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Contract Baby
288 pages
A high-stakes, emotionally turbulent marriage of convenience where a cold bargain inevitably melts into fiery passion.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like indulging in a perfectly crafted, high-drama soap opera. The pace is brisk and breathless, sweeping the reader into a world of immense wealth, stark power imbalances, and undeniable physical chemistry. The atmosphere is emotionally turbulent, steeped in the tension of a transactional arrangement that constantly threatens to boil over into genuine passion. The prose is unapologetically heightened, focusing intensely on the internal angst and magnetic attraction between a fiercely dominant hero and a resilient, innocent heroine. It is pure, unadulterated escapism that delights readers who love classic category romance. If you crave stories where cold duty clashes with overwhelming desire, resulting in a fiery and inevitable emotional surrender, this delivers exactly that satisfying, swoony experience.
- Mood
- escapist
- emotionally turbulent
- passionate
- Tone
- melodramatic
- intense
- earnest
- swoony
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- transactional relationships · wealth and power dynamics · unexpected family · duty versus desire
- The writing
- The prose is direct and emotionally heightened, leaning heavily into the breathless internal angst and intense physical chemistry of the protagonists.
- The arc
- The journey moves from a cold, transactional arrangement fraught with suspicion to a fiery, undeniable emotional surrender.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave classic, high-drama category romance featuring dominant billionaires, innocent heroines, and high-stakes marriages of convenience.
Content notes
- pregnancy
- medical anxiety
- power imbalance
About the book
Race to the altar -- Maxie, Darcy and Polly are The Husband Hunters
The terms of the will: Maxie, Darcy and Polly have each been left a share of their godmother's estate, if they marry within a year and remain married for six months.
The hunter: Polly Johnson, 21, became a surrogate mother to pay for her mother's life-saving operation. Now she's discovered her pregnancy was fathered by handsome 31 year old Venezuelan businessman Raul Zaforteza.
The husband? Raul will do anything to keep his baby; he'll even marry Polly. But will she give in to the desire to posses her and their child?
The Husband Hunters #3
Description from Open Library.
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