USA Today Bestseller Leslie North invites you to indulge in a steamy billionaire romance with an unforgettable bad boy billionaire and the smart-talking woman who tames him…To billionaire Anthony Charles Harrington V, everything is about business. Including marriage. All he needs is a society wife who will give him an heir and he’s completely prepared to marry a woman he doesn’t love or desire … or desire to secure his fifth-generation company’s future. Until he meets Diana Tinsley. She’s quirky and the kind of free spirit he’s looking to spend time with before he settles down. Using all his considerable charm, he convinces Diana to have a one-week fling, just a lark with no strings attached. But when Diana shows up at his door two months later, he realizes their “no-strings” affair will have long-term consequences: Diana is pregnant. Nothing could be more… perfect. He’ll get his heir, get his wife, and focus on his business. He just needs to get Diana to agree to a marriage of convenience.
Diana is reluctant about the marriage idea at first. She can’t imagine giving up her job as a nurse to become a society wife, but eventually her practical side wins out. Her child will have a secure future and she’ll be able continue her life as usual. She doesn’t count on her attraction to Tony—which was already fierce—growing even hotter. Worse, she thinks she might be falling in love, which was totally against their agreement. This marriage of convenience isn’t turning out to be as convenient as she’d thought it would. Just when she believes the two of them might have a real marriage, Tony brutally reminds her that love is not an option. But running away doesn’t seem a workable solution to her problems… or is it?
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I found this tale so entertaining that I could imagine Hallmark making it into a movie or a TV series!
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An Accidental baby and a marriage of convenience. This sounds like a situation guaranteed to result in chaos. And it is, it really is chaos. Tony and Diana are really quite adorable together. I love Diana’s fierce independence and Tony’s drive to do the best he can for his family. They’re both fighting their feelings as hard as they can, but as we all know, it’s going to be useless. I’m a little sad now to realize that this series is over. I’ve enjoyed getting to know these characters.
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It started in Fiji. This was a pleasant book which in places baffled me a little. Diana met Tony, the handsome billionaire in the idyllic setting of Fiji and spent a steamy week together as per their agreement. The author had given a good synopsis, so I’ll not do so here. Suffice it to say that the news of Diana’s ensuing pregnancy changes Tony’s plans only slightly as he had to satisfy his social and family commitment to marry and produce an heir. So instead of marrying a socialite back home in England, he marries Diana. The pact of convenience they think will suit them both, but neither of them counts on the feelings that unexpectedly develop between the two people who try very hard to keep within the confines of their arrangement. There were several tension points in the storyline, some of which contributed to the conflict, some of which helped towards a resolution but at a few points, I found the subplot perplexing. Tony is portrayed as a workaholic, yet in Fiji, he considered himself more of a player. His determination to put his work ahead of the needs of Diana and that of his unborn baby very nearly drives an irreparable chasm between them. It takes the realisation of his impending terrible loss to admit his feelings and finally realign his priorities. There are love scenes between the main characters which are steamy, yet the author manages to keep it well under X-rated. This story culminates in a lovely HEA along with a gorgeous baby and like Leslie’s other books, I can willingly recommend.
A complex loveless marriage
3.5
This book is shorter than the others in the series, but just as good. I just had a little trouble with the behavior at the beginning of the two characters. They are not very clear about what they want, why. They just know what they don’t want. Then when they find themselves married in a union without love, out of interest for both, their behavior changes: the two gain something, but it’s a high price and, is it ultimately what they want.
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