Spend the holidays with Josie, Ryley, Emma, Alana, and Annika. Get ready for romance with a new Christmas series brought to you by five exciting contemporary authors… somewhere in the world. This year, it’s Paris, the city of museums, art, and romance. One night during their vacation, the girls engage in a serious talk about the sorry state of their love lives and collectively decide they are swearing off men. Instead, each woman is intent on pursuing her life’s goal. Falling in love is the last thing on her mind!
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Josie by Beth Gildersleeve
Ryley by Donna Lovitz
Emma by Angie Wilder
Alana by Denise Devine
Annika by Rose Marie Meuwissen
This is Josie’s story…
He’s her Machiavellian savior. She’s a burned-out entrepreneur. Will blackmail kill their friendship or open their hearts to love?
His grandfather’s will had made it perfectly clear: Gabriel Kane had to be married by the age of thirty-seven or he’d be denied control of the family business. With only days to go, Gabriel isn’t above maintaining his deception and using blackmail and bribery to get what he wants. Too bad his friend, Josie, is his only option. But is she desperate enough to accept his marriage proposal?
Entrepreneur Josie Wright burns the candle at both ends and keeps her eye firmly on her goals: to grow her chain of coffee shops and to protect her brother. Children and a family of her own would be nice, too, but she’s wary of risking her heart again. Gabe’s unwanted proposal might be the solution to all of her problems or it might be her biggest mistake.
As Gabe battles his aunt and cousin for control of the family business and Josie fears losing control of hers, can two people already living overfull lives find room for each other? Will a marriage of convenience born from lies and blackmail transform their former friendship into a marriage of true love forever or create a smoldering wreck?
If you like a friends-to-lover, marriage of convenience romance, then you’ll enjoy Beth Gildersleeve’s small-town love story.
Buy Josie now and treat yourself to this sweet holiday romance.
Author’s Note – If this were a movie, it would be rated PG to PG-13
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This was a joyful for me book to read. I enjoyed it tremedously and would read more from this author.
sie and Gabe get a second chance to make it
November 1, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
This is my first book by this author but it won’t be my last! Great storyline with very believable characters who suffer from the same insecurities as real humans. Love the fact that there were no sex scenes but great love scenes.
Gabe needs Josie to marry him by his birthday so he can remain CEO of his family’s corporation. He leads Josie to believe the woodworking plant where her recovering addict brother works would close if she doesn’t. She agrees to the marriage for her brother’s sake and for the chance to have children. They are focused on their own businesses and their marriage seems to be based on passion and filled with misunderstandings. They have to agree to give up some control and compromise in order to be happy. There were plenty of funny, sweet, and sexy moments in this marriage of convenience friends romance.
I really enjoyed this book! Josie owns a string of coffee shops. A good customer asks her to marry him within a week, so they go to Vegas and tie the knot! I recommend this book to anyone who likes romance!
They both have very busy life and he is in need of a wife to gain full control of the company. She works so hard trying to keep everything up and running. Will his need help her? Will she take his offer? See just how they get on
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This is a great read with an awesome storyline that has well developed and engaging characters that have lots of chemistry. The smooth flow of the storyline makes for a good reading time.
I received a free copy of this book For an honest review
Josie is a delightful book with a friends-to-lover, marriage of convenience trope. Both Josie and Gabe are driven entrepreneurs focused on their companies. They are friends but when Gabe realizes that he needs to be married before his rapidly approaching 37th birthday, he resorts to blackmail to get Josie to accept his proposal. Now these two very busy people have to find a way to make their marriage work. I very much enjoyed their journey. If you enjoy clean romances with sparkling characters, you should read this book.
Book one of the Betting on Paris series a well written Christmas story. I enjoyed reading Josie and Gabe’s story I found myself smiling as I read, they really had to learn how to communicate with each other. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I enjoyed this fun story of two, stubborn, independent business owners who on a blackmail merged their lives together by eloping in Las Vegas. I liked that it took them both by surprise when they discovered they each loved the other one but were not sure how to make the marriage work.
The characters were wonderful, complex, and definitely had their own flaws which helped me to relate to them and to like them. Josie Wright Kane owns Jo’s Jo, a coffee chain that she is married to and Josh Kane is CEO of Witz Holdings and is married to his job as well. Unfortunately for both of them three marriages will not work well and the banter and antics that follow made for a very interesting story that I could not put down. I really liked how the story ended. I received an advance copy of this book and I willingly chose to write an honest review.
This was a fun book! I have never read anything by Ms. Gildersleeve but I am ready to buy more books she wrote.
The forced marriage trope is old and, I would have thought, overdone. However, Ms. Gildersleeve makes it work here. Gabe is CEO of his family’s corporation, and his focus is on growth and jobs rather than just on profit. Under the terms of his grandfather’s will, Gabe will not be eligible to be CEO of the family’s corporation once he turns 37 unless he is married. Gabe’s married cousin Duncan will become CEO. Gabe & Duncan have very different ideas about how the corporation should be run. Duncan will close some of the secondary companies, including the one in Haven (the setting of the story).
Since Josies’s brother Jamie works for one of Gabe’s companies, he stands to lose his job when Duncan closes that part of the company. To keep that from happening, Josie agrees to marry Gabe. They rush off to Las Vegas and get married.
There is stress because Josie’s chain of coffee shops and Gabe’s corporate responsibilities don’t leave much time for a relationship. They manage to figure out a way to make things work, and the story works as well.
I think you will enjoy reading Josie. The chemistry bubbles over and the characters are full of flaws but likeable.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book.
Josie by Beth Gildersleeve is a charming little romance featuring Wright and her brother’s boss, Gabe Kane. Josie’s brother, Josh had been clean for a year now. Gabe had taken a chance on him and is was paying off for both Josh and Gabe, in fact, Josh had just gotten a raise and was planning to move out of Josie’s very small apartment. Things were looking good. Josie was done with bad romances and men lying to her. She had made a pact with her four friends when they had been in Paris to forego men for a while and focus on their careers and that was exactly was Josie was doing with her small chain of coffee shops, that is until one day, Gabe Kane came along and asked he to marry him, that day, so he could skirt some provisions in a will. Talk about out of left field!
Josie and Gabe were friends: he came to her shop every day and he was Josh’s boss. All of a sudden she had agreed to marry him and she privately thought she was nuts. He whisked her off to Las Vegas where the fist of many astounding things started happening to her. Who was this man she had agreed to marry? Then, she discovered he had lied. Was he just like the others? Could she trust him? Could she make this marriage work? There were so many challenges; so many variables.
What a fun book this was! Romance at its best! Silly, light, intense sometimes, everything to make an intriguing story. I recommend it!
I received a free ARC of Josie from the author. All opinions and interpretations contained herein are solely my own.
Josie is overworked growing her chain of coffee shops and has no time for a social life let alone finding a husband and starting a family. Gabe runs a local business that Josie’s brother works for. He needs to get married by his next birthday to keep control the family business. Josie reluctantly accepts Gabe’s proposal so her brother can keep his job. Little does she know, Gabe’s family has has a huge corporation with more than the one business that Josie knows about and he is quite known and wealthy. Both Josie and Gabe need to figure out what is important in life – work or each other. Through blackmail getting married, misunderstandings, miscommunications, and lack of time they work their way through problems and find out if their marriage will last or disintegrate. Beth Gildersleeve is a very talented writer and I’ve read darn near every book she has written. Always look forward to her next book.
I really enjoy all of Beth Gildersleeves books! Josie: A Christmas Romance is another success! I love the connections she brings between her characters a d the stories are always spot on with little of everything that makes books fun and keeps readers reading. I received an ARC of this book from the author! This review is an honest assessment of my enjoyment of this book and given freely! Do yourself a favor and enjoy all of Beth Gildersleeves books, you won’t regret it!
I loved this book because it kept me guessing how it would end. The book was very intriguing and made me want to read more and more. Well written and a nice relaxing read.
I loved this book. Josie and Gabe have a lot of ups and downs and twist and turns. It is a page turner. I cannot wait to read the others in this series. Do they get there HEA? Read and see. Beth Gildersleeve is a fantastic author.
Beth Gildersleeve has written a book about Josie and Gabe. Josie is the owner of 11 coffee shops that do really well and Gabe is acting CEO of Woodworks. Gabe needs to be married by his next birthday in order to inherit the main company. He feels the only one he can marry and trust is Josie, so he tells her what he is thinking and asks her to marry him. She tells him yes. She does not know who he really is and that he is very rich. Things start out fine for them, but a deal that Gabe is working on takes all his time and he ends up staying in the town where his office is. Sometimes they only see each other on the weekend. Things are not going well for them, as the deal that Gabe is working on is causing him to ignore Josie and she is thinking that he second thoughts about them.
Will Josie get her HEA or will she stay single?
Can Gabe finally get his feelings for Josie straight and let her know she is more important than any business deal or will he lose her?
This book was a wonderful read and it had the characters dealing with emotions and situations before they can really start their relationship. I would recommend this book to anyone.
I received this ARC for my voluntarily and honest review.