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Awfully Ambrose by Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey
Bad Boyfriends, Inc, Book 1
Ambrose Newman is a bad boyfriend. Professionally. If someone’s parents don’t approve of that long-haired unemployed bass player they want to date, that’s where Ambrose comes in. For a few hundred dollars a night, he’ll go to dinner with a client and their parents and show them that the grass is definitely not greener on his side of the fence. It’s dead. When Ambrose brings a date to a fancy restaurant, it isn’t sparks that fly—it’s glassware.
After his last boyfriend turned out to be a cheat, Liam Connelly has no interest in dating again, but his parents are determined to see him paired off. When they come to visit, he hires Ambrose to act as his boyfriend. If Ambrose can be a bad boyfriend, he can be a tolerable one too, right? But Ambrose plays the part too well and scores an invitation to spend the Easter weekend with the Connolly family at their winery, and Liam finds himself developing real affection for his fake boyfriend.
But does Ambrose return those feelings, or is it all an act?
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“Orhan wants to make cheese,” Grandad Billy said, elbowing Ambrose. “How good would that be? What do they call that? Business synergy. Wine and cheese, see?”
“Sure,” Ambrose said. “I’ll open a cracker factory, then I can marry Liam.”
Liam’s heart stuttered in his chest, and he felt his cheeks redden as a silence fell across the room. “Or, um, wineglasses,” he stammered out. “You know, glass blowing?”
Fuck. Why had he said that? Now it sounded like he was making future plans, instead of setting the stage for a breakup. And, worse than that, he’d given Ambrose the perfect opening to be awful. Which, he had to keep reminding himself, was what he wanted and what he’d paid for. He just hadn’t known it would be this excruciating. He kept wanting to defend Ambrose for reasons he couldn’t even explain, except he suspected that it had less to do with Ambrose and more to do with not wanting his family to think he was stupid enough to date someone so terrible.
That was what he told himself, anyway, but maybe there was also a part of him that wanted them to know that Ambrose wasn’t a terrible person for Ambrose’s sake too.
God, he thought. We really should have had a better plan coming into this.
They should have laid some ground rules or something, because while his parents might be happy that he was single after this weekend, it would be nice to come out with his pride intact too, and he couldn’t see that happening. After this, his parents wouldn’t trust him to tie his own shoelaces, let alone date someone. He fought the urge to groan and hoped against hope that Ambrose wouldn’t take the opening Liam had just given him.
Ambrose, predictably, took the opening. He probably thought it was deliberate. After all, how was he meant to know that when Liam was nervous, all sorts of bullshit fell out of his mouth? Probably another thing they should have discussed.
Ambrose grinned widely. “Oh you know me,” he said. “I’d be a natural. I’ll blow anything given half a chance. Did Liam tell you all how we met?”
Liam had the impression that they weren’t going with the coffee at Freddie’s backstory after all, and it didn’t escape his notice that Mum moved her hands to cover Balian’s ears.
“We met getting coffee,” Liam said, shooting Ambrose what he hoped was a look telling him to dial it back a bit.
“Yeah,” Ambrose said. “At Freddie’s, by the uni. I’d dropped my wallet, and Liam tapped me on the shoulder to give it back to me.” His smile was warm, and Liam almost imagined that had happened. Then that smile ratcheted up a degree or two and nudged into wicked territory. “The blowing came later.”
Liam winced and shut his eyes briefly as Grandad Billy roared with laughter. When he dared open them again, Ambrose was grinning like the cat that got the cream, and his perfect teeth and dimples were out in full force, and fuck. He looked good when he smiled, even with dog slobber on his shirt and a lap full of cracker crumbs.
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About Lisa Henry:
Lisa likes to tell stories, mostly with hot guys and happily ever afters.
Lisa lives in tropical North Queensland, Australia. She doesn’t know why, because she hates the heat, but she suspects she’s too lazy to move. She spends half her time slaving away as a government minion, and the other half plotting her escape.
She attended university at sixteen, not because she was a child prodigy or anything, but because of a mix-up between international school systems early in life. She studied History and English, neither of them very thoroughly.
She shares her house with too many cats, a dog, a green tree frog that swims in the toilet, and as many possums as can break in every night. This is not how she imagined life as a grown-up.
Lisa has been published since 2012, and was a LAMBDA finalist for her quirky, awkward coming-of-age romance Adulting 101, and a Rainbow Awards finalist for 2019’s Anhaga.
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About Sarah Honey:
Sarah started life in New Zealand. She came to Australia for a working holiday, loved it, and never left. She lives in Western Australia with her partner, two cats, two dogs and a life-size replica TARDIS.
She spends half her time at a day job and the rest of her time reading and writing about clueless men falling in love, with a dash of humour and spice thrown in along the way.
Her proudest achievements include having adult kids who will still be seen with her in public, the ability to make a decent sourdough loaf, and knowing all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody.
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