Act your age, Eve Brown

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In USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert’s third novel in the Brown Sisters romantic comedy series, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard—literally.

Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong. So she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It’s time for Eve to grow up and prove herself—even though she’s not entirely sure how.

Jacob Wayne is in control. Always. The bed and breakfast owner’s on a mission to dominate the hospitality industry and he expects nothing less than perfection. So when a purple-haired tornado of a woman turns up out of the blue to interview for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. Then she hits him with her car—supposedly by accident. Yeah, right.

Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Before long, she’s infiltrated his work, his kitchen—and his spare bedroom. Jacob hates everything about it. Or rather, he should. Sunny, chaotic Eve is his natural-born nemesis, but the longer these two enemies spend in close quarters, the more their animosity turns into something else. Like Eve, the heat between them is impossible to ignore—and it’s melting Jacob’s frosty exterior.

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Butler, Ione Narrator
Hibbert, Talia Author
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9780062941275
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Library Journal Reviews

Eve Brown, who has yet to find her way in life, is buoyed by a mostly supportive family and a trust fund. Unlike her accomplished older sisters, she struggles with feelings of inadequacy, following then abandoning her varying interests and passions in search of a way of life that suits her. This apparent aimlessness baffles her extremely driven parents, who abruptly cut her off financially until she can live a life that they understand. Eve's distress leads her to an unfamiliar bed-and-breakfast, where a disastrous impromptu interview ends in her accidentally maiming its proprietor, Jacob. Jacob is neurodivergent, his perspective shaped by the strategies he has developed to exist in a world where most people don't think like him. He thinks he understands Eve, but comes to realize that none of his schemas could have prepared him for someone like her. The backdrop of a rapidly approaching regional festival gives the duo incentive to allow themselves to be vulnerable and provides plenty of opportunities for hilarity to ensue. Narrator Ione Butler ably differentiates the voices and accents of the novel's diverse cast of characters. VERDICT This final installment in the "Brown Sisters" trilogy is a treat and is sure to be popular.—Nicole Williams, Englewood, NJ

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