The Love Script (#01 in Love In The Spotlight Series)

I enjoyed reading The Love Script, set in Hollywood, California. Nevaeh is a hair stylist and makeup artist who wants to land a key stylist role on a movie or tv series. To supplement her stylist income, she works in a hair salon and visits clients in their homes. Her home visits include a client recovering from cancer who happens to live with her famous Hollywood actor son.

Lamont Booker is known as SMA (sexiest man alive) and Nevaeh is one of his biggest fans. She jumps at the opportunity to look after Lamont’s mom’s hair needs when he approaches her while working together on a set. Nevaeh is the invisible help in his home who Lamont doesn’t notice until a photo of them together is misrepresented and threatens his livelihood.

Lamont is a Christian who has made a public celibacy pact. When his agent proposes that Lamont starts a fake relationship with Navaeh to save Lamont’s endorsement deals and stop him being cancelled, he views it as a logical answer to his problems. Nevaeh’s life is turned upside down after she’s outed as Lamont’s girlfriend.

I loved how the fake relationship trope played out in the story. The morality clauses in Lamont’s contracts had unintended consequences. At the core of their fake relationship is a lie that they announced to the world. In a Christian romance, that deception needs to be addressed, and the consequences played out in the story. As a result, Lamont and Nevaeh’s faith is challenged as they spend time together and fall in love for…

I appreciate the obvious Christian content and realistic characters dealing with sinful hearts that easily twist the truth to suit their purposes. This novel depicts well the struggles we can face with the fear of man versus honouring God. A sweet story of 2 people finding love. Glad to know this is in a series as I'm interested in some of the side characters. I felt the ending was a bit abrupt, but I'm sure we will get to hear a little of these 2 in the next novel as well.

Author Toni Shiloh has done it again, this time set in big-time Hollywood! This story about a fake (but also never-really-fake) relationship was excellently executed!\\n Well beyond just being a fun time (though it was that!), this story portrayed a realistic faith and identity struggle, with conflicting thoughts and emotions that really set you to thinking. What things do we truly do for God? And what things do we only """"say"""" we're doing for Him, to justify what we're really doing only for ourselves?\\n Definitely both fun and thought-provoking (with plenty of movie-quote humor in between), this book had me enraptured and I am looking forward to the next """"Love in the Spotlight"""" novel!