![]() ![]() Thanks to a selfish, absentee father, an unconventional mother, and, she now realizes, a partner who never encouraged her to grow as a person, Laurie puts her own desires last. Jamie is a classic playboy felled by love who’s written endearingly and convincingly: “I scoffed at the idea anyone could make you see your life through new eyes and I’m so, so glad to be wrong.” Laurie’s intelligence and acerbic wit-especially as they relate to navigating English society as a woman of color-are strengths that can obscure uncomfortable feelings. Jamie and Laurie are attracted to one another, make each other laugh, and, they learn, have childhood trauma in common. Hoping for a bit of revenge, newly single Laurie agrees to pose as “Phony Goddess” to “Greek God” Jamie Carter, her new colleague and a known “soulless womanizer.” Jamie is gorgeous and charming but needs to appear settled to secure a promotion, and he thinks earning the affection of Laurie, the firm’s “golden girl,” is the surest route. When Dan sits her down one evening, Laurie expects anything but to hear him say he's moving out and then to hear soon after that he has a new girlfriend. Laurie Watkinson has a corporate law job she loves, dear friends, and Dan, her dependable live-in boyfriend who works in the same firm. ![]() A jilted British attorney gets more than she bargained for when she agrees to a fauxmance with the office playboy. ![]()
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