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Eve Robertson lives a quiet life in a secluded village, and she wants to put her turbulent past behind her. However, her newfound stability is threatened with the arrival of Jake Romero....
Jake is tall, dark and...dangerous--and he wants virginal Eve. His touch leaves her aching for more, but her secrets hold her back. But how long can she resist Jake's intense, exotic brand of seduction...?
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First published December 1, 2005
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Anne Mather
798 books357 followersAnne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
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July 7, 2016
2 Stars ~ Eve's from a troubled childhood and was rescued from Social Services by a grandmother she didn't know existed when she was 15. Her selfish mother had been a teenager when she was born, and she sold Eve to a couple who couldn't have children. It's now ten years since her rescue, and she's happy with the quiet life she leads with her grandmother. Though Eve's met her mother, it's a strained relationship, Eve wants nothing to do with Cassie nor is her grandmother receiving her home with open arms. Cassie is a self-absorbed quickly become has-been actress cum model, looking for a rich ride. She's set her sights on Jake, a younger man, who comes from an uber wealthy family and successful in his own right. Cassie maneuvers Jake to her mother's country estate, and immediately Jake realizes that Cassie isn't all that welcome. He's told by Cassie that Eve is just a distant relative, and though Cassie's mother is eager to spill the beans, Eve just wants to keep Cassie out of her way, so she plays along. Though Jake has used Cassie as an escort for some of his business functions, he's never moved their relationship into the bedroom, something Cassie wants very much. He finds Eve intriguing and can't understand the hostility she exudes whenever he's around. But she's not immune to him, he's sure of that. And then the whole truth comes out about her true identity, and he can't move fast enough to get away from both mother and daughter.
Ms. Mather's gives a story filled with secrets and lies, all at poor Eve's expense. The plot was compelling, with this odd love triangle - evil mother, abandoned daughter, confused bachelor. I wasn't sure what to make of Jake and his instant attraction to Eve. She tempts him, and when he learns of her traumatic past, he isn't sure how to handle her. Eve is confused herself, having been abused she's always been terrified of men, but Jake doesn't scare her. All through this is the sick evil mother. Strange story. It worked for the most part, but after the big black moment and Jake departs, it got rather strange when Eve ends up in his neck of the woods.
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March 3, 2018
Low on drama, surprisingly nothing happened it was slow moving story but the hero Jake was super sweet and very smitten with Eve. 4 stars because I liked this one despite it being very different from rest of Mather work.
February 17, 2015
A good story about a Eve, who got a raw deal in life due to the selfishness of the woman who gave birth to her.
Eve meets her hero Jake when her mother comes out to the country to visit. She believes Jake is her mother's lover and wants nothing to do with him.
Throughout the story I never got the feel that these two characters were really attracted to each other. There was sooo much "other stuff" going on that their relationship felt like it was a by product rather than the main story.
Of course it all works out in the end, but it left me a little dissatisfied.
Eve meets her hero Jake when her mother comes out to the country to visit. She believes Jake is her mother's lover and wants nothing to do with him.
Throughout the story I never got the feel that these two characters were really attracted to each other. There was sooo much "other stuff" going on that their relationship felt like it was a by product rather than the main story.
Of course it all works out in the end, but it left me a little dissatisfied.
October 25, 2015
Jake is driving Cassandra, a woman he is not sleeping with and has maybe dated a couple of times in the last six months, 300 miles to visit her mother in the country. Jake likes the English countryside because he’s a tourist, but he doesn’t seem to like Cassandra a great deal, and what the whole not sleeping with her, I can’t quite work out why he didn’t turn the car around for London when she finally dropped the 300 miles on him. It’s a good thing he didn’t, because at Cassandra’s mum’s house Jake meets Eve, the love of his life.
For reasons that will serve the plot but make very little sense, it’s somehow important that, while Eve is Cassandra’s mother, this is kept secret from Jake. It vaguely feels as though Eve is being treated badly, and needs someone to love her and rescue her from her wicked mother.
Cassandra isn’t really wicked, she just wasn’t that great at getting along with her family. Yes, she gave up baby Eve to a couple next door who seemed quite nice (but weren’t), and never told her mother that she’d had a baby until she had a medical scare and thought it might be a good idea to have Eve on hand if she needed a donor for something. While Eve observes early on that Cassandra and her mother are alike in their selfishness and stubbornness, the book makes it clear that Cassandra is mostly the villain, and everyone mostly likes the grandmother.
Eve is attracted to Jake, and tortures herself about falling for her mother’s boyfriend, and how she’d never get a boyfriend like Jake when someone as beautiful as her mother is around. She also has a hang-up about her deceased father, who was Cuban. This revealed as if it is some kind of stigma, and I don’t understand why. Racism, probably.
Eve is prickly. She teaches at the local school, looks after a nice old horse and her grandmother, but seems to do it all with this kind of cringing Cinderella~ishness that I didn’t understand. No one was taking advantage of her, and she didn’t need rescue. I didn’t think Eve was at all obliged to like her mother, because while objectively I don’t think Cassandra did anything wrong, I think Eve had the right to hate her. Sure, it would have been bad form to steal Jake for revenge, but Jake did most of the chasing, so Eve got to fall in love and only feel slightly dirty about it.
Jake’s family are rich and he’s rich and he lives in paradise. Apart from wondering what had attracted him to Cassandra in the first place, and what bent him so out of shape about not being told that Eve is Cassandra’s daughter (which, how is it his business what’s going on in their family anyway?), he comes across as a fairly pleasant and relatively low-key for a Harlequin Presents hero.
This was a fun read, but it didn’t always make a lot of sense.
For reasons that will serve the plot but make very little sense, it’s somehow important that, while Eve is Cassandra’s mother, this is kept secret from Jake. It vaguely feels as though Eve is being treated badly, and needs someone to love her and rescue her from her wicked mother.
Cassandra isn’t really wicked, she just wasn’t that great at getting along with her family. Yes, she gave up baby Eve to a couple next door who seemed quite nice (but weren’t), and never told her mother that she’d had a baby until she had a medical scare and thought it might be a good idea to have Eve on hand if she needed a donor for something. While Eve observes early on that Cassandra and her mother are alike in their selfishness and stubbornness, the book makes it clear that Cassandra is mostly the villain, and everyone mostly likes the grandmother.
Eve is attracted to Jake, and tortures herself about falling for her mother’s boyfriend, and how she’d never get a boyfriend like Jake when someone as beautiful as her mother is around. She also has a hang-up about her deceased father, who was Cuban. This revealed as if it is some kind of stigma, and I don’t understand why. Racism, probably.
Eve is prickly. She teaches at the local school, looks after a nice old horse and her grandmother, but seems to do it all with this kind of cringing Cinderella~ishness that I didn’t understand. No one was taking advantage of her, and she didn’t need rescue. I didn’t think Eve was at all obliged to like her mother, because while objectively I don’t think Cassandra did anything wrong, I think Eve had the right to hate her. Sure, it would have been bad form to steal Jake for revenge, but Jake did most of the chasing, so Eve got to fall in love and only feel slightly dirty about it.
Jake’s family are rich and he’s rich and he lives in paradise. Apart from wondering what had attracted him to Cassandra in the first place, and what bent him so out of shape about not being told that Eve is Cassandra’s daughter (which, how is it his business what’s going on in their family anyway?), he comes across as a fairly pleasant and relatively low-key for a Harlequin Presents hero.
This was a fun read, but it didn’t always make a lot of sense.
February 18, 2017
Boring no idea why I bought this!
January 11, 2018
431- وردة لا تموت--------- The Virgin's Seduction- ان ميثر
روايات احلام
كانت حياة ايف روبرتسون هادئة جداً و هي تعيش في تلك القرية المنعزلة. و لم يزعج هذا ايف , فهي كانت مسرورة لانها تركت ماضيها المؤلم خلفها . و لكن استقرارها هذا أصبح مهدداً مع وصول جيل روميرو. جيل طويل اسمر. و ذو جاذبيه خطيره. و هو يريد ايف و براءتها تجذبه اليها بقوه لا يستطيع مقاومتها .و أخذ قلب ايف يضعف , و لكنها كانت تعلم انها تلعب بالنار فهناك اشياء لا يمكنهاان تخبره بها دون ان تفتح ابواب الجحيم . و لكن الى متى يمكنها ان تقاوم غزو الحب !
روايات احلام
كانت حياة ايف روبرتسون هادئة جداً و هي تعيش في تلك القرية المنعزلة. و لم يزعج هذا ايف , فهي كانت مسرورة لانها تركت ماضيها المؤلم خلفها . و لكن استقرارها هذا أصبح مهدداً مع وصول جيل روميرو. جيل طويل اسمر. و ذو جاذبيه خطيره. و هو يريد ايف و براءتها تجذبه اليها بقوه لا يستطيع مقاومتها .و أخذ قلب ايف يضعف , و لكنها كانت تعلم انها تلعب بالنار فهناك اشياء لا يمكنهاان تخبره بها دون ان تفتح ابواب الجحيم . و لكن الى متى يمكنها ان تقاوم غزو الحب !
August 13, 2012
Read in May 2010.
The hero and heroine meet, the heroine dislikes the hero. The heroines mother causes some drama. The hero and heroine fall in love. The end.
The hero and heroine meet, the heroine dislikes the hero. The heroines mother causes some drama. The hero and heroine fall in love. The end.
November 1, 2017
This was so so.
there really isn't much to be expected from books like these. It is just like every other clichéd romance novel storyline out there. Abandoned girl, heartless mother, caring grandparent, intrigued and rich guy = happily ever after for the poor girl and the rich guy.
I did enjoy the moments of Eve and Jake interacting on the farm, that was nice and a little heartwarming. The actual romance part between Eve and Jake is so much lacking in sparks and passion, it feels like they are only together because the author decided they have to be. Romance wise, this is totally a dud.
Forgettable story, plain characters and cold romance.... yep definitely pass on this book.
there really isn't much to be expected from books like these. It is just like every other clichéd romance novel storyline out there. Abandoned girl, heartless mother, caring grandparent, intrigued and rich guy = happily ever after for the poor girl and the rich guy.
I did enjoy the moments of Eve and Jake interacting on the farm, that was nice and a little heartwarming. The actual romance part between Eve and Jake is so much lacking in sparks and passion, it feels like they are only together because the author decided they have to be. Romance wise, this is totally a dud.
Forgettable story, plain characters and cold romance.... yep definitely pass on this book.
January 11, 2018
431- وردة لا تموت--------- The Virgin's Seduction- ان ميثر
روايات احلام
كانت حياة ايف روبرتسون هادئة جداً و هي تعيش في تلك القرية المنعزلة. و لم يزعج هذا ايف , فهي كانت مسرورة لانها تركت ماضيها المؤلم خلفها . و لكن استقرارها هذا أصبح مهدداً مع وصول جيل روميرو. جيل طويل اسمر. و ذو جاذبيه خطيره. و هو يريد ايف و براءتها تجذبه اليها بقوه لا يستطيع مقاومتها .و أخذ قلب ايف يضعف , و لكنها كانت تعلم انها تلعب بالنار فهناك اشياء لا يمكنهاان تخبره بها دون ان تفتح ابواب الجحيم . و لكن الى متى يمكنها ان تقاوم غزو الحب !
روايات احلام
كانت حياة ايف روبرتسون هادئة جداً و هي تعيش في تلك القرية المنعزلة. و لم يزعج هذا ايف , فهي كانت مسرورة لانها تركت ماضيها المؤلم خلفها . و لكن استقرارها هذا أصبح مهدداً مع وصول جيل روميرو. جيل طويل اسمر. و ذو جاذبيه خطيره. و هو يريد ايف و براءتها تجذبه اليها بقوه لا يستطيع مقاومتها .و أخذ قلب ايف يضعف , و لكنها كانت تعلم انها تلعب بالنار فهناك اشياء لا يمكنهاان تخبره بها دون ان تفتح ابواب الجحيم . و لكن الى متى يمكنها ان تقاوم غزو الحب !
July 18, 2021
A whole bunch of consent issues. h is upset because another chap tries to kiss her. H consoles. h explains she doesn’t like to be touched so H kisses her. h knees H in the balls.
Later H comes to apologise for kissing her with innuendo and again kisses her instead.
This isn’t even an old book but it seems that if a man has “feelings” they can do what they want.
Later H comes to apologise for kissing her with innuendo and again kisses her instead.
This isn’t even an old book but it seems that if a man has “feelings” they can do what they want.
December 16, 2025
First Harlequin book. I first came across its manga adaptation while scrolling online. It was a one shot, but the plot impressed me as I don't normally see so many well-written one shots. It clearly shows that the author had put her effort into writing. So I searched for the original work. Unexpectedly fine.
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December 10, 2019DNF
February 22, 2025
Just an ok read
October 17, 2019
بالرغم من أن هذا الكتاب هو النوع النموذجي من انواع تلك الكتب الرومانسية "روايات احلام " وغيرها من الروايات المبتذلة ،وغير انه لا يحمل الكثير من الفائدة غير المتعة من قراءة هذه الكتب ..الا انه عزيز على قلبي ..اعتقد ان ذلك يرجع الى قراءتي له في فترة المراهقة بعد انقطاعي الطويل في عالم القراءة في مرحلة الطفولة من قصص المكتبة الخضراء و مجلات ماجد التي كان يشتريها لي والدي ،فمن الممكن ان اسميه نوعا ما من انطلاقه في التكملة بمسيرتي القرائية التي ابتدت من قصص الاطفال والى ما سيتبقى من عمري
الكتاب يتحدث عن فتاة تصارع موجة حب تتهرب منها لفكرتها ضد الحب وذلك بسبب تاريخها الحافل بمواقف لن تنساها بطفولتها والآن وبعدما مرت السنين وسكنها ببيت جدتها تأتي امها التي لا تحمل ادى ذر�� اهتمام بطفلتها التي تركتها للعالم حتى شبت وكبرت على مواقف قاسية جابهتها وحدها ،تأتي الام مع ضيف غير متوقع حضوره ابدا سيغير مجرى حياة ايف .
ربما سيسبب تقيمي صدمة لبعض القراء لهكذا حبكة عادية ولكنني كما قلت ستأخذ هذه الرواية نصيبها من التقييم بحكم عاطفتي الكاملة هذه المرة.
قراءة ممتعة🌸
الكتاب يتحدث عن فتاة تصارع موجة حب تتهرب منها لفكرتها ضد الحب وذلك بسبب تاريخها الحافل بمواقف لن تنساها بطفولتها والآن وبعدما مرت السنين وسكنها ببيت جدتها تأتي امها التي لا تحمل ادى ذر�� اهتمام بطفلتها التي تركتها للعالم حتى شبت وكبرت على مواقف قاسية جابهتها وحدها ،تأتي الام مع ضيف غير متوقع حضوره ابدا سيغير مجرى حياة ايف .
ربما سيسبب تقيمي صدمة لبعض القراء لهكذا حبكة عادية ولكنني كما قلت ستأخذ هذه الرواية نصيبها من التقييم بحكم عاطفتي الكاملة هذه المرة.
قراءة ممتعة🌸
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February 10, 2011
Sweet abused innocent wins the love of the man her evil, wicked mother covets.
July 24, 2013
Bad! I did not like this novel. Boring. The passion is at the end of the story. So boring. I don't recommend it you.
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