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Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2024-01-09
- Rating
- ★ 3.9 · 64 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Set in 1857 Victorian England, debutante Beth has one season to secure a wealthy husband to avoid destitution for herself and her mother, while fourth-season debutante Gwen, who has no interest in marriage, proposes they match Gwen’s widowed rakish father with Beth’s widowed mother, a pair of ex-lovers separated by a 20-year-old heartbreak. As the pair execute their matchmaking plan, Beth attracts the attention of a wealthy viscount seeking a secure marriage, forcing both women to confront the romantic feelings that have developed between them as they work together.
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- Friends to Lovers: “That’s the trouble with matchmaking: sometimes you accidentally fall in love with your best friend in the process.” source
- Love Triangle: “Now Gwen must face the prospect of sharing Beth with someone else, forever. And Beth must reckon with the fact that she’s caught feelings, hard, and they’re definitely not for her potential fiancé.” source
- Second Chance Romance: “Beth and Gwen are more than up to the challenge of a little twenty-year-old heartbreak. How hard can parent-trapping widowed ex-lovers be?” source
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