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A ring for a fortune
248 pages
A classic, tension-filled marriage of convenience where desperate schemes collide with unexpected, undeniable passion.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage romance feels like stepping into a delightfully dramatic time capsule of classic tropes. The pace is brisk and purposeful, sweeping the reader through a high-stakes marriage of convenience fueled by financial desperation and hidden motives. The mood is steeped in nostalgic escapism, balancing the cozy familiarity of category romance with the sharp, crackling tension of an enemies-to-lovers dynamic. The prose is straightforward yet emotionally emphatic, lingering on every heated glance and defensive barb exchanged between the desperate heroine and the aloof, arrogant hero. It is a deeply earnest, emotionally charged experience that will thoroughly delight readers who crave old-school romantic melodrama, where pragmatic bargains inevitably melt into overwhelming, undeniable passion.
- Mood
- escapist
- swoony
- tension-filled
- nostalgic
- Tone
- earnest
- dramatic
- romantic
- tense
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- marriage of convenience · hidden motives · enemies to lovers · unexpected desire · financial desperation
- The writing
- Straightforward and emotionally emphatic, focusing heavily on internal flutterings and dramatic dialogue.
- The arc
- Moves from desperate pragmatism and defensive hostility to a reluctant, overwhelming surrender to true love.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love vintage category romances with arrogant heroes, desperate heroines, and high-stakes marriage-of-convenience tropes.
Content notes
- dated gender dynamics
- financial coercion
About the book
All that she needed was a wedding ring
Then the money would be hers, to use for a very special reason.
Her late grandfather's will had put Jasmine into an impossible situation. Hadn't he visualized that she might ask any man to marry her - so long as he was free - merely to get her hands on the money?
Sloan Lancaster, the brilliant writer, just might be the one who could fit into her plans. From their first meeting she found him arrogant and aloof - yet she couldn't deny that he somehow aroused desires she had never felt before....
Description from Open Library.
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