n American in London is a delightful and enjoyable romantic comedy that focuses on the story of Tuesday, who is sent to London by her firm to determine if her job is secure, and Ben, a billionaire who she mistakes as her favorite movie star. Ben is wanting to buy a chain of hotels owned by a Duke who is a strong family man. Tuesday and Ben continue to cross paths in London and with the help of his friend, Nick, convince her to pose as his fake fiance. The main characters in this book are diametrical opposites in personality and life stories. This charming romance has secrets. plot twists, fun and willy banter, strong emotions, and steamy chemistry. I highly recommend this well written and excellent romance.

4.5 Stars!

An American In London by Louise Bay is replete with two very likeable main characters, a fake engagement, and lots of fun. The story takes place in London, where Tuesday Reynolds is temporarily working. Tuesday is from New York City and through no fault of her own, her life has forever changed. Not only did she discover her fiance was cheating, her job is in jeopardy. As a result, she has to prove her worth to the company. The only bright spot is that a famous actor that she has lusted after most of her life is from England, and she is hopeful to get a glimpse of him.

Ben Kelley is a billionaire and one of the sweetest guys a woman could want. His need to purchase a luxurious hotel is for sentimental reasons. Ben is also a dead ringer for the actor Tuesday lusts after. They become fast friends after bumping into each other in the park and a local coffee shop. One thing leads to another and they fall in love.

If you enjoy a novel with a strong heroine and a hero that exceeds all expectations, then check out this well-written read. Overall, this is an entertaining book that twists and turns in all the right places.

Complimentary copy provided.

4⭐
1🌶️

As always, I really enjoyed this story of Louise's, where we meet Tuesday and Ben, who happen to create and star their own romance movie 💗🎬

Tuesday life is falling apart by the seams - having to save her career, sort out her current housing situation and navigating life as a singleton, after she finds out her ex-fiancee cheated. She finds herself on a fast track management programme in London, UK for the next five weeks, in order to save her job.

As luck would have it, the hotel she's staying at is hosting a Daniel De Luca event. He's a well known movie star, heart throb to many and also happens to be 14 year old Tuesday's crush. Her late mom was also a fan of his, which she remembers her fondly from the times they would bond over his films.

Tuesday can't believe her eyes when she happens to spot Daniel passing by in Green Park. Except, she makes a fool of herself when she realises it isn't him at all but someone who looks very much like him. Embarrassed from her misunderstanding, she doesn't think much of it until she repeatedly bumps into him again in random places. If this isn't fate, I don't know what is.

Ben is desperate to close on a deal with the Duke of Brandon, who owns a prestigious hotel group. However, he's not willing to sell for money alone (which Ben is nothing short of!). He wants to continue the legacy and Ben is running out of ideas.

Enter Ben's best friend, Nick who suggests he finds a fake fiancée to show the Duke he's settling down and a family man at heart - someone who has the exact same values as him. Ben think he's being ridiculous until he thinks maybe this mutual agreement could be his only option to date. That is, unless he can persuade Tuesday to agree 😁

Oh lord, the swoon factor in this book! Ben was such a Classic A grump but I loved how Tuesday managed to get under his skin and change all that! The way in which we could see him thawing under Tuesday's charm and those smirks of his that only she could elicit from him! He was such a cutie for indulging in Tuesday's crush over DDL, spoiling her and "recreating" the scenes that meant so much to her.

Ultimately, I did really feel for Tuesday and how much she missed her mom. I loved how London gave her hope and faith and some sort of closure to the grief she's managed to hold onto. It was bittersweet of Tuesday visiting certain places of DDL's film career and wishing her mom was present... How her mom would get a kick off just being in London. I adored how Ben gave her strength to become a person not living in grief, but someone who fought for what they really wanted. Ben was someone she never knew she needed, who loved her like no other and made her feel whole again.

However, my only critique is I wished this book was dual POV (with Ben) as I felt it was lacking his side of the story. There just seemed so much more of his life/background we never got to see and I would have loved to read the scenes of him slowly falling for Tuesday!

Thank you so much to Louise and Netgalley for the eARC, in exchange for an honest review 🫶🏻

Ben and Tuesday are just the perfect couple and characters! I really enjoyed their story from the first page onwards. It was so unique and fun and gaaah Ben was just very swoonworthy thats for sure and he really needed someone like Tuesday in his life!

Louise Bay managed to capture me with this amazing story! I cant wait to see what she comes up with next!

4.5 Stars

**Witty, Feel-Good, Engaging **

'An American In London' is a witty, chemistry-filled story about a fake engagement that develops into something more.

Tuesday, an American in London recovering from the collapse of her long-term relationship, finds herself unexpectedly involved with Ben, a billionaire looking to secure a business deal and in need of a fake fiancée. What starts out as a mutually beneficial arrangement soon becomes something unexpected, simmering with engaging tension.

The sharp and playful banter between Tuesday and Ben really had me hooked. This story was heartfelt and humorous but also laced with deeper emotional undercurrents.

From Tuesday and Ben's first chance meeting to unexpected tender moments, this book feels fresh, has clever dialogue, emotional depth, and a relationship you can't help rooting for. I really enjoyed this sparky, feel-good, well-written romance.

The cover is hot.
And so is the story.
A stroke of fate means that she has to leave the USA.
You simply have to love these two characters. I liked them straight away.
The writing style is also great and the setting is well described so that you always know where they are.
A clear reading recommendation from me!!!!!

This book was SO much fun! I laughed a lot at the dialogue back and forth between the hero, Ben, and the heroine, Tuesday. I loved that he kept calling her different names. “Like not Wednesday” This story was great! The characters had goals and growth. The plot was fun! The writing was top notch! The conflict was real and present throughout the whole story. This was the best fake-fiancé, billionaire romance I’ve ever read! I did not want to stop reading every time I opened my kindle. I’m a huge Louise Bay fan, and this book did not disappoint. I received this book from Montlake and Netgalley. All opinions are my own.

🎧📚AUDIO & EBOOK REVIEW📚🎧

Okay, so I *read* this story one and *listened* twice in the last 2 months because … swooooooonfest (lol) plus, I really love 🩷🎙️Erin Mallon🎙️🩷 and 💙✍️Louise Bay✍️💙 so it was no hardship! #winning (Thank you, Montlake (Amazon Publishing) and Brilliance Publishing for the ARC & ALC) :)

You guys, Louise Bay makes me happy. I know I’ve said a bunch of other times but now I’m adding something more lol. She makes me happy not just because her stories make me swoon and smile, but because I’ve been reading/listening to her stories since the wheel was square and she has grown her craft as the years progressed, but I can still go way back to one of her first books and feel the same love I do today. LISTEN, that’s rare. Everyone grows and everyone goes through stages in their life and sometimes what “was” is not the same in the “now”. Totally normal, but with Louise, what “was” is the “now” as well and that just makes me happy.

But I digress LOL Lets’ talk about An American in London specifically! Well, I’ve already told you it was a complete swoonfest for me, so there’s that. It’s a “happy” story. It’s sweet with just the right amount of sexy. It’s entertaining, heartfelt and heartwarming. I liked the storyline “almost” all the time, but those “almost” aren’t significant enough to talk about in detail. If you’re looking for a sweet, feel good romance, here you are!

I really wanted to like this book more - the blurb had all the things I wanted out of a cute romcom: fake dating, forced proximity. My first clue that I wasn’t vibing with the book was when the MMC looks exactly like a actor the FMC and her mom were obsessed with (and the hotel she’s staying at is having a convention for said actor’s fans)? It felt over the top in a bad way.

The second strike was the driving force behind the faking dating: Ben needs to appear like a family man to close a deal - and so he turns to a woman he’s met 3 times because his friend suggests it. Toss in there that technically Tuesday (yes, her name is a day of the week) technically works for him already creating a really strange power dynamic? I was out.

Do I think there is a market for this book? Definitely. Am I the target audience? Does not appear so.

An engaging and heartwarming romcom as American Tuesday Reynolds arrives in London on a make-or-break work trip only to find out her hotel is home to a convention for a popular actor she’d spent her teenage years fangirling over with her late mother which evokes a lot of memories for her. Coincidentally she also kept bumping into his doppelgänger in the shape of businessman Ben Kelley, who must’ve thought she was stalking him as it the number of times it happened. Ben was the typical reserved Brit, so uptight you were sure he’d have creases ironed in his jeans, while Tuesday with her bubbly personality had never met a stranger, but Ben’s dry sense of humour soon made an appearance as he teased her, working his way through the week and deliberately getting her name wrong. Somehow, they end up faking an engagement for the sake of a business deal and they’re soon off for a weekend ‘hunting, shooting & fishing’ with the aristocracy. But as usual in a situation like this the more time they spend together, the more the lines begin to blur between fact and fiction and to add pressure, they actually like the people they’re attempting to fool.

This was a fast paced, fun read with fabulous characters and a definite feel-good factor that’ll keep you smiling throughout your read. Tuesday and Ben might’ve been complete opposites, but being with Tuesday made him ‘stop and smell the roses’ rather than being all about his next big deal even though his reason for wanting the hotels was surprisingly sentimental. The parts of the story involving Tuesday’s memories were especially well written and bittersweet but made her smile and you got the sense this was the first time she had been able to think about her mum and remember the good times instead of mourning her loss. Definitely one of my favourite books from this author.

Louise Bay, to me, is a contemporary version of Lisa Kleypas or Sarah MacLean. You know exactly what you're going to get and you know you're going to enjoy the heck out of it. Ben and Tuesday were adorable. This was the perfect balance of romcom homage and original content. Did I immediately know which brown-and-white polka dot outfit Bay was referencing? Yes. Did I look it up to find a matching set version and buy it? Also, yes. Each mention was nostalgic and, most importantly, served a purpose.

The concept of Ben as the doppleganger was a beauitful tool to explore growth and grief, while also adding levity to the story. The characters of the Duke and Duchess were great additions to the story and fully devleoped instead of placeholders and I thoroughly enjoyed every contribution they made to the plot. The ending was beautifully done, and this is one of the few books that was so well-executed from start to finish that I didn't even care it wasn't dual pov.

If you're looking for something to make you feel warm and joyful, this one is for you.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC. Thoughts and opinions are my own.

Oh my how I loved this book. Louise Bay is a longtime favorite author of mine, and she never disappoints. I enjoyed this story narrated phenomenally by Erin Mallon. This was a solo narration as the story is told completely from Tuesday's POV. Erin blew me away with her performance. She was able to seamlessly navigate between characters and accents without missing a beat. Erin was absolutely the perfect narrator for this story.

Tuesday was in London to prove herself to the new CEO of the bank she worked at. She is only supposed to be in London for a few weeks. She never expects to run into who she thinks is the movie star she crushed on years ago...only he's not the movie star. Just someone that looks just like him.

Ben is a career driven workaholic. He needs just one thing to hopefully help his professional dreams come to fruition...a fiancée to impress the Duke and Duchess. After running into Tuesday a few times, his friend suggests that Tuesday would be perfect for the ruse of a fiancée. He will offer her enough money to give her a few things she needs when she gets back home in New York.

What they didn't expect was for them to really enjoy each other's company. Tuesday showed Ben a different side of life. While Ben showed Tuesday how a lady should be treated. I loved these two together. This story made me laugh and swoon, and I just couldn't get enough.

This was another absolute winner from Louise.

Awwwww! An American in London by Louise Bay was ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! 💖🙏

Tuesday Reynolds travels to London to represent the US bank, but she didn't expect to there could be a Daniel De Luca Convention in town. Daniel De Luca - her favourite romcom actor! Maybe she could get a picture with him, and then he falls madly in love with her?! Yeah... right.
But when Tuesday sees this guy in the park (who isn't Daniel but could be his doppelganger), her whole life changes...

I loooooove Louise Bay! Her writing style is ON POINT! 🫶☺️
The story is told from Tuesday's POV, and I just couldn't stop myself from reading!
(Yeah, reality kept me away from it a few times... but who cares!)
Tuesday and Ben are so contrary, but I loooooooooved to see their personal development along their storyline!
Tuesday's ex left her for another woman, and now London could be the right city to leave everything behind.
The famous actor Daniel De Luca played and played an important role in her life and her mom's life. One day, she meets Ben (who looks exactly like Daniel), and their story begins... Ben needs her help and how she helps him to open up. Awwwww!
Ben is this grumpy British billionaire, and Tuesday doesn't exactly know what she wants in life...
I don't wanna spoil too much, but OMG, I loved it sooooo much!

I loved the little moments between them, little gestures that someone could miss with a blink of an eye.

An American in London is not just a heartwarming romantic comedy. There are so many emotional moments, too!

This book has it all!
✔️ fake engagement
✔️ only one bed
✔️ grumpy British billionaire
✔️ American FMC
✔️ vacation romance
✔️ banter
✔️ sexy times
✔️ swoon-worthy moments

If you love all of the above, fall in love with Tuesday and Ben as much as I did!

Thanks a lot to Louise Bay and Montlake for this ARC via NetGalley.
This is my honest review in my own words.

An American in London is a light-hearted, standalone rom-com as well as an ode to British quirks and the beautiful and historical place that is London. I loved both main characters, their fun and witty dialogues, their growing feelings and their heartbreaking emotional backgrounds. A wonderful, entertaining page-turner with a great HEA.

This was a fun, endearing and satisfying romance that follows a woman who just had her fiance leave her, not to mention homeless and how maybe jobless, head to London to possibly try and save the aforementioned. There she ends up staying at a hotel that is hosting a convention for her teenage crush, an actor who reminds her of the mother she lost. When she meets a man at a coffee shop that is the spitting image of said actor she strikes up a conversation. This man, Ben is not interested, at all. But Tuesday has a way of getting under his skin and the next thing she knows she is helping him by being his fake fiance. All the best tropes are headed your way! Their road to happily ever after is a little bumpy, a lot introspection and healing and maybe taking a chance on something new. A lovely way to spend an evening in!

I picked this book up and read it in one sitting. It’s got all the vibes and feel of a classic romance movie, and that’s exactly how it’s set up. Tuesday is in London for a work trip, and is staying at a hotel where the focus is a convention for Tuesday’s favorite actor from the movies she used to watch with her late mother. She runs into a guy who looks like actor and their story starts there. Ben is the classic, cold, billionaire who struggles to voice his emotions and focuses more on efficiency than love, but deep down is so sweet and I love when we start to see his funny exterior with the small smiles, the terrible jokes, and how he treats Tuesday from the moment he meets them. He needs a fake fiancee and his friend asks Tuesday, but I feel like these two would have hung out multiple times even if the plan didn’t exist. They have a magnetic draw between them that is obvious to everyone around them and they are aware of it too, and it made me yearn for their scenes together because those had the best emotional and funny lines which is what made me love this book!

I also loved all the side characters in this book, Nick, the Duke and Duchess, Ginny the barista, Gail and more, each of them felt so essential to the story in a way that never really feels true in other books, but this book wouldn’t be as good without them!

I loved this stand-alone quirky romance.
Tuesday Reynolds is effervescent even now that her life is in turmoil. She's in London fighting for her job but determined to enjoy being there. She bumps into Ben Kelley is the dryest lead I've read in a good while. Mistaking him for a her favourite actor. He has a singular focus but a good heart. When he makes her an offer that is so far removed from anything she'd normally consider, she says no, on response. But with her mum's voice in her head telling her to do something new. Take the chance. So she does.
The audio was such a fun listen. The narrator is Erin Mallon. I love her voice she brings the fun and the emotion to every character.

💙Fake Engagement
💗Grumpy Billionaire
💙American FMC/British MMC
💗New in town
💙Vacation Romance

When Tuesday Reynolds’ life in Manhattan falls apart—her college sweetheart dumps her and her high-powered Wall Street job teeters on the edge—she escapes to London for a fresh start and a chance to impress a new CEO. But her plans take an unexpected turn when she meets Ben Kelley, a wealthy and brooding Englishman who looks strikingly like the movie star she once crushed on. As fate keeps throwing them together, Tuesday is soon swept into Ben’s world.
Ben needs a fake fiancée to impress a duke and duchess, and he is prepared to pay her enough money that will ease some of her financial worries. What starts as a strictly professional arrangement begins to shift, especially once the rehearsals for their “weekend romance” start to feel all too real.
A sweet, clean romance between grumpy Ben and ever-optimistic Tuesday. Despite her own setbacks, Tuesday’s warmth and ability to see the best in others made her a joy to read—and it’s easy to see how Ben couldn’t help but fall under her spell.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

An American in London is such a great story. I have been reading books from this author for a long time now and she never disappoints. Her characters are always so well-written and they have strong leads.

Tuesday is a mess. Her fiance' dumped her for another woman and her job is on the line. She travels to London in the hopes of saving her job. When she gets there she is reminded of the time she spent with her mom who has recently passed away. They both loved an actor and had watched his movies together. She sees a man who looks like him and calls out to him. He ignores her and then she sees him again in the coffee shop. She introduces herself to him and then she finally learns his name is Ben. Ben has issues of his own. He is a wealthy businessman but must do well in the eyes of a Duke and Duchess. HIs friend opens up that maybe he needs to find someone as a fake fiance'. He offers the job to Tuesday for an insane amount of money. She needs the money and reluctantly agrees to his deal.

I loved the chemistry between Tuesday and Ben. They had so much fun when Ben finally put down his guard. They really acted like a couple in love. You will enjoy this story and won't be able to put it down. It has so much charm. I look forward to more from this very talented author.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy for an honest review.

𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ★★★★
𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: June 24 2025
𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪:

This book had everything I wanted and more…sweet, funny, and so full of heart that I couldn’t put it down.

Tuesday and Ben are the kind of characters who feel real from the very first page. Tuesday is smart, a little lost, but so full of spirit that you can’t help but root for her and Ben, he’s a brooding, gorgeous, and secretly soft, just the kind of hero I love. Their chemistry isn’t just sparks, it’s a full on fire, until it completely consumes you. The way they go from being fake engaged to something so much more had me sighing, laughing, and clutching my kindle to my chest like a lovesick fool.

But what really got me was the emotion. The way Tuesday and Ben slowly open up to each other, the little moments of vulnerability, the banter that turns into something deeper, it all felt so genuine. I believed in their love, and that’s the best thing a romance book can do. By the end, I wasn’t just happy for them, I felt like I’d lived their story with them.

Thank you to Montlake, Netgalley and Louise Bay for giving me an arc for this book.

𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗦: Billionaire romance, grumpy/sunshine, fake fiancée, fake engagement, vacation romance, mistaken identity, opposite attract