The Wedding Hoax is third book in the Faux Loce Billionaire series. A full-length standalone novel with no cheating or cliffhanger and complete with a happily-ever-after. A well written story with extraordinary characters and a plot written storyline that captures your attention from the beginning and keep you hooked and turning the pages until the very end. This is Simone and Harry story. Simone was recently hired at LA Now. The company was one of the top magazines in Los Angeles. She was hired as their staff writer and was starting her new job. On her first day she was experiencing some nerves and to get those nerves out her system she decided to go and check out the trendy coffee shop across the street from the building.
She was at the counter but was indecisive on what type of milk to get in her coffee and was annoying the bored barista Sandy, when a handsome tall drink of water of a man decided to cut in front of her and placed his order. She was so mad that she tells him off and gave him a piece of her mind and tells him to get behind her in line. The man was annoyed with her but was also intrigued because no one has ever spoken to him in that manner before. While at the coffee shop her best friend Taylor came and sat beside her in the booth. Taylor is LA Now editor and was also the why she got the job. She was worried that she might get fired on her first day. Taylor told her that the CEO Harry can be a little moody as well as an a$$hole but not a complete one. However, Simone had already started off on a bad foot. Because she had already managed to piss off Sandy who was really very sweet and everyone loved, and to matters worse she cussed out Harry who's their boss.
Simone was very attracted to Harry even though he made her mad with his sense of entitlement. The feelings was also mutual because Harry could not get her off his mind and wanted to see her again. He was having visions of sexual encounters with her. Harry has been at the company for years and running it hard at work and saved it on the brink bankruptcy. But his family is always pushing him to settle down and get married. They have a tradition that in order for him to get the company he must be forty years old and married. If he's not married by his fortieth birthday will not be officially handed the keys to company and it will be handed over to his brother Sean. His dad will not break tradition for him and it doesn't matter that Sean works at the Front Stoop, a company who's their direct competitor. Harry is against married and prefers sending his time pouring over financial spreadsheets and quarterly reports. But his dad believes that he doesn't have the capability to commit to anything other than LA Now and if so he doesn't deserve to be handed to his company. Because he wants the O'Donnell legacy to go on.
His dad was pushing him against the wall with this tradition thing and because he was about to turn forty in two months he had to act fast him he wanted to get the company and not let go his hard work goes down the drain. He knew that he had to hire someone to be his fake fiancee and to fake his own wedding. He felt all type of wrong about the idea but he didn't have a choice. Simone lives at home with her mom and helps take care of her after. She loss the use of her legs and is now paralyze. Her dad was instantly killed on impact during the accident and only her mom survived nine years ago. Harry couldn't stop thinking about Simone and how refreshing and honest she was. He hadn't meet anyone like her in years. He thought she would be the perfect candidate to be his fake wife. He knew that she would not be after his money because she was a goody-two-shoe type of person. He made the proposition to her, to be his wife for six months and he would pay her one million dollars and both parties would sign a contract.
She was so stun and pissed off that she got up and ran out his office as if she was being chase by someone or something and her life was on the line. He was wondering if he had committed career suicide and if she was telling the rest of staff his business or on the phone with a lawyer. But when she came back asking him how it would work if she agreed and how she would get the money. He instantly thought that he was wrong and that she was after his money. But after she explained that she wanted the money to help her mom to get some mobility back and possibly help with the pain he was relieved. She told him that the surgery was experimental and that insurance would not cover the cost. She agrees to be his wife but demanded her own room at his house and tells him that they would be no sex involved ever and if it's not in the contract they would be no deal.
However, our best laid plans doesn't always work out as we would like them to be. Because they consummated their marriage on the night of their honeymoon and kept on doing it. Because their attraction for each other is so magnetic and electrifying they can't help but to succumb to their desires. It was suppose to be all fake but the more time that they spend together they can't help but to catch feelings and before long it all started to feel real. Simone melt that block that was in his heart and for the first time he wanted something more than work. Simone mom was able to get her much needed surgery and Harry was such and an attentive husband and son-in-law. The Wedding Hoax is filled with anger, secrets, family rivalry, angst, tension, passion, emotions, family issues, lust at first sight, protectiveness, relationship that got started on a contract, billionaire romance, steam, revelations, betrayal, fake relationship, fake marriage, misconceptions, survival, surprise pregnancy, crazy traditions, tradegy, trauma, heartaches, forgiveness, broken heart, twists and turns, mystery, contemporary romance, healing, and love.
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