DESPITE ZERO PROOF IT’S WORKING and ample evidence it isn’t. Hmmm.) He loves her and wants her, but persists in believing his father’s version of marriage – provide and protect – is the best way to his wife’s heart. Quiet and afraid to voice his feelings, he exists to serve his wife.

So what does she do? Absolutely nothing.Īfter a stint abroad in the military, Dominic returned home a different man. Rosie has generous, loving, supportive friends, a miserable job, a disinterested husband, and money in the bank to make her dreams come true. The group even fundraised a portion of the money needed for Rosie to start her own restaurant Rosie just lacks the confidence to ‘go for it.’ So she spends her days at a job she hates, dressed in heels that make her miserable, and returns home every evening to a silent, stoic husband who only pays attention to her on Tuesdays, when they have incredible sex. She’s a brilliant cook, and dreams of opening her own restaurant one day – and her friends and the Just Us League (the women’s empowerment group started in Fix Her Up) never stop reminding her how talented she is. Rosie works as a perfume salesperson at a big box store and she hates it. This one is a mess, with none of the quirky, sexy fun of the previous book. Because of it, I had super high hopes for Love Her or Lose Her, but I should have known better based on my track record with Bailey. Reader, it featured a children’s party planner who liked dressing as a clown (I mean, come on!) and I loved it. I never know how I’m going to feel at the end of one of her novels. That was a pleasant surprise since my relationship with Tessa Bailey is hit or (mostly) miss. I loved Fix Her Up, book one in the Hot and Hammered series.

Love her or lose her