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A review by lmrivas54
Forever After All by Catharina Maura
5.0
I started reading Catharina Maura recently and I’m addicted to her books. She does great angst, great romance, and what I love the best is that she’s spectacular in getting back on the bad people in the story.
Elena Rousseau is desperate, her mother is in a coma, her father and brother want to disconnect her life support and she’s spent all her trust fund and can’t continue to cover the very expensive hospital care her mother needs. In her desperation, she turns to a gentleman’s club, willing to sell her body in order to keep her mother alive.
Just as she’s starting her sleazy interview, her childhood friend Lucien Kennedy arrives with his big brother Alexander and stop the interview just before it would turn into a required blow job. Alexander proceeds to propose marriage in exchange for the best hospital care for Elena’s mother.
Alexander has a deadline for getting married in order to succeed into his grandfather’s position as CEO of their empire, so he needs a wife and Elena is a childhood friend, fallen into hard times. She’s perfect for the role, never mind she’s so beautiful and endearing.
What starts as a marriage of convenience soon turns into all kinds of partnerships. Alec helps her with her legal issues since they find there has been foul play involved with her mother, and in turn Elena makes his home life much more palatable. She charms his mother and his grandfather, and Lucian is happier now his childhood friend is back in their life. He doesn’t believe in love after being burned by an opportunistic hussy who cheated on him with Elena’s brother. Now it all seems to be turning around but poor Alec is stubborn and stupid and resists letting his heart be vulnerable again.
I love the angst and the passion of the story. At times it was a tad melodramatic but I seriously enjoyed those times because they were so juicy. The author took her characters through their paces and made us bite our nails in anticipation but then the resolution was spectacular and completely satisfying. And the ending couldn’t be more wonderfully cheesier. Totally lovely read!
Elena Rousseau is desperate, her mother is in a coma, her father and brother want to disconnect her life support and she’s spent all her trust fund and can’t continue to cover the very expensive hospital care her mother needs. In her desperation, she turns to a gentleman’s club, willing to sell her body in order to keep her mother alive.
Just as she’s starting her sleazy interview, her childhood friend Lucien Kennedy arrives with his big brother Alexander and stop the interview just before it would turn into a required blow job. Alexander proceeds to propose marriage in exchange for the best hospital care for Elena’s mother.
Alexander has a deadline for getting married in order to succeed into his grandfather’s position as CEO of their empire, so he needs a wife and Elena is a childhood friend, fallen into hard times. She’s perfect for the role, never mind she’s so beautiful and endearing.
What starts as a marriage of convenience soon turns into all kinds of partnerships. Alec helps her with her legal issues since they find there has been foul play involved with her mother, and in turn Elena makes his home life much more palatable. She charms his mother and his grandfather, and Lucian is happier now his childhood friend is back in their life. He doesn’t believe in love after being burned by an opportunistic hussy who cheated on him with Elena’s brother. Now it all seems to be turning around but poor Alec is stubborn and stupid and resists letting his heart be vulnerable again.
I love the angst and the passion of the story. At times it was a tad melodramatic but I seriously enjoyed those times because they were so juicy. The author took her characters through their paces and made us bite our nails in anticipation but then the resolution was spectacular and completely satisfying. And the ending couldn’t be more wonderfully cheesier. Totally lovely read!