Faking After All by Cece Louise

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Faking After All

by Cece Louise

Series: Happily Ever After All #3
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Published by Jabberwocky Tales on February 13, 2024
Setting: Wisconsin
Genres: Sweet Rom-Com
Pages: 288
Format: Kindle
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Also in this series: Christmas After All, Perfect After All

Pretend to be in love with the most obnoxious man alive? I’m up for the challenge.
Victoria
When a forbidden workplace romance goes south, I’m left scrambling to save my dignity and my job. In the process, I drop the name of a fake boyfriend—only the name I use isn’t fake. To put my money where my mouth is, I’m forced to ask grumpy Caleb Ellis to pretend to be my boyfriend until I can get a promotion and get the heck out of Dodge.
But executing this ruse is messier than I expected, especially since his sister seems to think we’re the real deal, and I find myself being roped into all sorts of Ellis family functions—including a celebrity wedding. In addition to finally feeling like I’m part of the family I never had, I also discover there’s more to my fake boyfriend than meets the eye.
Turns out, my heart may be in just as much jeopardy as my job. But it doesn’t matter—our contract has an expiration date. And I always uphold my contracts.
Caleb
When my sister’s uptight friend Victoria asks me to pretend to be her boyfriend to help save her job, I literally laugh in her face. We can’t stand each other, so there’s no way anyone would buy that. But then she promises to help me with my gym opening in return. Since she’s a proven marketing genius, and I’m in way over my head, I make the deal.
Only I didn’t expect that deal to involve her butting into every aspect of my life, my sister acting like I’ve found my soulmate, or a long list of fake dating rules—that’s right, rules—I’m supposed to follow. Which is getting harder by the day when I find myself feeling things for Victoria I never expected.
Whatever—I can ignore that and ride this out. Because she’s planning on leaving town for good, and I’m a no-strings-attached kind of guy. Everybody wins, right?
A fake-dating, enemies-to-lovers sweet romance with opposites attract vibes, hilarious banter, swoony kisses, and zero explicit content!

Faking After All by Cece Louise has Victoria Fairchild enter a fake relationship with Caleb Ellis.

Can they not develop feelings for each other?

Victoria Fairchild

Victoria Fairchild has been gunning for a promotion to London so that she can get out of her sticky situation. She is an amazing character. Victoria has so much strength to make a poor judgment call work much better than she imagined. There is a lot to admire about Victoria, and I have to say that being with Caleb helps her out in so many ways. One significant way is getting out of her own head for a bit and making her see that even the bad parts she keeps hidden are good.

Caleb Ellis

Caleb Ellis is the middle Ellis child and the only boy. He definitely takes the moniker “there is more to him than meets the eye.” Except in this book we learn a lot more about Caleb and why he is the way he is. At least Caleb has Victoria to keep him sane. Caleb definitely has growth as he isn’t just a playboy-gym-obsessed guy, but he has layers to him that he only allows certain people to see. He is a much better person with Victoria around.

The Romance

At first glance, someone would think that Victoria Fairchild, a career-obsessed woman who is very organized, wouldn’t be into Caleb Ellis, a gym-obsessed guy, and one would be correct. Victoria and Caleb only get together because of Victoria’s genius idea to hire Caleb to be her fake boyfriend for Fulton Advertising advents only. These two quickly became my favorite out of the three couples already introduced in this series when they decided to go through the fake dating thing. They make for such a cute couple as well.

Five Stars

Faking After All by Cece Louise is the classic fake dating turns to feelings trope, and I’m all here for it. I loved how Ms. Louise wrote their relationship and how they became friends quickly once they had a goal in mind. This book has a lot to love, and I am obsessed with Ms. Louise’s writing style. I am giving Faking After All by Cece Louise a five-star rating and recommending it to all romance readers.

Happily Ever After All

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Reading this book contributed to these challenges:

• 2024 Goodreads RC
• 2024 Romance Book Reading Challenge

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