The Fiancé Dilemma

The Fiancé Dilemma

Elena Armas

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Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie realizes her romantic history is a complicated PR issue. Matthew Flanagan is in the mud, literally. Not only has he been fired from his job, but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak, North Carolina. So, he grabs a duffel with his essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back on track. But instead, he finds his best friend’s sister, Josie, greeting him as her fiancé. What starts as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement—and a stunt, at that—makes Josie’s stomach turn, but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives, and Matthew doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colorful list of grooms-that-never-were. Despite the ring on her finger, Josie knows this is only temporary, even if the rest of the small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm.


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  • proserpine
    Mar 14, 2025
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    “I loved him, I loved Matthew in a way that made me wonder if I’d ever known how love felt before him” —Josephine Moore

    “I only need her. Jobs are replaceable. Careers are fickle. Roots grow anywhere there’s ground. Commitment and love are shown with actions. And I plan on doing that every fucking day of my life as long as I have her.” —Matthew Flanagan


    In spite of many communities' comments about how worst this written about, I found myself enjoying this book a little bit too much. Couldn't agree more with the terms that reading is subjective. But the thing I like about Elena Armas's works is she alway has the ability to make us laugh even in her dire situation in her own writing.

    I love this a lot more than The Long Game, esp. when Sebastian Stan the Rooster was finally making an re-appearance haha!!! I really like the bantering between Matthew and Josie. Especially when he call her with so many pet names, it makes me wheezing giggling greening throwing up.

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    Mar 25, 2025
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