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Millionaire Marriages #2
The Tycoon's Virgin Bride
She was a virgin then...
One night, seventeen-year-old Jenessa's secret infatuation with millionaire tycoon Bryce Laribee turned to passion...but he discovered she was a virgin,and walked out the door!
And she's still a virgin now!
Jenessa looks so different now, but when Bryce remembers her,all he can think about is their steamy encounter twelve years ago.... He's determined to finish what they once started! But Jenessa has a secret or two -- she's still in love with Bryce...and she's still a virgin....
One night, seventeen-year-old Jenessa's secret infatuation with millionaire tycoon Bryce Laribee turned to passion...but he discovered she was a virgin,and walked out the door!
And she's still a virgin now!
Jenessa looks so different now, but when Bryce remembers her,all he can think about is their steamy encounter twelve years ago.... He's determined to finish what they once started! But Jenessa has a secret or two -- she's still in love with Bryce...and she's still a virgin....
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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About the author
Sandra Field
214 books35 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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July 10, 2018
I hated these characters. In fact the only good ones are the brother, his wife and baby.
What the hell, SF?
The hero: an egotistical jackass that only wants to have an affair but has no problems telling the heroine how to live her life.
The heroine: Self-involved and selfish. Bad enough self-involved tycoons are running around HarleyLand, now we have a heroine who is so self-involved/selfish that not only is she not going to her niece/god-daughter’s christening because she may run into the H, but she didn’t even go to her brother’s wedding in the first place. And this isn’t a brother who has asked her to bale him out of wrecking some tycoon’s car, smuggled drugs, but has supported her against a mean dad and gave her the deposit on her house.
She’s afraid to see the hero because 12 years ago when she was 17 she put the moves on him. When she found out she was a virgin he kicked her out. He was her brother’s BF, but he didn’t know her.
Twelve years later, she’s still a virgin and he kicks her out again because she must “love him”. Well, she’s the only one.
Rounding out foul characters are…
The h’s mother who left when she was four to fulfill herself as a dancer and couldn’t come back because of the father. Yeah, okay.
The father who belittled the heroine for being artistic and shunned her, but now wants it all to be okay.
The h’s twin brother who is a bad seed, but is only on page for a few minutes. Huh? Does he get a book where he is redeemed by true love?
What the hell, SF?
The hero: an egotistical jackass that only wants to have an affair but has no problems telling the heroine how to live her life.
The heroine: Self-involved and selfish. Bad enough self-involved tycoons are running around HarleyLand, now we have a heroine who is so self-involved/selfish that not only is she not going to her niece/god-daughter’s christening because she may run into the H, but she didn’t even go to her brother’s wedding in the first place. And this isn’t a brother who has asked her to bale him out of wrecking some tycoon’s car, smuggled drugs, but has supported her against a mean dad and gave her the deposit on her house.
She’s afraid to see the hero because 12 years ago when she was 17 she put the moves on him. When she found out she was a virgin he kicked her out. He was her brother’s BF, but he didn’t know her.
Twelve years later, she’s still a virgin and he kicks her out again because she must “love him”. Well, she’s the only one.
Rounding out foul characters are…
The h’s mother who left when she was four to fulfill herself as a dancer and couldn’t come back because of the father. Yeah, okay.
The father who belittled the heroine for being artistic and shunned her, but now wants it all to be okay.
The h’s twin brother who is a bad seed, but is only on page for a few minutes. Huh? Does he get a book where he is redeemed by true love?
March 12, 2026
Really dumb title for a sad, dark story. Both H and h have Great Traumatik Pasts and toxic relationships with their various assorted deadbeat parents and siblings. Hero’s reaction to his horrible childhood is to grow up into an unrepentant, cold, robotic manwhore with no commitments in his life except for his multimillion dollar computer business. Heroine on the other hand becomes a scared virgin hiding behind her art. Heroine has been in love with him since she was a teen. When he propositions her for a short term affair, she accepts the crumbs if she can’t have the whole loaf of bread.
Somehow though, the hero inserts himself into the family drama she has going on with her horrible father, stepmom, and mom. It’s apparently not enough that she warms his bed, he wants to take control and “fix” her life too, though he won’t let her in on his Great Traumatik Past. I couldn’t believe the gall of the hero pushing pushing pushing the heroine into making up with her parents who abandoned her and neglected her (her dad was physically abusive to her while he spoiled her sludge-slurper twin brother). Not only is it not his business but how dare he be so judgmental when he has a myriad of issues of his own?
I really didn’t like how meek the heroine was and how she had to kowtow to him at every turn, getting him on his no strings terms, tolerating his blow hot-blow cold approach, and waiting for the axe to fall in their affair. What made this curmudgeon hero such a prize? In the end, their happiness hinges on hero’s discovery that his mother didn’t abandon like he thought, she was murdered. The man who killed her was not his bio dad. So because his blood is not tainted, he finally gets the courage to admit to himself that he loves the heroine and he is willing to take the plunge into matrimony.
As I said, a depressing story under a totally misleading, lighthearted title, with too much pop psychology and a trite rainbow and unicorn ending. I really don’t see a stable HEA for these two because he has issues that run way too deep and she is too spineless when it comes to him and his needs. Still, it was a compelling read and I couldn’t put it down for some reason.
Somehow though, the hero inserts himself into the family drama she has going on with her horrible father, stepmom, and mom. It’s apparently not enough that she warms his bed, he wants to take control and “fix” her life too, though he won’t let her in on his Great Traumatik Past. I couldn’t believe the gall of the hero pushing pushing pushing the heroine into making up with her parents who abandoned her and neglected her (her dad was physically abusive to her while he spoiled her sludge-slurper twin brother). Not only is it not his business but how dare he be so judgmental when he has a myriad of issues of his own?
I really didn’t like how meek the heroine was and how she had to kowtow to him at every turn, getting him on his no strings terms, tolerating his blow hot-blow cold approach, and waiting for the axe to fall in their affair. What made this curmudgeon hero such a prize? In the end, their happiness hinges on hero’s discovery that his mother didn’t abandon like he thought, she was murdered. The man who killed her was not his bio dad. So because his blood is not tainted, he finally gets the courage to admit to himself that he loves the heroine and he is willing to take the plunge into matrimony.
As I said, a depressing story under a totally misleading, lighthearted title, with too much pop psychology and a trite rainbow and unicorn ending. I really don’t see a stable HEA for these two because he has issues that run way too deep and she is too spineless when it comes to him and his needs. Still, it was a compelling read and I couldn’t put it down for some reason.
December 17, 2016
Heroine was seventeen when she decided she wanted to lose her virginity to her brothers best friend. Her plan backfired when he found out she was a virgin now twelve years have past, they are on different courses in life but the attraction is still the same. Now he will have to convince her to have an affair and she will have to convince him to be her husband. But before either of that can take place, they must face their past and accept it.
Decent novel, I liked the whole concept but the writing seemed really weak at certain 'emotional' type parts which kind of ruined the book for me.
Decent novel, I liked the whole concept but the writing seemed really weak at certain 'emotional' type parts which kind of ruined the book for me.
September 17, 2015
Es de aprobado muy raso.
Este es más lógico que el anterior, porque hay más lapso de tiempo -por suerte- pero es el mismo patrón, con padres difíciles, relación difícil, virginidad, paternidad, traumas infantiles...
No es de mi estilo.
Este es más lógico que el anterior, porque hay más lapso de tiempo -por suerte- pero es el mismo patrón, con padres difíciles, relación difícil, virginidad, paternidad, traumas infantiles...
No es de mi estilo.
January 14, 2018
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روايات احلام
كم كانت بريئة يومها ! ذات ليلة تحول إعجاب جينيسا السرس بالمليونير الاسطوري برايس لاريبي الى شغف لم تستطع أن تخفيه.ولكن عندما اكتشف برايس حداثة سنها وبراءتها غادر تاركا إياها مع جرح عميق في القلب .وظلت جينيسا من يومها بريئة وبعيدة عن الحب.استغرق من برايس الكثير من الوقت قبل ان يتذكر الفتاة التي قابلها منذ اثنى عشر سنة ..ولكن الانجذاب الذي عاد عاصفا بينهما لم يتطلب أي وقت .كان رايس مصمما على ان لايدعها تفلت من يده هذه المرة ولكن جينيسا تخفي الآن سرا أو اثنين قد يجعلان برايس يهرب مرة أخرى...
روايات احلام
كم كانت بريئة يومها ! ذات ليلة تحول إعجاب جينيسا السرس بالمليونير الاسطوري برايس لاريبي الى شغف لم تستطع أن تخفيه.ولكن عندما اكتشف برايس حداثة سنها وبراءتها غادر تاركا إياها مع جرح عميق في القلب .وظلت جينيسا من يومها بريئة وبعيدة عن الحب.استغرق من برايس الكثير من الوقت قبل ان يتذكر الفتاة التي قابلها منذ اثنى عشر سنة ..ولكن الانجذاب الذي عاد عاصفا بينهما لم يتطلب أي وقت .كان رايس مصمما على ان لايدعها تفلت من يده هذه المرة ولكن جينيسا تخفي الآن سرا أو اثنين قد يجعلان برايس يهرب مرة أخرى...
May 25, 2018
I Loved this book!! great story!!.1st time reading this author!! will read more of her books!!
June 7, 2020
1/3 stars
June 26, 2011
she was beautiful and he wanted her
brave and he admired her
but the untied tycoon at last had no choice but marrying her
he never faced the idea of being tied to a woman
he knows he can't do without her
and his experience forbade the word marriage
he didn't know that she never let what she wanted go
she wanted him
how could he resist?
brave and he admired her
but the untied tycoon at last had no choice but marrying her
he never faced the idea of being tied to a woman
he knows he can't do without her
and his experience forbade the word marriage
he didn't know that she never let what she wanted go
she wanted him
how could he resist?
February 25, 2011
Cewenya menanti 12 thn, heronya ketika ketemu lagi ga ngenalin lagi,
sebel ama cowonya,krn menolak heroinenya terus
sebel ama cowonya,krn menolak heroinenya terus
December 13, 2013
Awesome
Amazingly good read. I was glad it was not rushed. Nice romance and drama. LOVED this book. I really got into this because the steamy chemistry with the characters.
Amazingly good read. I was glad it was not rushed. Nice romance and drama. LOVED this book. I really got into this because the steamy chemistry with the characters.
October 12, 2014
Hero really dense in this one.
May 17, 2021
Este par esta hecho el uno para el otro, tan confundidos, tan encerrados en si mismos, combinación perfecta...
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March 29, 2018She was a virgin then...
One night, seventeen-year-old Jenessa's secret infatuation with millionaire tycoon Bryce Laribee turned to passion...but he discovered she was a virgin,and walked out the door!
And she's still a virgin now!
Jenessa looks so different now, but when Bryce remembers her,all he can think about is their steamy encounter twelve years ago.... He's determined to finish what they once started! But Jenessa has a secret or two -- she's still in love with Bryce...and she's still a virgin...
One night, seventeen-year-old Jenessa's secret infatuation with millionaire tycoon Bryce Laribee turned to passion...but he discovered she was a virgin,and walked out the door!
And she's still a virgin now!
Jenessa looks so different now, but when Bryce remembers her,all he can think about is their steamy encounter twelve years ago.... He's determined to finish what they once started! But Jenessa has a secret or two -- she's still in love with Bryce...and she's still a virgin...
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