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Wedding Fever
He was about to marry another woman...Raine had fallen in love with Nick Marlowe, not knowing that the tall, brooding American was anything but available. It seemed their brief affair had been just his last-minute fling. Still, the experience had taught a valuable passion was deadly.She was about to marry another man...For a woman who'd been burned before, Kevin Somersby was the perfect catch. He wasn't passionate--he was safe. But just as she and Kevin were about to tie the knot, Nick Marlowe walked back into Raine's life. And this time he was single!
288 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1996
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Lee Wilkinson
260 books39 followersLee Wilkinson was born in Nottingham, the only child of loving parents. She was educated at an all-girls' school, and after leaving, tried her hand at several jobs, including modeling swimwear.
At 22 she met and married her husband, Denis. They had a traditional white wedding and a honeymoon in Italy, and have been happily married ever since. They have two children, a son and a daughter—both now grown up and married—and four lovely grandchildren.
Lee's writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She has had more than 20 Mills and Boon romance novels published to date.
Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking. Traveling is her main love, and teaming up with her daughter and American son-in-law, she and her husband spent a year going round the world, taking in India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the States.
Last year she rented a palazzo in the heart of Venice, followed by a quick hop aboard the Orient Express. Lee is currently saving up for a whirlwind tour of Japan, a romantic and exotic destination she has wanted to visit since childhood.
At present she lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which gets cut off by snow most winters
At 22 she met and married her husband, Denis. They had a traditional white wedding and a honeymoon in Italy, and have been happily married ever since. They have two children, a son and a daughter—both now grown up and married—and four lovely grandchildren.
Lee's writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She has had more than 20 Mills and Boon romance novels published to date.
Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking. Traveling is her main love, and teaming up with her daughter and American son-in-law, she and her husband spent a year going round the world, taking in India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the States.
Last year she rented a palazzo in the heart of Venice, followed by a quick hop aboard the Orient Express. Lee is currently saving up for a whirlwind tour of Japan, a romantic and exotic destination she has wanted to visit since childhood.
At present she lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which gets cut off by snow most winters
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April 26, 2019
Re Wedding Fever - Lee Wilkinson pulls out a favorite trope in this. The h is being misled by the H, as he is seriously involved with another woman.
The h and H meet when her father and she go to visit her father's estranged brother. The H is the h's uncle's adopted son - so these two are non-bio cousins.
They take one look at each other and it is the old insta lurve force mojo purple passion as they take a little trip to the H's luxurious cabin in Maine and the H relieves the h of her unicorn grooming license. The next day the H has left the h at his cabin alone while he takes care of business.
The h is romantically dreaming that she is in love and then the H's fiancee shows up. She is wearing the H's ring and explains when and how they got engaged, so the h quickly figures out the H wanted a pump and dump while his fiancee was off shopping and the h takes herself back to London.
The h goes home to her dad and promptly gets herself engaged to a dullard , who seems to be a nice guy and fairly safe, tho he is an utter prig. The H marries his fiance in the interim, until she dies and the H decides to go pick up where he left off with the h.
The H never explains why the h should give a nematode slime pustule cheater a second chance, he claims the h is an obsession and he has to abuse her body with the lurve club to work out. Then he blackmails the h into marrying him - using her father's supposed huge debts to force the h to sacrifice herself to save her dad and his business.
The h reluctantly marries the H, even tho she admits she still loves him and he drags her to off to the wilderness again, because the h refuses to play his tart for hire until he is bored with her.
There is some forced seduction sex and a lot of bickering as the H refuses to explain his reasons for marrying his first wife and the h resents being treated like a tart. The h makes an escape attempt that leads to more degrading forced sex with the H and more nasty H beratements.
Finally the h gets another chance to escape the wilderness and almost dies in the river instead. Then the H almost dies trying to rescue her and he finally admits it is time to call it a day on their marriage.
But in a perverse 180 personality change, the h decides she isn't leaving the H. There is more awkward seduction scenes and we learn that the h's father doesn't need the H's money, the whole blackmail scheme was a set up. In fact, the father practically blackmailed the to H marry and carry off the h, because he did not like the h's other fiance.
The h learns this in a letter from her father and when the H makes a big speech about going their separate ways, the h decides that the H can go out and sample any lady buffet piece he wants as long as he doesn't send her away.
We then learn that the H's first wife was his BFF's little sister and the H only married her because she was terminally ill and had a crush on the H. The h doesn't care, her love is enough for both of them. So the h begs the H to keep her around and the H, pleased that he got such an excellent doormat to use and abuse, he agrees with a pallid declaration of love and that is the HEA.
I don't understand why the H could not have show up at the h's after his wife died and just explained what happened and ya know, maybe actually courted the h. I also don't understand why all LW H's have to be coprophagic, abusive, rapist slime swillers until the last two pages of the book.
I don't even want to think about the h's sudden brain transplant, literally in the middle of a paragraph and even tho I had a triple Captain and Cookie Consult, I just couldn't buy into this HEA.
But if you like the old skool nematode H in the classic Margaret Pargeter/Lilian Peake style, this is a book for you and may you have a happy HP outing with it.
The h and H meet when her father and she go to visit her father's estranged brother. The H is the h's uncle's adopted son - so these two are non-bio cousins.
They take one look at each other and it is the old insta lurve force mojo purple passion as they take a little trip to the H's luxurious cabin in Maine and the H relieves the h of her unicorn grooming license. The next day the H has left the h at his cabin alone while he takes care of business.
The h is romantically dreaming that she is in love and then the H's fiancee shows up. She is wearing the H's ring and explains when and how they got engaged, so the h quickly figures out the H wanted a pump and dump while his fiancee was off shopping and the h takes herself back to London.
The h goes home to her dad and promptly gets herself engaged to a dullard , who seems to be a nice guy and fairly safe, tho he is an utter prig. The H marries his fiance in the interim, until she dies and the H decides to go pick up where he left off with the h.
The H never explains why the h should give a nematode slime pustule cheater a second chance, he claims the h is an obsession and he has to abuse her body with the lurve club to work out. Then he blackmails the h into marrying him - using her father's supposed huge debts to force the h to sacrifice herself to save her dad and his business.
The h reluctantly marries the H, even tho she admits she still loves him and he drags her to off to the wilderness again, because the h refuses to play his tart for hire until he is bored with her.
There is some forced seduction sex and a lot of bickering as the H refuses to explain his reasons for marrying his first wife and the h resents being treated like a tart. The h makes an escape attempt that leads to more degrading forced sex with the H and more nasty H beratements.
Finally the h gets another chance to escape the wilderness and almost dies in the river instead. Then the H almost dies trying to rescue her and he finally admits it is time to call it a day on their marriage.
But in a perverse 180 personality change, the h decides she isn't leaving the H. There is more awkward seduction scenes and we learn that the h's father doesn't need the H's money, the whole blackmail scheme was a set up. In fact, the father practically blackmailed the to H marry and carry off the h, because he did not like the h's other fiance.
The h learns this in a letter from her father and when the H makes a big speech about going their separate ways, the h decides that the H can go out and sample any lady buffet piece he wants as long as he doesn't send her away.
We then learn that the H's first wife was his BFF's little sister and the H only married her because she was terminally ill and had a crush on the H. The h doesn't care, her love is enough for both of them. So the h begs the H to keep her around and the H, pleased that he got such an excellent doormat to use and abuse, he agrees with a pallid declaration of love and that is the HEA.
I don't understand why the H could not have show up at the h's after his wife died and just explained what happened and ya know, maybe actually courted the h. I also don't understand why all LW H's have to be coprophagic, abusive, rapist slime swillers until the last two pages of the book.
I don't even want to think about the h's sudden brain transplant, literally in the middle of a paragraph and even tho I had a triple Captain and Cookie Consult, I just couldn't buy into this HEA.
But if you like the old skool nematode H in the classic Margaret Pargeter/Lilian Peake style, this is a book for you and may you have a happy HP outing with it.
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May 13, 2019
He was absolutely horrible but so smitten thus my dream hero!
June 21, 2018
I give it 3 stars, because there were some good things in it. The heroine Raine annoyed me by constantly trying to leave the hero, in the middle of nowhere. Three sequences, of her trying to escape a perfectly wonderful man! But their communication was so shallow, a little opening up would have helped.
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June 28, 2021
He was about to marry another woman…
Raine had fallen in love with Nick Marlowe, not knowing that the tall, brooding American was anything but available. It seemed their brief affair had been just his last-minute fling. Still, the experience had taught a valuable lesson: passion was deadly. She was about to marry another man…
For a woman who'd been burned before, Kevin Somersby was the perfect catch. He wasn't passionate he was safe. But just as she and Kevin were about to tie the knot, Nick Marlowe walked back into Raine's life. And this time he was single!
Raine had fallen in love with Nick Marlowe, not knowing that the tall, brooding American was anything but available. It seemed their brief affair had been just his last-minute fling. Still, the experience had taught a valuable lesson: passion was deadly. She was about to marry another man…
For a woman who'd been burned before, Kevin Somersby was the perfect catch. He wasn't passionate he was safe. But just as she and Kevin were about to tie the knot, Nick Marlowe walked back into Raine's life. And this time he was single!
April 22, 2012
Hero meets cousin, not related by blood because he's adopted and falls for heroine but hero is engaged to different girl, despite the fact he makes love with the heroine. When the heroine finds out she runs, meets a different man and has plans to marry him. Until the hero shows up and blackmails her into his marriage bed.
August 22, 2021
Lee Wilkinson's books are usually quite good but this one! I was going to leave 1 star because I disliked the characters, but realized it was incredibly well done, a winner when it made me so digusted I wanted to find the nearest boiling oil!
He's upset and angry and hurt because she won't speak to him, in fact fled the scene twice rather than seeing or talking to him. Hmmm. That doesn't sound very nice of her, does it.
The reason she doesn't want to see him is that she fell in love with him, enjoyed a rapturous week together in a remote Maine cottage, thought he loved her, then found out that he was engaged to another girl the entire time. I would have either hit him over the head with a 2x4 or run for the hills to avoid getting a murder rap too.
But does our hero ever apologize for this? Does he seem to think that just maybe he shouldn't be angry with her and want revenge on her for ignoring him? Nope, not this unbelievable master-of-the-universe wannabe. Instead he blackmails her into marriage, drags her back to the same remote cottage, forcibly seduces her, re-seduces her, re-re-seduces her, gets angry when she tries to leave, re-re-re-seduces her, gets angry when she runs again and he has to rescue her from the springtime high water creek rapids. He NEVER even acknowledges that he owed her anything or that she had a teensy bit or reason to be unhappy, or that he used her while betraying his fiancée.
Even that's not the capper. She goes along with it! She never throws it in his face that he made her complicit in betrayal too, that he used her, that he lied to her. Even if he did love her he needed to ask forgiveness, not to continually parade out his grievances while ignoring the truly monstrous evil he had done.
He's upset and angry and hurt because she won't speak to him, in fact fled the scene twice rather than seeing or talking to him. Hmmm. That doesn't sound very nice of her, does it.
The reason she doesn't want to see him is that she fell in love with him, enjoyed a rapturous week together in a remote Maine cottage, thought he loved her, then found out that he was engaged to another girl the entire time. I would have either hit him over the head with a 2x4 or run for the hills to avoid getting a murder rap too.
But does our hero ever apologize for this? Does he seem to think that just maybe he shouldn't be angry with her and want revenge on her for ignoring him? Nope, not this unbelievable master-of-the-universe wannabe. Instead he blackmails her into marriage, drags her back to the same remote cottage, forcibly seduces her, re-seduces her, re-re-seduces her, gets angry when she tries to leave, re-re-re-seduces her, gets angry when she runs again and he has to rescue her from the springtime high water creek rapids. He NEVER even acknowledges that he owed her anything or that she had a teensy bit or reason to be unhappy, or that he used her while betraying his fiancée.
Even that's not the capper. She goes along with it! She never throws it in his face that he made her complicit in betrayal too, that he used her, that he lied to her. Even if he did love her he needed to ask forgiveness, not to continually parade out his grievances while ignoring the truly monstrous evil he had done.
May 4, 2022
There was a possible good story in there but it didn’t have time to flourish. I don’t think the heroine was in the wrong, but the author tries to shame her for being “fiancé? Nope”, “blackmailed in to marriage? Annoyed and angry”. The hero would have been better if he wrote her a letter? Explained? Had her father explain? Just get the truth to her. What is she suppose to think? That this dude is insane and wants to hurt her! Yeah couldn’t be on his side cause he seemed kinda lazy. Eh skip, you’ll be disappointed at the good story that could have been written.
September 30, 2023
I feel both H and h are at fault
Him for not telling her about engagement before sleeping with her and her for not listening to the H(Not sure what it would have achieved but still) and then getting herself engaged to OM.
and later getting easily seduced by H.
Him for not telling her about engagement before sleeping with her and her for not listening to the H(Not sure what it would have achieved but still) and then getting herself engaged to OM.
and later getting easily seduced by H.
January 7, 2011
He was about to marry another woman...
Raine had fallen in love with Nick Marlowe, not knowing that the tall, brooding American was anything but available. It seemed their brief affair had been just his last-minute fling. Still, the experience had taught a valuable lesson: passion was deadly.
She was about to marry another man...
For a woman who'd been burned before, Kevin Somersby was the perfect catch. He wasn't passionate--he was safe. But just as she and Kevin were about to tie the knot, Nick Marlowe walked back into Raine's life. And this time he was single!
Raine had fallen in love with Nick Marlowe, not knowing that the tall, brooding American was anything but available. It seemed their brief affair had been just his last-minute fling. Still, the experience had taught a valuable lesson: passion was deadly.
She was about to marry another man...
For a woman who'd been burned before, Kevin Somersby was the perfect catch. He wasn't passionate--he was safe. But just as she and Kevin were about to tie the knot, Nick Marlowe walked back into Raine's life. And this time he was single!
April 16, 2009
Read the manga version. Cheesy, but that can be expected. At least I had some laughs while reading this.
October 12, 2013
Read the Harlequin Presents book.
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