Fake Relationships is where it’s at this month!
I must confess that this trope is my catnip. I love a good fake relationship that turns into love. I have written three of them (which I will link to at the bottom of the page) and will no doubt write more of them 😉
There are sooo many books with this trope that I had a hard time whittling them down. I might have to post some more on our Facebook Page during the month.
I’d love to hear what your favourite tropes are! Also, do you have a favourite fake relationship book that you want to share with all of us? Leave a comment on the Facebook page
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Playing at Love
by Monique McDonell
Kyle Samuels is the bad boy of tennis, and Teagan Archer is the good girl who has been sent to keep him in line. How far will they go to succeed?
Teagan has
always wanted to join her father’s sports management team, but her father
thinks it’s no place for his daughter. His ultimatum – Kyle in line or there’s
no spot for her at Archer Sports.
Kyle has game on and off the court but knows he should cool it. His family that
sacrificed everything to get him where he is now is struggling and needs his
help. Now it’s time to step away from the ladies and play the summer of his
life.
A fake engagement seems like the solution to both their problems – it should keep the women away and allow her to keep her eyes on him at all times. After all they both want the same thing – the best summer of their careers – but can they work together to get it? Or will the chemistry between them combust and burn them both?
Tangled
by Danielle Pays
Forced to start over after a cheating ex nearly ruined her life, Ashley is done with men. But when her ex follows her across two states and won’t leave her alone, she needs a fake boyfriend.
Viewed more like a meal ticket than a man, Luke learned the hard way that women are more interested in his wealth and status than in him personally. That’s all right. He has no interest in a relationship.
But a fake relationship he can handle. Especially when his friend’s little sister is in need. That’s all this is. Fake.
At least that’s what he keeps telling himself.
This is a steamy, stand-alone, HEA romantic suspense. This is a prequel novella to the Dare to Risk series.
When in Roma
by Nikki Steele
As they say, when in Rome…
Yeah, yeah, I’ve seen the sex tape.
So what if Luca Androtti has the hottest ass I’ve ever seen.
Even low level mafia are out of bounds.
Besides, I’m a rookie cop who’s never left the office.
But some bright spark at Interpol just sent me to Italy.
And now I’m pretending to be a high-class escort.
Slinky red dress. Kick ass heels. You get the picture.
Luca and I end up on the run. People start shooting.
Suddenly, things are a lot more real
And I’m convinced this mysterious, smoking hot Italian
Is more important than he says he is.
But then, we all have secrets.
He’ll bring the mafia to its knees.
Me, too. If I’m not careful…
This is a standalone romance with a happy ending.
It is a gritty, sexy Steamy Romance between a bad boy mafia hitman and a beautiful Interpol agent. It contains some violence and a whole lotta SMOKING HOT love scenes, including a M/F relationship and a MFF encounter that’ll have you fanning yourself with your kindle.
The Accidental Girlfriend
by Emma Hart
TOP TIP: Don’t put out an online ad offering your services as a fake date. Someone will take you up on it.
And it won’t just be for one night.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I ended up being Mason Jackson’s fake girlfriend.
He didn’t even want me to be. No–his sister was solely responsible for me being his date for his ten-year high school reunion.
Now, she’s responsible for telling his parents our relationship is real.
We have no choice. We have to act like this isn’t all a mistake, like it’s not all fake, like we’re totally, completely, utterly, head-over-heels in love with each other.
Simple, right?
Wrong.
Rogue Most Wanted
by Janna MacGregor
Wanted: an engagement of convenience. Found: A noble suitor.
Raised on a remote Scottish estate by her adoring grandfather, Lady Theodora Worth has inherited an earldom as well as the land itself. But when an upstart duke challenges her claim to the title and the Ladykyrk estate, Thea is suddenly in need of a husband—in name, at least. An elderly neighbor with a thoroughly modern sensibility and a dashing great-nephew just might be the answer to Thea’s prayers. Except she has no intention of marrying the first man she meets. That would be utterly ridiculous.
It just can’t be him. . .
Lord William Cavensham is entirely too devoted to his family’s estate—ever since he was jilted as a lad–to wed, but he agrees to meet the woman his aunt has taken under her wing—and introduce her to possible suitors. But after just one meeting with beautiful, spirited Thea, Will is determined to help her reclaim her title. And even moreso, he can’t stop thinking that perhaps marriage to this bold, passionate woman may be the one thing he’s been missing all along?
A Prince on Paper
by Alyssa Cole
The Reluctant Royals series returns with a good girl searching for the life that’s not too big, and not too small, and the bad boy prince who might be just right for her…
Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered that her Prince Charming only exists in her virtual dating games. When Nya returns home for a royal wedding, she accidentally finds herself up close and personal—in bed—with the real-life celebrity prince who she loves to hate.
For Johan von Braustein, the red-headed step-prince of Liechtienbourg, acting as paparazzi bait is a ruse that protects his brother—the heir to the throne—and his own heart. When a royal referendum threatens his brother’s future, a fake engagement is the perfect way to keep the cameras on him.
Nya and Johan both have good reasons to avoid love, but as desires are laid bare behind palace doors, they must decide if their fake romance will lead to a happily-ever-after.
Flirting with the Frenemy
by Pippa Grant
He’s a hot single dad. A military man with abs of steel. My brother’s best friend. My biggest enemy. And now my fake date to my best friend’s wedding. Disasterville, here we come…
Mission: Survive my best friend’s wedding, where I must play nice with my ex and his perfect new girlfriend.
Strategy: Bring the hottest fake boyfriend on the planet.
Target: Grady Rock. Master Baker. Dimples. Muscles. The unicorn of fake boyfriends.
Complication: Wyatt Morgan. My brother’s best friend. My sworn enemy. Military man. Sexy as hell single dad. The man I let into my panties for one night of hot hate sex after my ex dumped me.
And the man who just scared off that perfect fake boyfriend.
By pretending to be my real boyfriend.
I can roll with this though. What’s the harm in Flirting with the Frenemy if it helps me get the job done?
Complete my mission and move on.
Or so I thought.
Until Wyatt kisses me again and I start feeling things I shouldn’t.
The thing about weddings…nothing ever goes as planned.
Flirting with the Frenemy is a rollicking fun romantic comedy featuring a single dad military man, an irritatingly attractive blast from his past, pirates, cursing parrots, and a wedding gone wild. It stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers.
Playing it Cool
by Amy Andrews
Score one for the curvy girls.
Harper Nugent might have a little extra junk in her trunk, but her stepbrother calling her out on it is the last straw… When rugby hottie, Dexter Blake, witnesses the insult, he surprises Harper by asking her out. In front of her dumbass brother. Score! Of course, she knows it’s not for reals, but Dex won’t take no for an answer.
Dexter Blake’s life revolves around rugby with one hard and fast rule: no women. Sure, his left hand is getting a workout, but he’s focused on his career for now. Then he overhears an asshat reporter belittle the curvy chick he’d been secretly ogling. What’s a guy to do but ask her out? It’s just a little revenge against a poser, and then he’ll get his head back in the game.
But the date is better than either expected. So is the next one. And the next. And the heat between them…sizzles their clothes right off.
Suddenly, this fake relationship is feeling all too real…
Kissing Like She Means It
by Joanne Dannon
Rule 101 – Friends with benefits should never fall in love
Logan Wentworth needs a temporary fiancée to win a work promotion and who better to ask than his friends-with-benefits partner, Daisy Roberts.
They’ve known each other for years and the hot sex, well, that’s a given.
Pretending to be engaged should be easy, right? Especially with a strict one-week arrangement?
But when the lies escalate and love comes between them, how will these two say good-bye?
The Christmas Proposal
by Cheryl Wright
When a transfer to the tiny town of Winston Montana, presents itself, Noah Gleeson jumps on it. This is a chance to heal his broken heart and put tragedy behind him.
Then he meets Mandy Scott. The fiery redhead gets under his skin far too quickly, which should have set alarm bells ringing. Against his better judgement, he agrees to become Mandy’s pretend boyfriend for her family’s annual Christmas party. Mandy has never taken a date to the party, but this year will different, purely to keep her parents off her back.
Can Noah continue to see Mandy without tearing his heart apart? And what will Mandy do when their pretense becomes a reality?
Author’s Promise: This is a heartwarming Christmas novella with a happily ever after ending and no cliffhangers. It is a clean and wholesome story with nothing more than hugs, kisses, and holding hands.
And as promised, here are the books by me with the Fake Relationship trope 😉
The Billionaire Stepbrother
by Emma Lea
Bailey Sheppard has loved Nick Heart for as long as she could remember. They had been best friends in school and had graduated to a friends with benefits arrangement after she left home to study at a University two states away. Their once a month weekends were the highlight of her life, when he would fly in to visit her and she would have him all to herself for the entire, uninterrupted weekend.
And then he told her he was getting married.
Bailey’s perfect world was threatening to implode and she had to do something to set it to rights. She needed Nick in her life, she wanted to be the one he married and lived happily ever after with. So she hatched a plan to stop the wedding and steal the groom.
And then she met Hunter.
Hunter Green, the reclusive aviation billionaire offers to act as her boyfriend to make the groom jealous and help her put a stop to the wedding. But his beautiful green eyes and the way he makes her feel when he touches her cause her to question her loyalty and feelings towards Nick. Oh, and he just happens to be Nick’s stepbrother.
Now she has feelings for Hunter that won’t be denied, but what does that mean for her future with Nick? Does she take a chance on a new relationship with Hunter or should she stay the course and reach for the happily ever after she’d always imagined with Nick?
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The Billionaire Replacement
by Emma Lea
Declan was just being a nice guy. He saw a woman in need of assistance and he stepped in and pretended to be her fiancé. It was just the kind of guy he was; a knight in shining armour ready to rescue the damsel in distress. Yes, she was pretty – beautiful, gorgeous, a goddess – but he would have done it for anyone…probably. It was only fair that she return the favour when he found himself in need of a fake girlfriend. It wasn’t meant to go anywhere. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement and they both knew the rules going in. He wasn’t free to fall in love. There were…complications…that prevented him from pursuing her for anything more than just a fun time between adults. But you know what they say about best laid plans…
Brandi wanted it all – a career she loved, a happy home, the husband, the white picket fence, and the two point five kids. That was the dream. Unfortunately for Brandi when men looked at her they saw something other than a potential life partner, they saw an opportunity to tick something off their bucket list. Blonde, beautiful and bearing a striking resemblance to a certain famous blonde-haired, blue-eyed doll, Brandi was a Marilyn when she desperately wanted to be a Jackie. So when she met Declan and he treated her like a person instead of just a piece of arm candy, of course she was going to develop feelings for him. The only problem? Their little agreement. But then things got complicated…
A Royal Entanglement
by Emma Lea
On the day of the new Queen’s coronation, a man from Lady Alexandra’s past turns up unannounced in Merveille. Lord Frederic intercepts him and discovers that Alex had left this man at the altar six months ago and now he was here to claim her.
The last thing Freddie wants is to get entangled with a woman. He liked to keep his options open, but now that he has returned to Merveille for good, his mother is trying her damnedest to get him married off and producing the next Bingham heir. When Alex asks for his help, he is only too eager to help her and maybe get his mother off his back in the process.
Alex hasn’t told anyone the real reason she left everything she had worked so hard for in the States to return to Merveille and take up the position of Queen Alyssa’s personal assistant. But now the main reason for her flight from the US as turned up on the palace’s doorstep and she is backed into a corner. The only person that she can think of to help her is Freddie, but she worries that getting too close to him might just do more harm than good.