Hopeless by Elsie Silver | Chestnut Springs 5 |

📖 Book Information

Title: Hopeless
Author: Elsie Silver
Series: Chestnut Springs 5/5 (Interconnected Standalone)
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Publication Date: 13th October 2023
Format: Paperback
Pages: 386
ISBN: 978-0-349-43774-3
Language: English
Age Category: Adult

✨ Blurb

He doesn't believe that anyone holds her last name against her...so he offers her his.

Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past. Bailey Jansen is the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks. He's thirty-five and all man, and she's twenty-two and all...virgin.

He's also her fiancé. Correction: her fake fiancé.

It starts out as a bet, a point for Beau to prove. And it's a win-win: Beau gets a break from his concerned family's prying, and Bailey gets a chance to shed her family's reputation while she saves up to ditch this small town for good. All she has to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend she can't keep her hands off of him in public. Easy enough, right?

But it's what happens between them in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines. It's what transpires behind closed doors that doesn't feel like pretending at all. This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date.

Beau once told Bailey he'd never fall in love. She's determined to make him change his mind. 

❤️ Tropes

• Fake Engagement 

• Small Town Hero x Outcast

• Age Gap

• Virgin Heroine

• Grumpy x Sunshine

• He Falls First

• Touch Her and Die

🌶️ Spice Level

Rating: 🌶🌶🌶🌶

Description:
Explicit open door romance with frequent, highly detailed intimate scenes. 

⚠️ Content & Trigger Warnings

This book may contain themes including:

• Violence

• Death

• Mental health themes

• War and combat trauma (off page / recounted)

• Severe injuries and medical treatment (off page / recounted)

• Small town bullying

• Alcoholism (off page / recounted)

• Explicit sexual content

*Check the author’s website for a full list of trigger warnings. 

📦 Edition Details

• Signed: No

• Sprayed Edges:  No

• Foiled Cover: No

• Reversible Dust Jacket:  No

• Illustrated Endpapers: No

• Bonus Content: No

• Exclusive Edition:  No

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ℹ️ Additional Information

Please note that colours may vary slightly due to screen settings.

If purchasing a special edition, minor imperfections from the publisher may occasionally be present and do not necessarily qualify as defects.