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The Secret Mother
NANNY WANTED
Job: To look after three-year-old Caitlin--cute and cuddly, she's in need of lots of tender loving care and mothering....
"Special" Qualifications: Matthew is looking for one nanny in particular--Caroline Smith. He's a man with a mission and will stop at nothing to get his own way. So what is he looking for--a nanny, a mother, or is it perhaps a wife?
Live-in or daily? Live-in. A nanny who will be there day "and" night--if required.
Length of stay: Forever--marriage perhaps...
"Please enclose a resume.
Job: To look after three-year-old Caitlin--cute and cuddly, she's in need of lots of tender loving care and mothering....
"Special" Qualifications: Matthew is looking for one nanny in particular--Caroline Smith. He's a man with a mission and will stop at nothing to get his own way. So what is he looking for--a nanny, a mother, or is it perhaps a wife?
Live-in or daily? Live-in. A nanny who will be there day "and" night--if required.
Length of stay: Forever--marriage perhaps...
"Please enclose a resume.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 1997
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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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January 24, 2019
Re The Secret Mother - Lee Wilkinson kicks off the Nanny Wanted series with this angst fest trainwreck dumped in an avalanche and wrapped in a typhoon of a book.
I am very tempted to believe that LW kept two altars to Margaret Pargeter and Lilian Peake in her basement and she liberally spread the worshipful libations every time she sat down to write a book.
To put it blunty, LW heroes are CRUEL, they are straight out coprophagic slime slurpers right out of the 1970's violently abusive H HPlandia and LW adores them, even tho they are ALWAYS 100% WRONG about EVERYTHING and EVIL in their vindictiveness.
Other HP authors can do a cruel H, but they usually managed to at least semi-redeem them by the end and I can honestly attest that LW never does.
LW also LOVES to put her heroines through the wringer, tho she does eventually give them an HEA. But because it is with such an unredeemable, evilly persecuting hero, her HEA's always come across as more of a life sentence and I am almost sure LW's poor h's are praying for death, destruction and the end of civilization three pages after the book closes.
However, LW does have a talent for serious angst, she presents the most heartrendingly sad backstories and traumas for her heroines that it would take a harder heart than my admittedly stony one to not be happy that at least the h thinks she is happy by the end of a LW book.
This book is a perfect textbook case. When the book starts the h is losing her long time nanny position and being sent to be interviewed for another job. The h's backstory is that five years earlier, the h came to NYC from England hoping to find a nanny position.
But she had no experience and even tho she eventually got a job, she also met a effeminate, broody young man who seemed intent on marrying her. She had no intention of marrying him, she wasn't in love with him and he never really turned her on.
But when he takes the h to meet his very over-managing mother, he introduces the h as his fiancee. The h, being a doormat of the first order and overly polite to boot, lets the deception stand. Until she meets the broody young man's older brother and falls head over heels into love and a huge lurve club event with him.
Then the broody brother presses his suite and lies about the h being his fiancee to the H. The H gets furious and dumps the h, calling her a gold digger trampy tart and then all hell breaks loose, the H finds and proposes to another woman.
The broody young man is gay and his mother is a snot licking gutter snot pustule who refuses to accept any reality and demands that her favorite son marry and provide her narcissistic snot snarfing hiney with a grandchild.
The h by this time is preggers with the H's child and he isn't even acknowledging her existence, so she ends up marrying the broody gay guy in desperation.
Broody guy eventually finds out he has cancer, so he goes to a party and gets drunk, the h had to drive them home and he was too drunk to put on his seat belt. There is a major car wreck and the h is in a coma for five months with a skull fracture. Broody guy dies, the h gives birth while comatose and the coprophagic snot snarfing mother in law takes the baby.
The H is engaged by the time the h is out of the coma and the snot snarfing conniving witch of a mother in law tells the h that she can't take care of the baby and that she will essentially be a supplicant dependent on the H to care for her own child.
The mother in law deliberately arranged things that way by dumping the h's possessions and flat and then pulling a guilt trip act to get her own way. The slime gulper claims she is just looking out for the h, but honestly the woman was a sociopath narcissist intent on her personal mission of getting the baby to herself.
She lies to the h that the H's new fiancee is infertile and begs the h, who is badly scarred and physically deteriorated, to let the newly engaged couple care for and adopt the child. The h is too defeated to fight and knowing that her daughter is better off with physically and materially able people to care for her, she lets the narcissistic snot gulper have the girl and the h goes to a homeless mission to have a place to stay.
There she meets some kind employers who have twins and she becomes their nanny. The husband of the family is a plastic surgeon, so he fixes the h's look and she looks completely different now. In the story present, she is hired to work for the H, the bovine narcissist mother in law died earlier and the H's engagement ended badly.
The first time the h sees her little girl, she is three years old and the plot moppet takes to the h right away. Thus starts the trials and tribulations of a punishing H. (Who has been tracking the h via her credit cards all this time, which was weird as the h was really poor, but LW needed a way to make the plot work, so just roll with it.)
He knows who the h is, even tho her looks have changed and we get four of five chapters of abusive sex, beratements, belittlement's, possessive tirades and threats along with cat and mouse games as the still furious H maneuvers the h into a life prison sentence of marriage. To celebrate the occasion, he literally locks a collar around her throat.
The h endures and still manages to convince herself that she is in love with the H, until a near fatal accident seriously injures the h's shoulder and the H finally realizes that they have to talk when he has a terrible tirade against a man who tries to help the h.
The h explains about being in a coma and giving birth, plus the tragic circumstances of her husband's death and his sexuality and what happened after. The H is shocked, the snot sniffing narcissist mother told him the h was injured and he paid for her hospital stay, but he had no idear that it was that serious and he never bothered to check.
(Mostly because the H was too busy pouting that the h had married his step-brother and also cutting a wide swath through the lady buffet, before picking one out to marry, until she turned out to be more expensive than being able to bully and harass the h.)
Then the narcissist sociopath mother, (the H's step mother actually,) told the H that the h just abandoned her daughter. So the H has been punishing the h for all this time for picking his brother over him and damaging his ego and then abandoning her daughter and being a bad mother.
The H then admits he only picked her out to punish her and because he felt he should condescend enough to give her a second chance to be a servant to him and her daughter. But the H does have a smidgen of remorse for his bad treatment and for his step family essentially ruining the h's life, so he offers to let the h leave with her child and he will support them.
(The H also explains that he read the h's parting note to broody guy when the h was kicked out the first time, so he believes that she wasn't with the brother when she slept with him. But apparently it wasn't enough for him to quit sulking and actually go check on the h when she had the accident.)
The h refuses the offer for her independence, explaining that the little girl is also the H's child and she still loves him. The H arrogantly accepts it as his rightful due and leads the h off for more violent lurve club events and that is the HEA.
Overall the angst in this is fabulous and epic and worth five stars. The villainy of the H and the truly evil mother is also a five star extravaganza.
(Tho I personally feel that the H needed to be locked in a dark alley with a group of lust crazed rampaging donkeys and the narcissist mother needed to be burned at the stake, multiple times and in excruciatingly painful ways.)
The poor pathetic h is so mistreated and abused that I can only feel sorry for her and her HEA, but at least she has her child now and thinks she has got a prize in the H.
( I am just practicing my gratitude that I did not keel over from the multiple Captain Consults I participated in during the reading of this.)
So in Captain inspired HP math I am rating it a three, pathetically grateful that I can call it a day on this utterly whacktastic HP outing, with a very dubious HEA.
Also, I can only warn others who contemplate this HP voyage to bring serious brain numbing supplies. Should you decide to attempt this, may the HP deities care for and shelter you and may the rosy glasses be turned up to magnified 1 billion x, if you persevere and make it to the HEA.
I am very tempted to believe that LW kept two altars to Margaret Pargeter and Lilian Peake in her basement and she liberally spread the worshipful libations every time she sat down to write a book.
To put it blunty, LW heroes are CRUEL, they are straight out coprophagic slime slurpers right out of the 1970's violently abusive H HPlandia and LW adores them, even tho they are ALWAYS 100% WRONG about EVERYTHING and EVIL in their vindictiveness.
Other HP authors can do a cruel H, but they usually managed to at least semi-redeem them by the end and I can honestly attest that LW never does.
LW also LOVES to put her heroines through the wringer, tho she does eventually give them an HEA. But because it is with such an unredeemable, evilly persecuting hero, her HEA's always come across as more of a life sentence and I am almost sure LW's poor h's are praying for death, destruction and the end of civilization three pages after the book closes.
However, LW does have a talent for serious angst, she presents the most heartrendingly sad backstories and traumas for her heroines that it would take a harder heart than my admittedly stony one to not be happy that at least the h thinks she is happy by the end of a LW book.
This book is a perfect textbook case. When the book starts the h is losing her long time nanny position and being sent to be interviewed for another job. The h's backstory is that five years earlier, the h came to NYC from England hoping to find a nanny position.
But she had no experience and even tho she eventually got a job, she also met a effeminate, broody young man who seemed intent on marrying her. She had no intention of marrying him, she wasn't in love with him and he never really turned her on.
But when he takes the h to meet his very over-managing mother, he introduces the h as his fiancee. The h, being a doormat of the first order and overly polite to boot, lets the deception stand. Until she meets the broody young man's older brother and falls head over heels into love and a huge lurve club event with him.
Then the broody brother presses his suite and lies about the h being his fiancee to the H. The H gets furious and dumps the h, calling her a gold digger trampy tart and then all hell breaks loose, the H finds and proposes to another woman.
The broody young man is gay and his mother is a snot licking gutter snot pustule who refuses to accept any reality and demands that her favorite son marry and provide her narcissistic snot snarfing hiney with a grandchild.
The h by this time is preggers with the H's child and he isn't even acknowledging her existence, so she ends up marrying the broody gay guy in desperation.
Broody guy eventually finds out he has cancer, so he goes to a party and gets drunk, the h had to drive them home and he was too drunk to put on his seat belt. There is a major car wreck and the h is in a coma for five months with a skull fracture. Broody guy dies, the h gives birth while comatose and the coprophagic snot snarfing mother in law takes the baby.
The H is engaged by the time the h is out of the coma and the snot snarfing conniving witch of a mother in law tells the h that she can't take care of the baby and that she will essentially be a supplicant dependent on the H to care for her own child.
The mother in law deliberately arranged things that way by dumping the h's possessions and flat and then pulling a guilt trip act to get her own way. The slime gulper claims she is just looking out for the h, but honestly the woman was a sociopath narcissist intent on her personal mission of getting the baby to herself.
She lies to the h that the H's new fiancee is infertile and begs the h, who is badly scarred and physically deteriorated, to let the newly engaged couple care for and adopt the child. The h is too defeated to fight and knowing that her daughter is better off with physically and materially able people to care for her, she lets the narcissistic snot gulper have the girl and the h goes to a homeless mission to have a place to stay.
There she meets some kind employers who have twins and she becomes their nanny. The husband of the family is a plastic surgeon, so he fixes the h's look and she looks completely different now. In the story present, she is hired to work for the H, the bovine narcissist mother in law died earlier and the H's engagement ended badly.
The first time the h sees her little girl, she is three years old and the plot moppet takes to the h right away. Thus starts the trials and tribulations of a punishing H. (Who has been tracking the h via her credit cards all this time, which was weird as the h was really poor, but LW needed a way to make the plot work, so just roll with it.)
He knows who the h is, even tho her looks have changed and we get four of five chapters of abusive sex, beratements, belittlement's, possessive tirades and threats along with cat and mouse games as the still furious H maneuvers the h into a life prison sentence of marriage. To celebrate the occasion, he literally locks a collar around her throat.
The h endures and still manages to convince herself that she is in love with the H, until a near fatal accident seriously injures the h's shoulder and the H finally realizes that they have to talk when he has a terrible tirade against a man who tries to help the h.
The h explains about being in a coma and giving birth, plus the tragic circumstances of her husband's death and his sexuality and what happened after. The H is shocked, the snot sniffing narcissist mother told him the h was injured and he paid for her hospital stay, but he had no idear that it was that serious and he never bothered to check.
(Mostly because the H was too busy pouting that the h had married his step-brother and also cutting a wide swath through the lady buffet, before picking one out to marry, until she turned out to be more expensive than being able to bully and harass the h.)
Then the narcissist sociopath mother, (the H's step mother actually,) told the H that the h just abandoned her daughter. So the H has been punishing the h for all this time for picking his brother over him and damaging his ego and then abandoning her daughter and being a bad mother.
The H then admits he only picked her out to punish her and because he felt he should condescend enough to give her a second chance to be a servant to him and her daughter. But the H does have a smidgen of remorse for his bad treatment and for his step family essentially ruining the h's life, so he offers to let the h leave with her child and he will support them.
(The H also explains that he read the h's parting note to broody guy when the h was kicked out the first time, so he believes that she wasn't with the brother when she slept with him. But apparently it wasn't enough for him to quit sulking and actually go check on the h when she had the accident.)
The h refuses the offer for her independence, explaining that the little girl is also the H's child and she still loves him. The H arrogantly accepts it as his rightful due and leads the h off for more violent lurve club events and that is the HEA.
Overall the angst in this is fabulous and epic and worth five stars. The villainy of the H and the truly evil mother is also a five star extravaganza.
(Tho I personally feel that the H needed to be locked in a dark alley with a group of lust crazed rampaging donkeys and the narcissist mother needed to be burned at the stake, multiple times and in excruciatingly painful ways.)
The poor pathetic h is so mistreated and abused that I can only feel sorry for her and her HEA, but at least she has her child now and thinks she has got a prize in the H.
( I am just practicing my gratitude that I did not keel over from the multiple Captain Consults I participated in during the reading of this.)
So in Captain inspired HP math I am rating it a three, pathetically grateful that I can call it a day on this utterly whacktastic HP outing, with a very dubious HEA.
Also, I can only warn others who contemplate this HP voyage to bring serious brain numbing supplies. Should you decide to attempt this, may the HP deities care for and shelter you and may the rosy glasses be turned up to magnified 1 billion x, if you persevere and make it to the HEA.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 2, 2016
This had potential and started out great, but the ending was done very poorly and significantly brought down the rating.
*** contains spoilers ***
The h is engaged to a gay man because she really likes him and has no family of her own, etc, etc. His mom (who's a piece of work) suspects he is gay, so she puts pressure on the guy to date/marry and he likes the h and thinks she'd make a good 'beard', basically.
The h then meets the hero, who turns out to be her fiance's step-brother. It's instalust and the two have a few exciting days together before he finds out she's engaged to the step brother. She tells him she'll break the engagement, but he's jealous and feels deceived and doesn't believe her, thinking she loves the step bro. Big dramatic breakup.
She turns up pregnant and thinking the hero hates her and loves another, she gets back together with the step bro and marries him, letting everyone think she's pregnant by him when she's really only ever been with the hero.
Then they get in a car wreck where the step bro is killed and the heroine is in a coma for 5 months. Turns out she'd had a healthy little girl though.
Long story short, because of the many machinations of the evil stepmother, she ends up leaving the baby with the hero and his fiance and taking off and changing her name. She has so much facial scarring she has to have plastic surgery and is mostly unrecognizable when she goes to work as a nanny for the (now divorced) hero as a way to be near her child (and him - even though he's an ass).
So, lots of great tension in the 'does he know who she really is or doesn't he' department. He makes her think she just reminds him of his ex who he obsessively hates. OTT, soapy drama all around :)
Problem was, the step mother was dead when the book started. This makes for a weird situation where the truth comes out in the last few pages in a long drawn out conversation where the h explains everything to the H and he's like "Oh, that makes sense. Guess I was an ass."
:-/
It just felt forced. Sort of like the author set this big mess up and then couldn't figure out how to let the truth out. Seems like leaving the evil stepmom alive and revealing her tricks would have made more sense.
*** contains spoilers ***
The h is engaged to a gay man because she really likes him and has no family of her own, etc, etc. His mom (who's a piece of work) suspects he is gay, so she puts pressure on the guy to date/marry and he likes the h and thinks she'd make a good 'beard', basically.
The h then meets the hero, who turns out to be her fiance's step-brother. It's instalust and the two have a few exciting days together before he finds out she's engaged to the step brother. She tells him she'll break the engagement, but he's jealous and feels deceived and doesn't believe her, thinking she loves the step bro. Big dramatic breakup.
She turns up pregnant and thinking the hero hates her and loves another, she gets back together with the step bro and marries him, letting everyone think she's pregnant by him when she's really only ever been with the hero.
Then they get in a car wreck where the step bro is killed and the heroine is in a coma for 5 months. Turns out she'd had a healthy little girl though.
Long story short, because of the many machinations of the evil stepmother, she ends up leaving the baby with the hero and his fiance and taking off and changing her name. She has so much facial scarring she has to have plastic surgery and is mostly unrecognizable when she goes to work as a nanny for the (now divorced) hero as a way to be near her child (and him - even though he's an ass).
So, lots of great tension in the 'does he know who she really is or doesn't he' department. He makes her think she just reminds him of his ex who he obsessively hates. OTT, soapy drama all around :)
Problem was, the step mother was dead when the book started. This makes for a weird situation where the truth comes out in the last few pages in a long drawn out conversation where the h explains everything to the H and he's like "Oh, that makes sense. Guess I was an ass."
:-/
It just felt forced. Sort of like the author set this big mess up and then couldn't figure out how to let the truth out. Seems like leaving the evil stepmom alive and revealing her tricks would have made more sense.
October 28, 2015
This is one of those Harley's where you definitely need to check reality at the door when you start reading it. This was one of those heart wrenching tear jerkers that only a story about a mother's unconditional love can bring about.
For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what she saw in the hero. As the ending unraveled, , I kept hoping that something would happen that would actually redeem the hero. Unfortunately, for me nothing did. Other readers may be more forgiving. If that is the case, I think you would put this at 4-5 stars simply because it is so spell binding and full of angst.
For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what she saw in the hero. As the ending unraveled, , I kept hoping that something would happen that would actually redeem the hero. Unfortunately, for me nothing did. Other readers may be more forgiving. If that is the case, I think you would put this at 4-5 stars simply because it is so spell binding and full of angst.
February 7, 2019
"The Secret Mother" is the story of Caroline and Matthew.
This hotch potch of a read starts with a nanny being hired by the hero for his brother's child, but soon SO many secrets are revealed, that it ends with a married couple knowing their child. From plastic surgeries, to closeted dying brothers; from evil mothers to 5 month coma; and from secret yearning to open contempt- this book has it all.
The plot is pretty predictable yet keeps you engaged. There is a lot of drama from the first page itself.
Yet, the book had the oomph factor missing for me- and I just wanted something..BIG to happen. A massive fight, a passionate romance, heavy angst..something. It was kinda boring at the end.
Safe/SWE
2.5/5
This hotch potch of a read starts with a nanny being hired by the hero for his brother's child, but soon SO many secrets are revealed, that it ends with a married couple knowing their child. From plastic surgeries, to closeted dying brothers; from evil mothers to 5 month coma; and from secret yearning to open contempt- this book has it all.
The plot is pretty predictable yet keeps you engaged. There is a lot of drama from the first page itself.
Yet, the book had the oomph factor missing for me- and I just wanted something..BIG to happen. A massive fight, a passionate romance, heavy angst..something. It was kinda boring at the end.
Safe/SWE
2.5/5
December 7, 2015
A good read. Please read the other reviews for English storyline.
There are a lot of undercurrents flowing above and below the surface of this seaming straightforth read.
Lies, deception, revenge, & heartache from 4 years before are still shaping the choices that Matthew and Kate/Caroline are making leading to of course more pain. They will need to be open & honest with each other......and listen to forgive.
Kate/Caroline has really suffered with losing everything and not to mention all the trauma and pain from the accident. But she still manages to look on the brighter side and try to make a better life and move on. She is sweet, innocent, shy, caring, and older than her age......so you really hope for her happy ending.
Matthew is sexy, experienced, worldy, but undernearth all that you can sense his total heartache. Having had his heart broken and never being able to forget his love has lead him to the otherside of love.......hate & revenge.
A very nicely done emotional read.
There are a lot of undercurrents flowing above and below the surface of this seaming straightforth read.
Lies, deception, revenge, & heartache from 4 years before are still shaping the choices that Matthew and Kate/Caroline are making leading to of course more pain. They will need to be open & honest with each other......and listen to forgive.
Kate/Caroline has really suffered with losing everything and not to mention all the trauma and pain from the accident. But she still manages to look on the brighter side and try to make a better life and move on. She is sweet, innocent, shy, caring, and older than her age......so you really hope for her happy ending.
Matthew is sexy, experienced, worldy, but undernearth all that you can sense his total heartache. Having had his heart broken and never being able to forget his love has lead him to the otherside of love.......hate & revenge.
A very nicely done emotional read.
July 31, 2022
Ending is rushed and H doesn’t grovel anywhere near enough, h is so polite she doesn’t tell wanna-be boyfriend off when he introduces her as his fiancée, but still a good story.
More a 3+ rating but it’s Sunday.
More a 3+ rating but it’s Sunday.
own-but-wont-read-or-wallbanger
June 6, 2020NANNY WANTED
Job: To look after three-year-old Caitlin--cute and cuddly, she's in need of lots of tender loving care and mothering....
"Special" Qualifications: Matthew is looking for one nanny in particular--Caroline Smith. He's a man with a mission and will stop at nothing to get his own way. So what is he looking for--a nanny, a mother, or is it perhaps a wife?
Live-in or daily? Live-in. A nanny who will be there day "and" night--if required.
Length of stay: Forever--marriage perhaps...
"Please enclose a resume
Job: To look after three-year-old Caitlin--cute and cuddly, she's in need of lots of tender loving care and mothering....
"Special" Qualifications: Matthew is looking for one nanny in particular--Caroline Smith. He's a man with a mission and will stop at nothing to get his own way. So what is he looking for--a nanny, a mother, or is it perhaps a wife?
Live-in or daily? Live-in. A nanny who will be there day "and" night--if required.
Length of stay: Forever--marriage perhaps...
"Please enclose a resume
March 21, 2021
This was a web of multiple HPLandia tropes coming together yet can't deny I ended up liking it. If you keep your logic aside and just read for good ol' M&B senseless and angsty drama it's quite entertaining. I was hooked till the end cause it was obvious the ML had got to know abt the FL's deception and was curious of the course of the truth reveal. The ML was still decent for me in comparison to other LW's heroes and FL despite being a hopeless martyred victim of unrequited love wasn't so annoying as much as I thought.
will-not-read
January 4, 2023Did Not Read. Refused to Read. The "Zero" was reportedly a man who had no problem viciously violating the heroine because he was OTT angry she chose his stepbrother over him. Then, after believing the lies of both his stepbrother and stepmother, he had no problem violently taking his anger out on the heroine for "abandoning" her infant daughter.
This was a total train wreck and an apparent stomach-churner. NOT my idea of romance.
This was a total train wreck and an apparent stomach-churner. NOT my idea of romance.
April 8, 2019
believe it or not, I really dislike the cover on this HP romance. This is well-plotted and pretty typical of some of the tropes, but the plotting was particularly clever. A little dated now, of course.
July 29, 2019
It's a great book, full of ups and downs!
I love any book that's full of emotions and adventure, to end with the most happiest endings! I think if Matthew loved her, he would have let that emotion lead him to believe her!
I love any book that's full of emotions and adventure, to end with the most happiest endings! I think if Matthew loved her, he would have let that emotion lead him to believe her!
April 10, 2016
So I read this book when it was very first released back in the day and while A LOT of time has passed since then it still brings a smile to my face.
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