she is the secret daughter of an oil billionaire. He has died and left his business to his various children provided they each succeed in working in the business for 12 months, oh and they all have to live in his mansion together. All the kids are rich, spoilt and have never worked a day in their lives. But Cassidy is practically perfect in every way, paying her own way through college, working diligently yadda yadda.

Each of the children's performance will be judged by Mason MacKenzie, brother to family lawyer and nephew of the man who runs the rival Texas Star Oil and Gas. Mason and his brother and sister collectively own 49% of Texas Star and are desperate to remove their uncle whose management is driving the business into the ground. Mason concocts a plan to make a play for Cassidy in an attempt to wrest control of Calhoun Petroleum from the Calhoun children and into his own control.

Imagine Dallas with twenty-somethings.

The trouble with this book was Mason. Whilst I could accept that he had less than honourable intentions but began to fall for Cassidy when he realised she wasn't the entitled spoilt princess he imagined, he also aggressively pursued Cassidy and refused to pay attention when she said no, told him she wasn't interested and told him she had a boyfriend. I have a real issue with men who don't listen or who force women to do things (in this case ride a horse when she had expressed no interest and was frightened of horses). When Mason undermined Cassidy in Calhoun Petroleum by kissing her, against her will, on her first day in the office I had to DNF.

Growing up with a single mother, Cassidy never had much money. She has a job she doesn't like, a boyfriend that is more off than on, a junker for a car, and bills that just keep stacking up. A summons to the reading of a rich man's will is unexpected but intriguing. Suddenly her debt is gone, All she has to do is live with her newfound half siblings and work for the family company for one year. No problem.

Mason is from the competition. How can he be trusted to oversee the running of their company? The stipulations of the will are quite clear. They state not only what departments the heirs are to work in but what qualifies as success. Nowhere in the will does it say he cannot date one of the heirs while observing them. In fact, it doesn't even say he can't use the information he learns to his advantage in the future. His friend may have trusted him a little too much.

Circus nightmares, death threats and real attempts make earning this happily-ever-after a little more difficult.

Good start to a series. I am interested in how the other siblings will clean up their acts and where they will go from here.