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The Temporary Wife: Luca and Valentina's Story

By: Catharina Maura
Narrated by: Joe Arden, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker
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Summary

Duet narration by Joe Arden and Stephanie Nemeth-Parker

Now a number one Amazon Kindle store best seller

When Luca Windsor's secretary suddenly quits her job shortly after his family forces him into an unwanted engagement, he sets out to solve both problems.

By secretly marrying his secretary, Valentina, instead.

The rules are simple:

  1. Don't fall in love
  2. Keep their marriage a secret at work
  3. Share a bed every night

It was meant to be a straightforward and mutually beneficial deal, but with each day that passes, it becomes clearer to Luca that the one thing Valentina wants is the only thing he can never do:

Letting her go. 

Publisher's Note: Each book in the Windsors series features a different Windsor sibling, and as such, each book can be listened to as a standalone. The Temporary Wife contains a guaranteed happily-ever-after and no cheating.

©2023 Catharina Maura (P)2023 Catharina Maura

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love it!

a great story, read well, I was hooked and wished it didn't end! the voices were easy to listen to and well done

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beautiful

exceptional narration, well done. it was my first audiobook and I'm now addicted. Now on to my next one 😊

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Another fantastic story by Catherine Maura

Love all the books! i got teary eyed for this story and so happy things played out as they did in the story!

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Loved the story, I think the narrators did an excellent job BUT I found myself getting really frustrated at the pronunciation of wouldn’t, couldn’t and didn’t. They were pronounced by the female narrator as wutn’t, cutn’t and ditn’t and it just grated the more the book went on.

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Perfection

catarina maura never fails with each and every story the audio is 💋 chefs kiss loving the Windors stories but lucca and val is amazing plenty of angst and so much 🔥🔥🔥can never go wrong with this ladies writing .

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Loved it!

I really enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed the wrong bride. Can’t wait to continue with the rest of the Windsor’s

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The female character really annoyed me at the end

Starting of the book I was okay the first one was really good with all the drama and the love and I expected the second one to be the same! And I didn’t mind it, until after they got married the female character got more annoying as the book went on! I don’t truly think she even had a foot to stand on! I thought it would have been abit like the first one where they had multiple people trying to tear them apart! But this was just annoying.

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Lovely story

Beautifully narrated and very well written story. I listened the book after reading it and loved every second of it. Definitely recommend!

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Amazing

The VA’s truly excelled. 10/10 would listen again. Great listen and interesting plot line

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struggled to finnish

Repetitive and childish dialogue and the story is just way too much. Would not recommend.

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