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Today’s book: Bridesmaid For Hire by Meghan Quinn.
“You’re breathing down my neck.”
“No, I’m not.”
“Yes, you are.” I gesture to my neck where he’s hovering while we peer out toward the restaurant from the bar. “There is breath on my neck that’s forming a dewy condensation, and frankly, it’s giving me the ick.” I turn toward the worst human I’ve ever met and look him dead in the eyes. “You’re giving me the ick.”
He glares at me for a moment, those dark brown eyes like spotlights, examining every inch of me. “The spinach that’s been stuck between your teeth for the last hour and a half has been giving me the ick.”
I let out a horrified gasp before I rub my finger over my teeth frantically. “Where? Did I get it?”
I bare my teeth at him, and he throws his head back and laughs before shaking his head. “Jesus, you’re too easy.”
And this is why I can’t stand this man.
I smooth my tongue over my teeth just for good measure before I say, “I hate you so much.”
He grins the most annoying grin ever presented to another human. “Not as much as I hate you.”
And that in a nutshell sums up my relationship with Brody McFadden.
About: Nobody does rom-com like Meghan Quinn and this is a great start to a new series. It’s a fake relationship, enemies to lovers, brother’s best friend, so it has lots of my favorite things.
Blurb:
Sometimes the wedding of the century calls for desperate measures.
And sometimes those desperate measures are to pretend the person you hate most is actually your boyfriend.
After years of working her tail off at her event-planning business, Maggie Mitchell is ready for a vacation. With nothing on her mind but R & R, she’s enjoying the warm weather of Bora Bora when in saunters Brody McFadden, her brother’s best friend and also her sworn enemy. Thanks to years of tension between the two—kicked off by a make-out session at her brother’s wedding that ended horribly—Maggie has sworn to stay away from the man. That is, until she finds out he’s in Bora Bora for his boss’s daughter’s wedding, hoping to use the trip to win a real future at the company.
Maggie promised herself she wouldn’t even think of work on the island, but as word spreads about the “wedding of the century” taking place in the midst of her vacation, she realizes offering her services as a bridesmaid and planner could bring her business to the next level. The only catch? She needs to pose as Brody’s girlfriend to get the job…while letting him stay in her peaceful bungalow.
Tensions rise, irritation flairs, and despite years’ worth of bickering behind closed doors, Maggie can’t quite squash the sparks building between her and her new fake boyfriend, especially when she learns the real reason their first kiss was cut short. But as the wedding day draws closer and everything starts to go wrong, it just might be Brody who sends Maggie’s business crashing down—and her heart along with it.
