✨I love Sara Cate’s writing and this one was good, but it’s not even close to the love I have for her earlier work. I’d probably give this a 3.5, but I always round up.

✨Is it worth reading? Yes, I believe so. The first half is what I struggled with -the MCs are extremely unlikable and I wasn’t sure she’d be able to redeem them enough for me to enjoy the full story.

She did though. I was rooting for them by the 70% mark.

Ok, so we have Sylvie Devereaux, neglected daughter to two darlings of the global art world. She’s been cut off of her allowance for a number of reasons that honestly feel valid to me, but she’s in dire financial straits.

She’s propositioned to marry and live with the rude Scottish brute, Killian Barclay, she’d met a month earlier. They did not have a meet-cute, but rather a meet-ugly. It was rough, y’all.

Anyway, she agrees to marry him for ten million dollars that she’ll receive at the end of their year. And this year starts off much like their meet-ugly. How are they going to get through this year?!

So, Killian needs a wife to convince his family he’s respectable now and not still hosting debauched swinger BDSM parties. Sure. I’ll buy that in the realm of contemporary romance. But it does make me want to re-read A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare. That historical romance with the scene with the thoroughly debauched Griff is so, so good. I mean, for a book with swingers and kinks, it was honestly pretty tame.

Bottom line: there are reasons for everything and the MCs acting so terribly. I do think the book is good, just not quite what I was expecting. The narration heavy lifting was done by Kelli Tager featuring Will Watt and they both did amazing jobs as always.

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