AUTHOR: Chloe Peterson GENRE: Queer Romance PAGES: 308 pages RELEASED: 1 July 2023 SERIES: Billionaire #3 SYNOPSIS: When Immigration revokes 31-year-old Mia’s work visa, the life she’s built in the US to support her family in Brazil hangs in the balance. The last thing she wants is to go home and face the past she’s tried so hard to bury. But deportation looms ever closer, and she’s out of options. 46-year-old Reid can’t function without her superstar executive assistant and friend so she does everything in her power to find a loophole in the visa process. When that fails, she suggests a marriage of convenience. That way, Mia can stay in America and Reid can get her matchmaking mother off her back. But a business trip to Brazil and a few not-so-professional moments could change everything. Maybe their marriage of convenience might grow into something more if only they looked. When faking it with your boss saves you from deportation…
After working in America for six years, Mia Caetano is facing deportation back to Brazil because of a processing error. As much as she has missed her mother and sister, she has worked hard to build up her life in America to support her family, and leaving is the last thing she wants to do. When she hands in her notice to her boss Reid Voss, CEO of DawnStar Studios, Reid tries to do everything she can to keep Mia in the country. But there’s only one loophole that has a surefire chance of working - getting married. It’s a plan that won’t just help Mia stay, but will hopefully get Reid’s mother to stop trying to get her back together with her ex-wife. The pair are essentially work wives, so it’s not a massive step for them to pretend to be married in order for Mia to get her green card. But when they head to Brazil for a business trip, their long-held mutual attraction for one another starts to bubble to the surface. Seriously cannot get enough of the fake relationship trope! Throw in an age-gap, the workplace and a bit of slow burn, and you’ve got yourself a must-read! And Chloe has once again served up a must-read with Reid and Mia, with so much chemistry and heart. Their connection is instant and you can feel their six-year history oozing off the page, and they easily progressed into something more than just being work wives. I don’t want to play favourites but I think Reid and Mia are my favourite couple of the series, so far. The added layer of Mia’s past threatening to destroy everything once they arrived in Brazil added so much more depth to their relationship and the story. Compared to the previous two books, this one had much better pacing and allowed the story to flow much more easily. While there were times that still would have benefited from more exposition and build-up, it wasn’t as clunky or disjointed like Not On The Resume and Not On The Agenda. Chloe has definitely started to find her rhythm with this overall story and characters, and I can’t wait to see this continue with Alex and Taylor’s books. For a book about a marriage of convenience in order to fool immigration into letting Mia stay in the country, there is actually very little to do with the Visa process. I might have almost zero knowledge of said Visa process, but I am pretty sure there is more than just signing a marriage certificate and signing some immigration paperwork before jetting off overseas for an undetermined amount of time. On top of that, I do wish the ending hadn’t been so abrupt. The characters had been through so much and hadn’t really figured everything out by the final page. And while there is a bonus epilogue, even that doesn’t conclude their story enough for me to be satisfied. For my fellow age-gap and workplace romance girlies, this is definitely one to add to the TBR, especially if you’re looking to read more sapphic romances to read. |
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