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The Contract

By: Melanie Moreland
Narrated by: John Lane, Tatiana Sokolov
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A tyrant by day, a playboy by night. That's the reputation that precedes Richard VanRyan. He lives life the way he wants, no concern for the opinion of others. He cares for no one, is completely unrepentant, and has no desire to change his ways.

Katharine Elliott works under Richard as his PA. She despises him and his questionable ethics, but endures all the garbage he sends her way, because she needs the job. Her end goal is far more important than the daily abuse and demands she tolerates from her nasty tyrant of a boss. Until the day he asks her for something she never expected. A new role with a personal contract-fiancée instead of PA.

What happens when two people who loathe each other have to live together and act as though they are madly in love? Sparks. That's what happens.

Can the power of love really change a person?

Will they survive the contract?

What do you do when the one person you hate the most becomes the one person you can't live without?

©2016 Melanie Moreland (P)2016 Tantor Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Heartfelt Feel-Good
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I picked this up randomly and was pleasantly surprised. The hero is very douchey, but be patient, everything will be better at the end, The performance was good too, they narrated it beautifully,

Beautiful Love Story

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cute. character focused. following them through a journey of change and growing together rather than dumb misunderstandings and over reactions.

likeable characters

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Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (rounded down)
Spice: 🌶️🌶️
Narration Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎤 John Lane & Tatiana Sokolov
📚 dual POV, 1st person
Series: Contract series, book 1
Do I recommend this book: 👍

♥️ grumpy / a**hole MMC
♥️ fake marriage

Grumpy Rich boss MMC

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This novel was a lovely escape. I enjoyed that it was more of the male's POV.
I listened to this while it was free, I'm not sure if I would of enjoyed it if I had paid for it and I won't be paying for the rest of the series. As I said, it was a lovely escape, it didn't provoke enough emotions or passion for me to be captivated by the story.

A Lovely Escape

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What an engrossing and entertaining story. I normally prefer crime. Just loved it! Look forward to more from this writer.

I couldn’t stop listing

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Loved the journey and strength of this book!! Couldn’t put it down. Narrators did a great job bringing this book to life.

Loved this!!

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This book was pretty well written, the reading was great, I thought the story line was realistic for the most part but there was a few "as if" moments. Overall it was a good entertaining listen.

Predictable sappy romance at its finest

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This is a funny book that had me go through the emotions with the story. Every time I laugh out loud my hubby looked at me with intrigue as I was so wrapped up in this book. I highly recommend.

Listen all in one go

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This was the first book I read when a son gave me my kindle, 3 years ago. I now appreciate it more. Drama and romance with the sex part not too full on at all. Thank you. A great read and narration. Forgot about this author but am sure to explore her other b

Great Read

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I couldn't stop listening to this audio book absolutely loved it. Beautiful love story that had me engaged through the entire book. Highly recommended

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