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Bed of Roses
She was caught up in a dazzling world. Annis decided she had to sell her childhood home, an island jewel in the Caribbean. She needed the cash and resolutely called Drogo Wolfe. An attractive if eccentric millionaire, he'd once shown an interest in the property. Drogo's response, however, staggered her. He wasn't sure he wanted the island--but he definitely wanted Annis as his wife! Annis soon found he'd give her anything--anything, she realized painfully, except his love...
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First published March 1, 1981
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Anne Weale
224 books49 followersJay Blakeney
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
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June 20, 2017
This is a good old fashion read about a man seeing a naked young girl on the beach and setting out to trap her into marrying him.
She of course loves him and he says he does too. I am sure he does as he was so nice to her. However, she knows and meets his mistresses and she goes on about it!
For me it seemed like he only wanted her because she was virgin and he wanted a pure bride and mother for his kids.
I enjoyed it for its old school drama.
However, very little heat or sexual content.
Wouldn't read again but glad I read it.
She of course loves him and he says he does too. I am sure he does as he was so nice to her. However, she knows and meets his mistresses and she goes on about it!
For me it seemed like he only wanted her because she was virgin and he wanted a pure bride and mother for his kids.
I enjoyed it for its old school drama.
However, very little heat or sexual content.
Wouldn't read again but glad I read it.
September 10, 2024
Posh, yachting Hero spots nubile, wet dream heroine skinny-dipping in the Carribean sea, mermaid-like, as you do when you are a 19 year old girl living on a deserted island.
Two years later, the two of them meet on terra firma. The giant manwhore of Epic proportions hero makes his slimy move. The outraged, virginal heroine shoots him down hard. So he counters with a proposal for a marriage of convenience.
Gossip about one of his thousands of ex-mistresses lead to Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstandings, temporarily relieved by nights of hot sex. The heroine takes to "boudoir bouncing" (*nod to Boogenhagen*) like a...like...a...well, like aduck to water mermaid to the sea.
The ex-mistress shows up just in time to clear up the conundrum and save the day. Don't you just love it when the happiness of the H and h hinges on the OW's magnanimity?
This was okay for what it was but AW has written better. Heroine was kind of bland though I appreciated that she had a backbone, told the hero to jump off a bridge when he tried to get her to join his mistress stable, and even had a mercenary streak when she was considering the financial benefits of entering this MOC. No dithering, shaking hot mess here. She kept it calm and composed throughout, like most of AW's heroines.
As for the H, you will hardly get a better H name than Drogo Wolfe in Vintage Harlequin-land so one whole star just for that :)
Two years later, the two of them meet on terra firma. The giant manwhore of Epic proportions hero makes his slimy move. The outraged, virginal heroine shoots him down hard. So he counters with a proposal for a marriage of convenience.
Gossip about one of his thousands of ex-mistresses lead to Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstandings, temporarily relieved by nights of hot sex. The heroine takes to "boudoir bouncing" (*nod to Boogenhagen*) like a...like...a...well, like a
The ex-mistress shows up just in time to clear up the conundrum and save the day. Don't you just love it when the happiness of the H and h hinges on the OW's magnanimity?
This was okay for what it was but AW has written better. Heroine was kind of bland though I appreciated that she had a backbone, told the hero to jump off a bridge when he tried to get her to join his mistress stable, and even had a mercenary streak when she was considering the financial benefits of entering this MOC. No dithering, shaking hot mess here. She kept it calm and composed throughout, like most of AW's heroines.
As for the H, you will hardly get a better H name than Drogo Wolfe in Vintage Harlequin-land so one whole star just for that :)
March 30, 2022
Nothing wrong with this blackmail into marriage story, but I found it way too slow for my liking. Also, I'm not a fan of Anne Weale. So this may be a 'me' problem.
August 9, 2020
"Bed of Roses" is the story of Annis and Drogo.
Disappointing.
The book begins on a remote island, where the 19 year old heroine is sunbathing and frolicking nude on the island she owns with her recluse old father. The hero, a billionaire enters their life, wanting to buy the land. When her father refuses, he leaves, giving her a kiss and his card. 6 months later, her father passes away and the heroine moves to London, wanting to explore the world and survive on her own. She then runs out of money and is forced to ask the hero for help. But he does not want the island anymore, just her body and hand in marriage..
Oh man this could have been so good. The naive, unworldly heroine and the smitten, cynical hero is what I was expecting. Instead, the moment she gets married, she turns into this jealous, suspicious woman who doubts everything the hero says. He, on the other hand shows traces of possessiveness, but remains a general asshole most of the time. All he wants is sex and babies, and all she thinks is he is cheating on her. The resolution came too late and my teeth hurt with all that grinding.
My dismay is unparalleled.
SWE/Safe?
2/5
Disappointing.
The book begins on a remote island, where the 19 year old heroine is sunbathing and frolicking nude on the island she owns with her recluse old father. The hero, a billionaire enters their life, wanting to buy the land. When her father refuses, he leaves, giving her a kiss and his card. 6 months later, her father passes away and the heroine moves to London, wanting to explore the world and survive on her own. She then runs out of money and is forced to ask the hero for help. But he does not want the island anymore, just her body and hand in marriage..
Oh man this could have been so good. The naive, unworldly heroine and the smitten, cynical hero is what I was expecting. Instead, the moment she gets married, she turns into this jealous, suspicious woman who doubts everything the hero says. He, on the other hand shows traces of possessiveness, but remains a general asshole most of the time. All he wants is sex and babies, and all she thinks is he is cheating on her. The resolution came too late and my teeth hurt with all that grinding.
My dismay is unparalleled.
SWE/Safe?
2/5
June 30, 2022
Because I remember reading this when I was a teen, even if due to the opening scene, it deserves 3,5 stars!
February 14, 2010
Really dated, or should I say, antiquated Harlequin with a hysterical virgin and a smug, snobby millionaire who goes around saying such whoppers like 'Your sex likes a certain amount of force' to the heroine.(Pg.63)
I wanted to punch the hero in the face numerous times. The heroine wasnt any better since she was about as smart as a pile of hair, which is what she basically was.
I consider myself a fan of Anne Weale. She usually feature very ladylike heroines which I like for a change of pace since I prefer the unabashed sluts but this 1981 novel was way too much for me. I am going to stick with her work from the late 1980s onward when her heroines sometimes actually contemplated *gasp* premarital sex.
I wanted to punch the hero in the face numerous times. The heroine wasnt any better since she was about as smart as a pile of hair, which is what she basically was.
I consider myself a fan of Anne Weale. She usually feature very ladylike heroines which I like for a change of pace since I prefer the unabashed sluts but this 1981 novel was way too much for me. I am going to stick with her work from the late 1980s onward when her heroines sometimes actually contemplated *gasp* premarital sex.
October 20, 2013
Very enjoyable Vintage Harlequin. Heroine is an orphan who enters a marriage of convenience for financial security which I thought it was pretty outdated but somehow it works. He treats her like a princess but heroine is insecure because she was told her husband visited his mistress the night before their wedding. Hero is crazy about her but he feels guilty for marrying her and making her unhappy. So it's your typical "heroine thinks hero will never love her, hero thinks heroine wants a divorce" story.
Loved the heroine, she was a sweetheart and her insecurities didn't bother me. Hero was a very kind, gentle man and I could not help but root for these two. Their chemistry was intense and felt so real!
Loved the heroine, she was a sweetheart and her insecurities didn't bother me. Hero was a very kind, gentle man and I could not help but root for these two. Their chemistry was intense and felt so real!
April 17, 2010
Definitely a book that shows it's age. I went into this one with very low expectations and that is most likely why I was able to enjoy it. A bit sluggish in the middle, though. I did not understand the hero's reluctance to reveal the true purpose behind the visit to his former mistress on the night before the wedding. But overall, glad to have read it.
June 11, 2016
nice book. loved 'the tempest' feel of the plot at the very beginning before the story steered back to your regular harlequin tropes. and finally, a hero called Drogo! being a GOT fan i couldn't help thinking of the khal each time i came across his name (and also of Jason Momoa- who didnt quite fit in with the Drogo of this book) lol. three stars!
October 18, 2020
They say a picture says a thousand words and the h's facepalm face on the cover of this one says a lot.
Her H probably gives her many a migrane.
The h had quite a backbone in this one she really made the H work for her. She turned him down at the start and was totally down for a MOC. The H was pretty smitten from the get go, he just foolishly kept something he shouldn't have from his new wife. (Mainly that he helped an ex out the night before his wedding and miraculously she wasn't a witchy witch).
Vintage as its finest and the cover earns a star all of its own.
Her H probably gives her many a migrane.
The h had quite a backbone in this one she really made the H work for her. She turned him down at the start and was totally down for a MOC. The H was pretty smitten from the get go, he just foolishly kept something he shouldn't have from his new wife. (Mainly that he helped an ex out the night before his wedding and miraculously she wasn't a witchy witch).
Vintage as its finest and the cover earns a star all of its own.
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July 15, 2014
here's your typical MOC of older man wid a girl barely out of her teens. drogo was definitely a cradle snatcher and used annis's naivety to get her surrender. i really thought he offered marriage so he cud bed her. i was shocked to know he had loved her all along. it did not seem so. after having met her only twice in the interval of one year, he knew she was the one he wanted to spend his entire life wid!? i can excuse annis's infatuation. she was a virgin and these kind usually think it's love when they enjoy awesome sex wid a man! dunt miss it if u like besotted heroes trope;-)
March 30, 2022
Don’t remember anything about it. Must be forgettable
October 14, 2017
"Why did I ever need words when almost his every action was a clear sign of how he felt?"
Some of the wisest words spoken. Having read so many harlequins I feel sometimes the women in these books get too hung up waiting on the Hero to merely say 'I love you'. All the while ignoring the Hero's devotion and actions. As they say actions speak louder than words. I'm glad Annis was able to realize this.
Bed of Roses was a wonderful book to read and held all the elements I enjoyed. It had an engaging plot, the characters were likable and the book included little historical tidbits, which is always interesting. Our hero Drogo was definitely the best element of the book. He was an old-fashioned gentleman, well spoken, handsome and charming. Being old fashioned myself I thoroughly enjoyed his character, as well as Annis.
I would definitely recommend.
Some of the wisest words spoken. Having read so many harlequins I feel sometimes the women in these books get too hung up waiting on the Hero to merely say 'I love you'. All the while ignoring the Hero's devotion and actions. As they say actions speak louder than words. I'm glad Annis was able to realize this.
Bed of Roses was a wonderful book to read and held all the elements I enjoyed. It had an engaging plot, the characters were likable and the book included little historical tidbits, which is always interesting. Our hero Drogo was definitely the best element of the book. He was an old-fashioned gentleman, well spoken, handsome and charming. Being old fashioned myself I thoroughly enjoyed his character, as well as Annis.
I would definitely recommend.
April 12, 2019
Read this a long time ago, I just never did a review. I still won’t now except to mention that the heroine unapologetically married the Hero for his money. Gold digger to the max, but she was cool with it!
So Yey! She knew want she wanted and went for it. I also liked that she was academically inclined and bent on writing her own book. She knew if she married the Hero and he took care of all her financial needs, she could get on with her writing, so she did. 😂
So Yey! She knew want she wanted and went for it. I also liked that she was academically inclined and bent on writing her own book. She knew if she married the Hero and he took care of all her financial needs, she could get on with her writing, so she did. 😂
January 29, 2026
First off, this is one of AW's fairly unique tropes, almost her sole trope, in which: beautiful innocent girl has been raised in isolation on a desert island by an older father figure, when H shows up and falls for her, or rescues her, or in this case sends her a ham radio in case of trouble, and then several years later after said guardian passes away and she's back in England, they meet again.
Ok, problems: Hero was an absolute male chauvinistic filthy rich pig. He did not display any positive characteristics, and what few good "deeds" he did toward the heroine always turned out to have been someone else's idea.
He states things like "your sex likes a certain amount of force" and "you're all cave-women who would rather be dragged by the hair than treated with too much respect" and that if a woman is forcibly kissed by a man but responds, it's inviting rape, I mean sex. No, I mean rape. (me, the reviewer. Drago the idiothero doesn't really get the concept of enthusiastic consent and is frequently aroused by the h's active resistance to him)
Actually, there were more problems than anything else in this story. Also, it reallllllly dragged in the middle. Like, the H kept saying outrageous things that made me want to punch him, but at the same time I was bored, even while being infuriated and outraged.
What other sins did the H do?
When for some reason he decided he wanted to marry the h instead of r***ng her, he grabs a tame "lawyer" and convinces her that if she sells the island it will be eaten up with taxes. Now, the firm she hired to sell the island for her never said a word about this, and you'd think they might mention it. He manipulates, coerces, and intimidates her into his idea of a marriage of convenience: she gives him sex and babies, she gets to do whatever she wants otherwise.
Other issues with the book that aren't directly related to the hero: things and people get introduced, then discarded, plot threads appear and are never entirely resolved, conflicts the same: introduced, never resolved (for instance, someone warns h that the H will expect her to be his social coordinator, which she pooh-poohs; on the first day after their honeymoon he orders her to take over his social obligations, and then nothing is said about this after; the h is working on an interesting obscure history of a soldier during WWII, and after the H discovers her in some historical records office having her hand held by a man there, she drops the book that she actually MARRIED the H in order to have the time and money to complete, and it is never mentioned again.
Oh wait. It is mentioned again in passing at the last part of the book, where she decides that giving RichFaceBillionhole H what he wants is WAY more interesting and important than writing a dumb biography or keeping the island she grew up on, or even being married to RichFaceBillionHole. Which makes no sense but whatever.
Okay after reviewing this, my rating went from a 2.5 upped to a 3, to a 1.3 upped to a 2.
Can't really recommend this one.
Ok, problems: Hero was an absolute male chauvinistic filthy rich pig. He did not display any positive characteristics, and what few good "deeds" he did toward the heroine always turned out to have been someone else's idea.
He states things like "your sex likes a certain amount of force" and "you're all cave-women who would rather be dragged by the hair than treated with too much respect" and that if a woman is forcibly kissed by a man but responds, it's inviting rape, I mean sex. No, I mean rape. (me, the reviewer. Drago the idiothero doesn't really get the concept of enthusiastic consent and is frequently aroused by the h's active resistance to him)
Actually, there were more problems than anything else in this story. Also, it reallllllly dragged in the middle. Like, the H kept saying outrageous things that made me want to punch him, but at the same time I was bored, even while being infuriated and outraged.
What other sins did the H do?
When for some reason he decided he wanted to marry the h instead of r***ng her, he grabs a tame "lawyer" and convinces her that if she sells the island it will be eaten up with taxes. Now, the firm she hired to sell the island for her never said a word about this, and you'd think they might mention it. He manipulates, coerces, and intimidates her into his idea of a marriage of convenience: she gives him sex and babies, she gets to do whatever she wants otherwise.
Other issues with the book that aren't directly related to the hero: things and people get introduced, then discarded, plot threads appear and are never entirely resolved, conflicts the same: introduced, never resolved (for instance, someone warns h that the H will expect her to be his social coordinator, which she pooh-poohs; on the first day after their honeymoon he orders her to take over his social obligations, and then nothing is said about this after; the h is working on an interesting obscure history of a soldier during WWII, and after the H discovers her in some historical records office having her hand held by a man there, she drops the book that she actually MARRIED the H in order to have the time and money to complete, and it is never mentioned again.
Oh wait. It is mentioned again in passing at the last part of the book, where she decides that giving RichFaceBillionhole H what he wants is WAY more interesting and important than writing a dumb biography or keeping the island she grew up on, or even being married to RichFaceBillionHole. Which makes no sense but whatever.
Okay after reviewing this, my rating went from a 2.5 upped to a 3, to a 1.3 upped to a 2.
Can't really recommend this one.
December 28, 2019
Let me put it this way: Anne Weale writes way better than the author of Fifty Shades of Gray. Way better. She is also more believable.
I like her, generally. Her romances have depth and are well-plotted, and there’s a strong sense of her values in the novels. She took time with them, for the most part. She started in the late 50s and evolved with the times, as shown by her sex scenes! Her female characters are also really decent. Her male ones are, too, but some are too alpha for comfort—-lechers, but well-mannered ones in social situations.
Having said that, I suspended disbelief on this one. These being the 21st century, I found it appalling
that he invites the young, virginal, well-brought up heroine to discuss the possible sale of her island home, then proceeds to sexually harass her by running his hands all over her body. Not only was he a lecher, he was also a dumb, if gallant man. His former mistress calls for help on the evening right after his wedding, and he goes out to help her but refuses to tell his bride why he left, because he respects people’s confidentiality. So? Ex-Mistress’s confidentiality over his marriage? He seems to assume his wife can’t be trusted.
The saving grace is, he loved his wife deeply—-and that’s not always been the case of her millionaire heroes.
There are more interesting, novel scenes than usual in this novel of hers.
I like her, generally. Her romances have depth and are well-plotted, and there’s a strong sense of her values in the novels. She took time with them, for the most part. She started in the late 50s and evolved with the times, as shown by her sex scenes! Her female characters are also really decent. Her male ones are, too, but some are too alpha for comfort—-lechers, but well-mannered ones in social situations.
Having said that, I suspended disbelief on this one. These being the 21st century, I found it appalling
that he invites the young, virginal, well-brought up heroine to discuss the possible sale of her island home, then proceeds to sexually harass her by running his hands all over her body. Not only was he a lecher, he was also a dumb, if gallant man. His former mistress calls for help on the evening right after his wedding, and he goes out to help her but refuses to tell his bride why he left, because he respects people’s confidentiality. So? Ex-Mistress’s confidentiality over his marriage? He seems to assume his wife can’t be trusted.
The saving grace is, he loved his wife deeply—-and that’s not always been the case of her millionaire heroes.
There are more interesting, novel scenes than usual in this novel of hers.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 24, 2021
Other reviewers noted the hero is a male chauvinist who thinks a girl must say no to kisses unless she intends to say yes to everything and he makes obnoxious comments. Ignore that and we have a good story with characters we can relate to.
Once more author leaves the OM to wither away
Once more author leaves the OM to wither away
July 19, 2022
She marries him for his money. He marries her because he is besotted.
I don’t believe in her love for him. She fell in love with the rich, easy lifestyle his money provided. Gold-digger alert.
Enjoyable read. It felt a bit 19th century.
He is passionate and loving. 4 stars.
I don’t believe in her love for him. She fell in love with the rich, easy lifestyle his money provided. Gold-digger alert.
Enjoyable read. It felt a bit 19th century.
He is passionate and loving. 4 stars.
January 29, 2023
Hey, first part good..then..
Curse of the second half.
Yes No..Yes..No..between the female..geez
Weak cheesy plot.
Dumb wicked banter.
WTF did I just read??
Best review I can give on this one *sigh*
Curse of the second half.
Yes No..Yes..No..between the female..geez
Weak cheesy plot.
Dumb wicked banter.
WTF did I just read??
Best review I can give on this one *sigh*
March 9, 2024
Caramba, eu gostei. Essa mocinha soube pesar tudo do seu interesse, com um H rico, muito bom e apaixonado. Se não fosse a necessidade de ter um minimo de angústia, o livro teria acabado em poucas páginas. Bons personagens. História agradável. H dos sonhos.
January 20, 2022
Old fashioned 1070s H is a bastard classic. h is young and naive but no pushover.
February 18, 2026
It was a bit entertaining, somewhat annoying and altogether ridiculous! Too far-fetched even by Harlequin standards! Pretend you can believe anything while you read this.
November 14, 2022
She was caught up in a dazzling world.
Annis decided she had to sell her childhood home, an island jewel in the Caribbean. She needed the cash and resolutely called Drogo Wolfe. An attractive if eccentric millionaire, he'd once shown an interest in the property.
Drogo's response, however, staggered her. He wasn't sure he wanted the island--but he definitely wanted Annis as his wife!
Annis soon found he'd give her anything--anything, she realized painfully, except his love...
Annis decided she had to sell her childhood home, an island jewel in the Caribbean. She needed the cash and resolutely called Drogo Wolfe. An attractive if eccentric millionaire, he'd once shown an interest in the property.
Drogo's response, however, staggered her. He wasn't sure he wanted the island--but he definitely wanted Annis as his wife!
Annis soon found he'd give her anything--anything, she realized painfully, except his love...
July 25, 2023
This was a great book and I liked it more and appreciated the plot more the second time.
Everything you expect from a romance: Drama, angst, misunderstandings, romance pseudo other woman/other man.
l really enjoy the vintage HQN's!
Everything you expect from a romance: Drama, angst, misunderstandings, romance pseudo other woman/other man.
l really enjoy the vintage HQN's!
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