The Duplicate Bride by Ginny Baird – a Review

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Description:
Hope Webb can’t believe her twin sister, Jackie, is begging her to swap places and play fiancée at Jackie’s pre-wedding festivities. Sure, it’s only a business-deal sort of marriage, but Hope is a carb-loving teacher who enjoys curling up with a good book. Jackie is a workaholic whose idea of a good time is a brisk five-mile run at the crack of dawn. The two sisters couldn’t be more opposite.

Now Hope is stuck in the middle of a warm, tight-knit family she can’t help but adore and a groom who turns out to be entirely wonderful…for her.

Hotel magnate Brent Albright knows something is off about his fiancée, but he doesn’t care. Gone is the driven woman with similar career goals, and in her place is someone warm and funny who not only charms his family but him as well. She’s doing everything she can to avoid him, but that’s probably just nerves. Two people about to wed couldn’t know each other less.

Now Brent is determined to woo his fiancée, for real this time, because the more he gets to know her, the more his sweet fiancée turns out to be entirely wonderful…for him.

And that’s when things start to get really complicated…

Review:

The Duplicate Bride by Ginny Baird is a standalone romance novel. Hope Webb has her own life going on. That’s when her twin sister Jackie asks her to pretend to be her at her pre-wedding celebrations. Just like they used to when they were kids! 

Jackie has job responsibilities as an elite wedding planner, that she just can’t get away from. And seeing as how her impending wedding to Brent Albright is more of a business arrangement.  With the hope that love will come later kind of marriage, she thought it was the perfect idea.  Jackie needs help smoothing over things with Brent’s grandmother- who thinks Jackie is more into her work than this upcoming marriage. 

Hope doesn’t agree to Jackie’s plan, but she does agree to go in her sister’s place and smooth things over with her future in laws. But when she arrives in Blue Hill, Maine things go awry. Brent’s grandmother has some snide comments and before Hope knows it, she is pretending to be her sister Jackie. Its only for the day right? But Hope seems to have a remarkable attraction to her future brother in law. Knowing that she can’t fall for her sisters soon to be husband proves easier said than done. Jackie keeps pushing back her arrival time further and further making Hope part of a bigger charade than she wanted to be. Brent also notices something is off with his fiancé. He seems to be even more attracted to her than he remembers. But what happens when everyone finds out the truth? 

What will happen when Hope realizes she is on love with Brent? 

I really enjoyed Hope, she definitely wasn’t comfortable lying to Brent and his family. But when future grandma makes some snide comments, all bets are off. She is going to be the best Jackie she can be. And I thoroughly enjoyed her. 

I also loved her and Brent getting to truly know each other even though it was based on a lie. Wonderful read! The secondary characters were quite enjoyable as well. 

Highly recommend! 

Reviewed by Erin

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