Pretend To Love You: A fake relationship, grumpy-sunshine, sister's best friend, small town romance

Pretend To Love You: A fake relationship, grumpy-sunshine, sister's best friend, small town romance
Author: Julia Jarrett
Publisher: Julia Jarrett
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2023-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1998858022

I agree to fake date my little sister’s best friend, never expecting I’d fall in love. My professional hockey career is over thanks to a busted leg from one too many hits into the boards. Coming home to Dogwood Cove to figure out my next steps is the best option I’ve got, even if I’m in a dark place where not even my nosy family can lift my grumpy mood. But Lily isn’t deterred, and her sunshine alone pierces the darkness. She’s the physical therapist tasked with helping me recover, and she’s helping heal more than just my broken body. So when she needs my help, I don’t hesitate to step up. Falling for her starts out innocent enough. Lily needs a date to a family wedding, one that promises to be more torture than celebration. Now, thanks to an overbooked hotel with only one bed, two gossiping bridesmaids, and a three minute slow dance… the entire town, including our families, thinks we’re dating. To save face we decide to keep the ruse going. There’s just one problem: What I’m feeling for Lily is anything but pretend. She thinks my future is still in hockey, but I know differently. My future is with her. Pretend To Love You You is perfect for fans of steamy small town romance centered around a big family who love to get in each other’s business. If you love grumpy heroes who only smile for their woman, swoon-worthy moments and plenty of spice, then this is the book for you. It is a standalone, and the third full length novel in the Donnellys of Dogwood Cove series.

The Difference Between Somehow and Someway

The Difference Between Somehow and Someway
Author: Aly Martinez
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-02-20
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ISBN:

The world gave me everything. After surviving a plane crash, I was lucky to be alive. It was a harsh truth, but one that changed my perspective on how fragile life could be. So when a fellow survivor caught my eye, I owed it to myself to take a chance and follow my heart. Bowen Michaels was guarded and broody, but I saw through his well-formed armor. Much like me, he was broken and lost, but together we found our way through the darkness. For a brief moment, wrapped in his arms, it felt like maybe he was right about fate and we'd been destined to find each other all along. But when buried secrets of the past erupt, igniting us both, it was hard to believe we'd been fated for anything other than failure. The world gave me everything. And then it took it all away.

The Comeback

The Comeback
Author: Ella Berman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2020-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593099532

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • An empowering, behind-the-scenes novel of a young Hollywood actress and the dark secret she’s ready to confront. One of Summer 2020’s Most Anticipated Novels Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, Oprah magazine, Bustle, E! Online, Popsugar, Goodreads, Today Show online, New York Post, Betches, Better Homes & Gardens, HelloGiggles, Bad on Paper podcast, The Stripe, Shondaland, HuffPost, CNN.com, Mashable “Beautifully written and compulsively readable…At its core, this book is about redemption, grace, and pain.” —Jenna Bush Hager “A novel so full-blooded, so humane, that the pages feel almost warm to the touch. A clarifying, purifying chronicle of a promising young woman gone astray and the story of her comeback. Grace Turner can do it. You can do it, too.” —A.J. Finn Grace Turner was one movie away from Hollywood’s A-List. So no one understood why, at the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, she disappeared. Now, one year later, Grace is back in Los Angeles and ready to reclaim her life on her own terms. When Grace is asked to present a lifetime achievement award to director Able Yorke—the man who controlled her every move for eight years—she knows there’s only one way she’ll be free of the secret that’s already taken so much from her. The Comeback is a moving and provocative story of justice—a true page-turner about a young woman finding the strength and power of her voice.

Golden Chaos

Golden Chaos
Author: Colette Rhodes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2021-04-20
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ISBN:

Life isn't a fairytale, but for a few days I got to pretend it was. Now I'm back in my childhood bedroom in New York, eating breakup ice cream and listening to early 2000s emo music. Whatever, this was the wake-up call I needed. It's time for Ria 2.0. No more bailouts. No more half-baked projects. No more impulsive decisions. Simple, right? Except my ex-boyfriend wants to drop the ex part, the three bears aren't so willing to let their Goldilocks go, and their mother is more Wicked Witch than Mama Bear. How am I supposed to pull it together when chaos follows everywhere I go? Golden Chaos is book two of the Three Bears duet. It is a medium burn, reverse harem romance for readers 18+

Forever with You

Forever with You
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062362771

In the irresistibly sexy series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout, two free spirits find their lives changed by a one-night stand… Some things you just believe in, even if you've never experienced them. For Stephanie, that list includes love. It's out there. Somewhere. Eventually. Meanwhile she's got her job at the mixed martial arts training center and hot flings with gorgeous, temporary guys like Nick. Then a secret brings them closer, opening Steph's eyes to a future she never knew she wanted—until tragedy rips it away. Nick's self-assured surface shields a past no one needs to know about. His mind-blowing connection with Steph changes all that. As fast as he's knocking down the walls that have kept him commitment-free, she's building them up again, determined to keep the hurt—and Nick—out. But he can't walk away. Not when she's the only one who's ever made him wish for forever . . .

The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

The Difference Between Somebody and Someone
Author: Aly Martinez
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2022-01-19
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ISBN:

The world owes you nothing. It took losing the woman I loved and facing the paralyzing task of moving on without her for me to truly understand that. Consumed by regret and razor-sharp memories, I'd resigned myself to a life of loneliness until a survivor from the same plane crash that took my fiancée stormed into my life. Remi Grey was chaos and sunshine, fire and freedom. With her in my arms, I began to believe that fate had other plans for me. But as secrets of the past exploded around us, it seemed the only thing fated about our relationship was that I had been destined to lose her from the start. The world owes you nothing. But for Remi, I would risk it all. No matter the cost.

Love at the Fall Festival

Love at the Fall Festival
Author: Kate Tilney
Publisher: Kate Tilney
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2023-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

It’s the most wonderful time of the year in New England: Autumn. These rugged, blue collar mountain men are about to embark on their greatest season yet as they fall in love with the curvy women who light up their lives at their annual fall festival. “It’s the epitome of smutty Hallmark.” HUNTER While serving my country, one thought kept me going: my family’s apple orchard in the Vermont mountains. When I return home to take the helm, I find out my parents have already hired some corporate wannabe with a fancy degree to run the show. I’m determined to send her packing, but the moment we meet there’s no denying the spark between us. She may prove to be a temptation too sweet to resist. WESTON I must be crazy. That can be the only reason why I agree to pretend to date my best friend’s sister during the fall festival while her ex is in town. She promises to help at my short-staffed pumpkin patch, so it seems like a fair deal. Until my fake feelings start to become real. Now I have to plant the seeds to grow something more permanent with her before it’s too late. ARCHER I didn’t choose to be a farmer, but I owe it to my family’s legacy to keep it going. That doesn’t mean I’m happy about turning my fields into a corn maze for the town’s fall festival. And I’m not happy about the bossy city slicker running the show. Until I meet her in person and she turns my world upside down and gives it new life. She’s only in town for a short time, but I’m determined to make her stay. Love at the Fall Festival is a steamy trio of romantic shorts set during autumn in New England. Read Hunter, Weston, and Archer if you enjoy enemies to lovers, fake relationships, and grumpy sunshine romances. No cliffhangers. Happily ever after guaranteed.