e-ALC, 10:51:24
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Teddy Hamilton
Release Date: December 2, 2025
Published by: Tantor Media, Inc.
Read from: December 15-17, 2025
Stand-alone
Source: PRH Audio App (I received this ALC free from the publisher and their app. This did nothing to influence my review!)
Content Warning: Dementia, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic Relationship
For Readers Interested In: Adult, Audio, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Fake Dating, Realistic Fiction, RomanceA secret romance writer discovers that the hottest story of summer might just be the one happening between her and the Prime Minister’s bodyguard, from the international bestselling author of Set On You.
Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she’s the no-nonsense, steadfast personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada’s wife. By night, she slips out of her heels and writes romance novels under a top-secret pen name. But when her steamiest book, The Prime Minister & Me, unexpectedly becomes a bestseller, rumors of a real-life affair between her and the PM start swirling out of control.
Enter Nolan Crosby, the PM’s new close protection officer (aka bodyguard) – and Andi’s failed one-night stand from three years ago. Nolan’s in town very temporarily to care for his mother, who’s battling early-onset Alzheimer’s. But when the scandal erupts, Andi ropes him into a fake-dating plan.
As loyal employees, they’ll pretend to date for the summer, just long enough to put the scandal to bed and save their boss’s reputation. In an unexpected plot twist, Andi and Nolan discover that keeping their romance strictly fictional might be easier said than done.
*MY THOUGHTS*
I was a little iffy on this one because I’m not usually a fan of body guard books. Only because it feels weird. Kind of like they’re a security guard or something. And we all know how I feel about books with them in it. Just not my cup of tea. But this one was different. i enjoyed this for the most part, but I did still struggle in some places.
The places I struggled were small though; like I kind of felt like there was too much going on? There was someone suffering from dementia, the fake dating, the book being written, the one night stand, the ex, the bestie it was just a lot. Because of that I felt like it could have been edited down a bit. Some of those things could have been fun deleted scenes or something, but they didn’t have to be in the story.
I did like their back stories for the characters and their parents, and the information the book held on dementia and alcoholism. As someone who’s dealing with an aunt who has dementia right now, this was a hard, but nice thing to see. It was good to see good representation of the condition, but also so hard to see it played out in front of me.
I also liked the rom com element to this. When I say I hollered when they said the reason they had to start fake dating. I thought for sure this was a lie lolol The tabloids were reaching for Mars with that one. But it was just enough of a silly thing to really do some damage for the Prime Minister. I laughed a lot during this book just over the little things. Their fake dating plan wasn’t a little thing, but it was enough to have me LOLing for real out loud.
I have to say tho I didn’t understand why his wife was so mad at her. She knew that there wasn’t anything going on with her husband, so why did she insist on making them do things her way? She was too controlling and I was glad when Ando grew a pair. And I mean with her and her bestie. She was letting them walk all over her and she deserved better. I was glad when she demanded it.
I haven’t found a bodyguard book that I enjoyed in a long time. This one just so happened to do it for me. I think this is my favorite Amy Lea so far actually. It was a bit wild, but I was glad to be along for the ride.
Overall, I give this
