Το τιμημα της αγαπης

by Catherine George

Η Τζος αφέθηκε στην αγκαλιά του Ντάνιελ Αρμστρονγκ την πρώτη κιόλας μέρα που τον γνώρισε.
Και η ένταση των ερωτικών στιγμών που μοιράστηκε μ' αυτόν το γοητευτικό άγνωστο είχε σβήσει την πικρία που ένιωθε από την προδοσία του αρραβωνιαστικού της.

Δεν είχε σκεφτεί πως ο Νταν θα μπορούσε να 'ναι δικός της για πάνω από μια νύχτα. Μέχρι που ανακάλυψε ότι ήταν έγκυος, κι εκείνος της ζήτησε να παντρευτούν!
Όμως η Τζος δίσταζε να δεχτεί την πρότασή του. Ο Νταν είχε απλώς ποθήσει το κορμί της και τώρα, όπως είχαν έρθει τα πράγματα, ήθελε να αναλάβει τις ευθύνες του.

Αλλά τι ένιωθε αλήθεια για εκείνη;

Genres: Romance, Harlequin Presents, Harlequin, Contemporary Romance, Marriage Of Convenience, Contemporary

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1999

About the author

Deirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.

At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!

Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.

But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.

These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 1 out of 5]

The Knight in Shining Armor walked out on her when he found her tangled on the couch with her ex. He cut her out of his life like she was a malignant tumor and refused point blank all her desperate explanations that far from cheating on him with her ex, she was trying to fend off the slime-slurping cephalopod’s attempt to force himself on her.

After a doubtful reconciliation and an unplanned pregnancy, this absolutely chivalrous White Knight continued to lay on the charm thickly when, the morning after an excruciating delivery where she gave birth to their premature baby, he implied he had doubts as to his paternity, as she lay there, still bleeding, in pain, and distraught. Really, this is a Prince Charming to beat all.

Where does Catherine George come up with all these swoon worthy heroes and steel-spined heroines? It boggles the mind...

[LLC · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought I would like this one better than I did. It was OK but not great. Maybe I was just tired when I read it. The h has a one night stand with a stranger. Not something she has ever done before but probably the result of dealing with her fiancé dumping her with out warning. She came home early to find him moving out and he was just going to leave her a note. So it’s been a few weeks and she’s still feeling rejected and depressed and meets the H at her best friends wedding. They don’t even share their names and the next day she moves from her flat so he can’t find her. Turns out she is pregnant. They run into each other months later. She’s standing in shadow and they are talking she steps into the light and he can see her pregnancy and drops the glass he’s holding. She says “I guess this is what is called a pregnant pause”. I liked that but otherwise I just didn’t get too invested. He wants marriage, she doesn’t. Her ex shows up to cause problems and deliberately make the H question paternity. Like I said just OK.

[suman]

Zero star's worst heroine she had multiple relationship before hero and the last one only 2 to 3 months before .Hero was not in the wrong to doubt the child's paternity.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Baby Claim is set in Alaska where you can find got romances, suspense with twists and surprises. The story without giving too much away are about two families that have been feuding between them. 

Broderick Steele and Glenna have a brief world wind romance back in college, but ended suddenly years ago. Until they meet again where they don't have a choice, but to rekindle the old flame not just for themselves? But for the families. Watch how the sparked fly between them. 

I highly recommend this Series. You will feel like your with them. I can't wait for the next book. Thank you Catherine Mann for doing such an incredible job writing as usual.

[More Books Than Time · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's OK but the plot is a bit silly. Girl gets dumped, has passionate fling with stranger, gets pregnant, gets married. After a few hiccups everyone is happy.

[Keriboo · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Widala · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars.

Not your usual early-twenty-virgin heroines versus mid-thirties-worldly heroes. Both Joss and Dan are in their thirties, both have personal and professional life on their own, so it's easy to see them as an equal. And they handled their problems like adults.
The dialogues were engaging, with enough dry humour to keep you smiling.

[Meetu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a very great story. There have been stories with the same plot that were written so much better. I did not feel much strength with the way the two main characters interacted. It was supposed to be lot of lust and lack of trust and I didn't feel the former but the later marred the story until almost the end.

[Calysta · Rating 1 out of 5]

I enjoyed some of this, but the dude walked in on the woman's ex sexually assaulting her and the 'hero' walked off in a snit sure that she was cheating on him. Meanwhile, the woman was such a moron that when the ex returned later, to make sure she wasn't pregnant with his kid, she let him into her home. The world would be better off with both of these idiots not in it.

[Zinnia]

Gillar den inte alls.

[Anne Lorraine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Main problem is trust issues.

[Lisa Gemmell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great Book, enjoyed the characters and story.

[Christine P. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring and predictable.

[Cem73 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Titre vf : La passion d'une nuit