Boxes of my irresistible romance cravings this book ticked:

Sunshine meets the grump troupe ✅
Enemies to lovers ✅
Opposite attract ✅
Undeniable blasting chemistry ✅
Burning desire flames around the couple drag them into like magnets ✅
Dysfunctional families and traumatic pasts of MCs are the common thing which help them understand each other✅

This book was a quiet surprise. It's a redemption story, it's a love story, it's an homage to books and booksellers and was a lovely way to spend the day. The author is French, but the translation was done very well.

Sarah is the owner of a used book shop in a small town a few hours from Paris. She’s in financial straits and things are only getting worse as the building needs some major repairs. She is very sweet and innocent and the townsfolk love her.

Maxime is a movie star, but he is a bad boy. His latest mishap has landed him in jail with the possibility of prison. His agent, his attorney and one of his oldest friends come up with a potential solution. He will be under house arrest for 2 months in Sarah's bookshop. He will pay her a huge fee for this inconvenience and he will help her with repairs.

Both reluctant to be in the situation, the meeting between Sarah and Maxime doesn't go well. Living together forces them closer than expected. They both learn that their pasts have more in common than originally thought. And once the two characters come together, their romance is achingly sweet.

But will their worlds merge or set them in different paths?