Penn by Jennifer Millikin is now live!
From Amazon Charts bestselling author Jennifer Millikin comes the first in a swoony fairytale retelling series packed with unapologetically romantic heroes, sassy heroines, and their fractured paths to a happily ever after.
The entirety of Olive Township is looking forward to the fast-approaching day when Daisy St. James will say ‘I do’ to the town golden boy.
There’s just one little catch.
Daisy isn’t in love. Her impending nuptials are transactional in nature, and that suits Daisy just fine. She learned the hard way a long time ago that true love does not exist, so what does it matter if her marriage is a farce?
But then a stranger named Peter sails into town, his forearm bearing a tattooed symbol of the Navy SEAL he used to be. And wound around that symbol, are daisies.
Daisy is ready to write it off as coincidence, but there’s no denying the way the enigmatic man feels familiar to her. His slow smile, his stormy eyes, the shape of his jaw. He makes her laugh, draws out her smiles, and even more dangerous, he challenges her previous thoughts about true love.
And then one day, he says three little words only someone from her past would know…someone named Penn.
Penn Bellamy returned to Olive Township with plans to sell his late mother’s estate, snag a locally famous Sammich, and be on his way. Under no circumstances was he to speak to his childhood best friend, Daisy. Or be her ear when she fled her engagement party. Or become her physical therapy client. Offering to help her with her home remodel? He wasn’t supposed to do that, either.
When Daisy learns Peter and Penn are the same person, and he discovers Daisy’s engagement is a pretense, all bets are off.
Penn will do whatever it takes to make Daisy his, even if it means telling her the truth about why he left once before.
After all, all is fair in the quest for true love.
* Penn is the first in a four-book contemporary romance series inspired by the film The Princess Bride. Expect swoon, sass, spice, and happily ever afters.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Looks can be deceiving, as both Daisy and Penn find out in this book. Ten years after he left town, Penn returns under an assumed name, Peter, to deal with settling his late mother’s house. He hopes to get in and out before anyone realizes who he is and that he’s returned, but within hours of being back, Penn runs into his first love/childhood best friend, Daisy, and realizes he’s as drawn to her as he ever was. And what’s worse, she’s engaged to another man.
Knowing that Penn was going to try to win back Daisy, I let it slide that he’s essentially lying to her by keeping his identity hidden. I was captivated by how long it might take her to figure out that Peter is actually Penn, and why she and Duke were entering into this marriage of convenience in the first place.
There’s a great connection between Penn and Daisy, and I liked his banter with his best bud Hugo as well. I didn’t know what to make of Duke, and I loved that one-off chapter we got from his POV that gave insight to his background. I can’t wait to get to his book. Penn puts forth a big display to win Daisy over and stop the wedding, and I was totally into it. Plus, I love it when a hero has a tattoo representing his first love. Swoon.
While this didn’t pack the punch that another of Millikin’s recent releases did for me (What We Keep, which blew me away), Penn was engaging and kept me hooked on how long it would take Daisy to figure out that Peter was really her first love, Penn. There is the unresolved question of *why* Duke’s dad Glenn did what he did when it came to basically forcing Penn and his mom out of town. I can only assume that will be explained as this series goes on, especially since Duke will eventually get his own book!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Jennifer
Jennifer Millikin is a bestselling author of fifteen contemporary romance and women’s fiction novels. She is the two-time recipient of the Readers Favorite Gold Star Award, and readers have called her work “emotionally riveting” and “unputdownable”.
Following a viral TikTok video with over fourteen million views, Jennifer’s third novel, Our Finest Hour, has been optioned for TV/Film. She lives in the Arizona desert with her husband, children, and Liberty, her Labrador retriever.
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