Wylde Fire by Sarah RobinsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Sam Wylde has a fledgling Whiskey business with his cousin Noah and their friend Caleb. The launch party is thrown into jeopardy when Noah breaks off his relationship with the event planner, which leads to her backing out of their event and taking all of her suppliers with her to another event on the same day. Driving to the Town Hall to get some permits for the business he runs into Holly, who turns out to be an events planner.
On top of this Sam is sick of his friends, his family and their acquaintances all treating him with pity after his brother and his fiance cheated on him, even worse they are now getting married and his upper class Tennessee family expect him to be part of the wedding.
Holly and her family were in a terrible car accident and her sister is in a coma, requiring expensive medical treatment which Holly is subsidising from her income, but she is falling behind on the payments. Initially Sam asks Holly to plan their launch party but soon he offers something different - a marriage of convenience. Sam will avoid all the awkwardness of attending his brother's wedding solo, and the pitying looks from his community and Holly will gain access to an excellent medical insurance policy.
But soon the marriage of convenience turns romantic - but can Sam get over his trust issues?
I enjoyed this romance very much, the idea that the proposed marriage of convenience turns real before they even get married and that it was always intended to be a real marriage in any event was an unusual twist on the genre. My only criticism would be that it ended a little too abruptly, there was a lot of build up and then the drama petered out almost immediately, it was good that the angst wasn't drawn out unnecessarily but this was a little too far the other way.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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