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Plays Well With Others

Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

Am I fake dating my best friend? Hear me out... So I'm throwing myself a breakup party, a glittery fete where I envision I'll lift a glass and celebrate being free and single again. What I actually do: Drink too much champagne and blurt out to my best guy friend that I'd really like to get back on the horse. But what I truly don't expect is Carter's answer - he volunteers as tribute. With his sinful brown eyes and too-good-to-be-true body it'd be no hardship for me to say yes, though I certainly don't want him to feel obligated to, um, service me, just because my failed, loveless marriage was a s-e-x desert. But since the charming and confident pro football star owes five public dates to his dating app sponsor, we make a deal to help each other out. Pretty soon, our public how to date lessons turn into, ahem, very private ones. And I'm a star student, graduating quickly from flirty banter and lingering looks to toe-curling, sheet-grabbing, mind-blowing hours of physical education. The problem? Turns out learning to date again feels a lot like the real thing. Can our friendship withstand all these late-night bedroom sessions? Especially since I'm suddenly longing for my best friend and there's nothing fake about my feelings...

About the author

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Lauren Blakely

Lauren Blakely is an American author of contemporary romance and romantic comedy. A Brown University graduate who worked as a journalist, she wrote young adult fiction under the pen name Daisy Whitney — beginning with The Mockingbirds (Little, Brown, 2010) — before self-publishing her first romance novel, Caught Up in Us, in January 2013. She writes mainly in linked standalone series, among them Big Rock, One Love, The Guys Who Got Away, Always Satisfied, First to Score and Love and Hockey, and...