Romeo for Hire Author:Jane Beckenham Scorching sex: definitely on the menu. Hold the love, please. — Workaholic Carly Mason is caught between a rock and a hard place. The rock: an invitation for four days of sun and sand with her friends and their men. The hard place: "Mr. Invisible", who lusts after her with delicious abandon, doesn't exist--Carly invented him ... more »to keep her friends off her back about her lack of a love life.
Then she encounters a motorbike-riding Adonis whose image taunts her during the wee small hours. When fate drops him in her sights the next day, she grabs the opportunity to offer him a job. Pretend to be her Romeo, just for the duration of her getaway.
Exhausted from months negotiating his multi-million-dollar company's expansion, Marco Valente is more than tempted by Carly's outrageous proposal. If nothing else, it'll give him a temporary escape from his high-profile life--and his mother's serial-bride attitude.
Once on the island, Carly realizes her well-meaning friends have tricked her into a "relaxing" vacation. For the next four days and nights, it's just her and her hired Romeo. And a growing connection that definitely wasn't part of the contract.
Warning: Contains two unbelievably stubborn people undergoing serious cell phone withdrawal, and seriously scorching sex on the beach. Not responsible for reader's failure to apply sunblock before reading.« less