Test Drive
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Willow Andrew's life is a hot mess.
Coming from a family of successful professionals, the fact that at twenty-seven she still doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up doesn't sit well. Desperate not to disappoint her grandmother, she invents a fake boyfriend so Gammy won't worry so much. It seemed a victimless lie... until Gammy announced that Willow AND her boyfriend needed to be present at her 75th birthday party. Or else. Out of time and options, Willow turns to the sexy bartender she's been secretly crushing on for help.
Levi Sullivan has his life in order and thrives off helping others.
In fact, he would do anything to help out a friend. But he's angling for far more than friendship with Willow. Entranced by the clumsy beauty since the first time he watched her trip over nothing, he happily agrees to a chance to spend more time with her. Fake romance or not, he's determined to use their long-distance road trip to turn a game of pretend into something more.
Warning—the roads ahead will twist and turn with laugh-out loud moments and sizzling chemistry. But traffic should be aware, the journey ahead is far more important than the destination.
Customer Reviews
flirty and fun characters
TEST DRIVE is the third instalment in Samantha Chase’s contemporary, adult ROAD TRIPPING romance series. This is bar owner Levi Sullivan, and dog walker / nanny Willow Andrew’s story line. TEST DRIVE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Willow and Levi) TEST DRIVE follows the friends to lovers relationship between bar owner Levi Sullivan, and dog walker / nanny Willow Andrew. Willow Andrew is a bit of a klutz whose parents struggle with their daughter’s lack of direction in life. Several months earlier, Willow Andrew’s introduction to Levi Sullivan happened when Willow wiped out in front of Levi’s bar. With the approach of her Gammy’s 75th birthday, Willow is desperate as she has told her Gammy about a ‘boyfriend’ who doesn’t exist, a boyfriend whose name just happens to Levi Sullivan. Enter bar owner Levi Sullivan, and the man with whom Willow will fall in love. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Willow and Levi, and the potential fall-out as a lie of omission threatens Levi’s relationship with the woman he loves.
Willow Andrew believes Levi Sullivan is an overworked bartender and in this the conflict begins to unfold. Willow and Levi set out on a cross-country journey to attend Gammy’s 75th birthday, a journey that heightens our heroine’s anxiety with having to face her overly critical, professional parents. With Levi as a buffer, Willow is able to stand up to her parents but a return home forces Willow to face the truth including a secret Levi has kept to himself.
The secondary and supporting characters are colorful, energetic and fun especially Willow’s seventy-five year old Gammy whose $ex life is more exciting than her struggling granddaughter’s.
TEST DRIVE is a story of family and friendships, love and relationships, expectations, and disappointment. The premise is entertaining ; the characters are flirty and fun; the romance is passionate and sweet-the $ex scenes are all implied but Willow’s reaction to Levi’s ‘lie of omission’ was a bit over the top and didn’t warrant the reaction by our heroine’s BFFs.