But sparks fly and the pair decide a little extra enjoyment wouldn’t go astray as the lives of Vaughan’s sister and her employees at Dive Bar make everything more complex.īeing a new series, there’s quite a bit of world building here. Vaughan offers to help Lydia out to get back on her feet and out of town while he tries to sell the family home and then do the same thing. It’s an awkwardly hilarious scene made easier by the fact that both are into each other. Naked, he finds Lydia in her wedding dress, in the bathtub. That neighbour is Vaughan, guitarist in a recently-split band who has returned home to contemplate his fate. So Lydia bolts straight over the back fence and breaks into her unknown neighbour’s house. She’s about to get married when someone sends her a video of her fiancé and best man getting it on. Like Kylie Scott’s earlier books, the story is told in the first person by the heroine. No matter if you haven’t read them though, as Dirty stands up on its own easily.

This year will be the year of the Dive Bar series, which is loosely connected to the Stage Dive series through a minor character and its main setting. Last year I devoured the Stage Dive series by Kylie Scott. Why I chose it: Really liked the Stage Dive series and needed a Kylie Scott fix. The not-so-good: Lydia and Vaughan, make your minds up already! The good: I liked Vaughan in the Stage Dive series, so it’s nice to see him star in his own stories. Both need cheering up – this is definitely not something permanent…right? Right Now a chance.In brief: The first book in the Dive Bar series sees Lydia escape a doomed wedding only for down on his luck guitarist Vaughan to find her in his bathtub. Right and discovered he's all wrong - maybe it's time to give Mr. This former musician-turned-bartender is rough around the edges and at a crossroads.

Vaughan is the exact opposite of the picture perfect, respected businessman she thought she'd marry. She narrowly escapes tying the knot and meets Vaughan only hours later. Read more best man is another thing all together. Discovering the love of your life is having an affair on your wedding day is bad enough. Lydia Green doesn't know whether to burn down the church or sit and cry in a corner. The last thing Vaughan Hewson expects to find when he returns to his childhood home is a broken hearted bride in his shower, let alone the drama and chaos that comes with her. Dirty is the first in the Dive Bar series from the author of the New York Times bestselling Stage Dive books.

Dirty by Kylie Scott