This is a pretty long audiobook – over 16 hours – and it was probably more than 85% of the way through before Vanessa and Aiden realize they have developed a real relationship. She is going to really ramp up her graphic design shop while waiting 5 years to go their separate ways. Vanessa doesn’t romanticize their new relationship – she moves into his guest room and also makes it clear she is no longer his assistant, and won’t be posting on his social media and cooking for him unless she is also eating. So, we have Green Card Bride/Marriage of Convenience, a sports-player hero, and a scrappy, pulling herself up by her bootstraps heroine. Think “talking to a brick wall” which completely describes their conversations. Now, mind you, he is still not interested in her as a woman – he has laser-focus on his own career, and the word “wall” to describe him is more than just about his size. He makes her an offer she just can’t refuse: he’ll pay off her college debt (over $150,000) and buy her a house. He wants to become an American citizen fast, and he wants her to be his American Green Card Bride. A really, really big favor – he’s concerned he might get cut from the team, and his work visa will expire. She’s surprised when, a few weeks later, Aiden shows up on her doorstep, needing a big favor.
After overhearing his agent talk trash about her, and Aiden not defend her, however, it’s the last straw – she just walks out. And Vanessa has finally saved up enough money to go out on her own, so she’s been considering quitting. Ok, she’s always had a tiny crush on him – but being almost 6’5″ and stunningly good looking, however, don’t make up for the fact that he’s exceedingly hard to work for and probably doesn’t even realize she’s a woman. Her eyes are on the prize: paying off staggering college debt and being her own boss as a graphic design artist. (American football, by the way.) Told in first person by Vanessa, it’s really her story – a young woman with a troubled past, she is determined to make something of herself, even if it includes spending two years washing Aiden’s underwear and cooking him four vegan meals a day.
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me refers to a giant of a football player, Aiden Graves, from Canada, now playing for the NFO (National Football Organization) Dallas team, the Three Hundreds, and Aiden’s personal assistant Vanessa.
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