The Secret Fiancée

Lexington and Raya's Story (The Windsors)

By: Catharina Maura

Narrated by: Troy Duran, Yami Habibi

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

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From the author of The Wrong Bride and The Temporary Wife comes another steamy and angsty billionaire arranged marriage romance.

When the woman he'd desperately been looking for crashes into him and spills her drink all over his shirt, Lexington seizes the unexpected opportunity — demanding six rounds of Truth or Dare as compensation.

An evening filled with laughter and a connection he never wanted to feel ends in her walking away — without even leaving him her phone number.

Raya thinks she'll never 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 none of their meetings were 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.

©2024 Catharina Maura (P)2024 Catharina Maura

The Secret Fiancee

Excellent story for Lexington and his wife. Throughout the beginning and to the end they had go through obstacles to see their HEA

An addicting story with a PHENOMENAL narration!!!!

I could not hit pause on this book and ended up listening to it from start to finish last tonight! Catharina always captures me in every single time with the arranged marriages in The Windsor Series and this one was no different!

💵Billionaire Romance
💍Arranged Marriage
🏫Professor/Student
💁‍♀️Women In STEM
🤫Secret Relationship
👰‍♀️”My Wife”
🗓️Age Gap

This is book 5 in the Windsor Series and in each book, the siblings are set up in an arranged marriage by their grandmother to grow the family businesses. However, Lex doesn’t want to be surprised, so being the tech genius he is, he finds out himself who he will be set up with. He ends up meeting his match himself one night but she just thinks it’s a chance encounter and that is just the beginning!

Lex & Raya were SO incredibly cute from the start with their instant chemistry, shared love of tech and playful game of truth or dare!! Their journey to an HEA had twists, all the swoony moments, hot spice, “my wife” moments and also some bumps as Lex has past trauma that caused trust issues that he needs to work on. I was captured into their story from start to finish!

🎧AUDIO REVIEW:
This audiobook is a duet narration by Troy Duran & Yami Habibi and I absolutely loved every minute of it! They gave an outstanding performance while giving both of these characters so much life with the emotion and feeling in their voices. Troy Duran has the perfect deep tone for Lex that captured all of his swooniness in this story. Then there is Yami who was a new to me narrator who was not only an amazing performer but I completely adored the tone to her voice. She also had so many different voices for each of the females in this book from her mother to her OUTSTANDING robot voice for Lex’s AI robot assistant! It was so fun hearing her use that voice during the whole story! Overall, this is a book I highly recommend on audio as Troy and Yami’s narration is not only enjoyable but also makes you feel this whole entire story!

Full circle of emotions

You could feel the love and the anguish and the full circle to total happiness.

Lex and Raya

This series has been so great so far you just love the couple and Lex and Raya are no different this is such a great book. I do feel this book is a little different from all the others. Lex struggle with his trauma and dealing with it the best he know how to feel safe is no different from Dion learning to fly for his wife. He is over protective but after what he went through i don't blame. Raya is a light of sunshine she loves her family and what is she doing. After reading what happened to her mother i don't blame them to feel what they are feeling. But lex won them over with his down to earth personality and actually spending time with both of them. I am so happy that all the girls took Raya in like nothing she is Thr missing piece in their group. And their second wedding sounds just amazing.

Amazing!

Totally got this book because it was listed under the Multicultural romance section. Although I haven’t read the other books in this series, I can honestly say I’m a new fan. This love story was everything I and I’m sure many others look for in a romance novel. The insta-love was done so well and there was plenty of steamy scenes to heat up the imagination, with a nice heaping of angst!! Honestly when I see “standalone” in a series, I know that it’s not always true. However, this book definitely didn’t require reading all the others, but of course, now I want to!! Well done! 👍🏽

I love this series!❤🥰😍

I absolutely am in love with this series! I love that Grandma Anne is the matriarch of the family. Although, Lexington's story is a little sad, but Raya heals him. I can't wait for the next book, Sierra's story❣❣❣

so awesome

I truly think Cat Maura has outdone herself on this one. She was able to tap into one of the most frequently encountered struggles in a relationship, trust.

love Lex and raya's story

I love seeing Lex's side of his inventions and how he got along with and got to know Raya. I love the addded cultural elements. this is a great book and worth a credit

Truth or dare

Loved the story. Was not as good as the authors other books but I had a great time reading and learning of Lexington past. Good read

Lexington Windsor. Wow!

Lex is such a broken man. He seemed so happy go lucky in the other stories I did not realize how much he truly went through until his story. Cat wrote about Lexs trauma in a way that shed so much light on how these events shape a person. Raya was such a ray of sunshine and I loved that they worked through all their issues and made it through. I never heard Troy Duran narrate until this story and honestly it was casted perfectly.