The Fiance Dilemma
From the bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception
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Josie Moore has given the opposite sex––and love––plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie realizes her romantic history is a complicated PR issue.
Matthew Flanagan is the mud, literally. Not only has he been fired from his job, but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak, North Carolina. So, he grabs a duffel with his essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back on track. But instead, he finds his best friend’s sister, Josie, greeting him as her fiancé.
What starts as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement––and a stunt, at that––makes Josie’s stomach turn, but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives, and Matthew doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colourful list of grooms-that-never-were. Despite the ring on her finger, Josie knows this is only temporary, even if the rest of the small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm.
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Bestseller Armas (The Long Game) charms with this masterful take on the fake engagement trope. Josie Moore, 29, is known in Green Oak, N.C., as a runaway bride after walking out on four weddings. This poses a PR problem for her estranged father, Andrew Underwood, a powerful businessman who reenters her life on the eve of a magazine cover story about his successes. A daughter he abandoned whose daddy issues have kept her from finding true love won't play well with the general public, so Andrew's PR team suggests he salvage his image by paying for Josie's next wedding, one he expects her to actually go through with. It's a sweet gesture, but there's one problem: Josie's not currently engaged. Enter Matthew Flanagan, who has just been fired from his job with a popular gossip rag when he decides to seek out Josie, the woman his best friend Adalyn believes is his soulmate. He's willing to fake a relationship if it means getting to know her better—and soon their blistering chemistry has them questioning whether they should try for a real relationship. Josie's insecurities are entirely plausible, while Matthew is the perfect romantic hero—supportive, sexy, and determined to make Josie feel loved. Snappy prose and steamy love scenes make this a winner.
