I lost everything when I injured my knee.My football career, my girlfriend, my future.Now, I’m living the businessman’s life my parents always wanted for me.I’m rich, I’m successful, and I’m supposed to have everything I’d ever want.But I don’t.The only bright spots in my life are my Monday morning appointments with my gorgeous, sassy physical therapist.Week by week, Naomi is fixing my knee.And … therapist.
Week by week, Naomi is fixing my knee.
And week by week, I look forward to our appointments just a little bit more.
But when an innocent tabloid picture sends my parents into a wedding frenzy, I have no choice but to ask Naomi to play along.
I make my parents happy, and Naomi makes a bit of cash.
Easy, right?
We’re engaged.
Or at least, we’re pretending to be.
There’s only one problem: it doesn’t feel like we’re pretending at all.
Engaged to Mr. Right is a sizzling-hot fake marriage romance. If you like billionaire bad boys with hearts of gold, you’ll love this page turner. Grab a cold drink, lock the door, and curl up with Max Westbrook in Book 1 of the Mr. Right Series!
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Engaged to Mr. Right: A Fake Marriage Romance (Mr. Right Series Book 1) by Lilian Monroe
Naomi Rose is a Physical Therapist working at in New York who doesn’t believe in marriage thanks to her hippie/artist mother. Sometimes things make you question your beliefs.
Max Westbrook has two parents that seem to want to control nearly every part of his life. Some things they even can’t control, who he gives his heart to.
Max had big dreams but four years ago a tackle shattered his knee, his dream of going to the NFL and the woman that he thought loved him. Now, he spends his Monday at physical therapy. The only bright spot is his therapist, Naomi. He never knew the knee was erogenous zone but it’s doing all sorts of things to his system when she touches it. Naomi looks forward to Mondays and working with Max. For one, it gives her an excuse to put her hands on him. When Max’s parents give him an ultimatum of either get married or he loses his inheritance, he turns to only woman he can think of for help. When he asks her, she is understandably shocked? When she agrees he ask his fake fiancé on a real date so they can get to know each other. At least that is what he is telling himself.
This is a great start to a new series by Lilian Monroe! I absolutely loved the chemistry between these two characters. I laughed at the banter between Max and Naomi and how she always seems to have the last word. The relationship was endearing in so many ways. Max cared about her and wanted to comfort her from the very beginning. It even followed into his interactions with her mother and her situation. Naomi was good for him because she grounded him with all the chaos with is parents. She gave him strength to be himself. I about lost it when she couldn’t find the coffee cups in his kitchen and the fancy wine! At 2 am I tried so hard to be quiet and not laugh but it made it worse!
Naomi and Max are colleagues in a sense. Naomi is a physical therapist who is hired to help Max with his knee after a career-ending tackle he took in college. While his parents are trying to control every aspect of his life he doesn’t want them to take the one thing that is truly his, his heart. So he comes up with the idea to become fake engaged to his physical therapist.
What happens when the fake and the real all become too much and there is too much grey area. Will they realize what they have before it is gone or create a rift that is to hard to overcome.
Love these “friends” to lovers romance with a HEA and no cliffhangers. Lillian has done it again with another amazing read!
This book had me swooning the majority of the time when it came to the interactions of the two main characters. Their attraction was magnetic and wonderful. The conflict of the story was a shock in a small world kind of way but very much still realistic. I loved that Naomi was such a strong woman with her own independence and she helped Max grow and develop as a man. Max was the only child to his parents and they always put so much pressure on him to succeed including the forced engagement. The ultimatum they gave him, he thought left him no choice. I loved the ending of this story; it was a little small world for me as well but it worked and again, I felt myself fall in love with their relationship. Definitely a worthwhile read, it didn’t take to long to read once you get about thirty percent into the book you can’t read fast enough.
I love a good sports romance and this book didn’t disappoint. Naomi and Max enter a fake engagement to be able to benefit both of their needs. She needs to get some money and he needs his parents to leave him alone. Turns out that the fake engagement may actually turn into something real but you have to read it to find out.
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