There’s the family scandal and drama, which reminded me of soap operas and family sagas. There’s the progressive sentiment behind a conflict at Chandler’s, Nicholas’s workplace-protestors are taking issue with products made by prisoners for no pay. There’s the passionate push-pull between Nicholas and Livvy and the emotional toll their secret encounters take on them. Hate to Want You is a composite of romance genre elements I have never seen brought together in one book. But is it what they feel for each other that is bad for them, or the obstacles that keep them apart? Can their families ever understand and support their desire to be together, or will they only come between Livvy and Nicholas if they learn about their secret relationship? And with every subsequent encounter, each learns more of who the other has become in the years since their separation.Įach is initially convinced the other is bad for him/her, unhealthy. When they run into each other again, after interference from a family member who wants to keep them apart, they end up in bed together once more.
Livvy’s presence in Rockville changes things. They might have had other, short-lived relationships, but when the time came for their annual reunion, they’d always be single. When the company’s flagship store, now called Chandler’s, was burned, Livvy’s twin brother Jackson was blamed by the Chandlers.ĭespite all the bad blood between their families and their long-ago breakup after the accident, Nicholas and Livvy have never been able to forget or let go of each other. Livvy’s brothers, Jackson and Paul, saw this as theft. In the aftermath, Brendan Chandler, Nicholas’s dad, blamed Robert for the accident and persuaded Livvy’s mother, Tani, to sell him her half of the company for far less than it was worth. The Oka-Kane and Chandler fortunes were intertwined, and Livvy and Nicholas were a young golden couple, their lives filled with promise-until the day Livvy’s father, Robert, and Nicholas’s mother, Maria, died in a car crash. Their grandfathers, Sam Oka and John Chandler, had started the successful store chain C&O together. Anger, heartache and heat have marked all their reunions. As usual, Nicholas and Livvy spark off each other. When Nicholas learns that Livvy is back, he goes to the tattoo parlor where she works, to find out her reasons for coming home. Now Livvy has returned to their hometown of Rockville for the first time in a decade, to care for her mom, who has a broken hip.
Every year but the last, when Livvy did not text Nicholas the coordinates for their meeting, as she usually does. Every year since the decade-old rift between their once close-families opened up, Nicholas Chandler and Livvy Oka-Kane have met in secret on Livvy’s birthday, each time in a different location, to spend one night together.
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