SYNOPSIS

When the company Rylee works for in New York goes bankrupt, she’s met with the opportunity of a lifetime for her dream job paying six figures in Paris. She takes it although her employer’s anonymity concerns her.

What could happen?

RECAP AND REVIEW

Thank you Torch Lit Ink and the author for an arc in exchange for an honest review!

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This is the second book in an interconnected standalone romance series and is told in the first person from both Rylee and Luc.

Rylee believes she’s cursed from falling in love and finding her soulmate. She is also fighting for custody of her sister. Though she doesn’t want to leave her, she has to take this opportunity to form the foundation of a home the courts will approve of.

In order to keep his position as CEO, Luc has to be married. He knows just the woman he wants to make an arrangement with.

I had a good time with this book. Marriage of convenience has slipped into my number 1 spot of favorite tropes.

Luc is so serious about Rylee. He definitely falls first and hard, and is unapologetically obsessed. Rylee is more reserved and hesitant because of what she has been through and some of her limiting beliefs.

They have history, and I can’t tell if it’s missing information from the first book or something that happened off page, but in the beginning, at times, I felt disconnected because I wanted more of them together.

There’s two different timelines going on and I liked how they connected and paralleled in some ways. I also liked how the oasis, the setting constant through these two stories, was told from its own point of view, giving an all-knowing perspective, with information even the characters themselves don’t know. It was poetic.

Read for:

💍 Marriage of convenience

💍 Generational curse

💍 Billionaire Romance

💍 He falls first and hard

💍 Set in France

💍 Afro Latina FMC x Black French MC

OVERALL

Overall, I give this a 4 out of 5 stars. It was cute. I liked the talks they had and some of their inside jokes. I recommend it.