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Any Way You Slice It: An Upper Crust Novella - a sweet marriage of convenience romance (Upper Crust Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Monique McDonell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 473 ratings

Any Way You Slice It

Sometimes you have to bend the rules to get what you want.

Piper Adams has one month to find a husband, and get a green card, or be kicked out of the country just when her chain of food trucks selling Australian style pies is about to start making some serious money.

Aaron is an ambitious lawyer keen to make partner but his Boston law firm only promotes lawyers who are married.

A marriage of convenience could solve both their problems if they keep it strictly business but convincing everyone else that this is true love while trying to convince themselves that it isn’t is a sure recipe for trouble. All the kissing and touching sets the heat rising faster than the pies in Piper’s kitchen.

If you like romantic comedies, gondola rides and happy endings you’ll love Any Way You Slice It.

Read all the Upper Crust Series Romances:

  1. Any Way You Slice It
  2. Any Way You Dream It
  3. Any Way You Fight It
  4. Any Way You Plan It
  5. Any You Way You Want It
  6. Any Way You Build It
  7. Any Way You Spin It
  8. Any Way You Spin It
  9. Any Way You Wish It (coming for Christmas 2020)
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  5. Publication date
    August 21, 2014
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00MXFOMD6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Redfish Publishing
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 21, 2014
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 767 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 89 pages
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  • Book 1 of 9 ‏ : ‎ Upper Crust Series
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 473 ratings

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Monique McDonell

Monique McDonell

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I am a USA Today Best Selling author who writes fun, flirty contemporary women's fiction including chick lit and romance. After many attempts writing books that made me miserable I decided to write books with happy endings and have been loving the journey ever since. I have now published over 35 fun, flirty stories with happy endings.

Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge

Falling for the Fireman

Marlin Shores Trilogy

Saltwater Song

Saltwater Tears

Saltwater Wishes (out June 2021)

Cinnamon Bay Romances

Love on the Boardwalk, A Cinnamon Bay Romance

Playing Doctor, Cinnamon Bay Romance Book 3

A Christmas Arrangement

Boardwalk Beginnings -

Boardwalk Bound -

No Brides Club

No Time for Temptation

No Time for Trouble.

NoTime for Tears

The Upper Crust Series - all books are out now:

Any Way Your Slice It

Any Way You Dream It

Any Way You Fight It

Any Way You Plan It

Any Way You Want It

Any Way You Build It

Any Way You Spin It

Any Way You Like It

Any Way You Wish It

The Upper Crust Box Set Books 1-4 (Upper Crust Series Book 1)

The Upper Crust Box Set Books 5-8 (Upper Crust Series): A sweet small town romance collection

The Jewel Sisters Series

Something of a Spark

Something to Sing About

Something to Savour

Something Worth Saving

The Jewel Sisters Boxset: The Complete Jewel Sisters Collection - A Sweet Small Town Romance Box Set

Courtside Romance series

Playing it Safe, Out now

Playing at Love, out now

Oceanic Dreams Series

Shut Up and Dance With Me, Oceanic Dreams Book 7

Stand Alone Novels and novellas

Mr Right and Other Mongrels .

Hearts Afire

Alphabet Dating

Building Attraction

A Fair Exchange

Snowbound, A Christmas Chicklit Novella

Flight Bound, A Sweet Valentine's Romance

More Than Ornamental ( A sweet single Dad Christmas novella)

I live in on the East Coast of Australia which probably explains why the beach features in so many of my novels and why people describe my books as excellent beach reads.

http://moniquemcdonellauthor.com

https://www.facebook.com/MoniqueMcDonellAuthor

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Customers enjoy this romance novella as a quick, fun read with a delightful sweet storyline. The book features well-developed characters and receives positive feedback for its adorableness, with one customer noting how each character has a roundness. Customers find the book solid, with one review highlighting the strong and determined female protagonist. The pacing receives mixed reactions, with some finding it fast while others note it's not rushed, and several customers point out the need for better editing.

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53 customers mention "Story quality"53 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the story quality of the book, describing it as a delightful, sweet, and cute fast-paced narrative about a short arranged marriage.

"...They have gumption, tender hearts, passions and pursuits that all of us can identify with... but maybe on a level that takes us out of ordinary life..." Read more

"At its heart, this is a fairly well constructed marriage of convenience story, with likeable characters and witty dialogue...." Read more

"...This funny and uplifting story set in New York pairs Piper, an Australian in need of a green card so that she can keep running the business she has..." Read more

"...book I have read of Monique McDonell's and she did an excellent job of telling a great story. I would like to read more of her books. I recommend." Read more

48 customers mention "Readability"48 positive0 negative

Customers find the book easy to read, describing it as a quick and light read that's worth the time and money.

"...Inventive, tender, funny and full of identifiable characters, Ms. McDonells book are quick reads, but only because you don't want to put them..." Read more

"...this quick short story and recommend it to others who want a fun, easy read. Aaron is hot; Piper is strong and independent...." Read more

"...offers a short story that leaves me with a Happily Ever After and feeling content. The two lead characters need to be married to business reasons...." Read more

"...While this book was edited and proofread 200% better than her second book, it still had some glaring editing mistakes...." Read more

28 customers mention "Fun read"28 positive0 negative

Customers find the book fun to read, describing it as a cute and funny story.

"...They have gumption, tender hearts, passions and pursuits that all of us can identify with... but maybe on a level that takes us out of ordinary life..." Read more

"...This funny and uplifting story set in New York pairs Piper, an Australian in need of a green card so that she can keep running the business she has..." Read more

"This was such a cute story. I enjoyed every minute of it. Piper is from Australia...." Read more

"...enjoyed this quick short story and recommend it to others who want a fun, easy read. Aaron is hot; Piper is strong and independent...." Read more

22 customers mention "Character development"22 positive0 negative

Customers love the characters in the book, with one noting that each character has a roundness.

"...Inventive, tender, funny and full of identifiable characters, Ms. McDonells book are quick reads, but only because you don't want to put them..." Read more

"...a fairly well constructed marriage of convenience story, with likeable characters and witty dialogue...." Read more

"Loved the characters, they (particularly Piper) felt so real and well-drawn. Everything she said, did or thought felt accurate to who she was...." Read more

"The story is good. I liked the characters, and if Piper's insistence that Aaron couldn't possibly love her got a little annoying, well, it was all..." Read more

18 customers mention "Sweetness"18 positive0 negative

Customers find the book sweet and adorable, with one describing it as chick lit at its finest.

"Cute, sweet, arranged marriage novella. Read in a little over an hour...." Read more

"This was a very short easy read. It was sweet and enjoyable. Piper is a very hard working woman with a successful growing business...." Read more

"...Piper is thoroughly likeable, Aaron is appropriately rich and sexy, and the story skips along at just the right pace...." Read more

"This second book by Monique McDonnell, is just as funny, cute, and HEA, too. Maybe I am getting a little sappy in my age,. But dog gonna it...." Read more

6 customers mention "Strength"6 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the strength of the book, with one review highlighting the character's determination and self-made nature.

"...Aaron is hot; Piper is strong and independent. It's fun to watch their love unfold for each other...." Read more

"...Piper is a strong and determined woman and Aaron is a hot guy that is a nice guy but not a whimp...." Read more

"...Aaron is hot; Piper is strong and independent. It's fun to watch their love unfold for each other. The book does need better proofreading...." Read more

"...in this book ... each character has a roundness, fullness and fully human quality that isn't easy to find in a romance novella...." Read more

7 customers mention "Pacing"4 positive3 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book, with some finding it fast and not rushed, while others note it's poor.

"This book was a lot of fun it was quick but not rushed, and it is fun to see the arraigned marriage work out well...." Read more

"...Language: about a dozen uses of h*ll & sh*t, minor crudity" Read more

"...Fast and fun, breezy yet engaging. It has a clever plot that gets its freshness from complex, well-developed characters...." Read more

"...in cultural language and continent language, these mistakes were many and blatant. It ruins a story for me to run up on so many of them." Read more

6 customers mention "Editing"0 positive6 negative

Customers criticize the editing of the book.

"...Yes, there are some noticeable editing issues, but hardly insurmountable...." Read more

"...proofread 200% better than her second book, it still had some glaring editing mistakes...." Read more

"...So why only three stars? It is in serious need of an editor. Mostly it's typos and repeated or misplaced words — not things that need real rewriting...." Read more

"...Needs editing...." Read more

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  • Celia Kennedy
    5.0 out of 5 stars funny and full of identifiable characters
    Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2015
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    This is the first book of Ms. McDonells that I read, and I became an immediate fan. Inventive, tender, funny and full of identifiable characters, Ms. McDonells book are quick reads, but only because you don't want to put them down.

    In this book, we meet Piper. She followed her boyfriend from Australia to the US only to find herself alone. Unwilling to give up on her own dreams, she stays in the US without a visa and follows her passion - which ends ups being a very smart decision. Her business, food trucks that serve Aussie Meat Pies, is becoming very successful... which is causing her a few legal problems.

    Fortunately for Piper, her best friend Cherie has the answers. Cherie's cousin Aaron is on the market for a wife to solve a problem or two. Not the stuff of romance, the two meet and have a candid conversation about their reasons for marrying, and decide to move forward with getting married. An easy friendship turns into more, but not without complications.

    What makes Ms. McDonells version of this story so charming are those complications. Despite the all the nuances that make Piper and Aaron a loveable couple, the problems they face may be bigger than Visas and people from the past.

    In particular, what I've come to absolutely love about Ms. McDonell is that her characters are anything but predictable, but not in outlandish ways. They have gumption, tender hearts, passions and pursuits that all of us can identify with... but maybe on a level that takes us out of ordinary life and transports us to another stratosphere of life.
    But those complications... they are the stuff this book is about
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  • Vibliophile
    4.0 out of 5 stars (3.5 stars) - has some issues but is at least still fun
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2019
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    At its heart, this is a fairly well constructed marriage of convenience story, with likeable characters and witty dialogue. And I really appreciated that the heroine knew better than to give into the temptation to have sex, as it would ruin her ability to see things clearly.

    Yes, there are some noticeable editing issues, but hardly insurmountable. I didn't care for the foul language, especially taking the Lord's Name in vain, either.

    The biggest issue with the plot, though, is the hero's unrepented willingness to commit adultery (regretting Ophelia isn't recognizing that the adultery itself was wrong) .

    Love is more than feelings; it's a decision. The feelings come & go thru the years, but the decision to commit, to honor, is what holds the marriage together. Without that understanding of & respect for the marriage bond, the hero isn't likely to stay faithful in those times when love takes effort.

    Which makes the ending look more likely to be happily-for-now rather than the desired happily-ever-after.

    *Clean romance level: passionate kisses, secular attitudes on sex outside of marriage, two married characters have sex but no graphic details are given
    *Religion: God's Name is taken in vain, including as cursing, sadly
    *Language: about a dozen uses of h*ll & sh*t, minor crudity
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  • @LollyRussell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tasty Modern Day Twist on Marriage of Convenience
    Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017
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    'Any Way You Slice It' is my first novel by Monique McDonell, but it certainly won't be my last. This funny and uplifting story set in New York pairs Piper, an Australian in need of a green card so that she can keep running the business she has established, with Aaron, an American lawyer in need of a wife so that he can get promotion within the law firm he works for. Throw in a friend with a warm and fiery Italian family and some combustible (if occasionally unwanted) chemistry and you have a story that works its way from 'I must' to 'I do'. And there is more than just delicious pie on offer to keep you drooling. There are seven more books in the series. Yes, seven! I do love a good rom-com series.
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  • specialangel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Opposites do attract
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018
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    Piper needed to get married to stay in America and Aaron needed a wife in order to make partner in the law firm. They agreed to have a marriage of convenience, strictly platonic. He did not believe in love, however, she did believe. A delightful sweet story proving opposites do attract. This the first book I have read of Monique McDonell's and she did an excellent job of telling a great story. I would like to read more of her books. I recommend.
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  • Rose Arbor
    4.0 out of 5 stars Such a Cute Story
    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2021
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    This was such a cute story. I enjoyed every minute of it.

    Piper is from Australia. She came to America on a visa, but her time is running out. She runs a very successful food truck business and is close to selling it for a huge profit. She needs to get married so she has time to close the deal. Her good friend Cherie has a cousin Aaron, who needs a wife to get a promotion. So, you can see where this is going. It is a sweet story and I know you will love it. I sure did.

    This book had been sitting in my library for a while. Today was the perfect day to read it.
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  • LoveBooks
    3.0 out of 5 stars Short Arraigned marriage story.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2018
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    This is a short story. It took me a couple hours to read. I like to read about people with high morals, so the fact that the love interest was sleeping with a married person kinda shot the whole thing in the foot for me. It was redeemed by the fact that I really felt like these two fell in love and maybe they can last. It would be nice to think. I also think it would take a lot more time for two people as broken as these two to believe in each other, maybe that comes later.
    Sex: Lost of reference to it. Lots of flirting. Sex with no detail.
    Drugs: Lots of alcohol.
    Language: A couple of swear words Sh.... and some religious words used as swear words.
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  • Misty
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great short story with HEA
    Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017
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    I really enjoyed this quick short story and recommend it to others who want a fun, easy read. Aaron is hot; Piper is strong and independent. It's fun to watch their love unfold for each other. Part of me wanted more you know dragging out the details. But that's not what a short story is for so I was very delighted it summed it up without filling like cliffhanger. HEA with no complaints definetly going for more from this series and the Author.
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  • Christine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, sweet romance!
    Reviewed in Australia on October 28, 2015
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    This is the first book I’ve read from this author and I really enjoyed it. It was a fun, easy read. Piper and Aaron are very likable characters as well as the fun extended family. A good book to read on a sunny afternoon, short and sweet! Looking forward to the others in the series :-)
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  • jpaoe
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cute Novella
    Reviewed in Germany on October 9, 2021
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    A cute novella with good writing and likeable characters. My only complaint is the length, I would have loved for it to be longer (a novel).
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  • AnnieB
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect short sweet romance
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2017
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    Piper and Aaron brought together by her friend to stop her getting deported from the US to Australia. A fabulous romance that neither of the characters believed in love, but hey the exasperated Piper suddenly realised what a cracker of a fake husband Aaron might be. I am voluntarily putting my honest review on after accepting an ARC copy. Please Monique make the next one in the series a bit longer. I just didn't want this fabulous book to end.
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  • Sylvia
    4.0 out of 5 stars A fun romance, loved it and I recommend it for a fairly short sweet read.
    Reviewed in Canada on October 25, 2020
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    Some will do anything to stay in a country, even get married to a stranger for convenience.
    This was so much fun to read and I loved it.
    I was getting hungry reading about Piper's pies.
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  • Rae Reads
    4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet with a lovely romance!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2017
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    Even though this book is a novella I found that I connected with the characters pretty easily. With me getting to know them quite well in the short space of time. It was nice to see a strong independent character like Piper who was trying to run a successful business. There was lovely chemistry between Piper and Aaron especially as they got to know each other better. Will they be destined to stay friends or will their marriage of convenience become real?

    The story moved along at a good pace and I easily finished it in one evening. I almost wished the story could have been slightly longer, it could easily have been a full length story. Although I do hope that we get to catch up with Aaron and Piper later on in the series.

    Light hearted and very sweet at times I am now looking forward to reading more in this series. If you are looking for a short story to read in an evening Any Way You Slice It would be perfect.

    Sweet with a lovely romance!
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