Single mom Jeanie Long was trying to save her butt at work by reporting her manager to the company owner. Instead, she finds herself greeted warmly by gorgeous company CEO Camden James… and introduced to his father as his fiancée. Now she’s been hired — complete with a hefty pay raise — to be the fake fiancée of the infamous “Penthouse Prince.”
Camden doesn’t believe in love. He believes in … believes in mutually beneficial business arrangements. With his real fiancée off cheating on him, Camden needs someone to help him prove to his father that he’s definitely ready to marry. Yet Jeanie’s combination of beauty and bluntness act like an aphrodisiac, and their “for the press” kisses look incredibly real. So real that Jeanie and Camden are either really convincing actors… or they’ve fallen for their own charade.
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With this book, Virginia Nelson has permanently engraved her name on my must-read author list. Forever. Different than other books I have read by her but equally as good, I absolutely loved it. She can write any genre it seems. Jeanie is a wonderful character with a mouth I can definitely relate with. Actually, all the characters were well-developed to the point I could easily envision them having their own stories one day. Their development was well-written without any rushes or skips. The smallest details are part of each character’s journey. The love story was remarkable and left me happy with a goofy grin on my face at the end…and isn’t that the hope we have when we pick up a romance novel in the first place?
Thank you to NetGalley, Virginia Nelson, and Entangled Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read this story and share my honest thoughts and opinions with others.
The Penthouse Prince by Virginia Nelson is Camden James–the poor little rich kid 😉 He’s had a terrible example for love growing up, with his father stepping out on his mother and eventually driving her to despair. His fiancee seems unfortunately cut from the same cloth, but he needs to marry to retain control of his company. So he uses his wealth and power to find a solution–he hires a new fiancee.
Jeanie Long has a work concern about her immediate boss she needs to escalate, so she heads for the CEO’s office to find an audience. To her surprise, he takes care of the problem immediately, after proposing marriage.
One marriage of convenience, two people trying to figure out how much truth to reveal as they get to know each other and start enjoying each other’s company more than they might think… Virginia Nelson does a good job of letting us see Camden and Jeanie’s thoughts and emotions unfold, and the Penthouse Prince is a delicious and enjoyable read.
Definitely looking forward to the others in the series!
Good character development and great word building Like how she got him and gave him what he needed the most…her love.
This was a nice read for me. We have the typical business mogul with daddy issues who doesn’t believe in love. But attraction? Yes. Lust? Hell yes! So when Camden finds himself without a fiancée, and getting married is the only way to gain the company from his father, he chooses the first girl his eyes fall upon. Literally.
Jeanie is just an employee trying to save her job and sneaking to the top floor and speaking directly with the company’s CEO is her plan. Little did she know that she was in for the opportunity of a lifetime.
The deal is struck and she’ll pretend to be his fiancée until he gets the company, and she’ll get to live in a posh penthouse, drive an expensive car and save the money that will keep her and “her daughter” living in a way that otherwise would be completely out of her reach.
Now, this being a business arrangement, feelings will not come into play, right? Riiiight… what we have next is how 2 people develop feelings for each other, fight them, hide them, until the point that it drove me freaking bonkers.
So, I can’t put my finger on exactly what I had issues with, but Penthouse Prince didn’t completely work for me. It was an engaging read and Virginia Nelson’s writing style is enjoyable, but I guess that the main issues between the couple was a problem communicating their feelings and assuming (wrongly most of the time) what the other was thinking and feeling. I guess my main problem is that they can have that problem for so long, and after some time it just gets to the point where you want to grab their heads and bang them together to make them knock it off already. It was either that or banging my head on my kindle.
I did find it a little OTT some of the things that happened to them,
Either way, it still was a quick read that kept me engaged and as I said I had a nice time reading it and I wouldn’t mind reading more from Ms. Nelson.
*I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book*
Very good book.
light, fun reading. Typical for the genre. If it comes to your attention, enjoy.
Got the hoped for ending!
I could not finish this book which almost never happens. I didn’t like the characters and all the snorting…what’s up with that? It got old real fast.
Love the characters. Jennie wants love. Camden is afraid to love.
Eh, I’ve definitely read better.
To be clear, I didn’t hate it. I finished it because I was curious to see how it all came together. There were interesting subplots but on the whole, it didn’t grab me and pull me in. Both Camden and Jeanie have some skewed ideas on what love is and that grated on my nerves.
It just…fell kind of flat for me. It was interesting – and short – enough to keep me going, but I didn’t engage in the story. I didn’t feel for the characters. And self-awareness was a long time coming for both of the main characters.
I don’t know that I’d recommend this to anyone.