Relaase Blitz and Giveaway: The Unlikely Pair: Jax Calder
Jax Calder
Genre: MM Contemporary Romance
What happens when you find yourself stranded in the wilderness with your political enemy?
Getting stranded in the freezing wilderness with my archenemy wasn’t on today’s to-do list. But somehow, that’s where I’ve ended up.
Harry Matheson, my political rival, has always been smarmy, arrogant, and entitled. It figures that even this plane crash has barely ruffled his well-coiffed hair.
It’s all fine, though, because our pilot has gone to call for help and rescue should be imminent.
Fast forward a few frigid hours…
Umm…maybe it’s not so fine, because it appears our pilot is part of an international terrorist group intent on kidnapping us.
Now Harry and I have to flee through the wilderness—together.
Unfortunately, being adept at political debates and parliamentary procedures doesn’t exactly prepare you for the basics of finding food, keeping warm, and evading the local wildlife while playing high-stakes hide-and-seek with armed terrorists.
The only way Harry and I have any hope of surviving is to stick together.
The problem is, the line separating hate and love has begun to blur, and the last thing I need is to fall for my enemy.
The Unlikely Pair is an enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a romp through the political wilderness where hearts, quite literally, go off the beaten path.
Harry Matheson and Toby Webly are political enemies with opposite beliefs. They go head-to-head daily in Parliament and thrive on challenging the other one. They loathe one another.
When they got stuck on a plane together on the way to the conference, they thought that was going to be the worst of it. But soon they realize that things can get much worse and now they are going to be relying on each other for basic survival. When faced with danger and the winter wilderness, they will have to get over their differences very quickly and help each other. And as the situation becomes more dire, the more they start to appreciate the other's tenacity, skills, intelligence, and loyalty. And they also begin to open up more and understand the others' backgrounds and what shaped their views on the world.
Harry is finally allowing his repressed sexuality to be let free as the two find solace in each other‘s company. And while in a semi-safe zone, they actually find their little pocket of routine that works for both of them. But eventually, things change again, and they find themselves back in the real world as political enemies in a forbidden situation. But now that their world has been opened up to different things, it’s harder to go back to missing them again. And they’ll have to figure out what’s more important.
This book started a little slow for me with a lot of the Parliament stuff, but once they ended up in the wild I got more interested in the story. I loved seeing them become more vulnerable and fall for the other one just a little bit every day evan as they tried to deny it. But they still had great banter whether they were fighting over politics or if they were just working together on something. But they also found this unexpected connection that irrevocably tied them together and no one else could really understand what they had been through. Neither of them had ever really opened up enough and allowed someone else to see the dark recesses of their own issues and fears or share feelings.
I really liked seeing Harry’s layers peeled back because he was so perfect, controlled, regimented, and repressed. So to see him be a real human with such deep feelings was just beautiful. And Toby was the opposite, he put on this gregarious, easy-going, confidence, but it hid the fact that he was scared of getting hurt so it was easier just to deflect with humor than to get serious.
This is a snarky, suspenseful, enemies-to-lovers, opposites-attract, survival situation and forbidden romance set both in the UK political sphere and also in the untamed wilderness. It brings back Oliver and Callum from the first book. There is a thread left with questions that are supposed to be answered in the next book.
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Goodreads
Amazon and KU
Kim's review
What happens when the Prince of Wales falls in love with the Prime Minister?
My boring life working in an insurance call center in sunny California just took an unexpected turn. Thanks to my misbehaving relatives, I’ve leapt from obscurity to royalty as the new heir to the British throne.
But my welcome in England is about as warm as the weather. I arrive to discover a country horrified at the thought of an American version of Prince Charming and ready to revolt against the monarchy. I vow to my grandmother, the Queen, that I will do everything possible to help her save the crown.
Unfortunately, royal life isn’t easy. From bewildering traditions, traitorous friends, and malevolent swans, the only thing I’m succeeding in is providing entertainment for the tabloids and social media trolls.
And then the broodingly handsome Prime Minister, Oliver Hartwell, bursts into my life.
With his meteoric rise from poverty to the most powerful man in the country, Oliver understands my current plight. Innocent messages of support turn into late-night chats—and unexpected feelings.
But there’s one major problem. The royal family must remain politically neutral at all times.
So how can I keep my promise to save the monarchy when I’m falling in love with the Prime Minister?
A forbidden romance filled with humor and drama featuring a bumbling Prince of Wales and a stern yet dashing Prime Minister, with a love that could transform a nation.
Jax Calder
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July 24, 2025
Jax Calder
Website | Facebook | Instagram
My stories are all about light-hearted conversations and deeply-felt connections. I love exploring exactly why two characters are the only ones who’ll make the other truly happy, and the journey they take to reach their happily-ever-after
I live in New Zealand with my family and a wide assortment of animals. I’m a rabid sports fan, a hiking enthusiast and have a slightly unhealthy addiction to nature documentaries. I have also been known to read the odd book on occasion.
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