The Billionaire's Hired Girlfriend

Alexia X. · Alexia Praks

Dec 2017 · Alexia X. Media

About this ebook

The Billionaire’s Hired Girlfriend is a new adult contemporary romance with an alpha male hero and a geeky, virgin heroine. They are flawed, funny, passionate, and very relatable for readers who enjoy contemporary romance and women’s fiction with strong family value.

Alexandra Stewart is dating the man of her dreams. But there’s a catch. The date is a masquerade and her Mr. Hot-Choc is gay, or so she thinks...

Family oriented Alexandra Stewart, known as Alex to family and friends, is in desperate need of money for her dad’s heart surgery. She is stoked when gorgeous, billionaire Jayden McCartney unexpectedly barges into her life and offers to help. On one condition. She must pretend to be his girlfriend. One look at Jay tells her to run in the opposite direction. He is too good-looking, too successful, and too rich for her liking. When she is told Jay is gay and that his family is matchmaking him with a woman he doesn’t love, she feels sorry for him. Thinking that she’d kill two birds with one stone, Alex agrees to the proposal. Now, the only problem is how does she prevent herself from falling madly in love with Jay when the way he looks at her makes her heart tremble and his touches set her body on fire?

Hot, recently single billionaire Jayden McCartney has to bring his girlfriend to his sister’s wedding in order to stop the matchmaking his grandmother has planned for him. Not in the mood for dating or a new woman after the discovery of his cheating ex, he hires a perfect candidate as his girlfriend in Alexandra Stewart. Alex, however, thinks he’s crazy. It’s only when he commits a sinful lie that would damage his manhood severely does she agree to help. He convinces her that he is gay and that the possibility of his family finding out would ruin them financially and socially. Now, Jay has to pretend to be batting for the other team, which turns out to be no easy task where the geeky turn sexy Alex is concerned because he wants her, and what Jay wants, he certainly will get.

Ratings and reviews

This is the guilty pleasure. Read something romantic and silly. You know when there is nothing but romance in the air? A super rich, super handsome, super caring guy falling for otherwise plain-looking, simple, and innocent girl. Yeah, it is a fantasy for all girls at some point in their life. So it doesn't hurt to read a glorified version of that story. It is a story of Jayden McCartney (Jay) and Alexandra Stewart (Alex). Jay has to bring his girlfriend to his sister’s wedding in order to stop the matchmaking his grandmother has planned for him (Really, do that have that in western culture as well? I thought it is only us the asian sub-continent folks who do that). Nonetheless, a few family members like Alex, the grandma doesn't. And Jay couldn't help himself from falling in love with Alex. The story takes a predictable path. However, like I said, it is a guilty pleasure read. A 2.5 on 5 stars.

I'm sorry for the low rating. don't mean to be harsh but it was really getting increasingly difficult to finish the book. the entire plot had too much high school drama, everyone seems so superficial and blind, when they are supposed to be sharp and smart enough to make themselves billionaires. too many holes in the story also, and the descriptions are way too repetitive i began to wonder if the author was having a hard time fulfilling the word count requirement. every one "cocked his/her head to one side" and/or "crossed his/her arms across the chest" at least once in every chapter, sometimes more. i was rolling my eyes at some point -- it was painful to hear yet another drama, or how everything was spelled out. only "rushed" to finish the last ~70 pages so i had closure; it was not bc i couldn't guessed the ending... which came with even more impracticality. *sigh* I'm sorry to be harsh but this is my honest opinion. i wish the author best of luck in her future endeavors.

Must be the worst book I have read in a long time. How does one even give this one a star? I got this book free so am not to miffed that I paid for it, however I am really miffed that I spent time turning the pages reading what one could only describe as a load of codswallop. Alex is a family orientated young lady? If so, do, you lie to your family about where and why you going for two weeks, especially overseas? Does your family not ask a zillion and one questions about your time away where you will be and where you will be staying and who else is going with you? Borne on a lie so that she would help him (Jayden aka Jay) out, gay for crying out aloud, then all the other crappy situations that just confirm, that most women are after "rich men" and will do anything to get their dream and desire, even, if it is being vindictive and malicious. These scenarios don't make sense, don't enhance the story line and certainly do not blend in with the theme of the book and it goes on and on for 296 pages. The secondary characters in Beth (the grand mother who also jumps to conclusions and makes all think she is right but changes her tune at the drop of a hat), Mary (the jealous and malicious gal in New Zealand) who hate Alex for whatever reason sure as hell don't add any more substance to the plot than does Kyle, Sarah and Britney or the business deal that Jay gets called to the office for during his sister's wedding reception. How does a haircut, a day at the spa let one let go of your inhibitions, your baggage, your issues, your naivety and all of a sudden you are a strong woman fighting the world and standing up for yourself? That when you say no the man still grabs you by the back of your head and kisses you and you go with the flow and allow it to happen? In, this authors mind it happens and no means a yes and, this happened and that was the change we saw in Alex. It is clear that the author did not research the effects of drugs and what one needs to do when one discovers that someone has been drugged. No wonder no one in Jay's family thought to call in a doctor, when they realised that Alex had been drugged by Kyle and whilst two days of sleeping, may have gotten the drug out the system, surely that should have been under a doctor's supervision? As a youngish billionaire he still lives with his mother and father in their mansion. He expected her to share his bedroom and after weeks of daily emailing she did not know this? Surely, all those details should have been straightened out before she missed the first fight from Australia to the USA. Neither Jay nor Alex's characters deepen with the progression of the story, they don't really get to know one another and seem to stay the superficial two people they were when they first met in New Zealand except both can slap other people's faces tell them they don't like them or beat them up. They have sex because he told her he loved her. He Skype chats with her parents to tell them who he is and what he did and they parents accept that without a tremendous amount of questioning and research? With all his money he should have arrived on their doorstep and done it in person, but isn't that what the world has come to? Text messaging, Skypeing and emailing is the acceptable way of doing things? Do these books ever get edited? Does the author actually have a couple of beta readers who read the book and come back with feed back and suggestions, about what works and what does not; what is inconsistent and what is not; what is realistic and what is not; what language changes need to be made? Jay in three different places is 27 then 28 and in another 30 years of age. It could have been a good book if only the author's mind was not jumbled up and some parts of the book had been seriously connected and the flow of thoughts a little more mainstream. I would not recommend this book to anyone.