Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Fraudulently Ever After by A.R. Casella, Denise Grover Swank

Zach Littlefield, of the banking Littlefields, needs a date to his brother's engagement party and one night, while extremely drunk, decides to start interviewing women to be his fake date for dinner. 

Tina DiVirgilio needs money. Her third roommate moved out and she and Harry need someone else to move in so they can keep their place. While they both have friends and family who would be happy to help, neither is eager to rush in. Fake-dating Zach will kill two birds with one stone - it will also fulfill the terms of the Bad Luck Club's offshoot. See, she was cursed by an Italian grandmother when she was nineteen. She will be doomed to fulfill romance tropes but never find true love. And so far, that is proving true. Her "Greek Chorus" (three friends trying to help her out) want her to get out there and date someone with as many tropes as possible to try to get over her hurt and prove that the curse isn't real. Zach actually ticks off a number of tropes.
It's an interesting story that's really cute with the zaniness you'd expect from these writers and sets up a number of other possibilities (Tina's ex, the billionaire Rory who is probably going to be paired up with one of Willow's sisters who run a matchmaking agency, Willow, who is moving back to Asheville, the mysterious writer who was on Molly's book retreat who is now moving to Asheville to live with Bear, Zach's sister Kennedy who will have a great love but not any time soon etc. etc.
Tina is Dylan's little sister from Luck of the Draw.

Four stars
Follows Jingle Bell Hell
Related to Luck of the Draw
Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited
Opinions are my own

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