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Match Play

(2022)
(The second book in the Last Chance, Inc series)
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Billionaire Mitchell Saltonstall needs a fiancée, right now, and a pretend-fiancée is just fine with him.

One drunken New Year’s Eve, Mitchell and his buddies wagered a $100 million each against Gabriel “The Shark” Fish that they were better at business than he was. Never, ever bet that kind of cash against a guy with a nickname like “The Shark.”

Mitchell tried to buy a golf course, but that fell through. He tried to buy a sports store, and that deal blew up in his face. Finally, he found a golf tee-times booking app that was floundering. He bought it from the original investors for pennies on the dollar and rechristened it “Match Play,” a dating service app for single golfers, assuring them that “It’s just golf!” and they can “Play A Round” with golfing singles in their area.

Oh, the puns are endless, but pictures of “giant knobby-headed drivers” are strictly forbidden.

The problem is that Mitchell accidentally became the face of Match Play in an interview, and no one will trust a dating app with a single CEO.

The very last person he should have conscripted to be his pretend-fiancée was Arielle Carter, the cute, sassy blond secretary in the front office, whom he’d literally grabbed around the waist during an interview and dragged against his side, whispering that he’d pay her ten thousand dollars to kiss him for the cameras.

He didn’t know she’d melt against him and her kiss would turn him on like stadium lights.

Or that with a makeover for the television commercials, Arielle Carter would become an absolute bombshell and he wouldn’t be able to take his eyes off of her.

And he really hadn’t known that Arielle’s father was the original investor who’dlost his life savings in the failing tee-times app, and that’s why she hates Mitchell’s guts.

During the months-long promotional tour to regional golf shows to sign up new singles, the air between them crackles with attraction, and their kisses and caresses seem more real. In Los Angeles, after a particularly convincing photo spread for Golf Journal, they discover that the five-star hotel room has only one bed.

They’re stuck together until next New Year’s Eve when the bet with The Shark ends, or Mitchell will lose everything he’s worked for.

Assuming Arielle doesn’t bean him with a golf club first.

Blair Babylon’s Bio: "I'm passionate about books and literature. Books delve into what it means to be human and connect us to each other. I write intense, deeply imagined romance novels for serious readers because the world needs more love." ~~Blair Babylon

For readers of JS Scott, Pippa Grant, Lucy Score, and Lauren Blakely, Blair Babylon is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author who used to publish literary fiction. Because professional reviews of her other fiction usually included the caveat that there was too much deviant sex and too much interesting plot, she decided to abandon all literary pretensions, let her freak flag fly, and write hot, sexy, suspenseful romance.




Genre: Romance

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