The 30-Day Engagement

Written by Waverly Decker

Narrated by Rachanee Lumayno

Emory needs a win, a promotion…and a date to her ex-fiancée's Hollywood wedding in this sapphic fake-relationship rom com.

Emory Jordan has been rising through the ranks of the boys’ club at a venture capital firm in New York, where she’s competing for her dream promotion. When Emory’s estranged ex-girlfriend Mari—who broke off their engagement to pursue her acting ambitions—sends her a wedding invitation, it’s the perfect opening for Emory to pitch a business deal to Mari’s new tech mogul fiancé. More importantly, it’s a chance for Emory to prove to Mari that she has moved on from their breakup. The wrench in her plans: she’s been putting work at the top of her to-do list, and there’s nobody she can ask to be her plus-one.

But Emory has a knack for business strategy. Bliss Tully, a struggling florist with a good-vibes-only attitude, accidentally stabs her with a cactus, and Emory sees an opportunity. Bliss is short on trust—her father’s white-collar crimes left her with a deep aversion to the business world—but she’s also short on cash, so she agrees to pose as Emory’s fiancée. The job is only for a month and pretending should be easy money. Right? Mari’s wedding approaches, and Emory and Bliss grow closer, all too aware their engagement is nothing more than a thirty-day sham. As far as kissing the bogus bride, though, they both want to say I do….

You are cordially invited to the fakeout in this slow-burn contemporary romance about letting go of the past—and loving your future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Calhoun Howard
• Release date: May 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798986621029

Waverly Decker

Waverly Decker is a writer, editor, and (most importantly) reader of books of all kinds. The 30-Day Engagement, about two women who fake a relationship so that one can succeed in venture capital and also show her ex that she has finally moved on after being unceremoniously dumped, is her debut novel. She's also the author of a romance novella: Girl Gets Ghosted. She lives in New York. Visit her online at waverlydecker.com.

Reviews for The 30-Day Engagement

[Airun 357 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Oh so cute quick read! (hear?) Very beautiful voice acting too!

[JULIA TALBERT · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I so wanted it to be better. Narrator has nice voice, but it was confusing to keep track of which character was speaking/thinking, since everything sounded the same, with the same cadence. It could have been longer (my opinion), so characters were more developed, so I really liked them, or didn’t like them. I will read another of this author’s books. It wasn’t awful, or poorly written, it was more like lesbian-lite. Kinda watered down too much