Book Blurb:
Who forgets marrying a football player? Me, apparently. Turns out countless shots and a bad breakup lead to questionable decision making. But waking up in Vegas with a ring on my finger beside a hot, naked man is hard to ignore. I married Parker Wilder. Thanks to our quickie nuptials, I’ll get my inheritance, and he’ll get his family and their well-intentioned meddling off his back.
Forgetting the wedding was the easy part. Being married to him is a whole different story. Parker is too … everything. Chiseled by the gods good-looking. A heartbreaking kind of broody. The kind of man you know will wreck you for all others. Good thing this is all pretend. And oh, how we pretend. We pretend ourselves right into me ripping the clothes off his body.
It’s all fun and fake marriage until the day he gets a knock on the door with the surprise of a lifetime. Until the bomb goes off and we’re left to pick up the pieces. Until the pretending stops and we’re left with only one question: was any of it real?
Tropes:
*Sports Romance (Football) *Marriage of Convenience *Strangers --> More
*Close family (both sides) *Spice *State Challenge Oregon (Repeat)
*a surprise twist (that some people won't like just a heads up) *long term grief
*Fake relationship *wedding in Vegas *Broody MMC *forced proximity
Thoughts:
This is the 5th book in the Wilder series it is a spin off of the original few series by this author but could potentially be read as a stand alone, you might enjoy it more though with the back ground on all of the other characters that make appearances throughout this book and throughout the series.
Parker (MMC) has been dealing with grief from the loss of his father instead of talking with his family about his feelings he had been a bit of a play boy and going through the ladies but those days are behind him he knows that's not the way to go about things and he's determined to do things differently now. While at his sister's wedding (she is marrying his best friend) he meets the beautiful Anya who happens to be engaged at that time but he was trying to get out of being set up with a random woman by well meaning family members.
Even though that night they just share conversation, he's never forgotten about her so when he is in Vegas with some friends and sees her at the bar without a wedding ring he thinks maybe this is his chance... and it apparently was since the next day Parker and Anya wake up in the same bed after getting married the night before... the press is going to be all over this.
Anya and Parker begin their life together and are pretty much immediately put in the spotlight with Parker being a famous football star. Naturally like the previous books their large, loving and meddling family make appearances throughout the book and it was like visiting with old friends.
It also doesn't help that Anya's ex-fiance is also a football star and was caught cheating on her with multiple different women... he is now running his mouth about his thoughts on her "new" marriage... mind your own business!
Shortly after moving in together and trying to navigate their new partnership life throws them a curveball which Anya takes on way better than Parker.
This was a sweet romance where two slightly broken souls finally figure out what everyone else has seen for awhile... just took them longer to get there, since neither one wants to fully put their hearts out there to potentially get crushed again.
Did feel that a lot happened in this one and the pacing was off in places not giving enough time to build up for more major events.
While I did enjoy the time seeing the cameo's from characters from the other books I felt like maybe too much of the story featured these characters giving less time for our couples relationship to grow.
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