The Italian's Forced Bride by Kate Walker

Title: The Italian's Forced Bride

Author: Kate Walker

Line: Modern

Release month: UK -Feb 2007

The S-Factor: Sizzling!

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Alice spent six passionate months as Domenico’s mistress – until she made the worst mistake of all: falling in love. She knew he would never love her back, would soon discard her – so she left him.

But now the fiercely attractive Italian is demanding her back in his bed. And this time, when Domenico finds out she’s carrying his child; he may never let her go

Review:

THE ITALIAN’S FORCED BRIDE by Kate Walker is magnificent; a stunning and powerful love story that I immediately had to read from cover to cover. This love story of Dom and Alice had me in tears, angry and sighing all at once.

Alice who has been Domenico’s Parrisi’s lover for months realizes that she loves him but he is incapable of returning that love. She also overhears gossip one evening that points to him having a mistress so she flees and moves back to England. However, life sometimes plays tricks and for Alice that’s the case when she finds out that she is carrying Dom’s child. She feels she needs to tell Dom of her pregnancy so she writes him a letter asking him to come to her so she can tell him the truth.

Upon Dom’s arrival in England, this story takes on emotions so powerful it leaves the reader sitting on edge. Upon hearing the news, Dom demands marriage and takes Alice back with him to Italy. All I can say so as not to give the story away, is that there are scenes which will take your breath away, secrets and tragedy and in the end a love so sweet and tender it will leave you laughing and crying at the same time.

Congratulations to Kate Walker on yet another magical love story.

Reviewed by: Marilyn

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The Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement by Lucy Monroe

Title: The Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement

Author: Lucy Monroe

Line: Modern

Release month: UK -Feb 2007

The S-Factor: Simmering

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Hope Bishop is stunned when darkly sexy Sicilian tycoon Luciano di Valerio proposes marriage. Brought up by her wealthy but distant grandfather, she is used to fading into the background and being ignored.

But Luciano's sensual lovemaking makes her feel vibrantly alive. Hope falls in love with her husband and is blissfully happy—until she discovers that Luciano ruthlessly married her…for convenience!

Review:

The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return. ~ From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole

A strong alpha, a young girl who for years loved this sexy Italian! Blackmailed into marriage! Secrets! Passion! How much better can it get? Again, another Lucy Monroe book I couldn't put down once I began. This is such a powerful and intense love story.

Hope Bishop had been raised without parents and by her wealthy grandfather who only had time for his business and business associates. For Hope, life was very lonely and as she matured and first set eyes on the sexy millionaire Luciano de Valerio she was smitten. For years she had loved this man from afar and when he turns up at a New Years Eve party and kisses her at midnight, she’s sure of her love for this man.

Luciano iis not only handsome and wealthy, he’s a successful businessman. He is very loyal to his family and family business so when Hope’s grandfather approaches him with a deal, a deal to get his families business back by marrying his granddaughter, what choice does he have? Luciano thinks Hope is sweet, loving and tender and that she will make him a wonderful Sicilian wife but he doesn’t count on the attraction between them. Lucy takes this attraction and makes it a dance, a dance and journey you won’t want to miss.

I wonder how many women have had crushes or loved for years without that person realizing it?.. If you had the chance and someone could make it possible, what would be your choice?

Reviewed by: Marilyn

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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

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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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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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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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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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The Valentine Bride by Liz Fielding

Title: The Valentine Bride

Author: Liz Fielding

Line: Harlequin/Mills and Boon Romance

Release month: Feb 2007

The S-Factor: Sweet

Back-Blurb:

How can she begin again when her whole life’s been a lie?

Louise Valentine’s just been offered a job… Max Valentine wants to use her PR expertise to help save the family business. Since discovering she was adopted Louise is feeling less than charitable towards the Valentines…

But family loyalty wins, and sparks fly as she and Max work together. There’s always been something between them, though Max has always been strictly off limits. Now they’re both falling hard and fast – but will the past stand in the way of this special Valentine wedding…?

Review:
The Valentine Bride, the final installment in The Brides of Bella Lucia, is a wonderfully engrossing romantic novel written by one of the finest writers of category romance writing today – Liz Fielding!

Louise and Max Valentine have been attracted to one another ever since they were teenagers, but as they were both raised to think that they were cousins they never could act on their attraction – until now! Louise has just discovered the truth about her parentage and she’s furious that she’s been lied to for all these years and that she’s never been told that she’s adopted.

Refusing to have anything whatsoever to do with the Valentine family and the Bella Lucia business, she sets up her own PR business and vows never to speak to a Valentine again – until her childhood crush, Max, comes knocking on her door asking for her PR expertise.

Louise’s first instinct is to refuse, but when she finally accepts, little does she know that her old childhood feelings are about to resurface and that she’s going to be falling in love with Max, hook, line and sinker all over again.

Liz Fielding is a wonderful writer whose stories never fail to keep me engrossed from beginning to end and The Valentine Bride is no exception! Louise is a fiery, stubborn yet vulnerable heroine whom I just adored and Max is simply gorgeous!

The Valentine Bride is charming, gripping and heartwarming and you’ll be eagerly turning the pages of this book late into the night and counting the days until Liz Fielding’s next novel!

Reviewed By: Julie

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The Santorini Bride - Anne McAllister

Title: The Santorini Bride

Author: Anne McAllister

Line: Presents / Modern

Release month: Feb 07

The S-Factor: Sweet & Sizzling!

Back-Blurb:

Nowhere could be more perfect than the breathtaking island of Santorini to fall in love – but its whispering winds, azure seas and innate tranquility 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:

Again, Anne McAllister has penned a wonderful story, the second in a Greek family series; however, The Santorini Bride is a stand alone book. It's a passionate and a very sweet story in finding love by two strong and spirited people, Theo Savas and Martha Antonides.

In April 2006 Anne's book The Antonides Marriage Deal debuted and the reader is introduced to the Antonides and Savas family. The head of the Antonides family has not only wagered his Santorini family home in Greece but also a major share of his ship building business in the USA.

In the Santorini Bride, you are introduced to Martha Antonides who is running away from her cheating boyfriend to Greece to heal her wounds. Then throw into the mix, sexy Theo Savas who is hiding out at his newly family’s acquired Greek retreat to hide from women and the press as he was named the world's sexist sailor. Theo doesn’t “do relationships” nor does he commit; instead he goes from one relationship to another. Why? Theo at one time was married and hurt badly so he plays the field and when Martha arrives on his doorstep in Greece, he wants to send her packing. Want sparks; well you'll get them and then some!

Martha being a strong willed woman will have none of it and firmly plants herself into Theo’s life. When Theo’s interfering mother sends two beautiful models to Santorini, Theo decides he needs Martha to play the part of his girlfriend and little does either of them realize how attracted they have become to each other. However, Theo gets cold feet and leaves Greece to think about his life and then again runs into Martha at the Savas/Antonides wedding of their respective siblings. Boy, does Theo get a surprise…..Martha is pregnant with his child. Martha makes it very clear that she doesn’t need Theo in her life nor require marriage. So she leaves and goes West to live alone with her dog “Ted” but not for long as Theo follows her with a plan to convince Martha to marry him. This is probably my favorite part of the book……..Theo being attentive, patient, kind and loving. Plain and simply, it’s a lovely love story.

I can’t begin to tell you how much I enjoyed The Santorini Bride. Anne McAllister never disappoints her readers and this book is an exceptional example. I look forward to many more stories involving both of these interesting and powerful Greeks.

Reviewed by: Marilyn

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Did you know that Anne's friend contributed her French bulldog to the cause. Ted is 'real' and he was supposed to get a dedication in the book, but editorial left it out. So he will get his acknowledgement in the next book which has nothing to do with him, but what can you do? To find out more, why not visit her website or her Blog

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