The Actress and the Aristocrat by Katie Ashley

       

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Charlotte aka Charlie For years, my acting career consisted of bit parts in forgettable Hallmark movies along with a few embarrassing commercials for feminine hygiene products. But then the fates finally aligned, and I’d been given my big-budget break: the lead in an Edwardian era social drama set on a sprawling estate in Sussex. Everything was going great until I discovered my costar and current flame was banging his way through the upstairs and downstairs of the cast. 

That’s when this Southern girl channeled her inner Scarlet O’Hara by hurling a vase at him. Turns out the owner of said vase, the infuriating Earl Whittingham, did give a damn about the priceless heirloom. Just as I was imagining a life of servitude to pay him back, he gave me an unorthodox proposal. Randall “Rand” Halsey, Earl Whittingham Being a member of the British aristocracy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. As a matter of fact, it can be a royal pain in the ass, especially when it comes to the required social season. 

The only thing worse than having to attend all the myriad of events from horse races to garden shows is attending them single. Throw in the likelihood of running into my ex-wife with her new boy-toy and it’s bloody insufferable. 

 I’d resigned myself to keeping a stiff upper lip while drowning my sorrows in Laguvulin for the month when an opportunity fell into my lap. Actually, it crashed into the wall of my drawing room. As an actress, Charlie is used to playing a part, but she’ll need to turn an Oscar-worthy one to prove she’s in love with me.   

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katie Ashley is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Top Three Best-Selling author of both Indie and Traditionally published books. She's written rockers, bikers, manwhores with hearts of gold, New Adult, and Young Adult. She lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her daughter, Olivia, her rescue mutts, Belle and Elsa, and her rescue cats, Mama Kitty, Luna, Ella, and Sassy. She has a slight obsession with The Golden Girls, Shakespeare, Harry Potter, and Star Wars.   

With a BA in English, a BS in Secondary English Education, and a Masters in Adolescent English Education, she spent eleven years teaching both middle and high school English, as well as a few adjunct college English classes. As of January 2013, she became a full-time writer.   Although she is a life-long Georgia peach, she loves traveling the country and world meeting readers. Most days, you can find her being a hermit, styling leggings, and binging on Netflix.   

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This was a really cute story in sorta a modern day Mr. Darcy from Jane Eyre and his american actress in a fake romance storyline. It was well written and made me laugh along with the characters. It was really a different kind of story than I have read from this author before but I really liked it. 

In this book we meet Charlotte/Charlie who is a minor actress. Meaning she is not famous but is part of the cast of a movie filming in the England at Lord Randall's home. He is very grumpy about the whole thing and is forced to do it because his ex wife didn't just cheat on him with his ex friend but she also got a part of his inheritance as well.

Charlie is enjoying a fling with a cast member until she finds out she is just one of many and gets angry at him and to pay Rand back for a vase she broke when she got angry at her now ex, he asks her to pretend to date him to show his ex he is over her.

But is he over her? What happens when she decides she wants him back? I am not spoiling any of those answers , you will have to read the book.

This book was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it. In the past the author has written some very hot books. This is not as hot as her previous books. The hot scenes happen almost at the very end. For a majority of the book Rand and Charlie just kiss. I would call this a VERY slow burn book and because of the fake relationship, I did not think it was very romantic either. What it was was entertaining and I laughed a lot.