Play is Mal's story, he is the 'funny, not too serious' of the group. He saved Eve from the media and David's lawyers in the first book and when he did that he had my vote for a good guy. He likes to save others and help them through his jokester ways. In this book, we also see what is troubling him and how serious he can be when he wants to be.
He meets Anne at a party at David's. He listens to her phone call and then criticizes her for allowing others to walk all over her. Anne at first really doesn't know how to take him, he sounds like he's joking but he ends up moving in and helping her when she is in a pinch.
These two are very different people but they mesh well. Anne keeps Mal balanced. He is fine until his feelings turn into more than what I think he was going for when pretending to have a girlfriend for his family's sake.
Anne's feelings are hurt terribly when Mal doesn't think and walks away with another woman right in front of everyone. Mal really has to dig himself out of a hole and he does it well.
They become the parents of a pup and immediately move into a building they can raise their pup safely.
Kylie Scott returns with the highly anticipated follow-up to international bestseller Lick.
Mal Ericson, drummer for the world famous rock band Stage Dive, needs to clean up his image fast-at least for a little while. Having a good girl on his arm should do the job just fine. Mal doesn't plan on this temporary fix becoming permanent, but he didn't count on finding the one right girl.
Anne Rollins never thought she'd ever meet the rock god who plastered her teenage bedroom walls-especially not under these circumstances. Anne has money problems. Big ones. But being paid to play the pretend girlfriend to a wild life-of-the-party drummer couldn't end well. No matter how hot he is. Or could it?