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Teach Me Tonight
Two teachers embark on a pretend romance, but there is no accounting for real love!
Friends and coworkers…
Lily Caldwell loves her job as a junior high school language arts teacher. It doesn’t hurt that her classroom is right across the hall from her handsome, charming coworker Trey. While she enjoys his friendship, she hides her attraction to him for a variety of reasons, and she’s determined to keep it that way.
A mutual attraction…
Trey Garrison enjoys his job as a math teacher even if it makes him sound nerdy. He also likes his pretty coworker across the hall and interacts with her every chance he gets. Lily is sweet and friendly, but she keeps her distance, and he’s dying to know why.
One conversation changes everything…
Lily tells Trey about her friend’s upcoming wedding at a popular ski resort. It should be fun, but she’s standing up in the wedding with Collin, her controlling ex-boyfriend, and wishes she had a date. She never expected Trey to volunteer or play her “fake boyfriend” to prove to Collin that she’s moved on.
Love Lessons…
Trey can’t wait to spend more time with Lily. He excitedly prepares “lesson plans” to pull off their ruse. However, he hasn’t accounted for everything, including falling in love.
Teach Me Tonight is book one in the Love Lessons series, a sweet and sexy contemporary romance.
Friends and coworkers…
Lily Caldwell loves her job as a junior high school language arts teacher. It doesn’t hurt that her classroom is right across the hall from her handsome, charming coworker Trey. While she enjoys his friendship, she hides her attraction to him for a variety of reasons, and she’s determined to keep it that way.
A mutual attraction…
Trey Garrison enjoys his job as a math teacher even if it makes him sound nerdy. He also likes his pretty coworker across the hall and interacts with her every chance he gets. Lily is sweet and friendly, but she keeps her distance, and he’s dying to know why.
One conversation changes everything…
Lily tells Trey about her friend’s upcoming wedding at a popular ski resort. It should be fun, but she’s standing up in the wedding with Collin, her controlling ex-boyfriend, and wishes she had a date. She never expected Trey to volunteer or play her “fake boyfriend” to prove to Collin that she’s moved on.
Love Lessons…
Trey can’t wait to spend more time with Lily. He excitedly prepares “lesson plans” to pull off their ruse. However, he hasn’t accounted for everything, including falling in love.
Teach Me Tonight is book one in the Love Lessons series, a sweet and sexy contemporary romance.
326 pages, Paperback
Published February 21, 2022
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Susan Coventry
40 books459 followersSusan Coventry writes fun and flirty contemporary romance novels. When she's not writing, she's reading, puzzling, or enjoying nature. Susan lives in Southeast Michigan where many of her romance novels are set.
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July 6, 2022
it was really good! i loved their relationship a lot. definitely a couple you can root for :))
March 5, 2022
Susan Coventry is one of my favorite authors. Her stories have a nice flow to them and the characters come alive on the page. Lily and Trey are both school teachers with their classrooms across from each other. They have also become good friends. Lily's good friend, Skylar, is getting married and she will be in the wedding party. Collin is going to be the best man in the wedding. He is also Lily's ex. He left her and that was when she realized what a mentally abusive and controlling person he was. It has taken her time to adjust to single life and has accepted it.
Back to the wedding as she is telling Trey all this she tells him she doesn't want to go alone. Trey asked her where the wedding was being held, When she told him Crystal Mountain he told her he loved that place. After telling him the details of the weekend he told her it was a win-win situation. He liked to ski and he could be her plus one for the wedding. He would be her fake boyfriend and they hoped everyone would believe them as a couple.
Things were going along fine Trey thought. Lily was paranoid they would lose their jobs if anyone from school found them together. Trey had felt something for her for quite some time so he was looking forward to spending as much time as he could with her. Lily was very much an introvert and Trey was going to try and bring her out of her shell.
Nothing went smoothly for them. Collin, her ex, is a big problem. He is determined to win Lily back and she wants no part of it. There is so much more to this story. I've only given you a taste, so now you can go and read the book. It was so good I didn't want it to end.
Back to the wedding as she is telling Trey all this she tells him she doesn't want to go alone. Trey asked her where the wedding was being held, When she told him Crystal Mountain he told her he loved that place. After telling him the details of the weekend he told her it was a win-win situation. He liked to ski and he could be her plus one for the wedding. He would be her fake boyfriend and they hoped everyone would believe them as a couple.
Things were going along fine Trey thought. Lily was paranoid they would lose their jobs if anyone from school found them together. Trey had felt something for her for quite some time so he was looking forward to spending as much time as he could with her. Lily was very much an introvert and Trey was going to try and bring her out of her shell.
Nothing went smoothly for them. Collin, her ex, is a big problem. He is determined to win Lily back and she wants no part of it. There is so much more to this story. I've only given you a taste, so now you can go and read the book. It was so good I didn't want it to end.
October 20, 2022
In Susan Coventry’s “Teach Me Tonight” fellow teachers Lily Caldwell and Trey Garrison decide to team up as a faux-couple so that Lily not only has a date for her best friend’s wedding in January, but so that she can stick it to her possessive and toxic ex-boyfriend, Collin. The two young educators have spent their days teaching their respective subjects across the hall from each other for a few years now, and while friendly, had never acted on their mutual attraction to each other prior to their newfound arrangement. As experience will show them, however, planning a fake relationship is easy enough in theory, but can get complicated when real feelings develop. As they navigate through the school gossip-mill, Collin’s aggressive attentions toward winning back Lily, and their own tangled thoughts and emotions, Lily and Trey will need to decide for themselves, and together, whether this fake relationship should evolve into something more or if they should just call the whole thing off.
I love stories like “Teach Me Tonight.” Fake-relationship-to-true-love stories are my kryptonite, and Coventry has written an absolute ringer. It has all the cute nuances and cliché-yet-not-overdone elements of a Hallmark movie, while sprinkling in fiery passion and tasteful, yet intense, sexual interludes that together add up to a pretty fantastic romance. It’s the kind of book that is easy and quick to read through, and perfect for curling up with your favorite blanket on a rainy night (or when you have the day off from work the next day and can spend all hours of the night reading to your heart’s desire…).
The only drawback for me with “Teach Me Tonight” was that I felt it was a little too fast-paced at times. I kind of wished I could have seen Lily and Trey’s relationship grow a little bit more over the course of the Fall. It seemed like the book moved very quickly from September, to Thanksgiving and then to Christmas. I also had anticipated that we would actually get to see Lily’s friend’s wedding, but it was not really talked about until after the event had already been over. It just seemed like there was so much build up to keeping their fake-turned-real-relationship going strong until that event that it was a little disappointing only getting to read about it in Lily’s recollections. Especially since their reunion took place only a week or so beforehand, it would have been a perfect ending for me.
Lastly, I liked that “Teach Me Tonight” introduced a little taste of what the next book in the series would be about, and who the stars of the next love story would be. Overall, this was such a fun read and it made me laugh and smile on some nights where up until that point, I had been having some stressful days and also been missing my own fiancé. I read mostly as a way to escape, and this book was written perfectly for that!
I love stories like “Teach Me Tonight.” Fake-relationship-to-true-love stories are my kryptonite, and Coventry has written an absolute ringer. It has all the cute nuances and cliché-yet-not-overdone elements of a Hallmark movie, while sprinkling in fiery passion and tasteful, yet intense, sexual interludes that together add up to a pretty fantastic romance. It’s the kind of book that is easy and quick to read through, and perfect for curling up with your favorite blanket on a rainy night (or when you have the day off from work the next day and can spend all hours of the night reading to your heart’s desire…).
The only drawback for me with “Teach Me Tonight” was that I felt it was a little too fast-paced at times. I kind of wished I could have seen Lily and Trey’s relationship grow a little bit more over the course of the Fall. It seemed like the book moved very quickly from September, to Thanksgiving and then to Christmas. I also had anticipated that we would actually get to see Lily’s friend’s wedding, but it was not really talked about until after the event had already been over. It just seemed like there was so much build up to keeping their fake-turned-real-relationship going strong until that event that it was a little disappointing only getting to read about it in Lily’s recollections. Especially since their reunion took place only a week or so beforehand, it would have been a perfect ending for me.
Lastly, I liked that “Teach Me Tonight” introduced a little taste of what the next book in the series would be about, and who the stars of the next love story would be. Overall, this was such a fun read and it made me laugh and smile on some nights where up until that point, I had been having some stressful days and also been missing my own fiancé. I read mostly as a way to escape, and this book was written perfectly for that!
May 16, 2022
Two junior high teachers, their classrooms across the corridor from one another, pretend a romance - at least on her part - to put off her stalky ex and maybe make him a tad jealous. But things get out of hand.
Nice pacing. Easy, enjoyable read. Set in Michigan, and I enjoyed the local references. Some graphic sex scenes - too much so to tie in with the tone of the rest of the book. Characters were well created; my only other note is some slight irritation at Lily’s hesitancy at times.
Nice pacing. Easy, enjoyable read. Set in Michigan, and I enjoyed the local references. Some graphic sex scenes - too much so to tie in with the tone of the rest of the book. Characters were well created; my only other note is some slight irritation at Lily’s hesitancy at times.
March 28, 2022
Finished this book in a day! It was a cute and fast paced romance novel about two teachers who have a fake relationship for a friend’s wedding. Of course they fall in love. There was nothing super dramatic but this one was a fun and quick read. The ending was a little rushed but I enjoyed it a lot.
July 31, 2022
Adorable.
February 19, 2025
3.5, this was really cute actually and a lot better than I expected. I loved the premise especially being a middle school teacher myself. The only things I didn’t enjoy was the annoying choices of our leading characters and it felt very rushed the second half compared to a slow burn first half. Other than that it’s a light, quick, fun read!
March 22, 2023
To the person who recommended this book. You owe me $11.99
May 4, 2022
I thought this was a quick easy read however I didn’t like the point of view the story was told in and I felt like the talking was “old” so it was hard to envision things happening without thinking my grandma was telling me ha
May 17, 2022
A Pretty Standard Chick Romance Story
About a tenth of the way through the story, you just know what the ending will be - and it is. She writes well and you just fly thru the story.
About a tenth of the way through the story, you just know what the ending will be - and it is. She writes well and you just fly thru the story.
May 22, 2022
I couldn't finish it. I understand that books are subjective so I don't want to say this was horrible, just not what I'm used to as far as development. I felt the characters and plot weren't very deep. Literally couldn't care less if they got together or not. No attachment, superficial.
August 25, 2022
This was fine? I actually really liked the pacing I thought the story was really thin like there wasn't a whole lot of meat to it and I found Lily a little insufferable at times. But it was fun and sweet with no surprises
April 11, 2022
A fake dating situation between teachers that was sweet and simple.
Lily and Grey are pleasant main characters, and their romance is slow and enjoyable to read about.
Lily is wayyy too hard on herself and wish she wasn't so jaded, but it's understandable.
Slightly spicy. Interesting side characters.
My one complaint is a major plot point.
Everything is resolved before the trope can take center stage, which I feel like readers miss out on.
Sweet read, but wish order of events were different.
Lily and Grey are pleasant main characters, and their romance is slow and enjoyable to read about.
Lily is wayyy too hard on herself and wish she wasn't so jaded, but it's understandable.
Slightly spicy. Interesting side characters.
My one complaint is a major plot point.
Everything is resolved before the trope can take center stage, which I feel like readers miss out on.
Sweet read, but wish order of events were different.
December 27, 2022
Cute idea. Author needs some more experience in developing characters.
May 5, 2025
i was waiting for the wedding chapter and it never came 😭
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 30, 2025
It was cute but the main character being hung up on not having a relationship with another teacher was weird to me. No power imbalance issue, etc. Just kinda weird.
April 12, 2022
While this was a fun fake-romance to true-love story, it was neat to recognize the places the characters mentioned too.
Lily and Trey are work friends—they teach across the hall from each other at the local junior high, and usually take a few minutes for some small talk as they wrap up each day. When Lily vents about having to be in the bridal party for a wedding where her controlling ex will also be, Trey sees his big chance to be a good friend, and get in a weekend of skiing at a fun resort not too far away.
Before the wedding, they of course have to get to know each other a bit better outside of work, so their story of being a happy couple can be convincing to the rest of the wedding guests, and Lily’s dreaded ex. It’s no surprise to the reader that their "pretending" gets more real in a hurry.
This book was especially fun as it mentioned several Michigan ski resorts and destinations. Recognizing the familiar settings for the book, as well as the amusing story of Lily and Trey’s growing romance, earned it a 4 out of 5 star rating. I’d recommend it as a fun wintery romance between friends and co-workers. This was the first book in the new Love Lessons series from the author. The hints have already been revealed of which middle school staff couple will be the next to get the opportunity to find true love.
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Lily and Trey are work friends—they teach across the hall from each other at the local junior high, and usually take a few minutes for some small talk as they wrap up each day. When Lily vents about having to be in the bridal party for a wedding where her controlling ex will also be, Trey sees his big chance to be a good friend, and get in a weekend of skiing at a fun resort not too far away.
Before the wedding, they of course have to get to know each other a bit better outside of work, so their story of being a happy couple can be convincing to the rest of the wedding guests, and Lily’s dreaded ex. It’s no surprise to the reader that their "pretending" gets more real in a hurry.
This book was especially fun as it mentioned several Michigan ski resorts and destinations. Recognizing the familiar settings for the book, as well as the amusing story of Lily and Trey’s growing romance, earned it a 4 out of 5 star rating. I’d recommend it as a fun wintery romance between friends and co-workers. This was the first book in the new Love Lessons series from the author. The hints have already been revealed of which middle school staff couple will be the next to get the opportunity to find true love.
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