Book Review: The Billionaire Chef’s Baby by Leslie North

McClellan Billionaires Book 2

Covered in tattoos, sarcasm, and muscles, Arthur McClellan is the best thing to come out of the kitchen since sliced bread. A billionaire from birth, his trust fund hasn’t stopped his drive to achieve his dreams of celebrity chef status. However, a dying wish from his mother has caused him to pivot his aspirations. Instead of being the “bad boy,” he now wants to join the ranks of the happy chefs of the Taste Network. It’s taken a lot of convincing, but he’s finally landed a show: a wedding special filming in the Bahamas. But the network doesn’t trust him alone. They want a romantic interest: a perfect, bubbly wedding planner to soften his edges. Arthur’s not mad when they pick a wedding planner he’d had a single, very passionate night with. In fact, she just might be the cherry on top of his food show cake.

Cassandra Kelly has been winning the wedding planner game for years, and she wants more: national coverage for her creative celebrations. So when the Taste Network offers her the position of wedding planner on their new pilot, Cassandra jumps at the chance. The only catch? She’s got to be the “girlfriend” of famous bad boy Arthur McClellan— a position not unappealing to her after a celebratory night of passion that left her with a continuous craving for the chef… and an unplanned bun in the oven.

Now, they’ve got to fake their relationship on screen while wading through their real relationship off. They both agree the baby should be kept secret until they’re ready to spill the beans. But when a careless conversation reveals all to the producer, who thinks a secret baby would make for a great reality TV series, they have to decide how real they’re willing to get and how much their romance can weather for their careers. For two people who want to live in the public eye, they must decide how much of their passion they want to keep private.

This novel contains sexual content, profanity and substance abuse.

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My Review:

There was just something about Arthur that immediately captured my attention. It might have been the different masks he wore to be what others wanted to see of him, it could have been his feelings of loneliness in the middle of a room full of people, or it might just have been all that vulnerability under his cocky swagger. Cassandra was good but she simply couldn’t compete with my love for Arthur. And the further we got into the story, the meaner she was to Arthur, the less I liked her. I was glad to see that she changed her tune and was able to meet him in the middle after he had his epiphany. And the ending was pretty darned cute. I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book through Booksprout.

Other books in the series:

The Billionaire’s Pregnant Assistant (McClellan Billionaires Book 1)