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'Delightful romance… I basically inhaled it' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Smart, swoony, and pretty much perfect!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
You can’t fake heat like this…
To an observer, hauling a piano onto a college campus to publicly serenade an ex might seem like a romantic gesture. To literature professor Eva Campbell, it’s the latest manipulative move by a cheating idiot who won’t take a hint. Plus, she never liked that song anyway!
Setting the piano on fire might be an overreaction, but Eva’s at the end of her tether, at least until hot firefighter Sean Hannigan talks her down. And then he’s offering to be Eva’s fake boyfriend to get her creepy ex off her back.
Sean battles infernos for a living, reads romance on the side, and is a straight-up, family-loving good guy. Eva’s not sure she’s ready for the danger he poses to her jaded heart. But, despite their differences, the line between real and fake keeps blurring…
'A delightful romp from one of my new favourite authors!' Suzanne Brockmann, New York Times bestselling author
Perfect for fans of:
Fake dating ❤️
Spice 🌶️
Men in uniform 👨🚒
Readers love Adele Buck:
'I loved it!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'This is a new author for me, but I'm certainly going to check what else she's written' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Sexy and fun!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Wonderful romance'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reviews
'A delightful romp from one of my new favorite authors!' –Suzanne Brockmann, New York Times bestselling author
About the author
A New Hampshire native, Adele Buck still has card number 430 from her hometown library even though she has lived in the D.C. area for over 20 years with her fantastic husband and the requisite number of neurotic cats. Having worked as (among other things) a bookseller, a waitress, a communications manager, an actor and a stage manager, Adele's current day job is librarian at a Washington, D.C., law school.
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Buck (Fast Acting) brings the heat in this scorching rom-com. After professor Eva Campbell's ex, Darren, stages a ridiculous romantic gesture at her place of work to try to get her back, Eva snaps and tries to fend him off with an improvised flamethrower created from the combination of a cigarette lighter and a can of bug spray—and the fire department is called. Hunky firefighter Sean Hannigan, 36, is immediately attracted to Eva, 41, and when Darren tries to intimidate Eva in her office, Sean commits to being her fake boyfriend to keep him at bay. What starts as just pretend quickly becomes all too real and Buck makes it easy to see how perfect these two are for each other. Swoony Sean is an avid reader who isn't ashamed to love a romance novel, which endears Eva—a professor of literature and pop culture—to him immediately. When Eva witnesses him interacting with his numerous nieces and nephews, she realizes he'd be a great dad, but worries it's too late for her to give him that. The result is a refreshingly grounded conflict that Buck handles with a great deal of sensitivity. The steamy sex scenes are just a bonus. Readers will have no trouble rooting for the chivalrous firefighter and the plucky professor to get their happily ever after.
