Author: Margaret O’Neil
Rating: M for
Mature (discusses sex as an act but does not go into detail)
Bookshelves: kindle,
free read, romance, Michigan, New York, Caribbean, nanny turned wife, wife by
contract, movie star
Begun: 11.28.13
Finished: 11.28.13
Media Type: eBook (on Kindle)
Setting: Los
Angeles, California (briefly); Michigan; Dominica; Manhattan, New York
Characters: Bryce
Courtland, Heather Courtland, Hope Courtland, Marja Lundstrum, Anne Courtland,
Sallie Courtland
Synopsis: Bryce Courtland is a Hollywood heartthrob with two
twin, eight years old who need a new mom. Sallie died two years ago but Bryce
still mourns her but it’s time to move on for the sake of the girls.
After dating a string of Hollywood starlets, Bryce knows that he needs someone
more down to earth. In walks Marja, his sister, Anne’s, college roommate. Marja
is as straight laced as they come but there is something under that prim and
proper business suit. Bryce lays it out for her, asking that they have a
contract marriage for 10 years (and each of those 10 years she will be paid 1
million dollars). Marja says “no” because she knows that she will grow attached
to the girls (and they her) and she won’t want to let them go after 10 years.
She wants to have the option to adopt them after the first year. Bryce counters
with an offer that after their first year, he would like it to be a true
marriage with all the physical rights due him as a husband. Marja says “yes” …
eventually. But she knows she can’t let herself get too involved in the
marriage because in truth … she loves Bryce and has loved him ever since she
met him (even while watching him marry his first wife, Sallie). But can this
prim and proper scholarly woman get the hotter than sin, Hollywood hunk to love
her back?
Review: great
book. I plan on keeping this one in my Kindle (I’m a read-it-and-delete-it kind
of girl). The characters could have used a little more development to make me
want to invest myself in them but this wasn’t bad!
In my
opinion, this book gets:
