What a wonderful concept – mixing a hot contemporary story with a regency historical romance. It was interesting, fun and quirky. ~ Kitty, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Jane Sparks has accidentally announced her engagement on Facebook—to the infamous Bad Boy Billionaire, Duke Austen. As soon as it’s discovered that Jane and Duke barely know each other (One hot kiss at a party does not a relationship make), she’ll be humiliated. And then Duke does something Jane never expected. He plays along with her charade.
With his hard partying, playboy reputation jeopardizing a 150 million dollar investment deal, Duke realizes an engagement with the hot but oh-so-proper librarian could be just the thing to repair his reputation. This good girl tempts him to be very wicked…but just with her. It’s unprecedented. Inconceivable. Totally alluring.
As the unlikely match of librarian and tech entrepreneur set out to convince the world—and the internet—that their love is real, something unexpected happens: they start falling for each other. But Jane is secretly writing a historical romance novel that could expose their carefully constructed romance… unless two perfect strangers are content to be perfectly scandalous together.
Review copy provided for an honest review
I fell right into this book. What a wonderful concept – mixing a hot contemporary story with a regency historical romance. It was interesting, fun and quirky – I love quirky. The pit-fall – it’s the first installment of a continuing story. Ugh – have to wait until 02/04/14 to see where everything is going!
I haven’t read a book lately with two people so totally opposite from each other … a Billionaire and a Librarian – who would have thought! But a practical joke played by Jane’s best friend sets up a meeting that leads to a week-end of lies and hot-sex, an engagement and the beginning of the career Jane has always wanted … to be a romance writer. Little did she know that her heart would get involved and Duke would be so aloof.
Duke has to prove himself to the tech world that he’s not a failure. Two failed companies and the third on the brink of failure because of his play-boy, bad-boy ways is not sitting well with him. He needs the investor and what better way to get it than to show the world that he’s changed, he’s engaged to a sweet, down-home woman. “Sweater-set” to him and the woman who could change his whole persona.
Everything comes to a head when he gets the funding for his newest project and Jane’s ex-boyfriend walks back into her life.
So … where will everything go from here? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
But, really, I enjoyed the 1st installment. Jane is hysterical – she really is a wallflower, her speech goes from historical romance to modern in a blink of an eye. Duke is an arrogant techie with the world at his feet – a billionaire that give’s Jane a new laptop, an IPhone, but no engagement ring – he wear’s jeans and t-shirts to major meetings with investors … then uses the “gray” tie that Jane gives him in a very interesting way. He gives her orgasm upon orgasm but doesn’t give her the time of day unless she’s needed to make a public appearance with him. And, I really can’t tell you what he is thinking through the whole scheme. Time will tell what he is really up to, what will happen with Jane and if true love wins out in the end!
I’m intrigued…Thanks for the review Kitty.