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A Husband of Convenience
186 pages
A deliciously soapy, high-angst vintage romance where a marriage of duty collides with the vulnerability of lost memories.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage category romance feels like indulging in a deliciously soapy, high-stakes melodrama. The narrative moves at a brisk, breathless pace, plunging the reader straight into a turbulent atmosphere of unspoken desires and heavy secrets. It thrives on the intense, emotionally heightened tone characteristic of classic nineties romance, where every glance is loaded and every touch sparks a crisis of conscience. The prose is direct and unapologetically focused on internal angst, capturing the dizzying confusion of a heroine navigating a manufactured reality and a hero seizing a forbidden chance. It is a perfect, guilty-pleasure read for those who love the delicious tension of the amnesia trope, unapologetic alpha heroes, and the explosive fallout when duty blurs into desperate passion.
- Mood
- emotionally turbulent
- tense
- passionate
- Tone
- melodramatic
- intense
- earnest
- soapy
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- deception and desire · vulnerability of memory · duty versus passion · manufactured intimacy
- The writing
- Direct and emotionally heightened, focusing heavily on internal angst, breathless dialogue, and intense physical reactions.
- The arc
- Moves from a fragile, manufactured intimacy through the devastating fallout of a revealed deception, culminating in a dramatic reconciliation.
- Who it's for
- Readers who devour vintage category romance and crave high-stakes melodrama, unapologetic alpha heroes, and the delicious angst of the amnesia trope.
Content notes
- amnesia
- pregnancy
- deception
- dubious consent due to deception
About the book
A father for her unborn baby...
Josie's husband, Conan Zarcourt, was tall, dark and handsome. Yet 20 year old Josie could only look, not touch, because theirs was a marriage in name alone. Conan had stepped in as father to his brother's child--the baby Josie was carrying.
But when an accident left Josie with amnesia she naturally assumed that Conan was her husband, her lover and the father of her baby. And until she remembered the truth, Conan was more than happy to have Josie in his bed....
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