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Scandalous Engagement (Lockwood Lightning Book 2741) Kindle Edition

by Jules Bennett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
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Delve into this scandalous friends-to-lovers romance, part of the Lockwood Lightning series from USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett. Their engagement may be fake but the chemistry is as real as it gets! Especially when one kiss with her best friend… changes everything. Josie Coleman has the perfect plan to get rid of her bothersome ex-husband: pretend she’s about to marry again. But her fake engagement to her best friend, Reese Conrad, isn’t going as expected. His steamy, toe-curling kisses are anything but friendly…and their simple plan leads to very complicated feelings. Too bad that isn’t the only surprise Reese has in store… From Harlequin Desire: A luxurious world of bold encounters and sizzling chemistry. Lockwood Lightning: Book 1: An Unexpected Scandal Book 2: Scandalous Reunion Book 3: Scandalous Engagement
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“Jules Bennett writes heartwarming and passionate characters guaranteed to grip your heart.” — Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author


“The queen of small-town romance.” — Maisey Yates, New York Times bestselling author


“Jules Bennett has a gift for creating warm-hearted, emotional stories of love, friendship, and romance set in small towns readers will want to return to again and again.” — JoAnn Ross, New York Times bestselling author

About the Author

USA TODAY Bestselling Author Jules Bennett has penned more than 50 novels during her short career. She's married to her high school sweetheart, has two active girls, and is a former salon owner. Jules can be found on Twitter, Facebook (Fan Page), and her website julesbennett.com. She holds contests via these three outlets with each release and loves to hear from readers!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0816YHW21
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harlequin Desire; Original edition (June 1, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2012 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 187 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 91 ratings

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USA Today Bestselling Author Jules Bennett sold her first novel in 2005 and hasn't stopped since. She has penned nearly 90 books, novellas, and short stories since first becoming published.

When Jules isn't writing, she is spending time with her high school sweetheart, whom she's been married to since the age of 21, and raising a family. She loves to travel with family and friends on her research trips and when she's home, she can be found snuggling her rescue dog, Maggie.

Fan mail is appreciated so she can keep in touch with her readers and fans. You can e-mail her via her new, fresh website: www.julesbennett.com. Also follow Jules on Twitter, Instagram, and/ or "Like" her Facebook Fan Page.

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Carmen
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good ending
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2020
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This is the final book in the trilogy and was very good. Very strong characters and a well written plot. Both characters were strong and had a great friendship that turned into love but they were terrified that they would lose their friendship. Great ending and everyone got their HEA.
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Gramm
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2021
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Tale of the life and loves of 3 successful, kind, loving men raised by different mothers/family though born of a selfish horrible father. Nurture wins every time.
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Carma Rey Klaja
4.0 out of 5 stars You’d do anything for your best friend
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2020
4 1/4 stars for Scandalous Engagement which is book 3 in the new Lockwood Lighting series by the author. In this latest installment we meet Reese Conrad and Josie Coleman.

Reese and Josie have been best friends for a long time and neither has crossed that line, until now. Josies ex-husband Chris has been calling and texting her non stop and she has had enough. She tells him that she’s moved on and so should he. When she shows up at the door moments later, Reese comes to her rescue and poses as her beau. But are they just pretending?

Reese has just returned from a trip to Green Valley, TN and is now harboring a secret he doesn’t quite know what to do with. He wants to confide in Josie but can’t bring himself to spit out the words just yet. When he steps up to be her pretend lover, all other thoughts go out the window. He didn’t know he craved her until he had a taste.

Josie and Reese find themselves swept up in a fake relationship that becomes all too real. With Reese needing to settle some business first, can he make Josie see that they belong together for real and always? I voluntarily read an advance copy without expectation for review, all opinions expressed are my own. I feel like this story didn’t flow as well as the other 2. I had questions are to why things were written or said that didn’t seem to move the story along at all. That left me a little underwhelmed at times, but still a good story.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2020
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Great ending to a great series. I like the easiness of their relationship and that there was no big dramatic break up before they were finally together.
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Lynn Brooks/Thoughts of a Blonde
5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting conclusion!
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020
A ready-made romance! Jules Bennett delights with a friends to lovers romance with the third and final book in her Lockwood Lightning trilogy. This series has been been a fast paced uncovering of secrets with each book centering on exposing the next puzzle piece. SCANDALOUS ENGAGEMENT is sure to please and brings a nice conclusion to the drama of the series.

Josie Coleman is easy enough to like. She married for all the wrong reasons, and now it's coming back to bite her when she can't get her ex to realize there is no future there for them. The only thing she can think of to try is claiming she has moved on.

Reese Conrad is easygoing and enjoyable. He has uncovered a secret that is weighing on him, but he's still quick to jump in and help Josie with her own problem. Of course their pretend engagement wasn't really planned out all that much!

I highly recommend this book and the entire series to anyone who loves their romance mixed with a little family drama. The entire series has been a lot of fun to read.
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Just me Nicole
5.0 out of 5 stars The third unknown brother
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2020
I always love getting my hands on a Jules Bennett romance, but where this one is the final book in the Lockwood Lightning series, it is bitter sweet.

This fake-engagement/friends-to-lovers storyline is the romance featuring the third Lockwood sibling, Reese Conrad. When he steps in to help out his longtime best friend, Josie Coleman, get out of a broken relationship, he may have accidentally set them up for their future or for failure.

I loved this quick read romance! The characters were wonderful and this continuous storyline throughout this series has been so enjoyable! Definitely read An Unexpected Scandal and Scandalous Reunion before diving into Scandalous Engagement. This whole series is quicker reads, but I loved the twists, characters, and the little dilemmas that were in each book! 4.5 stars from me!
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AvidReader_LL
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun Ending to the Series
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2020
Fun ending to the Lockwood Lightning series. Reese is reeling from discovering he is adopted with two siblings, but in the meanwhile jumps in and pretends to be engaged to his best friend Josie when her ex won’t leave her alone. Faking an engagement forces them to confront their deepening feelings for each other and see if they can find happiness.

Great ending and good friends to lovers romance. Great book for a quick escape.

Thanks to the author for a review copy.
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Judy
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book!
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2020
Scandalous Engagement is the third and final book in Jules Bennett’s Lockwood Lightning series. I’ve read all of the books in the series and this one was my favorite. Reese and Josie have been best friends forever and out of nowhere discovered themselves involved in a fake engagement. Originally their engagement was to put an end to Josie’s bothersome ex-husband. The more time they spent together the more they wondered if their engagement could become more. I loved watching both Josie and Reese as they fell deeper into their relationship. This was a fun read that I highly recommend reading. I received an advance copy which I chose to read and review. This is my honest opinion.
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Amanda-Dublin
2.0 out of 5 stars I couldn't finish it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2020
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Honestly, this book never really had me but I was fully lost at the part where Billionaire Mogul (a repeatedly used descriptor) owner of a moonshine distillery Rusty seemed like a Saint for donating thousands (not tens of thousands, or millions... What a cheapskatey billionaire) to a local charity and then got arrested for embezzling money from them. How does that even make SENSE?

A. He's a billionaire, he shouldn't need their money.
B. Isn't he just taking the pocket change he donates every year back.
C. It just makes no sense. As much as I don't believe that you could actually make billions out of making moonshine so he must be adding some zeros, a local charity hardly have that sort of cash to be embezzled? Really?

Also, honestly what state are these guys in that the only way she can overcome a photo of her knocking over her best friend is to marry him... Like fake dating wouldn't do... Nope she has to marry him, and he agrees... Like I get the fake engagement/marriage trope, I even sort of like it... It just doesn't make any sense here.
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