Kiss Me Like You Mean It: A hilarious and cosy small-town romance with fake dating and an older brother's best friend

Kiss Me Like You Mean It

Author: Laura Wood

Genre: Contemporary Romance / Romantic Comedy

Book Rating: ⭐ 9/10

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ 3/5

Description

Ophelia “Lee” Turner-Jones has always been the responsible one.

So waking up in Las Vegas beside her brother’s best friend after one very unexpected night together definitely wasn’t part of the plan. Lee spends the next year trying to forget it ever happened—until an email from a Vegas wedding chapel delivers one tiny problem.

She and Nico are married.

Determined to fix their mistake, Lee tracks down the adventurous, rule-breaking man she’s secretly loved for years. Instead of finding him living his usual wild life, she discovers Nico in a charming small town in Maine—and learns that he desperately needs a wife to protect everything and everyone he cares about.

Suddenly, ending their accidental marriage turns into pretending it was real all along.

As Lee and Nico play the part of happily married newlyweds, their small-town neighbors enthusiastically embrace the romance, making it harder to remember where the pretending ends. Between forced proximity, years of buried feelings, and chemistry that's becoming impossible to ignore, Lee begins to wonder whether their biggest mistake might actually be the happily ever after she's always wanted.

Funny, cozy, and filled with delicious yearning, Kiss Me Like You Mean It is a swoony small-town romance about secret love, unexpected marriage, and discovering that sometimes the best relationships begin completely by accident.

Tropes

Brother’s Best Friend • Accidental Marriage • Marriage of Convenience • Fake Relationship • Small-Town Romance • Secret Pining • Forced Proximity • Opposites Attract • He Falls Hard • Years of Yearning • Cozy Romance • Happily Ever After