Book Blurb:
Lily Parker hates commitment. Annual subscriptions? No thanks. Tattoos?? Not on your life. She's already planned to leave Fairwick Falls after being there for 11 months...until a rogue patch of ice lands her in mandated physical therapy. The problem? She really meant to get health insurance (really!) but...it slipped her mind.Unable to climb the stairs to her apartment, she moves in with the one person who has a first-floor bedroom and Nash Donnelly, her childhood-turned-teenage-turned-adult crush.Nash Donnelly needs a wife. His money-grabbing brother wants to oust him as bank president based on an arcane 200 year old bylaw. Nash must act quickly to prevent Fairwick Falls' only bank from falling prey to his brother's scheme to sell to a large corporate competitor.Who better to be a wife-of-convenience than the woman who moved in with him...and whose lips he's dreamed of for months.They propose a simple health insurance for marriage until the bylaws can be changed. Then they can happily go their separate ways, no commitment necessary......right?
Tropes:
*Netgalley ALC *Small Town Romance *Age Gap *Opposites attract *mutual pining
*sisters friend *Teenage crush *Marriage of convenience *green flag MMC *millionaire MMC
*State Challenge Pennsylvania (repeat) *Spice *"My Wife" *She falls first x he falls harder
*long term grief (parents fmc/father MMC) *hallmark vibes *Slow burn *forced proximity
Thoughts:
Lily (FMC) has moved back to her small hometown in Pennsylvania after her father passed away to help her sisters with their families floral shop she's a free spirit though and is itching to move back to NYC. Lily doesn't do long term relationships she is more of a love them and leave them type of girl... but it's only because none of the guys can measure up to the only guy she's ever been in love with Nash.
Lily has loved Nash since forever... he was her older sisters childhood friend but he was always kind, she fell in love with his heart first, it doesn't hurt that he's handsome and charming as well, but it's probably for the best that nothing has happened between them since true love only leads to heartache she has witnessed it first hand with her own father after losing the love of his life (her mother) when she was young.
Nash (MMC) has been struggling with growing feelings towards Lily she's beautiful, witty and fun the exact opposite of himself. Nash is hardworking and he wants to uphold his families legacy as the bank president and owner, his father and grandfather held the position prior and he wants to keep what matters a part of his job the community and his employees... but recently his shady younger brother has been coming around and causing problems he has also brought up this archaic rule stating that the president has to be married, problem being that Nash is not married.
Nash has made waves with the board members and the only way to improve his chances of keeping his position as President is to get married. Lily has a slip and fall leading to a knee injury with a lengthy recovery period... sadly she never filled out paperwork to get insurance through the flower shop... Nash proposes a solution to both of their problems if Lily marries him he gets a wife and Lily can get covered with health insurance through him... win/win what could possibly go wrong?
Now Nash needs to try not to fall more for his beautiful wife... he knows she doesn't want to be stuck in this small town forever, and Lily needs to try to find a way to not fall more in love with her husband... easy they are adults things don't have to get complicated.
This was a really cute opposites attract, small town romance. I enjoyed seeing fiery Lily finally let her walls and guards down and finally tell Nash how she felt after so many years and Nash was such a sweetheart but was wild in the bedroom... or office, shower, weight bench, etc...
Gave off cute hallmark vibes meets spice and I was here for it!
Thank you to Netgalley and the author for this ALC copy Narrators Aileen Bishop and Tim Paige did a great job bringing this story to life!
This is my first book by this author but it won't be my last, I'm looking forward to reading more in this series!
Negatives:
*FMC has a knee injury that requires extensive physical therapy but is able to get on her knees and walk for longer distances without crutches or knee brace throughout book (?? is it really that bad?)
*They both liked each other... Just tell each other already --> miscommunication/no communication
*I got frustrated with the FMC for having one foot out the door for the majority of the book, due to this the MMC also didn't want to tell her his feelings because he didn't want to spook her... it made it for a repetitive cycle of both having big feelings towards each other but neither one telling the other how they felt which leads me to the next issue...
*By the time they finally admitted their feelings and were on the same page the book was almost over so things felt a bit more rushed at that point.
Have you read this one? what did you think?
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