★ The Boyfriend Candidate
Fans of the fake-dating trope will love The Boyfriend Candidate, Ashley Winstead’s charming rom-com. When her dishonest boyfriend dumps her, librarian Alexis Stone dons a purple costume and heads to a swank bar to seek out a one-night stand. All goes nicely, till a fireplace alarm results in her being caught on digicam with the person she’s about to mattress: Logan Arthur, a politician who’s operating to be the governor of Texas. Logan and his group persuade Alexis to faux she’s his longtime, beforehand secret girlfriend till the election. Luckily, Logan is extraordinarily engaging and his progressive insurance policies match her personal. Cue shy Alexis discovering her voice and the brash Logan frequently getting distracted by the enchanting librarian. Told in Alexis’ contemporary first-person voice, this heartwarming romance has each poignant introspection and a hero who sacrifices his dignity when confronted with kittens and gerbils.
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason, India Holton’s pleasant third installment in her Dangerous Damsels sequence, takes place in a fantasy model of Victorian England populated by pirates, witches and spies. Alice Dearlove is a prime operative with a harmful new task: Find a secret weapon and cease the assassination of Queen Victoria. But to do that, she should faux to be the spouse of her skilled rival, Daniel Bixby. The extremely entertaining journey that follows contains flying homes, cutthroat pirates, scary witches, farcical enjoyable, whimsical wordplay and a fortress with secret passages {and professional} ghosts. Daniel and Alice race round England to try to remedy the case, all whereas placing out (literal) fires, falling in love and interesting in tender scenes of sensual awakening.
Sugar, Spice, and Can’t Play Nice
Family pressures and private ambition conflict in Sugar, Spice, and Can’t Play Nice by Annika Sharma. Fashion designer Payal Mehra has a spectacular no-strings-attached night time with Ayaan Malhotra, the son of household buddies and somebody who’s as commitment-averse as she. Unfortunately, the morning after is such a catastrophe that each assume they’ll by no means see one another once more. Then their households put forth a enterprise proposition to the couple—one that can be sealed with an organized marriage. While each initially detest the thought, Ayaan and Payal notice how helpful their union could possibly be. She’ll get funding for her clothes line and save her household’s enterprise, whereas he’ll get 50% of his household’s firm. They determine to go forward with the engagement, believing they will break issues off earlier than they get dire. Readers will root for Payal and Ayaan, each of whom are buffeted by household expectations and disappointment but persevere. Their gradual journey to confidence in themselves and contentment in one another is layered with lush descriptions of South Asian vogue and meals.
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