Breathtaking

Red Lips & White Lies, Book 6

By: Bella Matthews

Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Samantha Brentmoor

Pushing Maddox Beneventi away was the hardest thing I’ve ever done… until the day I showed up at his doorstep clutching a positive pregnancy test.

If you’d have told me we’d be married a month later, I’d have laughed in your face. Because this tall, dark, devastatingly handsome billionaire couldn’t possibly be my happily ever after. Even if he was the only one I’d ever truly wanted.

Fairy tales don’t always come true—especially for a princess. But this isn’t a fairy tale. This is the story of how Maddox Beneventi saved me. How he fought for me. For us.

Maybe one day, I’ll tell our child the truth behind our so-called happy ending. About the pain… the devastation and destruction that was left in our wake. How hard we fought. First each other, then everyone else.

One day, I’ll share that the price we paid was the pain left etched on our souls. But that day? That day isn’t today.

©2025 Bella Matthews (P)2025 Bella Matthews

4.5⭐️

I loved Maddox and Lennon! Maddox has been the one I’ve been waiting for, I loved his parents book and couldn’t wait for his! It did not disappoint! They were funny, sweet and had hilarious banter. They fell for each other, but could never happen. Then one night, turned into forever. I love a marriage of convenience.

The only thing I didn’t need was when he told her he’d slept with hundreds of women since he found out she was engaged. Like I get the whole playboy thing, but that’s never something a girl wants to hear, idc if they say “I always saw you”, ick it’s a no for me. I get guys and girls are different in that regard, even still nope. Did I expect him to be a monk, no, but kinda lol. Even engaged she’d never been with anyone, then to learn he slept with her cousin…idk about that one.

Aside from that this one has been on of my faves from the series! I can’t wait for Striking!

Read: Audible 🎧
MMC: Maddox Beneventi
FMC: Lennon Windsor
Spice: 2🌶️
Tropes: Marriage of Convenience, Surprise Pregnancy, One Night Stand, Billionaire, Forbidden, Princess/Player

Absolute Perfection

I have been waiting for Maddox and Lennon and oh man was it everything! These two had so much stacked against them.. like.. a whole freaking Country. Their story was messy and forbidden yet breathtakingly beautiful! 💜

I loved finally getting Maddox’s story and having so many questions answered! Bella has been edging us with Maddox information forever! Lennon was perfect for Maddox. She challenged him and didn’t fall to his feet like most people. These two were such a perfect balance for each other.

🎧 The audio to Breathtaking was absolutely perfecttttt. Jason Clarke & Samantha Brentmoor did an amazing job bringing Maddox and Lennon's story to life. The tension and banter between these two was so good. I could listen to this narration all day long (in fact, I did) 😉

Favorite Quotes:

Maddox Beneventi is going to save my life or ruin it. And I’m not sure I care which it is, so long as it’s him.

Chin up, darling, or the crown slips.

Worth the wait!

I have been waiting for Maddox Beneventi’s story for what feels like forever!
I have been loving the audiobooks for this series and I just knew be absolutely epic! And I was right!

Take 2 phenomenal narrators and add in a Bella Matthew’s story fit for royalty, and what you get is an audiobook that I couldn’t listen to it fast enough!
Jason Clarke and Samantha Brentmoor did an amazing job bringing Maddox and Lennon to my ears! Lennon’s adorably posh accent, Maddox’s sometimes surely, sometimes sweet, always freaking swoon worthy voice, yes please!

I loved Breathtaking so much! And I’m so excited for more in this series coming oh so soon!! Striking, book 6 of the Red Lips and White Lies, comes out later this week. I will be one clicking that audio as soon as it’s available!

Maddox & Lennon

I’m not normally hugely into a surprise pregnancy, but this story was done so very well. FMC Lennon is a famous ballerina and actual princess. MMC Maddox is a mafia prince from a well-known family. Lennon and Maddox had a long-ago relationship that Lennon broke off because of familial obligations and an arranged engagement to a duke she hates. In an effort to get away for a bit, Lennon flees to America to visit her old roommate and ends up in a snowy car crash and who is miraculously there to save her? Maddox of course. A steamy ONS ensues, and the next day Lennon learns that Maddox slept with her cousin after she broke up with him and flees again back to Europe. Months after, she finds out she’s pregnant. She knows she has to tell Maddox and she has to do it in person. Of course, this is tenuous and scary. Maddox eventually comes around and saves her from the terrible duke and a lifetime of abuse and misery. This is a wonderful story full of drama and angst, but the characters also have adult conversations and pretty much deal with things head on, like adults. They fought for each other and had each other’s backs when it was necessary. I thoroughly loved it!

Tropes:
Second Chance
Royalty
ONS
Unplanned pregnancy
Marriage of Convenience
OM Drama- no cheating
He falls first and hard
It’s always been you
Alpha
Angsty

Maddox and Lennon

Maddox and Lennon were perfect together and I loved how the story unfolded. I had been looking forward to Maddox story especially after we got a little glimpse of him in Teasing. I loved how these stories are interconnected and how I can always spot what part of the timeline we are at in the different books in this series.

The audio for this book was amazing. Jason Clake and Samantha Brentmoor were the perfect narrators for Lennon and Maddox. They sounded exactly how I imagined them to be, and they did a wonderful job bringing the characters to life.