Review: Wife in Name Only – Hayden Manning

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Zoe Hughes escaped to make a new life for herself on the tiny island of Tonga. Now she runs a successful boutique honeymoon resort. Selling true love is easy. No one needs to know she’s married in name only. At least until America’s premier honeymoon magazine wants to publish a feature on her perfect marriage. Now she must convince her estranged husband to rip himself away from plotting corporate takeovers in LA to save her island paradise.

Rory agrees to come for forty-eight hours, but only because he needs the positive PR. To his surprise, the wife he finds in Tonga isn’t the same woman he married. Now she’s so much more…

When a storm strands Rory in Tonga, will he win back his wife or leave paradise empty-handed?

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Release Date: April 1, 2013
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Zoe is the owner of a honeymoon resort where she sells the idea of the perfect marriage and happy ever after year round to happy couples.

Rory is a high power CEO that has waited for his wife to work out what she needed and come back home to him.

Together they are going to work together so that Zoe can sell the perfect marriage idea to a magazine doing and article on her resort. While Rory could use the good publicity for his rep. They might not live as a married couple anymore, but they do keep the respect for their marriage and stay faithful to each other. You go on a ride with the couple over the course of a few days as they work together and work through feelings they still have for each other. Needless to say that being stranded because of a bad storm is just what they each need to find themselves and try to find each other. The love scenes are hot; sometimes gut wrenching and very personal.

I really enjoyed this book, from the setting of a romantic getaway to the characters and how they interacted together. I recommend this book for anybody looking for a new spin on love and a look at the struggles they have. There is plenty of twist in this book and well worth the read overall.