Fly with Me
A Novel
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
"A modern, tongue-in-cheek view...Fly with Me makes you laugh right before it makes you cry." - The New York Times
A one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead?
Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot announces an in-flight medical emergency. Olive leaps into action and saves a life, but ends up getting stuck in the airport hours away from the marathon she's running in honor of her brother. Luckily for her, Stella Soriano, the stunning type A copilot, offers to give her a ride.
After the two spend a magical day together, Stella makes a surprising request: Will Olive be her fake girlfriend?
A video of Olive saving a life has gone viral and started generating big sales for Stella's airline. Stella sees their union as the perfect opportunity to get to the boys' club executives at her company who keep overlooking her for a long-deserved promotion. Realizing this arrangement could help her too, Olive dives into memorizing Stella’s comically comprehensive three-ring-binder guide to fake dating. As the two grow closer, what’s supposed to be a ruse feels more and more real. Could this be the romantic ride of their lives, or an epic crash and burn?
A sparkling and steamy Sapphic romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one” when and where you least expect it.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Flying the friendly skies takes on a whole new meaning for the two women in this heartfelt, slow-burn romance. When an emergency situation occurs during her first flight ever, ER nurse Olive Murphy doesn’t think twice before taking lifesaving action. That’s how she meets the smoking-hot, devastatingly charming co-pilot, Stella Soriano. They hit it off, and Stella makes a proposal. To further both their careers, they should embark on a fake relationship. You can tell from the start that their pretend romance is bound to become real, but debut novelist Andie Burke takes her time building the tension—and the very real connection—between Olive and Stella. We appreciated the messy, realistic issues both characters brought to the table, from Olive’s very (ahem) difficult ex, Lindsay, to Stella’s dad’s battle with Parkinson’s. A queer romance that’s both deeply emotional and red hot, Fly with Me is a wildly satisfying read.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Burke skillfully balances sweetness and heat in her delightful sapphic romance debut. When flight-phobic emergency room nurse Olive Murphy braves her first plane ride in order to run a marathon at Disney World to honor her comatose brother, Jake, medical disaster strikes and she ends up saving the life of a fellow passenger mid-flight. The plane makes an emergency landing in Atlanta, where grateful pilot Stella Soriano offers to drive Olive to Orlando herself—and then asks Olive to pose as her girlfriend so she can use the positive press about the incident to force the airline into the long overdue promotion they've been squeamish to offer a gay Latina woman. Olive and Stella's quirks are both lovingly depicted, sex scenes have a refreshing mix of playfulness and intensity, and the tension between the couple's insistence on their relationship being for show and their clear joy in being together drives the story forward at a brisk clip. Subplots about familial relationships as Olive visits Jake and Stella helps out her father, who has Parkinson's, add heart, but the external stressor of Olive's sabotaging ex, Lindsay, feels like an irksome plot device to add some late-stage conflict. Still, readers will eagerly cheer on the charming central couple. Burke is a writer to watch.
