Bourbon and Proof (Bourbon Boys 3), by Victoria Wilder | Free Audiobook
Bourbon and Proof (Bourbon Boys 3)Audiobook
A marriage of convenience with the one woman he swore to avoid
Ace Foxx had no plans to get married. Then he ends up making a deal with Hadley Finch, the one woman in Fiasco he promised himself he would never go near, and keeping his word to everybody else means breaking it with himself.
He is carrying Foxx Bourbon now, along with the family that depends on it, and he is prepared to go further than most people would to protect both. Hadley is family by adoption and the daughter of a businessman nobody respectable wants to be associated with, which makes her exactly the wrong person to be seen with.
So they make a deal, and the last Foxx brother ends up married to the one woman he cannot have, in a house full of secrets that were supposed to stay buried.
The series closes on its most classic trope, and it earns it: a marriage of convenience between two people who have been circling each other for three books gives the trilogy an ending with actual weight instead of just a bow on top. Ace is the brother who has been holding everything together, which makes watching him lose control the point of the book.
Hadley is not a stranger to the family and the plot uses that well: she knows the Foxxes, she knows what the curse has cost them and she still chooses to walk in. The suspense thread that has run under the whole trilogy finally gets resolved, and the mystery from the earlier books pays off here rather than being abandoned.
Victoria Connolly and Sean Masters read the thirteen hours and eight minutes in duet, and the format suits a book this talky, with two stubborn people negotiating terms for half of it.
As for the complaints, the most common one is honest and quite funny: readers who admit it is a question of personal taste rather than quality, and who picked the book up for the marriage-of-convenience trope and found the execution did not give them the exact version of it they wanted. Others wanted more suspense and less domestic negotiating. It is the third book of a series that has always been more about a family than about crime.
A solid ending to a trilogy I have enjoyed. If the small-town romance with a mystery underneath is your thing, Royal Elite Epilogue is on the site as well.
Bourbon and Proof by Victoria Wilder closes the Bourbon Boys trilogy with Ace Foxx, who never planned to marry, striking a deal with the one woman he swore to stay away from.
It runs 13 hrs and 8 mins, narrated in duet by Victoria Connolly and Sean Masters. You can start it on a free trial, cancellable whenever you like.
Once you claim it through the trial the book stays yours to keep even after you cancel, and you spend the trial on whichever title you like. It is the last of the three Bourbon Boys books.
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