GRR Reviews Hired Bride (Beaufort Brides) by Noelle Adams

Hired Bride started as a trope "fake love to real love" romance, but the characters and the polish top a proper happily ever after made the book stand out.

Deanna and her sisters were raised by their eccentric grandma in the old mansion, but their Historic Savannah, Georgia mansion is falling down around their ears. Their grandma's solution is to try to pair them off to prospective (and rich) single men, and Deanna, the oldest, is first in line. Mitchell Graves is in town to do business, but he needed a fake wife to gain time to conclude a business deal when his partner's wife has her eyes on him, and Deanna happens to be the most expedient solution... he'll pay her well for a six-month sham marriage. She's quiet and meek and easy to manage. Oh boy... did he make a huge mistake... As Deanna is anything BUT meek...

The setup sorta makes sense and sorta doesn't. It's the clash of personalities and the sass that made the book pop. The part that leads to HEA is pretty good, and at 200 pages, just about right.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Businessman needs a fake wife to conclude a business deal; who he got is a sassy southern belle who's anything but meek...

Overall Rating: 4/5

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