Author: Rachel Wood
Year published: 2026
Category: Adult fiction (romance)
Pages: 349
Rating: 4 out of 5
Location: (my 2026 Google Reading map): USA (NY)
Summary: After getting let go from her job and learning her sister is engaged to the worst man alive, Annie needs a win. Filling the open role in her company's data strategy team is just what the doctor ordered. So what if she doesn't know how to write code? How hard can it be? Surely Connor—the team's overworked, aggravating, and distractingly hot interim head—will soon realize how capable Annie is.
Annie sets her sights on landing this new job, even if that means ignoring the chemistry building between her and her new boss, and she tries to (gently!) convince her sister to reconsider her engagement. But with sparks flying at work and at home, she begins to see how complicated taking matters into her own hands can be. Maybe, just maybe, Annie doesn't actually know everything.
Review: The title of this book is perfect: Annie does indeed believe that she is always right and that she knows everything (and what she doesn't know, she'll fake until she gets what she wants). Annie knows what's best for her sister (who is marrying somone awful), what's best for her best friend, what's best for those around her at work (like hiring her for a job she isn't qualified for). Annie states her ideas publically, not thinking about the repurcusions or impact on others.
Fear not, dear reader, Annie does eventually get her come upance and must deal with the fallout from her actions. And, because this is a contemporary romance novel (and why I like reading them so much), Annie comes to the realization that she has been wrong, gives heart-felt apologies to repair relationships, and gets the guy. What more could a reader want?!
I enjoyed this novel even though Annie frustrated me at times. I could also see that she is scared. Of failure at work, of not being enough for her family, of falling in love. All of that can add up to rash decisions. Luckily Annie has a supporting cast that (sometimes grudingly) helps her work through her stuff.
Challenges for which this counts:
- 20 Books of Summer
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