🎧 Reviewed by LD | Rating: 4.8/5 | Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

⚠️ This is a full spoiler review. If you haven’t read Dirty Together yet — go read it first. We’ll be here when you’re done.

Not caught up? Start with Book 1 — Dirty Billionaire. We’ll be here when you’re done.

The Opening

Holly left him. Again. Same notepad, same two words. And Creighton came after her. Again. Book three is where everything that has been building across two books finally breaks open and these two people figure out how to actually be together instead of just orbiting each other.

The Full Story — Spoilers Included

Back to Her Roots

Holly heads home to Kentucky to sort herself out. Her car breaks down at a gas station and she ends up at the mechanic, which happens to be run by Logan Brantley, the ultimate bad boy from her childhood. He takes one look at the car and mutters something about a sorry excuse for a husband. He knows exactly who she married and clearly expected better from a billionaire’s wife.

Her car won’t be ready until Monday or Tuesday and it’s Friday. Holly says she’ll walk to her gran’s house. Logan says absolutely not and she pushes back hard — the last thing I need is one more man telling me what to do — and he offers politely to drive her instead. She accepts.

Before he leaves he tells her he’ll be back at eight to pick her up. He tells her she came here to find her roots, so they’re going to go find them. He shows up before eight. She ignores the doorbell. He knocks. She ignores the knocking. He ends up in the doorway of her bedroom telling her she’s coming whether she wants to or not. She gives in.

They go to the bowling alley where Holly first got her start. She decides she needs to get drunk. Logan thinks it’s a bad idea but goes along with it anyway. She starts singing, keeps drinking, keeps singing — and then, once thoroughly drunk, Creighton steps up from the crowd and tells her she’s had enough. He tracked her down. Again.

He lets her finish one more song and then scoops her up. Logan tries to interfere and eventually sees reason but keeps pushing and baiting Creighton almost deliberately. In the morning Holly wakes up and assumes Logan was the one who took care of her. Creighton sets her straight and is not pleased about it. She goes to shower, comes back, he’s gone. No answer on his phone. She thinks it’s her turn to track him down — then Logan shows up and Creighton pulls up right behind him.

Lucky Charms

Creighton went to get groceries. He came back with Lucky Charms. Holly had mentioned them in a song once and he knew. She is stunned that he would know something like that, that he was paying that kind of attention. He tells her she doesn’t really get it — she is the most important thing in his life, there is nothing more important than her. He listens to all of her songs. She had assumed he was just there, half paying attention, that he had more important things to do. She has been underestimating herself and underestimating his feelings for her this entire time.

He tells her he loves her. But he doesn’t want her to say it back yet. He wants it to be burning through her so bad she can’t hold it in anymore. And then he says they need to take some time to just be themselves, phones downstairs, no running. She can barely believe that’s an option for a man who runs his kind of business. But he tells her that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

Later on, she tells him she loves him. They talk about where to live. Holly hates New York. Creighton proposes they make Nashville their home base and he’ll keep a place in New York for when he needs to be there in person. It’s a real compromise from a man who started this trilogy insisting his schedule was the only one that mattered.

The Record Label and the Lawsuit

Creighton gets called back to New York. He doesn’t tell Holly why, even though he knows he should. His purchase of Homegrown Records — Holly’s label, the one that had her locked into a terrible contract — was something he needed to bring to his board for a vote, but he was in such a hurry he didn’t. He bought it personally and bypassed the process entirely because he was trying to get her out of that contract as fast as possible. His uncle, who has been looking for any lever he can pull against Creighton, uses this as grounds for a shareholder lawsuit for corporate fraud.

Almost immediately after Creighton leaves, Holly’s mother shows up at the farmhouse acting sweet, catching Holly off guard and getting her to let things slip about the marriage, about being wife number three. Holly even defends her mother to Creighton that same day. Then the next morning Tana calls. Holly’s mother sold an exclusive to a tabloid. Everything Holly said. Every personal detail. Under the bus, all of it.

Holly tries to reach Creighton. Straight to voicemail. The office goes to a PR recording. She has no way to get through. She is furious and hurt. She asks Logan to sell her old car and to change the locks at the farmhouse. If her mother shows up again, she gets arrested for breaking and entering. Holly is done.

Running Toward Him

She’s been at a crossroads. She can go hide behind Tana’s gates in Nashville or she can run headfirst into the storm surrounding her husband. She has run from him twice. This time she runs toward him.

Creighton has been trying to call her. The next time he tries, instead of answering she walks directly into the boardroom and says, honey, you called?

She meets Cannon for the first time in person. She walks right up to him and tells him she doesn’t like him. He tells them they need to strategize, spin it. Creighton says there is no spin, no excuses, just the truth. Cannon tries to reframe the situation in a way that is crass and demeaning about Holly and their marriage, so Creighton punches him in the face.

Creighton goes to fire him. Holly tells him no. Let him apologize and move on. This is your best friend. So many people wouldn’t step in. They’d feel amazing that someone would ditch their best friend for them. But Holly sees that Cannon is scared for Creighton and just expressing it badly. She steps in, stands up for their friendship, and makes both of them deal with it like adults. It says everything about who she actually is.

The Shareholder Meeting

Creighton stands up in front of his shareholders and puts everything on the table. Homegrown Records was Holly’s belated wedding present. He bought it in a rush because he loved her. His uncle pipes up, says he really thinks that’s going to fix this, and storms out.

Creighton goes after him. Tells him it’s time to buy his shares. His uncle says fine, he’ll give him the shares under one condition — Creighton has to change his last name and remove it from the company. And then the whole thing unravels: his uncle tells him his mother had an affair with a married man, her parents kicked her out, and she married the man Creighton thought was his father. The uncle blames him for being born, for being the reason his brother is dead. He tells Creighton his biological father is in the mafia.

This comes out of nowhere. It is extremely convenient as a plot device. But here we are.

Creighton’s sister Greer shows up freaking out after their aunt calls her about the whole revelation. The power goes out. When it comes back on there are three men in the room. One is clearly Creighton’s biological father, Dom. He tells them the housekeeper Elizabeta, who works for the uncle, has been feeding him information and keeping tabs on Creighton for years. Dom says he’ll handle the uncle and have the share certificate in Creighton’s hands tomorrow as a belated wedding present. He has extended his protection to Greer as well. They get the shares. The lawsuit is dropped. Creighton and Holly head to Vegas.

The Ending

Holly wins artist of the year. She is pregnant. They are genuinely happy. She has finally told her mother to get lost. She is running Homegrown Records, signing artists, giving people the kind of fair contracts she never got. They finally go on their honeymoon.

It’s the ending these two are owed across three books of miscommunication, missed calls, goodbye notes, and two very broken people slowly learning to be in the same room without running.

Best Part of This Book

Two things. Holly walking into that boardroom and saying honey, you called — after he had been trying to reach her and she had decided to run toward him instead of away for the first time. And Creighton coming after her again. He tracked her down to a bowling alley in Kentucky and waited in the crowd for her to finish singing. For a man who started this trilogy believing his schedule was everyone else’s problem, that is a significant journey.

The Steam Rating Breakdown

🔥🔥🔥🔥 — Consistent throughout. The chemistry has only gotten more settled and real by book three, which actually makes it better.

The Ending — Satisfied or Disappointed?

Completely satisfied. Artist of the year, a baby, a honeymoon, and Holly finally running her own label and doing it right. Everything this series was building toward lands here.

Would I Reread It?

No.

The Hot Take

The mafia dad showing up at the end felt random and extremely convenient. Three books of carefully built story and suddenly there is a biological father in the mob with a housekeeper spy and the power to make a shareholder lawsuit disappear overnight. It wraps things up neatly, maybe a little too neatly, but the rest of the book is strong enough that it didn’t ruin anything.

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