Flirting with Forever, Cara Bastone
Flirting with Forever, Cara Bastone
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Flirting with Forever

Author: Cara Bastone

Narrator: Susannah Jones

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/26/2021


Synopsis

Sometimes you get a second chance at a first impression

Mary Trace is bright, bubbly and back in the dating pool in her midthirties. All of her closest friends are in love, and she refuses to miss out on romance. So when a regular customer at her trendy Brooklyn boutique wants to set Mary up on a blind date with her son, she gives a hesitant yes. John Modesto-Whitford is gorgeous and well-groomed, so maybe dinner won’t be a total bust—until he drops a less-than-flattering comment about Mary’s age.

Desperate to be nothing like his snake of a politician father, public defender John Modesto-Whitford prides himself on his honesty and candor. But his social awkwardness and lack of filter just blew it with the most beautiful woman he’s ever dated.

Luckily, Mom’s machinations keep Mary and John running into each other all summer long, and soon they resort to fake dating to get her to back off. When their pretense turns to real friendship—and some surprisingly hot chemistry—can these two stubborn individuals see past their rocky start to a rock-solid future together?

About Cara Bastone

Cara Bastone is a full time writer who lives and writes in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and an almost-goldendoodle. Her goal with her work is to find the swoon in ordinary love stories. She’s been a fan of the romance genre since she found a grocery bag filled with her grandmother’s old Harlequin Romances when she was in high school. She’s a fangirl for pretzel sticks, long walks through Prospect Park, and love stories featuring men who aren’t crippled by their own masculinity.


Reviews

Goodreads review by nick (the infinite limits of love) on January 27, 2021

How does Cara Bastone do it? Every new release of hers is somehow better than the previous one. I'm in complete awe of her writing abilities and for selfish reasons, I hope she never stops writing romance. Flirting with Forever is a heartwarming and tropey book about wrong first impressions, finding......more

Goodreads review by Vivian on October 15, 2023

4.75/5 ⭐️ This is my first book by this author and I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it! The characters felt so real to me and I adored the romance. I’ll definitely be reading more of her books. This was just cute and low angst. I really enjoyed the romance and the characters were all l......more

Goodreads review by aarya on March 22, 2021

Cara Bastone has a rare ability to create fully realized characters without relying on a one-page bio sheet. That’s the highest compliment I can give to an author. A few subplots surrounding the secondary characters didn’t work for me, but the central ship was spectacular. That end scene at Mary’s f......more

3.5 rounded up 🌟Brief Summary: 🫣Have you ever read a book where both characters desperately want each other but constant misunderstandings and wrong assumptions keep them apart for most of the book? Frustrating??? …….. yes… yes it is. 💞This was cute for the most part. I did find a few things annoying......more

Goodreads review by b.andherbooks on January 28, 2021

I was not confident that John Modesto-Whitford would be able to redeem himself after starting his blind date with Mary Trace by saying "I was expecting someone younger" but wow does Bastone make me a believer in this meet-disaster friends-to-lovers romance. Mary Trace loves to flirt, loves love, but......more