The Temporary Wife: Luca and Valentina's Story

The Windsors

By: Catharina Maura

Narrated by: Joe Arden, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker

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

If I hear one…

Negative review about this audiobook, pffttt. C’mon duo narrations by the elite is like a GIFT! It’s excellent, as I knew it would be. The story itself is exactly what I hoped for - angst, a strong FMC, a MMC who is an absolute simp for his woman. Yeah…sit back and enjoy this one. I know I did.

Phenomenal!!!

I absolutely love this book so much from start to finish. Catharina Maura you are a mad genius, and I absolutely loved every second of it. I wish I had read or listen to your books sooner. Joe Arden and Stephanie Nemeth-Parker both of you made this book come alive for me. Stephanie you are a new narrator to me, but from now on, I am one clicking your audiobooks that you’ve narrated. This book only took me like two days to listen. I cannot wait to see what the future brings for all three of you beautiful people.

hooked!

I am hooked on your books..... I just binge listen all day and night.... I just couldn't stop! I can't wait for the next release!

Joe could read me a cereal box and it would be 4-5 stars!

JOEEEE ARDEN!

Ughhh. This man could read me the back of the cereal box and I’d give it 5 stars.

The story was good…the narration was TOP TIER. Both narrators did a phenomenal job. I don’t do a lot of audiobooks but the fact that this was done as a true duet narration sold me and I’m so glad I gave this story a try!

This is enemies to lovers, he’s her boss and they can’t stand each other, marriage of convenience so he can gain his inheritance, she gets her family taken care of, and super spicy! Like holy crap, Luca had me blushing and I don’t blush from books often.

So good! Only reason it wasn’t a 5 star is that Valentina kind of annoyed me at certain parts…I know it’s to provide drama and what is the story if she dived into the relationship without holding back, but the constant “he doesn’t love me” “he can’t love mewhen he’s quite literally throwing buckets of love right into her face, drove me insane…and the number of times Luca said she drives him insane or mad. That was repetitive.

Luca and Valentina❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I the story between these two it is so beautiful and loving you have to just wonder ❤️❤️❤️but I recommend it

Steamy

Love Joe and love this book! Don’t think about it just get it. Grandma is the real GOAT

Joe Arden

The story is meh. I could have picked it up or put it down honestly. I really don’t see much of a difference between Luca and Ares from “the wrong bride”. That being said, I may be the head of the Joe Arden fan club. I have listened to him narrate a few books from different authors and there is something about the way he holds the vowel in between the word fu***cking, that just gets me every time. Ok book. Phenomenal narration.

OUTSTANDING

JUST DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND ONE CLICK EVERYTHING BY THIS AUTHOR! YOU'RE WELCOME
#GRANDMAANNEISABOSS

Loved it!

This is one of my favorite romance books ever. I loved it because there's not a ton of game playing or unnecessary filler drama that usually comes with romance books. Valentina was strong and I loved her character and the fact that she just said it like it was, didn't really play around with Lucca. I think what I loved most about this book was the jealousy on the male side for once. Almost all romance books are about how incredibly hot the mmc character is and how all of the women of the universe want him, which creates all kinds of jealousy issues fmc. That's dumb, we don't want to hear about that. We want the fmc to be incredibly hot and all the men want her and therefore the mmc has jealousy issues. That is probably what I loved most about this book. It's just different in a good way.

NARRATION WAS JUST OKAY

AUDIBLE EDITION NARRATION WAS JUST OKAY!!

The "Temporary Wife" is Luca Windsor and Valentina story. Luca was forced to hire Valentina 8 years ago by his Grandmother. He disliked Valentina and treated her cruelly until he is told by his grandmother, she has contracted the lady he will marry Luca hates this person. So I ask Valentina to step in and marry him for 3 years based on one of his grandmother's contract marriage agreements for her grandchildren.

I really liked Luca and at first, I liked Valentina but halfway through the story she started to get on my nerves. Her insecurities and lack of confidence just became overwhelming. So 4 stars instead of what could have been a 5 star story. I loved it when Valentina and Luca worked together to solve any problems and Ex's that came there way. Basically its a very good story. Her lack of confidence in her marriage no matter how hard Luca tried to show her he loved her brought the storyline down.