His Naive Wife

by Liliana Rhodes, Marian Tee

The last thing I need is another father. The last thing I want is a husband.

Emilee Wagner
I’ve been sheltered my entire life, and now my dad is marrying me off just because I’m in love with someone he thinks is after his money. He just doesn’t get it. Because of that, he’s arranged a marriage for me to an older man. Like I need another dad.

Alex Winterbourne
I never made time for a personal life. I was convinced an arranged marriage would be perfect for me until I found out how young Emilee is. I don’t care that her father says she’s an old soul; I’m not interested in being a babysitter. But as our eyes meet, everything changes. Now, I’ll do anything to have her as my wife.



My Arranged Marriage to a Billionaire is a series of steamy standalone stories, each with a Happily Ever After, that can be read in one sitting.

Genres: Romance

65 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 29, 2024

About the author

Liliana Rhodes is a New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author who writes romance with fun, engaging characters. Blessed with an overactive imagination, she is always writing and plotting her next stories. She enjoys movies, reading, photography, and listening to music. After growing up on the east coast, Liliana now lives in California with her husband, son, two dogs who are treated better than some people, and two parrots who plan to take over the world.

Reviews

[Melluvsbooks]

DNF @ 25% - heroine is dumb and I didn’t love the scene where she’s screwed some loser right before she met the H - I know we get that scene with heros all the time but this just gave me the ick and major second hand embarrassment. The hero is a wimpy simp. No thanks.

[San Jones · Rating 1 out of 5]

Where's the romance?

This book didn't meet its potential. None of the characters have redeeming qualities. The heroine, Smiles isn't just naive --she's obnoxious, mean and dim witted. I hated how quickly she fell out of love and into bed with her husband, who was basically a cuckhold.

[I’m a Paula too… Thompson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This girl is TSTL…

This girl is way beyond naive. She oozes desperation in front of the OM. The description of their whatever it is, when she’s obviously had sex with the loser and he actually texts his girlfriend right in front of her… she needs adult supervision. She’s unbelievably pathetic. And I gotta say that I can NOT understand why Alex would want her after she threw away her virginity. Contrary to popular opinion body count is actually important. There’s also no indication that she was on birth control, nor has she apparently gone to test that she’s clean. Him either, actually.

I get that these are short and quick, but the devil is in the details. Emilee had too quick of a turnaround after hearing the truth from Dylan. And speaking of, he should have been fired because there’s no way a guy like that was actually doing a good job.

KU read. Too much missing stuff in my opinion. Your mileage may vary.

[Márcia L · Rating 3 out of 5]

The rate is for the H this time.
I hate when they call the h a bitch, but this heroine is a dumb and stupid bitch, she has no pride, even seeing how the OM treated her, she still clingy and desperate.
It's the norm in the books, the OMs and Hs only loves the OWs and not the pathetic h, they only feel contempt and hatred for the heroines.
In this case she for being such a stupid bitch.
Although the H was besotted with her, you can see that he always love easily the other OWs of his live, the only reason that didn't worked out must be because he found that they only want his money. It makes his love shallow too. The he put up and never blame the heroine, I bet that he was a doormat with other OWs too. How long will take for him to lose the infatuation like before?
This h shoud be an OW instead of a h, and she is a slut too, you can see she is horny, when she lose the OM she went straight to the H bed.

[Claire · Rating 2 out of 5]

Safety Stats
Emilee
Virgin - no
What's Your Number - yes Her past number of sexual partners was explicitly told to the audience at some point.
OM drama - yes A few hours before meeting Alex for the first time, Emilee was in bed with her boyfriend who she'd been dating for a while, but who was just using her to get a promotion in her dad's company.

Alex
Playboy - no Not a lot was said about Alex's past relationship history, only that it had been a while for him.
Sex scene with OW - no
Cheating - no
OW drama - no

Overall, Safe.

[Lisa Cortez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

A book about a girl who falls in love with a jerk. Her father arranged a marriage with an older man who sees hee and is in lov3 at first sight. But it takes her a while to figure out he was the right man fir her.

[Tamotha clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Age gap, Arranged marriage,

This is a great story of a father protecting his daughter. The daughter was upset about the arrangement of her marriage. But she see her groom, and he see his bride. Instant falling in love. I enjoyed this quick romance.

[Genesis · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was cute, short and sweet. But, most of the story is spent with her "suffering" over her boyfriend and how they got married. I would have loved to see a little more of the process of them falling in love and "being married." I don't know, maybe a couple more pages would have been enough.

[Kristina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read

This is a quick fun read, it's fast paced and keeps you engaged. The characters are well written and easy to relate to.
I would definitely recommend it to anyone!

[Ꭿຖᥲ·♡ ྀི · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5✯

-dual POV
-she's 22, he's 46
-insta love/lust for the hero (the h also felt an instant connection when she met the hero but she denied her feelings and acted like a jerk)
-celibate/non manwhore hero
-unlikeable immature dumb heroine
-no ow drama
-om: a few hours before the h met the hero she was naked in her boyfriend's bed, they'd been dating for a while (he was the one who popped her cherry) but he was just using her to get a promotion in her dad's company, she wasn't naive like the title suggests, she was just plain stupid (while she's in bed she's trying to pose and act seductive so her bf would look at her but he was busy on his phone, she tells him to come back to bed and he says "don't you have somewhere to be?" she tells him "no, I can stay here all day if you want", that was fucking embarrassing but that wasn't the worst, there was also this little gem: **“I have things to do,” he says. I stay in my sexy position, still waiting for him to notice. After several minutes, he starts typing on his phone. “Who are you texting?” I ask. “My girlfriend.” I giggle and pick up my phone, waiting for a text from him, but it doesn’t come. I sit up in bed, pulling the sheet up to cover myself more, and check my phone again. Nothing. I check to make sure I’m not in a dead zone, then close and reopen the app. Nothing. I reboot my phone. Something has to be wrong with my phone for me not to get his text. Still, nothing. “I don’t get it,” I say. “Was that a joke?” “Huh?” he asks. “You confuse me sometimes, baby.” He picks up his boxers from the floor and puts them on. “Has your dad said anything about promoting me yet?”**🤦🏼‍♀️) then on her wedding day she was texting him, she was waiting for him to 'rescue her' and stop the wedding but he never showed up... she was a bitch to the hero after marrying him, she barely spoke to him yet she never stopped texting and calling her ex like the clingy idiot she was but he never answered, around 3 weeks after marrying the hero she went to see her ex, the hero followed her and overheard their conversation, she asked her ex to tell her father that he loved her, she told him her father would like to hear that (I don't understand what she was thinking, she knew her father hated her ex and told her repeatedly that he was using her...) that way she could get an annulment and they could get married 🙄, he told her that he didn't love her and she was like 'but you have to!! you called me baby every time we made love...' 🤦🏼‍♀️ anyway, he pushed her, the hero saved her and punched the guy in the face, after that the h realized that she had been a bitch and that the hero didn't deserve the way she'd treated him, they made up a few days later
-the hero was no alpha, he was a bit too passive which I didn't like
-low steam
-HFN ending (short epilogue 2 years later, they're still married but there's no mention of babies or pregnancy) I didn't like that the epilogue was told from a side character's POV

[Samiyah · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75⭐️

[Catherine Hoey · Rating 1 out of 5]

I blame booktok for this tragedy.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sweet

This is a fast paced, light hearted age gap romance.

There are a lot of feels, a bit of angst and steamy scenes.

As a novella, it’s a short read with a great HEA!