Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The Greek's Convenient Mistress by Annie West



Title: The Greek's Convenient Mistress
Author: Annie West
Line: Modern /Sexy/ Presents
Release month: Jan/Feb/TBC 2007

The S-Factor: Sizzling & Simmering
Back-Blurb:

A handsome Greek millionaire, a little girl who needs help...Sophie can't say no...!
Sophie Paterson is shocked when Costas Palamidis turns up on her Sydney doorstep. Costas's wife is dead, and his precious little girl's life is in grave danger - Sophie is the only person who can help...even if it means returning to the long-lost family who turned their backs on her...

Costas wastes no time in moving Sophie into his luxurious Greek villa. She struggles to fight the explosive attraction that fizzes between them while they also battle to save Eleni's life. When their forced proximity leads to a night of unforgettable passion, Sophie has to make a choice: aware that Costas's priority will only ever be his daughter, she can leave the man she has fallen in love with...or stay, knowing she will never be more than the Greek's mistress!"

Review:

This book absolutely consumed me from the very beginning to the end……. that’s how incredible it was…….powerful, so intense it absolutely made me breathless. Riveting, emotional, sad, just a wonderful story, not only about love, but also about healing hearts, healing an extremely ill child and mending family hurts and old wounds. But most important about finding peace, joy and love!

Costa’s made Sophie feel like a tart. He didn’t want nor need her, well he actually did need her, and he needed her bone marrow for a transplant in order to heal his sick child. However, this beautiful young woman was related to his deceased wife and reminded him of her and her inability to be a good wife and mother. Despite all of this, both Costa’s and Sophie were attracted to each other both by body and soul. Whenever he was near, she felt alive and despite herself, she still wanted him. Lust and Sex? Of course and Sophie knew where she stood and in the end could not resist him.

For Costa’s he fought his attraction for Sophie every inch of the way. He was always in control and tried not to weaken. In the end, he acts on his attraction and does he feel he’s taking advantage of her? Absolutely not! He can’t help himself, can’t trust himself and his attraction. He’s afraid to trust, to believe.To say anymore would ruin the story for the reader. But let me just say this, first and foremost, Annie West again pens another wonderful love story set on a lovely isle in Greece. She again delivers and entertains her reader’s with a powerful and intense reading experience. I promise, you won’t be sorry reading the Greek’s Convenient Mistress.

Reviewed by: Marilyn

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Did you know that Annie once had a would-be suitor try to impress her with the fact that he owned a herd of camels? Surprisingly she still said 'no'. To find out more, why not visit her website

Monday, February 26, 2007

Breathless! by Trish Wylie


Title: Breathless!

Author: Trish Wylie

Line: Mills and Boon Modern Extra/ Sexy Sensation

Release month: Feb/March 2007

The S-Factor: Simmering


Back-Blurb:

Just one night would take her breath away!

Rory Flanaghan is every girl’s dream: tall, toned and so, so sexy. On leave from his dangerous overseas job, he’s helping out at the gym he owns. When writer Cara Sheehan starts one-to-one sessions with Rory, exercise takes on a whole new meaning! He leaves her with a sensual awareness she’s never let herself feel before…

Rory can’t understand why this beautiful, feisty woman has a problem with her image, and he knows he can teach Cara what she’s capable of… As things get really personal, Rory shows Cara that just one kiss, just one touch…just one night…will leave her breathless…!

Review:

Cara Sheehan needs to lose weight – fast! Her best friend’s wedding is coming up and for once in her life she doesn’t want to be the dumpy one in the corner – especially as the best man is her ex-boyfriend Niall. With the wedding fast approaching, Cara decides to enrol in a gym and the first person she walks into as soon as she sets foot inside the gym is the gorgeous part owner Rory Flanaghan, who is on leave from his dangerous job as a soldier on the front line.

Rory can’t understand why a woman as gorgeous as Cara should need to lose weight. She’s funny, feisty, intelligent and has curves in all the right places. But, Rory decides to give Cara a helping hand and suddenly, the word exercise soon begins to take on a whole new delicious meaning as they find themselves indulging in one to one sessions.

But time is running out for Rory for in a few weeks’ time he has to return to the front line, but this time Rory finds himself strangely reluctant to leave because for the first time in his life, he’s found himself falling head over heels in love.

Trish Wylie blends wicked humour, marvelous characters, intense emotion and powerful romance into a wonderfully engrossing romantic tale which will leave you Breathless!

Reviewed By: Julie


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Monday, February 19, 2007

Crowned: An Ordinary Girl by Natasha Oakley


Title: Crowned: An Ordinary Girl
Author: Natasha Oakley
Line: Romance
Release month : February 2007

The S-Factor:Sweet
Back-Blurb:

Wedding – by Royal Command!

The Andovarian royal family is in mourning after the untimely death of the King. An urgent summons orders the return of the heir – His Serene Highness Crown Prince Sebastian II…

Just as Seb had caught a glimpse of what normal life could be, he was forced to do his duty. Accepting the crown meant leaving the most precious gift he’d ever had – the love of an ordinary girl…

Now, years on, Marianne Chambers is visiting Andovaria. Seb has been given the second chance he’s always longed for. But can he fight tradition and crown Marianne as his very own princess?

Review:

Moving, emotional and absolutely impossible to put down, Crowned: An Ordinary Girl is another wonderful romantic novel by one of Mills and Boon’s fastest rising stars –Natasha Oakley.

Ten years ago, Marianne Chambers was just an eighteen year old student who fell in love for the first time with a fellow undergraduate, the Austrian Sebastian Rodier. However, Marianne’s hopes for a future with Sebastian were dashed when he disappeared from her life – and then she opened a newspaper and realized that the boy she thought was an ordinary guy was in fact a Prince!

Now, Sebastian is back into her life and Marianne realizes that her feelings for him haven’t changed – if anything they are stronger than ever! But, Marianne soon realizes that Sebastian’s every move is scrutinized and his every word talked about. Is she willing to live with this or risk losing him a second time?

Natasha Oakley meshes intense emotional impact, poignant romance, heartwarming drama and vividly drawn characters into an engrossing story which you will not easily forget! Charming, spellbinding and sensitive, Crowned: An Ordinary Girl is perfect romantic escapism!

Reviewed By: Julie

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Meant-To-Be Mother - Ally Blake

Title: Meant-To-Be Mother

Author: Ally Blake

Line: Romance

Release month: January 2007

The S-Factor: Sweet

Back-Blurb:

The homecoming bride-to-be


Single father James Dillon has dedicated his life to his young son... Yet when a beautiful, stylish stranger appears on his doorstep he can't ignore the magnetism between them - nor the happiness he sees in his son when she's around.

Siena Capuletti didn't mean to fall in love. Her homecoming was only meant to be fleeting. But now, as she spends time with gorgeous James and his adorable son, she knows that she's lost her heart to them. But the mistakes of her past are still ruling her head...

Is she the jet-set career girl she's convinced herself she should be... or the bride and mother that she was clearly meant to be...?

Review:

I can't even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this story. Each and every character in this book is meaningful, from Rick, Siena's elder brother, to Kane, the hero's son. All of them have issues that they need to deal with, and each of them need Siena as much as she needs them.

Ally Blake takes Siena and James on an exhilarating emotional ride that leaves both them and the reader breathless. This is a wonderful feel-good story. It's got everything that the new Romance line has fast become renowned for - warmth, humour, romance, and emotion.

Ally Blake will have the reader laughing-out-loud at some points, while reaching for the tissues at others. Perfect!

Reviewed by: Sue

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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Driving Him Wild by Julie Cohen


Title: Driving Him Wild
Author: Julie Cohen
Line: Mills and Boon Modern Extra
Release month: Feb 2007

The S-Factor:Simmering
Back-Blurb:

Destination: desire

When smart-mouthed New York City cab driver Zoe Drake finds a tall, dark and brooding man on her doorstep, she doesn’t know what to think – does he want something, or has Christmas come early this year?

Nick Giroux is looking for his long-lost father – not a new-found woman! But there’s something about him that makes Zoe let down her ice-cool defences. She’ll use her profession to drive Nick to Maine…

…and maybe drive him wild on the way!

Review:

Julie Cohen’s Driving Him Wild is the latest Modern Romance Extra by this extremely talented writer whose books never fail to tickle the funny bone and to tug at the heartstrings!

Nick Giroux is determined to find the father who walked out on him sixteen years ago and when he finds out that he’s got some kind of connection with New Yorker Xenia Drake, he leaves his life in Maine to confront the man who had abandoned him. However, Nick is in for a disappointment for Xenia has just died and living in her apartment is her great niece Zoe.

Nick has never known a woman quite like Zoe and as passions ignite between the two, they realise that maybe the time has come for them to let down their defences and embrace their future – together!

Julie Cohen blends charming characters, sexy romance, hilarious one liners, sizzling chemistry and powerful emotion into a love story which you will not want to put down. Julie Cohen is one of Mills and Boon’s fastest rising stars and her books are not to be missed!

Reviewed By: Julie

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The Santorini Bride by Anne McAllister


Title: The Santorini Bride
Author: Anne McAllister
Line: Harlequin Presents/Modern Romance
Release month: Feb 2007

The S-Factor:Simmering
Back-Blurb:

The Greek’s chosen wife

Nowhere could be more perfect than the breathtaking island of Santorini to fall in love – but its whispering winds, azure seas and innate tranquillity belie the blazing passion the island evokes in all who arrive on its idyllic shores…

Heiress Martha Antonides is stunned when she arrives at her ancestral family home on the Greek island of Santorini – to find that the villa has been taken over by billionaire Theo Savas… Forced together, they indulge in a scorchingly hot affair. But Theo Savas will never marry. Martha knows she must leave, but her heart and body will not obey her head. Mistress or wife – she’s Theo’s for the taking!

Review:

Martha Antonides is absolutely furious when she finds her boyfriend in the shower with another woman! Shocked, hurt and livid, she empties her savings account and books a one way ticket to Greece to the island of Santorini where her parents have had a holiday home for generations.

However, the last thing Martha is expecting is to find a stranger living in her house – a gorgeous stranger whom a magazine declared as the world’s sexiest sailor! Theo Savas is not only drop dead gorgeous, but he’s also a billionaire and what’s more thanks to her feckless father, he now owns their home on Santorini!

With no job, no money and with no inclination to go home whatsoever, Martha decides that she’s not going anywhere and if Theo doesn’t want her living with him – tough! But what Martha hasn’t counted on is the fact that under the sizzling Mediterranean sun, passion will flare and before Martha knows it she finds herself pregnant with the Greek billionaire’s baby!

The Santorini Bride features two lively characters that are so vividly drawn that you feel as if they are in the room with you, steamy love scenes, passionate romance, delicious humor and wonderful emotional intensity.

In The Santorini Bride, Anne McAllister blends all the passion, drama and emotion which we’ve come to expect from Harlequin Presents/M&B Modern with charm, wit and laugh out lines.

Charming, romantic and absolutely hilarious, The Santorini Bride is a novel which you can’t afford to miss!
Reviewed by: Julie

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