I’m faking a relationship with my best friend. What could possibly go wrong?Skye is my best friend. I trust her with my life.So when she asks me to play her boyfriend?I say hell no. Love screws everything up. And I’m not about to lose the only person who gets me.But Skye is determined. She’s bringing a fake boyfriend to her cousin’s wedding, with or without me.No way am I letting some other guy … way am I letting some other guy hold her, touch her, kiss her.
It has to be me.
It’s strange, smiling like I’m madly in love.
But it’s easy, wrapping my arms around her curvy body.
It’s easy, dragging my lips over her soft neck.
And when she kisses me?
It’s easy, realizing she’s the only thing I need.
I have five weeks of faking it. Five weeks to convince my best friend our fake love is real.
The Best Friend Bargain is a standalone friends to lovers/pretend girlfriend romance featuring a brooding tattoo artist hero and the curvy heroine who brings him to his knees.
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4.5
Very good loving romance, very well written, with great characters who can have long, sexy conversations. This is perhaps one of the problems of the book: on the one hand everything happens in a few days, but the progress of the relationship between the two heroes Forest and Skye, while their attraction is evident for all their friends and their families, seemed very slow to me. They beat around the bush for a long time, going from conversations to hot scenes, without ever admitting that each of them would like more.
Forest, a tattoo artist, says he is dating Skye, his best friend, when his ex, Mack, the hateful and mean’s cousin of Skye, announces that she is going to marry and that she is starting to disparage Skye. Forest and Skye are very friendly, both attracted, but neither thinks they are what the other is looking for. To make this false relationship more truthful, they decide to shoot a few photos evoking their proximity, which attract the gaze of sponsors for Skye who regularly poses in underwear on the internet. In agreement with these sponsors, Forest participates, bringing Forest and Skye together day after day.
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Forest had taken his breakup with girlfriend Mack very hard. He had caught her in their bed with another guy. It is 2 years later and he and his family have received an invitation to Mack’s wedding to that same guy. Forest met Mack when she came to visit his neighbors, her relatives, the Kims. Their daughter Skye was already good friends with Forest and his siblings. But Forest’s father died and Mack seemed to be able to reach him, even knowing her cousin Skye liked him. Even after the big breakup, Forest and Skye are still best friends and Mack’s interactions with Skye are always in the form of kindly disguised putdowns because Skye is plus-sized. In Forest’s inner musings he thinks Skye is hot, but he feels their friendship is more important. And Skye still has a crush on Forest. To show Mack that he is over her and to help Skye prove she can date a hot guy, Forest and Skye fake a relationship. Or is it fake? Delightful story by one of my favorite authors.
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Love Forest and Skye’s story and the connection they have with each other. Love how the help each other. Love how Skye puts herself out there for the world to see.