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Review: Always a Fake Bridesmaid (Clover Lake #1) by Carrie Ann Ryan


The Clover Lake standalone series is LIVE NOW with the first installment, ALWAYS A FAKE BRIDESMAID!

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The moment Ewan McBride entered my life, my world tilted on its axis.
When we part, I promise him I owe him anything for saving my daughter’s life.
What I didn’t expect?
Being his fake date to a wedding—in two days.
It was only supposed to be a favor, but we can’t deny the attraction.
Only he lives a state away and my life is in Colorado with my daughter and the Montgomerys.
This can only be one night that feels all too real.
Yet I know walking away will be the hardest thing I ever do.

**Always a Fake Bridesmaid is a next generation, single mom, grumpy rancher, fake dating romance set in the Montgomery World & Clover Lake series featuring Livvy & Ewan. Each book can be read as a complete standalone. An HEA is guaranteed!**

Livvy Montgomery is Shep and Shea’s daughter from Ink Inspired


MY REVIEW


From the moment Livvy and Ewan see each other, a spark is ignited. But it's when he saves her daughter that the real connection is formed, and she tells him she owes him, literally. When he needs a fake date to his friend's wedding, he calls in the favor, and the connection deepens. She hasn't been one to trust since her ex, but everything in her (and her friends and family) is telling her to put herself out there again. But how can people who live different lives in different places, make a fake date turn into a real connection?


Ewan may be a grumpy cowboy, but he has good reason. He has some obnoxious bridesmaids hitting on him at the events leading up to his friend's wedding, and it's only because they look at him and see his bank account and his land. He isn't a social person at best, and these events are really trying his patience because these women will not leave him alone. And after he saves an innocent child from a tragedy, they start in on her mother, and that's unacceptable. He knew from the moment he saw Livvy, then saved her daughter, that he had to have her in his life, and asking her to be his fake date as a buffer from these women is his way in. But how can two people with separate lives make a relationship work?


The Montgomerys are in full force here, offering up love, support and laughs to one of their own, and welcoming someone new into their fold. Livvy and Ewan's story, though short, is layered and complete. Their chemistry is smokin' hot, and I fell in love with them and adorable Amelia. I'm already impatient for more Montgomerys and more Clover Lake love now that I've gotten a glimpse with Amelia, Ewan and Livvy.

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