HAMMERED BY HANK (Blue Collar Obsession 3) by Kelsie Calloway-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 20, 2026

He’s forging my dream restaurant. I’m about to let him forge me into his.

Hank Dalton is going to ruin everything—my timeline, my budget, and my carefully constructed walls around my heart. He’s a metalworker who treats his craft like art and looks at me like I’m the masterpiece he’s been waiting his whole life to create. Every day he’s in my space, working with molten metal and making me forget why independence mattered so much.

When everything goes wrong and my dreams literally go up in smoke, he doesn’t just comfort me—he claims me. Right there in the restaurant he’s been building, on the surfaces he crafted with his own hands. He tells me he’s been building us this whole time, and when he makes love to me in the bed he builds specifically for my bedroom, I finally understand what it means to be someone’s masterpiece.

Hammered By Hank is a red-hot romance about a perfectionist chef and the patient metalworker who forges their love one heated moment at a time.

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REVIEW: HAMMERED BY HANK is the third instalment and novella in Kelsie Calloway’s contemporary, adult BLUE COLLAR OBSESSION romance series. This is iron worker Hank Dalton, and chef and restaurateur Fallon Cross. HAMMERED BY HANK can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Hank and Fallon) HAMMERED BY HANK follows the building romance and relationship between our story line couple. Following a betrayal by a renowned award winning chef, chef Fallon Cross makes good on a promise to herself, in the hopes of starting her own high end restaurant but the timeline is tight, only six weeks to completion, and a her personal designs need to come to life. Enter metal worker Hank Dalton. From the outset Hank and Fallon’s attraction to one another is immediate and palpable but another impending betrayal forces Fallon to push Hank out of her life, reconsidering her life choices going forward.

The relationship between Hank and Fallon is one of immediate attraction; a professional arrangement; an insta-lust to love that is threatened by a fear of failure, when lines are crossed. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The few secondary and supporting characters are limited,and mainly behind the scenes and off page.

HAMMERED BY HANK is a story of betrayal and determination; success and failure; acceptance and love. The fast paced, character driven story is captivating and entertaining ; the romance is seductive; the characters are desperate, determined and charismatic.

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Reviewed by Sandy