Hopeless (Chestnut Springs #5)
Elsie Silver
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Explicit open door [?]
· 310 ratings · Published: 13 Oct 2023
I’m the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
He’s thirty-five and all man, and I’m twenty-two and all… virgin.
He’s also my fiancé. Correction: my fake fiancé.
We start out as a bet. He doesn’t believe that anyone holds my last name against me. So he offers me his to prove a point.
It’s win-win. He gets a break from his concerned family’s prying, and I get a chance to shed my family’s reputation while I save up to ditch this small town.
He says all I have to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend I can’t keep my hands off of him in public.
But it’s what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines.
It’s what transpires behind closed doors that doesn’t feel like pretending at all.
This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date.
He once told me he’d never fall in love.
And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fiancé.
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Tagged as:
- age gap 27
- virgin heroine 27
- contemporary 25
- fake relationship 24
- disabilities & scars 24
- small town 23
- working class heroine 19
- tortured hero 18
- friends to lovers 18
- poor heroine 18
- military 16
- possessive hero 15
- tortured heroine 15
- new adult 15
- caretaking 12
- independent heroine 12
- spanking 11
- western 11
- rich hero 11
- alpha male 10
- men in uniform 10
- forced proximity 10
- class difference 10
- slow burn 9
- angst 9
- take-charge heroine 8
- m-f romance 7
- grumpy & sunshine 6
- workplace/office 5
- praise kink 4
- hurt/comfort 3
- childfree 2
- competent heroine 2
- Add topics
- content warnings
- mental trauma 2
- mental illness 2
- slut shaming 2
- past child neglect 2
- alcoholism 2
- geography
- canada 4
- north america 1
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 26
- first person pov 16
- male pov 7
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The 'Chestnut Springs' series
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north-america · small town · western · strong heroine · first-person-pov · new adult · canada · competent heroine · contemporary · alpha male · m-f · male-pov · friends to lovers · angst · grumpy sunshine · dual-pov · cowboys · explicit-open-door · found-family · audiobook
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