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The Six-Month Marriage
192 pages
A high-angst, vintage romance of bitter betrayals, forced proximity, and burning, long-denied passions.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage romance feels like stepping into a tempest of long-held resentments and simmering, undeniable passion. The narrative moves at a brisk, emotionally charged pace, plunging the reader straight into the messy, high-stakes dynamic of a broken marriage forced back together. The mood is thick with angst and yearning, colored by the heroine's painful past and the hero's intense, brooding presence. The prose is classic category romance, heightened, dramatic, and deeply focused on the internal emotional turmoil of its characters. It is a story built on the delicious tension of unrequited love that slowly transforms into explosive mutual desire. This book will thoroughly delight readers who crave old-school marriage-of-convenience tropes, heavy emotional baggage, and the satisfying catharsis of a second chance at love.
- Mood
- tense
- yearning
- bittersweet
- emotionally charged
- Tone
- angsty
- melodramatic
- earnest
- intense
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- marriage of convenience · second chances · betrayal and forgiveness · hidden desires · unrequited love
- The writing
- Emotionally heightened and dialogue-heavy, focusing intensely on the characters' internal turmoil and romantic tension.
- The arc
- Moves from guarded resentment and painful disillusionment to explosive passion and hard-won trust.
- Who it's for
- Fans of vintage category romance who devour high-angst marriage-of-convenience tropes and brooding, complicated heroes.
Content notes
- past infidelity
- emotional manipulation
- terminal illness of a parent
About the book
Blake Sefton had married Sapphire to acquire her father's Cotswolds farm. And at first she'd been too besotted with him to realize that his passion burned for his mistress, Miranda, not for his virgin bride. Then Sapphire had discovered Blake's secret love letters and the reason he'd been unable to bring himself to share his wife's bed. Painfully disillusioned, she'd run away and divorced him. Now four years later she was considering remarrying Blake--temporarily--to ease her dying father's mind. After all, Blake hadn't desired her before, so what would he want with her now?
Description from Open Library.
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