The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren

4.0 average· 1 review

Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch. Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents — his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife. But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.

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4.0 average· 1 review

Novelust user

Jul 4, 2025

2.0

DNF @ 30%. I’m not into FMC’s without substance. She worked at a gas station for three years, didn’t bother to get to know basic facts about the guy she lived with for years and MARRIED, and all of the sudden she’s a bombshell that a rich, well adjusted MC couldn’t stop lusting after 🙈… idk, maybe this would work as a dumb comedy (I mean that as the genre, not an insult), but in book form there was nothing about this that seemed remotely believable and/or that I could latch on to. However, there *were* some funny one liners.

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