The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren
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Explicit open door [?]
· 326 ratings · 352 pages · Published: 14 May 2024
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways.
Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.
Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.
But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.
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Tagged as:
- contemporary 28
- marriage of convenience 26
- funny 24
- forced proximity 24
- rich hero 24
- class difference 22
- m-f romance 21
- poor heroine 20
- independent heroine 17
- working class heroine 17
- sassy heroine 16
- friends to lovers 12
- slow burn 11
- fake relationship 11
- second chances 8
- nerdy hero 8
- sweet/gentle heroine 6
- ceo/tycoon hero 6
- angst 5
- grumpy & sunshine 2
- teacher/coach hero 2
- new adult 1
- betrayal 1
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- content warnings
- past abuse 10
- mental trauma 10
- past child neglect 7
- abuse 4
- geography
- indonesia 14
- california 9
- usa 8
- north america 7
- southeast asia 3
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 23
- first person pov 15
- standalone 2
- male pov 1
