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The Passion Price
The Pregnancy Payback...
Jake Winters still has that edge of danger about him. The onetime teenage tearaway has transformed himself into a successful, wealthy Sydney lawyer.
When Jake comes back into Angelina's life, she senses that he won't welcome the news that their brief youthful passion left her pregnant. He only wants an affair. However,the intense sexual attraction between them is too hard to deny - can Angelina let Jake have her body, but keep her secret to herself...?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 2004
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About the author
Miranda Lee
815 books236 followersMaureen Mary was born on 1945 at Port Macquarie, a popular seaside town on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and is the youngest of four children. Her sister was the novelist Wendy Brennan (Emma Darcy). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. When Miranda was ten, her father was transferred to Gosford, another coastal town in the countryside, much closer to Sydney. After leaving her convent school, she briefly studied the cello before moving to Sydney, where she embraced the emerging world of computers. Her career as a programmer ended after she married, had three daughters and bought a small acreage in a semi-rural community. Following this, she attempted greyhound training, as well as horse and goat breeding, but was left dissatisfied.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
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September 23, 2016
This was surprisingly sweet - especially the ending. The H/h met when he was a 16 year-old juvenile delinquent working at the 15 year-old heroine's family vineyard. They had sex one time and were caught. The H was sent to court and the h ended up pregnant with a memory of painful sex. The judge in the court case took an interest in the H and fostered him. The story opens with the H and his widowed foster mother going to check out a hobby vineyard that coincidentally is adjacent to the vineyard where the H was caught with h.
The H/h meet of course, and sparks are still flying between them. And this is where my problem with the story began and didn't end until the truth came out. The heroine does not tell the H she has a 15 year-old son who is interested in meeting him. She just plays coy and says the man in her life is "Alex" and she doesn't plan on marrying him.
The author uses the technique of having the h have lots of conversations with side characters about the ethics of withholding this info - but no, I'm not buying it.
They H/h embark on an affair - and it all blows up on the h after the hero wins a big court case and is on TV.
The author is still trying to justify the heroine's decision by having her rant at the hero about her hard life while he was still being playboy of the Western world etc . . . And it still didn't justify her behavior, imo.
Still, the ending was very sweet:
The H/h meet of course, and sparks are still flying between them. And this is where my problem with the story began and didn't end until the truth came out. The heroine does not tell the H she has a 15 year-old son who is interested in meeting him. She just plays coy and says the man in her life is "Alex" and she doesn't plan on marrying him.
The author uses the technique of having the h have lots of conversations with side characters about the ethics of withholding this info - but no, I'm not buying it.
They H/h embark on an affair - and it all blows up on the h after the hero wins a big court case and is on TV.
The author is still trying to justify the heroine's decision by having her rant at the hero about her hard life while he was still being playboy of the Western world etc . . . And it still didn't justify her behavior, imo.
Still, the ending was very sweet:
November 5, 2017
I love the secret baby plot so I enjoyed this book. It was sweet and interesting. For those who care heroine was celibate during separation but hero was not. A good read! :)
November 19, 2017
I'm not really a great fan of Miranda Lee's romances but this one was fairly good. The hero had such a horrible childhood and it was sad to hear just how emotionally damaged he had become because of it. I just wish the heroine could have told him about their son before her stupid sister let the secret out of the bag in a big dramatic manner.
March 11, 2017
Mocinho ( Jake) badboy e mocinha ingênua (Angelina).
Sedução que resulta na gravidez aos 15.
Ele vai parar na casa do juiz que julgou o assédio sexual denunciado pelo pai dela. Se torna um advogado rico.
Ela permanece no vinhedo do pai e junto com ele cria o filho Alex.
15 anos depois o passado retorna.
A Paixão surge novamente agora com a maturidade e contas a resolver.
Leituras para passar o tempo.
Sedução que resulta na gravidez aos 15.
Ele vai parar na casa do juiz que julgou o assédio sexual denunciado pelo pai dela. Se torna um advogado rico.
Ela permanece no vinhedo do pai e junto com ele cria o filho Alex.
15 anos depois o passado retorna.
A Paixão surge novamente agora com a maturidade e contas a resolver.
Leituras para passar o tempo.
April 6, 2021
The Pregnancy Payback...
Jake Winters still has that edge of danger about him. The onetime teenage tearaway has transformed himself into a successful, wealthy Sydney lawyer.
When Jake comes back into Angelina's life, she senses that he won't welcome the news that their brief youthful passion left her pregnant. He only wants an affair. However,the intense sexual attraction between them is too hard to deny - can Angelina let Jake have her body, but keep her secret to hersel
Jake Winters still has that edge of danger about him. The onetime teenage tearaway has transformed himself into a successful, wealthy Sydney lawyer.
When Jake comes back into Angelina's life, she senses that he won't welcome the news that their brief youthful passion left her pregnant. He only wants an affair. However,the intense sexual attraction between them is too hard to deny - can Angelina let Jake have her body, but keep her secret to hersel
February 9, 2012
The Passion Price is the 32nd of the Australians series of romance, and the 6th of this series written by Miranda Lee. The first encounter that seventeen year old Jake Winters had with Angelina came to an abrupt end when her father, Hunter Valley winemaker Antonio Mastroianni caught them in the act and expelled him from the winery. He was a bad boy then, but, after he was taken in by Judge Edward Landsdale and his wife, Dorothy, he turned his life around and became a wealthy and respected Sydney lawyer. Sixteen years later, the widowed Dorothy decides to buy a winery and Jake accompanies her to check it out. This stirs memories of Angelina, who, unbeknownst to Jake, has a lasting souvenir of their youthful encounter: her son Alex, who is intent on meeting his father. This excellent “secret baby” romance has some likeable characters, quite a good plot and realistic dialogue. A good example of Miranda Lee at her best.
October 8, 2020
That’s it. I am done with this author. Horrible heroines whom I dislike intensely and this one takes the biscuit. Keeping her son secret even though she knows the son wants to know his father? I disliked her right to the end when she still misjudged the hero. Horrible, selfish woman. No more.
December 29, 2024
girl just talk to him he has a ferrari
November 8, 2018
I like the book except for the part of h choosing to remain celibate for 16 years after losing her virginity at 15!!! with the H. Both the H/h have a great chemistry and the plot is really great. The only Plot hole I came across was how the h and her son had never come across H in TV considering how immediately after h meets H after 16 years, he is talked about in TV!
February 21, 2020
Good read
April 11, 2022
DNF. Jake Winters was so obnoxiously covky that I could not stand him and had to quit reading.
August 25, 2009
I don't understand why I picked up this book. It's a secret baby plot. I usually hate those, but I didn't overly hate this book. *shrugs* Still mostly dislike secret baby plots.
September 19, 2012
Nice story.Liked the characters a lot.Love the series actually.Grins.
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September 24, 2015
such a lovely story. felt very emotional at the end.
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