Sunday 1 September 2013

The Marriage Bargain (Billionaire Games 1) - Sandra Edwards

The Book
Release Date: 11 March 2012

Camille Chandler is a tabloid journalist whose career is right on track--until her boss sees a curious ad in the L.A. Trades.

Wanted: Single actress for an extended gig abroad.

France's mega-rich playboy Julian de Laurent is up to something and Camille's boss expects her to find out what. Who knew the eccentric gazillionaire was looking to hire a temporary wife?

When Camille refuses to accept Julian's proposal--and secretly write a juicy tell-all about the de Laurent family--she's fired and left financially destitute, forcing her to entertain Julian's proposal for real.

But what'll happen at the end of the contract period, after Camille has spent six months as the wife of a man she learns is capable of stealing her heart?

**This is a re-release of The Marriage Bargain, originally published in August, 2010. This version has an ALL NEW ending.**

My Opinion  3 STARS
**Provided by Netgalley and Sandra Edwards for an honest review**

A nice light-hearted read perfect for a day lazing about the house at the weekend.

Camille is a journalist who has been sent by her boss to meet Julian De Laurent as he has placed an ad for an actress and she wants the inside story. When she finds out that he needs an actress to be his wife for six months to fool his father she initially refuses.

When she tells her boss she is given the ultimatum that she will take the position or loose her job with the magazine and no longer be able to work in the profession let alone waitressing. Given this ultimatum and given her own strong morales instilled in her by her grandmother she quits her job.

Realising that she will not be able to cope without money, she agrees to marry Julian with his offered six months for 5 million pounds. They are married in Vegas with a prenup in place and she is flown to London and Paris before Marseilles to get her a brand new wardrobe.

After catty comments from the woman who was chosen to be Julians wife by his father it is the day of her marriage. The only problem, her dress is missing and the weather looks like rain. With no other option, she wears on of the other dresses that Julian had bought for her, but the weather gets worse and she gets rather wet.

Julian finds Camille quite charming and things she has brilliant acting abilities along with a good way of making out the position and putting her best foot forward. He finds because of her he has even started to thank the hired help.

Julian has plans to seduce his bride and does what he can to touch her from the beginning, they even share personal details with each other, ones he has never shared before. Julian spends a good ten days on honey moon with Camille where the inevitably fall in bed together and get closer.

Once back his father hands him an envelope that rocks his world. After a business trip away, he comes back to find his wife gone and his heart hurting and his step-mother telling him to think.

This book will have you smiling and feeling sorry for Camille, you just can't help it.

A good beginning to the series.

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