Badd Baby

When my friends Raquel and Hamish decide to have their wedding in Ketchikan, Alaska—only a relatively short flight from Seattle, where I ended up after a nasty breakup with my cheating ex—my BFF Lindsey has what she thinks is a genius idea: bring a hot fake boyfriend to the wedding just to piss off Hayes. It’s stupid, immature, and bound to backfire somehow; it always does. But for Raquel and Hamish, I agree to go to the wedding. I go to Ketchikan and check out the bar where they plan on partying after the wedding, and meet a gorgeous, flirtatious,...

When my friends Raquel and Hamish decide to have their wedding in Ketchikan, Alaska—only a relatively short flight from Seattle, where I ended up after a nasty breakup with my cheating ex—my BFF Lindsey has what she thinks is a genius idea: bring a hot fake boyfriend to the wedding just to piss off Hayes. It’s stupid, immature, and bound to backfire somehow; it always does. But for Raquel and Hamish, I agree to go to the wedding. I go to Ketchikan and check out the bar where they plan on partying after the wedding, and meet a gorgeous, flirtatious, charming guy, and suddenly Lindsey’s plan doesn’t seem so stupid. Maybe a fun weekend with a gorgeous guy is just what I need to shake myself out of the post-breakup funk.

Duncan Badd, my fake date, turns out to be problematically charming, sexy, and tempting. One thing turns into another, and suddenly I’m in bed with a man who makes my pulse race and my cold, dead, bitter, broken heart do funny and inconveniently squishy things. Too bad I have no intention of sticking around after the wedding.

But then I discover life has other plans for me.

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Rune Rigby is a smokeshow. Fine as hell. Sarcastic, witty, scorching hot, and fiercely independent. I discern all this within the first few minutes of meeting her—when she asks me to be her date to a friend’s wedding, to make jealous her cheating butt-nugget of an ex. Fine by me—spend a weekend with a hot girl and her friends? Sign me up.

When things between Rune and I escalate into the hottest sex of my life, a weekend of casual fun turns into very real feelings I can’t deny.

She can, though. And she does.

It’s only a truly unexpected turn of fate that brings her back to me, forcing us to face our fears, our feelings, and our plans for the future.