Title: Fake Dating My Boss Enemy
Author: Tricia Heart
Date: 2023
Publisher: Tricia Heart
Quote: "Garrett. The Garrett? No, it can't be."
But it is. At the same meeting where Sasha gets the promotion she's been working to earn, she learns that her ex-boyfriend has been hired as her immediate supervisor. And their positions are now important enough that they need to go to Yucatan together. And, although Sasha is enjoying the "safe" feeling of holding a grudge, the client they need to impress is known to favor men who've at least made a public commitment to a woman, so she needs to act as if they're dating again.
They're attractive. They're successful. There must be some reason why neither Sasha nor Garrett has had another serious relationship for seven years. Could it be that they're Meant For Each Other? Of course it could; this is a Sweet Romantic Comedy.
Heart is my kind of romance writer. Lots of memorable, insightful phrases. Vivid observations. Sense of humor, and more than a hint of suspense. Not a lot of browser-hexing details about what Sasha and Garrett did when they were a couple before, nor about what they do when they become one again.
Actually aunts do not think romance readers are nasty people if they want to linger over the details of whose thumb rested on whose fingertip and so on and so forth. Actually we think it's sort of sweet if our nieces and nephews still find any novelty in such scenes. Browsers, however, pick up these words, which then attract cybernasties, and the next thing you know you and perhaps your readers are seeing not only ads for Marital Aids but ads for treatments for disgusting disease conditions. I just know those words "thumb" and "fingertip" are going to inflict grossly detailed ads for things alleged to cure arthritis on me for a week. On a computer screen, it would be a good idea if, when the bridegroom officially kissed the bride, somebody mentioned the town of Hershey in the next paragraph.
Anyway this charming short novel shouldn't attract anything nasty to your computer. It should even be good for some chortles as well as the obligatory happy ending.
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