Vows In Name Only by Naima Simone

 

VOWS IN NAME ONLY – Naima Simone

Billionaires of Boston, Book 1

Harlequin Desire #2770

ISBN: 978-1-335-20946-7

November 2020

Contemporary Series Romance

 

Boston – Present Day

 

As VOWS IN NAME ONLY opens, Cain Farrell learns after his hated father passes away that not only must he share the estate with two half-brothers that he didn’t know about, but that he must live in the mansion for one year. If he doesn’t comply, then he forfeits the estate. Cain goes along with the terms, and at a party a few days later, runs into a beautiful woman, one he is attracted to. A few days later, a man by the name of Gregory Cole comes into his office and informs him that he has information on Cain’s mother, which he will use as blackmail unless Cain agrees to marry his only daughter, Devon. Cain feels like he’s boxed into a corner because he will do anything to protect his mother. He finally agrees to a loveless marriage, vowing he will never accept the woman into his heart. Then, Devon walks in, and he discovers that she is the woman from the party.

 

Devon is under the control and thumb of her father. Gregory is obsessed with money and power and thinks nothing of using his daughter as a pawn. Devon has managed to find a job at a community center, but her father is threatening to get her fired and destroy the community center if she doesn’t agree to the loveless marriage to Cain Farrell. Forced to protect a cause she loves, she agrees. The realization that Cain is the man she accidentally ran into at the party is stunning. Yet, despite their instant attraction, she knows their future is doomed.

 

It’s a marital recipe for disaster in VOWS IN NAME ONLY by Naima Simone. Growing up, Cain was physically abused by his father and watched his mother put up with verbal abuse. Both finally escaped after Cain graduated from college and he vowed never to set foot in the family mansion again. But the death of his father has the man controlling things from the grave. Cain learns he has two half-brothers and that he must also live in the mansion for one—or lose the inheritance for all three. Cain figures he can take it for year, then move on running the family business. The entrance of Gregory Cole into his life is a shock—and the man is nearly as vile as Cain’s father. Is Devon helping Gregory to commit a con?

 

Unknown to Cain, Devon is a pawn, too, in her father’s schemes. Her love life is hopeless, especially after the last man she loved turned out to be a louse. After she gives in to her father’s blackmail demands—and realizes that it is Cain she must marry—she only hopes that she doesn’t lose her heart to the man she is now attracted to. In VOWS IN NAME ONLY, their relationship certainly starts off on the wrong foot, but can it only get better? And what about the sexual chemistry between them? Will they give in to their mutual attraction?

 

You won’t want to miss VOWS IN NAME ONLY.

 

Patti Fischer