Undercover boss finds love in the warehouse!

A supremely self-confident and spoiled rich kid, Alexandre Bonfils is a wastrel and his father, sick of his laziness and indifference to the high-end family wine business, fires Alex. The company has been having problems and with nothing to do, Alex decides to go undercover as an intern in the distribution centre. Of course he sticks out like a sore thumb, but he does attract the attention and heart of the conscientious warehouse manager, Tate Somerton. Having lost his parents, Tate and his ailing grandmother are raising the other three kids in the family. Life is busy and money is tight - does he even have room for Alex in his life? I loved the premise but I’ve realised I hate over-confident characters unless fate cuts them down and makes them realise the error of their ways. I disliked Alex from the start and was settling in to hate this story. While Alex does remain annoyingly smug, he also learns, adapts and redeems himself, so I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. However, the timeline on this was ridiculously short. By the end of his first day on the job, he’s repeatedly ignored all of Tate’s protests and wangled himself a date for that evening. Within days they’re an item and within a week or two the whole thing is resolved. Why write the timeframe in such a rushed way? It added to the simplistic and unrealistic feel of the story. I’ve enjoyed Seb Yarrick’s audio narrations before, but there was a halting, stumbling quality to this at times, like his voice was not able to keep up with what he was reading.

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