52. Call Me Crazy by Melanie Harlow

Kindle Unlimited

2021

320 pgs.
Adult Romance
Finished 5/21/2021
Goodreads rating: 4.34 - 6848 ratings
My rating: 4 (Well, just check out the guy on the cover, lol....)
Setting: 

First line/s: "There comes a day in a man's life when he enters a room with hope in his heart and a ring in his pocket, fully prepared to get down on one knee."

My comments: A delightful love story following "the outline" of most romance novels, but I loved it anyway.  Fake marriage that turns into real love with the added "bonus" (if you want to call it that) of trying to get her pregnant at the same time that he ensures being the recipient of his father's contracting business.  Lots of Italian family and busybody/caring friends.  Nothing new, just a fun read.

Goodreads synopsis:  It was the perfect plan.

          I needed a wife—temporarily—in order to inherit the family business.
          And she needed a favor—the kind that takes nine months to deliver.
          We had it all worked out, from the no-touching policy on our wedding night (her rule) to the no-falling-in-love decree (mine). She’d marry me, I’d give her the means to have the baby she’d always wanted, and one year later we’d amicably part ways with no hassle, no demands, and certainly no regrets.
          After all, Bianca DeRossi and I are experts at infuriating one another—we’ve been doing it since we were kids. Trouble is, she grew up gorgeous and feisty, and she still knows exactly how to get under my skin.
          And that wedding night? Well, it doesn’t exactly go down hands-free.
          Then she moves in with me, and I really start to lose my mind. From her sexy little pout to her wicked sense of humor to those meatball sandwiches she makes just because she knows they’re my favorite . . . I find myself wanting to break every rule we put in place.
          Our story was never supposed to end with happily ever after.
          But call me crazy, I just might be in love with my wife.