Caveat: All the cussing and dirty words did nothing to endear me to what was supposed to be a romance novel. The author needs to grow a better vocabulary. I would have thought she would have had a more extensive vocabulary being a Harvard graduate.
Ellie Greco may have gone too far to save her
family’s historic deli in Milborough, Massachusetts, in Love
You, Mean It by Jilly Gagnon
coming out April 30. She enters into a phony-bologna fling with Theo Taylor, the
son of a businessman who wants to bring in a superstore that will put the Greco
Deli out of business, in order for each of them to get what they want out of
the ploy.
Ellie wants to save the business for her
family, even though returning to Milborough means giving up on a career
possibility she has been striving for in New York City. Theo, who is not a fan
of his father’s, wants a free hand to develop the Taylor building in a way that
will not threaten the small businesses like Ellie’s in the downtown area. The
two plot a fake engagement that will push Ted Taylor to drop his plans for a gourmet
food department store rather than ruin his future daughter-in-law's business.
What could go wrong with the pretend relationship?
Will the stuck-up Taylor senior buy into
this romance between his elite son and a delicatessen owner he refers to as “a
butcher”? How will Theo’s ex-fiancée favored by his father interfere with the
plan when she reappears in Theo’s life? In the end, Ellie will have to decide
what’s more important: her legacy business or a faux romance that seems to be taking a different
direction.
Jilly Gagnon, the author of the
young adult novel #famous and the suspense novel All
Dressed Up, has had her work appear in Newsweek, Elle, Vanity Fair,
and The Huffington Post. A Minnesota
native, she lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
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