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Makeshift Marriage
192 pages
A sun-drenched, emotionally charged escape where a marriage of convenience slowly melts into genuine, undeniable desire.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage romance feels like stepping onto a sun-drenched Pacific island where the air is thick with unspoken tension and simmering desire. The narrative moves at a brisk, engaging clip, sweeping the reader away from the humiliation of a ruined wedding into an escapist fantasy of forced proximity. It thrives on the delicious angst of two wounded people who build a fortress of convenience, only to find themselves trapped inside it with a magnetic, undeniable attraction. The prose is emotionally heightened and deeply focused on internal longing, capturing every stolen glance and flare of jealousy. It is a perfect, nostalgic indulgence for readers who love the classic marriage-of-convenience trope, delivering a satisfying journey from defensive heartbreak to vulnerable, passionate surrender.
- Mood
- sun-drenched
- escapist
- simmering
- emotionally charged
- Tone
- earnest
- angsty
- dramatic
- romantic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- healing from betrayal · marriage of convenience · forced proximity · vulnerability and trust · unexpected desire
- The writing
- Direct and emotionally heightened, focusing intensely on the characters' internal turmoil and physical awareness of one another.
- The arc
- Begins in the sharp sting of mutual rejection and defensive plotting, softening through tropical isolation into a simmering, undeniable passion.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave classic, old-school category romance featuring marriages of convenience and intense forced proximity in exotic locales.
Content notes
- off-page infidelity
- emotional distress
About the book
When Stefanie's husband-to-be ran off with her bridesmaid on the eve of their wedding, she resolved to escape the subsequent sympathy from friends and family. Quinn Branson gave her the means to do it. He shared Stefanie's predicament, and her feelings, for Stefanie's bridesmaid was also his fiance.
When he offered Stefanie six months in the Pacific, it seemed the perfect place to mend her heart. The trouble was, they had to be married. And Stefanie soon found that a makeshift marriage to a man as sexy as Quinn was fraught with more temptations and complex emotions than she could ever of thought possible!
Description from Open Library.
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