Author: marikaray
Number one rule of ride sharing as a female driver? Don’t fall for the mysterious man riding in the backseat. Lenora I came across crazy people on the daily giving rides to strangers for a living. I carried pepper spray and I wasn’t afraid to use it. But one gorgeous male in a fake mustache and a story he wasn’t willing to share, and I was ready to climb in the backseat to peel his layers. He’s … share, and I was ready to climb in the backseat to peel his layers. He’s a distraction I don’t need as I…
Small towns were made for second chances…even if it’s your best friend’s sister. Skylar Rae I’m getting by just fine on my own when the boy who stole my heart and ran away twelve years ago shows up in town again. He’s a big shot baseball player now, needing my help to rehab his knee. If he’d just lay off the flirting and the dimples he throws with each grin, I might be able to do my job. Good … do my job. Good thing I’m not dumb enough to fall for him a second time. Max I promised my…
In hindsight, maybe I should have known my biggest nemesis would end up locking up my heart.Believe it or not, running a fertility clinic in Auburn Hill, located right next to a prison, isn’t the worst thing. Nope, the worst thing is the infuriatingly sexy warden of the new prison – who doesn’t care that his newly-released inmates are stopping by my clinic on their way out of town to make a … clinic on their way out of town to make a “deposit” for some quick cash. Sure, it’s his circus, but according to him, those clowns aren’t his…
I hired a new bodyguard. I should have guarded my heart instead.CharlotteThe way out of my gilded cage was clear; the reward, freedom.Fall in love and get married before my twenty-first birthday and I can give up the throne I don’t want.Unfortunately, the boyfriend I propose to turns me down just days before my birthday and my mother, the Queen, summons me back to my country. New plan: fake a … mother, the Queen, summons me back to my country. New plan: fake a boyfriend.RykerFirst rule of bodyguarding: don’t get involved personally with clients.I’m only supposed to get her back…
I’m fake dating my ex’s brother…all on national television.GabbyI just needed a fake boyfriend to be on the reality show Desperate Househusbands with me to prove once and for all I was over my evil ex and living my best life.Too bad the only guy willing to do the job turned out to be my ex’s half-brother.Dimples are my kryptonite and he’s got two of them.RhettI was intrigued by her before I knew … and he’s got two of them.RhettI was intrigued by her before I knew who she was.And I admit, I signed up for the fake boyfriend position…
A best friend’s little sister, fake relationship sweet romance.It’s all home runs and after parties until your sports agent-slash-best friend tells you to get a new image STAT or you won’t get that trade you desperately need in order to be there for your family. So what’s a guy to do except hire a fake girlfriend and go on pretend dates and then ask her to marry him in front of millions of fans? … front of millions of fans? In hindsight, I shouldn’t have hired my agent’s little sister.And I definitely shouldn’t have kissed her, or taken her to…
Sometimes you have to fake it till you make it, in life and in matters of the heart.WalkerI practically have Widower stamped on my forehead as a speaker traveling the world talking about my experience losing my wife to cancer as newlyweds. Which has always suited me just fine. Until a woman all wrong for me jumpstarts my heart with her comical bad luck at the airport. If I help her out, even for … comical bad luck at the airport. If I help her out, even for just this weekend, will I also have to throw away my lucrative…
Sometimes pretending to be married is the only way to make your family happy…even when it means faking it with the guy who broke your heart in high school.FenWhen the girl that got away ten years ago comes back to town and needs help, sometimes you have to throw yourself in her path in order to be seen. Even if it means pretending not to have any feelings for her. Oh yeah, and pretending to be … feelings for her. Oh yeah, and pretending to be blissfully married to her. Maybe while we’re busy pretending, I can show her what…
This single parent dating experiment is about to go viral… ready and I’m dead set on experimenting on my new neighbor, the single mom who does the weirdest things.But my experiment goes awry in unexplainable ways…Lily-MarieWhen dating apps fail me spectacularly, I decide to go old school and use a 1950s magazine I dug up at a yard sale to help find Mr. Right.Fifty Ways to Find a Husband.Sounds legit.Problem is, my new neighbor, Mr. Science Professor, keeps blocking my attempts. And keeps losing his shirt. How does a book nerd have so many muscles anyway? Thing is, my kids…
A contestant in a major cooking competition, Austin knows better than to get involved with judge Elle. But as their attraction reaches a boiling point, will they be able to resist spicing things up in the bedroom?