Besides, she might have a chance to spend more time with Rex “TW” Mcmurtry, get to know him better, and help him out. And now he just wants to have some media stability to get on with his life.Ībby accepts because as I said before, she has a lot of debt to pay off, and the money Rex offers could be very useful. The real reason Rex wants to pretend to get married is that all the girls he’s dated ended up marrying his friends. perfect with which to undertake this farce. She never stopped having a crush on him, and he, after walking into her bar drunk and awakening in Abby’s apartment to find that she had only been looking after him being drunk, Rex realizes that Abby is the person. I was struck to discover the presence of a very interesting trope that I have perhaps read only once before, that of “fake marriages”.īecause yes, Abby and Rex will pretend to be married. I was in the mood for a romance and started it, ditching my other ongoing readings – the best choice I could ever make. I’ll tell you the truth, I started reading this book without even reading the plot. Abby was a stalker towards Rex back then, she followed him everywhere, she had a crush, and contrary to what she thinks, Rex had noticed her, although maybe not in the same way she had noticed him.

Īnd Rex, football star, philanthropist, super sexy and Abby’s old school friend – elementary, middle and high school. The protagonists of this volume will be Abby, a bartender in a Texas town, a DIY lover with a shop on Etsy, married at 18 and divorced after a few months and now, at 30, in debt due to her ex. Homecoming King is the first book of a singularly self-concluding trilogy, so each volume will have its characters, love stories and different pasts, but at the same time the characters are connected by having attended the same high school, and probably one of the starring in both sequels was introduced in Homecoming King. They gave me a chance to read in advance this title and I couldn’t be happier, it was like a breath of fresh air. Today I’m talking about Penny Reid’s latest publication and I thank Butterfly PR for the digital arc.

Homecoming King by Penny Reid