A Negotiated Marriage
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4.1 • 239 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Sex wasn't supposed to be part of the deal.
Three years into a marriage of convenience, Molly's high-powered CEO husband wants to add a new term to their marriage agreement. Sex—without any messy emotional entanglements. But weekly sex with Luke, despite their carefully negotiated terms, is likely to get messy eventually.
Content in a mutually beneficial arrangement, Molly isn't going to fall for Luke the way she fell for an old lover, only to be crushed in the end. She vows to stay strong, no matter how much intimacy develops between them in bed. When her old lover returns, finally wanting a real relationship, Molly has the chance to give her heart to a man who will accept it.
It's too bad she now wants to give it to her husband, who has never admitted her heart is what he wants.
Customer Reviews
A Negotiated Marriage
A very hot and steamy. The story was a little different than I was expecting. I enjoyed it very much. Molly and Luke found what they were both looking for.
I loved this book
They say that over 41% of marriages in North America end in divorce because of our romantic fall-in-love Disneyfied culture where we fall in and out of love based on our physical feelings and how another person works to make us feel. At roughly the 3-5 year mark our hormone levels peak and begin to fall off; however, if we stick it out, we would likely begin to fall in love again, but this time with the real non-romanticized version of our spouse. Arranged marriages, on the other hand, start with little emotion and some physical connection and emotions begin to pick up at the 3-5 year mark where the couple each falls in love with the real person and emotions actually end up exceeding that of the non-arranged variety. At least, that’s what the study showed in our pre-marital class years ago. This book describes a combination somewhere in between both situations - a marriage of convenience where two wounded souls discover the real person they have married and begin to fall passionately in love with their spouse. This is how I imagine someone with autism (the hero) could arrange a marriage - with known boundaries. The usage of the English language was admirable and the characters were amazingly vulnerable, introspective and soul-baring. I really enjoyed it and gave it a rare 5/5 stars.