Summary
A matchmaking romance! Bree Caxton has it all. She’s built her matchmaking business from the ground up. She’s in a long term relationship that seems on the edge of commitment. And her book is about to be published, and it’s got the potential to be a best seller.
But her boyfriend breaks up with Bree instead of asking her to marry him. And the publicity her agent has arranged requires her to have a boyfriend. So she convinces a client to pretend to be her boyfriend. What could possibly go wrong?
Review
I discovered this book on a new releases table at my local book story several months before I bought it. The story sounded fantastic, but I was getting other things that day and decided to wait. Then I couldn’t remember what it was called or who the author was! I would go back to the store, remember that I had read about this great book, and I would wander, hoping it would jump out at me once again. Once I found it, I was eager to dive into it right away. I had waited and thought about this story for a long time and couldn’t wait to find out what happens.
But when the book started, I was disappointed. I knew the story would be stressful. This is a common set up. The main character tells one lie to fix an immediate problem and then the lies compound until everything falls apart. But I found some of the characters crass and off-putting in the beginning. I wasn’t sure I would even finish the story.
Then I got to the “Tough Mudder.” (It’s like an Iron Man competition.) All of a sudden, I was laughing! The whole story came together for me in that chapter. From there, I couldn’t put the book down, even as it careened inevitably toward disaster. I was so glad I stuck with the story!
If the summary above sounds like something you might like, I recommend trying it. If it doesn’t click right away, keep with it until the Tough Mudder and see if it clicks for you there like it did for me. I even went back and read parts of that chapter a second time, I enjoyed it so much!