Shopping

Ever meet a hot billionaire while your hand’s in a toilet in the men’s room of one of his stores? No? So it really is just me. When you’re a mystery shopper, you get paid to humiliate yourself in the name of improving customer service. Romance isn’t in my job description. But the day I met Declan McCormick it was love at first flush.

Until I nearly castrated him with my EpiPen.

How Hot Guy and Toilet Girl became an item involves my over-the-top mom, a trip to the ER, my homicidal cat, and true love. Then Declan proposed – and I swallowed the ring. All of our best dates end up in the emergency room. My Momzilla turned us into hostages at our own ceremony, so we escaped by helicopter to Las Vegas for a trashy Elvis drive-thru wedding. Mom, Dad, my sisters, his brothers, my maid of honor, and even my cat Chuckles all came along for the ride.

Meanwhile, my best friend Amanda can’t stop kissing Declan’s brother Andrew in closets. He’s a chauvinistic CEO with a God complex. She’s a mystery shopper and a fixer – she can fix anything if given the chance. But when the game is fixed, there’s only so much she can do. Their story takes them from a society wedding to a wild Vegas night where everyone wakes up wearing wedding rings and nobody’s sure who they married.

Gerald the chauffeur – former Navy SEAL, artist by night – gets served inheritance paperwork from a man he’s never heard of, delivered by his hotter-than-ever ex-fiancee Suzanne. Turns out the joke’s on him, and there’s a big catch.

Declan is addicted to his phone and his new role as CEO. I’m addicted to getting some on my own honeymoon. We escaped to a place so remote not even my mother could find us. Andrew and Amanda eloped in a snowstorm, fought with a viral video of Amanda screaming at her future father-in-law, and learned that sometimes the best wedding is the one you never planned.

Then came the babies. McCormick men don’t just have babies – they engage in competitive billionaire babythons. Between my mother’s desire to talk to the baby through a vaginacam, a childbirth class led by a drill sergeant, and a father-in-law determined to sign the kid up for prep school before Declan even pulls out, my pregnancy has been one ordeal after the other. Andrew and Amanda? Twins. Which means his shooters are stronger than his brother’s.

The holidays bring chaos: a cat who sets the Christmas tree on fire, a competitive Yankee Swap where the billionaire goes thrift-store shopping with my frugal mother, and the never-ending truth that there ain’t no competition like a McCormick competition. But the Jacoby family has a trick or ten up its sleeves, too.

The Shopping for a Billionaire series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent is a seventeen-book romantic comedy saga that begins with the most embarrassing meet-cute in romance history and builds into a sprawling, hilarious family epic. When mystery shopper Shannon Jacoby encounters billionaire Declan McCormick in the most compromising of circumstances, their instant chemistry launches a story of proposals, weddings, honeymoons, babies, and holiday pandemonium.

Featuring sharp-witted heroines, swoon-worthy billionaire heroes, an unforgettable cast of meddling family members – including the legendary Momzilla Marie Jacoby – and a homicidal cat named Chuckles, this series delivers laugh-out-loud humor, heartfelt romance, and the kind of family chaos that makes readers feel right at home. The series expands to include Shannon’s best friend Amanda and Declan’s brother Andrew, the family chauffeur Gerald, and an ever-growing circle of McCormicks and Jacobys whose lives intertwine in the most entertaining ways possible.

If you love opposites-attract billionaire romance, enemies-to-lovers comedy, meet-cutes that end in the emergency room, and families so competitive they turn holidays into bloodsport, this series is your next binge read.