Almost Real

Almost Ever After

By: Nicole Snow

Narrated by: Lucy Rivers, Bryant Walker

A love for paws and claws unites a fiery vet tech and a bad boy billionaire in this intense and steamy fake engagement fiasco by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow.

Lena Joly has a fierce soul for healing every pet who limps into her struggling clinic. Taming human jerkwads is nothing new—until the day Brady Pruitt storms in with an adorable lost puppy.

There’s nothing cute about him. His wicked reputation overshadows devastating good looks and a jaw-dropping fortune. She’s relieved to send Seattle’s infamous bad boy billionaire packing and get back to fighting for her clinic. But Brady already decided the spitfire who ranks him lower than a banana peel can convince his family he’s finally respectable.

Lena could scream. A temporary “engagement” to fool his optics-obsessed parents? An obscene payday to keep tails wagging forever? And practice kissing?

Holy hell. The girl with barbed wire guarding her scarred love life can’t hide when the butterflies hit. And after their love for animals sweeps them away, after pillow talk becomes bad habit, after it feels too real, two stone hearts will be glorious confetti…

©2026 by Nicole Snow. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Read and Listened

Nicole Snow is an excellent author. I enjoyed the storyline and characters. Especially the relationship between Brady and his parents. Loved it. I smiled, laughed, and grit my teeth. I was completely invested in the characters. The best past was reading and listening to the book!! I was able to keep going when I had to leave the house or start chores.

The narrators were excellent. They brought this audiobook to life with emotional performances that had it rolling like a movie in my head. Perfection.

* I read/listened to this through the Kindle Unlimited program.

Enjoyed storyline

This story contains everything for an emotional rollercoaster of feelings. I chose this because I love stories contains endearing animals, romance, angst, endearing characters and hateful characters. Narration was very good but prefer Duet style. Still good plot. Lots of sexual romance as well.

Just okay

I don’t like a miscommunication trope and although this story wasn’t quite that, it felt like a good chunk of the drama could have been excluded, or had some actual depth, with a conversation. Not my favorite male narrator but their performance was good.