The Fiancé Dilemma (The Long Game #2)

Author: Elena Armas
Title: The Fiancé Dilemma
Publisher: Atria
Date Published: 07/30/2024

Read Dates: 06/21/2024- 06/23/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

The Fiancé Dilemma is a (mostly) single POV fake-dating romance. Josie is mayor of her small town and recently found out that the wealthy Andrew Underwood is her father. Her life, including her four previous engagements, has gained media attention and become a PR nightmare. Enter Matthew, best friend to Josie’s sister Adalyn, a down-on-his-luck former journalist who is convinced to play the role of fiancé number five until the media moves on to bigger stories.

What a delightful story! I loved revisiting Green Oaks (first introduced in The Long Game) and how invested the whole town was. I loved Josie and Matthew together. I’m so glad I had a chance to read this one

Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie realizes her romantic history is a complicated PR issue.

Matthew Flanagan is in the mud, literally. Not only has he been fired from his job, but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak, North Carolina. So, he grabs a duffel with his essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back on track. But instead, he finds his best friend’s sister, Josie, greeting him as her fiancé.

What starts as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement—and a stunt, at that—makes Josie’s stomach turn, but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives, and Matthew doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colorful list of grooms-that-never-were. Despite the ring on her finger, Josie knows this is only temporary, even if the rest of the small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm.