Minding the Movie Star
(2026)(The fifth book in the Marlin Shores series)
A novel by Monique McDonell
Minding the Movie Star
What happens when your greatest ally turns out to be a perfect stranger?
Award-winning actress Sienna Rose Robinson hasn’t been back to Marlin Shores for more than a day in years. When she should be celebrating the peak of her career, she’s wondering how she landed herself with a cheating ex and a desperate need to escape LA. Looking to escape Hollywood, she turns to the director of the Marlin Shores Film festival, who has been trying to convince her to attend for years, and offers him a deal: hide her away for two weeks, from the media and her estranged family, and she’ll help promote the festival to bring in tourists and money.
Finn Jameson should have said no to Sienna'''s request. But the high school vice-principal, and part-time film festival director, knew she must be desperate if she was looking to him for help. What he forgot to factor in was that having one of the world’s most beautiful women in his home would prove more than a little tempting, especially when she’s also sweet, vulnerable, and very much alone. When the world and her family find out she’s in town, their relationship goes from friendship to fake romance and the lines between dreams and reality become blurred.
Everyone has an opinion on what should happen between them, if only they all agreed. Can a small-town guy and a big-time actress find a way to build a love that will last?
This small town opposites attract, friends to lovers closed door romance featuring a cinnamon role hero and a misunderstood heroine finding their way home to each other and to their family is the latest book in the Marlin Shores series by USA Today Bestselling author Monique McDonell, but can also be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel.
Note: This book was previously published under a different title. Location, character names, and other parts of the story have been changed and updated.
Genre: General Fiction
What happens when your greatest ally turns out to be a perfect stranger?
Award-winning actress Sienna Rose Robinson hasn’t been back to Marlin Shores for more than a day in years. When she should be celebrating the peak of her career, she’s wondering how she landed herself with a cheating ex and a desperate need to escape LA. Looking to escape Hollywood, she turns to the director of the Marlin Shores Film festival, who has been trying to convince her to attend for years, and offers him a deal: hide her away for two weeks, from the media and her estranged family, and she’ll help promote the festival to bring in tourists and money.
Finn Jameson should have said no to Sienna'''s request. But the high school vice-principal, and part-time film festival director, knew she must be desperate if she was looking to him for help. What he forgot to factor in was that having one of the world’s most beautiful women in his home would prove more than a little tempting, especially when she’s also sweet, vulnerable, and very much alone. When the world and her family find out she’s in town, their relationship goes from friendship to fake romance and the lines between dreams and reality become blurred.
Everyone has an opinion on what should happen between them, if only they all agreed. Can a small-town guy and a big-time actress find a way to build a love that will last?
This small town opposites attract, friends to lovers closed door romance featuring a cinnamon role hero and a misunderstood heroine finding their way home to each other and to their family is the latest book in the Marlin Shores series by USA Today Bestselling author Monique McDonell, but can also be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel.
Note: This book was previously published under a different title. Location, character names, and other parts of the story have been changed and updated.
Genre: General Fiction
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