Billionaire Ryan Brocker thought his fake marriage to an old childhood friend was a brilliant, no feelings attached, business move. An accidental pregnancy was not part of the plan, neither was falling in love.Ryan can stoke the embers of a woman’s desire from across a crowded room with his unwavering gaze and arrogant smirk alone. He is the king of seduction without attachment. When an important …
When an important business deal causes a long-forgotten childhood friend, Kristin Tice, to come back to the small town of Clear Creek he isn’t expecting her to wreak havoc on his carefully guarded heart.
He thought he knew how to keep his composure . . . until his impostor bride’s honey-brown eyes start haunting him, her soft curves make his fingertips itch to touch her, and the sound of her full-throated laugh causes his body to tighten with need.
For the first time in his life, Ryan is the one trying to get a woman to fall for him. Can he turn this pleasurable hoax into something real or will she vanish with his heart this time?
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Kristin and Ryan
Good read with just a bit of irritating moves by Kristin and Ryan. They both were so immature at times. Kristin’s mom was so negative but I really enjoyed Ryan’s mom, warm and a great mom.
Artist Kristen Tice lives with her overbearing, manipulative mother in Chicago but when she receives an inheritance from her grandfather she is off to Clear Creek to investigate the details. Kristen just didn’t expect to find a handsome man there with an outrageous offer.
Ryan Brocker wants the property next door to his family’s and he’s willing to pay top dollar for it. When Kristen Tice arrives he’s catapulted back in time when she visited her grandfather. A simpler time when they played together, his first kiss, and his devastation when she never returned.
When Ryan devises a plan to outwit her grandfather’s will he is surprised Kristen agrees. But neither expected their rapidly growing emotions or the surprise they will both have to face.
Entertaining and fun read!
Grudges should die and not continue in wills
Kristin’s Grandpa Finnigan Tice left her his house and property. Architect Ryan Broker wants to buy the land. He plans to renovate the mill and home sitting on the property. He offers two million dollars, then finds out the will won’t let him, his family, or any business connected to his family can make the purchase.
Kristin’s stuck, she cannot afford to stay and fix up the property for sale. She doesn’t have an income. And the only person willing to make an over-the-top offer is not allowed to make the purchase.
Ryan, ”Little King”, Broker is nothing if not innovative. He suggests that they enter into a “pretend” marriage and then divorce once they meet the terms of the will. He’ll fix up the house, pay her a cool two million and get the rest of the land.
What’s a girl going to do when the “pretend” marriage becomes one with benefits? Too bad, it has an expiration date!
I received this book for free and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Ryan is an extremely handsome billionaire who could have any woman he wants. And of course can buy what he wants except old man Tice’s property. He’s wanted his property for years and even drew up plans for it. Upon the death of old man Tice Ryan thinks he’ll finally be able to buy it from the new owner. What he doesn’t anticipate is the new owner is non other than he first crush Kristin. They spent a wonderful summer together then he never saw her again.
Kristin’s parents divorced and she never saw her dad or her grandpa again. When she inherits his property she doesn’t know what she’s gonna do. Her and her mom are struggling in Chicago as it is. When she’s offered a large sum of money she wants to accept.
However, what her and Ryan don’t know is that there are a lot of stipulations to the will. Ryan figures away around it and proposes his idea of a fake marriage to Kristin. That way they both get what they want. But what they actually get is way more than what they bargained for.
When Kristin sees Ryan up close and personal with his ex girlfriend plus all kinds of photos will it ruin their marriage? Will she confront him? Kristin goes back to Chicago to see her mom. Ohhhhh Kristin is soooo dumb and her mom oh my goodness her mom just needs to shut the heck up !!!!
I received this as a gift.
An interesting short touching second chance romance. This engaging read had me addicted page after page with childhood friends reconnecting over a plot of land they both want. The characters are realistic and full of undeniable chemistry. I voluntarily read and reviewed this ARC.
The author has introduced us to characters that we can care about. Ryan and Kristin reconnect years after having a wonderful summer together. Even though they enter into a fake marriage, each one finds that they want more.
I guess I was the first Verified Purchase reader on Amazon… and it was… meh… Only 2.25 stars at best. The rest were verified readers with fives across the board.
I bought this novella in order to review Book 2, Accidentally Mine, an ARC.
Book length and pace: I know this is being touted as a novel… I call it a novella. I think it read like a novel because I realized that the story was an overused plot template, and I was having the greatest of difficulties reading it. (To be discussed further down…) I was pleased on how easy the author was able to educate the reader regarding its rather convoluted, actual time line/history without confusing me, except I wished we didn’t have to fast-forward to the end of the six-month contract of their “fake” marriage designed so that Ryan could buy the Tice Mill property. But how else could the writer have done so if she was committed to the template plot line? I guess that’s what disappointed me the most.
Characters: I really did like Ryan (nickname “LK”) and was very sympathetic towards Kristen, granddaughter of Finn Tice. I appreciated Sable for creating such a tender and adorable “day-in-the-life” summer where Ryan and Kristen had such a great childhood adventure in which Kristen didn’t know she was playing with the son of a local richy-rich mover-and-shaker, much to Grandfather Finn’s dismay who had been snooping in Kristen’s private journal (probably all along! The bastard!). The moment he finds out that Kristen had kissed “LK”, she’s whisked away by her mother to Chicago, and Grandpa Finn threatened the life out of the Brocker clan, aiming his animosity at LK and his father. (By the bye, we never did find out why where this deep-seated rage is coming from and why.) There are a lot of brothers in this clan’s young adult generation, so I’m assuming that this author plans to write several books in this series. (Someday, I would hope I see a mixed-sex family rather than all being of one sex. You have to wonder why…) I do appreciate the writer’s exposition of Kristen’s unbalanced understanding about men and women since she only had her mother to emulate. Not knowing much about her father (other than what her mother told her) and having her grandfather forbid her from returning to his home… well, how else is Kristen supposed to interpret that? She does draw out a lot of empathy from me but… I really can’t stand when a writer presents a heroine as such a wishy-washy female who can’t even tell her legal husband she’s pregnant. It’s just a cheap shot for getting a reader’s sympathy. I’m so over that story line. I wish the writer could have written a more original plot. OF COURSE you know they will eventually rush into each other arms and… I’m getting ahead of myself. Oh, and I’m tired of the hero getting so rottenly egotistical, not wanting to momentarily sacrifice his overblown, masculine pride for the woman he loves. Again, I’m so over that. Shouldn’t the love of your life be more important than a temporarily bruised ego? What does that say about him as a husband and a father?
Hero/Heroine interactions: As mentioned above, this storyline is more of an overused template I’ve seen time and time again (except in a Barbara Cartland story because the heroine here is pregnant and… Well, if you eliminate the unplanned/hidden pregnancy, then, yes, I have seen this plot line in a Barbara Cartland novel!). There is obvious chemistry between these two, and the writer does do a decent job in indicating this. I just find it difficult that despite all the intimacy and chemistry between these characters, Jean Sable STILL can’t find in the creative part of her brain a better plot line to involve these two in! Kristen cannot bear to talk to him while she’s in Chicago… then she drops the bomb, saying she isn’t returning at all. And Ryan? He should have gotten onboard his family’s private jet and blast over to Chicago like a Midwestern Category 5 tornado! If he’s that much of an alpha guy who gets the girl, he should have done so. I would have loved to have seen a scene with Ryan, Kristen, AND Kristen’s emotionally battered mother. It would have given Kristen’s mom brownie points when we find out (which we never did) what’s up with Grandpa Finn Tice. I think it would had been stellar!! Kristen’s mother does mean well, but the female does hammer her daughter about the woes of a relationship and why they never, ever work out despite best intentions.
World-Creation: The town of Clear Creek… which state? Who knows? I word-searched EVERY state in that ebook, and the writer never mentioned any. I’m thinking… maybe Colorado or Idaho on one of their flatter, pristine locales with a great view of some mountain range. I mean, if you’re going to cram several really rich families into one place, you need to mention where the town is. It really made this location look cheap in the research department… as if to thumb the nose at the readers who want to see authenticity. I mean, how can you even begin to talk about world-creation when you don’t even know where you are? Is she really afraid of critiques? This did contribute to the lower stars on the leaderboard.
Continuity and editing: Continuity was pretty good (except for the family jet because I had been led to believe that Ryan had his own plane as well!). The editing was poor. I see Jenn Sable really likes her commas and such. I only wish she and her editor spent more time correcting the grammar and punctuation in this book. It really needed help because it was distracting. Writing wasn’t bad if you’re comparing it to the education available for that writer’s generation (my personal pet peeve), but it could had been so much better had this manuscript been cleaned up.
Realism: It just wasn’t there. (See world-creation.) Again, I could see how you could cram a few billionaire clans in a valley, but this should had been part of world-creating… which the author did not do that hot of a job. It would have made realism so much better. I also had wished that the author hadn’t relied on an overused plot template. Readers nowadays are more sophisticated and do not appreciate a rerun because they’ll be asking for a refund.
My recommendation? Be in the mood for some brain candy when you wish to read this book because one must not have that much expectations if one wants to enjoy this book. I probably should have read it on Kindle Unlimited if it’s available. (I can’t tell because I bought it and Amazon only says it’s available to read now!) I now wished I never spent $2.99 on it. I should have stuck to my usual rule of never spending that kind of money unless I’m getting something over two hundred pages in length or it’s by an author I really can’t live without reading his/her books. I might not even pay $0.99 for it… Again, meh… I could have skipped it on a whole. The next book which I am reading as an ARC needs to be far better than this one for me to continue this series.