💛BOYFRIEND OF THE HOUR (Belmont Billionaires) by Nicole French-review tour 💛
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 27, 2024
He’s a grumpy billionaire in need of a fake girlfriend.
She’s a spicy heroine just desperate enough to do it.
Nathan Hunt needs a girlfriend—specifically a fake one.
Yes, the shy, grumpy twin of Henry Cavill who sits at the end of my bar needs to convince his absurdly rich family that he’s capable of a normal social life.
And he’s willing to pay a professional to fill that role.
Who happens to be me.
It helps that I’m just desperate enough to need the cash and not ask any questions.
I’m the obvious choice: Joni Zola, former dancer and forever flirt.
Never too serious. Always a good time.
On its surface, the plan is simple.
First, tell everyone we’re roommates.
Then move on to lovers.
His family will leave him alone, and I’ll have a free place to stay and a full bank account.
Easy, right?
But as our scheme progresses, the lines blur.
Soon casual PDA turns into sharing a bed at night.
On the outside, Nathan Hunt is just my next boyfriend of the hour.
But what if secretly, I might want him forever?
If we can keep things professional, this just might work.
I can forget that kiss if he can.
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REVIEW: BOYFRIEND OF THE HOUR by Nicole French is a contemporary, adult, erotic, romance story line set in the author’s Belmont Billionaires world. This is thirty-four year old plastic surgeon Nathan Hunt, and twenty-four year old bartender/ dancer Giovanna ‘Joni’ Zola’s story line. BOYFRIEND OF THE HOUR can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Several characters cross over from a number of the author’s interconnected story lines including THE ROSE GOLD series, THE SILVER SPOON series, and THIEF OF MY HEART, all focusing on Joni’s siblings.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from first person perspective (Joni), and third person (Nathan) BOYFRIEND OF THE HOUR follows several paths including the building relationship between our story line couple. Dr. Nathan Hunt is a plastic surgeon who struggles with his attraction to our story line heroine but all is not well in Nathan’s world, and our hero’s past is vying for control. Meanwhile Joni Zola is the proverbial ‘black sheep’ of the Zola family, a woman who just wants to be loved. Raised by her grandmother, and rebuffed by her siblings, Joni has been left floundering in the wake of her own emotional turmoil. Meeting Nathan Hunt pulls Joni into a world she knows nothing about when she becomes Nathan’s fake girlfriend, and the fall-out is about to send her life spiralling out of control.
The world and character building follow several complicated and idiosyncratic personality traits for both of our story line characters, traits that affect their lives, their emotions, and their concept of the world around them. The individual dysfunctionality and that of each family, has worked to form embittered, emotional and embattled individuals just looking for acceptance and love, but find nothing heartache and condemnation in return. As the story line progresses, we are witness to the fall-out of years of emotional abuse and control, such that the psychological ramifications have now become a permanent part of the individual psyche. Where one will act out, chasing the next proverbial high, the other is willing to remain hidden and secluded, away from anyone who will ever take notice.
The relationship between Nathan and Joni follows several stages from professional, to friendships, to necessity to fake to love. Nathan needs a plus-one, a fake girlfriend to keep his family at bay, and Joni has nothing but willing to accept Nathan’s help in return. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate.
There is a large ensemble cast of family, colorful and charismatic secondary and supporting characters many of whom we have met in the author’s previous interconnected series including Joni’s siblings. We are introduced to Joni’s ex Shawn, her boss Mike, as well as Ethan’s brothers Carrick and Spencer, and their parents Radford and Lillian Hunt. The requisite evil has many faces. Not everyone will survive.
BOYFRIEND OF THE HOUR is a detailed, complex and dramatic story of secrets and lies, power and control, dysfunctional family dynamics, acceptance and love. The premise is tragic and startling; the romance is subtle; the characters are different, desperate and dynamic.
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Reviewed by Sandy
Nicole French is a East Coast/West Coast hybrid creature, Springsteen fanatic, hopeless romantic, and total bookworm. When not writing fiction or teaching writing classes, she is hanging out with her family, playing soccer with the rest of the thirty-plus crowd in Seattle, or going on dates with her husband. In her spare time, she likes to go running with her dog, Greta, or practice the piano, but never seems to do either one of these things as much as she should.
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