Reviewed by Tammy
TITLE: Sex, Lies and Wedding Bells
AUTHOR: EM Lynley
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 230 pages
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Of all the tiny towns, in all the world, he walks into mine.
Texas native Kieran Quinn has hit the big time, working in Manhattan as a columnist for Gloss, a national literary magazine. He’s well-known for his snarky, sardonic columns, but deep down he’s more interested in exploring what makes people tick than his editor would like. He keeps his desire to find his own Mr. Right hidden under a sexy, carefree persona that favours champagne and underwear models of the male variety.
Jaxon Lang loves being the high school principal in tiny Buckwheat Springs, Texas after relocating from Austin to pursue his relationship with Danetta Archer, despite her reputation for leaving grooms at the altar. So far, he’s avoided examining the questions he has about himself, certain that marriage will put them to rest. Then Kieran arrives in town. Kieran’s charm and unique attitudes about sex and attraction soon challenge Jaxon’s concept of what—and who—he wants.
While covering the latest wedding of a real-life “runaway bride,” Kieran falls hard for the gorgeous—and supposedly straight—groom, Jaxon Lang, despite that ridiculous X. Then Kieran discovers the bride’s hiding a shocking secret.
REVIEW:
Sex, Lies and Wedding Bells is about Kieran Quinn, playboy columnist for a New York magazine. Kieran has come to realise that although he has no problems finding willing bed partners what he really longs for is a life partner and Jaxon Lang, High School Principal from Buckwheat Springs, Texas. Jaxon is engaged to Danetta Archer, who has a problem going through with the actual wedding ceremony (ask her 3 ex-fiancés).
Kieran is very unsatisfied with his job, he doesn’t want to be snarky, nasty and catty in his column, he wants to write about finding and keeping love so he can hopefully find someone of his own to love. His boss however, doesn’t want him to change his ‘winning’ formula, he sells far too many magazines to turn nice now! Jaxon highjacks a colleagues wedding invitation from a college friend to get the story about the Runaway Bride. He decides he’s going to find out the cause behind Danetta’s leaving her grooms at the altar and boy is he in for a surprise!
Jaxon takes one look at Kieran and falls in lust but he doesn’t understand an attraction to another man rearing its head now so close to his marriage, he hasn’t felt anything for a man since college. He’s determined that it doesn’t matter as he made a promise and is going to marry Danetta regardless. Jaxon isn’t worried about being left at the altar because he just knows Danetta is ready to go through with it this time.
What Kieran doesn’t expect is to fall in love with the groom knowing he’s getting married in a few days. When he eventually finds out the big secret as to why Danetta has not only got four men to ask her to marry them but stay loyal after she’s left three of them at the altar. Now, I’m not going to tell you the reason, you’re going to have to read the book to find out! But I will say while you probably won’t condone her actions you will understand them.
I found this book to have a little bit of everything, I laughed, I cried and I felt sorry throughout the entire book. Not only did Jaxon come out of the closet but a whole lot of people emerged from their shells. I would recommend this book to all m/m romance readers and anyone who loves a good story.
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