Hopeless (Chestnut Springs #5)
Elsie Silver
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Explicit open door [?]
· 251 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 25
- virgin heroine 25
- dual pov 25
- contemporary 23
- disabilities & scars 23
- fake relationship 22
- small town 22
- working class heroine 19
- tortured hero 17
- friends to lovers 17
- poor heroine 17
- first person pov 16
- military 16
- possessive hero 15
- new adult 15
- tortured heroine 14
- 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 8
- take-charge heroine 8
- male pov 7
- grumpy & sunshine 6
- m-f romance 6
- workplace/office 5
- praise kink 4
- hurt/comfort 3
- childfree 2
- competent heroine 2
- Add topics
- geography
- canada 3
- north america 1
- content warnings
- mental trauma 2
- mental illness 2
- slut shaming 2
- past child neglect 2
- alcoholism 2
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The 'Chestnut Springs' series
4.12 · 1761 ratings
male-pov · contemporary · competent heroine · canada · western · first-person-pov · m-f · small town · north-america · strong heroine · new adult · alpha male · found-family · explicit-open-door · angst · dual-pov · grumpy sunshine · forced proximity · friends to lovers · cowboys
Chestnut Springs reading order and complete book list ❯
