Synopsis:
Welcome to Alexa Riley Promises. This series is dedicated to old romances. It’s tropes galore, with all of our usual over-the-top alphas and sweet cheesy goodness.
These short books will focus on traditional and classic tropes while sticking to the Alexa Riley code: no cheating and always with an HEA. That’s our Promise to you.
Mr and Mrs:
Phillip has been married to Molly for a year. He’s beyond obsessed with his new wife, to the point that he has to hold his true feelings back. If she knew how crazy he is for her, she might push him away.
Molly is feeling distance growing between them, and she’s worried she’s not enough. One night she walks in on Phillip, and it changes everything.
When Phillip discovers Molly was in an accident and now has amnesia, he’s going to do all he can to make her fall in love with him again. Holding nothing back this time.
Warning: It’s just as crazy as it sounds and just as over-the-top ridiculous. If you want to get silly with us and spend a little time away from reality, grab this one up!
Review:
As promised, Mr and Mrs delivers on everything you loved about old-school romances. I mean, we have a secret baby, amnesia, a big misunderstanding, and, last but not least, a bona fide happily ever after. It is unapologetically cheesy – my second favorite thing about Alexa Riley books. The first is the filthy talk in bed or wherever else Alexa Riley characters get it on.
Molly and Phillip have been married for one year, but Molly senses that something isn’t right. She takes off when THE BIG MISUNDERSTANDING happens and Phillip goes balls to the wall to find her and bring her back. Except there’s an accident and Molly has amnesia. Phillip vows to make her fall in love with him all over again and he won’t hold back how obsessed and crazy he is for her.
Everything else happened in a blur. When I came flying into the hospital making my demands, they’d tried to keep her from me. They were lucky she was in the hospital or I would have burned the motherfucker to the ground just to prove how serious I was about getting to her.
It didn’t take long before they got the point and attitudes started to change. I don’t like to push power and money around on people, but in this case I just couldn’t bring myself to care. There wasn’t a goddamn thing I wouldn’t have done in that moment to get to her.
This book was a blast and I loved every over-the-top and crazy minute of it. It was like an x-rated version of a soap opera come to life.
Four Loves
Interview:
Mr and Mrs was chock-full of romance tropes, the kind that people who don’t read the genre usually cite as examples of why they’re dismissive of romance novels and authors. Did you set out to make a statement with this book? Funnily enough, no. We’ve never set out to make a statement. It was more of a homage to all the old tropey books we loved and a fun way to be silly. This book was so much fun to write and an incredible way to pay respect to all the classics before us.
I love how you unabashedly embrace romance clichés. I guess that’s not really a question, I just wanted to get that out there. You’re adorable.
I haven’t read all of your books (yet), but those I have read are all first person POVs from both hero and heroine. Does one of you always write the female POV and vice versa? We use to be strictly one person writes one PoV and one person does the next. But as time has gone on we blend more. Normally Lea (Alexa) does the males and Mel (Riley) does the females. But we’ve found out after two years that we enjoy changing it up. And it’s fun to see if readers can feel our individual voices coming through each character.
Tell me about an upcoming project that you’re really excited about. We are really really really excited about a book we have planned for next year. We’ve been picked up by a publisher for this one so we are making it nice and thick (slow wink). Can’t wait for everyone to get all the details! But in upcoming news we have a LOT planned for books and signings this summer. Stay tuned!
Funnily enough, no. We’ve never set out to make a statement. It was more of a homage to all the old tropey books we loved and a fun way to be silly. This book was so much fun to write and an incredible way to pay respect to all the classics before us.
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