Shameless Boss by Sophie Brooks, Cassie Marks
How can something fake feel so right?
Ethan
I need a wife. My grandfather won’t turn over the reins to the family corporation until I’m married. Old-fashioned, crotchety bastard. So I humor him and tell him I’m engaged. Oh yes, Grandfather, she’s gorgeous, charming, etc. That’ll get him off my back for a while, right? Until he tells me that he’s met her. WTF?I should come clean, but then I find out he thinks she’s the hot-as-hell brunette that I’ve been eyeing for some time. So I do some quick thinking.And some even quicker lying.
Kate
Yesterday, I gave my two weeks’ notice at Grant Industries. Today, I’m engaged to the CEO, Ethan Grant. He made an offer I just couldn’t turn down.All I have to do is to pretend to be his fiancée long enough for him to gain control of the corporation. Then we stage a breakup, call the wedding off, and I walk away with an all expenses paid trip around the world.A fake engagement comes with some definite perks. Ethan was born to wear custom-made Italian suits. He can make me laugh one moment and make my panties melt the next. In a few short weeks, I feel like I’ve known him my whole life.But to him, this is a just business transaction. Only a fool would fall in love with a fake fiancé, right? Luckily, I’m no fool.
Or at least I wasn’t before I met Ethan…
- File Name:shameless-boss-by-sophie-brooks-cassie-marks.epub
- Original Title:Shameless Boss: A Fake Fiancé Office Romance
- Creator:Sophie Brooks
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B077C1D8DV
- Date:2017-11-09T16:00:00+00:00
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Table of Content
- 1. Epilogue
- 2. Epilogue
- 3. Ethan
- 4. Kate
- 5. A NOTE FROM SOPHIE & CASSIE
- 6. Playboy Boss
- 7. Erin
- 8. Seth
- 9. Get a Free Story!
- 10. Also by Sophie Brooks
Shameless Boss, previously known by the title "Mr. Right Stuff", both of which were Book 1 of the Mr. Right Stuff series, was about Ethan Grant, the CEO of Grant Industries, and Katelyn "Kate" Marie Barnes, an accounting employee of Grant Industries. Although Ethan was the CEO of the family company, his grandfather was still the president, and would not relinquish that position to his grandson until he was either engaged or married. Ethan found that to be a bit archaic, and refused to fall in line with his grandparents' wishes for him to marry. However, there was a particular woman at work that he found intriguing enough to "stalk". Every morning the woman would arrive at a coffee kiosk in the lobby of Ethan's building, and he made certain he was there to see her. The only problem with that was he never approached her, he didn't know her name or anything at all about her, and she was unaware of his interest. One morning while he was "stalking" her, he was on a call with his grandfather. Both grandparents began grilling him about his love life and the fictitious fiancee that he made up (but they didn't know that). He then gave a brief description of his non-existent fiancee before the call ended. Later the same day Kate, who was the woman at the kiosk, was sent to Ethan's grandparents' home with a contract that Mr. Grant had forgotten to initial in several places. Unknown to either Kate or Ethan, she was mistaken for his fiancee by his grandparents because Ethan had unwittingly described HER earlier when his grandparents had asked what she looked like. A few days later, Ethan arrived at a restaurant where he thought he was meeting his grandfather for lunch, only to be surprised by the presence of his grandmother...and Kate. During the luncheon, Mr. Grant told Ethan that he would be handing over the reins to the company now that he had finally found his soulmate. It was the first time Kate had been made aware of the fake engagement...as well as the first time she'd met Ethan face-to-face. Things started to go south and Kate rushed from the room. Ethan followed her, then convinced her to go through with a fake engagement so he could allow his grandfather to finally retire. Things were pretty rushed after that, with his grandparents hosting an engagement party for them and then they were lost in the planning for the wedding that was supposedly soon to follow. There were a lot of things wrong with this story. It lacked many of the emotions that a reader of romance novels would normally expect. The angst was very low, the drama was dull even though there was a good deal of it. The chemistry was bland, and the two spicy scenes...weren't spicy at all. The chemistry between the two main characters was virtually non-existent, especially as they were rarely together. Most of their "togetherness" was off-page, and when they WERE together, it was boring, and they were usually with other people. Oh, they had some angry moments, but even that was low-key compared to most novels. The book had loads of grammatical errors and the plot and storyline were both confusing. The aim was for Ethan to gain control of the business and for Kate to travel the world with her two BFFs after the engagement/wedding fell through. There was virtually no communication between the main characters. They only ever talked about the fake engagement and how they were going to break up in the end, but they rarely talked about anything else...on paper. Everything important was either said to themselves in their heads, or the talks took place between them off-page. Even the ending was off. It was abrupt and made very little sense. It just fell flat. This book definitely did not earn more than a two-star rating.