Four Money by Jayne Rylon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Would it be the worst thing in the world to accept an obscene amount of money in exchange for living with a guy and a couple of his best friends for three months?

Seems like a no brainer. But what if it means sharing their beds, too?

Let’s be honest, Holly would probably do that for free considering how hot, successful, and fun to be around they are.
Besides, if she helps Trent cash in on his inheritance—with a few naughty strings attached—she could pay for the life-saving surgery her mother’s insurance company has denied.

The one thing she can’t afford is falling in love when the man she’s obsessed with plans to ditch her after their ninety days are over.

Four Money is book one of the Ever & Always duet. Holly, Trent, Lorenzo, and Owen’s story will conclude in Four Love.

Four Money

So many coincidences!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😠😘🤓

The heroine: Holly – after she graduated from college, her plans for her future didn’t work out. She was called home to Las Vegas to look after her mom who was sick. It has been a few years, with her mom getting progressively worse. She needs a transplant, which they can’t afford. It is hard enough to stay current on their medical bills and Holly’s student loan payments.

The Hero: Trent, Lorenzo and Owen – Trent grew up wealthy, but his family didn’t approve of his lifestyle so they disowned him and took away his trust fund. He has since invented some high tech solar batteries and wants to patent and produce them, but needs the start up cash. So meanwhile he is a gambler. Lorenzo is a male stripper and Owen is a valet, all of them live together in a house in Las Vegas. They often share women.

The Story: Holly’s college friends Andi and Kari ask her to go out for a weekend while they are in Las Vegas. Both of the girls are in committed polyamorous relationships with three guys each. Andi’s three are high powered, up and coming lawyers and Kari’s three guys are the partners in their law firm. They are in town to have a party and propose to Kari. They get help setting up the party from Trent, Lorenzo and Owen. Trent went to college with some of them, including Holly.

In school, Trent had a bit of a crush on Holly, but was kind of a playboy. He had some predilections that weren’t for everyone, but one night Holly spied on him while he was getting busy with another girl and it turned him on. She thought he was being a jerk, so pretty much wrote him off, though she had been attracted to him, so when she sees him at the party, she tries to stay away. Though they do spend time together and she finds that she likes him.

I like the story, and certainly having two friends that each have three boyfriends has to make the whole polyamorous thing go down easier for Holly, it just seems to be too much of a coincidence that there are three single guys and one single girl at the party, in the main group and two polyamorous couples, and the three guys just happen to also like sharing women. Just a bit too convenient and on the nose for my tastes.

Then, in an even bigger set of coincidences, Trent’s dad dies, leaving him a ton of money, though he has to be married to get the inheritance. It just so happens that Holly is willing to marry him practically on the spot if he pays for he mom’s kidney transplant and anti-rejection meds, plus an in-home nurse. I mean really, how fortunate that she was with him right at that time, huh? And how often does it happen that someone so in need of life saving money, gets an opportunity to make is so easily and painlessly? And they just happen to be in Las Vegas where they can get married right away, by Elvis no less.

Though for the reverse-harem non paranormal genre, this book is pretty good. I liked the storyline about the romance, though Owen and Lorenzo don’t get much time in this book. However, it is a duet and there is a big cliffhanger at the end of this book.

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