Another day, another series by D.J. Jamison. This time around, Martial Bliss, which this series is anything but (at least at first--who needs "traditional" love/marriage when you can fake-dating trope your way into true love and martial bliss). The first book is titled: "Surprise Groom".
["Can two men fake their way to marital bliss?
Caleb Taylor is shocked to learn his family could lose Bliss Island Resort — their home and livelihood — unless he makes use of a clause to marry the child of investor Louis Chastain. Sofia Chastain is more like a sister than a love interest, and Caleb isn’t ready to sign over his future. But Sofia has a brother, and Caleb has a plan ...Julien Chastain was disowned at fifteen and has made a life as a go-go dancer in Miami, but he lives paycheck to paycheck. When his childhood friend proposes an outlandish marriage contract, he thinks he’s crazy. But it’s a chance at a future that’s tough to pass up.
Caleb and Julien must present themselves as an authentic couple for the legal loophole to work, but the lines between “fake” and “real” keep shifting as they navigate intimacy, public scrutiny, and sabotage.
Love isn't part of the plan, but plans change. If they can outsmart Julien's father and prove their love is worth more than a transaction, they just might find a true happily-ever-after."]
It took me a really long time to read this novel. Not because it wasn't good, because it was fucking great. But because it was arguable too good? They just clicked too well and fell into a rhythm too easily and started to fall in love too quickly. I was kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, the inevitable angst + heartbreak interlude before the even more inevitable happily ever after. Both came. Both made me smile and cry like a fool.
Oh my god and the link at the very, very end of the novel, where the author talks about the real-life island inspiration for Bliss Island (Hope Island), like, god. Now I need to go here, and fall in love, and get married, and live happily ever after, taking pictures and building the rest of my life.
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