“You may be faking the relationship, but you’re not faking the orgasms.”
Downsized, broke, and dumped, 38-year-old Marley sneaks home to her childhood bedroom in the town she couldn’t wait to escape twenty years ago. Not much has changed in Culpepper. The cool kids are still cool. Now they just own car dealerships and live in McMansions next door. Oh, and the whole town is still talking about that Homecoming she ruined her senior year.
Desperate for a new start, Marley accepts a temporary teaching position. Can the girl banned from all future Culpepper High Homecomings keep the losing-est girls soccer team in school history from killing each other and prevent carpal tunnel in a bunch of phone-clutching gym class students? Maybe with the help of Jake Weston, high school bad boy turned sexy good guy.
When the school rumor mill sends Marley to the principal’s office to sign an ethics contract, the tattooed track coach, dog dad, and teacher of the year becomes her new fake boyfriend and alibi—for a price. The Deal: He’ll teach her how to coach if she teaches him how to be in a relationship. Who knew a fake boyfriend could deliver such real orgasms? But it’s all temporary. The guy. The job. The team. There’s too much history. Rock bottom can’t turn into a foundation for happily ever after. Can it?
Warning: Story also includes a meet-puke, a bouffanted nemesis, a yard swan and donkey basketball, a teenage-orchestrated makeover, and a fake relationship that gets a little too real between the sheets.
Caroline's Review
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This story was a joy to read as it was a mainly lighthearted, feel-good, hot read with a touch of angst and plenty of shenanigans!
"Yeah, I liked this woman. She was sneaky funny, and there was something a little sad about her. Both were my personal kryptonite when it came to women."
Marley Cicero is back in the town that she escaped twenty years earlier. She left under a black cloud and has avoided going back whenever she could. She's 38 with not much to show for her life. As a desperate stop-gap, she's accepts a job at the local school - the place that was the scene of her teenage miseries. Throw in a bunch of hostile teenage girls, her high school nemesis, and also her one-time bad boy crush, and things are about to get interesting!
"And now we're what? Fake dating? For the rest of the semester? What happens if we fake break up? Do I get real fired?"
Jake Weston is hotter now than he ever was as a teen but, these days, he's more 'inspiring respectable teacher' rather than 'bad boy kissed a teacher' type! He more than remembers Marley, and when a little white lie has them suddenly in a fake relationship, he's more than happy to take their mutual attraction to the next level: real.
"That warmth in my belly turned molten. This was something different from the fun and familiar tug of lust. This was something more."
I adored this story! Marley came home feeling somewhat unfulfilled, unaccomplished and, yeah, at rock bottom. She had such low self-esteem that my heart hurt for her but she actually had immense strength and so much to give. She was sassy, fun-loving, thoughtful and really quite determined. I loved her rapport with her team, how she dealt with them, and how she won them over. Jake was sexy AF! He was down-to-earth with a touch of rebel rockstar about him. I loved his attitude to life, his relationship with the people closest to him, and I adored his determination to keep Marley. They were absolutely blazing together! They couldn't keep their hands off each once they crossed the line.
Oh, yeah!
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