Review: A Marriage Of Convenience
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
This is a story about a marriage of convenience between Nick Callahan and Claire Kendrick.Nick is a very handsome, very successful and very rich president of a multimillion dollar company. Nick has never had a problem dating and getting any woman that he wanted and often did. He would date a woman until she started to become possessive, clingy and started to see marriage in their future and them he would dump them. Nick wasn't always this way, in fact he was in love with and married to a woman named Jill. Jill made it no secret that she wanted the life of Jet Setting, night life and spending Nick's money, Nick however was in love and thought things would chance until he found himself divorced and heartbroken. After that, Nick decided that he no longer believed in falling in love.Claire worked at Nick's company and one day found herself summoned to the 50th floor to meet with the president of the company. Claire couldn't figure out what business the president could possibly want with her until he informed her that he wanted her to write a article about him for CEO magazine. She was baffled by this because not only was she not qualified to do it but, she had only she had only written one article before and it was only as a favor. She voiced her concerns to Nick but, he was persistent and decided to do the job but, was suspicious of him because she knew that there was more to this than what he was saying.Claire had been caring for her mother who was put in a nursing home after a boating accident killed her father and seriously injured her mother. It had become a financial burden on her especially now that the home has informed her that the stay has been increased by $300 a month and Claire realizes that she has no way of paying and may have to put her mother in a State Hospital. Nick see her worry and after finding out what is wrong, makes her an offer. He offers to take care of her and her mother for the rest of their lives and all that she has to do is agree to marry him, give him children,and not nag him. He also let her know that there would be no falling in love involved because he didn't believe in love.Claire had no choice but to take Nick up on his offer and try not to fall in love with him but, for her its too late, now can se get Nick to feel the sameThis is a really good book and the story line was easy to follow which is always a plus.