Book Review: Not Her Real Fiancé by Elana Johnson
- Kristen Lewendon
- Aug 14, 2019
- 2 min read
Carter's Cove Beach Romance Book 4
He needs a reason not to go out with a journalist. She'd like a guaranteed date for the summer. They don't get along, so keeping Brad in the not-her-real-fiancé category should be easy for Celeste. Totally easy.
Bradley Keith is a Carter's Cove native, despite his professional football career. He's not interested in dating a journalist on his hometown island, and to get her to back off, he tells her he's engaged. The only problem? He's not. Doesn't even have a girlfriend.
When the journalist shows up at The Heartwood Inn, where Brad is installing a new VIP swimming pool, demanding to know who his fiancée is, he names the first woman he literally sees walk by—Celeste Heartwood.
Celeste runs the social events at the family inn, and she's tired of planning parties to which she has no date. So when Brad knocks on her office door in a panic, she goes along with his crazy idea. She doesn't particularly like him, because she submitted a construction proposal to his firm that went unanswered. And she's stuffy and uptight—at least according to Brad.
Their plan? Stay together for six weeks and then quietly end things. No harm, no foul. She has a date, and he gets the reporter off his back.
Falling in love wasn't in the plan. Will Celeste put her reputation—and her heart—on the line for the football star? Or will she end up nursing a wounded heart when the truth comes out?
Read all the Carter's Cove Beach Romance novels: 1. Boyfriend By Mistake 2. Accidental Sweetheart 3. Bodyguard, Not Boyfriend 4. Not Her Real Fiancé 5. She Loves Him...Not
My Review:
When trying to let a bad date down gently doesn’t work, Brad makes up a fiancé in order to escape. Still, not one to be deterred, the woman shows up at his jobsite demanding to know the identity of his fiancé. In a last-minute Hail Mary pass, Brad pins his hopes on Celeste playing along to be his fake fiancé until the other woman finally backs off. Celeste is tired of the string of dead-end relationships she’d gotten stuck in. An attractive successful man as her plus-one for the summer season sounds like the answer to her prayers. No pesky strings or feelings involved to break her heart again sounds even better. I adore a good fake relationship story. I love the Murphy’s Law nature of it. You just know that everything is going to be so different from what they think they’re getting into. This is one of the times that I don’t care how predictable the chain of events is, because it’s in the details of how everything happens where I get hooked. This pair was such an Odd Couple in the beginning, but that just meant the chemistry sparked brighter. It was so much fun watching Brad and Celeste as they got to know one another and learned the things they had in common. I particularly enjoyed seeing them interact with one another’s families. And when the chaos breaks loose, these two nearly broke my heart, I so badly wanted them to put everything back to rights. I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book from the author.
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