Here's another ARC that I waited until the last minute to read...oops. Here's Maya Jean's "The Husband Experience." It's the first novel in her Sweet Southern series.
["Elijah
Being a fake boyfriend is usually pretty easy. My part time job slots perfectly into my schedule as I pursue my PhD. But when the agency sends me on a week-long vacation to play husband … I don’t expect the experience to feel the opposite of fake. Colby Smith is everything I never knew I needed. He’s sweet, he even blushes, but in the bedroom, he calls all the shots. This experience is supposed to be for him, but as time goes on, I think it’s starting to be real for me.
Colby
After losing my husband, my cousin recommended I reach out to The Boyfriend Experience to get back in the saddle, so to speak. I asked for a husband for a week and they sure delivered. Elijah Ruiz is wild, in a way that shakes my world to the core. But after a week of tender touches, of breathtaking smiles, I start to wonder if it’s really all an act. Can we make this something real after only a week of playing pretend?"]
This book!! It was sooo sweet and tender and just D: ! They were the perfect husbands. Eli wasn't perfect, Colby wasn't perfect, but together, they just clicked. It was honeymoon season from the first day (or maybe the second..the first was a little awkward).
They both fell so hard so fast, but they were afraid of their feelings and afraid to share them. They completed each other in ways they couldn't even comprehend. I definitely cried (a lot).
AND it had the next couple in the novel! Well, the third-act-break-up and reunion parts.
Quote of the Day (Eli): "That's what Colby tastes like, sunshine, joy, and humid summer days."
Quote of the Day (Colby): "He tases like Eli and the ocean and everything good in this world."
Trigger Warnings: sex work, death of an extended family member, death of a spouse from cancer, and more
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