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Follow Olivia, Miranda, and Heather, who discover the highs and lows of love in London (book series by Donna Alam), including a fake marriage, a surprise pregnancy, and a fake date/blackmail.
Love In London Series by Donna Alam: Books In Order
Are you ready for Donna Alam’s Love In London book series full of fun, hilarious humor, and romance? It is a collection of three standalone stories; however, it’s best to read the book series in order.
To Have and Hate: Love In London Book 1 by Donna Alam
Published: 5th August 2019
Format: Paperback, Audiobook and Kindle Edition.
Pages: 376
To Have and Hate is a standalone hate-to-love fest featuring an older hot Brit, a marriage of convenience, and a whole lot of fire and fun!
Beckett. Let me count the ways I loathe him.
1. He’s the bane of my existence.
2. A thorn in my side.
3. I’m pretty sure he’s the devil in disguise
Or he at least has him on speed-dial.
So why am I standing here, bouquet in hand, about to become his wife?
He calls it a business proposition.
I call it blackmail.
He says our fighting is foreplay.
I say he should be on meds.
He says he has the power to destroy my company.
I say with a husband like him, who needs enemies.
But I can survive this six-month calamity.
All I have to do is keep hating him . . .
Totally Booked UK Review: Olivia is on her way to pitch to a venture capitalist company. She is seeking investment within her dating app, E-volve; however, she’s running late. It doesn’t help that she trips over someone just outside the building. Something about the man brings out her fighting spirit, and she sees her clambering to get away from him.
Hoping that the pitch has gone well, she made plans with her friend Luke, who works for the company and has been helping her get the pitch meeting. Dinner doesn’t go to plan, and she finds herself seeking food elsewhere. She refused entry, but she was about to leave when the man from this morning turned up and invited her to have dinner. Bickering and flirting with each other, they leave together; however, Beckett puts an end to things before they go too far – much to the annoyance of Olivia.
Things get worse for Olivia when she arrives for a follow-up pitch meeting. She finds out that Beckett will be conducting the meeting, telling her how Luke has played her and persuaded his father to let her pitch so that he could get on her good side. If that wasn’t bad enough, Beckett suddenly offered her a proposition – marry him for six months, and he’ll invest the money she needed for her company.
There is a fine line between love and hate, as Olivia and Beckett discover, but are they willing to let their guards down long enough to let the other one in?
(Not) The One: Love In London Book 2 by Donna Alam
Published: 2nd October 2019
Format: Paperback, Audiobook and Kindle Edition.
Pages: 468
This is not (just) a story about accidental pregnancy. It’s a story about accidental love.
Three reasons why rebound s-e-x with my hot neighbor is a very bad idea.
1. My life is already complicated enough
2. He knows I wear Batman undies (please don’t ask)
3. He’s older, sophisticated, and so hot he makes me weak at the knees.
I know that’s more than three but it still didn’t stop me.
On paper, we’re the worst kind of match.
He’s rich and my second job is pet sitting.
He says we’re friends. I say barely, but I do love those benefits…
The man rocks my world but he’s not the one.
Which is unfortunate because he is the one who got me pregnant.
Totally Booked UK Review: Miranda attempts to put the last year behind her. Her relationship and engagement with Cameron went down the drain when she discovered he’d been cheating on her with her best friend. With nowhere to live and not wishing to return home to her fighting parents, she takes on a pet-sitting job alongside her marketing manager position at E-Volve. This leads her to first ogle the handsome neighbour and then end up in bed with him, following a runaway cat through the dog flap.
James (Harry) discovers Miranda in a moment of distress, stuck half in and half out of his father’s back door. Offering to help her, they chat and find a spark between them. Three weeks later, they meet again by chance. However, he is once again coming to her aide. Drunk following a bad phone call, he helps her sober up a little before rescuing her yet again in a club and spending the night together.
Feeling under the weather, Miranda isn’t sure whether she believes that she could be pregnant. They’d used protection, so how could this be possible? However, she is pregnant, and James takes the news surprisingly well. But having been hurt by Cameron and her arguing parents she is not ready to give her heart away anytime soon.
Will it be too late to tell James that she loves him? Do you ever get enough time with the one you love? Have the tissues at the ready for this one.
The Stand Out: Love In London Book 3 by Donna Alam
Published: 4th February 2020
Format: Paperback and Kindle Store.
Pages: 411
The Stand Out features a quirky girl and the office heartthrob, office enemies with (blackmailed) benefits, a fake relationship, and is full of fun, fire, and f—feelings!
Blackmail is such a dirty word . . .
I need a plus-one for a wedding. A stand-in,
And when my friends start dropping names, I panic.
But then an idea hits me in the form of Archer Powell.
Tall, dark, and gorgeous. Check!
Looks good in a suit. Check!
The office heartthrob,
He’s picture-perfect for the position.
Maybe even a few of them.
Dear Archer Powell,
You are cordially invited.
Your presence is requested
Your attendance is mandatory . . .
But what happens when your stand-in is a stand out?
Do you dare to fall in love?
Totally Booked UK Review: Heather isn’t looking forward to attending an upcoming work wedding. Having told her awful boss Haydn that she has a boyfriend. However, the person she had been seeing dumped her on her birthday. Her friends try to persuade her to hire an escort if she won’t go stag. Something she almost does until she has an idea of how to solve her problem – although it does involve a small bit of blackmail.
Archer has been working at E11even for a few months and has a reputation as the office heartthrob. After being seen with the boss’s daughter by Heather, he wonders whether she will keep quiet even though the meeting is platonic. Offering to keep his secret and ease suspicions from their big boss, Heather asks him to be her date at the wedding. Solving her date issue and hopefully keeping her boss off her back.
After agreeing to fake date for a few weeks, they go from bickering to falling into bed with each other. However, a chance to catch up with someone from Heather’s past has them questioning what they are doing and whether they can go their separate ways at the end of this arrangement.
Other Book Series by Donna Alam
If you enjoyed the Love In London series by Donna Alam, be sure to check out some of her other book series’ available.
One Night Forever by Donna Alam (2 Books): It was only meant to be one night but it turned out to be forever. Swoony second chance romances featuring international settings, alphalicious billionaires, and fabulous heroines.
No Ordinary Men by Donna Alam (3 Books): A duke, a pakhan, and a wine industry heir. They’re No Ordinary Men.