Never Fall for Your Back-Up Guy (Especially if he's your best friend): A Friends to Lovers London Romantic Comedy (It's Complicated: Sweet Romantic Comedies Set in London Book 1)
What happens when your sensible fallback plan turns out to be the most complicated decision of your life? That's exactly the question at the heart of this warm, witty London romantic comedy from Kate O'Keeffe. Our heroine is freshly dumped (by a man with a baffling taste in pirate rock, no less), barrelling towards her thirtieth birthday, and running out of patience with her own love life. So she does something gloriously ill-advised: she drags her best friend away from a date and proposes a marriage pact. If neither of them has found a spouse by thirty-five, they'll marry each other. Sorted. Rational. Completely under control. Except, of course, it isn't. Asher is handsome, funny, her client, her confidant, and entirely the wrong person to start having feelings about. The story builds slowly and enjoyably, with late-night chats, loaded looks, and a scene-stealing Jack Russell terrier who seems far more certain about the outcome than either of the humans involved. It's a classic friends-to-lovers set-up, yes, but O'Keeffe handles the slow burn with enough warmth and comic timing to keep things feeling fresh. The transatlantic dynamic between a British woman and an American man adds a pleasing extra layer of friction. This is the first book in the 'It's Complicated' series, though it reads perfectly well on its own. If you enjoy breezy, feel-good romance with real wit behind it, this one is worth your time.
- Author: Kate O'Keeffe
- Publisher: Wild Lime Books
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- ISBN: B097H4ZNGH
- Pages: 320 pages