Today it is my pleasure to help kick off the blog tour for If the Ring Fits by Camilla Isley.
When Life Gives You Lemons, Fake an Engagement
When investment banker Adrian and software engineer Rowena started the day, they didn’t expect to end it engaged! But Adrian has invented a fake fiancée to impress his CEO, regretting the lie almost immediately, and now he is in hot water. Meanwhile, Rowena’s career has just gone up in flames, leaving her unemployed, unexpectedly expecting with no father in the picture, and short of options. When fate throws these two hot messes into a meet-cute of epic proportions, it’s a match made in rock-bottom heaven. They say love is blind, and with nothing to lose, Adrian gets down on one knee… and Rowena says yes!
The rules of engagement are simple:
Pretend to be madly in love
Keep their real lives separate
Absolutely, positively do NOT catch feelings
However, faking it is harder than they thought, especially when every overnight stay comes with only one bed and zero personal space—blurring that imaginary line between ‘just business’ and ‘definitely personal.’
Soon, their carefully constructed charade starts to feel alarmingly… real. Can Adrian and Rowena stick to their engagement pact, or will their fake relationship graduate to something authentically messy, complicated, and wonderful?
Find out in this hilarious, heartwarming tale of two strangers who said “I do” before they even said “Hello.” Because sometimes, the worst day of your life just might lead to the best mistake you’ll ever make.
If the Ring Fits is an age gap, marriage of convenience rom-com with a multi-millionaire MMC and a STEM FMC perfect for fans of Lynn Painter, Sarah Adams and Fallon Ballard**
I am always excited to find out that Camilla Isley has a new release on the way, and I am pleased to confirm that her latest offering, If the Ring Fits, does not disappoint. We have a strangers-to-lovers/marriage of convenience rom-com on our hands which features an incredibly handsome millionaire in need of a wife, and a beautiful, intelligent woman in need of a bit of stability as her circumstances change.
Rowena is a down-on-her-luck Software Engineer. When she meets Adrian she is newly pregnant, and newly unemployed. She knows she will be unable to afford to stay in the city that she loves with a new baby even if she is able to find a new job whilst pregnant, and so their meet cute finds her sick and upset in a toilet stall.
Adrian is an incredibly successful investment banker, who is seeking to take over as CEO when his boss announces he will be retiring. However all his hardwork has meant that he has had little time for a personal life, something that has not gone unnoticed by the outgoing CEO. What follows is a declaration that he has a fiancee with very little time to actually find one! When he finds himself faced with Rowena, beautiful but pregnant and alone, he may have just found the answer to both of their problems.
This novel includes a lot of tropes that you would expect and want to find in a rom-com. But what I particularly loved about this novel, (and all of Camilla Isley’s novels) is that it’s never about a strong hero saving a damsel in distress. Rowena is a strong, independent woman with a career who would have figured it all out without Adrian’s help. If anything, Adrian is the one that needed saving. He may had all the money and career success, but he couldn’t climb that final rung of the ladder without someone by his side, showing him what it’s all for. He needed Rowena in order to share and enjoy his successes, as well as to show him that there is more to life outside of work if he is just willing to look.
Adrian and Rowena’s romance in this novel is inevitable, but I really enjoyed following their story as they each tried to improve the others life, whilst applauding and supporting their individual needs to succeed. Whether that be at work, in their personal relationships, or finally as parents. They start as strangers, but they build a strong team filled with love, support and compassion. Of course there is some doubt and a downward spiral thrown in for good measure, but who said the path to love was easy?!
If the Ring Fits is a fabulous, light hearted novel that is perfect for a cosy weekend spent inside hiding from the storms. So get the fire roaring, grab a chilled glass of wine and curl up with this novel. It is the perfect way to spend your weekend!
Thank you to Camilla Isley, Boldwood Books and Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for providing me with a copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.
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Camilla Isley is an engineer who left science behind to write bestselling contemporary rom-coms set all around the world. She lives in Italy and her first title for Boldwood, The Love Theorem, a Hollywood-meets-STEM romance, will be published in June 2023.
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