As the middle child of the Shanahan family, Zaira does her best to keep the peace. She doesn’t share her dream of becoming a published author with her family to spare herself their disapproval. When she’s caught in a scandal involving the local matchmaker, Bellamy McKenna, she must put her storytelling ability to good use and feign a match with him to avoid wagging tongues and her parents’ anger.
Feeling the growing pressure to marry as a well-known, yet single matchmaker to St. Louis’s Irish community, Bellamy reluctantly agrees to a temporary match with Zaira. But even though the matchmakers in his family might be able to find love for others, they have a history of disastrous relationships for themselves. When secrets and danger force Zaira and Bellamy to work together, is it finally the matchmaker’s turn to be lucky in love?
Hedlund delivers another captivating romance with sizzling chemistry in this romantic conclusion to her beloved matchmaking series.
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Summary
Reviewed by Rebecca
"You'll be my fake fiance, Bellamy . . . . And I'll be yours."
The stage is set. Zaira Shanahan needs some first hand romantic experience in order to write more emotional depth into her newspaper columns and Bellamy McKenna is being pressured to include personal knowledge of a more amorous nature with his current clientele as he continues to build his distinction as a reputable matchmaker. Naturally, what happens next sends a ball rolling down a slippery slope of potential catastrophe, ensuring the consequences will be both entertaining to watch (or in this case, read) and embarrassing to imagine.
Realizing a little too late that their subterfuge has consequences, Bellamy and Zaira furiously try to backtrack their impulsive decision to deceive their families, when unfortunately they find themselves in a terribly compromising situation. "It's not too late to work at being honest."
Romantic tension oozes from every pore of this engaging story, proving that sometimes a picture is truly worth more than a thousand words.
I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book from Bethany House through Interviews and Reviews.