💜 A VERY GOOD BAD IDEA ⭐ Emma Chase 💜

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A VERY GOOD BAD IDEA

Emma Chase

• 13 October 2026
• standalone

★★★★★
4.5 Stars

New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase is back with this red-hot romantic comedy about two rival real estate developers who inherit the same lucrative property. There’s just one catch: they have to live in it…together.

No loopholes. No backing out. No leaving for four months.

Damon Burke is intense, handsome and vengefully calculating—he's also certain he'll outlast his competitor.

Jade Buchanan is brilliant, ruthless, and absolutely not losing to him.

But the house seems to have a mind of its own. With faulty wiring, a leaking roof, drafty windows and the occasional wild-life infestation, it just might be trying to kill them. And the more Damon and Jade try to oust each other from the property, the more it brings them together.

Sparks fly, tempers clash—but eventually, all their walls come crumbling down.

It's a bad idea to get too close to your enemy. To care about them, need them, want them more than you've ever wanted anything.

But when rivalry becomes something more than they ever expected, Damon and Jade discover love can be a very good bad idea.

Jade + Damon

Both inherited half of a huge old mansion on the Jersey Shore. Both want their own real estate companies to make lots of money with that plot of land.

But to fully own it, they have to live there together for four months without once leaving the grounds and with no phones et cetera.

Let the fun times begin.... 

Well. That was adorable.

And funny and a bit silly and I kind of almost once stopped reading. I wanted to throw my kindle out the window - and jump after it. Because... Super Mega Trigger warning: SPIDERS. Just no. No. That was too much Emma. Ew. No. Just don't do something like that ever again in any book. *stillshuddering* I'm not talking a little spider walking by us - nope. I will have nightmares for the next 128 decades!

I started reading - or even as I was reading the blurb - and then when I started reading I had such a strong deja vu feeling. Everything felt so familiar! It was so weird. I almost stopped reading because I thought that Emma just re-released a book that I've read 10 years ago or something like that.

But I guess not. Anyway...

I still liked reading it. It was really funny and sparky and sexy. But it was also a tiny bit too pranky and Home Alone-y for my tastes. At least the first half of the book. And that spider scene needs to be mentioned here again, because I still can't believe I kept on reading.

But the second part was cute and yeah - we got that 3rd act break up part, but it was still cute and I loved the many epiloguey scenes.

A VERY GOOD BAD IDEA was a very funny, sparky, pranky, sexy and slightly crazy Forced proximity, Enemies to Lovers Small Town Romance. We get some heartbreaking and sad moments too. And there's a doggy! Read it!

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New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase writes contemporary romance filled with humor, heat and heart. Her stories are known for their clever banter, hilariously authentic male POVs and sexy, swoon-worthy moments. Emma’s novels have been translated into over twenty languages and published around the world.

Emma lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and two misbehaving dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.