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Temporary Wife
192 pages
A deliciously angsty vintage romance where a pragmatic arrangement unravels into a tangled web of jealousy and hidden longing.
What it feels like
Reading this classic romance feels like stepping into a delightfully turbulent emotional pressure cooker. The narrative moves at a brisk, dialogue-driven pace, pulling the reader through a maze of hidden motives and unspoken desires. There is a distinct vintage texture to the storytelling, characterized by earnest melodrama and the agonizing tension of loving someone who seemingly belongs to another. The mood is steeped in yearning and claustrophobic jealousy, making every interaction between the protagonists crackle with unsaid accusations and simmering attraction. It is a story built on the delicious agony of the marriage-of-convenience trope, perfectly suited for readers who love untangling messy emotional webs and watching a coolly pragmatic arrangement melt into passionate, hard-won devotion.
- Mood
- yearning
- tense
- emotionally turbulent
- claustrophobic
- Tone
- earnest
- dramatic
- angsty
- melodramatic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- marriage of convenience · unrequited love · hidden motives · jealousy and betrayal · emotional vulnerability
- The writing
- Dialogue-heavy and emotionally heightened, delivering the swift, breathless melodrama characteristic of vintage category romance.
- The arc
- Begins with a coolly calculated arrangement that slowly fractures under the weight of unexpected desire and agonizing jealousy, finally resolving in hard-won mutual devotion.
- Who it's for
- Readers who devour classic, high-angst marriage-of-convenience stories filled with tangled motives and intense emotional misunderstandings.
Content notes
- emotional infidelity
- jealousy
- manipulation
About the book
Emily Lamb thought Luke Adams was attractive and powerful enough to arrange his own marriage--but when her friend Gina Harrick asked her to marry him for business reasons, Emily had her own reasons for agreeing.
It was, of course, to be a temporary marriage of convenience; only Emily hadn't counted on falling in love with Luke. Nor had she suspected that the secret behind the business reasons was the fact that Luke was in love with Gina, his boss's wife...
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