Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: No Good Deed
AUTHOR: Kelly Clemmons
PUBLISHER: Rooster and Pig Publishing
LENGTH: 295 Pages
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Raised by an over-bearing and demanding father, Scott Owen leaves London and returns to Cardiff to take over the family business after his father is taken ill. He encounters a thief in his office, who is in fact his father’s executive assistant, Connor Murphy, who claims he is trying to retrieve what is rightfully his. Intrigued by his father’s hold over Connor, Scott sets out to discover the mysterious secret. He learns there is more to the young man than meets the eye. Connor accompanies Scott on a business trip to Cornwall, near his family home. Desperate to preserve his ancestral home and right a childhood mistake, Connor offers himself in exchange for the land and accepts Scott’s terms. Together, they must work to overcome the evil figure from Connor’s past who threatens to destroy their lives.
REVIEW:
Scott Owen has been working on assuming command at the family company due to his father’s health issues. Scott is called in to the headquarters late one night due to the capture of a thief by the company’s security team. The surprising thing is that the thief is his father’s assistant, Connor Murphy. Connor insists that there is something in the safe belonging to him, a crystal necklace. When Scott opens the safe, there is indeed a necklace there, but it is far more valuable than crystal. Scott assumes the worst about Connor. Company scuttlebutt has him as little more than a whore, employed by Scott’s dad to help on lucrative deals. Upon learning that Connor lives inside the headquarters building, which puzzles Scott, Scott orders him confined to his quarters and decides to deal with it in the morning. Scott leaves strict orders that no one is to tell his father until he has a chance to talk to Connor.
It comes as no surprise that his father has spies, but when Connor arrives with obvious signs of being beaten, Scott is angry. There is something else going on, and he needs to find out what it is. It doesn’t help that he was attracted to Connor the minute he saw him, and his Dad insists that he have nothing to do with Connor beyond a strictly business relationship, and threatens him with dire consequences if he doesn’t comply.
Connor Murphy is also attracted to Scott, but fighting the attraction hard. Things come to a head though when the pair fly from the headquarters in Wales, to Cornwall to look at some properties Scott’s Dad is looking at. One property he wants to develop with a luxury hotel and already has plans drawn up for the hotel.
The authors had me hooked when Scott and Connor arrived at Newquay airport in Cornwall. I was stationed at RAF St. Mawgan for three years in the 1980’s. RAF St. Mawgan became the Newquay airport after most of the base was closed down after the Cold War. Anyone who has ever spent a lengthy period in Cornwall can attest, there is something just a little other-worldly about the area.
I’m not giving further spoilers, but as Scott discovers, Connor already knows that Cornwall really is a magical place, as is the land Scott’s Dad wants to develop.
I really liked this book. I will re-read it again, and will look for other books by the team writing as Kelley Clemmons! I recommend you pick it up today!
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Hi, Dan, Thank you so much for the lovely 4 star review. Deed is our first book and we really appreciate it.
Kelly Clemmons.x