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Law Of Love
She couldn't really blame Con
It wasn't his fault he'd made her feel this way. It was her own fault for loving him.
When she first met barrister Con Arlington, Kim didn't realize he was really Conan Arlington-Forbes, the man responsible for her mother losing her home, her living and all her dreams. Kim had held a grudge against him for five years.
Now she felt shattered--but Con couldn't understand the depths of her anguish. All he could see was their mutual attraction--and he just wouldn't give up.
It wasn't his fault he'd made her feel this way. It was her own fault for loving him.
When she first met barrister Con Arlington, Kim didn't realize he was really Conan Arlington-Forbes, the man responsible for her mother losing her home, her living and all her dreams. Kim had held a grudge against him for five years.
Now she felt shattered--but Con couldn't understand the depths of her anguish. All he could see was their mutual attraction--and he just wouldn't give up.
- GenresHarlequin Presents
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published March 1, 1990
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Sally Heywood
31 books4 followersSally Heywood was born in Yorkshire, England, UK. After leaving university, she had several jobs, including running an art gallery, a guest house and a boutique. As playwright, she has written several plays for theater, television and radio. 'Bringing the Last Boat Home' was part of the BBC's IGNITE programme, to encourage professional writers to think in terms of sound. She has published over twenty-five romantic novels for Mills & Boon, she also signed her novels as Sandra Clark. Her special interests are sailing, reading, fashion, interior decorating and helping in a children's nursery. She lives in Staithes and London.
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March 18, 2017
Re Law of Love - Sally Heywood brings us a very dramatic bickerfest with a barrister H and an h who is a partner in a publicity firm and has a very sad past and a burning hatred for the H.
This one starts with the h going to court to support her business partner, who is the plaintiff in an action against a rival design firm that stole his copyrighted work and used it in their own publicity marketing. The partner got assigned a last minute new barrister who is highly thought of and practically guaranteed to win the partner's case. He is also devastatingly good looking and the h is highly attracted, too bad when she saw him the evening before, he had a six foot curvaceous red head hanging all over him.
Then the h finds out his name after he wins her partner's case and they are conversing over lunch. Milking the dramatic moment for all it is worth, the h turns five shades paler and has to rush from the lunch table after making the statement that she despises the H utterly. He chases her down and forces some roofie kissing on the h, all the while she is spitting out spiteful statements. Then the H arranges to have the h come to France with him and do the publicity for a medieval French village the H's uncle is revamping. The h wants to refuse, but can't because it is a big commission and could put the h's and her partner's business into the big league.
We know the h has a problem with the legal system and after a few more verbal battles with the H that end in roofie kisses, we find out that the H was the barrister who won the h's father's side of a law suit and gave the h's ancient manor house to the father.
Why this should matter is eventually made clear when we find out that the h's mum was a famous English garden painter who married a businessman. They divorced and the womanizing father fought for custody of the h and made the mother look like a tart. He wanted custody of the h because the h's grandfather had left the manor house in trust to her and the father saw a way to make a big profit. So the courts made the h stay with her father and his various mistresses in her mother's family home they had owned for a few centuries. She left when she was 16 because her father refused to let her see her mother in all that time and her mother had to leave the country for a long period to get away from the father blackening her name and reputation.
The father saw his opportunity to break the grandfather's trust and took the mother and the h to court and got the right to sell the house because the h refused to live with her father any longer. (I had doubts about the dubious legality here, it was the h's house and at 16 she should have been able to choose her parent, but supposedly the H dug up provenance that since the father paid for the repairs on the house, he had the right to sell it. ) This destroyed the h's mother, her family home was the inspiration for all her best work. So after she lost the case, the mother willed all her remaining belongings to the h and then walked into the ocean and died. No mention is made of what the h's father did, but the h apparently has no contact with him.
The h blames the H for ruining her mother and being the instrument of her death. She figures if he hadn't been so willing to defend a rich skeevy guy and do whatever to win, her mother wouldn't have lost all hope and would still be alive. The H continually makes statements about the h's mother being a tart and promiscuous, but since he was only a teenager when the original custody battle was going on, the h is pretty assertive that he is totally ignorant. Yet she never fully explains the situation until the very end, she just spouts out a lot of nasty names and mean remarks, while the H stops her verbalizations with roofie kisses.
The h also thinks the H is a womanizer too, she keeps seeing him with all these OW and this makes her doubt in his sincerity. Eventually the H gets her to go to a big party in France in celebration of the village remodeling Uncle and the whole story comes out when the h calls the H a murderer and immediately tries to back off from the accusation because she has figured out she is in love with him.
The h tells the H of her mother's death and the H decides to cut all contact. So they part and the h has a mopey moment, especially when she finds out the H left his other Uncle's legal chambers after he won the h's father case because he was disgusted by the tactics they wanted him to use.
The h eventually tracks the H down and after more verbal misunderstandings, they finally reconcile and lurve it up for the HEA. There is a little epilogue where the H and h are blissfully happy, the H isn't really a womanizer, one OW was an old relationship that finished a year earlier, the other OW was really a drunk girl the H carried to the library to sleep it off when she passed out and the other OW was actually his younger cousin borrowing his flat. They plan their wedding and a lifetime of happy love as the H is going to buy the h's house back in true HPlandia HEA fashion.
This one was okay, but very confusing as SH keeps everything and all the explanations very vague to bump up the tension. It sorta gets frustrating, cause the h is so hysterical and yet we don't know what exactly happened so it is really hard to empathize with the h' side of things. The H is a bit too pushy in the roofie kiss department, especially towards someone he just met and extra especially because the h is angry to the point of violence -she slaps the H when he is arguing and imposing himself on her- and doesn't seem to quite comprehend that his forcing kissing on her is perilously close to assault. (And him being barrister too.)
The other problem overall with this book is that everything but the H's passion and the h's fury is very ephemeral. I am still not quite sure what the h and her business partner even do and I have read this book three times.
The h also does a 180 in attitude from hating the H to being in love with him in half a paragraph. Which usually isn't a problem, except in this case there wasn't really a reason for it. It was like SH just got to the last 15 pages and realized she needed to get the h on board with lurvin' it up so they could have an HEA. It seemed like the h had carried too much resentment and anger against the H for too long for it to be resolved that quickly.
Still the HEA is pretty sweet and the H is obviously in love, so be happy the h is happy and call this one a win in the HP outing experience.
This one starts with the h going to court to support her business partner, who is the plaintiff in an action against a rival design firm that stole his copyrighted work and used it in their own publicity marketing. The partner got assigned a last minute new barrister who is highly thought of and practically guaranteed to win the partner's case. He is also devastatingly good looking and the h is highly attracted, too bad when she saw him the evening before, he had a six foot curvaceous red head hanging all over him.
Then the h finds out his name after he wins her partner's case and they are conversing over lunch. Milking the dramatic moment for all it is worth, the h turns five shades paler and has to rush from the lunch table after making the statement that she despises the H utterly. He chases her down and forces some roofie kissing on the h, all the while she is spitting out spiteful statements. Then the H arranges to have the h come to France with him and do the publicity for a medieval French village the H's uncle is revamping. The h wants to refuse, but can't because it is a big commission and could put the h's and her partner's business into the big league.
We know the h has a problem with the legal system and after a few more verbal battles with the H that end in roofie kisses, we find out that the H was the barrister who won the h's father's side of a law suit and gave the h's ancient manor house to the father.
Why this should matter is eventually made clear when we find out that the h's mum was a famous English garden painter who married a businessman. They divorced and the womanizing father fought for custody of the h and made the mother look like a tart. He wanted custody of the h because the h's grandfather had left the manor house in trust to her and the father saw a way to make a big profit. So the courts made the h stay with her father and his various mistresses in her mother's family home they had owned for a few centuries. She left when she was 16 because her father refused to let her see her mother in all that time and her mother had to leave the country for a long period to get away from the father blackening her name and reputation.
The father saw his opportunity to break the grandfather's trust and took the mother and the h to court and got the right to sell the house because the h refused to live with her father any longer. (I had doubts about the dubious legality here, it was the h's house and at 16 she should have been able to choose her parent, but supposedly the H dug up provenance that since the father paid for the repairs on the house, he had the right to sell it. ) This destroyed the h's mother, her family home was the inspiration for all her best work. So after she lost the case, the mother willed all her remaining belongings to the h and then walked into the ocean and died. No mention is made of what the h's father did, but the h apparently has no contact with him.
The h blames the H for ruining her mother and being the instrument of her death. She figures if he hadn't been so willing to defend a rich skeevy guy and do whatever to win, her mother wouldn't have lost all hope and would still be alive. The H continually makes statements about the h's mother being a tart and promiscuous, but since he was only a teenager when the original custody battle was going on, the h is pretty assertive that he is totally ignorant. Yet she never fully explains the situation until the very end, she just spouts out a lot of nasty names and mean remarks, while the H stops her verbalizations with roofie kisses.
The h also thinks the H is a womanizer too, she keeps seeing him with all these OW and this makes her doubt in his sincerity. Eventually the H gets her to go to a big party in France in celebration of the village remodeling Uncle and the whole story comes out when the h calls the H a murderer and immediately tries to back off from the accusation because she has figured out she is in love with him.
The h tells the H of her mother's death and the H decides to cut all contact. So they part and the h has a mopey moment, especially when she finds out the H left his other Uncle's legal chambers after he won the h's father case because he was disgusted by the tactics they wanted him to use.
The h eventually tracks the H down and after more verbal misunderstandings, they finally reconcile and lurve it up for the HEA. There is a little epilogue where the H and h are blissfully happy, the H isn't really a womanizer, one OW was an old relationship that finished a year earlier, the other OW was really a drunk girl the H carried to the library to sleep it off when she passed out and the other OW was actually his younger cousin borrowing his flat. They plan their wedding and a lifetime of happy love as the H is going to buy the h's house back in true HPlandia HEA fashion.
This one was okay, but very confusing as SH keeps everything and all the explanations very vague to bump up the tension. It sorta gets frustrating, cause the h is so hysterical and yet we don't know what exactly happened so it is really hard to empathize with the h' side of things. The H is a bit too pushy in the roofie kiss department, especially towards someone he just met and extra especially because the h is angry to the point of violence -she slaps the H when he is arguing and imposing himself on her- and doesn't seem to quite comprehend that his forcing kissing on her is perilously close to assault. (And him being barrister too.)
The other problem overall with this book is that everything but the H's passion and the h's fury is very ephemeral. I am still not quite sure what the h and her business partner even do and I have read this book three times.
The h also does a 180 in attitude from hating the H to being in love with him in half a paragraph. Which usually isn't a problem, except in this case there wasn't really a reason for it. It was like SH just got to the last 15 pages and realized she needed to get the h on board with lurvin' it up so they could have an HEA. It seemed like the h had carried too much resentment and anger against the H for too long for it to be resolved that quickly.
Still the HEA is pretty sweet and the H is obviously in love, so be happy the h is happy and call this one a win in the HP outing experience.
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May 19, 2024
God will there ever be a hot barrister HP that lives up to my hopes and expectations. This definitely wasn't one. Utter twaddle, non sequiturs of both plot and character aplenty. Kim and Con you were a terrible disappointment.
abrierto-to-read-hr-other
May 7, 2021She couldn't really blame Con
It wasn't his fault he'd made her feel this way. It was her own fault for loving him.
When she first met barrister Con Arlington, Kim didn't realize he was really Conan Arlington-Forbes, the man responsible for her mother losing her home, her living and all her dreams. Kim had held a grudge against him for five years.
Now she felt shattered--but Con couldn't understand the depths of her anguish. All he could see was their mutual attraction--and he just wouldn't give up.
It wasn't his fault he'd made her feel this way. It was her own fault for loving him.
When she first met barrister Con Arlington, Kim didn't realize he was really Conan Arlington-Forbes, the man responsible for her mother losing her home, her living and all her dreams. Kim had held a grudge against him for five years.
Now she felt shattered--but Con couldn't understand the depths of her anguish. All he could see was their mutual attraction--and he just wouldn't give up.
October 27, 2021
Too unreasonable, as for me. Too insta-love.
The heroine blames some random lawyer for her mother’s suicide. They spend a few days in France and suddenly it’s love.
The heroine blames some random lawyer for her mother’s suicide. They spend a few days in France and suddenly it’s love.
May 17, 2022
Good story but so s-l-o-o-o-o-w.
September 7, 2022
This is about a very, very smitten H and his relentless pursuit of the h.
The H is a lawyer. She hates him because in the past he was a lawyer for her father against her mother in court.
When I read a HP, I want to be ‘Wow’-ed by the H. And this H did exactly that. 🥰
He never lets a week go by without wanting to see her. He takes her hand when they walk. He says ‘sorry’ several times for the effect the lawsuit has had on her mother. And so much more. Wow.
And he did all this without being a doormat. He was still strong. He didn’t shrink into a shrimp.
Absolutely 5 stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The H is a lawyer. She hates him because in the past he was a lawyer for her father against her mother in court.
When I read a HP, I want to be ‘Wow’-ed by the H. And this H did exactly that. 🥰
He never lets a week go by without wanting to see her. He takes her hand when they walk. He says ‘sorry’ several times for the effect the lawsuit has had on her mother. And so much more. Wow.
And he did all this without being a doormat. He was still strong. He didn’t shrink into a shrimp.
Absolutely 5 stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 1, 2013
Start was so good and quickly escalated to childish crap and confusion
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