Best Laid Plans by Brenda Jackson

Best Laid Plans

Brenda Jackson, Pete Ohms, Audible Studios

HQN Books · Print & ebook · February 27, 2018

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Who it’s for
A pretend relationship brings family expectations, old entanglements and the awkward business of catching real feelings.
Genres
Black Romance, Fake-Dating Romance, Contemporary Romance
Published
HQN Books, February 27, 2018

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About this book

Love wasn’t supposed to be a part of the deal… Even a famed matchmaker like Nolan Madaris’s great-grandmother can’t get it right every time. Nolan, the notorious fun-loving ladies’ man, could never connect with someone as straitlaced as tech whiz Ivy Chapman. Yet the scheme Ivy proposes is tempting—they can pretend to be a couple, just long enough to satisfy their families.

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But someone forgot to clue in their hearts What happens, though, when Ivy’s plan to get her relatives off her back has an unexpected side effect: getting her into Nolan’s bed? Houston’s number one womanizer may have found the only one who can truly satisfy him, body and soul. But with a man from Ivy’s past determined to be part of her future, both she and Nolan will have to decide what’s fake, what’s real and what’s worth fighting for…

Pretend, Then Feel

A pretend relationship brings family expectations, old entanglements and the awkward business of catching real feelings.

Come here for

  • A fake-couple setup with family pressure and real chemistry
  • A romance pairing a fun-loving ladies’ man with a straitlaced tech whiz

Expect

  • Contemporary romantic tension with a playful setup
  • A past relationship complicating the path forward

Where it sits

Fake-Dating Romance74%
Contemporary Romance61%
Black Romance50%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Family Life
  • Black Women's Fiction
  • Black Romance
Authors
Brenda Jackson, Pete Ohms, Audible Studios
Publisher
HQN Books
Published
February 27, 2018
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Family Life