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His Convenient Wife
192 pages
A sun-drenched, high-angst marriage of convenience where one-sided love collides with fierce, possessive jealousy.
What it feels like
This is a quintessential vintage category romance that delivers exactly the kind of high-stakes emotional melodrama its readers crave. The pace is brisk, sweeping you from the damp chill of England to a sun-drenched, tension-filled Italian villa. It feels like watching a deliciously soapy drama unfold, where every glance is loaded with unspoken desire and every misunderstanding threatens to tear the characters apart. The prose is straightforward but emotionally heightened, leaning heavily into the angst of a heroine desperately trying to win her husband's heart while battling her own pride. It is a perfect, indulgent escape for readers who love the classic marriage-of-convenience trope, complete with a fiercely possessive hero, suspected mistresses, and the deeply satisfying payoff of unrequited love finally becoming mutual.
- Mood
- angsty
- sun-drenched
- tense
- romantic
- Tone
- melodramatic
- earnest
- passionate
- soapy
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- marriage of convenience · unrequited love · jealousy and possession · hidden vulnerabilities
- The writing
- The writing is straightforward and emotionally heightened, relying on sharp dialogue and intense internal monologues to drive the drama.
- The arc
- The journey moves from reluctant obligation and one-sided infatuation through a gauntlet of jealous misunderstandings to a fiercely passionate mutual surrender.
- Who it's for
- Readers who devour classic, high-angst category romances featuring possessive alpha heroes and marriages of convenience will eat this up.
Content notes
- possessive behavior
- suspected infidelity
- power imbalance
About the book
Cat, 23, is furious when her grandfather insists she consider a marriage of convenience to his wealthy great-nephew, 30 year old Italian businessman Aldo Patrucco. But then it's love at first sight for Cat and lust at first sight for Aldo—so the wedding is on!
Once in Italy, Cat plans for her new husband to fall in love with her—only it seems he's returned to his mistress! Proudly announcing she's leaving him, Cat discovers that, mistress or not, Aldo certainly has no intention of relinquishing his convenient wife....
Description from Open Library.
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