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The Alcolar Family #3
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Jake Taverner has never wanted a woman as he wants Mercedes Alcolar. So when she rejects him, Jake's hurt pride demands revenge!
Jake traps Mercedes into a fake engagement as he embarks on a skillful seduction. She'll share his bed for one passionate month, bound to him by blackmail....
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First published October 25, 2005
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Kate Walker
496 books148 followersI was born in Nottinghamshire, England, but I didn't live there for very long. The family moved to West Yorkshire when I was just eighteen months old and so I have always regarded Yorkshire as my home. I grew up there as the middle child in a family of five—all girls—in a home where books were vitally important and I read anything I could get my hands on.
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
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August 26, 2014الانتقام الأخير
لم يرد جاك تافرنر امرأة كما أراد مرسيدس ألكولارز لذا، عندما نبذته بطريقة مؤلمة، طالبته كبرياؤه المجروحة بالانتقام.
-ما الذي تريده تحديداً مني؟
هذه المرة، لم يتمكن جايك من كبح ابتسامته، بارتسمت على وجهه ابتسامة واسعة ماكرة.
آه، مرسيدس! ألم تكتشفي ما أريده بعد؟ ظننت أن الأمر واضح.
- ليس بالنسبة لي. عليك أن تتكلم بصراحة.
وهكذا فعل...
-ما أريده من كل هذا يا عزيزتي، هو أنت. أردتك منذ رأيتك للمرة الأولى... ولم يتغير الوضع. أريدك وأنوي الحصول عليك بأي طريقة كانت
لم يرد جاك تافرنر امرأة كما أراد مرسيدس ألكولارز لذا، عندما نبذته بطريقة مؤلمة، طالبته كبرياؤه المجروحة بالانتقام.
-ما الذي تريده تحديداً مني؟
هذه المرة، لم يتمكن جايك من كبح ابتسامته، بارتسمت على وجهه ابتسامة واسعة ماكرة.
آه، مرسيدس! ألم تكتشفي ما أريده بعد؟ ظننت أن الأمر واضح.
- ليس بالنسبة لي. عليك أن تتكلم بصراحة.
وهكذا فعل...
-ما أريده من كل هذا يا عزيزتي، هو أنت. أردتك منذ رأيتك للمرة الأولى... ولم يتغير الوضع. أريدك وأنوي الحصول عليك بأي طريقة كانت
September 24, 2012
I am happy that Kate Walker decided to write a series about a Catalan family. I think this is related to the fact of many people visiting my home town Barcelona. In the past, there were many stories with Spanish heroes, but from Madrid, Andalusia or living in Majorca.
I also must thank the author for the fact that the heroine has a name that is very usual in Catalonia: Mercedes (Mercè in Catalan). The Virgin of Mercy (Mercedes/Mercè) is the patron saint of Barcelona (We celebrate it today the 24th September). So this author has taken care that the story rings true in more aspects than the love story.
Apart from this, I like this revenge story that finally is no revenge at all, because the Hero, Jack Taverner, gets in deeper in deeper in his relationship with the heroine Mercedes Alcolar. She never acts as he expects. So he ends to be a hot-in-pùrsuit hero, what many of us readers like a lot.
It is also a good change to have a Catalan heroine instead of a Catalan hero and the usual English/American or Australian heroine. Moulds are to be broken as much as possible. Harlequin novels are translated and read in many different languages and countries.
I also must thank the author for the fact that the heroine has a name that is very usual in Catalonia: Mercedes (Mercè in Catalan). The Virgin of Mercy (Mercedes/Mercè) is the patron saint of Barcelona (We celebrate it today the 24th September). So this author has taken care that the story rings true in more aspects than the love story.
Apart from this, I like this revenge story that finally is no revenge at all, because the Hero, Jack Taverner, gets in deeper in deeper in his relationship with the heroine Mercedes Alcolar. She never acts as he expects. So he ends to be a hot-in-pùrsuit hero, what many of us readers like a lot.
It is also a good change to have a Catalan heroine instead of a Catalan hero and the usual English/American or Australian heroine. Moulds are to be broken as much as possible. Harlequin novels are translated and read in many different languages and countries.
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March 13, 2018He'll make her his mistress for revenge...Jake Taverner has never wanted a woman as much as he wants Mercedes Alcolar. So when she rejects him in the most painful way, Jake's hurt pride demands the most pleasurable revenge.....his mistress for a month! Jake traps Mercedes into a fake engagement as he embarks on his skillful seduction. She'll share his bed for one passionate month. But though he can bind her by blackmail...can he keep her?
May 10, 2017
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December 14, 2019
I liked the woman, but the man just kept on being a jackass for far, far too long.
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