Review: The Temporary Bride (Brides of Holland Springs #2) by Marquita Valentine

Haven Crawford needs a husband—but only temporarily—in order to keep her grandparents’ inn in the family. Her well-meaning, but old-fashioned grandparents’ will requires her to marry if she wants to keep running Chesson House. But, the last person she’d ask to help is her childhood enemy, Heath Ambrose. Unfortunately, he’s the only one she can trust to keep his promise to divorce her and not take the inn when he leaves.

Star catcher, Heath Ambrose needs relief from his meddling mother and the jet-set lifestyle that accompanies his sudden rise to fame as the face of the newest national baseball team, the Greenville Pirates. As the last single Ambrose sibling, his mother is determined to marry Heath off, but he’s not ready to settle down. Especially not after watching the woman he loved run off to Scotland with another man. So when Haven proposes, Heath jumps at the chance for some peace in his life.

Only a temporary marriage to Haven is anything but peaceful—not to mention that they can’t keep their hands off one another. But, when the will’s conditions have been fulfilled and baseball season starts up again, will Heath and Haven be able to say goodbye when hate turns to love?

Or can temporary turn into forever?

My Review

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. 

Haven and Heath have a interesting relationship. The love to hate each other. They always have.  So when Haven has to get married in order to keep her inn of course Heath is the perfect man for the job. He agrees in order to keep his meddling mother off his back, but it isn't long before he realizes that he actually wants the marriage to work. 

He even goes as far as to woo her, after they have been married. Over the course of a few weeks he does everything in his power to convince Haven that they can make something of their marriage. And despite the fact that at first all they did was bicker, they actually get along. Like REALLY WELL.

“Haven,” he murmured as he came to rest beside her. “That was... incredible.”

She wasn’t sure how to take his compliment and instead of spouting off a random fact about the withdrawal method only having a failure rate of four percent while condoms had a failure rate of fifteen percent, to her horror, tears began to fall from the corners of her eyes.

“Don’t, baby.” He kissed her tears away, cleaned her up, and gathered her in his lap. “I didn’t mean to hurt you. I know it’s been a while for you—I should have gone slower. Should have asked you if you were okay.”

She shook her head, seeking his strength and warmth. “It’s not you. It’s me. I’m crying because that’s the best sex I’ve ever had.”

Lifting her chin with his hand, he stared deeply into her eyes. She half-expected him to say something cocky, like damn right it was, but he didn’t.

Instead, he tenderly kissed her lips and said, “It was the best I ever had, too.”

I really liked them together. Heath was such a sweetheart...especially when he was trying to get Haven to see the truth about their relationship. He was just so damn thoughtful and every preconceived notion Haven had about him was thrown out the window. Unfortunately it takes a serious event for her to see the light, but she does eventually see it. And that epilogue...it just made me so darn happy!!

I love me some Marquita Valentine! The event that occurs at the end of this book sets us up for the next book in this series and I am really looking forward to it. Woman with amnesia who still thinks she is married to her ex-husband?  SIGN ME UP!!  

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