Nicole

Title: Nicole: Strong Girls Don't Fall for their Enemy

Series: Sewing in SoCal #3

Author: Sarah Monzon

Publisher: Radiant Publications

Genre: Christian Fiction, Romcom, Contemporary Romance

Source: Own

My Review:

Nicole is the third book in the Sewing in SoCal series by Sarah Monzon. While each book can be read as a stand-alone novel, I recommend reading them in order as the friends are in each book and you will get minor spoilers to the earlier books.

Read for:

🏈opposites attract

🏈witty-banter

🏈great chemistry

🏈Sierra plays football

🏈single mom

🏈depth to the story

🏈continuation of the previous stories' characters

🏈curvy heroine

I am enjoying this series and looking forward to reading the final two books.

★★★★/5

Synopsis (Amazon):  

She never imagined anything could make her angrier than the thought of the polar icecaps melting. Then she met Drew Bauer.

There are a few things everyone should know about Nicole Applegate.

1. She doesn't think the words "calm" and "down" should ever be used together. Yes, she's a passionate person, but since when is displaying enthusiasm a bad thing? In her opinion, people need to be stirred up more, not stewing in their complacency.
2. She will do anything for her daughter, even take learn how to have fun lessons from her nemesis when it's brought to her attention that, in fact, both she and her daughter are too serious and uptight and need to relax and enjoy themselves more.
3. Learning to sew was a necessity because buying an ethically-sourced wardrobe was outside her budget as a hairstylist and single mother.

Unlike other women she knows, Nicole Applegate is not looking for a romantic relationship. Between raising a miniature human and single-handedly trying to save the planet, she doesn't have time to date. Besides, her ex-husbands made it clear her winning personality and curves-have-curves figure weren't desirable traits, and she doesn't plan to ever change for any man. She probably would have continued eschewing other things in favor of single-minded activism if the reality that her daughter, Sierra, had no idea how to have fun hadn't hit her head on. Now Nicole has to turn to the man who raises her body temperature faster than global warming does the Earth's to teach both her and Sierra how to let loose, the immature, everything-is-a-game Dr. Drew Bauer.

Drew Bauer knows firsthand that there are seasons and circumstances in life that can steal joy, so he lives life looking for the good amidst the bad, a ready laugh on his lips. When he meets much-too-serious Nicole, he makes it his mission to get her to lighten up and unwind. His methods of teasing, flirting, and pushing her buttons only seems to make fire shoot from her eyes...a sight he's slowly becoming addicted to.

They are flint and steal. An all-consuming fire just one spark away.

Nicole is book #3 in the Sewing in SoCal series. Each book is a stand alone sweet, closed-door romantic comedy that follows members of the same sewing group through their romantic misadventures.