A brand new, standalone spin-off from The Billionaire’s Obsession series, and the first novella in the Left At The Altar series!!! You met Lia and Zeke in Billionaire Unloved, Jett and Ruby’s book. Now you can find out what happened to them. Did Lia really marry the wrong guy? Lia: I thought I had my life all worked out. My wedding had been meticulously planned. All I had to do was walk down the … was walk down the aisle and get married to the man I’d been engaged to for over a year.
Pretty easy and uncomplicated, right?
Unfortunately, all of my well laid plans go up in smoke when my fiance leaves me at the church alone because he found a woman who was better suited for his snobby world of wealth and privilege.
Problem is, I really have to get married. All of my hopes and dreams are dependent on me tying the knot by my twenty-eighth birthday, and the date is closing in fast.
As usual, my best friend Zeke Conner is there to pick up the pieces when I get jilted by a jerk. He helps me work through the demoralizing event so I can put it behind me and move on. But when he offers to marry me himself, I’m stunned. But it’s a bargain I can’t really refuse.
As my relationship changes with my best friend, I find myself caught in a web of sensual desire and unending passion that’s as terrifying as it is satisfying. Probably because it seems all too real.
But our arrangement was supposed to be temporary. A deal between friends so that we’d both benefit. What will happen when it all ends?
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Temporary Groom is a short and sweet novella, featuring Lia Harper and Zeke Conner, best friends for a lot of years. Zeke has always been Lia’s protector, her friend through thick and thin, her hero. Lia has always had Zeke’s back, been there for him anytime he needed her and would walk through fire to see him happy. These two can finish each other’s thoughts, predict what they will do under certain circumstances and love each other through anything.
When something happens that threatens to tear their friendship apart, Lia and Zeke realize that somewhere along the way their feelings have changed, has blossomed into something more, but is it possible to move forward and not lose the friendship that they value so much?
Although this is a novella, the author gives you enough background information that you do not feel cheated out of details, but at the same time left me wanting more. I certainly hope that Lia and Zeke will make appearances in some of her other books so that we will know what is going on with them now.
Five “just let it happen” stars for this one!!
It is very rare that I can honestly say, “I could not put this book down”. J. S. Scott’s books fall into this category, and Temporary Groom was no exception. I shut my door and didn’t come out until I finished. I was excited to read Zeke and Lia’s story, friends since high school, they both loved each other, it just took a few years for them both to realize it. When Zeke offers Lia a way to receive her inheritance by marrying him, Lia takes him up on his offer, knowing there is no one better for her than Zeke. Zeke is hoping Lia will fall in love with him as he can’t get her off his mind. A wonderful book with a great storyline and an excellent start to a new series!
Wow. I really enjoyed this book it was such a sweet story about friendship developing into something more. I was excited to read Zeke and Lia when i met them in Billionaire Unloved and i have to say this story did not disapoint i was left wanting more!
Another hit from Author J.S. Scott
Yet another outstanding story. Zeke and Lia were best friends who were always there for each other. Crossing the friendship line was a risk that they were not willing to take until fate gave them no other choice. This story was so engaging that it was read in one sitting as I couldn’t stop myself. What a great HEA. I enjoy the stories we read of the lesser characters in other books.
It has been a few months since I had last dived into a book by J.S. Scott. I miss her writing style and I was lucky enough to have read her first book in the Left at the Altar series, Temporary Groom. This story is not “conventional” and that is why I stuck on each page like glue. You feel Lia’s heartbreak when she has the shattering reality that she is nothing more to Zeke but a friend. So life goes on, but you literally can feel the agony these characters go through.
Zeke is ready to stop allowing Lia live life day by day. So once he is in the clear, he springs in a request that has Lia shocked. I was too! Eeek I want to say so much more, but I feel that I have led on more than I should of. To make this review as spoiler free as I can, I am just going to finish it with how I felt: Sad, Giddy, Excited, Wonder, Hot, Bashful, and at the end HOPE! I am a stickler for these kind of stories and can not wait to see what the author will bring her readers next!!!! This story deserves more than 5 stars!!
In Temporary Groom we get to know Lia Harper and Zeke Conner and find out about their journey to HEA. They have been friends forever and have feelings for the other but circumstances lead to miscommunications between the two. But once they finally are honest with each other the sparks fly! I thoroughly enjoyed this short novella and watching these two find each other. I received a free copy from BookSprout and I am voluntarily leaving a review.
Zeke made one mistake, he didn’t trust Lia! Just once and it almost cost them everything. These two are soul mates and meant to be together, such a strong friendship and support that has been in place for years, how could that not follow into a relationship? I like that there is always substance to JS Scott stories, yes it has love and romance and sex but there is always something else going on so it isn’t just that. Romance can border on sickly sweet, be way to sappy and for me I need more than that. I have to have a story, a plot of some kind that goes right along with the love and this author knows just how to do that. I was sucked in and held captive from the first page to the end, the story is interesting and emotional. Well written by an author who knows her craft and delivers an excellent read to be enjoyed by the reader, fabulous characters to either love or hate, depending on the good guys versus the bad guys. It’s a story to take you away from daily grind and just relax, you know you will get the hea at the end so just love the journey to get there. Started 25/7/21 Finished 26/7/21
A sweet and sexy friends to lovers romance that will melt your heart and need a tissue. So many missed opportunities and misunderstandings for these two who have always been in love with each other that fate intervened in a most unusual way. Terrific!