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Cookout Carnage
2022
First Published
4.32
Average Rating
253
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One Fourth of July, two couples, complete carnage. From the mind of Evie Alexander and Kelly Kay come two sizzling friends-to-lovers novellas with a wild wedding, a fake family, diplomatic disasters and a runaway pig. These hot and hilarious stories are the perfect romcom recipe. Cookout Carnage contains two riotous romantic comedies: Up in Smoke and Off with a Bang. ♥♥♥ Off with a Bang - by Evie Alexander ♥♥♥ Posh Brit Tristan has fallen for his American work colleague over Zoom. When she invites him to spend the Fourth of July with her and her family, he leaps at the chance to meet face to face. Maybe they can be more than just friends? Sherilyn is in big trouble. She’s in love with someone she’s never met, and he’s just accepted an invitation she was sure he’d turn down. Tristan might think he’s about to meet a cute girl and her cookie-cutter family, but she’s Sherrie-Lynne, not Sherilyn. And when he discovers her family are lawless rednecks, he’s going to run a country mile. Now, Sherilyn has to produce a fake family and put on a show bigger than her small town’s Fourth of July celebrations. Can she pull it off, or will she end up driving both Tristan and her family away forever? ♥♥♥ Up in Smoke - by Kelly Kay ♥♥♥ Cute farm boy Jonathan is about to get married to the wrong person. He’s clinging to an ideal of love, but his bride-to-be seems more interested in his best man, and wants to eat his pet. Jonathan’s heart has always belonged to his friend Juliet, but she left town years ago. Now, the day before his nuptials, Juliet’s back and Jonathan’s had an epiphany. Can he get the right girl and find real happiness? Or is everything about to go up in smoke, including his pet pig? For fans of Kayley Loring, Tara Sivec, Lyssa K Adams, Talia Hibbert, Annika Martin, Vi Keeland, Lucy Score, Pippa Grant and Heather M. Orgeron. Cookout Carnage is perfect reading if you love: All the steam Alpha-rolls Belly laughs Book boyfriends Insta-love Irresistible charm Sassy heroines Swoony heroes Madcap rom com Whip Cracking wit Bridezilla And a runaway pig… Evie and Kelly’s Holiday Disasters are a series of madcap romantic comedy novellas with interconnected characters, focusing on one holiday and one trope at a time.

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Authors

Kelly Kay
Kelly Kay
Author · 22 books

I used to create "dreams" with my best friend growing up. We'd each pick a boy we liked, then we'd write down a meet-cute that always ended with a happily ever after. Now I get to dream every day, although it's a little steamier these days. And I've discovered I can and will write anywhere I can. Keep tuned to Instagram to see all the times I fit in a sentence or two. I'm a writer, married to a writer, mother of a creative dynamo of a nine-year-old boy and currently a little sleepy. I'm a klutz and goofball and love lipstick as much as my Chuck Taylors. Good things in the world: pepperoni pizza, Flair pens*, wine, coffee, laughing with my friends until my stomach hurts, a musician at the top of their game, getting lost somewhere I've never been, matinee movies on a weekday, the Chicago Cubs, a fresh new notebook full of possibilities, bourbon on a cold night, Fantasy Football, witty men, walking through the local zoo in the rain and that moment when a character clicks in and begins to write their own adventure. I'm just the pen.

Evie Alexander
Evie Alexander
Author · 14 books

Evie Alexander is an award-winning author of sexy romantic comedies with a very British sense of humour. A self-confessed ‘method writer’, Evie has taken it upon herself to live a full and messy life, from which romantic and personal failures become fodder for her laugh-out-loud plotlines. Imaginative, passionate and frequently called ‘bonkers’ by her friends, Evie’s interests include reading, eating, saving the world, and fantasising about people who only exist between the pages of her books. Her novel Highland Games won Best in Category in the The CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction 2021 and was a finalist in the American Book Fest awards for Romance Fiction 2022 Evie lives in the West country with her family, where she pens her steamy stories from the Smut Hut. Follow her blog for musings about the writing process, book reviews, and details about her stories, and follow her across social media for even more. If you would like to know more about Evie, please visit eviealexanderauthor.com, follow her on social media and sign up for her newsletter to get all the news from Evie Land, as well as excerpts and exclusive (and explosive) deleted scenes…

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