Unexpectedly Yours
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Unexpectedly Yours
By JP Brome
One text. One lie. One boy she never meant to fall for.
When Riley Carter arrives at Wharton, all she wants is to keep her head down and build a future on her own terms. But a single favor turns into a tangled deception when she starts texting a boy—under someone else’s name.
What begins as curiosity becomes connection.
What starts as fiction sparks something real.
And when the boy on the other end of the line—Yu Joon, heir to one of South Korea’s most powerful families—shows up in Philadelphia, everything explodes.
Caught between the lie she told and the truth she’s dying to share, Riley is thrust into a storm of secrets, betrayal, and a love that never should have happened. As family pressure, public scandal, and a fake engagement threaten to destroy everything, Riley must decide what she’s willing to fight for—her future, her identity, or the boy who never knew her name.
Set between the elite halls of Wharton and the high-stakes world of Korean legacy, Unexpectedly Yours is a firefly-bright, slow-burn romance about found family, fierce love, and choosing who you want to be—even when the world says otherwise.
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Praise for this book
I was expecting a cute 'Korean Chaebol x Ambitious Black Tech Student' college romance. Instead I got a fast-paced novella full of plot, poetic prose, and a lot of emotional depth.
I was VERY pleasantly surprised with this (yet forgot to transfer it to my Kindle before it expired 😭).
At first I was thinking it would turn out to be too fast paced, but I was very wrong. I still felt myself emotionally invested in the romance, and the plot pace sucked me in. Reading this 100% felt like watching a fast paced Kdrama. It had to be fast paced, since so much happened in a small amount of pages!
I had to pause reading a few times because I was getting worked up emotionally, but thankfully with the speed of the plot I didn't have to be worked up for long before seeing the resolution 😂
There was actually a lot of emotional depth and meaning to this story, from all the characters. Kind of like in Japanese/Korean Healing Fiction, where each character/scene has its own lessons and meanings. There were many lines I wanted to highlight, and would have if I had transferred it to my Kindle 🤦♀️
My only regret is not transferring this to my kindle before it expired
(Also liked the natural and realistic demonstration of harmful uses of AI that was featured in the story)
If you're looking for something:
Fast paced
Poetic
Deep
Reads like a KdramaThen you'll likely enjoy this.