By: Kelly Eadon
Releasing
April 5, 2016
Forever Yours
A LITTLE FAKE RELATIONSHIP NEVER
HURT ANYONE . . .
Kate Massie
has big dreams-they just haven't worked out. Yet. In the meantime, she spends
her days clerking for a judge and her nights fantasizing about her tall, dark,
and sexy gym crush. So when she runs into him one night, she's shocked to
realize he was her shy, nerdy junior-prom date. But that isn't where the
surprises end . . .
James Abell
needs a date to his sister's wedding. So when Kate agrees, he's relieved . . .
until one little lie turns their wedding date into a full-blown fake
relationship. Only it doesn't feel fake-not the toe-curling kisses and
definitely not the electricity. Neither of them is looking for something real .
. . but they just might fall for their own little white lie.
Kate
Massie never wanted to return to Belmont, to the town where she was raised
along with her sister and their single father before he died. She didn't want
to remember, she was too afraid to show emotion, to let her feeling out and
just cry. But after losing her dream internship at the Philadelphia DA's
office, she was lucky that her law school professor had manage to find her a
place in a federal judges office close to Belmont. So Kate was content to do
her internship and leave Belmont in her rear view mirror.
What
Kate wasn't expecting was running into her old friend and her junior prom date
James Abell, she also wasn't expecting to agree to be his pretend girlfriend at
his sisters wedding and she really wasn't expecting to fall in love with him.
But
of course nothing is ever easy in Kate's life and when an ex boyfriend and
James ex-fiancee threaten to spoil their blossoming relationship, Kate does the
one thing she always does….she runs away…but is that the end of the story?
So
I normally stay away from all of the cliché story lines, but the blurb
attracted me to the story and oh boy! Does this book blow the old cliché out of
the water. There is literally nothing about this book that I have read in this
way before or had been used to death! This book was fresh and invigorating (in
a strange sort of way) and it even left me feeling sorry for Brooke ( James
ex). I absolutely loved James and Kate's characters and Kate's accident
proneness had me in stitches. But by far the most stand out character for me
was Margaret! Of my goodness what a pistol! I loved her.
So
getting to the basics; the writing was smooth and detailed. I felt that the
plot had no holes and was detailed and gripping and the characters were
divinely detailed and lovable. It truly was a great book to read.
I
give The Wedding Date 5 stars!
Kate stared at herself in the mirror.
This
is just pretend.
What
was wrong with her? She’d spent all week fortifying her internal defenses. When
he’d offered to bring her dinner or keep her company, she’d assured him Beth
was taking good care of her. Now, with only a few words from Margaret, she’d
let herself slip back into fantasy.
A
fantasy where she could kiss James whenever she wanted. Where his strong arms
held her at night.
A tremor passed through her.
No! She was stronger than this. She needed to convince his
family and the other guests they were dating, not herself. She tore her eyes
from the bathroom mirror and unzipped the garment bag that hung from the shower
curtain rod.
She shimmied into the blue lace dress.
She had to admit, Ainsley had been
right about it.
The
fabric skimmed over her body and showed precisely the right amount of leg. Or
it would, once she got it zipped. She twisted and turned and wiggled, but
couldn’t reach the zipper.
Crap. She had to ask James for help.
She took a deep breath and knocked on
the door leading back to the hotel room.
“I’m dressed.” His deep voice sent
goose bumps over her skin.
She
cracked the door and poked her head through. “I hate to ask you this, but I’m
stuck. I need you to zip me up. Please.”
He kept his attention on the cufflink
he was hooking through his button hole. “Sure.”
She
only hesitated for a moment before she stepped from the bathroom and spun, to
give him access to her back.
There was a zipping sound as his
fingers skated over the fabric.
She
exhaled sharply. There. It was over. She turned back to him. “Thank you. I’ll
be ready in one minute. I have to find my necklace first.”
“You
look amazing.” James' voice caught as he stared at her, his eyes a vivid,
brilliant gray.
Kate
couldn’t tear herself away from him. His gaze pierced her, suspending her in
time and space.
He
stepped toward her, curled his palm around the back of her neck and lowered his
mouth to hers. A delicious tingle surged through her blood and down to her toes
as their lips met. He snaked his other arm around her waist and pulled her
against him as his tongue swept into her mouth.
She
tilted her head back and gave herself over to him, reveling in the feel of his
lips against hers. His kiss turned rougher, more urgent. Her knees went weak
and her head swam as she clutched him.
Her
tongue tangled with his, matching him stroke for stroke. All rational thought
fled her mind and she was engulfed in a cloud of James: his smell, his taste,
his touch.
He
pulled back for a second and his eyes glinted as he traced his thumb over her
cheek. Then he tightened his grip around her waist and took the fullness of her
lower lip in his mouth. A tiny moan escaped her as he sucked gently. With every
stroke of his tongue, her body melted further into his. His fingers dug into
her back and she could feel his heart pound through his dress shirt.
A knock sounded on the door and she
stepped back abruptly, breaking the kiss.
His
eyes burned with an intensity that sucked all the air from her lungs. She
shifted her gaze to the floor.
No one had ever kissed her like that.
Kelly Eadon is a romance writer living in Richmond, Virginia
with her husband and a house full of rescue animals, aka "the
kraken". She swears like a sailor and says whatever pops into her head. In
order to counteract her big mouth, she wears high heels whenever possible. In
her spare time she spins, kick boxes and attempts to renovate her farmhouse.
She hates sanding drywall, loves to cook, drinks lots of wine, gets scary
competitive at trivia, and enjoys time spent exploring with her rescued beagle
mixes.
