Marriage of Convenience — When the Paperwork Becomes a Real Vow
Marriage of convenience is romance's oldest trope for a reason: take two people who'd never have chosen each other, force them to share a name, and watch what happens when the contract starts to feel less like a contract and more like a life. Fake engagement, paper marriage, billion-dollar arrangements with thirty-day expiration dates — the trope works because every "this is just business" feels like a promise the characters make to keep their hearts safe. Spoiler: their hearts don't listen.
That's the marriage of convenience Victoria Pinder writes.
The Princes of Avce is the flagship for fake-marriage royalty — billionaire princes of a small European kingdom who need wives for thrones, inheritances, scandal management, and one very expensive divorce-proof prenup. American women find themselves in palaces with husbands who weren't supposed to fall in love. (Read more in royal romance →)
Brothers in Revenge follows the Bentley brothers — a billionaire dynasty where every brother ends up married to the one woman who shouldn't have been on the contract. Fake wives, secret babies, fortunes tied to thirty-day vows that turn into something neither party planned to keep.
In the Tempting series, fake engagement is the bridge to a story neither character knew they were missing — workplace wives, holiday fiancés, the kind of arrangements that read like bad ideas in the prologue and like inevitabilities by the epilogue.
Pinder's marriages of convenience are about the moment the lie costs more to maintain than the truth would cost to admit. The vows are temporary. The feelings aren't.
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Marry the Daddy Doctor
A desperate sister. A doctor with a secret crisis. One fake marriage could save them both—if they don’t break their own rules. Patti Davies is drowning. Since her parents’ death, she’s been the sole guardian of her six-year-old sister, Rose. When Rose is rushed...
Forbidden Crown
Prince Antonio Aussa doesn’t need a soulmate; he needs a signature and a woman who can play the part of a perfect royal bride for exactly one year. I’m drowning in student debt and desperate enough to take a job that starts with a contract and ends with a crown...
Irresistibly Lost
The Billionaire’s Second Chance Proposal A runaway groom. The woman he left behind. A marriage deal that changes everything. Aaden Bentley never wanted the throne. But when a deadly attack wipes out his royal family and a billion-dollar inheritance comes with one...
