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Elle’s grandmother Lovie has always taken care of her for as long as she can remember. But remembering is just the problem. With Lovie’s Alzheimer’s progressing fast, it’s Elle’s turn to step up.
Leaving Chicago behind, the last thing she expects when she walks through the door of her childhood home is Adam Wheeler—in her bed. Live-in nurse and pain in the ass, Adam is here to do his job. Eat, sleep, nurse, repeat.
Thrown together to care for Lovie, tensions rise and lines are drawn, but there’s a bigger problem: in her Alzheimer’s riddled mind, Lovie’s convinced that Elle and Adam are madly in love.
Certain she’ll forget by morning, Elle and Adam play along. The only snag? She doesn’t forget.
Lovie is the only person who thinks this fake dating scheme is real…so why is Elle fantasizing about Adam when he’s not around? And why is it getting harder to pretend?
Fake It Like You Mean It is the perfect blend of romance, laugh out loud comedy, and heartbreaking beautiful moments.
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- ISBN: 9798892420655
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- ISBN: 9798892420655
- File size: 854 KB
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Languages
- English
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March 1, 2025
A podcaster finds herself stuck in a fake-dating scheme to please her ailing grandmother. There's no one Elle Monroe cares about more than her grandmother, Lovie. So, when Lovie's Alzheimer's worsens, Elle leaves her life in Chicago and her successful podcast behind to head back to her childhood home in Elkhart, Indiana. Elle doesn't expect to find a man in the house--and certainly not in her old bed--but Adam Wheeler is Lovie's new live-in nurse. Elle's annoyance at finding a stranger in her room is dwarfed by her hurt that Lovie no longer remembers her. The disease makes Lovie cranky, mean, and sometimes even violent. Strangest of all, she's convinced that Elle is actually a younger version of herself, while Adam is Bobby, her beloved late husband. Afraid to upset Lovie's fragile state of mind, Elle and Adam pretend that they're deeply in love, despite the fact that they initially can't stand each other. What starts out as mutual dislike, however, quickly turns to attraction, which presents a problem because Elle plans to move back to Chicago as soon as Lovie has a new living situation lined up. In her debut, Murphy poignantly highlights the pain of caring for a relative with Alzheimer's. Lovie's struggle with the disease feels real in its specificity (such as her insistence that every day is Monday and her need to garden daily, even in the dead of winter). Elle and Adam have so much chemistry off the bat that it's sometimes difficult to understand why they're resisting a relationship; still, they're both such likable characters that it's fun to watch them realize what the reader has known all along. A moving romance that balances the heartbreak of slowly losing a relative to Alzheimer's with the thrill of falling in love.COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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