The Windsors, Book 5
From the publisher:
The fifth arranged-marriage billionaire romance in the #1 Amazon Kindle and USA Today bestselling Windsors series. With one-night stands, secrets, angst, and high heat, this is contemporary romance at its best.
When Lex finds Raya Lewis’s name hidden behind countless security measures on his own family’s servers, he knows it can only mean one thing.
Determined to take control of the situation, he sets out to find her ― only for Raya to spill her drink all over him within seconds of meeting.
Much to her surprise, the notoriously unattainable tech billionaire asks for only one thing as compensation: six rounds of Truth or Dare.
An evening filled with laughter leads to Raya sneaking out of his bed in the morning, not expecting to ever see him again…
…until he shows up as her professor, offering her class the opportunity of a lifetime: an internship at Windsor Motors.
What Raya doesn’t realize is that their meeting wasn’t coincidental ― and she’s the sole reason he took up a teaching position at all.
After all, Lex knows something she doesn’t: the two of them are arranged to be married.
This was my first book by this author, and I happened to start with the fifth in the series. I’m sure I would have gotten more out of it had I read the earlier installments, since I would have been familiar with the characters, their families, and the whole concept of arranged marriages in 2025. Still, I suspended my disbelief and went with it.
Lex is a billionaire tech prodigy whose home is run by robots and whose company leads the industry. His grandmother rules the family with an iron will, arranging marriages for each of his siblings—and Lex knows he’s next. These pairings are all about expanding the family business, but he has no intention of letting his grandmother surprise him. Instead, he hacks into the family’s computer system to learn who his intended match will be. The arrangement isn’t official yet, since the woman’s father hasn’t signed the contract, but Lex takes matters into his own hands. He engineers a meet-cute at a local bar, and his charm does the rest.
Raya, like Lex, is a gifted computer mind, though she’s just beginning her career. She’s enrolled in a special program at a small private college owned by Lex’s closest friends. When Lex steps in to teach her course, Raya is stunned to realize that the man she met at the bar is now her professor. His offer of internships at his company excites the entire class, but it’s Raya who finds herself most affected.
As Raya and Lex spend more time together, her feelings intensify, even though he insists he isn’t capable of love. Eventually, the families reach an agreement, and the marriage is arranged.
I liked this book, though I didn’t love it. For me, the premise was simply too implausible to become fully invested in these characters. I liked them and they definitely had chemistry, but there were just too many hurdles for me to overcome to really care about their happily ever after. I might try tracking down an earlier book to see if that helps.
11/2025 Stacy Alesi, AKA the BookBitch
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