Lush Money
Named Top 10 Romance Debut of 2020 by American Library Association’s Booklist
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★ Booklist Starred Review
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Named Top 10 Romance Debut of 2020 by American Library Association’s Booklist • ★ Booklist Starred Review •
A marriage of convenience and three nights a month.
That’s all the sultry, self-made billionaire wants from the impoverished prince.
And at the end of the year, she’ll grant him his divorce…with a settlement large enough to save his beloved kingdom.
As a Latinx woman, Roxanne Medina has conquered small-town bullies, Ivy League snobs and boardrooms full of men. She’s earned the right to mother a princess and feel a little less lonely at the top. The offer she’s made is more than generous, and when the contract’s fulfilled, they’ll both walk away with everything they’ve ever wanted.
Príncipe Mateo Ferdinand Juan Carlos de Esperanza y Santos is one of the top winegrowers in the world, and he’s not marrying and having a baby with a stranger. Even if the millions she’s offering could save his once-legendary wine-producing principality.
But the successful, single-minded beauty uses a weapon prince Mateo hadn’t counted on: his own desire.
Check out books 2 and 3 in the Filthy Rich series, Hate Crush and Serving Sin
praise for
Lush Money
“Romance often gets belittled for its escapism, but what Lopez offers is almost a publishing magic trick in itself. She delivers that escapist fantasy in spades – what could be more outlandish than a billionaire CEO and her sexy prince? But then she digs into the wounds and hard work underneath that fantasy, exposing the truth that a happily ever after in the context of reality is all the more rewarding.”—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly
“Lady Billionaire meets Hot Prince meets marriage of convenience in Lush Money, a sexy, emotional and pitch-perfect romance by Angelina M. Lopez. ...As their lives inevitably become more entwined, their relationship just as inevitably becomes more than just sex, making for a novel that subverts classic romance tropes in an extremely satisfying way.”
-Maya Rodale, NPR Books
“Lopez’s clever and captivating variation on the CEO trope is full of fairy-tale glitz and glam.”
—Booklist, Top 10 Romance Debut of 2020
“Lopez successfully flips the gender switch on the wealthy CEO trope while at the same time incorporating a generous dash of fairy-tale glitz and glam into the captivating storyline of her marvelous debut. And when these elements are combined with engaging characters and an abundance of boldly sensual, vividly rendered love scenes, you have everything fans of sexy contemporary romances could ever crave.”
—Booklist ★ (Starred Review)
Sweeping, sensual, and rawly emotional, Angelina M. Lopez crafts a debut that matches a strong, complicated heroine to a beautiful, tortured prince, and spins a swoon-worthy fairy tale for the 2019 reader. Lush Money is a gorgeous story full of heat and feels—and tons of sexy, royal fun! —USA Today Bestselling Author Sierra Simone
“Fans of fake-relationship romances will delight in this fresh spin on the trope.”
“Lush Money was nothing I expected and everything I needed. It took the billionaire and marriage of convenience tropes and flipped them on their heads. A bold, millionaire heroine, a sexy prince of a hero, an exhilarating power struggle and off-the-charts chemistry and passion that had my Kindle smoking. It's the perfect dirty fairy tale.”
—USA Today Bestselling Author Naima Simone
“This is Lopez’s debut and from just this one book, she’s easily in my top five writers if you want some grade-A dirty talk and hot sexual situations.”
—Amanda, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
and more…
One of the best books I've read this year! I loved this book so very much! The chemistry between the characters is phenomenal, the story is compelling, and flipping the billionaire trope to be a billionaire heroine is the story we all need in 2019. An outstanding debut from an author I'm excited to read more from! —Jenny Nordbak, host of the Wicked Wallflowers podcast.
I just adored Roxanne and Mateo. Watching two people who started partially as enemies fall in love through friendship and understanding despite the fact that each fought it so hard was just wonderful to read. Both were complex and stubborn and proud and self-protective (They had wounds that matched each other really well as well as strengths), but also loyal and kind and caring, and just electrifying together (like so very hot and passionate and sexy but yet still very poignant somehow). —Historical Romance Author Felicia Grossman
Lush Money is a very promising debut from an author I’m looking forward to seeing more from. Recently, I’ve been drawn to low drama romances with characters whose lives are imaginable. Lush Money is high drama and features a self made billionaire and the heir to a small European Kingdom. I loved it. —Emmalita, Cannonball Read
also from Angelina…
The Milagro Street series, about sisters who return to their small Kansas hometown to revive the family bar and, to their surprise, save the town they didn’t realize they loved, Includes After Hours on Milagro Street and Full Moon Over Freedom.