Sealed With A Kiss by Willow Winters

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

We made a deal… one I thought I’d never make.

I’m trying not to judge myself but it’s a bit shameful.

Rent was due and I simply didn’t have it. I love the big city and I’ve done everything I could to make it. But after a rough few years, a break up that nearly destroyed me, and a personal issue that I just can’t talk about… I’m broke and hit rock bottom.

Then there’s Graham.

Richer than most could ever imagine, devilishly handsome with a charming smile, and a sparkle in his eyes that I swear is just for me.

He owns the building and now, once a month when the rent is due… he gets a piece of me I can’t believe I agreed to give.
His lips on mine are addictive and the way he groans my name in pleasure is scorched into my memory.

We sealed it with a kiss and I’m all too aware that the next rock bottom for me will lead to nothing but despair and a broken heart.

Sealed with a Kiss

Hot and sexy in the city!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😚☹️😉🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Madelyn (a.k.a. Maddie) – she lives in New York and just got engaged to her boyfriend Kevin. She thinks her life is perfect. In the past she lived in a small one-bedroom apartment and was depressed after a breakup, but since she met Kevin, things had been great. She moved into an exclusive and expensive apartment with Kevin, and he didn’t want her to work so she volunteered at a few charities. However, after she finds out he had been cheating on her, he moved out of the apartment, leaving her alone to pay the rent with no job to speak of.

The Hero: Graham – he grew up poor, with his father working himself to death just to pay the bills. Graham told himself he would be different and now he owns multiple high-end apartment buildings and is in talks to purchase more. One night when he is in the elevator in the building where he has his office and his penthouse, he sees Madelyn and Kevin and he is extremely attracted to Madelyn.

The Story: When Maddie can’t afford her entire rent payment, even after selling all of her jewelry, she calls the building owner to try to make a payment arrangement with him, since she can’t afford to pay the rent or to break the lease, or to get a new apartment. Graham comes up to her place and is surprised to find the woman he couldn’t stop thinking about. When she says she will do anything if he could forgive her the $500 she can’t pay. They decide that they both want the same thing in exchange.

I am not so fond of the way Maddie so readily put out the option to do “anything” for his help with her rent, then it happened again. To me, it is akin to prostituting herself and if I were her, I would think that Graham might be wondering if it wasn’t the first time she did that. Though I have to admit this one was plenty steamy and I liked the attraction between these two characters. Though both of them wanted something more than the arrangement they made, they were both afraid to ask for what they wanted. This was mostly a relationship story with just a few other related storylines, and I enjoyed it.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Lee Ellis and Kiera Stevens. Kiera Stevens is one of my favorite female narrators. She has a youthful voice which I really like, and she always sounds very natural. Lee Ellis has a nice deep voice, which is what I like for the Hero. I enjoyed the narration on this one quite a bit.

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