Under Your Skin (Large Print): A Grumpy-Sunshine Chicago Irish Family Steamy Contemporary Romance (Large Print)

by Shannyn Schroeder

Overview

Norah is home for the first time in ten years-single and pregnant. But sparks fly when she lays eyes on her brother's tattooed, grumpy, and entirely too-sexy boss

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950640430
Publisher:	Shannyn Schroeder
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Series:	The O'Malley Family , #1
Edition description:	Large Type
Pages:	656
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.63(d)

About the Author

Shannyn Schroeder is the author of The O'Leary Family series, The O'Malley Family series, and The Doyle Family series, contemporary romances centered around large Irish-American families in Chicago. The Hot & Nerdy series is about nerdy college friends finding love. And her Daring Divorcees series follows a group of middle-aged divorcees getting back into the dating scene. Under the pen name Sloane Steele, the Counterfeit Capers series released in 2021. This Leverage-inspired heist romance series follows a group of criminals who come together as a team to right some wrongs. They accomplish this by stealing art from criminals worse than them and replacing it with forgeries.Shannyn grew up in a Northside Chicago neighborhood filled with big Irish families like the ones she writes about. Her characters get drunk, say f*ck, and eat a ton of pizza as they try to navigate life and love. Whether it's a big family of siblings unable to mind their own business or a group of friends who are thicker than thieves or a crew of criminals learning how to work together as a team, readers can relate to her characters and cheer for them. When this editor and former English teacher isn't wrangling her three almost-grown kids or drawing from her own Irish heritage for writing, she watches a ton of TV and loves to bake cookies.

Editorial Reviews

05/16/2016
In the middling first entry in Schroeder’s For Your Love series, 22-year-old Norah O’Malley is pregnant and back home in Chicago after 10 years away. Although she still hasn’t told her ex-boyfriend that she’s pregnant, she’s immediately attracted to someone new: Kai, a quiet but strong ex-con who owns a tattoo shop. Kai tries to deflect Norah’s attention, even though he feels the sizzling chemistry between them, but Norah won’t give up, especially once he offers her a much-needed job as a caretaker for his mom. Meanwhile, Norah needs to decide whether she wants to place her baby for adoption. Kai’s small gestures of kindness convince Norah that there is more to him than his gruff exterior, but her obsession with him, a selfish, no-nonsense, and sometimes nasty man, is difficult to comprehend. Furthermore, despite her pronouncements of independence, Norah comes across as passive and immature. Steamy sex scenes may appease some readers, but this lackluster entry is far from satisfying. Agent: Frances Black, Literary Counsel. (July)

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