Review - The Wedding Agreement by Elizabeth Hayley

Title: The Wedding Agreement 

Series: Strictly Business #3

Author: Elizabeth Hayley

Release Date: May 3, 2016

The author of Just Say Yes is back with another sweet and sultry Strictly Business novel about working hard and falling harder into an unexpected romance...

Love doesn’t always follow the same schedule...

Alex Walker doesn’t need a woman in his life. In fact, he doesn’t have time for one. Between his career in the FBI and the demands of being good father, romance is an unwanted distraction. 

Likewise, Cassidy Mullen is fine on her own. The independent career woman has never had a husband in her plans—forget about kids. But when her friend Alex gets into a bind with his ex over their daughter, Cass finds herself suddenly playing the part of Alex’s stable, child-loving fiancée—and liking it a lot more than she’d care to admit.

Soon Alex and Cass can’t deny the real passion growing between them. But as fake affection turns into real love, Cass and Alex will have to make a choice: say “I Do” to their feelings or give up on happily-ever-after for good...

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Hot FBI Agent who is also a single dad – check

Feisty Heroine – check 

Sassy Daughter – check 

Friends with Benefits – check 

Fake Fiancée – check 

Seriously, this book had so many awesome checks and much more. The Wedding Agreement is the third book in the Strictly Business series and was Cass and Alex’s story. We met them both in the previous books. 

Alex is an FBI agent and single father to Nina, a sweet and sassy little girl. After his marriage fell apart due to his dedication to his career, Alex just wanted to be a good dad. When his ex-wife Tessa, starts questioning his parenting, Cass jumps in and tells her they are getting married. 

So, what happens when the two jump into a fake relationship and plan a fake wedding? Do the feelings turn real? Or do they just go back to being friends? You will have to read and find out!

This story was fantastic! It was funny, sexy, and real! 

“He sounds like a drowning walrus,” Alex said. Cass looked at him curiously. “Can walruses drown?” 

And there were some super-hot scenes! 

“You’re really going to give it up to me on the street? You are a dirty, dirty girl, Cass.” 

There was so much that I loved about this book, but the relationship Cass had with Nina was my absolutely favorite! I also loved how much we got to see of all the other couples from the two previous books. I certainly we hope we get Simone’s story next! 

~ Review by Tiffany

Elizabeth Hayley is the pen name for "Elizabeth" and "Hayley," two friends who have been self-publishing romance novels since 2013. They are best known for the Strictly Business series, including The Best Medicine, and the Pieces series, among other novels.

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Review - Just Say Yes by Elizabeth Hayley

Title: Just Say Yes

Series: Strictly Business #2

Author: Elizabeth Hayley

Release Date: December 1, 2015

From the author of The Best Medicine comes the latest Strictly Business novel—and this time, for one woman, finding the ideal man can be a pretty tall order…

Magazine columnist Quinn Sawyer has always attracted sweet, innocent, and safe men. And something tells her it’s because she’s just as harmless. So when she starts craving a guy with an edge, she realizes she may have to get one for herself.

When her boss asks for a unique pitch, Quinn’s quest to live outside her comfort zone prompts her to suggest an idea that will cause her to break her good-girl rules. And who better than Tim Jacobs to help her push her boundaries? For a while now, Quinn’s had a hot crush on the tattooed executive chef with a checkered past. If anybody can bring out her inner rebel, he can.

It’s no surprise that with every task the two complete, the sparks between them grow more and more intense. Soon there’s no denying the attraction they each feel. But Tim’s troubled past reveals an even tougher edge than Quinn expected—which means for her, falling in love might just be the greatest rebellion of all.

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So, I pretty much loved everything about this book! It was sweet, sassy, sexy, and funny—a perfect combo of feelings throughout the entire story. And the title was impeccable!

“Carpe diem, Quinn. Today is the first day of the rest of your life (is that how that corny saying goes?). Anyway, I decided that we needed to up the stakes for your first foray into Good Girl Gone Bad-dom.”

Quinn is the reliable one, the safe one, the one you can always count on. However, she isn’t adventurous and doesn’t enter into uncomfortable situations. She is the good girl. But she’s tired of that and when she pitches an idea to her editor to write an article about a good girl who turns bad, even by little increments, she must now complete the tasks.

Tim is Scott’s older brother. He has lived a hard life and has been the bad boy for far too long. As Quinn’s friend he decides to help her with her foray into bad girlness, since she can’t do it alone. 

What neither of them expected was to fall for the other. 

“Mark me, Quinn. I want to wear the proof of what I did to you for days. I want to look at my back and know that I made you come so hard, you had to hold on for dear life.” 

Even though he can’t stop his attraction to Quinn, Tim feels unworthy of a girl like her due to his past. 

“Yes, you can make me worthy of you.”

I really loved everything about this book! I read it quickly and only put it down when I had to. I really loved watching Tim turn into the man that Quinn knew he was. We got to see Lauren and Scott from The Best Medicine, which I absolutely adored, as well as the rest of the cast from that book. We also met some new secondary characters, and I loved Roger as well as Tim’s friends from the pool hall. I can’t wait for the next story in this series of friends! 

~ Review by Tiffany

Elizabeth Hayley is the pen name for "Elizabeth" and "Hayley," two friends who have been self-publishing romance novels since 2013. They are best known for the Strictly Business series, including The Best Medicine, and the Pieces series, among other novels.

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Review - The Best Medicine by Elizabeth Hayley

Title: The Best Medicine 

Series: Strictly Business #1

Author: Elizabeth Hayley

Release Date: June 2, 2015

The first novel in a sparkling and sexy new contemporary romance series about four best friends looking for love in all the right places—and the one woman who discovers that it takes more than an impeccable bedside manner to make dreams come true…

Lauren Hastings is finally ready to enter the real world. At twenty-six, she’s about to get her master’s in psychology, and she’s well on her way to beginning the career of her dreams—until she suffers public humiliation and has to endure something she thought she’d never have to deal with again: a part-time job.

A gig at Trinity Hospital isn’t exactly Lauren’s definition of a good time, but Dr. Scott Jacobs quickly changes her mind. He’s straight-up gorgeous, and he always gets what he wants. And that includes Lauren. It’s an ideal arrangement for both of them. No strings. Just fun—at least at first.

But feelings quickly begin to run deeper than either Lauren or Scott is willing to admit, causing issues neither of them want to confront. After all, who wants to risk the perfect relationship on something as terrifying, as messy, and as unpredictable as love?

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This was my first book by this hilarious writing duo and it will not be my last. The Best Medicine was fantastic! It was the perfect blend of funny, sexy, emotional, and hot!

“Let’s see how wet you are for me.” He plunged a finger inside, then two. “Goddamn, you’re soaked. I’m dying to fuck you.” “Then fuck me,” Lauren countered.

Lauren is a graduate student who ends up working at Dr. Scott’s practice thanks to a misunderstanding. Her mom pulled some strings and got her the job but what Lauren didn’t expect the attraction between her and Scott.

“Lauren, I swear to God, if you don’t jump on that like a trampoline, I’m going to have to rethink our friendship,” Simone threatened.”

Dr. Scott Jacobs is many things; a genius, a dirty-talker, possessive. But he hides scars from his childhood that make him live by a certain set of rules. He’s never broken any of his rules, until Lauren entered his life. Suddenly, he doesn’t know who he is anymore.

“He was again overwhelmed by how deeply she seemed to see him. When she looked at him, she seemed to be dissecting him—as if she were trying to fit pieces of a puzzle together. It surprised him how badly he wanted her to figure him out.”

The two enter a physical-only relationship, but a friendship quickly forms as well. When things start to get messy, will they run or stick it out? You will have to read to find out and believe me you won’t be disappointed. 

I couldn’t put this book down! It made me laugh, cry and need to change my panties. I loved everything about it, especially all of the secondary characters. I can’t wait to find out who the next book is about, hopefully Alex and Cass.

~ Review by Tiffany

Elizabeth Hayley is actually "Elizabeth" and "Hayley," two friends who love reading romance novels to obsessive levels. This mutual love prompted them to put their English degrees to good use by penning their own. The product is Pieces of Perfect, their debut novel. They learned a ton about one another through the process, like how they clearly share a brain and have a persistent need to text each other constantly (much to their husbands' chagrin). 

"Elizabeth" lives with her husband, daughter, and nutjob of a dog. "Hayley" lives with her husband, son, and her own crazy dog. Thankfully, their children are still too young to read. 

Elizabeth Hayley's writing motto is best captured by the words of Patrick Dennis: "I always start with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind."

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