Romance Book Spotlight & Giveaway: YOU'VE GOT MALE by Marina Adair

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She has zero time for a relationship. A fake one will have to do—in New York Times bestselling author Marina Adair’s new romance...

She has zero time for a relationship. A fake one will have to do—in New York Times bestselling author Marina Adair’s new romance that brings the humor and the heart…

YOU'VE GOT MALE

by Marina Adair

Evie Granger’s life is one crisis away from a complete meltdown.

Between single-parenting a sixteen-going-on-forty daughter, managing a mom living her best life way out loud, caring for an ailing father, and keeping the family’s struggling coffee shop afloat, Evie hasn’t looked after herself in far too long.

So naturally her best friend chooses this moment to post a video of Evie describing the ideal man...and sends it stratospherically viral.

Now Evie’s an overnight social media sensation and every eligible (and otherwise) guy in a five-state radius is turning up with his “I’m the one” credentials. But Evie can’t bring herself to let any Prince Charming into a life that’s barely holding together. A life she doesn’t even recognize as hers.

So she strikes a bargain with her sexy—if equally overwhelmed—neighbor to convince America she’s taken. But can a faux fairytale start to feel real...or is it just as doomed from the start?

Marina Adair’s clever, uproarious story captures the utter chaos and irrepressible joy of balancing kids, parents, love, and finding a spare minute for yourself—while the whole world watches every disastrous minute.

About the Author

Marina Adair is a New York Times and #1 nationally bestselling author whose fun, flirty contemporary romances have sold over a million copies. 

In addition to the When in Rome series she is also the author of the Destiny Bay series, the Heroes of St. Helena series, the Sugar, Georgia series, and the St Helena Vineyard series, which was the inspiration behind the original Hallmark Channel Vineyard movies: Autumn in the Vineyard, Summer in the Vineyard and Valentine in the Vineyard. 

She currently lives with her husband, daughter, and two neurotic cats in Northern California.

Giveaway!

You can win a print copy of YOU'VE GOT MALE by Marina Adair (U.S. only)

EXCERPT

Excerpted from You’ve Got Male, by Marina Adair. Entangled: Amara, 2024. Reprinted with permission.

Evelyn Granger knew from experience what it looked like when life was about to attack—and

this attack was going to be Shark Week worthy.

The minute Evie saw her ghost of exes past, her already complicated day set itself on fire. She

closed her eyes for a moment and manifested herself being anywhere but there in her parents’

coffee shop, wearing the same uniform she wore in high school, working the same job she

worked in high school. But upward job mobility wasn’t an option when one’s dad was diagnosed

with kidney disease and could no longer run the family business, Grinder. In fact, doctors’

appointments and dialysis meant giving up her dream job to come back to her teenage job as a

glorified barista.

What had she done to piss off the gods? Because this could not be happening. Not when she

was wearing coffee-cup themed leggings, a tank that read “Get Your Grind On”, and holding a

Toasty bagel balls sign. Unfortunately, when one’s husband catches an acute case of Slippery

Dick Syndrome and leaves you to raise a child alone, passing out toasty bagel balls can

become the new norm.

“Yo. Babe,” her ex-husband, Mateo, said in that bro-tone he used that made her stomach

curdle. Dressed in ankle-hugging jeans, checkered Vans, and a stone-washed shirt, he looked

like he was headed to the skate park instead of being a dad to their sixteen-year-old daughter.

Then there was the sparkly, pretty, plus-one on his arm, whose coed smile, designer leggings,

and yoga top did little to conceal her barely there baby bump—nor the extremely recent addition

that was winking from her ring finger. A diamond that cost way more than their daughter’s

private school tuition Mateo harped on and on about.

Are you serious right now?

“When are you due?” Evie asked, trying to keep the status quo in their relationship going.

Surface questions, polite smiles at kid-swap, and flipping him the bird when no one was looking.

Heather curved her perfectly manicured fingers around her belly and gave a dreamy smile. “I’m

sixteen weeks along.”

“Does Camila know?” she asked.

Mateo and Heather exchanged a look that made Evie’s skin itch. And there was her answer. A

resounding

no

. Not that she was surprised. Had Camila known her dad, who saw her only every

other weekend, was going to become a full-time parent to another kid, there would have been

heartbreak. Dramatic, over-the-top, soul-crushing heartbreak.

Evie considered getting mad, but she’d wasted so much mad on her ex over the years it would

take a lot to muster up even a “Screw you.” If she wasn’t so tired, she might have even had a

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good belly laugh at the situation. The kind that brought tears to her eyes. But the tears

threatening to break through her fortress of

everything’s fine

were humorless. And unexpected.

Mateo walked out sixteen years ago, right before Camila was even born. Oh, he’d always paid

child support and came around most weekends, but for the day-to-day he’d been absent,

especially in the beginning when he’d been finishing up law school.

When it came to dating, all the Granger women were crazy. Her mother dated men who were

too young—

“They work harder to impress,”

she’d say—her daughter dated men who were too

old—

“Boys my age have the emotional maturity of frappuccino!”

—and Evie, well—to the

disappointment of her family and coworkers—didn’t date at all.

A prime example of why was standing right in front of her.

“When are you going to tell her?” Evie asked. And again she was met with silence.

Having an absent co-parent had been especially hard in the earlier years. Evie’s parents

stepped in, giving Evie the love and support she desperately needed. But having an absent dad

who wandered in and out like the changing of tides had been devastating for Camila. And no

amount of love and support could make up for the missing hole an absent parent blasted

through a child’s heart.

“We were going to tell her at the wedding,” Mateo said, running a hand through his straight

black hair.

“And when is that?”

Another look was exchanged, and that turned those itches into hives. “We’re getting married at

the end of the month. In Hawaii.” Mateo said the last part as if it didn’t affect their aerophobic

daughter, who couldn’t walk onto a plane and not hyperventilate.

“Hawaii?” Evie nearly knocked the toasty bagel balls over. She couldn’t afford a trip for two to

Hawaii. She could barely afford the car insurance for a teenager. And in a month? It just wasn’t

possible. Mom couldn’t work both shifts, Dad had dialysis, and Camila—

Shit!

“Camila has overnight cheer camp that weekend. It’s mandatory and gives them a chance to

win an early bid to Nationals.” It was the most important week of the year for Camila and her

teammates. It’s where they got to know each other, made inside jokes, bonded. If she didn’t

participate, she ran the risk of being left out of the fun. For the entire year. “You’re supposed to

be on carpool duty and drive the kids to Grand Junction.”

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