Millie Adams brings us the story of Dragos and his wife Cassandra. We meet Cassandra as she is facing a life choice of whether of not she should leave her husband. We get to look back and see how they met and how their strong physical attraction is magnetic. We watch as she struggles with this decision and knows that although she loves him, it may also be destroying her. When an attempted assassination causes him to lose his memories, he realizes that this may be his only chance to figure out the rest of their lives. Will Cassandra be brave enough to follow this journey no matter where it may lead them? Will Dragos be strong enough to open up the past and perhaps let her go?

Millie Adams brings us a story of love, betrayal, loss, and the possibility of hope. Keep turning the page to see what happens between these two and see if what brought them together first can keep them together now. Will they be able to see the past and work through it so that they can have a future or will they revert back to what was comfortable? Can they each be honest enough with each other and themselves to forge a new path that may lead to a future together filled with happiness? Read to find out. I look forward to reading more from this author.

I have read and received an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I would like to thank NetGalley and Harlequin - Romance | Harlequin Presents for this privilege.

Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖 (I was pretty into this one!)
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔 (I felt like I had a bit more background on the hero)
Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋 (I like my scenes just a bit longer and more developed but what I got I really loved, especially the first scene)
Intimate Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥 (please note the scenes are on the shorter side though, so it might not feel quite this steamy to some)
Humor: Not much
Perspective: first person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: Immediately
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, a few years in the future

Should I read in order?
I think this is a stand alone?

Basic plot:
Cassandra has had enough of Drago’s secrets – she flees to Paris, but he can never let her go.

Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- marriage in jeopardy
- Romanian hero
- American heroine
- tattooed hero
- close proximity in the mountains
- artist heroine
- billionaire hero
- amnesia (hero)
- there’s some elements of darkness here – more in background and flashbacks of the hero’s life but the hero is also a stalker
- medium steam – 4ish full scenes, though they are a bit short

Ages:
- there’s a little bit of an age gap? I think she’s early 20s and he’s in his 30s? (She was 20 when they’ve met, he was in his 30s, and they’ve been married for 4 years)

My thoughts:
I really liked this one! And it was not quite what I was expecting in a lot of good ways. I don’t even usually love these tropes...marriage in trouble….second chance vibes – those are usually my least favorite things. But the way it was done here I really liked it. I was able to get the beginning of their story which I really love because it helps me care about the mains and their break up! I loved how obsessed this hero was. I can be picky about amnesia but I really liked the use of it in this book – how they both got to know him while secluded in the mountains.

This book had so many elements I really loved. A touch of darkness with the tortured hero, the fact that he kind of stalked the heroine and was obsessed and over the top.

For pure perfection I would have loved the intimate just a bit longer and more developed because I really loved that element of it and the emotional pull of the hero’s obsession.

I had to read this book. Marriage in trouble, run away wife, husband named DRAGOS (that’s a micro trope), love at first sight, Paris and Switzerland and… London? And AMNESIA. 😘

Cassandra is very unhappy at the start of the book. The whirlwind romance with Dragos started with a bang but after 4 years of marriage she’s isolated and her husband is never home. When she finally confronts him, they have a huge fight and she runs away.

After weeks of hiding in Paris, Dragos turns up at her door, shot and with a concussion and memory loss. All he knows is Cassandra is HIS and he must keep her safe. He doesn’t have any memories, other than the first time he saw her.

So as he gets his memory back, he shares EVERYTHING with Cassandra and she realizes she didn’t know her husband at all.

Best part, when she’s hiding in Paris she paints Dragos non stop. So when he stumbles into her apartment, he’s all “hey that me! Nude!”

Interesting use of amnesia here. Dragos discovers he’s a pretty bad man with lots of trauma (sad Sebastian for Heaving Bossoms listeners). And he really tries to be better. He still needs lots of therapy though.

Arc provided by the publisher.

This book tore into me in the best way. I love a marriage-in-crisis story when it’s done with emotional rawness and romantic intensity, and Dragos’s Broken Vows delivers both with beautiful brutal. It’s the kind of story that aches all the way through, but there’s this strange comfort in how fiercely Dragos loves her, even when he’s lost and broken. And Cassandra. She’s strong even when she’s vulnerable, and the way she fights for herself and still loves him gutted me. I couldn’t put it down. I didn’t want to. This is exactly the kind of emotional, possessive, all-consuming romance I crave.