[New Post] ARC Review: Tease by Melanie Harlow


Title: Tease

Author: Melanie Harlow

Page count: 310

Published: July 11th, 2022

Publisher: Social ButterflyPR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5


Felicity
I didn’t mean to say I was engaged to a hot billionaire–it just slipped out.

In my defense, I’d had a really bad haircut, a really strong drink, and I was trying to save face in front of the Mean Girl at my high school reunion.

Lucky for me, I happen to know a hot billionaire. Hutton French and I have been friends forever, and even though big social gatherings are not his thing, I called him from the coat closet and begged him for a favor–show up and play my fake fiancé for the night.

Except that word of our engagement spreads like wildfire. Our families are ecstatic. We’re front page news. My little food blog is launched into the stratosphere.

Of course, I offer to set the record straight right away, but Hutton wants to give it a little time–the phony engagement is keeping his matrimony-mad mother and every matchmaking granny in town off his back.

He even suggests I move in with him to make the ruse more real.

And we don’t stop there.

We practice kissing. Undressing each other. Saying things–and doing things–we’d never dare if we weren’t pretending. Because it’s all for show, right? We’re just role-playing. Hutton doesn’t want a real relationship, and I don’t want to get hurt. But the more time we spend faking it, the more I start to wonder.

Could Hutton French and I actually be right for each other, or is it all just one big tease?



I have been reading fake dating recently, it’s becoming a new favourite trope of mine, I just want to read all the fake relationships because I love seeing the moments where it becomes something more than what they intended. Felicity and Hutton have been best friends since childhood, also knowing that going into the book just made me more excited to dive in. Hutton would do anything for Felicity so why not start a fake engagement?



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