Wedding Bell Ruse by Kate Flora is romantic suspense novel. Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing, coming May 20, 2020.

Callista McKenzie is a self-made woman. She’s left her toxic family, gotten educated, and built an accounting business, deferring life and love until she’s debt free. Then Devin enters her life. The perfect employee, perfect boyfriend, perfect fiancé, until the morning she wakes from a drugged sleep to find Devin and her personal and business assets gone, a note clipped to her pillow: Thanks for everything.

Devastated, Callie tries to pull her life back together, but the police are convinced she’s secretly colluded with Devin and will soon sneak away to join him. When her biggest client fires her, saying her judgment can’t be trusted, and the detective makes it clear that things will go easier if she provides sexual favors, she throws some clothes in a suitcase and runs.

Many hours later, out of physical and emotional gas, she pulls over on a cold Vermont roadside to rest, awakened by a police officer knocking on her window. He sends her on to the nearest town, where the coffee shop is just opening. Nearly penniless, she scrounges enough change for a cup of coffee. Then a man sits down at her table and says, “Smile, and pretend you’re glad to see me.”

His words open the door to a world of temptation, complication, and danger. Callie needs a place to hide. Tommy Morgan needs a wife. And someone doesn’t want them to marry.

There’s a mysterious stalker outside her room. Her car windows are vandalized. Someone tries to poison her. And then the detective shows up, carrying her away from happily ever after.

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Dru’s Musing:
On the run from a bad situation, our heroine found herself involved in another sticky situation and that scenario immediately grabbed my attention, never letting go until the last page was read.

This was an enjoyable book that kept me intrigued as I had to know what was going to happen next. I kept asking myself, “was she going to go through with it?” and I had a great time watching it play out as their feelings grew for one another. Always looking over her shoulder, Cassie had more to worry about from within. The author did a great job in staging this romantic suspense with all its trepidation from the past and the future. I have to say that I like this quirky cast of characters from Tommy to Miss Potter to Harry and even Callista and I loved seeing the word “Godzilla” in this book. I love the happily ever after and the road taken to get to that point. Nicely done and a great read.

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FTC Full Disclosure – I received a digital ARC of this book from the author.