The Bride’s Runaway Billionaire by Pippa Grant

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Having a vacation fling with your celebrity crush is fun and easy with no strings attached, right?

A solo honeymoon in Fiji to recover from the viral wedding disaster that almost had me married to the wrong man? Yes, please.

Tripping over my number one celebrity crush, who is hungover and asleep on my bungalow porch? Not exactly in the plans, but I can roll with it.

Turns out Jonas Rutherford, Razzle Dazzle movie star and heir to the entertainment conglomerate’s billions, is hiding here too after details of his scandalous divorce went public.

I didn’t think inviting him in for a hangover cure would lead to us getting friendly. And friendlier. And then—okay, yes.

I slept with him. Who can blame a girl? When you’re suddenly single and the number one guy on your freebie list is available, you leap.

But when I wake up the next morning, I discover I’m not the only runaway.

He’s ghosted me.

It’s fine. I’m fine. Neither one of us is in a position to start an actual relationship.

But three years later?

When he crashes my brother’s wedding?

Where the son that he’s just discovered we have is serving as ring bearer?

Life was a lot easier when I was just a runaway bride.

The Bride’s Runaway Billionaire

Very good!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💜🩷🩶🤎💙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☹️😄😍😮
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Emma Monroe – she went viral as a runaway bride, when she decided to skip out on her wedding at the last minute. She ran when she found out what her fiancé Chandler did to her brother Theo years ago, and she realized that Theo and her friends were all right about Chandler. She wanted to get away from the notoriety by going on the honeymoon in Fiji which was non-refundable. She isn’t the kind of badass female that takes things in stride, she is the kind of person who hides in the closet when the hotel staff come to clean her villa.

The Hero: Jonas Rutherford – his divorce was recently finalized, along with all of the juicy details. His famous wife left him after just a few months of marriage. Like Emma, he runs away to a gated resort in Fiji to escape the paparazzi while everything blows over. He is in the middle of an epic scandal and fall from grace. He is from a famous Hollywood family. He feels like slime and just wants to hide away.

The story: Emma is returning to her villa one evening and she finds a drunk man on her doorstep. He is rambling on about some woman who hurt him, and his words sound familiar to Emma. She thinks she might know the man, so she goes into her villa and hides, when she realizes that the man is Jonas Rutherford, a movie star and her number one celebrity crush. Though if rumors about why he got divorced are true, Emma doesn’t want to know him and her crush might be over for good.

I love the fact that this wasn’t just a drunken one night stand type of book. Jonas decides to cheer up Emma and they hang out together and do touristy things in Fiji. They actually have fun together and becomes friends. Though after they do sleep together, Jonas ghosts her in the morning. I liked the surprise when they meet again in a few years. The story was good and I liked it quite a bit.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Connor Crais and Savannah Peachwood. These are two of my favorite narrators. Connor Crais has a deep, sexy voice, which I love for male romantic Heroes. Savannah Peachwood has a soft, feminine voice and she is very expressive. Both of these narrators did a terrific job.

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