ARC Review of Dirty Scoundrel by Jessica Clare

Dirty Scoundrel is the 2^nd book in the Roughneck Billionaires series by Jessica Clare. Clay and Natalie were high school sweethearts and were deeply in love.   Clay had plans to propose to Natalie after he met her father, Chap Weston who is a former and famous actor. Only Chap didn’t want them together and planned to break them apart. There was miscommunication and misunderstandings between the two which had them on the outs and suddenly they had a huge blow up which ended their beautiful relationship. Fast forward 7 years later, Clay and his brothers are now billionaires and Clay has this thought that he would screw away then throw away his one love so he could move on with his life…so he offers her money without telling her his whole plan. Because Clay at this point is a total jerk. I mean, I sort of get it, it’s a revenge plan and he has a lot of hate towards his ex but he still has a lot of love toward her …so he wants to buy the girl who broke his heart and then screw her literally and figuratively.  Clay comes off as this total jerk, as this man who has let money mess with him and I WAS so afraid that I was going to end up DNF’ing this book but nope, I am really glad I kept reading. Clay was really hurt by what happened between them 7 years before and there was tons of miscommunication and misunderstanding to cause a lot of pain.

Now Natalie, she is a sassy, spunky, plucky gal who has been thru a lot in 7 years. Her dad’s health is very bad, she is his caregiver, she is in debt up to her eyeballs, she works a lot plus takes care of her dad with no help. This is a girl that gives so yes, she would sell her soul in order to run away from it all. But when it comes to her ex, she still loves him and yet there is some tension, some sort of pain from the past and in the present.  She knows that by letting Clay screw her in exchange for paying all her bills is wrong but what choice does she have? She is drowning in debt.

These two have a complicated history and  watching the journey these two take to find their way back together was very much worth the pain, the heartbreak, the ache, the passion, the joy and the love. Clay showed his true self and I saw him turn back into the great guy he really was and Natalie got the HEA she very much deserved!!

My Rating:  4.5  stars *****

“I received an advanced copy of this book from the author at no cost to me."