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Contract Bridegroom
192 pages
A deliciously tense marriage of convenience where pragmatic rules are slowly, inevitably dismantled by undeniable chemistry.
What it feels like
This brisk, emotionally charged contemporary romance delivers the quintessential thrill of the fake-marriage trope. The atmosphere is thick with romantic tension, trapping the reader in a deliciously claustrophobic bubble of forced proximity where every stolen glance and accidental touch threatens to break the rules. The narrative tone is earnest and dramatic, leaning into the soapy delight of hidden wealth and desperate familial duty. As the pragmatic boundaries of the arrangement begin to crumble, the emotional arc shifts from guarded desperation to a swoony, inevitable surrender. Written with accessible, emotion-forward prose that highlights internal turmoil and simmering attraction, this is a perfect, fast-paced escape for readers who love watching a strictly business relationship melt into undeniable, passionate love.
- Mood
- emotionally charged
- tense
- swoony
- Tone
- dramatic
- earnest
- romantic
- soapy
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- marriage of convenience · hidden identities · familial duty · inevitable attraction · loss of control
- The writing
- Accessible and heavily focused on internal romantic turmoil, emphasizing physical chemistry and emotional stakes.
- The arc
- Begins with a pragmatic, desperate arrangement and melts into a passionate, undeniable surrender to unexpected love.
- Who it's for
- Readers who devour classic, trope-heavy contemporary romances where a fake relationship inevitably leads to real, scorching chemistry.
Content notes
- terminal illness of a parent
- deception
About the book
Celia was paying Jethro to be her husband—so she was disconcerted to discover Jethro was actually a multimillionaire. Why had he agreed to marry—if he didn't need the money...? All Celia had wanted to do was grant her dying father's wish to see her happily married. Now she must spend day and night pretending to be madly in love with her gorgeous new groom. And, although she'd stipulated "no sex" in the contract, it was exactly that clause she was finding impossible to keep....
Description from Open Library.
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