Apple Cider and Subterfuge is the second novella in the Only One Cozy Bed series by Elise Kennedy.
Here’s more about the book, along with our free Enticing Eight downloadable discussion question guide for your spicy book club.
Book description
Alex and Brynn are undercover agents in a cozy small town obsessed with apple cider.
Their cover? Newlyweds in love.
The only rule? Keep their relationship strictly business and strictly fake.
Alex has been tortured by sleeping next to his co-worker, Special Agent Brynn Hannebaker, every single night for 6 months. He desperately wants to break every rule and haul her off to a dark corner of their house.
Brynn lucked out getting the office hottie as her fake husband, but with every kiss Alex steals in public to sell their fake ‘marriage’, her defenses fall a little more.
Can they nab the money-laundering mob boss and keep their hands off of one another? Or will a surprise power outage finally be their one opportunity to take what they both want?
Apple Cider And Subterfuge book club discussion guide
**PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS DISCUSSION QUESTION GUIDE MIGHT INCLUDE SPOILERS**
We’ve provided the Enticing Eight below; eight spicy and intriguing questions to spark discussion and help you uncover the spine-tingling depths of the story.
The Enticing Eight
Foreplay – Warm Up Questions
1. What’s the overall spice level? 1 (Not Spicy) – 10 (Spiciest Thing I’ve Ever Read)?
2. How does the spice level compare to the other books we’ve read together?
3. Could you handle going undercover for a long stretch of time, knowing you’d have to live a double life and keep up the act every single day?
The Spicy Bits – Gettin’ Down and Dirty with the Plot
4. Could you stay focused on an operation if you found yourself falling in love with the very person you were supposed to deceive?
5. Are you naturally a rule-follower, or would you be tempted to bend the rules?
6. Do you think their love was real and lasting, or was it just an intense by-product of the undercover situation?
7. Were you surprised by the “criminal cinnamon ring” twist?
Aftercare – Final Thoughts
8. Do you think it was worth it for them to fall in love the way they did – saving the physical connection for later – or did that choice make the emotional payoff even stronger?
Bonus: Would you have wanted this to be a full-length book rather than a novella or was it perfect as is?
Please feel free to use this post as a starting point for your spicy book club discussion questions and use the comments below to share your thoughts and insights about the book. You can also get a free downloadable copy of the discussion guide using the button below.
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