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Title details for Fake Flame by Adele Buck - Available

Fake Flame

A Spicy Fake Dating Firefighter Romance

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by Adele Buck
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In this fun, fast-paced romantic comedy, a bookish firefighter who knows his Jane Austen suggests a little fake dating to fend off an ex. What's a feminist English professor to do—except say yes...
You can't fake heat like this...
To an observer, hauling a baby grand piano onto a college quad to publicly serenade an ex might seem like a romantic gesture. To literature professor Eva Campbell, it's the latest manipulative move by a cheating jerk who won't take a hint. Plus, she never liked that song anyway.
Setting the piano on fire might be an overreaction, but Eva's at the end of her rope, at least until hot young firefighter Sean Hannigan talks her down. And that's not all Sean does. Soon he's offering to be Eva's fake boyfriend to get her creepy ex off her back. Unexpected, maybe, but there's something about Sean—beyond the angelic face and take-me-now body—that makes Eva say yes.
Sean battles infernos for a living, reads romance on the side and is a straight-up, family-loving good guy. Eva's not sure she's ready for the danger he poses to her jaded heart. Given their differences, a relationship can't last, right? But the line between fake and real keeps blurring, daring her to take the biggest risk of all...
From showing up to glowing up, these characters are on the path to leading their best lives and finding sizzling romance along the way.
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  • Creators

  • Series

    First Responders

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 23, 2024

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9780369748973

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780369748973
      • File size: 598 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 26, 2024
      Buck (Fast Acting) brings the heat in this scorching rom-com. After professor Eva Campbell’s ex, Darren, stages a ridiculous romantic gesture at her place of work to try to get her back, Eva snaps and tries to fend him off with an improvised flamethrower created from the combination of a cigarette lighter and a can of bug spray—and the fire department is called. Hunky firefighter Sean Hannigan, 36, is immediately attracted to Eva, 41, and when Darren tries to intimidate Eva in her office, Sean commits to being her fake boyfriend to keep him at bay. What starts as just pretend quickly becomes all too real and Buck makes it easy to see how perfect these two are for each other. Swoony Sean is an avid reader who isn’t ashamed to love a romance novel, which endears Eva—a professor of literature and pop culture—to him immediately. When Eva witnesses him interacting with his numerous nieces and nephews, she realizes he’d be a great dad, but worries it’s too late for her to give him that. The result is a refreshingly grounded conflict that Buck handles with a great deal of sensitivity. The steamy sex scenes are just a bonus. Readers will have no trouble rooting for the chivalrous firefighter and the plucky professor to get their happily ever after.

    • Library Journal

      May 3, 2024

      Buck (Fast Acting) kicks off her "First Responders" series. When an ex who can't take a hint pushes literature professor Eva Campbell to the edge, she doesn't expect to feel actual heat with a firefighter who is part of the response team. Sean Hannigan knows that the situation he's walked into could end disastrously for the gorgeous professor, and when a colleague suggests a fake-dating scheme to keep Eva's cheating ex at bay, it doesn't sound like a terrible idea. Eva reluctantly agrees to the plan, and the more time she spends with Sean, the less fake their relationship feels. Their age difference gives her pause, though--will she be asking Sean to give up too much if he stays with her for real? VERDICT Buck's first offering for the Afterglow line is a satisfying read as the characters deal with serious topics (stalking; familial expectations and dysfunction), along with the dubious romantic qualities of grand gestures, and manage to find romance along the way.--Rebecca Moe

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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