![]() ![]() ![]() Love and Shenanigans is the first book in The Ballybeg Series. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ROMANCE TROPES: second chance at love, friends to lovers, Vegas wedding, international, Irish hero, Irish romance. WARNING: This book features a crashed wedding, a labradoodle with attitude, and love and laughter, Irish-style. Can he salvage his bland-but-stable life? More importantly, can he resist losing his heart to Fiona all over again? In the space of twenty-four hours, he loses a fiancée and a job, and gains a wife and a labradoodle. But Gavin hadn't reckoned on Fiona blasting back into his life and crashing his wedding. Gavin Maguire's life is low on drama, high on stability, and free of pets. Can she untangle herself from the man who broke her heart so long ago? Does she even want to? ![]() When she discovers the drunken vows she exchanged with the groom during a wild Las Vegas trip eight years previously mean they're legally married, her future plans ricochet out of control. Three days before leaving Ireland on the adventure of a lifetime, Fiona Byrne returns to her small Irish hometown to attend the family wedding from hell. ![]()
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Pyotr Vladimirovich and his wife, Marina, love each other very much. This story was amazing and beautiful and it kept my attention the entire time.īut let’s get on with the plot…and I probably won’t do it justice because a LOT happens in this story. I don’t know if I’ve read a book I’ve liked this much in awhile. I was trying to find a bigger cover image, because I absolutely love this cover! But this is the biggest I could find. This review can be found on my Blog, TeacherofYA’s Tumblr, or my Goodreads page **I received a copy of this book free from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review** Publisher: Del Rey (Random House), 2017 (Jan 10) ![]() ![]() These beasts were created with the powers to regulate the environmental changes and cure some of the deadliest diseases. 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