Alice Griffiths

The premise of the story is that Will and Patrick get married after a drunken night and must find a way to void it to keep a contract Will’s in from being broken. The two major characters are Will, a mafia tied man who uses his family’s evil money for good and Patrick, a neurosurgeon with a bad past, blunt personality, and a very large ego. Will’s grandmother sets to work to find a work around for the contract Will is in to keep the money coming to his charity and not revert to the mobsters, as they keep up the idea that theirs was an intentional union, because if the marriage ends in divorce, then the charity loses out. The story places the two guys in the ridiculous situation of needing to pretend to be happily married. That is okay and fits in well, because that’s the whole point of the story and what makes it fun. The characters make a cute couple even as they to resist falling for each other.… (meer)

I was skeptical about the premise, but took a chance. The trope I cannot handle is unsupportive, manipulative, needy, whiny, drama filled parents taking advantage of their children, treating their children and their spouses/children like crap and their kids just put up with it, shrugging their shoulders like 'what can you do, oh well'. fuck i hate that. the fact that the last, 7th, book finds Will (and other siblings) in this same fucked up dynamic with his awful mom and is unwilling to try to set any boundaries has made me walk away from this at the end of the 1st book. not for me, sorry.… (meer)