The Starter Ex
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 10 Mar 2026
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- 85,00 kr
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- Pre-Order
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- 85,00 kr
Publisher Description
An Amazon Editor’s Best Book of the Month Pick
The best worst girlfriend finally meets her match . . .
Vanessa Cordero used to run a profitable side gig: For a reasonable fee, she’d date your crush . . . and make his life miserable. Too clingy? Check. Jealous? Check. A parent's worst nightmare? Triple check. By the time Vanessa was done with him, your guy was practically begging for you.
Enter Jason Torres, a certified commitment-phobe who doesn't plan on getting married anytime soon, much to his mother’s dismay. What he needs is a temporary girlfriend. A totally inappropriate girlfriend. Someone his mother will hate, so she'll finally abandon her dream of getting him to the altar.
Vanessa's younger sister, Lisa, has her eye on Jason, and convinces Vanessa to come out of retirement for one last starter ex engagement. The rules are simple: no touching, no fooling around, and definitely no falling in love. But nothing's going according to plan. Because Vanessa can't ditch Jason no matter how hard she tries to scare him away. And the longer they're around each other, the more neither of them wants to be apart.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A woman’s plan to lose a man disastrously backfires in this mischievously fun fake-dating rom-com. In college, Vanessa had a side hustle: Hire her to date your crush, and she’d behave like such a monster, the man would be desperate for a sane, reasonable woman—like you. But when Vanessa’s sister hires her to do one last job, she meets her match. This setup sparkles with chaotic zaniness right from the start. The handsome Jason wants so badly to put his mother off her obsession with finding him a wife, he welcomes Vanessa’s wildly inappropriate behaviour. This puts a definite kink in Vanessa’s plans, and so does the inconvenient fact that they seem to be developing very real feelings for each other. All of this madness comes together perfectly in author Mia Sosa’s skilled hands. Vanessa sparkles with wit and heart, and Jason’s hard-as-nails exterior belies a more vulnerable side. The Starter Ex is an effervescent rom-com that is impossible to put down.
