Review / Release Blitz: 7 Steps to Seducing Your Fake Fiancé (Bower Boys #5) by Kelly Siskind

7 Steps to Seducing Your Fake Fiancé (Bower Boys #5)
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Book Blurb

What’s worse than being fake engaged to a woman who despises you?
Falling head over heels for her.

Larkin Gray hates me with the fire of ten thousand suns.

We haven’t seen each other in twelve years, but she’s still furious with me for breaking a promise to her…and she’s even prettier than I remember.

But there’s no undoing the damage I caused.

Since I can’t make amends, I avoid her lethal glare at all costs. Until I stumble upon her lying about having a fiancé to her ex, and I lose my ever-loving mind. Suddenly, I’m introducing myself as her betrothed and getting us invited to his wedding.

Predictably, Larkin is intent on making my life miserable, except this barbed banter is kind of fun. And the more time we spend together, the more we discover we have in common.

Then she kisses me to prove our relationship status and I damn near lose my heart.

I’m ready to go all in with Larkin, but she’s not the only one I hurt twelve years ago. Her intimidating brother has every reason to hate me too and doesn’t want me touching his sister. But my lips and tongue don’t count as hands. Right?

MY REVIEW

Larkin and Jake had a pivotal moment years ago, and the effects of that night have her despising him to this day. Jake didn't pick up when she needed him most, and because of it, her brother has spent years in prison. Now she's back in their hometown, has opened a bar with his ex Jolene, who happens to be one of her closest friends. But there are things about her past, her lineage, that she hasn't told even Jolene, and it's those things that have her in a situation where she needs Jake to help her by faking an engagement. That's right, a fake engagement with the man she hates. No problem...

Jake has shoved his pain and guilt deep down where no one can see it. But those two emotions guide his behavior, make him put his loved ones' needs far above his own, in an attempt to assuage the guilt. It's one of the reasons why he's stepping in to help out Larkin, the woman who hates him (with good reason). The other reason? His feelings are far from just guilt when it comes to her, but she'll never give him a chance at redemption. Or perhaps she just might when the close proximity of their fake engagement starts affecting both of them. He needs to grab onto this chance now, and never let her go.

I knew Jake's story would be a doozy, but I really underestimated how much it would make me feel for him, and Larkin. They had so much pain and anger between them, that one horrific night that forever changed them. I was hurting for them, rooting them on, hoping they would be able to heal, and when they did? I cheered even as the tears were still drying. I am seriously bummed this series has come to an end, but Kelly definitely saved the best for last with Larkin and Jake. Their chemistry is obvious even through the anger, and that they could get past it and get an HEA made my heart happy. I'm going to miss these Bower boys and the women who have their hearts.