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Innocent Stolen Brides #2
The Spaniard's Last-Minute Wife
She was a perfect stranger, and now she’s the billionaire’s wife…in this scandalous marriage romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews.
From uninvited wedding guest…
to emergency bride!
Librarian Geraldine Casey scrapes by while raising her late cousin’s infant daughter. So when she sees the announcement for Lionel Asensio’s lavish, no-expense-spared wedding, she drops everything…to go demand he take responsibility for the daughter she believes is his!
Sneaking into the ceremony, Geraldine is just in time to see the ruthless Spaniard being jilted. Her shocked, involuntary response is met with his furious, magnetic gaze… Perhaps that’s why, when Lionel leads her to the altar, still in need of a convenient wife, innocent Geraldine finds herself saying “I do”!
From Harlequin Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
Read all the Innocent Stolen Brides
Book 1: The Desert King's Kidnapped Virgin
Book 2: The Spaniard's Last-Minute Wife
From uninvited wedding guest…
to emergency bride!
Librarian Geraldine Casey scrapes by while raising her late cousin’s infant daughter. So when she sees the announcement for Lionel Asensio’s lavish, no-expense-spared wedding, she drops everything…to go demand he take responsibility for the daughter she believes is his!
Sneaking into the ceremony, Geraldine is just in time to see the ruthless Spaniard being jilted. Her shocked, involuntary response is met with his furious, magnetic gaze… Perhaps that’s why, when Lionel leads her to the altar, still in need of a convenient wife, innocent Geraldine finds herself saying “I do”!
From Harlequin Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
Read all the Innocent Stolen Brides
Book 1: The Desert King's Kidnapped Virgin
Book 2: The Spaniard's Last-Minute Wife
- GenresRomanceContemporary
182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 26, 2023
146 people are currently reading
44 people want to read
About the author
Caitlin Crews
1,094 books594 followersCaitlin Crews discovered her first romance novel at the age of twelve, in a bargain bin at the local five and dime. It involved swashbuckling pirates, grand adventures, a heroine with rustling skirts and a mind of her own, and a seriously mouthwatering and masterful hero. The book (the title of which remains lost in the mists of time) made a serious impression. Caitlin was immediately smitten with romances and romance heroes, to the detriment of her middle school social life. And so began her life-long love affair with romance novels, many of which she insists on keeping near her at all times, thus creating a fire hazard of love wherever she lives.
Caitlin has made her home in places as far-flung as York, England and Atlanta, Georgia. She was raised near New York City, and fell in love with London on her first visit when she was a teenager. She has backpacked in Zimbabwe, been on safari in Botswana, and visited tiny villages in Namibia. She has, while visiting the place in question, declared her intention to live in Prague, Dublin, Paris, Athens, Nice, the Greek Islands, Rome, Venice, and/or any of the Hawaiian islands. Writing about exotic places seems like the next best thing to actually moving there.
She currently lives in Oregon with her animator/comic book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.
Caitlin has made her home in places as far-flung as York, England and Atlanta, Georgia. She was raised near New York City, and fell in love with London on her first visit when she was a teenager. She has backpacked in Zimbabwe, been on safari in Botswana, and visited tiny villages in Namibia. She has, while visiting the place in question, declared her intention to live in Prague, Dublin, Paris, Athens, Nice, the Greek Islands, Rome, Venice, and/or any of the Hawaiian islands. Writing about exotic places seems like the next best thing to actually moving there.
She currently lives in Oregon with her animator/comic book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.
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September 23, 2023
This miniseries phenomenally, implausibly and incomprehensibly incredible but I liked them! Lol
September 16, 2024
There's a fine line between Presents Logic and Completely Preposterous, and the plot of this one definitely crosses that line. There's not enough dialogue between our couple for the first half to convince me they're catching feelings, but the last handful of chapters really picked up steam and by the end of it I was convinced they were in love. Also, kudos to the author for not writing a typical Presents Third Act Break-Up.
September 28, 2025
I was intrigued by the premise and then the book lost me in the first chapter.
Because the h sneaks into H's wedding in Italy, I think, because she's convinced he's the father of her relative's new baby (can't remember the relation, trying to purge this book from my memory).
H gets jilted at the altar. h laughs, so H declares he will marry her. They are married. That's not how that works! In medieval times you just had to make promises. Now you need things like marriage licenses and IDs. But the priest marries them. The string holding my suspension of disbelief broke.
This book made no sense, so I ended up skimming it and skipped to the end.
Ridiculous.
Because the h sneaks into H's wedding in Italy, I think, because she's convinced he's the father of her relative's new baby (can't remember the relation, trying to purge this book from my memory).
H gets jilted at the altar. h laughs, so H declares he will marry her. They are married. That's not how that works! In medieval times you just had to make promises. Now you need things like marriage licenses and IDs. But the priest marries them. The string holding my suspension of disbelief broke.
This book made no sense, so I ended up skimming it and skipped to the end.
Ridiculous.
October 5, 2023
Didn't quite hit the mark
Although it was slightly better than other books, this one also tended to get bogged down in thought life. Conversation was choppy. The flow of the book moved along nicely but it was a stretch with the whole premise of the story. I always felt that I wanted to slap her on the head and say, "spit it out!" I was waiting for the conflict but it was once again just a therapy session. I get characters should have something to overcome but not always and to be repetitive just drags the book down.
Plus, thought I had found a true plain heroine, started out that he was intrigued by her personality and then BANG she has a makeover and she's literally gorgeous. Not just in his eyes but the real deal.
When are authors going to have a strong, smart, funny heroine who's plain and stays that way but draws the hero to her. Tired of only gorgeous, beautiful heroines.
Not much of side characters as well. Story pretty much stayed in limited locations and not many other characters.
Although it was slightly better than other books, this one also tended to get bogged down in thought life. Conversation was choppy. The flow of the book moved along nicely but it was a stretch with the whole premise of the story. I always felt that I wanted to slap her on the head and say, "spit it out!" I was waiting for the conflict but it was once again just a therapy session. I get characters should have something to overcome but not always and to be repetitive just drags the book down.
Plus, thought I had found a true plain heroine, started out that he was intrigued by her personality and then BANG she has a makeover and she's literally gorgeous. Not just in his eyes but the real deal.
When are authors going to have a strong, smart, funny heroine who's plain and stays that way but draws the hero to her. Tired of only gorgeous, beautiful heroines.
Not much of side characters as well. Story pretty much stayed in limited locations and not many other characters.
October 10, 2024
Bought this because it is an MOC and was surprised how much I liked it despite almost no plot and yet another H tortured by selfish parents into rejecting emotions. (I’m tired, very tired of that excuse.)
Reread, liked better, plot is whack a doodle. H falls for h AFTER h has a makeover, a massive fail.
Reread, liked better, plot is whack a doodle. H falls for h AFTER h has a makeover, a massive fail.
September 25, 2025
Such an awful book that I couldn’t even read the last chapter. Lionel is such a jerk of a control freak from the beginning, and a lot of the choices the characters made in this book didn’t even hold any logic to them.
1. Why did Geraldine chase this guy all the way around the world just because she ASSUMED he was the father of her cousin’s baby.
2. Why was he getting married in Italy if he was from Spain?
3. Wouldn’t he have to have a license to marry Geraldine?
4. Why was she so naive to marry some guy that she never met before? It wasn’t a customary arranged marriage in her own culture for her.
5. If he is such a high and mighty businessman, wouldn’t he want to know the person he was marrying before saying “I do.”
6. He forced Geraldine to marry in order to make his GRANDMOTHER happy? What about the two people who actually had to spend the rest of their lives being married to each other? What about their happiness rather than some old woman who wouldn’t live forever anyway?
None of this made any sense. And I found Lionel totally unlikeable.
1. Why did Geraldine chase this guy all the way around the world just because she ASSUMED he was the father of her cousin’s baby.
2. Why was he getting married in Italy if he was from Spain?
3. Wouldn’t he have to have a license to marry Geraldine?
4. Why was she so naive to marry some guy that she never met before? It wasn’t a customary arranged marriage in her own culture for her.
5. If he is such a high and mighty businessman, wouldn’t he want to know the person he was marrying before saying “I do.”
6. He forced Geraldine to marry in order to make his GRANDMOTHER happy? What about the two people who actually had to spend the rest of their lives being married to each other? What about their happiness rather than some old woman who wouldn’t live forever anyway?
None of this made any sense. And I found Lionel totally unlikeable.
June 14, 2024
I didn't like it. The plot was ludicrous and I didn't care about the characters all that much.
Them marrying almost immediately after meeting was so unbelievable to me. I get she was kind of confused what was happening, but it's in no way believeable that with what she believed about him (that he was the father of her cousins baby and abandoned them ruthlessly) that she would agree to marrying him.
Also quite unbelievable that the hero would marry an absolute stranger (one he thought so ugly), so quickly without even getting some kind of agreement.
It makes no sense that she stayed with him and agreed to be married til his grandmother died, there was no incentive for her to stay married to him. Also there seemed to be no real reason why he needed a wife when his grandmother kind of knew it wasn't a real marriage (at first). P.
Them marrying almost immediately after meeting was so unbelievable to me. I get she was kind of confused what was happening, but it's in no way believeable that with what she believed about him (that he was the father of her cousins baby and abandoned them ruthlessly) that she would agree to marrying him.
Also quite unbelievable that the hero would marry an absolute stranger (one he thought so ugly), so quickly without even getting some kind of agreement.
It makes no sense that she stayed with him and agreed to be married til his grandmother died, there was no incentive for her to stay married to him. Also there seemed to be no real reason why he needed a wife when his grandmother kind of knew it wasn't a real marriage (at first). P.
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October 14, 2023
Lionel and Geraldine’s story ( book 2 in the Innocent Stolen Brides series) was absolutely incredible. Geraldine was so strong, independent and passionate, only looking out for her baby niece and highly unimpressed by Lionel. Lionel has closed himself off from emotion, loving only his grandmother who wants to see him married. Although Geraldine and Lionel’s marriage began with Geraldine laughing at his misfortune in losing his first convent wife to another, soon the passion they ignite together cannot be denied, real, raw emotions and love spill over. This was just such an engaging and delicious story that I couldn’t put it down until the end.
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March 29, 2024Librarian Geraldine Casey scrapes by while raising her late cousin’s infant daughter. So when she sees the announcement for Lionel Asensio’s lavish, no-expense-spared wedding, she drops everything…to go demand he take responsibility for the daughter she believes is his!
Sneaking into the ceremony, Geraldine is just in time to see the ruthless Spaniard being jilted. Her shocked, involuntary response is met with his furious, magnetic gaze… Perhaps that’s why, when Lionel leads her to the altar, still in need of a convenient wife, innocent Geraldine finds herself saying “I do”!
Sneaking into the ceremony, Geraldine is just in time to see the ruthless Spaniard being jilted. Her shocked, involuntary response is met with his furious, magnetic gaze… Perhaps that’s why, when Lionel leads her to the altar, still in need of a convenient wife, innocent Geraldine finds herself saying “I do”!
October 28, 2023
I actually enjoyed this story more than it's predecessor. It was less dark, with a bit more humor and less painful moments inflicted intentionally by the "hero" on his wife. Lionel and Geraldine were and interesting pair and I liked their story and it was MUCH better edited 🤦♀️
November 15, 2023
I am forcing myself to read this book because I bought it. But I can’t stand the book! It has very undeveloped characters. A bad plot. It just drags. I want to just throw it away. Not buying any more books from this author.
February 25, 2024
A good read.
I enjoyed this novel, it is well written and at a length I prefer to read, it kept my interest throughout.
I would have liked more details about the tying up of the loose ends regarding the legal side of the marriage ceremony.
I enjoyed this novel, it is well written and at a length I prefer to read, it kept my interest throughout.
I would have liked more details about the tying up of the loose ends regarding the legal side of the marriage ceremony.
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September 18, 2023
This story makes absolutely no sense...has absolutely no sense.
September 27, 2023
Unbelievable? Yes. Still a fun and entertaining read regardless? Also yes. :)
March 3, 2024
Good book
April 19, 2024
Beautiful love story
This is one of the best ho ones I’ve ever read probably because the heroine was not a wilting flower, and the hero was never cruel.
This is one of the best ho ones I’ve ever read probably because the heroine was not a wilting flower, and the hero was never cruel.
November 29, 2024
Seriously, what's with the too-much-inner-monologue???????????
July 6, 2025
I loved the dynamic between this couple and loved his grandma, feisty lady. Our broken hero is selfish and uncaring on the surface, but once you dig a little deeper he is a total sweetheart.
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