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The Barons #8
Raising the Stakes
Immerse yourself again in the drama and passion of Sandra Marton's bestselling story.
The winner takes all...
Wealthy attorney Gray Baron has come to Las Vegas on a mission to find a woman--Dawn Lincoln Kittredge, the long-lost grandchild of his uncle. But feisty Dawn is not about to make anything easy for him...
After being hurt in the past, Dawn is wary of strangers, even gorgeous, sexy ones like Gray. But mutual suspicion doesn't stop an undeniable passion from igniting between them. As the tension mounts, all bets are off!
Originally published in 2002.
The winner takes all...
Wealthy attorney Gray Baron has come to Las Vegas on a mission to find a woman--Dawn Lincoln Kittredge, the long-lost grandchild of his uncle. But feisty Dawn is not about to make anything easy for him...
After being hurt in the past, Dawn is wary of strangers, even gorgeous, sexy ones like Gray. But mutual suspicion doesn't stop an undeniable passion from igniting between them. As the tension mounts, all bets are off!
Originally published in 2002.
338 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 1, 2002
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Sandra Marton
575 books542 followersI've been a writer, one way or another, all my life. Before I could read, I made up poems and my mom wrote them down for me. In elementary school, my teachers almost always let me write poems or stories instead of requiring me to do art projects. Always, I dreamed of becoming a published writer...and that dream came true! I write novels about sexy, powerful men and independent-minded women, and what happens when they find each other and fall in love. My books are sexy and romantic, and they've very often full of romantic suspense. I write the kinds of books I love to read, and I hope that makes my readers happy.
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December 11, 2016
Maybe like me, you've had this novel on your shelf for a number of years and it has finally made it's way up your TBR list. Maybe, unlike me, you should put this book in a box and bury it deep, deep in a hole and write it up to lost stock.
Plot premise was fairly sensible and interesting. This is about the most complimentary that I can be.
Dawn? Insipid. No sense of humour. No sass. No fight. Gray? Controlling, dominating and really unlikable.
The dialogue was terrible and stiff. The romance was horrendous because Gray was just as controlling as the husband that Dawn left behind, he was just better looking.
Ach. No. Not a good read.
Plot premise was fairly sensible and interesting. This is about the most complimentary that I can be.
Dawn? Insipid. No sense of humour. No sass. No fight. Gray? Controlling, dominating and really unlikable.
The dialogue was terrible and stiff. The romance was horrendous because Gray was just as controlling as the husband that Dawn left behind, he was just better looking.
Ach. No. Not a good read.
February 1, 2026
Don’t think I’ve ever read such a painful, heartbreaking prologue in all my years of reading novels. It was like I could feel the h’s pain and the physical and emotional abuse she was going through at the hands of her husband. Oh, I hated him with everything within me, and I wanted him dead right from the beginning.
I loved, loved Cassie. Everyone needs a friend like Cassie in their lives.
I disliked Jonas from the The Taming of Tyler Kincaid where we found out about his actual first child. And this book cemented my distaste for him. How can youabandon get rid of your first child because you believed your wife cheated on you and so the child wasn’t yours, despised her till she died in childbirth and even after, only for us to find out that you slept with your own best friend’s wife years earlier? One would think sinners would have more grace for other sinners, but nope. Such a two-faced hypocrite!
P.S. Other people might have issues with the fact that the h slept with the H while still married to another man, but I do not care. I don’t consider it cheating. Her husband was a piece of shit, a waste of space, a cruel, cruel monster, a brute, a bully…I really could go on. But the point is he wasn’t fit to be called a husband and she deserved to find happiness.
I loved, loved Cassie. Everyone needs a friend like Cassie in their lives.
I disliked Jonas from the The Taming of Tyler Kincaid where we found out about his actual first child. And this book cemented my distaste for him. How can you
P.S. Other people might have issues with the fact that the h slept with the H while still married to another man, but I do not care. I don’t consider it cheating. Her husband was a piece of shit, a waste of space, a cruel, cruel monster, a brute, a bully…I really could go on. But the point is he wasn’t fit to be called a husband and she deserved to find happiness.
January 27, 2016
The Hero Gray is blackmailed by his rich uncle to look for a woman. The uncle is old and wants to settle a debt. So Grey is tasked to find Dawn (the heroine) who may or may not be the granddaughter of his uncle's old partner.
Dawn and her child have escaped from an extremely abusive husband. Grey's quest leads him to Las Vegas where Dawn has made a new life for herself. It gets interesting when they meet without Grey knowing that she is the girl he is looking for. It complicates matters since he finds he is strongly attracted to Dawn. There is a lot of blow hot and blow cold on the part of Dawn but this is understandable since she is very wary of relationships with men. There is a good amount of mystery and suspense to the story and the evil OM is indeed truly evil, it all culminates in a fiery climax and there is a sweet epilogue in the end. All in all a very good read.
Dawn and her child have escaped from an extremely abusive husband. Grey's quest leads him to Las Vegas where Dawn has made a new life for herself. It gets interesting when they meet without Grey knowing that she is the girl he is looking for. It complicates matters since he finds he is strongly attracted to Dawn. There is a lot of blow hot and blow cold on the part of Dawn but this is understandable since she is very wary of relationships with men. There is a good amount of mystery and suspense to the story and the evil OM is indeed truly evil, it all culminates in a fiery climax and there is a sweet epilogue in the end. All in all a very good read.
October 12, 2015
like usual baron's, this one was pretty new and intriguing...
good!
good!
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