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The Temporary Wife: Luca and Valentina's Story

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The Temporary Wife: Luca and Valentina's Story

By: Catharina Maura
Narrated by: Joe Arden, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker
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Duet narration by Joe Arden and Stephanie Nemeth-Parker

Now a number one Amazon Kindle store best seller

When Luca Windsor's secretary suddenly quits her job shortly after his family forces him into an unwanted engagement, he sets out to solve both problems.

By secretly marrying his secretary, Valentina, instead.

The rules are simple:

  1. Don't fall in love
  2. Keep their marriage a secret at work
  3. Share a bed every night

It was meant to be a straightforward and mutually beneficial deal, but with each day that passes, it becomes clearer to Luca that the one thing Valentina wants is the only thing he can never do:

Letting her go.

Publisher's Note: Each book in the Windsors series features a different Windsor sibling, and as such, each book can be listened to as a standalone. The Temporary Wife contains a guaranteed happily-ever-after and no cheating.

©2023 Catharina Maura (P)2023 Catharina Maura
Contemporary Feel-Good Tearjerking
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Duet Narration • Emotional Depth • Possessive Hero • Engaging Storyline • Perfect Tension • Phenomenal Performances
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The story is meh. I could have picked it up or put it down honestly. I really don’t see much of a difference between Luca and Ares from “the wrong bride”. That being said, I may be the head of the Joe Arden fan club. I have listened to him narrate a few books from different authors and there is something about the way he holds the vowel in between the word fu***cking, that just gets me every time. Ok book. Phenomenal narration.

Joe Arden

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JUST DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND ONE CLICK EVERYTHING BY THIS AUTHOR! YOU'RE WELCOME
#GRANDMAANNEISABOSS

OUTSTANDING

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This is one of my favorite romance books ever. I loved it because there's not a ton of game playing or unnecessary filler drama that usually comes with romance books. Valentina was strong and I loved her character and the fact that she just said it like it was, didn't really play around with Lucca. I think what I loved most about this book was the jealousy on the male side for once. Almost all romance books are about how incredibly hot the mmc character is and how all of the women of the universe want him, which creates all kinds of jealousy issues fmc. That's dumb, we don't want to hear about that. We want the fmc to be incredibly hot and all the men want her and therefore the mmc has jealousy issues. That is probably what I loved most about this book. It's just different in a good way.

Loved it!

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AUDIBLE EDITION NARRATION WAS JUST OKAY!!

The "Temporary Wife" is Luca Windsor and Valentina story. Luca was forced to hire Valentina 8 years ago by his Grandmother. He disliked Valentina and treated her cruelly until he is told by his grandmother, she has contracted the lady he will marry Luca hates this person. So I ask Valentina to step in and marry him for 3 years based on one of his grandmother's contract marriage agreements for her grandchildren.

I really liked Luca and at first, I liked Valentina but halfway through the story she started to get on my nerves. Her insecurities and lack of confidence just became overwhelming. So 4 stars instead of what could have been a 5 star story. I loved it when Valentina and Luca worked together to solve any problems and Ex's that came there way. Basically its a very good story. Her lack of confidence in her marriage no matter how hard Luca tried to show her he loved her brought the storyline down.

NARRATION WAS JUST OKAY

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I loved it! Although the first book is still my favorite! On to book 3 :)

The perfect mix of sweet, smutty and a little drama

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Luca and Valentina life was a world wind of ups and downs that and the end love prevailed.

The Temporary Wife

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I loved the story line and the narrators did an AMAZING job. The chemistry was phenomenal!

GREAT AUDIOBOOK!

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I have to say this book is one of the best!!! I have listened to it more then once.

best one!

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Reread... This time I did it as an audiobook and man did it not disappoint. I devoured this book. The way I was sat from the moment he appeared I knew I was in for it. He worships her and literally gets on his knees and enjoys it. This book was the typical romance plot but was just done so well, emotions were played, and I was so happy to reread this book.

The narration was just so perfectly casted. Joe Arden and Stephanie Nemeth-Paker did an amazing job bring the characters to life... I loved this audio.

Narration was amazingly casted

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Negative review about this audiobook, pffttt. C’mon duo narrations by the elite is like a GIFT! It’s excellent, as I knew it would be. The story itself is exactly what I hoped for - angst, a strong FMC, a MMC who is an absolute simp for his woman. Yeah…sit back and enjoy this one. I know I did.

If I hear one…

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