Twins feature in this modern tale, and I wished their names had been a little less similar than Nash and Cash. Olivia is a shy girl at a hen-night party in Atlanta when she's pushed into taking clothes off the hunky male stripper who's just walked through the door of the room. She gets as far as his shirt when the chuckling man explains that the entertainment is behind him, and he's the club owner. Already embarrassed, Olivia is mortified. This guy is Cash.

In DOWN TO YOU, the Davenport twins have separate lives. Cash took on their mother's club and Nash is qualifying as a lawyer. Next day Olivia, who stays with her bossy cousin Marissa, meets Nash and, of course, mistakes him for Cash. She hadn't met Marissa's boyfriend before and didn't know he was a twin. Olivia is studying to be an accountant and mostly leads a quiet life, bartending on weekends to boost her small income. When her car won't start she's awkward about accepting a lift from Nash. She tells him about herself, and next thing, he's arranged for her to work at Cash's club for better pay. Which is even more awkward as Olivia blushes every time she sees him....

This light-hearted tale switches between main characters' viewpoints every few chapters, showing us what they are thinking and doing. I found it somewhat disconcerting when Olivia's first evening at work turns out to require her to lie on the bar counter and have a man lick salt off her bare stomach and suck a lime wedge from her mouth before downing a shot. Maybe there are women who would be comfortable doing that. Olivia's previously quiet life hasn't prepared her - or her wardrobe - for a wide variety of scenes, so when she accompanies a twin to a formal occasion she doesn't fit in. However I thought she had no right to call the women judgemental when she'd just dismissed a perfectly nice man as dorky. Matters heat up in the bedroom when Olivia has to decide which twin she'd prefer to get to know better, and I won't spoil the surprise. Olivia goes to help her father on the family farm at lambing time, and this makes her a more rounded person for us.

DOWN TO YOU by M Leighton is the first part of the story and the next part is to be called 'Up To Me'. It's a quirky adult romance with lively characters and settings.

Book Summary

One girl. Twin brothers. An uncommon triangle.

When college student Olivia Townsend returned home to help her father run his business, she never imagined a complication like Cash and Nash Davenport—twin brothers different in so many ways but with one thing in common: an uncontrollable desire for Olivia.

Cash is dangerous, sexy, and bad to the bone—a man whose kisses make Olivia forget she is playing with fire. Nash is successful, reliable and intensely passionate—and already taken. But all it takes is one soft stroke to make Olivia forget he belongs to someone else.

However, Olivia is in for a surprise. These boys have a secret that should make her run away as far and as fast as she can. If only it wasn’t too late. A sensual game between three players has begun, and it’s about to spin deliriously out of control.