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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


The Accidental Newlywed Game

The Accidental Newlywed Game, July 2022
A Boots And Bouquets #3
by Jaci Burton

Berkley
Featuring: Owen Stone; Honor Bellini
352 pages
ISBN: 0593439635
EAN: 9780593439630
Kindle: B09HGG9RBT
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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"THE ACCIDENTAL NEWLYWED GAME is a very quick and sexy read!"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Accidental Newlywed Game
Jaci Burton

Reviewed by Annie Tegelan
Posted July 16, 2022

Women's Fiction Contemporary | Romance Western

Jaci Burton returns to her Boots and Bouquet series with an interesting concept. Honor Bellini is a wedding planner and she attends a convention at in Vegas. There she encounters her sister’s ex-fiancé Owen Stone who is there on business as well. As they have a drink together, they begin to get closer until they find themselves waking up in a hotel room together with no recollection of what happened the night before. The only clue is the wedding certificate that states that they are married.

I think a lot of people will be interested in this kind of concept. However, it did take me a while to enjoy it. I think the problem was in the fact that Honor and Owen really felt like just friends to me in the beginning of the book. I didn’t get that romantic vibe from them at all until much later. So I think that played a part in how the romance panned out for me. Nevertheless, I do think that the chemistry started to show itself more when they left Vegas and headed back to Oklahoma. I feel like that’s where the romance really got going.

So while THE ACCIDENTAL NEWLYWED GAME had a slow start for me, I did enjoy it. Burton’s writing flows nicely and is very easy to read, making it a quick read. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoy Harlequin novels or wedding-themed stories.

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SUMMARY

Wedding planner Honor Bellini is in Las Vegas for a work convention when she runs into her sister’s ex-fiancé, Owen Stone, who’s also in town for his craft brewery business. They’re both glad to see a familiar face from home…until a night of drinking leads to waking up in bed together—and a marriage certificate from a wedding that neither of them can recall.
 
Horrified, Owen suggests an immediate annulment. Honor agrees, but when they spend the day together, their chemistry is overwhelming. Plus, Honor has a flash of memory of their steamy wedding night, and she definitely likes what she remembers. They decide to wait before cancelling the whole marriage thing, though they both head back to Oklahoma determined not to tell anyone at home what happened in Vegas.
 
The problem is, Honor and Owen can’t seem to stay away from each other—or keep their hands off one another. The longer they keep their secret, the harder it gets to deny how they really feel. Even worse, this huge secret has the potential to hurt someone they both care about. They need to get an annulment before this accidental marriage turns into love.


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