02258cam a2200337 i 4500 364801997 TxAuBib 20181214120000.0 170822s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017036788 9781501165832 16.00 1501165836 16.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Lauren, Christina, (combined penname of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings.) Roomies [BOOK] / Christina Lauren. First trade paperback edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2017. 358 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren's (Beautiful Bastard, Dating You/ Hating You) new romance. Marriages of convenience are so...inconvenient. Rescued by Calvin McLoughlin from a would-be subway attacker, Holland Bakker pays the brilliant musician back by pulling some of her errand-girl strings and getting him an audition with a bigtime musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway--until he admits his student visa has expired and he's in the country illegally. Holland impulsively offersto wed the Irishman to keep him in New York, her growing infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves from awkward roommates to besotted lovers, Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway. In the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting, what will it take for Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?"-- Provided by publisher. 20181214. Marriage Fiction. Noncitizens Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Guitarists Fiction. Broadway (New York, N.Y) Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Romance fiction.