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A VERY BOSSY CHRISTMAS BY KAYLEY LORING

11/27/2020

A Very Bossy Christmas is the first book I've read by Kayley Loring and I am officially obsessed! This is a hilarious novel, one I fell in love with the second I started reading. I highly recommend it!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: October 26, 2020
Genre: Romantic Comedy | Holiday Romance
Series: Complete Standalone
Pages: 255ages
Format: eBook. Borrowed from Kindle Unlimited.

What’s the actual last thing you’d ever want your executive assistant to see you doing the morning after you had hot, drunk, angry sex with her in a terrible hotel room? Dancing around your terrible hotel room to “Come and Get Your Love” like Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy—naked? Yeah. Me too.

And yet, here we are.

This isn’t even the most unprofessional thing that’s happened between us in the past couple of weeks.

The first was when I agreed to let her have Christmas Day off, but only if she goes with me to three family gatherings as my fake girlfriend.

The second was when she caught me belting out a Christmas song on stage in the awful hotel bar.

CRAZY BEAUTIFUL BY JESSICA PRINCE

5/11/2020

And here we have another gorgeous read from Jessica Prince! I'm still fairly new to her novels but the three I have read have all been 5 stars. I highly recommend them!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: May 11, 2020
Genre: Small Town Romance. Marriage of Convenience.
Series: Redemption series #2 (can stand alone)
Pages: 278 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

Their marriage was nothing more than a business transaction. Or at least that was what they told themselves.

Poppy Weston had been burned enough times by undeserving men to know her heart was best left under lock and key. She was content with her life, even with the lack of romance. Then Jase Hyland walked into Redbud Inn and offered her something she couldn't refuse. In return, all she had to do was marry him.

Jase had seen firsthand the kind of damage relationships caused, and he wanted nothing to do with it. He'd been taught from a young age that the only things that should matter to a man were wealth and power. However, all it took was a series of events to lead him down a path he never expected to travel.

It was supposed to be simple. No feelings, no emotions, just two friends entering into a mutually beneficial arrangement.

FAKE IT 'TIL YOU BREAK IT BY MEAGAN BRANDY

2/4/2020

Fake It 'Til You Break it is one of the BEST young adult romances I've read in a long time. With every book Meagan Bandy proves her skill. I LOVED this one and highly recommend it.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: February 5, 2020
Genre: Young Adult Romance. Fake relationship.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 325 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

Fake.
That’s what we are.
That’s what we agreed to be.

I thought it would be harder, convincing everyone our school’s star receiver was mine and mine alone, but we played our parts well.

So well, the lines between us began to blur until they disappeared completely.

The thing about pretending, though, someone’s always better at it, and by the time I realized my mistake, there was no going back.

I fell for our lie.
And then everything fell apart.

It turned out, he and I were never playing the same game.

MARRIAGE ON MADISON AVENUE BY LAUREN LAYNE

2/3/2020

Marriage on Madison Avenue is the final book in the Central Park Pact series. I recommend reading the books in order BUT you don't have to. They are interconnected though.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Genre: Friends to Lovers. Fake Relationship. Chick Lit.
Series: Central Park Pact series #3
Pages: 285 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

From Lauren Layne, comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.

Can guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother—announcing he’s already engaged…to Audrey.

But what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. As the faux wedding date looms closer, Audrey and Clarke realize that they can never go back to the way things were, but deep down, do they really want to?

BOSS MAN BRIDEGROOM BY MEGHAN QUINN

1/23/2020

If you're a fan of laugh lout loud romantic comedies, office romances, and/or marriage of conveniences then this book is a must read for you! I absolutely loved this one! I can see a re-read in the near future.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 23, 2020
Genre: Office Romance. Romantic Comedy.
Series: Stand alone.
Pages: 400 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

"Will you do me the greatest honor of all time and be my bridegroom?” she asks, hope in her eyes . . .

How did I get here? My assistant, bent on one knee, holding my hand, her expectant face waiting for an answer.

Just . . . how?

How did I go from being insulted by Charlee Cox to hiring her to be my assistant? How is it that she’s chaos in color - making me crazy and my life better at the same time?

I never thought I would be staring down at her bright blue eyes begging me to go along with this ridiculous scheme I suggested.

Yes, I suggested. Like the idiot I am, I thought hey, why not start an HR nightmare and have my assistant ask me to marry her?

RIVEN KNIGHT BY DEVNEY PERRY

1/20/2020

Devney Perry delivers in yet another romantic suspense novel about family, revenge, and fighting for the truth. This book is precisely layered, breathtakingly romantic, and absolutely GRIPPING! I highly recommend it.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 21, 2020
Genre: Romantic Suspense. Fake Relationship.
Series: Tin Gypsy series #2
Pages: 394 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

Genevieve Daylee didn’t expect to be standing in front of a judge on her twenty-seventh birthday. But ever since her life became entangled with a former motorcycle gang, she’s learned not to expect anything but trouble.

Her mother, a woman she once admired and adored, is gone, leaving behind a trail of secrets and lies. She’s living in a tiny apartment above a garage owned by her brother, a man who loathes her very existence. And the father she met beside her mother’s grave is as much of a stranger as Isaiah Reynolds, the broken man with soulless eyes standing beside her in front of the judge.

Isaiah is her protector from the murderer at large in Clifton Forge. Though he’s more like a riven knight in dented armor than a prince on a white stallion. She knows next to nothing about him, other

LAKE REDSTONE BY J.D. HOLLYFIELD

9/15/2019

Lake Redstone by J.D. Hollyfield is a hilarious romantic comedy! It's also a story about a fake relationship so if you love that trope make sure to pick this one up!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 22, 2019
Genre: Romantic Comedy.
Series: None. Standalone.
Pages: 211 pages
Format: eBook. Borrowed from Kindle Unlimited.

Casey doesn’t have much luck in the dating department, so when her girlfriends ditch their girls only weekend for a couple’s retreat, she's forced to take desperate measures.

Refusing to be the only single one, she does what any quick-thinking girl would do:

She lies.

It was almost too easy hiring a stranger to pretend to be her hot, rich, successful boyfriend. What she didn’t plan on was him being hot, successful, and way too much trouble for her liking.

Jim was in a slump in his everyday life. He was bored and needed something to spice up his life. Accepting a gig to play the perfect boy toy was not what he had in mind, but it was too good to turn down.

MY BEST FRIEND'S MARDI GRAS WEDDING BY ERIN NICOLAS

8/4/2019

My Best Friend's Madi Gras Wedding is such a treat! I felt like I was down in Louisiana, hanging on the Bayou, and enjoying every second with these eccentric folks!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: Boys of the Bayou #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 235 pages
Format: Paperback. Purchased.

A sexy, small town, fake boyfriend rom com!

Josh Landry is one of the hottest bartenders in New Orleans. He’s shown many a female tourist that things are definitely big and easy down here.

And he’s now been celibate for a year. Because he finally met her.

Yes, her. The One.

But, after nothing more than a hot goodnight kiss and a promise to meet up again next year if they’re both still interested, she went home to Iowa.

It’s been a long year.

But now it’s Mardi Gras again and he’s ready for his happily ever after.

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