Hopeless (Chestnut Springs #5)
Elsie Silver
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Explicit open door [?]
· 405 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 29
- virgin heroine 29
- contemporary 27
- fake relationship 27
- disabilities & scars 25
- small town 24
- friends to lovers 20
- working class heroine 20
- tortured hero 19
- poor heroine 19
- military 17
- possessive hero 16
- tortured heroine 16
- new adult 16
- caretaking 13
- independent heroine 13
- spanking 12
- western 12
- rich hero 12
- men in uniform 11
- forced proximity 11
- class difference 11
- alpha male 10
- angst 10
- slow burn 9
- take-charge heroine 9
- m-f romance 8
- grumpy & sunshine 6
- praise kink 6
- workplace/office 5
- hurt/comfort 3
- competent heroine 3
- childfree 2
- Add topics
- content warnings
- mental trauma 3
- past child neglect 3
- mental illness 2
- slut shaming 2
- alcoholism 2
- geography
- canada 5
- north america 2
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 27
- first person pov 18
- male pov 5
- interconnected standalone 4
- standalone 1
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The 'Chestnut Springs' series
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first-person-pov · strong heroine · western · north-america · small town · male-pov · alpha male · m-f · contemporary · competent heroine · new adult · canada · explicit-open-door · standalone · praise-kink · dual-pov · ic-standalone · cowboys · grumpy sunshine · angst
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