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Today, we're joining Barclay Publicity for a stop along their current tour featuring a NEW Contemporary Romance release via Entangled Publishing. It celebrates its BOOK BIRTHDAY today (*throws confetti*) and happens to be part of the Accidentally Yours series, so you know what that means...when you fall in love with it (because I TOTALLY KNOW you will) there's more where that came from! But I digress, let's get to today's title in the spotlight...
Accidentally Yours, Book 2
by
Jennifer Shirk
9781640636156
Entangled Publishing
About the book...
Veterinarian Wade Roberts is done with love. But try convincing the elderly folk of Cape Harmony who are determined to play matchmaker. Now the young single women in town are bombarding him with baked goods and love notes, and being “taken” is the only way to stop the meddling grannies—which is why he needs a fake fiancée. Fast.
Arden Pearson loves planning weddings. Other people's weddings, that is. After her own engagement ended in disaster, she prefers to live vicariously through her work. But when she needs to persuade a big client that she’s capable of planning the celebrity wedding of the year, she’s willing to go as far as pretending to be engaged herself to her best friend’s older brother.
Soon their ruse has everyone in town believing they make the perfect couple—including Arden. She’s always been nothing more than a kid sister to Wade, and it might take a village to convince him otherwise...
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Arden Pearson loves planning weddings. Other people's weddings, that is. After her own engagement ended in disaster, she prefers to live vicariously through her work. But when she needs to persuade a big client that she’s capable of planning the celebrity wedding of the year, she’s willing to go as far as pretending to be engaged herself to her best friend’s older brother.
Soon their ruse has everyone in town believing they make the perfect couple—including Arden. She’s always been nothing more than a kid sister to Wade, and it might take a village to convince him otherwise...
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~~~ EXCERPT ~~~
Wade stood in line at the Drip N Sip, about seven people back, mentally warming up to let good old matchmaking Judy Tavish have an earful. What a friggin’ exhausting morning he’d had at work on Saturday, combating the flirting, the date requests, and the come-ons. Becky was right. His office had served more like a singles bar than a veterinary clinic. Well, no more. He was done with that, but mostly he was done with the meddling gray-haired coffee barista, looking over at him now and shooting him that wide, cheery-assed smile of hers.
“Oh, hello, Wade!” Judy waved, all sunny and good-natured, which ironically had the direct opposite effect on his already foul mood. He gritted his teeth and didn’t wave back.
“And what animal peed on your parade?” a feminine voice asked beside him.
He glanced to his right. Arden Pearson stood next to him with arms folded and an amused grin on her glistening pink-glossed lips. Arden was his sister’s best friend and all-around town sass-mouth—at least to him. He’d known her since high school when she had braces and blond hair down to her butt. Her mouth was still as sassy—maybe more so—but the braces were gone and her straight hair was cut shoulder length in a mature, professional style now. He’d always thought she was a cute girl back then, but as an adult, she was pretty damn stunning—when she wasn’t ribbing him. She had moved back to Cape Harmony about five years ago to open up her wedding planning business. Wade rarely ran into her in town unless she was with Kinsley, which made this day all the more agitating.
He turned away. “Right now, I’d actually welcome being peed on,” he muttered.
She made a tsk tsk sound. “Wow, you are having a bad day. Well, join the club.”
“Join the club?” Wade turned back to her and blinked. Damn, she had the prettiest eyes. The most unique kind of blue he’d ever seen. He immediately looked away. “Are you being bombarded at work and at home by hordes of single marriage-minded women?”
“Well, no— Wait.” She laughed. “Hold on. Are you?”
“Yes. And it’s all Judy Tavish’s fault,” he said, jerking his thumb in Judy’s direction. “She’s taken it upon herself to become my own personal walking, talking Tinder account.”
“Hmm…” Arden’s delicate brows drew together. “So, does this mean you want to book me ahead of schedule for a discount, or do you want to wait until the actual wedding proposal?” she said with a chuckle.
“I knew you wouldn’t see the seriousness in the situation.”
“You’re right. I don’t.” She shrugged. “I mean, so what if Judy thought you should get out and have some fun and gave your number to a few nice women. Oh, boo-hoo.”
He looked her dead in the eye. “Twenty-six women, Arden. Twenty-six. Not including the crowd that showed up at the clinic on Saturday with their fake sick pets. And did you know that when I got home from work there were brownies and half a baked chicken left on my doorstep.”
Arden whistled. “Damn. Remind me to use Judy when I’m looking for a date. Or need a snack.”
Copyright© 2018 Catch Him If You Can
Jennifer Shirk
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So, what can I say about this one?
Well, for starters...it belongs to the "best friend's brother" trope as equally as it does "friends to lovers", but either way you label it, it comes down to one simply phrase for me...I LOVED IT!
No, really. It was fantastic! Once I started, I couldn't put it down. I loved both of our leads, the predicaments they each find themselves in, how they attempt to win at the game of love on their own terms...and how they ultimately fall under its spell, for better or worse. (Get it? For better or worse...she's a wedding planner... *giggle*) It has so much going for it and then some!
Wade was such a sweetheart, and despite being scarred by love at an early age, he still has compassion, warmth, and more heart than some men with half his life experience. Just because he doesn't THINK he can ever love again, doesn't mean it's any truer than Arden's apparent repulsion of long term relationships. Oh she wants one, or rather did once upon a time before she was jilted at the altar, but it always seems that the one's SHE wants, end up wanting someone else. Sad really because Arden is truly a gem more than worth her weight in gold with a romantic heart hidden beneath the customer pleasing business woman exterior she's so carefully crafted after "the incident". Add in the crazy-but-well-intentioned ladies of the town playing matchmaker, over zealous (jealous and suspicious!) newbie's just looking out for the local organizations (yeah...riiiiight), celebrity power that brings an extra level of shine (and crazy!) to their already colorful charade...and you've got a story TOO GOOD TO MISS!
So, what can I say about this one?
Well, for starters...it belongs to the "best friend's brother" trope as equally as it does "friends to lovers", but either way you label it, it comes down to one simply phrase for me...I LOVED IT!
No, really. It was fantastic! Once I started, I couldn't put it down. I loved both of our leads, the predicaments they each find themselves in, how they attempt to win at the game of love on their own terms...and how they ultimately fall under its spell, for better or worse. (Get it? For better or worse...she's a wedding planner... *giggle*) It has so much going for it and then some!
Wade was such a sweetheart, and despite being scarred by love at an early age, he still has compassion, warmth, and more heart than some men with half his life experience. Just because he doesn't THINK he can ever love again, doesn't mean it's any truer than Arden's apparent repulsion of long term relationships. Oh she wants one, or rather did once upon a time before she was jilted at the altar, but it always seems that the one's SHE wants, end up wanting someone else. Sad really because Arden is truly a gem more than worth her weight in gold with a romantic heart hidden beneath the customer pleasing business woman exterior she's so carefully crafted after "the incident". Add in the crazy-but-well-intentioned ladies of the town playing matchmaker, over zealous (jealous and suspicious!) newbie's just looking out for the local organizations (yeah...riiiiight), celebrity power that brings an extra level of shine (and crazy!) to their already colorful charade...and you've got a story TOO GOOD TO MISS!
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About the author...
Jennifer Shirk is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of sweet (and sometimes even funny) romances for Montlake Romance and Entangled Publishing. Her novel, FIANCE BY FATE—a 2015 Readers' Crown Finalist—became an Amazon #1 best seller for Series Romance. And recently, Wrong Brother, Right Match, WON the Sweet Traditional category of the 2017 Golden Quill Contest and became a #1 Amazon bestseller for Holiday Romance.
She resides in a beach resort in NJ, so when she's not writing or working on her tan, she's taking care of her most treasured possessions: her husband, daughter and puppy (Sox).
And don't forget to join her mailing list for a chance to win monthly giveaways and free ARCs: eepurl.com/Q6TH1
She resides in a beach resort in NJ, so when she's not writing or working on her tan, she's taking care of her most treasured possessions: her husband, daughter and puppy (Sox).
And don't forget to join her mailing list for a chance to win monthly giveaways and free ARCs: eepurl.com/Q6TH1
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Jennifer is offering one lucky grand prize winner a $10 Amazon Gift Card and five Runner-ups an eCopy of Bargaining with the Boss, book #1 in her Accidentally Yours series! To enter for your chance to win one of these exciting prizes, please fill out the Rafflecopter link below:
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Special thanks to the Barclay Publicity team for the chance to bring this tour to you as well as the ebook ARC for review. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the series, the author, the publisher, this tour, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is AVAILABLE NOW, so seek thee out a copy at your favorite online retailer.
Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!
Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!
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