Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Shipping Orders

SERIES: Valentine’s Inc. Cruises #2

AUTHOR: Ashe Winters 

PUBLISHER: self-published 

LENGTH: 283 pages

RELEASE DATE: April 15, 2019

BLURB:

A happy ever after is not in the cards for me. But a short fling aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic might just be exactly what I need. 

When my friends suggest I take a much-needed vacation on their Valentine’s Inc. hosted cruise, I leap at the chance. I don’t have a lot of expectations for this matchmaking singles cruise—I’m certainly not looking for a future Mr. Chase Kelton. 

What I’m not prepared for is walking into my assigned suite to find a man passed out on the first day. I recognized the shy barista immediately. He’s been serving me my morning fix for a year and driving me crazy with the hard shell he keeps locked around him. I want to break it. I know there’s an entirely different man beneath it that I’m itching to reveal. 

Reign is the proverbial fish out of water, and when I learn the real reason he’s on this cruise, I see an opportunity I can’t resist. He needs a companion to show him the ropes—I can do that and so much more. 

An introverted barista with a crush, a wealthy executive afraid to fall in love, and a twist on fake boyfriends. Shipping Orders is a full length, standalone novel in the Valentine’s Inc. multi-author series. 

REVIEW:

I really loved this story. Something about Reign just got to me and I just adore him. He’s always putting himself down but doesn’t realize how strong he really is. He goes beyond his comfort zones to help people or ask for what he wants, even when it makes him blush to high hell. He’s just a sweetheart and made this book for me.

Reign’s been pushing after Chase for a while now. Chase has been lusting after Reign as well, but because of that wall Reign out up, Chase had a hard time showing it. So he flirted trying to get a ride out of Reign. It worked. But now these two are going on a cruise and they have no idea they are going to be on the same cruise. Through close friends and family of theirs, they were roped into it. But Reign’s fears of water and motion sickness started this cruise on the wrong foot and his first glimpse of his cabin mate was covered in vomit and in a fetal position on the floor. Could life get any worse? But Chase just took it in stride and took care of Reign. And they started talking, becoming friends. Chase was determined to see Reign smile this trip and did all he could to be his guide. But things changed after one drunken night. Their chemistry had been smoldering this whole time, but when Reign asked for a kiss the next morning and said in explicit detail of what he wanted Chase to do to him, things changed. They made rules. It was only for the duration of the cruise, but things changed even more. Love blossomed. But can Chase get over the fear of his family and can Reign get past Chase’s mother trying to run him off?

I get tickled when Chase calls Reign puppy in this book? They aren’t in to puppy play. It’s just an expression Reign gets that makes Chase think of a puppy and it’s so damn endearing. I just love it. I love, too, how these two have circled each other. But shy Reign was the one who got things started. They’re good for each other. Chase brings Reing out of his shell and Reign gives Chase someone who loves him for him and not his money or name. They’re good for each other in other ways too. They’re very compatible with each other in spite of what would be different social standings. And they don’t care. Chase wanted to run, not because Reign scared him, but because of how his family is and he wants to protect him. And after meeting the mother, I can’t blame him. She needs to be smacked and hard.

But it’s a good love story. A slow burn. With a friendship and intimacy that makes it even better.

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