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Newlywed Enemies: A Greek Billionaire Boss Contemporary Romance
Newlywed Enemies is a revenge, marriage of convenience, Greek billionaire boss romance by Jackie Ashenden.
Revenge is best served…
at the altar!
Flora McIntyre became Apollo Constantinides’s PA to avenge the family he tore apart. And she’s succeeded. Her carefully staged compromising photos of them just cost him his convenient reputation-restoring bride. Except Flora never anticipated his next move…Apollo demanding she marry him instead!
As his wife, Flora could take Apollo down for good. Yet wearing his ring unleashes a dangerous hunger that shakes Flora to her core. How can a man so merciless make her pulse race so fast? And what happens to Flora’s payback plan if she’s falling for her enemy husband?
From Harlequin Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
Revenge is best served…
at the altar!
Flora McIntyre became Apollo Constantinides’s PA to avenge the family he tore apart. And she’s succeeded. Her carefully staged compromising photos of them just cost him his convenient reputation-restoring bride. Except Flora never anticipated his next move…Apollo demanding she marry him instead!
As his wife, Flora could take Apollo down for good. Yet wearing his ring unleashes a dangerous hunger that shakes Flora to her core. How can a man so merciless make her pulse race so fast? And what happens to Flora’s payback plan if she’s falling for her enemy husband?
From Harlequin Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
- GenresRomance
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published April 29, 2025
About the author
Jackie Ashenden
512 books979 followersJackie has been writing fiction since she was eleven years old. Mild mannered fantasy/SF/pseudo-literary writer by day, obsessive romance writer by night, she used to balance her writing with the more serious job of librarianship until a chance meeting with another romance writer prompted her to throw off the shackles of her day job and devote herself to the true love of her heart – writing romance. She particularly likes to write dark, emotional stories with alpha heroes who've just got the world to their liking only to have it blown wide apart by their kick-ass heroines.
She lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband, the inimitable Dr Jax, two kids, two cats and some guppies (possibly dead guppies by the time you read this). When she's not torturing alpha males and their stroppy heroines, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, posting random crap on her blog, or being forced to go mountain biking with her husband.
She lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband, the inimitable Dr Jax, two kids, two cats and some guppies (possibly dead guppies by the time you read this). When she's not torturing alpha males and their stroppy heroines, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, posting random crap on her blog, or being forced to go mountain biking with her husband.
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May 5, 2025
There was not enough angst and too much repetition and just a week long anger but better than the most of recent woke nonsense!
February 15, 2026
Bland as lukewarm oatmeal, there’s nothing here that you haven’t read in a thousand other paint-by-numbers modern HPs. Cold, closed-off hero thinks emotions are dangerous; both MCs had shitty selfish parents; heroine has never wanted sex until the hero; “just one night” of passion before they walk away; love is a weakness; hero has never felt so protective of a woman… blah blah blah. 🤖
Everything about it is phoned-in from the Harlequin takeout menu. These characters might as well live at the North Pole—they never speak to anyone else, never interact with anyone else, never think of anything but each other unless they’re dwelling on their aforementioned shitty parents. The entire book is one repetitive trauma dump after another sprinkled with bland sex that tries way too hard to pretend it isn’t bland…the epitome of how limp & listless most HPs have become. Yawn. 😴
2 stars. It’s not the worst I’ve read, but it’s dull, generic, & has all the depth of a parking lot puddle.
Everything about it is phoned-in from the Harlequin takeout menu. These characters might as well live at the North Pole—they never speak to anyone else, never interact with anyone else, never think of anything but each other unless they’re dwelling on their aforementioned shitty parents. The entire book is one repetitive trauma dump after another sprinkled with bland sex that tries way too hard to pretend it isn’t bland…the epitome of how limp & listless most HPs have become. Yawn. 😴
2 stars. It’s not the worst I’ve read, but it’s dull, generic, & has all the depth of a parking lot puddle.
Did Not Finish
March 31, 2026I cannot explain how much I hated this book. The misogyny turned my stomach and the lack of depth in the story and characters. I never DNF but I couldn’t torture myself anymore.
September 7, 2025
story: 3/5 (gender-swap of classic revenge plot: h wants to take revenge on H for her family's ruin, but the execution was extremely ill-paced even for HP)
characters: 3/5
dialogues: 2/5 (the substance was there, but Ms Ashenden is an average writer at best)
angst: 2/5
steaminess: 3.5/5 (could have been much hotter if the writing was better)
characters: 3/5
dialogues: 2/5 (the substance was there, but Ms Ashenden is an average writer at best)
angst: 2/5
steaminess: 3.5/5 (could have been much hotter if the writing was better)
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