TITLE: The Pretend Fiancé Fiasco
SERIES: Copper Valley Bro Code #6
AUTHOR: Pippa Grant
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
TROPES: Mysterious Protective Hero/Fake
Relationship/Forced Proximity/Treasure Hunt
RELEASE DATE: May 8, 2025
BLURB.
A reclusive former celebrity, a recovering good girl, and small town trouble...
It started as a joke. After a string of bad boyfriends, I made up a fake boyfriend so people would quit asking when I was going to meet a grumpy lumberjack trying to save his mama’s inn in my adopted hometown.
When my grandma demanded proof from afar, I sent her a picture of me and my “boyfriend.”
Spoiler alert: He wasn’t really my boyfriend.
He was actually a reclusive former boy band member who swings through town sometimes and is friends with my friends.
As much as a reclusive former boy bander can be friends with anyone, that is.
He doesn’t know I told anyone he’s my boyfriend. Or that his name is Steve.
So when Grandma sends the guy she’d rather me marry to town to make sure “Steve” is good enough for me—and to talk me into marrying him instead—I have something of a problem.
But I got myself into this mess, so I’ll get myself out.
By proposing.
Relax, relax, I’m proposing a fake wedding.
And when he turns me down, I can say we broke up.
Except he doesn’t turn me down.
Instead, he offers me a trade.
He’ll pretend to be my groom, but I have to do something for him in return.
And that something?
Hoooo, boy.
I liked the man better when he was my pretend boyfriend Steve.
The Pretend Fiancé Fiasco is an action-packed romcom featuring the reclusive final member of the boy band Bro Code, a recovering good girl with too many men interested in her for all the wrong reasons, a treasure hunt, a fake engagement, and the best surprise to hit the Copper Valley universe since the Fireballs’ new mascot was revealed. This small town romcom stands alone, but you wouldn’t go wrong to read both the Copper Valley Bro Code and Copper Valley Fireballs series, along with Dirty Talking Rival, to catch all of the easter eggs.
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MY REVIEW.
5 Stars from Tiffany!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Romance and Adventure Rolled into One!
As the sixth book in the series, The Pretend Fiancé Fiasco by Pippa Grant takes readers on a wild ride. It’s the only book in the series I’ve read so far, but I’ve visited the quirky town of Shipwreck in other series by this author, so it felt familiar.
Davis Remington is a reclusive former member of the Bro Code boy band. It’s been over a decade since the band split, but the friendships remain, so Davis still swings by Shipwreck now and then. He’s no stranger to the townspeople, including Sloane, the town’s dedicated nurse and museum curator.
Sloane is a 35-year-old woman trying to break free from her strict grandmother’s outdated rules. Raised under her thumb, Sloane is now realizing just how rigid those beliefs were. She carries that heavy "religious guilt" and has spent the last few years retraining herself. A bit of a man-hater due to past relationships, she—like Davis—has major trust issues. That’s one big thing they definitely have in common.
I liked both Davis and Sloane in their own ways. Davis is quiet and reserved, while Sloane is a hilarious talking tornado. Their banter is top-notch and made me laugh throughout. Honestly, the witty back-and-forth between not just them, but the entire town, is one of the best parts of these books. The romance is a slow burn, neither of them wants to admit to real feelings, but when those walls finally start to come down? Absolutely perfect.
The book is well written and, while technically a romance, it’s so much more. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist it took—especially since I’m a huge Oak Island fan (hint, hint). I love when a book continues with characters from earlier stories in the series. Pippa Grant does a great job explaining who’s who and how they all connect, so I never felt lost. The Pretend Fiancé Fiasco reads well as a standalone, and the epilogue ties everything up nicely.
AUTHOR BIO.
PIPPA GRANT wanted to write books, so she did. Before she became a USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling romantic comedy author, she was a young military spouse who got into writing as self-therapy. That happened around the time she discovered reading romance novels, and the two eventually merged into a career. Today, she has more than 30 knee-slapping Pippa Grant titles and nine written as Jamie Farrell. When she's not writing romantic comedies, she's fumbling through being a mom, wife, and mountain woman, and sometimes trying to find hobbies. Her crowning achievement? Having impeccable timing for telling stories that will make people snort beverages out of their noses. Consider yourself warned.
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