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Synopsis

Anthony Carter has not had it easy in life. In a matter of months, he lost his mother to cancer along with his much coveted spot in a prestigious doctoral program. Swimming in debt, he’s been forced to move back to his hometown in rural Montana and take whatever job he can find. A drunken weekend in Vegas is exactly what he needs to help him forget his problems.
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A recent break-up with her boyfriend of nearly a decade has left straight-laced Liz Rockwell disillusioned with love and in desperate need of a vacation. She gets more than she bargained for when one drunken night at a Vegas bar results in her being married to Anthony. Embarrassed by her lapse in judgment, Liz is ready to make this whole night just go away. A quickie divorce seems like the best solution to their problem, until Anthony realizes who Liz really is.
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Known in the media as the Candy Heiress, billionaire Liz is the answer to Anthony’s prayers. All he has to do is convince her to write him a check. Unfortunately, Liz is not one to be easily intimidated or coerced. Discovering the Rockwell family secret may be Anthony’s only hope. But the more time he spends with the intelligent and tenacious Liz, the more he realizes their chapel wedding may not have been such a drunken mistake after all…

REVIEW

Both Anthony and Liz have gone to Vegas for a dry kern weekend to escape; Anthony to escape the grief he still feels after losing his mother to cancer and his spot on the prestigious doctoral programme and ending up in debt. And Liz to escape the fact that her boyfriend of 10 years dumped her and then married someone else within 3 months and she now no longer really believes in happily ever after or love full stop. Both never would have guessed they would have met at a bar, both looking miserable to then wake up married. But although Liz is desperate to finish and forget this drunken mistake, Anthony isn’t so keen- at first for his own gain but as time goes on he starts to think, maybe this marriage wasn’t a drunken mistake after all? 

“I didn’t lose my virginity until I was twenty-one. By then, I was so worked up from waiting so long, I practically shot off like a rocket the second I got it in. My nickname was Two Pump Tony until I got to grad school.”

This was a really fun, entertaining, easy, enjoyable read from a promising new author! Anthony and Liz were such likeable and relatable characters that you couldn’t help but root for and an interesting take on the, “drunk fling in Vegas” story. 

“You’re the beautiful one. Seriously beautiful, with the fullest lips I’ve ever seen. I can’t look at your face for too long because my eyes immediately zero in on them and then I’m wondering what they feel like.”

From the start both characters were easily likeable. Anthony has had a really rubbish time of it and my heart went out to him and the issues he was dealing with. Through it all he was still able to laugh and make others smile and be someone you would want around you! Liz was definitely a cut throats lawyer but there was so much more to her than that- strong, confident but also vulnerable and someone who had lost faith in love and relationships but you could tell she didn’t want it to be that way. 

“I had taken my eye off the prize for a girl who likely wasn’t looking for anything more than a rebound fling. Leaving was going to be an absolute bitch.”

We follow the ever changing dynamic of their relationship in this story which definitely keeps us on our toes! From drunken comrades, to horrified newlyweds, to friendship, to attraction….they really do go through every stage a couple could go through!  So many ups and downs throughout their relationship and all the emotions these invoke really kept me hooked- I laughed, smiled, got teary eyed, angry and then lustful over their chemistry! 

“During my darkest time, you served as my guide, giving me the perspective and support I needed to find my way again.”

A really enjoyable read about two people going through hard times, finding each other in a drunken state but who slowly start to come together. Will they finally start to believe that maybe this wasn’t just a one time drunk thing but maybe they were meant to meet, be with each other and help to heal each other and overcome their hard times. 

~Bethany

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