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One Christmas Night
A Sicilian Marriage by Michelle Reid
Sicilian billionaire Rafael Monteleone is determined to salvage his marriage. Nina doesn't want a Christmas reconciliation, but Rafael is very persuasive. How long will it be before they are back in their marriage bed making up for lost time?
The Italian's Blackmailed Bride by Jane Porter
Emily Pelosi has been trying to get her revenge on sexy Italian millionaire Tristano Ferre for five years. But now the tables have turned and Tristano is not letting Emily go until he gets all that he's owed.
The Sultan's Seduction by Susan Stephens
Lizzie Palmer is forced to spend Christmas with ruthless billionaire Kemal Volkan. Even though Lizzie has never experienced passion like this, she's determined to escape. But Kemal has other plans for Lizzie.
Sicilian billionaire Rafael Monteleone is determined to salvage his marriage. Nina doesn't want a Christmas reconciliation, but Rafael is very persuasive. How long will it be before they are back in their marriage bed making up for lost time?
The Italian's Blackmailed Bride by Jane Porter
Emily Pelosi has been trying to get her revenge on sexy Italian millionaire Tristano Ferre for five years. But now the tables have turned and Tristano is not letting Emily go until he gets all that he's owed.
The Sultan's Seduction by Susan Stephens
Lizzie Palmer is forced to spend Christmas with ruthless billionaire Kemal Volkan. Even though Lizzie has never experienced passion like this, she's determined to escape. But Kemal has other plans for Lizzie.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published December 5, 2006
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About the author
Michelle Reid
388 books637 followersHi, my name is Michelle Reid and I’ve been writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon for the last twenty years, and the crazy part about it is that I only realised it had been twenty years while updating this page!
So, hang on for a minute while I take this huge milestone in....
Twenty years with almost forty books published or in the pipeline ... I know it isn’t a great average when compared with some authors but it sounds pretty good to me!
So what was I doing twenty years ago before I wrote books? Well, I did the all of the usual things, like growing up and attending school, finishing at secretarial college, which I hated, then spent the next several years wandering aimlessly from job to job. Eventually I met my husband, we married and produced two daughters who then grew up and between them presented us with two gorgeous grandsons and one beautiful granddaughter. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Somewhere in between my girls growing up and the grandchildren arriving on the scene, I started writing. To this day I don’t know why, unless it was a natural progression from my never being without a book close by—often several—because books have always been an important part of my life for as far back as I can recall.
So, I started to write, by hand at first, scribbling short stories in notebooks which never saw the light of day. At some point I discovered Mills & Boon Romance books and that was pretty much it for me. I’d found my new love, as in reading romantic fiction and inevitably writing it too.
So twenty years on and almost forty books on, here I am still writing and still loving it!
So, hang on for a minute while I take this huge milestone in....
Twenty years with almost forty books published or in the pipeline ... I know it isn’t a great average when compared with some authors but it sounds pretty good to me!
So what was I doing twenty years ago before I wrote books? Well, I did the all of the usual things, like growing up and attending school, finishing at secretarial college, which I hated, then spent the next several years wandering aimlessly from job to job. Eventually I met my husband, we married and produced two daughters who then grew up and between them presented us with two gorgeous grandsons and one beautiful granddaughter. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Somewhere in between my girls growing up and the grandchildren arriving on the scene, I started writing. To this day I don’t know why, unless it was a natural progression from my never being without a book close by—often several—because books have always been an important part of my life for as far back as I can recall.
So, I started to write, by hand at first, scribbling short stories in notebooks which never saw the light of day. At some point I discovered Mills & Boon Romance books and that was pretty much it for me. I’d found my new love, as in reading romantic fiction and inevitably writing it too.
So twenty years on and almost forty books on, here I am still writing and still loving it!
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December 27, 2014
A lovely set of three festive romances to snuggle up with.
In A Sicilian marriage Nina and Rafael's marriage is floundering but it is all due to misunderstandings about situations on BOTH their parts and Nina's mother Louisa and her cousin Marisia's interfering is not helping matters.
Can they resolve things and set about a happy reconciliation in time for Christmas?
In The Italian's blackmailed bride Emily Pelosi finds herself at the mercy of her ruthless ex lover over the festive period when he blackmails her into spending it with him on a remote island. They have been enemies in business for years but will this enforced time together bring the love that simmers beneath the surface to the top again for it to flourish and grow into something other than enmity?
In the Sultan's seduction Lizzie arrives in Istanbul ready for a fight when she hears her brother is being "held" at the mercy of Kemal Volkan due to a mix up over business but when she arrives she is literally knocked off her feet by her instant attraction to Kemal.
She tries to fight it as she is very aware he is her enemy in getting her brother Hugo released in time for the holidays but has SHE also broken through the calm exterior of Kemal and is his restrained manner all an act?
Perfect, whimsical seasonal reading for the romantic at heart who enjoys their romances set in far flung locations.
Great for reading on a cold winter's day.
In A Sicilian marriage Nina and Rafael's marriage is floundering but it is all due to misunderstandings about situations on BOTH their parts and Nina's mother Louisa and her cousin Marisia's interfering is not helping matters.
Can they resolve things and set about a happy reconciliation in time for Christmas?
In The Italian's blackmailed bride Emily Pelosi finds herself at the mercy of her ruthless ex lover over the festive period when he blackmails her into spending it with him on a remote island. They have been enemies in business for years but will this enforced time together bring the love that simmers beneath the surface to the top again for it to flourish and grow into something other than enmity?
In the Sultan's seduction Lizzie arrives in Istanbul ready for a fight when she hears her brother is being "held" at the mercy of Kemal Volkan due to a mix up over business but when she arrives she is literally knocked off her feet by her instant attraction to Kemal.
She tries to fight it as she is very aware he is her enemy in getting her brother Hugo released in time for the holidays but has SHE also broken through the calm exterior of Kemal and is his restrained manner all an act?
Perfect, whimsical seasonal reading for the romantic at heart who enjoys their romances set in far flung locations.
Great for reading on a cold winter's day.
May 28, 2025
Review is for the middle story, The Italian's Blackmailed Bride by Jane Porter.
Nice revenge story that opens with the heroine being detained at an airport for counterfeiting luxury goods from hero's company. H/h fathers ran the company until heroine's father had a falling out with his partner, lost everything, and died by suicide. Since then the h has made it her life's mission to wreck havoc on hero's company.
The hero has her released into his custody for Christmas. They spend it at the childhood home of the heroine's (which hero now owns and is threatening to sell).
The hero stays cold and mysterious, while the heroine grieves all the injustices of the past five years. Hero just keeps kissing her and proposing marriage to "put the past behind her." The turning point comes when the h/H are deep sea diving and the heroine saves hero's life. She realizes she still loves him, etc . . .
It is only after she accepts his proposal, that the hero appologizes and explains how much his family regretted turning their backs on their former partners. So if too-little-too-late bothers you, then you might not enjoy this. But the angst is off the charts and the hero is old skool brutal - so give it a whirl if that is to your taste.
The first story, The Sicilian Marriage, by Michelle Reid is also good.
Nice revenge story that opens with the heroine being detained at an airport for counterfeiting luxury goods from hero's company. H/h fathers ran the company until heroine's father had a falling out with his partner, lost everything, and died by suicide. Since then the h has made it her life's mission to wreck havoc on hero's company.
The hero has her released into his custody for Christmas. They spend it at the childhood home of the heroine's (which hero now owns and is threatening to sell).
The hero stays cold and mysterious, while the heroine grieves all the injustices of the past five years. Hero just keeps kissing her and proposing marriage to "put the past behind her." The turning point comes when the h/H are deep sea diving and the heroine saves hero's life. She realizes she still loves him, etc . . .
It is only after she accepts his proposal, that the hero appologizes and explains how much his family regretted turning their backs on their former partners. So if too-little-too-late bothers you, then you might not enjoy this. But the angst is off the charts and the hero is old skool brutal - so give it a whirl if that is to your taste.
The first story, The Sicilian Marriage, by Michelle Reid is also good.
November 7, 2022
I reviewed the Michelle Reid novella under its own title, a lovely story that could have been better as a full length novel. This is the review of the Jane Porter novella The Italian’s Blackmailed Bride which I didn’t care for much. H could have stopped the problems years before by talking to the h. Instead he waited until they could prove counterfeit goods and pounced. What a guy.
December 5, 2016
This book is actually made up of three short stories - "A Sicilian Marriage" by Michelle Reid, "The Italian's Blackmailed Bride" by Jane Porter and "The Sultan's Seduction" by Susan Stephens. All three had me fully gripped and I struggled to put the book down - in fact I wished each story had been a whole lot longer!
In the first story Sicilian billionaire Rafael fights to recover his marriage but his wife is having none of it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) for her he can be very persuasive. In Porter's novella Emily has spent the majority of her career trying to ruin sexy Italian designer Tristano, whom she holds personally responsible for his father's death..."but now the tables have turned and Tristano is not letting Emily go until he gets all that he's owed...". 'The Sultan's Seduction' follows Lizzie who will do anything to get her younger brother home for Christmas, including using herself as collateral in a business deal with exotic billionare Kemal.
All in all a perfect little get-away read for the Christmas season.
In the first story Sicilian billionaire Rafael fights to recover his marriage but his wife is having none of it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) for her he can be very persuasive. In Porter's novella Emily has spent the majority of her career trying to ruin sexy Italian designer Tristano, whom she holds personally responsible for his father's death..."but now the tables have turned and Tristano is not letting Emily go until he gets all that he's owed...". 'The Sultan's Seduction' follows Lizzie who will do anything to get her younger brother home for Christmas, including using herself as collateral in a business deal with exotic billionare Kemal.
All in all a perfect little get-away read for the Christmas season.
July 28, 2013
The only story out of this book was the Michelle Reid - A Sicilian Marriage which is 5 stars. The Jane Porter - The Italian's Blackmailed Bride was barely okay, I did not see any love between the hero and heroine. I could not finish the Susan Stephens - The Sultan's Seduction. It is too bad that I cannot find the Michelle Reid book as an ebook. It came out on its own in UK but not the US.
December 23, 2016
This is 3 romance novels. The first one I liked quite a bit, the 2nd, I didn't care for at all, and the 3rd was just ok. It's the same old thing, one person hates the other, and they end up madly in love. I can't even figure out why I liked the first one so much more than the others. It was here, it was called Christmas Night, so I thought I should read it at Christmas time.
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