Honeymoon Phase
A hilarious fake marriage of convenience with a small town twist from TikTok sensation Amy Daws
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Fact or fiction: proposing to your best friend so she can inherit her family business is a great idea.
When Addison ‘Roe’ Monroe tells me she’s going on a husband hunt at the local lumberjack competition so she can inherit her father’s lumberyard, desperate times call for desperate measures.
She’s sworn off romance. Says she’s been through enough tragedy. So I offer myself as an alternative, ‘cause that’s what best friends are for.
But my stubborn friend, who would rather drive a forklift than get her nails done, refuses to accept my help, and now I find myself training to become a lumberjack.
I refuse to let Roe hitch her wagon to some hulking ax wielder who might be a serial killer. She means too much to me.
And I swear there are moments where she looks at me like I mean something more to her, too.
On the surface, I’m offering a marriage of convenience to protect her. But the truth is...I’m hopelessly in love with my best friend.
So if I have to marry her and move her up to Fletcher Mountain just to see if she could love me back, so be it.
Because my only regret would be losing her forever, and that’s a fact.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Best friends enter a marriage of convenience in Daws's dreamy third Mountain Men Matchmaker rom-com (after Seven Year Itch). Addison "Roe" Monroe dreams of taking over her "old-fashioned" father's Colorado lumber company, but he won't hand over the reins until she's been married for one year. Roe's best friend, Luke Fletcher, has loved her since the day they met and proposes a fake marriage, but Roe turns him down, worried about ruining their friendship. Instead, she'll try to find a suitable hunk of a husband at the local Man of the Mountain lumberjack competition. So Luke, at the urging of his adorable matchmaking nine-year-old niece, Everly, throws his axe into the ring. When he's injured in the competition, a stricken Roe caves and agrees to marry him. But a marriage license won't be enough to convince her father of their union—they'll need to have a full-blown wedding at which they appear legitimately in love. Faking it inevitably gives way to real feelings, but Daws keeps the tension high and the pages flying even as the plot plays out predictably. Along the way, she takes the time to delve into serious themes including grief and regret. The result is a sexy, funny, and ultimately feel-good romp.
