Download or read book Pretend Honeymoon with the Best Man written by Andrea Bolter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will this maid of honor find her happy-ever-after in the form of the best man? Find out what happens when passions rise in Bermuda in the latest Harlequin Romance by Andrea Bolter. Faking it… in Bermuda! Experience has taught unfussy maid of honor Laney Sullivan to have modest expectations of love and life. While best man Ian Luss is rich, successful and devastatingly handsome—and treats marriage like a merger! When circumstances throw them together on the newlyweds’ achingly romantic couples-only honeymoon, they decide they could both use the practice of pretending to be in a relationship. But what happens when practice makes perfect? From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories.

Download or read book Destination written by Cara Colter and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Chance Hawaiian Honeymoon - Cara Colter After despairingly fleeing her wedding to billionaire Joe, Blossom goes on their honeymoon alone to reconsider their relationship. Only Joe has the same idea and they wind up together! This unexpected reunion forces them to face what they were running from, until they start to enjoy too many sleepless nights. Maybe their honeymoon before saying ‘I do’ is the second chance they never saw coming... Pretend Honeymoon With The Best Man - Andrea Bolter Experience has taught unfussy maid of honour Laney Sullivan to have modest expectations of love and life. While best man, Ian Luss is rich, successful and devastatingly handsome — and treats marriage like a merger! When circumstances conspire to throw them together on the newlyweds’ achingly romantic, couples-only honeymoon, they decide they could both use the practice of pretending to be in a relationship. But what happens when practice makes perfect?

Download or read book Pretend Honeymoon Romance written by Bella Grant and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I need a woman to take care of my home. A mother and wife. I have no desire to get married or have children, but I'm suddenly a single parent to twin girls I didn't even know existed. And we need each other. But I have a problem - I'm too busy to give my princesses the life they deserve. Thankfully, in my world, money solves every problem. My needs were simple - an attractive and hopefully sexy woman to spend the next ten years playing wife and parent. Her job will be to take care of the children, pretend she's my wife, and perhaps occasionally warm my bed. In ten years, the girls would be grown and I'd let the woman go. Contract over. It was a perfect plan, and I had found the perfect fit - Laurel, the sexy woman I just interviewed. After a fake marriage proposal, we were set to start our pretend "contract" life. But how would I survive ten years of being close to this woman when I can't control myself during our pretend honeymoon?This is a standalone full-length romance story with no cheating, lots of steam, and a happily-ever-after.

Download or read book The Water Keeper written by Charles Martin and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting story of heroism, heartache, and the power of love to heal all wounds by bestselling author Charles Martin. Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds of a church with no parishioners, and he’s dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes. When he pulls a beautiful woman named Summer out of Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway, Murph’s mission to lay his mentor to rest at the end of the world takes a dangerous turn. Drawn to Summer, and desperate to find her missing daughter, Murph is pulled deeper and deeper into the dark and dangerous world of modern-day slavery. With help from some unexpected new friends, including a faithful Labrador he plucks from the ocean and an ex-convict named Clay, Murph must race against the clock to locate the girl before he is consumed by the secrets of his past—and the ghosts who tried to bury them. With Charles Martin’s trademark lyricism and poignant prose, The Water Keeper is at once a tender love story and a heartrending search for freedom. Praise for The Water Keeper: “I’m telling you, it’s an action-packed, classic Charles Martin romance novel unlike anything I’ve ever read. And remember . . . the day you pick up this book is the day you become temporarily unavailable to the world.” —Charlie Martin, son of Charles Martin “Charles Martin fans rejoice, because he’s done it again . . . a multilayered story woven together with grace and redemption, and packed tight with tension and achingly real characters.” —Lauren Denton, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Hideaway Part of The Murphy Shepherd novels: Book 1: The Water Keeper Book 2: The Letter Keeper Book 3: The Record Keeper Coming July 2022!) Full-length novel (110,000 words) Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also by Charles Martin: The Mountain Between Us, Send Down the Rain, Long Way Gone, When Crickets Cry, Chasing Fireflies

Download or read book Cinderella s Secret Fling written by Michelle Douglas and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will a secret fling with this charming single dad ignite a spark that lasts forever? Escape to Lake Como in the latest enchanting One Summer in Italy story by Michelle Douglas for Harlequin Romance. Cinderella… and her forbidden Italian! Aspiring artist Audrey is staying with newly discovered relatives in Lake Como when she meets renowned sculptor and brooding single dad Gabriel. Their attraction is instant and unexpected…as is his hostility! Is it because Audrey was related to his late wife? As they bond over art and his little girl, their spark ignites into a secret affair. But a summer fling was never meant to be this complicated… From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories. One Summer in Italy Book 1: Unbuttoning the Tuscan Tycoon Book 2: Cinderella's Secret Fling

Download or read book The Lifeguards written by Amanda Eyre Ward and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace The bonds between three picture-perfect—but viciously protective—mothers and their close-knit sons are tested during one unforgettable summer in a gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters. Austin’s Zilker Park neighborhood is a wonderland of greenbelt trails, live music, and moms who drink a few too many margaritas. Whitney, Annette, and Liza have grown thick as thieves as they have raised their children together for fifteen years, believing that they can shelter them their children from an increasingly dangerous world. Their friendship is unbreakable—as safe as the neighborhood where they've raised their sweet little boys. Or so they think. One night, the three women have been enjoying happy hour when their boys, lifeguards for the summer, come back on bicycles from a late-night dip in their favorite swimming hole. The boys share a secret—news that will shatter the perfect world their mothers have so painstakingly created. Combining three mothers’ points of view in a powerful narrative tale with commentary from entertaining neighborhood listservs, secret text messages, and police reports, The Lifeguards is both a story about the secrets we tell to protect the ones we love and a riveting novel of suspense filled with half-truths and betrayals, fierce love and complicated friendships, and the loss of innocence on one hot summer night.

Download or read book The Unhoneymooners written by Christina Lauren and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal Named a “Must-Read” by TODAY, Us Weekly, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, Southern Living, Book Riot, Woman’s Day, The Toronto Star, and more! For two sworn enemies, anything can happen during the Hawaiian trip of a lifetime—maybe even love—in this romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling authors of Roomies. Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion...she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there’s a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo. Agreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. After all, ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is...Olive doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be. With Christina Lauren’s “uniquely hilarious and touching voice” (Entertainment Weekly), The Unhoneymooners is a romance for anyone who has ever felt unlucky in love.

Download or read book The One Month Boyfriend written by Roxie Noir and published by Clever Capybara Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fake dating my sworn enemy to make my ex so jealous he can't see straight? Worth it. Silas and I agree on one thing, and one thing only: my ruthless, heartless, narcissistic jerk of an ex-fiance needs to be taken down a notch. So we do what anyone would do: we pretend to be a couple. Even though Silas and I are polar opposites. Silas is a loud, cheerful, over the top showboat. He’s his hometown’s golden boy, the Marine who came back to rescue kittens from trees and walk old ladies across the street. And me? I'm the awkward new girl who freezes up around strangers and can’t make small talk to save my life. It shouldn’t work. We can barely have a conversation without arguing. There's no way we should be friends, let alone dating, except... Everyone believes it. Especially my ex. Now I'm having way too many real fantasies about the man who gets on my last nerve. My fake boyfriend is starting to feel a whole lot like a real one. The kisses feel real. The way he protects me feels real. The night we spend together in a hotel bed feels very real. This was supposed to be fake, but I think I might have fooled myself most of all. The One Month Boyfriend is the first book in the Wildwood Society series, and can be read as a total standalone. It's for fans of high heat enemies-to-lovers romantic comedies, and features two enemies who fake date for revenge, a quirky, charming small town, a former military cinnamon roll hero, a grumpy heroine who's charmed despite herself, anxiety and PTSD representation, and plenty of steamy scene. Of course, there's an HEA. This series is for fans of Kathyrn Nolan, Elizabeth O'Roark, Kate Canterbary, and Melanie Harlow.

Download or read book Roomies written by Christina Lauren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s Roomies. Marriages of convenience are so...inconvenient. For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. Lacking the nerve to actually talk to the gorgeous stranger, fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions. Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway—until his reason for disappearing earlier becomes clear: he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago. Seeing that her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, a wild idea takes hold of her. Impulsively, she marries the Irishman, her infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves and Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway—in the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting—will Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?

Download or read book The Playboy s Guide to the Fake Fianc e written by Piper Marlowe and published by Piper Marlowe Books. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remember me?" I wipe the sleep out of my eyes. Do I remember this woman pounding at my door in the middle of the night? Vaguely, and not in the Biblical way. I recall the roller skates and pig tails of my best friend's younger sister. This woman in front of me is...well...a woman. She wants me to pretend I'm her fiancé at her grandmother's birthday party. In Florida. A road trip is the perfect excuse to miss the meeting where my father will tell me it's time to take over the family company. That's how all six feet of me wound up stuffed into a subcompact next to the nuttiest, most predictably unpredictable, charming, funny, deliciously sexy woman I've ever avoided my obligations with. She's got me managing snacks, sitting in a Cracker Barrel rocking chair, and sharing a cheap hotel room. But falling for her means I'll have to stick to my commitments, because I think I just may love her enough to tie myself down. Now I have to make her believe it before we get home to New York. ----- Check out all the books in the How to Marry a Billionaire series: Easton: The Billionaire's Guide to the Marriage Deal Dylan: The Playboy's Guide to the Fake Fiancee Max: The Alphahole's Guide to Marrying Your Enemy

Download or read book Jet Set Escape with Her Billionaire Boss written by Andrea Bolter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trip of a lifetime with her billionaire boss! Dive into Andrea Bolter’s latest story for Harlequin Romance. FROM NEW YORK TO THAILAND…INTO THE TYCOON’S ARMS! Spa manager Esme has sacrificed too much to let her career stall before reaching the top. So when her brooding boss, Jackson, needs her expertise to relaunch the business, she offers him a deal. If she impresses him on a whirlwind tour of the world’s best spas, he must promote her! Only, with each new destination, an unexpected temptation builds… Dare she take a risk with the guarded billionaire? From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories.

Download or read book Fake Love written by Jillian Dodd and published by Jillian Dodd. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWhen sports agent Carter Crawford and supermodel Vale Martin meet, they have an instant connection and a really fun night together. Their relationship goes like this. She calls and says she’s in town. He tells her to stop by. They both know what that means. And it is amazing. Every time. She doesn’t want a commitment. So, he does something crazy and buys a ring. But instead of surprising Vale with a proposal, Carter sees her kissing another man and leaves without telling her. After months of not speaking, Vale doesn’t call Carter. She stops by. And begs him to pretend to be her fiancé at her little sister’s wedding. And even though Carter knows he’s about to do something crazy again, he agrees. Because there is nothing fake about the way he still feels about her.

Download or read book When You Fake Date a Stranger written by Lia Huni and published by IPH Media, LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love should be this easy. When Rob Mead, the brilliant, handsome, wealthy CEO of AppTech, asked Gina Wilkes to attend a fundraiser as his fake girlfriend, she jumped at the chance. Even if she didn't owe him a favor, networking with Portland's rich and successful might offer an opportunity to increase her client roster when she wraps up this project and returns to her marketing job in Los Angeles. Then one of Rob's coworkers tells a well-known gossip that the two are engaged. Soon everyone is in on the "secret." Now Gina and Rob are on their way to Rob's hometown to set the story straight. Except Rob is starting to have second thoughts. Fake relationships always work out in the movies. Maybe they can in real life, too. Can he convince Gina to give them a try? When You Fake Date a Stranger is a sweet romantic comedy that won’t steam your glasses. Perfect for fans of Sariah Wilson, Jenny Proctor, and Kate O’Keeffe, this sparkling romcom features a neurodivergent, cinnamon roll hero, a strong, sassy heroine, and a supporting cast you’ll want to grab a beer with. Plus lots of chemistry, humor, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Download or read book The Fake President written by Alfred Balm and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 2032, the incumbent American President Rocio Bowling is defeated by the popular simpatico Harvey Hampton. The young President is facing a world readying itself for Global War. China has spread its influence like a virus infiltrating the economies of Africa and South America through offering financial assistance and bribing corrupt governments. Rogue nations are uniting to form a power-base from where the mighty United States threatens to be attacked.Proliferation of nuclear armaments is no longer controllable, a rejuvenated Russian Empire under the aging Vladimir Putin, aspires to become the dominant power in Europe and the Middle East.But unbeknown to its adversaries America has developed a global defense system, code named Umbrella that encompasses the entire world. If from any point on earth, either on land, from the air, from a vessel or a submarine, a missile is about to be launched, it is immediately destroyed from space, exploding at the launching site.The top secret project is a threat for the ambitions of Russia, China and other countries, aspiring world dominance.The project however is absorbing extreme amounts of money, demanding great leadership from the President to maintain peace on the home front.As the scion of great grandparents who lost everything they owned during the great drought of the early nineteen hundreds, but through three generations built a conglomerate, realizing the American dream, Harvey Hampton was not destined to become President.During the many trips he made around the world after graduating with honors from Harvard, he noticed widespread inequalities. Not interested to become a business mogul he involves himself in politics, which ultimately lead to The White House.Realizing that its aspirations are at stake, the Kremlin devices a complot to sabotage Umbrella, so incomprehensible that it could only succeed. Will it?

Download or read book Pretend The Complete Series written by Ella Miles and published by Ella Miles. This book was released on with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete PRETEND TRILOGY in one collection! PRETEND I'M YOURS I'm a twenty-two-year-old virgin. Tonight that changes. I thought my first time had to be magical. The perfect date. The perfect place. The perfect guy. I thought I wanted to be in love. But now, I'm desperate. I'll take any guy as long as he's decent looking and treats me well, at least for the night. Turns out Mr. Perfect isn't so hard to find. He's hot, dreamy, and filthy rich. And he wants me. Sex with him is going to be better than I ever imagined. He's going to ruin me for all other guys. I know that it is just for one night, but it doesn't matter. I'm happy to get my perfect night. One night isn't enough, for either of us. Because Mr. Perfect just fake proposed to me. And he wants this proposal to last a lot longer than one night. Will you pretend to be my wife? PRETEND WE'RE OVER I’m not looking for a date. I’m definitely not looking for a husband—just one night of passion. I’m in Vegas, after all. And what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. So how did I end up with a giant rock on that finger, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine. Now I’m stuck fake married to the biggest self-centered jerk I’ve ever met. We agree to keep the charade going for six months to protect our pride and dignity. We have six months to convince everyone we aren’t meant to be. Should be easy. I’m sweet, kind, fun Millie. He’s cynical, self-absorbed, loner Sebastian. We don’t belong together. Convincing everyone we’re married is the easy part. Convincing everyone we’re over—that’s proving more difficult. Convincing myself that we’re over is proving hardest yet. I just have to remember that it was all pretend from the start. We were never together. Pretending we’re over is just going back to my life before. But what if I don’t want to keep pretending? Pretend We’re Over is a standalone fake marriage spinoff featuring Sebastian from Pretend I’m Yours. PRETEND YOU'RE HER I'm not a stalker; I just don't have a plan. At least, I don't have a good plan. But I need to speak to Boden—my child’s father. I’m in over my head and I need him to step up. But the second he spots me, he runs. I chase after him, but instead of catching Boden I run face first into a stranger’s chest. Turns out the stranger has an interesting proposition for me that might just fix all my problems. All I have to do is pretend to marry him… This is a 3 book collection of steamy, fake marriage romances.

Download or read book Just One Fake Date written by Deborah Cooke and published by Deborah A. Cooke. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight out of college, five friends with a dream joined forces to build success. Ten years later, their exclusive fitness club, Flatiron Five Fitness, is the hottest destination in Manhattan. People flock to F5F to get fit, to get lucky, and even, to fall in love. The founding partners have been immune to F5F's romantic spell—at least, so far... Tyler McKay has a plan... And it doesn't include a serious relationship anytime soon. Between his day job and being a partner at Flatiron 5 Fitness, he's busy investing in the future. But Ty knows that going stag to his sister's wedding will encourage the family matchmakers: he needs a fake date, fast, in self-defense. When the one woman who hates him walks into F5F, Ty knows he's found the perfect candidate—that Shannyn doesn't play by anyone's rules just leaves Ty wanting more... Shannyn Hawke is done with plans and dreams... She had her whole life mapped out, but it all went wrong. Now, she's taking care of number one and living in the moment, with no concern for the future. If her college crush wants to trade a fake wedding date for physical satisfaction, Shannyn is in. But just one night proves that Tyler is everything she believes a guy should be, plus he takes it as a challenge to change her mind about him. Shannyn never wants to have her heart broken again, but she's falling hard and fast. Can she remember that it's just for show? Or will Tyler convince Shannyn to take a chance on forever again? * * * Flatiron Five Fitness is a complete 10-story series of contemporary romances: 1. Just One Fake Date (Tyler & Shannyn) 2. Just One More Time (Kyle & Lauren) 3. Just One Night Together (Damon & Haley) 4. Just One Hometown Hero (Cassie & Reid) 5. Two Weddings & a Baby (a novella) 6. Just One Second Chance (Theo & Lyssa) 7. Just Home for the Holidays (Hunter & Chloe) 8. Just One Silver Fox (Pierce & Jacquie) 9. Just the Wrong Twin (Nate & Sonia) 10. When Annika Met Thom (Thom & Annika) *** free series starter, free contemporary romance, complete series, manhattan, fitness club, band of brothers, fake date, wedding, second chance romance, college crush, fling to forever, scars, once burned twice shy, romantic comedy

Download or read book Life Love New Release Box Set June 2023 Billionaire s Second Chance in Paris Pretend Honeymoon with the Best Man The Brooding Doc and the S written by Rebecca Winters and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulse-racing passion and heartfelt love stories — experience the rush of falling in love! Billionaire’s Second Chance in Paris - Rebecca Winters Gorgeous billionaire Raoul is shocked when he bumps into software engineer Fleurine in Paris. They haven’t seen each other in ten years, not since they were denied their happy-ever-after, and he’s never forgotten her. Fleurine is more guarded than before, but the connection between them is stronger than ever. Yet with the past still threatening them, can they really claim their second chance? Pretend Honeymoon with the Best Man - Andrea Bolter Experience has taught unfussy maid of honour Laney Sullivan to have modest expectations of love and life. While best man Ian Luss is rich, successful and devastatingly handsome — and treats marriage like a merger! When circumstances throw them together on the newlyweds’ achingly romantic couples-only honeymoon, they decide they could both use the practice of pretending to be in a relationship. But what happens when practice makes perfect? The Brooding Doc and the Single Mum - Louisa Heaton Widowed GP Daniel is far from eager to start dating! But when single mum Dr Stacey join’s the surgery, she ignites a fire he long thought was lost. Stacey is surprised at the instant connection between her son and Daniel, but her instinct is to protect her little family. She’s too guarded to fall in love again, but in a small village they can’t keep away from each other… Second Chance for the Village Nurse - Louisa Heaton Both cautious nurse Hannah and gorgeous GP Zach want to overcome their past heartbreaks. But Hannah is floored when Zach suggests they ‘practice being on dates…together’! Encouraging Hannah out of her comfort zone brings them closer. But when the pretend dates start to feel real, the lines become blurred. Now Zach believes Hannah may be the second chance he’s been looking for, but is she ready to admit the same?