This was an easy and fun romance read! The plot revolves around Virginia and Francis, Virginia being a recently widowed lady and Francis being someone who has been in love with her since he first met her. Virginia is trying to live her best life after escaping a traumatizing childhood and equally bad marriage, finally having the independence and means to live happy and stable life, on the condition she doesn’t remarry anyone for 10 years after her husband’s death or else she loses everything. Francis, wanting to buy one of Virginia’s late husband’s estates for his sick mother, decides that he’ll do whatever it takes to get it and pursuing Virginia is just a welcome way to get it. Thus begins a harrowing journey as these two deal with not only their emotions for each other and their circumstances, but having people after both their lives and trying to narrowly escape death. We get to read from both their POVs, which is something I always love in romance novels, and understand both of their struggles. The story was interesting and the romance was quite nice, I had a really fun time reading it . The plot wraps up nicely and there is a lot of intriguing schemes and plotting done. The banter and interaction between the two protagonists was enjoyable to read and all in all, I had a nice time reading this!

*Thank you Netgalley and Kensington Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review. *

Merged review:

This was an easy and fun romance read! The plot revolves around Virginia and Francis, Virginia being a recently widowed lady and Francis being someone who has been in love with her since he first met her. Virginia is trying to live her best life after escaping a traumatizing childhood and equally bad marriage, finally having the independence and means to live happy and stable life, on the condition she doesn’t remarry anyone for 10 years after her husband’s death or else she loses everything. Francis, wanting to buy one of Virginia’s late husband’s estates for his sick mother, decides that he’ll do whatever it takes to get it and pursuing Virginia is just a welcome way to get it. Thus begins a harrowing journey as these two deal with not only their emotions for each other and their circumstances, but having people after both their lives and trying to narrowly escape death. We get to read from both their POVs, which is something I always love in romance novels, and understand both of their struggles. The story was interesting and the romance was quite nice, I had a really fun time reading it . The plot wraps up nicely and there is a lot of intriguing schemes and plotting done. The banter and interaction between the two protagonists was enjoyable to read and all in all, I had a nice time reading this!

*Thank you Netgalley and Kensington Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review. *