Charming little romance that was a super fast read for me. Didn't connect with the characters as much as I would have liked to but overall it was a fun story!

So precious! Teenage crush ask you to fake marry them?! What could go wrong?! Oh about a million things! Ha! Derek was using Lilly to help score a sponsorship yet when it blew up in their faces, they kept the falseness going. Lilly has been in love with Derek a long time. It's so easy to see how this could be a huge mistake on her part. I was biting my nails through half way threw the book because you know someone is going to be heart broken, especially after the tumble in the sheets starts.

This was a funny fast read, about a racer millionaire and his childhood friend. The author did not really drag the story, although the break up make up cliché part existed, as expected, but the romance developed quiet fast but was not hasty in a way that it seemed forced.

This must have been a good read as I finished it in a day.
A light romance which was thoroughly enjoyable.
If you are down on the beach read this.

Lilly has a 5 year plan that just fell apart. Her fiancé dumped and she lost her job all in one moment. As she meets Derek for lunch, the boy next door growing up that she always had a crush on, she doesn’t know what she will do next. What she never expects is for Derek to ask her to be his fake fiancé. Derek is desperate to close a sponsorship deal so he can buy out his dad from the race team but the owner’s daughter wants to get her hooks into him. He has a brilliant idea, if I show up with a fiancé, she can’t pursue me and who better to ask than Lilly, a woman he’s known his whole life. Derek is totally career focused and doesn’t have time for relationships. Can these two friends act like a couple in love? Will Lilly’s heart be able to handle being this close to Derek? Or will love find them both along the way? I loved that Lilly knew what she wanted in life and worked for it. She was also the one person that never took any of Derek’s crap. Derek thinks he knows what he wants in life, his parent’s divorce shaping his perceptions but Lilly might just rock his foundation. There are incredible sparks and banter that make this fun, sweet, sexy romance totally enjoyable. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.

Derek needs a fiancée and his best friend Lilly is perfect for the job. Lily needs a do over, she lost her job and broke up with her boyfriend. She agrees to the pretense but as they spend time together their relationship doesn't feel pretend. Insecurities put a rift in the relationship and Derek has to make a big decision that affect his career and their future.

Didn't love the book. I was in the mood for a book filled with angst like old Harlequins, but this fell short for me.

If you love fast cars, sexy characters and southern charm...don't miss this book. When childhood friends re-connect it will be a reunion full of secrets. If they can charm their family then they just might discover they can find love in the least likely place.

This was the first time I've read any books by Ms. Michaels, but as you can see by my ranting I absolutely loved it. I'll be going back through her book list and adding to my TBR pile, that's for sure. I also love the whole friends-to-lovers shtick. It always ends by putting a smile on my face and this time it was a gigantic tooth showing smile. I thought Derek and Lilly were such a good couple. They meshed together so well. They made a couple that you'd want to hang out with be around somehow. Looking forward to reading more by this author.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

A Limited Engagement is a fast paced, and exciting read. Its premise is about fake engagements and what happens – well you have Lilly Harmon & Derek Sawyer. Lilly Harmon has had a crush on Derek Sawyer since she was a young girl. She moved on in life when Derek went moving on and moving up. Lily has just ended a bad relationship and then lost her job, all at the same time. Now she is back at the starting point, looking for a new job and starting over. When Derek learns that Lily is heading home, he offers her a ride on his private jet. But this isn’t a friendly offer of a ride home, he has ulterior motives.. He needs Lily to agree to be his fiancé so he can focus on business so that way certain people wont force themselves or their company views on him.
This story has many twists and turns to it. It is highly emotional and fast paced. I found myself drawn into Lily and Derek’s lives and their fake to real romance. Lily has always had true feelings, but watching Derek tumble for Lily and his feelings develop further and become more real was so beautiful. Also, this was a awesome story that involved car racing. Any story that has car racing and has a friends to lovers storyline is aces in my book.
My rating: 4.5 stars ****
"I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***

Book one in the Limitless Love series, A Limited Engagement uses one of my favorite storylines. Derek and Lilly have known one another for year because Lilly is Derek’s sister’s best friend! Of course, she has always had a huge crush on him since she was a young girl. Derek need help from Lilly to put off the oil baron’s daughter that is interested in him. He need the oil baron to sponsor him so what he can’t do us our right reject the persisted daughter, so he asks Lilly to pretend to be his fiancé. The only problem is a quick, quiet, and simple fake engagement gets messy when gets back to their parent who think it’s real. Derek isn’t ready to end their fake engagement because his parents are not only proud of their son, he also isn’t ready to end thing with Lilly. I love reading thing story because to read about a man falling for the girl he only saw is so fun. I would give this story 5 stars and definitely recommend it. It’s the perfect best friend’s brother/sister’s best friend HEA!

What happens when your childhood crush asks you to pretend to be his fianceé for the weekend? Well for Lily Harmon she didn't know if she would be able to handle it. Her fantasy coming to life, even for a weekend, just might push her over the edge. But she knows she can never say no to Derek Sawyer, Racing's Most Eligible Bachelor and the star of her fantasies since she was a teen.

Derek and Lily grew up together since he is her best friend's older brother but with him being 6 years older than her, she knew she never had a chance. So when Derek calls her out of the blue and asks her to lunch, then offers her a ride home - she was more than a little curious. Now she finds herself on a plane toward Dallas to play the soon to be Mrs. Sawyer, so Derek can try to win over a sponsorship without the Sponsor daughter throwing herself at him. Lily is a little confused as to why he would want to stay away from the gorgeous daughter of a billionaire but after he explains he's just not made for relationships... especially ones with daughter of the man who could help him buy into full ownership of his race team, she decides to play along. As long as it's only for the weekend.

Being famous has it's perks but also its own set of fall backs - one being that everyone now knows that Derek and Lily are engaged - including their families back in Georgia! What would it hurt to play along for a few more days... or weeks. The only problem is that sparks are flying between the two of them and it's hard to tell what's pretend and real anymore.

I loved Derek and Lily from the start. Their ease with each other is fun, flirty and sexy. Lily has her own set of problems she's trying to work through and having Derek there, someone she trusts immensely, she starts to let her guard down. Derek knows he's not made for a long term relationship. He saw how his father's leaving affected his family and no way does he want to put anyone else through that kind of heartache. But Lily... there's just something about her, that he doesn't want to let go.

This is a quick fun read and I'm a sucker for childhood friends to lovers troupes especially when it's the older brother :)

I can't wait for more from this series and hopefully book two will be about Derek's sister!

Lilly was meeting Derek for lunch. Lilly had grown up next store to Derek and his younger sister was Lilly’s best friend- Shana. Derek had been Lilly’s teenage crush. Lilly and Derek hadn’t seen much of each other since getting older with the exception of holidays with their family’s. Derek invited Lily to ride home on his private jet after they had lunch. Lilly didn’t believe Derek was attracted to her but that didn’t stop her from reacting to him. Lilly missed the conversations they used to have. Derek had dreamed of being a big car racer and he was. Derek also made Lilly feel safe in her own skin. Lily had hit Richard her ex fiance in the nose for cheating and he told her she was being transferred and going alone and she lost her job as he was also her boss and that ended her career at Reynolds, Sherman and green. Lilly’s five year plan was also no longer obtainable. Derek’s family was rich before Derek began racing. Derek had issues with his dad because he felt his father had destroyed his family for his business. Lilly loved working in PR but Richard had had said he would let every company near and far know she was a basket case. Derek was having lunch with Lilly to propose she act as his pretend fiance. He needed Lilly to help him then he could get rid of his father in his career and never have to speak to him again as he owned half of the racing team Derek was on. His father had helped Derek get started but Derek still resented him. He needed Lilly in order to get the Thomas Oil deal signed. The billionaire daughter Serena wanted Derek but for more than a fling and Derek only did flings. But if Derek rejected Serena that would mean he rejected her father.Serena was VIP of marketing for her father’s company. Lilly’s whole life Derek had argued with her, teased her, and annoyed her, bossed her around even but he had never complimented her that Lilly could remember but he was complimenting her now. Lilly agreed to be Derek's fake fiance for the weekend but then someone snapped a picture of Derek and Lilly coming out of the jewelry store and posted it online now everyone knew they were suppose to be engaged even their parents and hometown. Lilly and Derek decided to keep the engagement going for a couple more weeks.
I liked this story a lot. I learned something about car racing and all that goes into it so that was interesting. I liked how Derek’s dad was once “ he thought” Derek was engaged to Lilly but also when he let Derek know he wasn’t going to sell his share of the racing team. I loved How Derek and Lilly acted when they knew Richard was at the restaurant made me laugh. There was a lot of things I really liked about this story but for some reason it didn’t completely WOW me would give it a 4.5 if I could. I loved Derek and Lilly together and how Lilly was strong enough to walk away. I also loved how the book ended. I thought the plot was great. I also loved the characters and the ins and outs of this story and I recommend.

Rating 4.5/5
Lily Harmon is having a bad week . . . she’s spectacularly split with her boyfriend, seriously hitting him in the face in the process. That wouldn’t be quite so bad if he wasn’t also her boss. So now forget the wedding plans, time to start looking for another job - and soon, especially as he’s threatening to have her black listed so she’ll not be able to continue her career. On a brighter note, she’s meeting ‘the boy next door’, Derek Sawyer, for lunch. Now he’s the one she had the secret crush on all through her teens but he’s totally out of reach as a highly successful bad boy on the racing circuit. Their friendship has still lasted all these years and now he’s come up with a plan . . . he wants her to be his fake girlfriend to convince the daughter of an oil baron billionaire potential sponsor, Serena, who seems to assume she’ll get him as part of the deal! However, the that lady isn’t easily sidetracked and when news of their engagement reaches their parents they’re all ecstatic so the weekend engagement is lasting longer and getting more real every day . . . .

This is a classic scenario, the fake engagement, but it is given another twist by the couple having grown up together and knowing each other so well. The reactions of parents, friends and neighbours was superb at adding to the pressure by as the two main characters initially endeavoured not to give into their feelings for each other - but when they do, expect fireworks! There are plenty of sparks around and the secondary characters like Shana (Derek’s sister and Lily’s best friend) and Serena just add fuel to the fire!

This is a great read from start to finish and I thoroughly enjoyed reading how the two are so focussed on not taking advantage of the situations but love just has to find a way. It is a sweet yet hot romance that is brilliant to escape into. I look forward to reading more by this author in future.

Many thanks to the publishers for gifting me a copy of this novel, via NetGalley, with no obligation. This is my honest review.

I received this ARC copy of this book from the Publisher. I whole heartedly recommend this book. I give this book 5 stars. The storyline between two childhood friend was greatly written.

This is one of my favourite types of romance books. Derek and Lilly have been friends their whole lives. Derek needed Lilly to pretend to be his fake fiancé for a weekend to sign a big deal it worked after the weekend Lilly was heading back to their hometown as she was just fired from her job so she was going green home to find a new job. Well word got out about the fake engagement and it takes off so once they get home They continue with it as they spend more time together more feelings they start to have for one another. Derek gets scared and pushes Lilly away but in the end realized he has always loved her.

Desperate times require desperate measures, and that pretty much is where Derick and Lilly are right now for different reasons. He’s almost landed the big sponsor that he really needs for his racing career to truly take off, she’s just been dumped by a no good jerk of a man who takes away her future and her job. The problem for Derick is that the spoiled, entitled daughter of the possible sponsor considers herself part of the deal – as in she gets Derick for her own, for as long as she wants. That’s not going to happen. While Lilly is revising her five yer plan, majorly, she receives a proposal from her best friend’s brother. Okay, maybe she always had those secret childhood dreams that Derick would see her as the love of his life and sweep her off her feet… yeah, that never happened. What has happened is a proposal from the man he’s grown into, a man with a need for a fake intended bride, for a limited time. She’s probably crazy but she says yes – and the lies begin. Neither thought that this fake relationship would turn into something worth fighting for, right up until they almost lost everything.

A Limited Engagement is a fun, charming and quick read that delivers a solid romance. Derick and Lilly have chemistry between them and their underlying growing romance is believable, even if it is a battleground in many ways. Lies never work out well, especially the ones you tell yourself. Derick eventually realizes just what Lilly means to him – beyond the sponsorship. Watching him discover that forever isn’t a trap to be avoided was enjoyable – I love when a strong, stubborn man finally “gets” it.

If you’re looking for an entertaining romance to get caught up in then A Limited Engagement might be exactly what you’re looking for. I always get an extra kick out of starting a new series, one where I don’t have to catch up later. And this looks like a fun series to follow.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*

3.5 stars

What do you do when a socialite has her eyes set on you? Well you get a fake fiancé, right? A Limited Engagement by Bethany Michaels was a fun, quick read about finding love when you least expect it.

Lilly Harmon had a plan. A five-year plan where she would be working her dream job and on the path to marriage. Seemed sensible. Then it all went to hell. Now she has no job and lost her fiancé. Lilly, even with her plans and rules, was a fun and very likable character.

Derek Sawyer was the hometown boy that made it big. A sexy bad boy taking the racing circuit by storm. He was set to finally have his dreams come true, but he needed to finalize a huge sponsor. A sponsor that would change everything for him, but the deal included the billionaire’s daughter who wanted Derek for herself.

I liked Derek. He has a carefree attitude, but due to his family history, he had no intentions of ever falling in love, much less marrying anyone. But he needed a plan, and Lilly, his little sister’s best friend may just be the solution. The plan? A pretend engagement. One weekend, seal the deal and move on.

The only problem? Plans never go as intended! Now Lilly and Derek are finding themselves lying to their friends and family as well. It is with good intentions, but even good intentions lead to hurt. And now they are fighting an attraction and need that should be avoided at all costs. Derek knows Lilly is the forever kind of girl, but Derek only does in the moment.

And when all good things come to an end, people get hurt. Will Lilly and Derek realize what they could have in time? Or will all the lies catch up to them and destroy any chance they have? I enjoyed this story. Two friends that have known each other for a long time, the hot racing driver and the girl next door.

~ Liz

Derek and Lilly have been friends for a long so when he ask for a favor, she couldn’t really say no, cause being his fake fiancée may be the only way to see what it would like, I mean right her life is in shambles, but what's suppose to be fake is getting hard to control.

What does a person do when faced with a problem that is awkward and dangerous to their career? Create an out that seems beneficial but ends up more complicated.

Enter Derek. The big bad race car driver has it all. A career he loves, his pick of the ladies and a huge sponsor in the wings. If only said sponsor didn't come with unwanted strings. Enter Lily. She's hit rock bottom. Her career is in shambles. Her love life even worse and now her childhood crush is asking for a favor. Her complicated world just became a lot more interesting.

A Limited Engagement had all kinds of wrong, looking the perfect type of right. I've come across a few in recent years, but Ms. Michaels is right up there with the great ones. Anytime an author can involve a reader's heart from beginning to end, the story, the author and the characters are WINNERS.