Four guys.
Constant moaning.
And a revolving door across the college suite I somehow ended up in because my first name is Shawn.
They don't discriminate. Girls. Guys. Grandmas. Plants (okay maybe not plants) all walks of life stroll in stressed to the brim, and leave so satisfied I'm wondering what sort of talents lie behind that door.
My roommate calls them the pleasure ponies.
But the rest of the college campus?
They just call them the new face of Wingmen Inc. A paid for relationship service that makes big promises.
Breakup? They'll glue you back together again.
Depressed? They have the magic pill.
Lonely? Just spend a few minutes while they rub you down and you'll forget all about it.
And broken hearts? Well, that's their specialty. They'll fix you.
For a price…
I swore I wouldn't get involved.
But apparently they like a challenge, and a girl who doesn't put up with their BS is basically like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
They. All. Charged.
But one holds my attention above the rest.
Knox Tate looks like a Viking — and getting pillaged is starting to look more appealing by the day. Though he's hiding something — all of them are. And the closer I get. The more I realize that some things are left better in the past.
You've read reverse harem books before — but you've never read one like this. It's not what you think, or is it? Dive in and find out…
Knox, Leo, Finn, and Slater are waiting, and they aren't patient men.
Welcome to the new face of Wingmen Inc — You're welcome.
ARC received for an honest review
Not going to lie, when I read "reverse harem" I nearly backed away from Co-Ed, as I have not found a book in this genre that I have liked.
Then I thought "this is Rachel Van Dyken, she won't steer me wrong" so I picked it up.
I am so glad that I did. Whilst Co-Ed is kinda-sorta RH, what with all the guys enamoured with the girl, it isn't. There is one main guy in the story, and there are wonderful friendships among them all, it is not really "haremy".
I adored Shawn and her interactions with the "pleasure ponies" - the good and the bad. These fellas are all kinds of wonderful and I need them in my life.
I laughed right from the beginning of this book, and I was hooked from the start.
It wasn't what I was expecting - it was better.
I can't wait to see what Ms Van Dyken brings us next.
It was happening
again.
The moaning.
I put a pillow over my face and screamed.
Not because it was too loud.
But because I kept wondering who was causing it. One? Two? All
three? Leo and Finn had both tried to talk to me in class and at the coffee
shop again. I’d brushed them off
but been polite.
And Knox?
Well, let’s just say that Knox
had suddenly turned over a leaf that said, “Go out of my way to
make Shawn’s life miserable.”
He was suddenly everywhere.
And with a different female every single day.
It drove me insane.
Bat-shit crazy.
And he wasn’t even mine to go
senseless over!
The moan happened again.
“That’s it!” I got up from my bed, stomped over to the door, and jerked it
open. Then I pounded my way over to their
room and almost took down the door with my knock .
When Leo answered, he grinned down at me. “Come to play?”
I gave him the finger.
His eyes narrowed. “I’m confused. Is that
yes or no?”
“Agh!” I threw my hands up in the air. “I have practice tomorrow at five a.m. It’s three. I’ve had one hour of sleep. Can you please keep the moaning to a minimum?”
“You seem stressed.” He tilted his head just as Finn joined him
in the doorway. “Doesn’t she?”
“Very.” Finn nodded then reached out and started
massaging my right trap while Leo grabbed my
hand and worked my fingers. It felt so damn good that I forgot I was pissed for
about two seconds before I pulled away.
“No.” I jabbed my finger at each of their chests. “Shame on you. Stop using your skills to make
me less crazy. I need sleep.”
“I could not agree
more.” Leo put his hand
over his chest. “If you want, I can
come over and—”
“No!” I made a fist with my hands. “I don’t need you to help me sleep. I need you to keep your clients quiet
so that I can sleep. Big difference.”
Knox appeared then and held out a pair of Bose noise-canceling
headphones. “You can borrow them
every Friday as long as you don’t set them on fire when you’re done.”
“Do you think I really
want whatever STDs are crawling around the surface?” I hissed.
His eyes turned lethal. “Then I guess you won’t sleep.”
“Dun, dun, dun,” Finn sang in a low voice, just as a small
lady who could pass as my grandmother made an appearance and shoved a
fifty-dollar bill in Knox’s pants then patted
him on his rock-hard six-pack. She had a full-on red wig perched backward on
her head and cherry red cheeks with black glasses that she kept shoving up her
nose. And her purse looked like something I would have seen on I Love Lucy. It was this giant black clutch that probably held cough drops and
prunes.
“Thanks, boys.”
“Love you, Edna!” Finn called while Leo brushed a kiss across
her hand.
She finger-waved at Knox and straight-up waddled out of the suite.
I stared after her, my jaw dropping with each step she took until
she was out of eyesight.
“What…” I shook my head. “…I mean, seriously, guys, what?”
Finn’s eyes got serious. “She’s lonely.”
“She’s at least eighty!” I yelled, so exhausted I was actually
arguing with crazy.
Knox got all up in my business and said through clenched teeth, “Her husband died a year ago. She’s not comfortable with internet dating yet.
We’re easing her in
because she wants a partner for life, someone she can laugh with, so if we can
give her that one laugh, that nice touch once a week, we’re going to fucking do it. Now jump off that
pedestal, take the damn Bose, and go to sleep.”
Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances.
When she's not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and
plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.
She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband,
adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers!
