Title: CHARADE
Series: Pretense and Promises #1
Author: Jade C. Jamison
Narrator: Kathryn
Lynhurst
Length: 7
hours 35 minutes
Audible
Release Date:
11.27.2018
Publisher: Audible Studios
Publish Date: 10.23.2017
Category /Genre: Contemporary Romance
Recommended
for: 18+ due to sexual content
Listenability: OK or
NSFW
Received from: Jade C. Jamison (as an Audible gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Charade
Date completed: 03.29.2019
Description from the publisher:
No kissing necessary. Definitely no
sex required.
Erica Larson had dreamed of being a lawyer for as long as she could remember, but the job at Ford & Associates—a family business run by a father and his three sons—is sheer drudgery. Erica is ready to pull up stakes and move home—until devilishly handsome but arrogant Brock Ford, the youngest son, makes her an offer she can’t refuse.
Play his fiancée for a month...maybe two, because his future with the firm depends on deception.
Just attend a function here and there.
No kissing and definitely no sleeping together.
Well...maybe one kiss.
Or two.
And, before Erica knows it, she’s doubting if she can distinguish between fiction and reality, because her heart can no longer tell the difference. Can she stop herself from becoming a victim of his charm before it’s too late?
Erica Larson had dreamed of being a lawyer for as long as she could remember, but the job at Ford & Associates—a family business run by a father and his three sons—is sheer drudgery. Erica is ready to pull up stakes and move home—until devilishly handsome but arrogant Brock Ford, the youngest son, makes her an offer she can’t refuse.
Play his fiancée for a month...maybe two, because his future with the firm depends on deception.
Just attend a function here and there.
No kissing and definitely no sleeping together.
Well...maybe one kiss.
Or two.
And, before Erica knows it, she’s doubting if she can distinguish between fiction and reality, because her heart can no longer tell the difference. Can she stop herself from becoming a victim of his charm before it’s too late?
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Wow! Wow, Wow, Wow, WOW! This was one of the best fake fiancé stories
I have ever read! Talk about a
slo-o-o-o-o-w bu-u-u-u-rn, bring you to your knees read! Do you get the idea? I absolutely loved this slow seduction – of each
other and of the reader.
Bonus smile: Though CHARADE is a stand-alone contemporary romance;
there is an Easter egg for Jade Jamison’s BULLET lovers. You absolutely do not need to know anything
about that book in order to enjoy the Easter Egg, but for those of us who have
read the previous book the recognition will bring a squee of joy.
CHARADE is the first book in the Pretense and Promises series. I, for one, I’m looking forward to what may
come next.
Narration: Kathryn Lynhurst
does wonderfully with pronunciation (I only noticed one word that I was truly
lost and had to back up and figure out.
I believe she meant to say pinochle, the card game.) While her narration is not perfect – she does
drop consonant plosives at the ends of some words – she is perfectly
understandable and clear. Her voice
drama is beautifully presented. This is
the first book I have listened to with Kathryn Lynhurst as the narrator, but
I’m going to say right now that she is already one of my favorite narrators so
far.
Note: While I received this book as a gifted audiobook
copy, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Pretense and Promises series:
1.
Charade
2.
Shenanigans
Also from Jade C. Jamison:
·
All I Want for Christmas is the Hot
Guy in the Santa Suit
·
Dream Guy
·
Heat (released in four parts)
·
My Boyfriend’s Dad
·
Picture Perfect
·
Savage
Bullet series:
1.
Bullet
2.
Rock Bottom
3.
Feverish
Codie
Snow Series:
1.
Fool Me Once
Feverish
Series:
1.
Feverish
1.5 Boiling Point
2.
Scorched
Matchmaker series:
1.
Looking for Love
2.
Steamy Kisses
3.
First Comes Love
4.
Then Comes Marriage
Nicki
Sosebee Series:
1.
Got the Life
2.
Dead
4.
Right Now
6.
Lost
8.
Blind
10.
Lies
Tangled Web Series:
1.
Tangled Web
The Vagabonds series:
1.
On the Run
2.
On the Road
3.
On the Rocks
Wishes series:
2.
Secret Wishes (not yet released)
3.
Carnal Wishes (not yet released)
4.
Dangerous Wishes (not yet released)
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