Marriage for One

by Ella Maise

The only way to secure her dream is to marry a handsome stranger . . .

When Rose and Jack meet, she has just lost her uncle, and with him her dream of owning a coffee shop. Rose wanted nothing more than to open a café in her uncle’s building. But her uncle’s will is clear – the building goes to Rose’s husband. Not to her.

Then, his lawyer, Jack, offers an unusual solution… she can marry him. She’ll get the café and he’ll get the building. For some reason, Rose agrees.
It might be a marriage of convenience but it’s anything but simple. Despite it being his idea, Jack is unbearably surly... But then he does something that shows Rose he might just have a softer side.

Maybe love can start with a contract… but will Rose still feel that way when she learns the full terms of their deal?
 

• ISBN10: 1398521620
• ISBN13: 9781398521629
• Publish Date: 27 October 2022 (first published 6 May 2019)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 512
• Language: English

Reviews

[Romance Schmomance]

Marriage for One has been on my TBR since I started seeing it on everyone's feed. It was a top favorite, but I just needed a break in my busy schedule. At last the moment came and I was finally able to dive into this one. Sadly, it didn't quite hit the mark for me, but there were many moments that I simply adored.

I struggled with getting through the book, I was also going a stressful move, so I don't that helped matters all. It took me a lot longer than I anticipated to finish this and sometimes it definitely felt like things were really dragging.

However, I really do love slow burns, I'm just a fan of the slow build of tension between the characters. I think it was around the middle, where things started to pick up between them. Jack was becoming more present in her life. I loved his grumpy bear moments.

But I gotta say, once we learn the conflict, it didn't seem like it was a strong enough reason. And everything surrounding why and how the marriage started, wasn't really here for it.

I'm a little bummed out that book didn't work for me, I'm definitely go to give her other books a try. I've heard a lot of great things!

[whisperingchapters]

This is such a fantastic slow-burn, heart-warming, heart-racing, passionate romance of a grumpy hero who will have your heart racing, and a delicate and sweet rose. Their love story wasn't in the cards, but hallelujah that it ended up happening!

Being married to Jack Hawthorne had turned out to have its own advantages--apart from the broody eye candy and the almost daily arm porn, I mean.

When Rose meets Jack, he immediately proposes her, but not for the reasons you may think. Rose had just been dumped by her fiance and here was this stranger asking for her hand in marriage. You'd think he was in love, but no. He was the coldest man Rose had ever met and she regretted getting married when she did. Jack was a man of very few words but Rose could see in his actions how he cared for her and in time, she started getting fascinated by this grumpy man. But with those names, they were doomed from the start.

Her lips curved up slightly, and my eyes focused on that. Her smile was what had gotten me
into this mess that first time we were introduced.

How do I make this book justice?! I can't even begin to tell you guys that this book was amazing! Ella is such a hidden gem in the romance world and she needs the entire world's recognition! This book... Just wow. She completely blew me away with her creative writing and the wonderful story she created. She created Jack and just for that, I'll love her forever!

I studied his face, his beautiful but angry eyes. He looked so good in a tux, so unattainable, yet there he was, not mine but still holding me up.

I love grumpy heroes who are really a softie on the inside. Jack is rugged, stern, serious, always frowning and/or scowling. Like Rose, I was counting those smiles and eagerly waiting for one of them to appear. I love that despite him being this way, someone who seemed so unattainable to Rose, someone so high up it was impossible to reach his level, he's also soft around the edges, quite vulnerable, and loyal. Only three people, including him, know the real reason why he proposed to Rose and he's scared for the truth to come out before he's ready. Thankfully, that's the only thing he kept from Rose. He's always so honest with her with everything else, which makes for some funny declarations, but also some sweet and endearing declarations that would slowly melt my heart!

"I want to be the person you lean on. You and I, we're the same. We have no one but each other.You'll lean on me and I'll do the same. We'll learn how. We're in this together."

Rose was such a smiling and adorable heroine, completely opposite to Jack. She's such a strong woman that has to deal with the situation she was put in by her family and Jack. And when she tackles it all head-first, it proves she's willing to do anything to achieve her dreams, which is to open up a coffee shop. I loved reading about her when she was in the coffee shop, but through Jack's eyes. I have a vivid picture in my head right now of when Jack is looking at her in the coffee shop and she's all smiles and looks like she belongs there. That place is her baby. And she wouldn't have it any other way, even if it meant a marriage of convenience with a grumpy man. But she's able to enjoy all these details that come with this marriage that had eyes in hearts, like Jack's arm candy, when Jack smiled for the first time, I think my heart skipped a beat or two. Jack buying bouquet of natural flowers for her coffee shop tables when he found out she couldn't afford them. Sure, he'd deliver them with such a scowl on his face, but he was always there to give Rose those flowers. When he'd call her "My Rose", my heart would get in a frenzy. I especially loved when things slowly started to progress from 'pretend' to 'real' and how these two amazing characters started to explore this new phase of their lives together.

My husband was perfect. With all his arrogance and prickliness, Jack Hawthorne was perfect for me. He wasn't what I'd had in mind or even what I'd wanted for myself, but he was perfect...

Overall, Marriage for One was 100% perfect. Ella created a story I want to dive in over and over again, created characters I will forever cherish in my heart (especially Jack). Marriage for One is a tantalizing slow-burn romance with a marriage of convenience that will have you turning the page faster than you can say, "I do". It's full of teasing from Rose's part, scowling from Jack's part, but also, moments that will warm your heart, will make you fall hard for everything in this story. It's full of endearing declarations that will have you melting and wanting a Jack in your life!

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[Cocktails and Books]

I pushed my way through this book, but the story and the characters didn't endear themselves to me at all. A marriage of convenience because you didn't have any balls? Yeah, I'm not down for that kind of hero.

[reveriesociety_]

I'm blown away by this story. This is a romance that didn't have any angst, any schemes. It does have one thing that comes in the characters way, which we all know is coming. It's important, but at the same time just a small bump in the road for such an epic love story.

I mean... You know how you always have fun watching the two characters fall in love? Ella Maise delivers. Boy, she delivers. This is what made this book so perfect for me. All the process of them warming up to each other was just so amazing.

You can't pass this one up!