Nicole Snow's Blog - Posts Tagged "marriage-of-convenience"

Love hurts. That's a lesson heart bruised and headstrong Juniper Winkley learned years ago. She's sworn off men and devoted her life to the family bakery. If only passion and long hours alone were enough to keep it running. When a sculpted stranger shows up with a massive pastry order, it feels like a miracle, even if she has to bite her tongue for this coldhearted grump who acts like a little sugar will set him on fire.

Dexter Rory despises everything sweet. He also hates his big dumb mouth for making false promises to a man with a monster sweet tooth and way too much power over his future. But Dex said he's engaged? To her? The annoyingly beautiful baker chick with sunbeam smiles too sweet for life? Trouble has a name and it's Junie. Still, he's in too deep. He has to convince her to play along. Then he has to convince himself he's not craving her sweet insanity, no matter how hot and high-stakes this little ruse becomes. Love hurts, but it has nothing on the truth.

You guys, you will fall hard for these characters. Kansas City is ground zero for laughs, steamy nights, and enough butterflies to carry you away to feels-town. If you love a book bursting with the fake marriage trope and grumpy sunshine sorcery, here it is.

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Two Truths and a Marriage

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The grumpiest billionaire accidentally scores a sunshiny fake fiancee and pure chaos in this hilarious, sweet, and deliriously steamy romance by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow.

I can still pinpoint the exact second when my life became two truths and a lie.
You don't forget delivering a mountain of fresh-baked sweets to a man like Dexter Rory.
I never wanted to see his scowling, bossy, brutally godlike face again, no matter how well he tipped.
If you told me I'd wind up wearing his ring, I would've died laughing.

But here I am, trying to cling to my sanity while I confront the undeniable.
Truth #1: I'm spiritually allergic to this man.
He's as grumpy as a storm, twice as unpredictable, and he thinks my life's work is the devil.
Truth #2: I need his money—it's the only Hail Mary I have to keep my family bakery alive.

That's why we're living a ginormous lie that can't last.
I mean, who would believe we're engaged when we can barely share the same oxygen?
But Dexter can be wickedly convincing when he needs a win.
And the way he kisses me dizzy right in front of my adoring grandmother...
Hello, butterflies.

What happens when the truth matters less by the day?
What happens when you start falling in love with a lie?

This standalone read brings heat, heart, and mammoth feels all the way to the happily ever after. Witness two opposites attract, collide, and go down fighting the beautiful truth called love.

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A headache brought her crashing into his world. It was all random chance when Elle Lark wound up on that flight next to the frostiest god in a suit. It was even wilder later, when “Jet Daddy” stepped in to save her day. It should've ended there, but when does it ever for a man with a wicked reputation and so many cameras hounding him?

August Marshall's head is pounding. This isn't the destiny a man who lives by pure control had in mind, especially when he's stepping in to save his beloved aunt's legacy. This little hellion who never stops smiling wasn't supposed to be his problem. He wasn't supposed to show up on her doorstep with a ring. His blood wasn't supposed to go molten every time he's with his fake fiance, putting out fires, and trying like mad to avoid real feelings for the craziest ruse of his life.

I might be tearing up a little, friends. This book has been a long time in coming and it'll leave you breathless. It's also my very first partnership with Montlake, but more importantly, these characters will grab your hearts and never give them back. This book is a cinnamon roll baked to steamy, sticky sweet, feel-good grumpy sunshine perfection and I hope you'll adore it! Best of all, you can grab it today in Kindle, paperback or, audio.

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Almost Pretend

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Opposites attract in this sizzling, feel-good, grumpy sunshine romance about a lively illustrator and the brooding billionaire she literally falls for.

Eleanor Lark is an upbeat illustrator plagued by headaches and unruly strawberry blonde hair. After a grueling cross-country flight, she blacks out cold. The brooding stranger who sat next to her grumping his way through the flight catches Elle as she falls. Neither expects the sweet chaos that happens next.
August Marshall is stonehearted, insanely rich, and a master of corporate cleanups with major baggage of his own. The last man alive who needs a media frenzy after his airport heroics steal headlines. But August has a plan—ask Elle to marry him so their trouble disappears.

Elle almost faints again. They just met! But it’s hard to say no when August tells her she might be the key to saving a children’s book series she adores. And it’s even harder to remember it’s only pretend as sparks fly, hearts fall, and two perfect strangers try to remember life before make-believe...

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Hattie Sage keeps fainting. No surprise when she's hit with a shock proposal from her best friend's older brother. The same cruel boy who teased her mercilessly growing up now holds the key to all her bookish dreams. And he needs her help in the worst way—if she can trust him not to pulverize her heart.

Was Gramps insane? That's what Ethan Blackthorn wonders when he finds out he needs a wife to inherit a fortune. And it's not the biggest question when he collides with the nerdy ray of sunshine who was practically his little sister's shadow. Hattie's all grown up now. Prettier, brighter, and a lot more mouthy. Ethan's drawn in like a moth to flame, and the messy burn just might be worth everything...

This is not a drill, dear readers. This steamy slice of grumpy x sunshine/fake marriage madness is screaming at you like a shooting star. Catch!

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Vows We Never Made

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A sunshiney bookworm's life explodes when her best friend's atrocious brother proposes in this steamy and electrifying romance by Wall Street Journal Nicole Snow.

Big dreams come with bigger catches.
Mine came wrapped in a merciless suit—Ethan Blackthorn.
Billionaire tyrant. My bestie's older brother. Bane of my childhood and jackwagon of the century.

Now he's my flipping fiancé. All thanks to a brutal six-month marriage clause in his grandfather's will.

He promised me everything to play along.
An eye-popping payout.
The bookstore of my dreams.
Plus, a nice glittery Cinderella break from reality.
But that's not what steals my breath away.

He's taking this too seriously.
He's kissing me like it means something.
He's ready to declare war when other men dare look at me.

I don't understand. The conceited, incurable monster who used to make me cry now lives for my smiles and he's making this so hard.

Between his secrets and obsession, do I even stand a chance?
How do I forget the vows we never made if they start feeling sacred?

A deliciously sweet and stormy standalone romance with a heart-pounding fight to ever after. Irresistible tropes inside: grumpy x sunshine, best friend's brother, marriage of convenience.

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