Sparks fly as the leaves fall this autumn…From the superstar romance author of the Boston Bolts hockey series comes a spicy and swoony friends-to-lovers fake-dating delight. . . This gorgeous first edition trade paperback features colored stenciled edges.
These old flames are ready to catch fire.
For Penny Darling, love is best enjoyed between the pages of a book. After a very public failed engagement, she’d rather cozy up by the fire with a book boyfriend than a real one any day. And as the owner of Bonfire & Bliss Bookstore, she has her pick.
Then Jake “Monty” Montgomery returns home. Her high school best friend, now a struggling author with inked forearms and wicked green eyes. And he needs her help.
His proposal is simple: She’ll teach him to write the perfect book boyfriend and he’ll pose as her real boyfriend, keeping Hope Harbor’s busybodies—and their obsession with Penny’s love life—at bay.
But when their lessons begin, the line between fiction and reality grows dangerously thin. As pretend kisses in the apple orchard turn into searing ones beneath the autumn moon, Penny begins to wonder if Monty could really love her, or if she’s destined for another broken heart.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Sure, it’s August, but I am in fall mode now, thanks to the cute, cozy, fall setting of Bonfire & Bliss Bookstore! This is the second book in Brittanee Nicole’s Hope Harbor series, and it has all the cozy feelings of a Hallmark movie.
Monty and Penny were best friends in high school, but reconnected shortly before he moved back home to regroup and hopefully find inspiration to bust through his writer’s block. Even though he writes thrillers, Penny thought Monty’s last book was lacking emotion between the hero and heroine, so they agree to a fake relationship while he’s in town so he can get some romance lessons from her and she gets the town’s old ladies to leave her alone about dating again after a broken engagement.
I adored these characters and their journey. Both Penny and Monty have been in love with one another since they were teens. The build-up in the present day as each “pretend” moment ratcheted up the tension between them led to the best kind of payoff.
This story was absolutely adorable and I can’t wait for more from this series! I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.
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