Hott Take
A Steamy Rush Creek Romantic Comedy
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4.5 • 43 Ratings
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- $5.99
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Publisher Description
The hard part isn’t acting like we’re falling for each other. It’s pretending we’re not.
Shane: My grandfather’s will has me between a rock and a Hott place. If I don’t score a celebrity wedding in three months, my sister will lose her wedding planning business—and we’ll all lose our family’s land. I should be set, because as a bad boy movie star, I know Hollywood’s ins and out. But it turns out that finding two celebrities who can convincingly pretend to be in love is tougher than it looks.
Enter Ivy Scofield—the beautiful star of one of TV’s most beloved failures. She’s hunkered down in Rush Creek, hiding from the paparazzi and her past, running a community theater non-profit for troubled kids. She needs my family’s extra wedding barn to save her program. So we make a deal: I give her the barn—she gives me her hand in fake marriage. Lights, camera, action—and cut—right?
Not so fast. Planning our fake wedding is way more personal than I was expecting. I’m learning Ivy’s quirks, preferences, and pet peeves—not to mention how amazing she looks in a form-fitting white dress. And she’s slowly peeling off my layers—the ones I’ve spent years building up to protect myself from hurt. If someone doesn’t do something soon, we might discover that the only thing fake about this wedding is the way we keep pushing each other away.
A spicy, movie star, marriage of convenience, fake relationship standalone romantic comedy set in the beloved small town of Rush Creek.
Customer Reviews
Hott Take
Thrilling, exciting, and entertaining!
Shane and Ivy
This was a really good read about so much more than the Hatt family inheritance. Shane has been called in by the not so nice family attorney to read his letter from their late grandpa. His letter requires him to arrange a celebrity wedding at the family’s venue to help it grow. So, he finds out there is another celebrity who has moved to town, Ivy.” He “proposes” a fake marriage to her in exchange for helping with her children’s theatre. Of course, the both fall and fall hard. To watch them get out of their own heads was so good. She has always felt like the only person she has is her sister. The small town rallies around her. Shane’s sister, the spa staff, Sonya, and the Wilder family women show up for in so many ways. I loved their story and look forward to the next one.
So, So Good!
I’ve been a fan of Serena Bell’s for a whille now and I loved the first in her new “Hott Springs Eternal” series, “Hott Shott.” I was eagerly awaiting the next book and wasn’t disappointed! “Hott Take” is so much fun and so romantic. The series features a group of brothers who are grudgingly taking on tasks assigned to them by their late grandfather in hopes of saving their family’s land and business. And this time around it’s Shane’s turn. Shane needs to orchestrate a celebrity wedding, something the big time actor figures he can accomplish easily. But things don’t go as planned and he ends up talking town local and former actress Ivy into a fake marriage of convenience. The trope may not be new but Bell manages to put a funny, sexy spin on things that kept me reading long into the night. I loved the relationship that grew between Shane and Ivy and how they were able to connect on so many levels, including their shared careers. Shane is a sweetheart who thinks he isn’t capable of having a serious relationship with a woman, while Ivy has been burned before and isn’t ready to rush into anything. But thanks to their scheme the two of them learn how to love and it was so much fun to watch them fall. I also loved the cameos from characters of past books in both the Hott and Wilder series. Serena Bell keeps building on the rich, quirky and wonderful world she has created and I for one am glad to be along for the ride. Highly recommended!