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Private Collection #2
Entangled
Daisy Wellfleet needs a husband if she means to keep control of her grandfather’s hotel. Lawrence Bailey, wounded in a mine explosion, needs somewhere to recuperate. For a marriage of convenience he sounds entirely suitable.But the man who shows up, three days late, is not what she expected from his letters. He’s too healthy, too handsome, and generally just too much of everything. Now Daisy can only wish Lawrence Bailey would stop distracting her, before she falls in love— the last thing a fiercely independent woman needs.And Lawrence Bailey has a secret. He’s just not himself. He’s not Lawrence Bailey at all, but Luke Blackwood. If only he could untangle everything, start at the beginning again. If only she’d let him get a word in edgeways, because falling in love is the last thing a sensible, solitary man needs.
115 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 25, 2011
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November 18, 2025
Kobo+ Mad About Series HRBC Challenge 2025. Tropes: Novella,Victorian Romance, Family/Friends, Love at First Sight, RomCom, Erotica, Disguise, Matchmaker.
MC's h. Daisy Wellfleet,25, hotel owner, must make the hotel profitable in 6 months, or her 5 brothers will make her sell it. Was told she needed to be married to run the hotel. Finds a man to marry her that was in a mining accident. It is to be a marriage of convenience. The hotel was her grandfathers and had been in the family for 150 years. Jonas Carbury wants to buy it. She has had an affair with Guy Westerfield for 5 years.
H. Lucien Blackwood, 32, has two brothers Harry 37 (eldest) and Adam,29 (youngest). Their father Randolph Blackwood just passed away and left 3 nude pictures of three young women and asked them to return them to the ladies in person. After they do that they will inherit the money and estate. Lucien has Daisy Wellfleet's picture to return to her in Middleton.
Basic RomCom Plot: Daisy Wellfleet is running her grandfathers hotel. Her 5 brothers want to sell it but relent giving her 6 months to make a profit and they will agree to let her keep it. (So they say). Jonas Carbury keeps hounding her to sell it to him. She was told she needed a husband to run her hotel. She find a man who was in a mining accident to marry her. She had been corresponding with him. It was to be a marriage of convenience.
Lucien arrives at the Wellfleet hotel in Middleton with his trunk and the painting of Daisy Wellfleet to return to her. He sees her and she assumes he is her intended husband Lawrence Bailey. He finds out he is to be married to her tomorrow. He should really tell her who he is but doesn't. He is smitten with the love bug. He actually want to marry her.
Daisy has been having an on going affair with Guy Westerfield and aristocrat for 5 years. He isn't happy with her getting married. She assures him nothing will happen as it is a marriage of convenience.
Luke settles into his room. Daisy shows him the hotel and tells him to rest. He kisses her. She leans into his body and feels solid muscles and a cockstand. She likes the feel of his arms around her and his large body. She feels at home with him. He continues kissing her. Eventually she comes to her senses and pushes him away.
He finds out she is going out with Guy for dinner at his private club. He feigns illness from his supposed injuries. She almost stays but knows he is faking it. Guy sees Luke and doesn't like him as he looks tall blond and handsome not like an injured miner. Luke is competition.
After Daisy comes home from her date with Guy, she finds Luke awake and at the front desk. He asks her if she would like dessert. Something chocolate. He leads her back to the kitchen. He has the table set with candles, champagne and chocolate pudding. Mm- Mm Delicious! He plans on buttering her up and then confess who he is. But as they eat the dessert. Daisy asks him to kiss her. He does. They get hot and heavy and playful. The use of chocolate dessert is used on various body parts and erotically licked off by tongues and mouths. He won't consumate the relationship until she tells him he loves her.
The next morning Luke gets up early to buy a wedding ring and plan a lunch and a boat ride after the ceremony. Daisy meets him at the church and they marry. Luke takes her on the boat ride and they find a perfect private spot under a tree. They have champagne and a boxed lunch provided by the Hotel cook. They make out kissing one another and then he caresses her breasts sucking on them and touching her clitoris and fingering her vagina giving her an orgasm. (They are interupted by a young couple looking for a picnic spot. Oh did they get an eyeful and left embarassed.) Daisy didn't care. Suddenly they were caught in a deluge of rain. They rowed back to shore and Luke carried his bride into the hotel. They went immediately to her bedroom and continued making love, many times. Luke has lost all his opportunities to tell Daisy who he really is.
Luke falls asleep. Daisy gets up and goes down to the front desk to relieve her staff member and finds a letter from the man she was supposed to have married this morning crying off, telling her he married a nurse that took care of him. Daisy is rip roaring mad. She now suspects that her husband is a Blackwood.
She confronts him and he admits he's Luke Blackwood. She so angry she sends him packing.
Four months later: Daisy did make a profit but not enough to satisfy her brothers. They sold it to someone, not Jonas Carbury, (Daisy was happy about that). Daisy knows she can't hide her pregnancy much longer and plans on moving to a quiet town and buying a cottage saying she's a widow to raise her baby.
Who shows up at the hotel but Luke. She wants to know where he has been these last 4 months. He tells her he is the new hotel owner. He re introduces himself as Lucien Blackwood. They banter back and forth a few more minutes. She thanks him for keeping on the staff. He notices the change in her bust and waist right away and knows she is expecting. He asks her what he expects her duties to be now that he owns the hotel? She tells him she is leaving. He asks her to re marry him again. They make up and kiss one another.
Opinion: This was a well written amusing romcom about false identity. I loved the bantering back and forth between Daisy and Luke. There were interesting characters that added to the story, Guy Westerfield (the other man), Randolph Blackwood who painted the nudes and was actually a matchmaker for his three sons, a young street urchin who worked in the hotel as a shoe shine boy, even Harry, Luke's brother stayed in the hotel overnight to catch the stagecoach to London to find his lady with the painting. So far I've enjoyed Jayne Fresina's writing. For novella's these are worth reading. I give this book 4 stars.
MC's h. Daisy Wellfleet,25, hotel owner, must make the hotel profitable in 6 months, or her 5 brothers will make her sell it. Was told she needed to be married to run the hotel. Finds a man to marry her that was in a mining accident. It is to be a marriage of convenience. The hotel was her grandfathers and had been in the family for 150 years. Jonas Carbury wants to buy it. She has had an affair with Guy Westerfield for 5 years.
H. Lucien Blackwood, 32, has two brothers Harry 37 (eldest) and Adam,29 (youngest). Their father Randolph Blackwood just passed away and left 3 nude pictures of three young women and asked them to return them to the ladies in person. After they do that they will inherit the money and estate. Lucien has Daisy Wellfleet's picture to return to her in Middleton.
Basic RomCom Plot: Daisy Wellfleet is running her grandfathers hotel. Her 5 brothers want to sell it but relent giving her 6 months to make a profit and they will agree to let her keep it. (So they say). Jonas Carbury keeps hounding her to sell it to him. She was told she needed a husband to run her hotel. She find a man who was in a mining accident to marry her. She had been corresponding with him. It was to be a marriage of convenience.
Lucien arrives at the Wellfleet hotel in Middleton with his trunk and the painting of Daisy Wellfleet to return to her. He sees her and she assumes he is her intended husband Lawrence Bailey. He finds out he is to be married to her tomorrow. He should really tell her who he is but doesn't. He is smitten with the love bug. He actually want to marry her.
Daisy has been having an on going affair with Guy Westerfield and aristocrat for 5 years. He isn't happy with her getting married. She assures him nothing will happen as it is a marriage of convenience.
Luke settles into his room. Daisy shows him the hotel and tells him to rest. He kisses her. She leans into his body and feels solid muscles and a cockstand. She likes the feel of his arms around her and his large body. She feels at home with him. He continues kissing her. Eventually she comes to her senses and pushes him away.
He finds out she is going out with Guy for dinner at his private club. He feigns illness from his supposed injuries. She almost stays but knows he is faking it. Guy sees Luke and doesn't like him as he looks tall blond and handsome not like an injured miner. Luke is competition.
After Daisy comes home from her date with Guy, she finds Luke awake and at the front desk. He asks her if she would like dessert. Something chocolate. He leads her back to the kitchen. He has the table set with candles, champagne and chocolate pudding. Mm- Mm Delicious! He plans on buttering her up and then confess who he is. But as they eat the dessert. Daisy asks him to kiss her. He does. They get hot and heavy and playful. The use of chocolate dessert is used on various body parts and erotically licked off by tongues and mouths. He won't consumate the relationship until she tells him he loves her.
The next morning Luke gets up early to buy a wedding ring and plan a lunch and a boat ride after the ceremony. Daisy meets him at the church and they marry. Luke takes her on the boat ride and they find a perfect private spot under a tree. They have champagne and a boxed lunch provided by the Hotel cook. They make out kissing one another and then he caresses her breasts sucking on them and touching her clitoris and fingering her vagina giving her an orgasm. (They are interupted by a young couple looking for a picnic spot. Oh did they get an eyeful and left embarassed.) Daisy didn't care. Suddenly they were caught in a deluge of rain. They rowed back to shore and Luke carried his bride into the hotel. They went immediately to her bedroom and continued making love, many times. Luke has lost all his opportunities to tell Daisy who he really is.
Luke falls asleep. Daisy gets up and goes down to the front desk to relieve her staff member and finds a letter from the man she was supposed to have married this morning crying off, telling her he married a nurse that took care of him. Daisy is rip roaring mad. She now suspects that her husband is a Blackwood.
She confronts him and he admits he's Luke Blackwood. She so angry she sends him packing.
Four months later: Daisy did make a profit but not enough to satisfy her brothers. They sold it to someone, not Jonas Carbury, (Daisy was happy about that). Daisy knows she can't hide her pregnancy much longer and plans on moving to a quiet town and buying a cottage saying she's a widow to raise her baby.
Who shows up at the hotel but Luke. She wants to know where he has been these last 4 months. He tells her he is the new hotel owner. He re introduces himself as Lucien Blackwood. They banter back and forth a few more minutes. She thanks him for keeping on the staff. He notices the change in her bust and waist right away and knows she is expecting. He asks her what he expects her duties to be now that he owns the hotel? She tells him she is leaving. He asks her to re marry him again. They make up and kiss one another.
Opinion: This was a well written amusing romcom about false identity. I loved the bantering back and forth between Daisy and Luke. There were interesting characters that added to the story, Guy Westerfield (the other man), Randolph Blackwood who painted the nudes and was actually a matchmaker for his three sons, a young street urchin who worked in the hotel as a shoe shine boy, even Harry, Luke's brother stayed in the hotel overnight to catch the stagecoach to London to find his lady with the painting. So far I've enjoyed Jayne Fresina's writing. For novella's these are worth reading. I give this book 4 stars.
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September 14, 2011
Originally posted at: http://whippedcream2.blogspot.com/201...
A Whipped Cream "BEST BOOK"
I just had to read it twice. Entangled snagged me from the first sentence. I think it was a normal reaction considering the first thing I read was “She wasn’t supposed to be in bed with her husband”. Suspense kicked in and barely a few paragraphs later, heated sex raised its head to say hello.
Ms. Fresina was successfully able to tangle me into her web. I was desperate to understand how the protagonists, Luke and Daisy, had come to be husband and wife.
However, it wasn’t only that. The story is riddled with humor and lively descriptions. From the moment Luke got out of that coach and Daisy described him as “shockingly handsome, in a rough-hewn, unapologetic, very masculine way” I believe I was already in love with him. As for Daisy, she might have lived in the 1800's but I could easily identify with her through her independent nature, and some of her ideas (she wasn’t the weepy sort; she didn’t coo over babies, she’s very practical).
Both characters have strong personalities and the contest of wills between them was easily seen through the flowing dialogue that Ms. Fresina writes. The author also conceives everything so that the plot falls perfectly into place. I particularly liked the way she introduced Randolph Blackwell, his paintings and the other two Blackwell brothers (I’m just going to have to look for those two remaining stories). I also appreciated the crafty way in which she introduced a storm during the final climax.
Then there was the sex. Hot is an understatement. The scene with the chocolate and the champagne is, least to say, sizzling. It created a burning, wild fire that made heat spread through my own limbs. The little boat excursion was also dangerously provocative.
Finally, the ending to Entangled arrived and I wasn’t one bit disappointed. Once more, Ms. Fresina shows she knows her craft and tied the knot in a very sweet way.
Entangled is a must read! I breezed through its enjoyable pages in less than it took Daisy and Luke to fall in love!
A Whipped Cream "BEST BOOK"
I just had to read it twice. Entangled snagged me from the first sentence. I think it was a normal reaction considering the first thing I read was “She wasn’t supposed to be in bed with her husband”. Suspense kicked in and barely a few paragraphs later, heated sex raised its head to say hello.
Ms. Fresina was successfully able to tangle me into her web. I was desperate to understand how the protagonists, Luke and Daisy, had come to be husband and wife.
However, it wasn’t only that. The story is riddled with humor and lively descriptions. From the moment Luke got out of that coach and Daisy described him as “shockingly handsome, in a rough-hewn, unapologetic, very masculine way” I believe I was already in love with him. As for Daisy, she might have lived in the 1800's but I could easily identify with her through her independent nature, and some of her ideas (she wasn’t the weepy sort; she didn’t coo over babies, she’s very practical).
Both characters have strong personalities and the contest of wills between them was easily seen through the flowing dialogue that Ms. Fresina writes. The author also conceives everything so that the plot falls perfectly into place. I particularly liked the way she introduced Randolph Blackwell, his paintings and the other two Blackwell brothers (I’m just going to have to look for those two remaining stories). I also appreciated the crafty way in which she introduced a storm during the final climax.
Then there was the sex. Hot is an understatement. The scene with the chocolate and the champagne is, least to say, sizzling. It created a burning, wild fire that made heat spread through my own limbs. The little boat excursion was also dangerously provocative.
Finally, the ending to Entangled arrived and I wasn’t one bit disappointed. Once more, Ms. Fresina shows she knows her craft and tied the knot in a very sweet way.
Entangled is a must read! I breezed through its enjoyable pages in less than it took Daisy and Luke to fall in love!
April 18, 2024
3.5 stars
Cuute. Took me out of my book slump
Cuute. Took me out of my book slump
August 6, 2018
Daisy Wellfleet made a deal to marry a man for convenience to save her hotel. The hotel has been in her family for over 150 years, but her brothers want to sell it and move on. So Daisy decides she needs a husband and Lawrence Bailey, a mine worker who is injured, fits the bill exactly. A woman who knows her mind, she doesn't need a man to help her make this hotel work.
When a man shows up two days late, Daisy automatically assumes he is Lawrence Bailey, come to marry her. During the 26 hours until their married, Daisy gets one sign after another that his handsome, healthy man cannot be the man she engaged herself to, but she keeps pushing off all the signs.
But Lawrence Bailey is really Luke Blackwood, Randolph Blackwood's son. Luke is there to return a painting his father made of Daisy years ago. A nude painting. When Luke is mistaken for Lawrence, he goes with it falling head over heels in love with Daisy. As time passes it becomes harder and harder for Luke to tell Daisy who he really is.
The majority of this book takes place within two days. A very short time to fall in love, but the two lovers do. Daisy finds Luke to be viral and exciting. She doesn't know what love feels like, but this is the most she has felt for any man. Luke falls in love almost instantly and starts going about paying off her bills and insinuating himself into her life. I don't remember if it was explained how he makes his money, but we do know he loves books and has an inheritance from his father. Daisy has a lover and a couple of brothers but not real detail on how many. I am assuming Daisy's family isn't well off since she was a maid before she owned the hotel.
A quick story at only a little over 100 pages. While the first book had some supernatural elements, this one did not. These are just two average people falling in love extremely quickly and embracing their love wildly.
*Book provided by author for review. This review is my honest opinion of the book.
When a man shows up two days late, Daisy automatically assumes he is Lawrence Bailey, come to marry her. During the 26 hours until their married, Daisy gets one sign after another that his handsome, healthy man cannot be the man she engaged herself to, but she keeps pushing off all the signs.
But Lawrence Bailey is really Luke Blackwood, Randolph Blackwood's son. Luke is there to return a painting his father made of Daisy years ago. A nude painting. When Luke is mistaken for Lawrence, he goes with it falling head over heels in love with Daisy. As time passes it becomes harder and harder for Luke to tell Daisy who he really is.
The majority of this book takes place within two days. A very short time to fall in love, but the two lovers do. Daisy finds Luke to be viral and exciting. She doesn't know what love feels like, but this is the most she has felt for any man. Luke falls in love almost instantly and starts going about paying off her bills and insinuating himself into her life. I don't remember if it was explained how he makes his money, but we do know he loves books and has an inheritance from his father. Daisy has a lover and a couple of brothers but not real detail on how many. I am assuming Daisy's family isn't well off since she was a maid before she owned the hotel.
A quick story at only a little over 100 pages. While the first book had some supernatural elements, this one did not. These are just two average people falling in love extremely quickly and embracing their love wildly.
*Book provided by author for review. This review is my honest opinion of the book.
July 10, 2011
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TBR reviewer: B.H
This is book 2 in a series but each of them can be read as stand alone. The first novel, Engraved, I had the pleasure of reading and I rated 5 stars, loved it! Engraved was also June’s book of the month. Let’s see if the second book is as great...
The Blackwood’s are at it again. This handsome brothers are nothing but heart melting trouble. This is Lucien’s story. He’s confronted by a beautiful woman named Daisy who thinks he’s her fiancé whom she never met. Meanwhile, he has a painting from his father’s collection of her. From there it all tangles into a crazy, lust filled adventure.
Ms. Fresina has a way of grabbing hold of the reader right away and creating a fun journey interweaved with romance. It was absolutely effortless to read this. I simply got lost in the beautiful world of 1888 that she painted with her words.
Even if you don’t like historical novels but love heartwarming romance I’d recommend Entangled by talented author Jayne Fresina. I can’t wait to read the third installment of ‘A Private Collection’!
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TBR reviewer: B.H
This is book 2 in a series but each of them can be read as stand alone. The first novel, Engraved, I had the pleasure of reading and I rated 5 stars, loved it! Engraved was also June’s book of the month. Let’s see if the second book is as great...
The Blackwood’s are at it again. This handsome brothers are nothing but heart melting trouble. This is Lucien’s story. He’s confronted by a beautiful woman named Daisy who thinks he’s her fiancé whom she never met. Meanwhile, he has a painting from his father’s collection of her. From there it all tangles into a crazy, lust filled adventure.
Ms. Fresina has a way of grabbing hold of the reader right away and creating a fun journey interweaved with romance. It was absolutely effortless to read this. I simply got lost in the beautiful world of 1888 that she painted with her words.
Even if you don’t like historical novels but love heartwarming romance I’d recommend Entangled by talented author Jayne Fresina. I can’t wait to read the third installment of ‘A Private Collection’!
Enter Contest here:
http://thetbrpile.weebly.com/1/post/2...
August 24, 2016
Maybe even 3.5 stars. Short, good characterisation, funny, and unusual. I'm off to track down something else by Jayne Fresina now.
Fuller review to follow when Life Things stop getting in the way.
Fuller review to follow when Life Things stop getting in the way.
October 22, 2011
This was cute. My favorite scene though, was between Luke and his brother Harry. haha Their interaction cracked me up!
September 13, 2012
I loved it! It's a great thing I read it the latest. Really really love the theme, the chemistry, the plot ... couldn't stop grinning at most pages. Loved it!
November 11, 2014
Another quick and sweet read.
April 25, 2016
An interesting story and romance - nicely written. The dialogue felt a little modern for the 1880's, but I'm still going to read more from this author as I enjoyed this novella. 3.5 stars.
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