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Role Play

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When a desperate author hires an escort to inspire her next book and the chemistry turns real, she must decide if their love story is a plot twist or a happily-ever-after... She wanted to write a bestseller. She wasn't ready for the plot twist. Being an... Read More
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When a desperate author hires an escort to inspire her next book and the chemistry turns real, she must decide if their love story is a plot twist or a happily-ever-after... She wanted to write a bestseller. She wasn't ready for the plot twist.

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When a desperate author hires an escort to inspire her next book and the chemistry turns real, she must decide if their love story is a plot twist or a happily-ever-after...

She wanted to write a bestseller. She wasn't ready for the plot twist.

Being an indie romance author was supposed to be a dream come true. But after publishing umpteen books, I still havenโ€™t โ€œmade itโ€ and now Iโ€™m just waiting for the dark cloak of insignificance to completely snuff out my career.

I decide to roll the dice on a marketing guru who swears he can yank me out of obscurity. But after a frantic search for โ€œbook boyfriend materialโ€ and an unexpected bar encounter, I accidentally blow my entire budget on an escort.

Forrest is a charming single dad by day and hotter-than-sin escort by night. But before I can fire him and ask for a refund, he reminds me how I got here in the first placeโ€ฆ Iโ€™m in desperate need of inspiration.

He might be a walking red flag, but Forrest is ready to be my muse, which means spending the next three months helping me โ€œresearchโ€ my next bestseller. (Hey, Iโ€™m manifesting here.) Our game plan? Act out all the romance novel tropes that make a bingeable love story: brooding billionaires, masked men, cowboys in small towns, and even swoon-worthy green flags.

Forrest plays all the book boyfriend parts perfectly. So perfectly Iโ€™m starting to wonder if his feelings for me might be real, or if heโ€™s just earning his paycheck. Iโ€™m not sure if Iโ€™m trying to write a love story or live one out.

After all, there is no such thing as happily ever after with a professional escortโ€ฆright?

Role Play is an enchanting blend of romance and wit, challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality. Will the book's heroine find her true ending, or is it all just an act?

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781964264264

Publisher: Meredith Wild LLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 October 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Page & Vine

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 283g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Kay Cove, an Amazon top 20 selling author, best known for Camera Shy, is a wife, boy mom, and accidental entrepreneur. She writes multiple romance sub genres, including contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Angst, swoon, banter, and happily ever afters are the common denominator in all her stories.

When Kay isn't writing you'll find her drinking copious amounts of coffee while researching scuba diving trips she never has time to take, and trying desperately to keep up with her toddlers.

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