The Temporary Wife: Luca and Valentina's Story (The Windsors)

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From the author of The Wrong Bride and Forever After All comes an angsty and steamy marriage of convenience romance featuring a billionaire boss and his secretary.When Luca Windsor’s secretary quits her job shortly after he’s forced into an unwanted engagement arranged by his family, he sets out to solve both problems…. by secretly marrying his secretary instead.The rules are simple:1. Don’t fall in love2. Keep their marriage a secret at work3. Share a bed every nightIt was meant to be a straightforward and mutually beneficial deal, but with each day that passes, it becomes clearer to Luca that the only thing Valentina wants is the one thing he can never do.Letting her go. The Temporary Wife (The Windsors, #2) by Catharina Maura – eBook Details

Dion: We have a name for Dion’s fiancée and I cannot wait for their book. I was sold from the moment we learned Dion and Faye don’t speak to one another. I was so interested in their dynamic after seeing it through Luca’s eyes. I’m so happy their book is next. Someone wake me up when it’s June please. Dos, Luca, es un amor, a pesar de que era frio y distante y por arrebatos decía cosas que no quería siempre se disculpaba y trataba de hacer las cosas mejor, nunca se comportó como un imbécil con ella todo lo contrario hizo todo para conquistarla. To be honest, I didn't believe the love story simply because Faye seemed to be so well conditioned by her father to do his bidding that I could not believe she really had a conscious choice in this relationship. It was the most unbalanced relationship of this series and it was disturbing to read about it. Luca's feelings on the surface do seem like a true case of wanting what you can't have -and I'm glad Val called him out on that.

The Temporary Wife Summary

MMC’s who wear grey sweat pants and a white t-shirt/shirtless. This is highly fetishized in the first book as well as this book being the second. Which I love, just… very similar going from book 1 to book 2. I also adore Faye! She’s literally like beautiful, fragile and delicate flower in spring. Just alluring, untouchable and unique. I loved her character. She is gorgeous inside and out and she did not deserve the torment her father put her through. I’m glad that she stood up for herself at the end and asked for help and finally got her happily ever after! It was literally perfect from beginning to end and not only the plot but also the characters.. ESPECIALLY LUCA!!! Boy was he an amazing MMC, I’m literally in love with him and would drop on my goddamn knees for this man!!! imagine exploiting the deterioration of the health of someone’s grandmother to force them to do what you want 😭😭 This was cute and also very dramatic the characters were at a 10 they needed to be at a 5 lol. It was easy to read, smutty and I like the characters and family. I think I like workplace romance, it may be slightly unethical sometimes but it hardly ever disappoints. This book was so angsty and not always in a good way. There were so many things tearing Luca and Valentina apart and some of the stuff felt repetitive and it was tiring. Grandma Windsor in this series has way too much time on her hand she’s a little annoying with her matchmaking and arranged marriages. There’s a lot of smut in this and it was okay but I’m so tired of seeing “good girl” in smut let’s change it up. This book is probably closer to 3.5 ⭐️ but I’ll give it a 4 because of the smut scene that was in public in front of Luca’s ex🤭.

No, Dion didn’t physical abuse her but he threatened physical assault plenty. He gave her more freedoms but he also used the fact that she used some of that freedom against her. Her fears were completely founded and Dion proved it. The sad thing is that our heroine was sooo abused she thought he was better than her father. when Valentina’s grandmother goes missing, Luca is already using his resources to find her but Val doesn’t know this. so she goes to him to make a deal and says she’ll stay on as his assistant (since she had handed in her resignation which Luca was viciously resistant to) if he finds her grandmother. instead, he says he’ll find her if Valentina marries him.The whole Windsors series, Forever After All, Professor Astor, and Bittersweet Memories are narrated in duet style, whereby all of a character's lines are read by the same narrator, regardless of the chapter's point of view. Narrators include Sebastian York, Joe Arden, CJ Bloom, and Maxine Mitchell amongst others. Be the first to receive new bonus scenes and a monthly edition of The Herald, the gossip paper from my books