The Paradise Charade

By: T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod

Narrated by: Lori Prince

When a high-powered business executive needs a date to save her career, who better to call than the one-night stand she can’t forget?

Brooklyn Mathers hates to lose. So, when she needs to win a big client to keep her business afloat, she’s willing to do anything. Even invite a woman she hasn’t seen in seven years to be her date for a charity gala in an attempt to gain access to the company’s next CEO. The only thing Brooklyn won’t do? Relationships. Not since her college girlfriend ripped her heart out and stomped it to dust on graduation day.

Savannah Strauss’s life changed forever seven years ago after a steamy encounter with a stranger at a queer club gave her the courage to come out to her conservative family. Now a teacher who helps LGBTQ+ youth, Savannah still can’t forget that night, or the woman who rocked her world. So when Brooklyn calls out of the blue asking her to be her plus one for a charity event, she can’t resist the chance to reconnect.

What could go wrong?

How about Brooklyn’s potential client mistaking them for a real couple and insisting they both attend a corporate retreat in Jamaica? But faking being in love for seven days in paradise is hardly the worst thing that could happen.

Except Savannah is harboring a secret that could destroy everything, one that connects her to Brooklyn's painful past in ways Brooklyn never imagined and makes any relationship between them strictly taboo.

Throw in a fear of water, a fake engagement, and the most annoyingly perfect couple competing for the same account, and it couldn’t get more complicated. That is until Savannah’s entire family ends up in Jamaica for a cousin’s wedding. The closeted cousin who once broke Brooklyn’s heart.

If you enjoy a steamy, one night to forever, second chance, taboo, fake relationship romance, this latest collaboration from sapphic romance’s dynamic duo is the perfect beach listen.

©2025 T.B. Markinson (P)2025 T.B. Markinson

The best yet...

This was incredible from start to finish and has everything: exciting trysts with a stranger, borderline second chance, fake relationship, forced proximity, etc.

But the star of this show - as she is with so much of her work - is Lori Prince. I swear to everything holy that the narration in the big reveal scene (no spoiler) is some of the best voice acting I have literally ever heard. And that includes voice actors that include Emma Thompson. It is simply amazing, and while I never expect anything but the best from Lori Prince, this may well be the best-acted audiobook chapter I have ever experienced. You FEEL it. Every single gutwrenching moment.

Superb on every level - outstanding story, beautiful representation, and exquisite narration.

You will have to is to yourself to say you didn't enjoy it. It's *that* good.

Great listen

Wow another amazing story by TB and Miranda that is brought to life by Lori Prince

Starting from the end

This was an upside down story, well written with lovely MCs great humor, good drama and excellent narration.

Love This Audible Book

Love this Audible book. It's TB, Miranda and Lori. What's not to love. Lori Prince skillfully and magically brings these characters to life.

Yet Another Gem by Markinson and Macleod

The humor of this story really made this book special to me. Listening to anything by Markinson and Macleod read by Lori Prince is hardly ever a wrong decision.