What is a man to do? Bob McKnight needed a wife, and fast. Twenty Million dollars is on the line, but only if he can fulfill the terms of his aunts will. To do so he has to marry and produce an heir before the end of the year. And he’s running out of time. Turning to his friend George, who owns a topless cleaning business for help; Bob figures George will surely know where he could find a woman who would agree with the terms set in the contract. Enters Kayla Leigh. Bob wasn’t too sure about her, but he was willing to give it a shot. He had been mentally and sexually abused as a child and didn’t think he could raise a child let alone have a relationship with anyone. He was a love’m and leave’m kind of guy. When Kayla arrived at his house Bob was surprised at how beautiful she was and she had a big heart. He was attracted to her from the first and he knew that she was the one. After all he only needed her for one year. Then she could leave and have a life of her own. Could Bob let Kayla go once he gets his millions and a child?

Kayla Leigh was a woman living beyond her means and it has gotten her in trouble. She has lost her job and is about ready to be evicted from her apartment when she takes a job house cleaning. But there is a catch. She has to clean topless. Kayla doesn’t mind the topless part, and the money is good, but she didn’t expect to meet a man like Bob McKnight. He made an offer that a girl could hardly pass up. Stay and marry him, have his child within the allotted time and get two million dollars. She was a product of a middle aged couple about to retire and her father resenting her until he died. So she didn’t trust men. She had been mentally abused by her father. But could she do this? Could she just walk away after a year with his child, no strings attached? Was what she was feeling love?

Ayn Amorelli has written a great love story in the Contract Bride. She has told the story of child abuse and the love of two older people having a child late in life and what it can do to the children in adult life. I was moved with Bob’s life story and how he tells Kayla about it. Kayla’s life was different but still she had verbal abuse and lack of trust in her childhood. Ms. Amorelli is very talented in the way she tells the story and brings two misfits together to make a bargain. Contract Bride is a fast pace and very moving book. You will continue to read until it is finished. The sex scenes are very hot and sometimes very moving. You will fall in love with the hero and heroine and hope they can work things out and stay together. Thank You Ms. Amorelli, for a fantastic read.

Reviewed by: Moonluster