Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Marriage Trap by Jennifer Probst


"Sorry, Lily, Aunt Maggie doesn't do diapers.  When you get older I'll teach you how to ride a motorcycle, score a hot guy for the prom and buy your first fake ID.  Till then, I'm out." ~Maggie

WIFE WANTED…

Italian billionaire seeks faux fiancée. Willing to agree to anything in return...

In order for his sister to marry, Italian billionaire Michael Conte has to find himself a bride – and fast! When he learns that photographer Maggie Ryan is going to be in Milan, Michael hatches a plan to introduce her to his family as his “fiancée.” Never mind that Maggie is confident, independent, and a control freak. Never mind that she’s everything he doesn’t want in a wife… and everything he wants in his bed!

Convinced that Michael is in love with her married gal pal, Maggie agrees to keep up the ruse if he’ll keep away from her friend. Besides, she’s not attracted to charming, ridiculously hot billionaires who drive her nuts. Once they’re in Italy, however, everything changes – and the sexual tension between Maggie and Michael goes from simmer to naked nuclear meltdown!

But have they found the perfect arrangement… or are they trapped in a make-believe marriage?


The Marriage Trap picks up from a several months after where the Marriage Bargain left off. 

We met the two protagonist, Maggie and Michael  in Book 1 of Marriage to a Billionaire Series.  Maggie Ryan is Nick Ryan's sister and best friend to Alexa, Nicks wife.  Michael Conte is a close personal friend of Alexa and business partner to her husband Nick.  Maggie and Michael meet in book 1 when Alexa sets them up on a blind date.  After the blind date turns out to be somewhat of a disaster, the two part ways. 

Maggie is an independent women, who is not in need for money, she has plenty of her own.  All she wants is to find someone to share her life with and on a silly, drunken night alone in her apartment, in a Bidget Jones moment, she decides to perform a love spell to attract a man with all the qualities she yearns for in a partner. 

Michael is an enigmatic, handsome, wealthy  man and doesn't want for female companionship.  But Michael is traditional and wants to find true love:) 

When Michael receives a frantic phone call from one of his beloved little sisters about an old tradition regarding marriage in their family, Michael is forced to try and find a solution.  Michael needs to marry first before his sisters will be allowed to marry.  With plenty of lovers but really no marriage prospects in sight, he turns to Maggie to help him with his situation and asks her to pretend to be his wife to pacify his stubborn Italian mother. 

Yes, it is the making for a disaster!  But it turns out to be a sweet, wonderful, beautiful disaster with an ending we romantics love!

Book 3 is coming out this November and I cant wait!  Pre-ordered and all on my Kindle! 

Favorite Quotes/Lines:

"I am having some family difficulties and I am required to marry.  I need someone to go to Italy with me for a week, pretend to be my wife, spend time with my family, then leave." ~Michael
"Why do I suddenly feel like I dropped into the Lifetime movie of the week?" ~Maggie
"What is Lifetime?" ~Michael

 "How is this happening?  I'm trapped in a frickin' romance novel!" ~Maggie

"You will serve your husband dinner tonight Margherita, by your own hand.  And this is not because you are beneath him, or he believes you are less.  It is because you are more.  So much more." ~Mama Conte

But with Michael everything seemed different.  His body heat reminded her of a werewolf in those Twilight films she secretly loved.  

Book in the Freezer Moment:
When Maggie overhears a conversation Michael is having with his best friend Max....




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