Review: Betrothal or Breakaway by Leah Brunner

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What to expect: 

✔️ Best friends to lovers 

✔️ Neurodivergent Hero  

✔️ Single mom 

✔️ Marriage of convenience 

✔️ Forced proximity

✔️ Sick bed scene 

✔️ “My wife”

✔️ Fade to Black

BLURB

My best friend—and unrequited love—has a hole in her heart. Literally and figuratively.

First, Amber’s fiancé left her when she told him she was pregnant, and then her daughter's birth left her with complications from a heart defect she didn’t realize she had.

I’m devastated.

Of course I offer to pay for her surgery, but Amber (stubborn woman that she is) insists on wanting to pay me back, which I don't understand. As captain of an NHL team, I have plenty of spare cash, and I’m more than happy to help. I want to help.

So I come up with a plan.

I’ll marry Amber, my health insurance will cover her surgery, I’ll help with the baby, and the gold band on my finger will get my parents—who seem to think I'm incapable of love—off my back.

It's a win-win for both of us.

Two years of platonically wedded bliss before we amicably go our separate ways, and remain best friends, as always.

Only, how am I supposed to let Amber go when I’m not only in love with her, but also with her baby girl… who now feels like my own.

And I might have to let her go sooner than I ever wanted to.

(This is a dual POV, fade-to-black romance, and can be read as a standalone. This book contains broken engagement and minor heart surgery.)

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My Review:

*swoons into a puddle* Ford Remington has been my favorite D.C. Eagle since I first met him in Passion or Penalty, and to say I have been eagerly anticipating his story would be putting it mildly! And oh my stars Betrothal or Breakaway exceeded all my sky-high expectations! I seriously don’t have words to say just how much I loved this book! Be still my heart! Is it possible to die of swooning?!

Ford is THE BEST AND MOST TENDER HERO OF ALL TIME! Don’t get me wrong, I do love a good alpha hero, but give me a gentle, tender, steadfast, and selfless hero and I am A GONER! Ford seriously melted my heart into a puddle from page one until the end and I just absolutely and completely adore him! The tender way he treats Amber and Nella, sigh, where’s my fainting couch! This man deserves all the heart-eye emojis!

I also loved Amber, she’s a wonderful and inspiring heroine, my heart ached for her and I kept wishing I could reach through the pages and give the poor girl a hug! 

Ford and Amber constantly remind each other how much they matter, and I couldn’t love this more! What a beautiful thing: a lifetime of lovingly and often wordlessly answering “I do!” to the question  “does anyone see me?” 

I loved how perfectly their personalities complement each other and how they make each other stronger than they could ever be on their own! 

And Nella was adorable! 

I seriously didn’t think I could love the D.C. Eagles more, but seeing the guys caring for a baby? Gah, cuteness overload! 

Friends-to-lovers is my all time favorite trope and this book is the perfect example of exactly why I love it so much! I’ve gotta be honest, I’m not always the biggest marriage-of-convenience fan, especially in a contemporary story, but this one was so brilliantly written that I was totally sold and it made me fall in love with the trope!

This book is absolute perfection and I will never stop smiling when I think about this story!

You need this brilliant masterpiece in your life!

This story brought me such joy, and reading it was pure bliss! Betrothal or Breakaway is my new favorite by Leah Brunner, and one of my favorite reads of 2024! 

I most highly recommend this one and cannot wait to read Bruce’s story! 

(5 Stars!)

I received a complimentary ebook copy of this book from the author and publisher!

My review was not influenced in any way. All thoughts and opinions are one hundred percent my own

ABOUT LEAH BRUNNER:

Leah Brunner is an Amazon top 50 best selling author of fun and flirty romance! 

She loves writing explosive chemistry and realistic, relatable characters who will make you laugh (and possibly cry). When she's not writing, she can also be found petting her Maine Coon cat, or watching funny cat videos with her kids. Although she's a Kansas girl at heart, Leah is a proud Air Force spouse and currently lives in Ohio with her husband and three children.

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