Side Effect by Lulu Jones

From Goodreads

Kendall Atherton- a promising psychology student, has been given the most unusual proposition- payment of a whole semester's tuition fees if she agrees to treat a patient in his home. Maton Lee has been through a traumatic experience, one that sees him confined to his apartment. Vanessa- his desperate mother, just wants to see him get well. But his challenging and rude demeanour is so much more than what Kendall can handle. Defeated and humiliated she vows never to return. But Kendall has already accepted Vanessa's money and owes it to her to make one more attempt to get through to the broken yet beautiful man.

It's not long before Kendall is drawn to him, but this is not a normal boy meets girl situation. If anyone discovers she is having an affair with Maton, she will be thrown out of her course. But the last person Kendall expects to expose her is Maton himself. Except Maton doesn't count on the strength of his feelings for her and when Kendall's life comes under threat from the same man who preyed upon him, he may just have lost the love of his life.  

My thoughts

My thanks to the Publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this story in exchange for an honest review. I gave this an enjoyable 4 stars or 8/10.

Maton Lee is a successful Business man, following being shot mistakenly he turns into a recluse. His Mother Vanessa, regularly sees a psychiatrist and enlists him to see Maton as a patient. However, the psychiatrist fails to form a great patient/doctor relationship.

Kendall Atherton is studying to be a psychiatrist, she is a trainee of Vanessa Lee's psychiatrist. Vanessa sees something in Kendall, more than just her good looks. She offers to pay for Kendall's tuition if she will visit her son, with a view to helping him cope with the aftermath of the shooting. Vanessa also has another offer for Kendall, but this is one that she is reluctant to act upon.

What ensues is a developing patient/trainee psychiatrist relationship that goes off in other directions that could lead to big problems for Kendall if it ever comes out. Her future could be in jeopardy in more ways than one.

I enjoyed this erotic romance and found it reasonably well written on the whole. It had me hooked early on and kept me swiping the Kindle screen to see how it all ended.