Tessa Juergensen and Joel Buchanan have been friends for years despite the heavily brewing attraction between them, refusing to cross that line. When a car accident lands JB in the hospital following their best friends’ wedding, Tessa pretends they’re engaged so that she’s able to be with JB in the hospital. When JB wakes up with amnesia, he believes the lie and confesses to Tessa that he’s in love with her.
Torn over telling him the truth while he recovers and letting him believe they’re engaged so he can have a small fraction of hope, Tessa chooses the latter. Now saddled with JB as her roommate to nurse back to health with him believing they’re madly in love, the sexual tension between them rises.
But acting on it would be disastrous if JB were to find out the truth, and Tessa knows that she can’t keep it from him forever—even if she also knows that telling him the truth will break his heart and destroy their friendship for good.
The Fiancé Fix is a standalone contemporary romance. It features secondary characters (the main couple) from Won’t Fall Twice, but does not need to be read in order. It features a single mom heroine who’s trying very hard to keep it together, a gruff hero who is a complete goner for the heroine, a guaranteed HEA, and open door scenes.
What you can expect: a HEA-guarantee with open door scenes and lots of banter. There is no cheating and no other man/other woman drama. Although there is humor in the book, this is not a romcom due to the nature of serious topics within the book.
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Content Warnings:
-car accident (primary character)
-scenes within a hospital, including mentions of severe injury and surgery (primary characters)
-amnesia (primary character)
-parental death (occurs to a primary character, off-page, in the past)
-negative experience with adoption as an adoptee (primary character, mentioned throughout the book and has significant impact on plot)
-parental abuse by adoptive parents (primary character, emotional, but not physical, abuse includes preferential treatment and favoritism towards the parents’ biological child; adoptive parents had previously believed to be infertile but ended up conceiving a biological child later on)
-negative sibling relationship (primary character, mentioned consistently, significant impact on plot, sibling deals with addiction and finances addiction in directly harmful ways to primary character)
-parental manipulation (primary character, on page)
-additional mentions of infertility for a different couple (secondary characters, mentioned on page, doesn’t resolve with a biological child)
-parental neglect (primary character, on page, significant impact on plot)
-relinquishment of custodial rights (primary character, on page, significant impact on plot)
-parental guilt (primary character)
-questioning of religion (primary character, mentioned in passing, but this is not fully resolved, nor is this book an inspirational romance)