Lonestar Lovers by Jessica Lemmon is a sexy stand alone contemporary romance. Overall a great story featuring wonderful characters with loads of chemistry.

Great story with likable characters but I took out 1 star because I don't like OW/OM drama - especially when H or h has been married before. For me, I like my protagonists heart free of others......

“Lone Star Lovers” by Jessica Lemmon is book one of her Dallas Billionaires Club miniseries and marks her debut with Harlequin Desire. What a fabulous debut it is!
Filled with a lot of sexy times, the chemistry between Zach Ferguson and Penelope Brand is hotter than a Texas summer.

Zach is CEO of Ferguson Oil and met Penelope for the second time in a Dallas jazz club (the first time was in Chicago). He liked what he saw, as did she, and they had their one night never expecting to see each other again.
Penelope, a PR maven, relocated to Dallas to start over. She’s hired to clean-up the mess made by the mayor’s sister, Stefanie Ferguson. It isn’t until the mayor’s birthday party that Pen finds out who Zach really is.
Then the fun begins.

Zach is all about fun – not wanting to give his heart to another ever again. Pen has been burned before by mixing business with pleasure. But when Zach has a PR issue of his own, Pen agrees to be his fake fiancé. Then she discovers she is pregnant and Zach and Pen have to decide if their fun times together will turn into happily-ever-after.

“Lone Star Lovers” is an irresistible read starring two people who find it difficult to resist each other.
This reader is excited to see what Ms. Lemmon has in store with the next book in the series.

Penelope is kind of an "Olivia Pope" and prides herself in being able to fix any PR nightmare. When Zach has a problem Pen solves it by being his pretend fiancé. Then things get complicated. Fun, sexy romance!

Zach, sexy Texan, playboy extraordinaire, was the one to announce their fake engagement to avoid scandal. But what happens when their one-night stand leaves Penelope pregnant? This independent PR lady maps out a plan... I really enjoyed reading this story and CANNOT wait to read about Chase!

Received an arc from netgalley.

I am a sucker for pretend romances and this just hit me in the right spot.
I liked that Pen is the one who tries to be more logical and try to keep to the PR plan and Zach is the one who is more impulsive and reckless.
I like the hint of a series coming.

I received a complimentary arc from Netgallery

This was a short and sweet romance that I really enjoyed. It stars Penny, a PR guru and Zach, the mayors brother and Penny's former one night stand.

Essentially Zach has a crazy ex wife who he claims to be engaged to Penny to avoid. Then later Penny finds out she is pregnant and so Zach wants to marry her but she tries hard to resist. It was a fun story with fun characters. The ex is a plot device for a fake engagement and that is it. The story is more about Zach and Penny having a baby together than anything else.

The cover, yes the cover, is perfect. Why would I point out the cover? Because once you read this you will understand just how perfect it really is and the visual it gives you matches the wonderfully written story inside. That's what her writing and stories do- you can completely visualize the characters and feel like you are there with them. The story comes to life in your mind while you read. It just flows. I received the copy mid morning, began it late in the evening and had it finished by bedtime- but I'll tell you, if the next book in the series had been done I would have kept reading! We got a hint of her Crane series (which I love), and of the siblings who's stories are next to come. Quick read, and an author you'll want more of!

3.5 Stars

I didn't read the first in this family series, but it was easy to pick up. Good girl dazzles the mayor by getting his wayward sister out of deep poop. That same PR gal had a one night stand with the heir of the family. They meet again, he is once again in trouble and concocts a fake engagement to ward off his ex wife (don't ask!)

Anyway, things moved way to fast for me and lost their believability factor. But I am intrigued by the wild younger sister and will keep my eye out for her book.

There's a challenge to writing books in which the heroine is pregnant for a good portion of the book. The author, at least in my opinion, has to convince the reader that the couple would be together even if there was no baby. A lot of books in this trope suffer here, as the romantic relationship relies too much on the baby and isn't developed to where you believe they are a couple who love one another and their child.

In this case, they were also dealing with having to stay together, or figure out a way to explain splitting up and the baby...because there was also a fake engagement.

Zack and Penelope have everything pointing to them not working: fake engagements; crazy ex's who shriek like their are in the movies (no spoilers, but best line ever); surprise pregnancies; insane family expectations and relationships. Nothing about the situation is simple, and they face reasons to call it quits often, but they don't. I loved how well constructed this was, how it heightened the relationship with each test they faced, each conversation really built the relationship and moved it forward.

Penelope wants the romance, and the once in a lifetime love. Zack has closed himself off from ever falling in love again, and thinks a relationship where they are both committed to being parents and really like each other is enough.

I loved how clever this was, to take where so many of these books seem to build the relationship (around the baby and not the romance) and put it in the forefront of the story by making this exactly what Zack is trying to do, while failing spectacularly because he is falling in love with Penelope.

This, really, is exactly what you want from a romance, at least it is what I want, and it is the reason I read them. I want the fairy tale, I want the hero to love the heroine (even if it is in spite of himself) and to realize that a life without her isn't what he wants, and that the things he thought mattered, and the things he believed, have all changed now that the heroine is in the picture.

Is this a fairy tale? Yes, yes it is. And, this book tells the fairy tale incredibly well.

Challenge accepted and met, Ms. Lemmon wrote a book I believed, and enjoyed. I recommend this title.

This was a quick cute read as is the case with most harlequin stories. Pen and Zach are a well matched pair, both are a bit gun shy but very interested in one another this could have been a full length story but worked well in this format too.