Marriage on Madison Avenue
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4.3 • 414 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A USA TODAY bestseller!
One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020” and one of Goodreads’s “28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020”
From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the “queen of witty dialogue” (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.
Can guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother—announcing he’s already engaged…to Audrey.
But what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. As the faux wedding date looms closer, Audrey and Clarke realize that they can never go back to the way things were, but deep down, do they really want to?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Marriage on Madison Avenue is as frothy and sweet as a vanilla latte. Audrey has never been lucky in love. But who needs love when you’ve got a lit career as a social-media influencer and an amazing best friend like Clarke? Audrey and Clarke have been keeping it platonic since elementary school, but when the pair decide to pretend they’re engaged—to keep their matchmaking parents at bay—Audrey suddenly sees her BFF in a sexy new light. The glamorous world of Upper East Side apartments and Louboutin heels provides the perfect #LifeGoals backdrop for this deliriously fun romantic comedy. Like the other books in Lauren Layne’s Central Park Pact series, this is an entirely self-contained story, but it’s so good you’ll want to check out the rest of her very modern takes on good old-fashioned romance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Layne concludes her Central Park Pact trilogy (following Love on Lexington Avenue) with this breezy and satisfying contemporary romance. Audrey Tate, reeling with pain and guilt following the death of her married lover, avoids reentering the Manhattan dating scene in favor of immersing herself in her work as a social media influencer and spending time with her longtime best friend, Clarke West. When Clarke's manipulative, matchmaking mother tries to get him back together with his ex-girlfriend in an effort to see her son married, Clarke lies and says he's already engaged to Audrey. What starts as a lark for Audrey, who thinks it sounds fun to plan a fake wedding, grows complicated as she and Clarke support each other through familial pressure and their fake kisses start to feel real. Layne's vision of Manhattan is escapist and aspirational, populated solely by the wealthy. Sparkling dialogue, hilarious wedding planning scenes, and deeply emotional moments see the series end on a high note.
Customer Reviews
Cute and easy
It’s a cute little story and a quick read but spoiler ahead I have no idea why she ran from the wedding and got upset at the misunderstanding bc they both agreed on something similar to a marriage of conviene he didn’t confess to love so what if he got the business to bc if the marriage why get offended when he never said anything about love
Loved it!
Great as always from this author! :)
Must read
Couldn’t put it down..