Friday Romance Reads To Devour 3/29
The Almost Romantic
Lauren Blakely
$4.99
Am I really about to marry my business partner for the next three months? Hear me out…
To save my struggling chocolate shop, I have to pretend I’m engaged to the sexy single dad and tattooed bartender I work with.
So what if Gage is protective, bossy and looks at me like he wants me? I can resist him.
Except, there’s that little matter of fake kisses to sell our romance to the town. Swoony gestures. Possessive words like mine.
But since it’s a bad idea to bang your business partner, I don’t give in. Well, there was that one time in the supply closet, but I swear it won’t happen again.
Good news is our shop becomes the toast of the town, with lines out the door and us as the it couple running it.
But bad news comes when my vindictive corporate rival threatens to expose us as frauds.
We could lose everything. Until my fiancé makes the biggest gesture of all to protect me – he marries me for real to prove this isn’t fake.
A marriage of convenience with an expiration date at the end of the year…as long as I don’t fall for my husband.
Tropes: Single dad, fake engagement, marriage of convenience, my wife, found family, workplace romance, spicy rom com, he falls first
Waiting For Ana
Annie Seaton
FREE
Mixing business with pleasure never felt so right.
Blake Buchanan and Ana Delaney lived in a share house at university and could never see eye to eye about anything. Except for one night of passion before Ana left without a word, never expecting to cross paths with Blake again.
Years later, Blake has made his millions. He comes to Noosa to manage a corporate takeover that will close down the home flipping business Ana has poured her heart and soul into. The fiery Ana is determined to convince money-minded Blake of her business’s worth, but when a family emergency throws them together, their walls come tumbling down once again…
Problem is, Blake’s business-first position hasn’t changed. And Ana can’t fall for the man who could become her boss—it’s not only her job at stake, but her heart.
Hostile Territory
Marie James
FREE
Can you call someone an enemy if you haven’t seen them for the better part of a decade?
Deacon Black is perfectly content with the status quo—work, sleep, repeat.
Who cares if he’s rigid, structured, and set in his ways?
It’s a job requirement that keeps his men safe and his company’s doors open.
One phone call is all it takes to upend his life and land him right back into a past he has tried to forget.
Revisiting old ghosts is the last thing he needs.
Especially when the forced trip down memory lane includes the only woman he never wanted to see again.
Annalise Grimaldi hit the jackpot with her life—from her trust fund to her best friend, she has it all.
But her world comes crashing to a halt when her best friend vanishes— leaving behind an apartment in tatters and more questions than answers.
There’s only one person she can think of that can help in a situation like this.
She hates to make the call, but there isn’t a thing she wouldn’t do to make sure her friend is found.
Even setting aside her hatred for Deacon Black.