[New Post] ARC Review: The Setup by Kristen Proby


Title: The Setup

Author: Kristen Proby

Page count: 252

Published: July 18th, 2023

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5


I’m a sucker for pretty things. Give me a roaring engine in a souped-up vintage muscle car with cherry red paint and brand-new leather interior, and that’s about as pretty as anything I could ask for. I’m a simple man, who doesn’t need or want the kind of wild celebrity that my father has. I restore one-of-a-kind vehicles and sell them to the highest bidder. Usually, that bidder just also happens to be a celebrity.

But no matter how often my cars steal the spotlight, staying out of it is my number one priority.

Which is why Sydney Sterling is absolutely out of the question.

She’s a country music superstar. She’s in the spotlight. People can’t get enough of her.

It doesn’t matter that our one night together was hotter than a full throttle muscle car, or that she’s the most incredible woman I’ve ever met.

I. Need. To. Stay. Away.

And I was doing a great job of just that until our friends set us up on a blind date, and now here I am, sitting across from the only woman who made me want more. How am I going to handle the fact that the rest of the world wants her almost as much as I do?

And do I even have a choice in the matter?



Sidney and Keaton have a chance encounter that turns into one electric night together after having met at a wedding and now meeting again a year later and still have the same even more chemistry than they had when they had originally met. Sidney is just finishing her tour and is going to move back home to Seattle to reconnect with her brother, she never thought that she would be seeing the guy that gave her butterflies. Keton has only been in relationships where the girls were just in it for his fame. Keaton and Sidney start their relationship out as just friends with benefits and slowly starts to bloom into something more when Keaton got the help of his family to help him realize that he was and still was in love with Sidney. This story was sweet, funny, and emotional with amazing side characters that have me wanting to know who’s next in the series.



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