She’s mature, responsible and respectable, in addition to having family ties that ensure Hunter won’t piss her off. His father even found the perfect sitter for his wild child: Sailor Brennan is a shy, antisocial tomboy unlikely to tempt him and expected to rebuff any advances from Hunter quite harshly. “My life had seemed to shift from a theme park of orgasms, designer clothes, and eternal sunshine to an ongoing, cloudy, celibate catastrophe.” If he fails, he’s cut off completely from the family fortune and his future inheritance permanently. He’s being put up in an apartment with a baby sitter to ensure he remains sober and celibate while splitting his time between learning his place at Royal Pipelines and earning a business degree for the next six months. It’s the final straw for his family so his father orders him back to Boston to live as a virtual prisoner. Unfortunately, the internet gives Hunter an opportunity to embarrass his family far more than ever before and in a permanent way that can never disappear. It’s not without problems but his father’s money and connections mean problems go away quickly and without much fanfare.

Despite his parents’ rejection, Hunter is unfazed by being banished to the opposite coast and loves his notoriously hedonistic lifestyle. The problem is that he doesn’t care about anything else. Hunter is a laid-back guy who cares about his friends and having fun, specifically sex and partying. I don’t think it ruins anything in either case, but some would disagree so I’m just putting that out there as a caution. Likewise, this story is second-generation characters from Sparrow, so if you haven’t read it yet, spoiler alert. Be forewarned, however, that there’s a spoiler for one of those books in this story, if you choose to begin with The Hunter. Hunter’s the hard-partying sidekick of Knight Cole and Vaughn Spencer from LJ’s All Saints High series centered in Todos Santos, but this is a standalone so you don’t have to read that series first. His desperate parents sent him to live with family in Todos Santos, a wealthy California suburb. While his siblings were educated at the best prep schools in the world, Hunter was getting expelled and has never lived up to the family name. He’s known since age four that he and his brother Cillian will one day take over the company, but Hunter has no interest in oil, business or his dysfunctional family. Billionaire spawn Hunter Fitzpatrick is an heir to the family’s Boston-based oil empire, Royal Pipelines.

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