Pretend You're Mine (Benevolence #1)
Lucy Score
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
3.97
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 106 ratings · 451 pages · Published: 21 May 2015

Luke Garrison is a hometown hero, a member of the National Guard ready to deploy again. Strong, sexy, broody, the last thing he’s looking for is a woman to ruin his solitude. When the wildly beautiful Harper stumbles into his life, though, he realizes that she's the perfect decoy. A fake girlfriend to keep his family off his back until he's deployed.
So what if kissing her sends his mind to wicked places? He can control himself. Can't he?
Harper was on her way to starting a new life... again. But something about Luke makes her want to settle down in this small town and make his house a home. When she’s in his arms, she finally knows what it's like to feel safe. Protected.
One night of sharing a bed turns into something much, much more... and soon Luke can't keep his mind off Harper's wide gray eyes, or his hands off of her luscious curves. He never thought he'd feel this way about a woman again. But he knows that he can't tell her the truth about his dark past. And she can't reveal what she's running from.
At least this isn't a real relationship. It's only for a month. It’s only pretend. Until it isn't...
Tagged as:
- contemporary 18
- military 17
- friends to lovers 14
- alpha male 13
- take-charge heroine 12
- suspense 6
- angst 5
- young adult 5
- fake relationship 4
- small town 3
- new adult 3
- cheerful/happy heroine 2
- possessive hero 2
- friends with benefits 2
- cruel hero/bully 2
- sassy heroine 2
- dual pov 2
- forced proximity 1
- grumpy/cold hero 1
- anal sex 1
- grumpy & sunshine 1
- funny 1
- slow burn 1
- tortured hero 1
- men in uniform 1
- tortured heroine 1
- m-f romance 1
- third person pov 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- abuse 7
- death / grief 1
- third party abuse 1
- geography
- north america 1
- usa 1
- maryland 1
romance tags
The 'Benevolence' series
207 ratings 4.11 ·
explicit-open-door · strong heroine · contemporary · friends to lovers · m-f · alpha male · military · abuse · length-long · forced proximity · men in uniform
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