Series: Small Town Secrets #6
Author: Jade C. Jamison
Publisher: Jade C. Jamison
Publish Date: 03.09.2021
Category /Genre: Contemporary Romance
Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing: A – near perfect
Received from: Jade C. Jamison (as an ARC gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Love and Romance
Date completed: 06.29.14; 02.25.2021
Description from the publisher:
Every woman should have a best friend…with benefits.
Elizabeth is a college professor by day, steamy romance writer by night. There’s just one problem: she has a hell of a time penning her steamiest scenes without a little help from Ridley, a guy she calls her “pretend boyfriend.” When her imagination falters, Ridley gives her plenty to fuel her imagination. But when she catches him playing around on her, she boots him to the curb.
And then she can’t write at all.
Enter her colleague and good friend Roman. While indulging herself in a liquor-fueled pity party she confesses her secret to Roman—and he volunteers to play the part of Ridley while she figures things out.
She doesn’t dare…does she? Won’t that make things at work awkward as hell? But her writing is languishing, suffering a slow, agonizing death.
Will she take Roman up on his offer or keep a safe distance and go it alone?
Curl up by the fire with a glass of wine or a mug of hot chocolate and settle into Winchester, Colorado—where the nights are cold…but steamy!
Portions of this novel were previously published in 2014 as the book Substitute Boyfriend.
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As always, I loved this story from Jade C. Jamison. Beth is a fantastic character. At first I thought she was pretty slutty, using Ridley for working out her sex scenes, but she thought she could use sex to gain love… and eventually figured out that it doesn’t work like that. Roman is there for her. First he is there as a friend and later as, well, more than a friend. See, that’s the right order, imho.
One of my favorite tools of the plot was the play of Beth as a romance writer that allowed the reader to think for just a minute that Ridley may just be a figment of Beth’s imagination. Are we reading a story within a story? It was fun to allow that magic seep through my romantic nerve-endings.
Ms. Jamison once again provides balanced parts of steam, sweetness, laughter, and raw emotion. Her references to the time-sucking social media that plagues all of our current favorite authors had me giggling in recognition. The characters are all mature adults leaving the childish stuff out of their relationships, even if Ridley isn’t the sharpest shovel in the shed.
I could not put this book down until I had devoured and savored every tasty word. I first read this when it was released as SUBSTITUTE BOYFRIEND, but I thoroughly enjoyed rereading it with new and additional content.
Note: While I received this book as a gifted ARC, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Small Town Secrets Series:
1. Love and Lies (previously Then Kiss Me)
2. Love and Lust (previously Crossing the Line)
3. Love and Music (previously MADversary )
4. Love and Deceit (previously Picture Perfect)
5. Love and Sorrow (formerly Worst Mother)
6. Love and Romance (formerly Substitute Boyfriend)
7. Love and Darkness (releases 08.10.2021)
8. Love and Redemption (releases Sept. 2021)
9. Love and Christmas (releases Nov. 2021)
Also from Jade C. Jamison:
· All I Want for Christmas is the Hot Guy in the Santa Suit
· Dream Guy
· Fabric of Night
· Finger Bang
· Heat (released in four parts)
· My Boyfriend’s Dad
· Old House
· Punctured, Bruised, and Barely Tattooed
· Savage
· Stripped (releases December 2021)
· To Save Him
Bullet Series:
1. Bullet
2. Rock Bottom
3. Feverish
4. Fully Automatic
4.5 Christmas Stalkings
5. Slash & Burn
6. Locked & Loaded
Codie Snow Series:
1. Fool Me Once
Feverish Series:
1. Feverish
1.5 Boiling Point
2. Scorched
3. Inferno
4. Slow Burn
Matchmaker Series:
1. Looking for Love
2. Steamy Kisses
3. First Comes Love
4. Then Comes Marriage
Nicki Sosebee Series:
Bad Ass (releases May, .2021)
1. Got the Life
2. Dead
3. No Place to Hide
4. Right Now
5. One More Time
6. Lost
7. Innocent Bystander
8. Blind
9. Fake
10. Lies
11. Dead Bodies Everywhere
12. Bearer of Bad News
13. Front Page News
Pretense and Promises Series:
1. Charade
2. Shenanigans
Rock Stars on the Rise Series:
1. Shake Me (releases March 2021)
Tangled Web Series:
1. Tangled Web
2. Everything But
3. Seal All Exits
The Vagabonds Series:
1. On the Run
2. On the Road
3. On the Rocks
Wishes Series:
1. Be Careful What You Wish For
2. Secret Wishes (not yet released)
3. Carnal Wishes (not yet released)
4. Dangerous Wishes (not yet released)
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