The Accidental Marriage

A Grumpy Billionaire Romance

De: Nadia Lee

Narrado por: Ryan West, Emma Wilder

Having been kidnapped by his mother at age ten and left to die in a fire, billionaire lawyer Ares Huxley trusts no one. But he needs a wife to get a critical promotion at his law firm, and wakes up the morning after a friend’s bachelor party to find that he’s somehow married to an eccentric blonde he doesn’t even remember meeting!

He immediately plans to annul, but it turns out she needs a husband to receive her inheritance. They have nothing in common, but if he plays along, she promises to be his dream wife.

The rules are simple: Share the marital bed every night, no real feelings, and the marriage ends in six months when they both have what they want.

But living with this accidental wife doesn’t produce the respectfully indifferent marriage he envisioned. Despite her innocence, she’s feisty both in and out of bed. His family adores her, and when he learns that her family treats her badly, he finds himself wanting to protect her. And maybe more.

Ares can’t stop thinking about his unexpectedly adorable, irresistible, and wonderful fake wife. But despite his evolving intentions—and emotions—she abides by their fake marriage rules a little too well.

Ares realizes the one thing his wife wants from him is the one thing he can no longer do: Let her go.

The Accidental Marriage is a standalone romance. If you love:

* fake marriage
* forced proximity
* he falls first
* he falls harder
* a scarred hero (and wait til you see just how scarred...)
* an unexpected virgin
* a runaway bride
* amnesia / mistaken identity
* soulmates
* a protector
* a found family

The Accidental Marriage is for you.

©2025 Hyun J Kyung (P)2025 Hyun J Kyung

I love it but…..

So I absolutely love this book! I love that we finally got to meet Ares and learn more about his past. I absolutely love the whole idea of him searching for the girl who saved his life. Love that his soul instantly recognized Queen even if he didn’t. & the way this booked had me listening nonstop!!! Omg I just love it. & let’s not forget about Lareina! Her story was amazing and I love that everything connected back to Ares.

BUT!!

The last two chapters seems to be rushed out. The whole story seem to be going AMAZING until it got to the end. Maybe I needed more of a WOW factor when Ares & Lareina discovered the true, but the ending killed it for me.

Don’t worry they got HEA but I felt like it could have been better.

Overall, I loved it. Great start to a new series. ❤️

P. S. Ends in a cliffhanger for book 2 (the next brother)

4/5 story

I liked the male narrator, the female sounds like a robot, the story is good but it was sooooo long for no reason. Overall 4.0/5

Really great!

I really liked this one! Such a great story! I really enjoyed the intrigue, romance and steamy bits. Lots of fun and substance included here. Everything you would expect in a Nadia Lee book - and the narrators are fantastic as well. Absolutely worth the credit!

Awesome

I loved this story so much. The story line kept me interested. I love this series by Nadia Lee.

Ares Huxley and Lareina Hayworth

*****SPOILER ALERT*****

The Accidental Marriage by Nadia Lee. The Huxleys series, book one. eARC and audiobook review. Dual POV. Duet narration. Contemporary billionaire romance, damsel and hero in distress. The audiobook is listed as 12 hours 24 minutes; I listened at speed 2.50 for 4 hours 58 minutes. Narrators Ryan West and Emma Wilder both read well, but Emma's pace seemed a bit faster than Ryan's, which made listening at any speed a bit off-putting. I prefer dual narration in part because it seems like it's difficult/impossible to match up the reading pace of narrators who don't record together. It did not sound like they did to me. My apologies if they did. Content warnings: abductions; child and adult abuse/neglect; two fires; both MCs are drugged multiple times; FMC's parents and grandfather died under seemingly suspicious circumstances; both MC's families are manipulating them for different reasons; and both MCs suffer amnesia.

Ares Huxley (32; lawyer) and Lareina Hayworth (29; heiress/artist) both have tragic backgrounds but find their way back to each other under unique and extraordinarily stressful circumstances. Their HEA is hard-fought and well-deserved. I look forward to Bryce's story next.

I very much enjoyed the story. For some reason, I was expecting it to be much darker. I still have quite a few unanswered questions about multiple storylines, and I look forward to discussing it openly once more people have finished reading it. JP

2 out of 5 on my spice scale.

1st read 04-02-25 (eARC)
1st listen 04-03-25

Good listen

It was a fun story once you got into it. Started out with the Genovia of fake countries and some hard to believe trauma. But once the main characters got together it was magical.
Left a few loose ends that I assume are for sequels. But overall a good read.

The sex scenes were good but the repetition of the earlier events became a little annoying

I’m very picky when choosing a smut book since I want a plot with a side of sex not the other way around. Overall this book did good I would like to see how the author progresses her writing style and characters in the future.

Accidental Marriage

This story line is unusual and so entertaining. The main characters were well fleshed out and caused me to be routing for them to find each other. The story was so good that I became very invested in it and sad when it was over. I do wish that there had been more severe punishments mended out to one's who mistreated the main lead. At least they all were rounded up at the end. I will recommend this book for my reader friends. I know they will enjoy it as well.

Great read

Nadia Lee gives another great book. I love following characters we met in the Lasker brother's series. Great plot twists. The narrators did a fabulous job bringing the characters to life.

good narrative

Great story, easy to follow. very engaging.funny at times. love this author. descriptive characters. Really made you feel characters pain.