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Claimed for the Leonelli Legacy
An innocent...
Tia Grayson has never known life outside the Brazilian convent she calls home. Until Max Leonelli arrives with the shocking news that she is heiress to an English fortune--and ignites a burning need for his touch...
A billionaire...
Tia's grandfather expects a match between his protegee and his heir--but Max is not a marrying man. Until the sight of Tia's ravishing beauty has him reconsidering...
A baby?
Max must escort Tia home, but desire soon overtakes them. After one incendiary night, the potential for consequences gives Max the perfect opportunity to claim Tia as his bride!
Tia Grayson has never known life outside the Brazilian convent she calls home. Until Max Leonelli arrives with the shocking news that she is heiress to an English fortune--and ignites a burning need for his touch...
A billionaire...
Tia's grandfather expects a match between his protegee and his heir--but Max is not a marrying man. Until the sight of Tia's ravishing beauty has him reconsidering...
A baby?
Max must escort Tia home, but desire soon overtakes them. After one incendiary night, the potential for consequences gives Max the perfect opportunity to claim Tia as his bride!
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
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Lynne Graham
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Lynne Graham was born on July 30, 1956 of Irish-Scottish parentage. She has livedin Northern Ireland all her life. She grew up in a seaside village with her brother. She learnt to read at the age of 3, and haven't stopped since then.
Lynne first met her husband when she was 14. At 15, she wrote her first book, but it was rejected everywhere. Lynne married after she completed a degree at Edinburgh University. She started writing again when she was at home with her first child. It took several attempts before she sold her first book in 1987 and the delight of seeing that first book for sale in the local newsagents has never been forgotten. Now, there are over 10 million of her books in print worldwide.
Lynne always wanted a large family and has five children. Her eldest and her only natural child is 19 and currently at university. Her other four children, who are every bit as dear to her heart, are adopted. She has two 9-year-olds adopted from Sri Lanka and a 5- and a 3-year-old adopted from Guatemala.
In Lynne's home, there is a rich and diverse cultural mix, which adds a whole extra dimension of interest and discovery to family life. The family lives in a country house surrounded by a woodland garden, which is wonderfully private.
The family has two pets. Thomas, a very large and affectionate black cat, bosses the dog and hunts rabbits. The dog is Daisy, an adorable but not very bright white West Highland terrier, who loves being chased by the cat. At night, dog and cat sleep together in front of the kitchen stove.
Lynne loves gardening, cooking, collects everything from old toys to rock specimens and is crazy about every aspect of Christmas.
Lynne Graham was born on July 30, 1956 of Irish-Scottish parentage. She has livedin Northern Ireland all her life. She grew up in a seaside village with her brother. She learnt to read at the age of 3, and haven't stopped since then.
Lynne first met her husband when she was 14. At 15, she wrote her first book, but it was rejected everywhere. Lynne married after she completed a degree at Edinburgh University. She started writing again when she was at home with her first child. It took several attempts before she sold her first book in 1987 and the delight of seeing that first book for sale in the local newsagents has never been forgotten. Now, there are over 10 million of her books in print worldwide.
Lynne always wanted a large family and has five children. Her eldest and her only natural child is 19 and currently at university. Her other four children, who are every bit as dear to her heart, are adopted. She has two 9-year-olds adopted from Sri Lanka and a 5- and a 3-year-old adopted from Guatemala.
In Lynne's home, there is a rich and diverse cultural mix, which adds a whole extra dimension of interest and discovery to family life. The family lives in a country house surrounded by a woodland garden, which is wonderfully private.
The family has two pets. Thomas, a very large and affectionate black cat, bosses the dog and hunts rabbits. The dog is Daisy, an adorable but not very bright white West Highland terrier, who loves being chased by the cat. At night, dog and cat sleep together in front of the kitchen stove.
Lynne loves gardening, cooking, collects everything from old toys to rock specimens and is crazy about every aspect of Christmas.
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September 6, 2017
Intense love story about two people from very different backgrounds. She is an innocent almost nun, he is your typical ruthless playboy. They get married because of a possible unplanned pregnancy but heroine wants her freedom and independence so she abandons our poor hero who doesn't know how to express his love. I loved that both hero and heroine were celibate during their separation and I loved the angst. Hero became a very sweet loving husband and father. Swoon worthy.
September 27, 2017
This was the perfect read for me.I wanted something sweet,fluffy,and romantic,and this lovely gem written by my favorite HP autor,Lynne Graham, fit the bill beautifully.Tia is a sweetheart and Max was a great hero .When these two met,it was an instantaneous attraction that worked well with this story.
May 17, 2018
Even when I hate HP’s I still love them. Here we have a beloved mentor asking the H to marry his granddaughter. Forget about guardianship, mentoring. Nope, marry like it’s 1817 not 2017.
Thanks for the recommendation, Vashti.
The heroine
The hero
This starts out so stinking sweet with the hero downright gobsmacked by the heroine to the point he has to chide himself for having naughty thoughts about her while he’s in the convent. The heroine is beautiful, tiny, sweet, and, yes, I wanted to hate her too, but she is also spunky, devout, caring and has a temper. Should I mention Teddy now? I think LG’s inner Irish is flying as Teddy is decidedly a Jack Russell terror in looks and behavior as in the bad behavior of an old school hero. Not sure how many JRT strays are in Brazil's hinterlands.
Teddie
Teddie hates the hero because he wants to be the only man in the h's life.
In the process of rescuing the h from her Brazilian convent (yeah, a convent), he promises the heroine he will rescue Teddy as well. Her impromptu hug brings him to his knees metaphorically.
Hugging
LG is back to her roots with a hero bedazzled by a heroine unbeknownst to himself.
Thanks for the recommendation, Vashti.
The heroine
The hero
This starts out so stinking sweet with the hero downright gobsmacked by the heroine to the point he has to chide himself for having naughty thoughts about her while he’s in the convent. The heroine is beautiful, tiny, sweet, and, yes, I wanted to hate her too, but she is also spunky, devout, caring and has a temper. Should I mention Teddy now? I think LG’s inner Irish is flying as Teddy is decidedly a Jack Russell terror in looks and behavior as in the bad behavior of an old school hero. Not sure how many JRT strays are in Brazil's hinterlands.
Teddie
Teddie hates the hero because he wants to be the only man in the h's life.
In the process of rescuing the h from her Brazilian convent (yeah, a convent), he promises the heroine he will rescue Teddy as well. Her impromptu hug brings him to his knees metaphorically.
Hugging
LG is back to her roots with a hero bedazzled by a heroine unbeknownst to himself.
June 24, 2018
Sweet story of a smitten hero who falls for the woman whom his boss/mentor wants him to marry. The heroine, an heiress in her own right, has been living in a convent in Brazil and is naive as to the ways of the world. She falls for the hero right away and wants to hear those three words after they marry. Hero tries to tell her in his own way, but he's not forthcoming about his past, his fears or his feelings.
This causes the heroine to I had a very hard time with that. While it's understandable the heroine needed to feel independent and that she had endured a lot of changes in a short time, but the hero didn't deserve that kind of treatment.
So, great hero - disappointing heroine.
This causes the heroine to I had a very hard time with that. While it's understandable the heroine needed to feel independent and that she had endured a lot of changes in a short time, but the hero didn't deserve that kind of treatment.
So, great hero - disappointing heroine.
March 10, 2018
This is a good book. I will tell you towards the end why I didn't give it five stars.
The characters in this book are Max Leonelli, a gorgeous multimillionaire financier that was in his late twenties. He was your typical Harlequin womanizer...ugh, I get so tired of the them. His mentor is Andrew Grayson and Andrew has given him the position of CEO in his company. After Max's parents died he went to live with his aunt in the servants quarters at the Grayson Estate with his aunt who was none too happy about raising a child. Andrew Grayson paid for his education and groomed him to take over his company. The old man was ill and he wasn't going to get any better. He had a last request for Max.
Mr. Grayson had a granddaughter, Tia, whom he made a conscious effort to ignore for the past twenty-two years. She had been raised in a convent since she was quite young and now she worked there to earn money so she could have her independence and freedom to live her own life as she saw fit. He knows he should have fought his son and raised her himself in the family home...but he was selfish and didn't. He didn't even attempt to visit her. Grayson's son, a missionary now, gave his daughter to a convent for the nuns to raise. He didn't have any use for a daughter since his wife didn't birth him a son. So this missionary/minister abandoned his only child.
Since the old man won't live much longer he craves to meet his granddaughter. He asks Max to go and fetch her....and he also tells Max that if he marries her to give her his protection he will leave him half of everything...or something close to that. Max arrives at the convent and is gobsmacked by the beauty of Tia. She is truly a gorgeous woman, even dressed in rags that the orphange/school provided for her. Tia is instantly in lust with him. She has never seen a man so gorgeous as Max and she is feeling all kinds of sexual lust that she has never felt before. Max is so taken with her that he's almost speechless.
Why I marked off two stars: There is a point in this book where the hero has yet to tell the heroine he loves her and he tries to avoid her at all cost because love equals pain and heartache...doesn't it? He is also very unhappy about the pregnancy. So she packs up and hits the road. Fake name, a place far away....and she opens a bakery? What? I didn't like that Max missed six-months of her pregnancy and the birth, including the first three months of his child's life. That almost killed it for me. I simply despise it when the H and h are not together for birth. For me, it somewhat ruined a lovely story and I still haven't gotten past it.
The characters in this book are Max Leonelli, a gorgeous multimillionaire financier that was in his late twenties. He was your typical Harlequin womanizer...ugh, I get so tired of the them. His mentor is Andrew Grayson and Andrew has given him the position of CEO in his company. After Max's parents died he went to live with his aunt in the servants quarters at the Grayson Estate with his aunt who was none too happy about raising a child. Andrew Grayson paid for his education and groomed him to take over his company. The old man was ill and he wasn't going to get any better. He had a last request for Max.
Mr. Grayson had a granddaughter, Tia, whom he made a conscious effort to ignore for the past twenty-two years. She had been raised in a convent since she was quite young and now she worked there to earn money so she could have her independence and freedom to live her own life as she saw fit. He knows he should have fought his son and raised her himself in the family home...but he was selfish and didn't. He didn't even attempt to visit her. Grayson's son, a missionary now, gave his daughter to a convent for the nuns to raise. He didn't have any use for a daughter since his wife didn't birth him a son. So this missionary/minister abandoned his only child.
Since the old man won't live much longer he craves to meet his granddaughter. He asks Max to go and fetch her....and he also tells Max that if he marries her to give her his protection he will leave him half of everything...or something close to that. Max arrives at the convent and is gobsmacked by the beauty of Tia. She is truly a gorgeous woman, even dressed in rags that the orphange/school provided for her. Tia is instantly in lust with him. She has never seen a man so gorgeous as Max and she is feeling all kinds of sexual lust that she has never felt before. Max is so taken with her that he's almost speechless.
Why I marked off two stars: There is a point in this book where the hero has yet to tell the heroine he loves her and he tries to avoid her at all cost because love equals pain and heartache...doesn't it? He is also very unhappy about the pregnancy. So she packs up and hits the road. Fake name, a place far away....and she opens a bakery? What? I didn't like that Max missed six-months of her pregnancy and the birth, including the first three months of his child's life. That almost killed it for me. I simply despise it when the H and h are not together for birth. For me, it somewhat ruined a lovely story and I still haven't gotten past it.
October 12, 2017
Loved it
Great story. Felt their passion and lust. Cinderella type story. Very sweet. Loved the h. And the H fell so hard too. He picks her up in the convent and they have sex that night. I thought off but okay and then they get married. They have incredible chemistry but there are so many things going on. I loved that the h made him communicate with her. She was persistent. She gets pregnant And the H acted like a jerk when she told him. And then her Grandfather dies and the H tells her that it was always the plan for them to marry and she is upset and needs some space. She leaves for nine months. I thought it was so weird. She has the baby without him and starts a baking business and it was just surreal. I took off a point for that. They do get back together of course and live happily ever after. I hope.
Great story. Felt their passion and lust. Cinderella type story. Very sweet. Loved the h. And the H fell so hard too. He picks her up in the convent and they have sex that night. I thought off but okay and then they get married. They have incredible chemistry but there are so many things going on. I loved that the h made him communicate with her. She was persistent. She gets pregnant And the H acted like a jerk when she told him. And then her Grandfather dies and the H tells her that it was always the plan for them to marry and she is upset and needs some space. She leaves for nine months. I thought it was so weird. She has the baby without him and starts a baking business and it was just surreal. I took off a point for that. They do get back together of course and live happily ever after. I hope.
September 22, 2017
Nice, rather sweet Lynne Graham. Not a whole lot of conflict between the 2 main characters. In fact if the heroine had not taken a wild hair and run off there wouldn't have been much of a conflict at all. They fell for each other at first sight. Some marriage bits and some inheritance bits happened then she willy nilly decided he didn't love her even after a great this is how I feel about you speech and takes off for 9 months. He finds her and brings her home and persuades her he loves her. The end.
September 10, 2017
Nice, cute read. I liked both Max and Tia a lot. Although Tia had a sheltered upbringing in a convent, she was very much aware of what was happening in the world, able to decide with whom she didn't want to be sexually intimate with and with whom she wanted to be intimate with, which of course was with Max. She was quick tempered and wasn't mousy. Max was an alpha alright, but never unkind or mean to her. Instead, he was very caring toward her. He only wasn't the type to share his inner feelings with anyone and since he'd been fathered by a violent alcoholic, he wasn't keen on having children of his own. That's why when Tia tells him they're going to have a baby, he didn't seem happy about the news.
So, Tia leaves him and gives birth to their baby girl all alone. As much I liked the idea of Tia getting the freedom she'd been craving for, I wasn't at all happy with the fact that she chose not to have Max with her at the time of her delivery. I wish the regrets she'd had on behalf of Max, regarding his status as a father, of not giving him a chance to come around into embracing fatherhood, had come before the birth of their baby and not three months after their baby was born. This was my only peeve with the story, which is why I've deducted one star from my rating.
Nevertheless, their reunion nine months later, especially Max holding and feeding his daughter for the first time, his sweet skirmishes with Teddy, Tia's dog, and the sweet epilogue at the end more than made up for my peeve.
Lynne Graham delivers like always.
So, Tia leaves him and gives birth to their baby girl all alone. As much I liked the idea of Tia getting the freedom she'd been craving for, I wasn't at all happy with the fact that she chose not to have Max with her at the time of her delivery. I wish the regrets she'd had on behalf of Max, regarding his status as a father, of not giving him a chance to come around into embracing fatherhood, had come before the birth of their baby and not three months after their baby was born. This was my only peeve with the story, which is why I've deducted one star from my rating.
Nevertheless, their reunion nine months later, especially Max holding and feeding his daughter for the first time, his sweet skirmishes with Teddy, Tia's dog, and the sweet epilogue at the end more than made up for my peeve.
Lynne Graham delivers like always.
September 25, 2017
I ended the book with a smile on my face. This was such an enjoyable read. Loved Tia and Max. This was my first Harlequin Presents in 2017 and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The story was well written. Lynn Graham pulled it off quite spectacularly unlike most of the recent Harlequin Presents. In fact, only Lynn Graham can pull it off and not let it become a boring, predictable story; with two likable characters with insecurities.
If this has been on your TBR pile or you are contemplating reading this, I suggest you go ahead and read it. It was so much fun that I found it unputdownable and read it in one sitting.
If this has been on your TBR pile or you are contemplating reading this, I suggest you go ahead and read it. It was so much fun that I found it unputdownable and read it in one sitting.
September 7, 2017
When I had read the synopsis of this book, I had a feeling it wouldn't disappoint and I was right. The wait was worth it!
Tia is a sweetheart and I fell in love with her from the start, while Max... Oh boy! He really had great difficulty in expressing himself. He just couldn't seem to get it right with her and I felt so sorry for him at times.
This is also new for LG, as it was set up in Brazil and the story takes place throughout a year in the present time line. She did a fantastic job as both the characters were adorable. However, I have grown to expect humor when I read LG and there wasn't much here, plus Max's teen ache story was... Unnecessary? But Teddy, Baby and the kitchen fairy were amazing!
Overall, a cute, delightful read :)
Tia is a sweetheart and I fell in love with her from the start, while Max... Oh boy! He really had great difficulty in expressing himself. He just couldn't seem to get it right with her and I felt so sorry for him at times.
This is also new for LG, as it was set up in Brazil and the story takes place throughout a year in the present time line. She did a fantastic job as both the characters were adorable. However, I have grown to expect humor when I read LG and there wasn't much here, plus Max's teen ache story was... Unnecessary? But Teddy, Baby and the kitchen fairy were amazing!
Overall, a cute, delightful read :)
September 4, 2018
Una historia muy bonita y romántica de una de mis autoras favoritas.
Tia es una joven de 22 años que ha tenido una vida muy humilde y protegida que se encuentra de repente siendo la heredera de su abuelo millonario.
Max Leonelli es un joven millonario de 28 años procedente de un entorno humilde pero que ha conseguido estudiar gracias a la ayuda del abuelo de tía. Cuando su mentor le pide que se case con su nieta para protegerla no duda en aceptar.
Aunque la atracción entre los protagonistas se dará a primera vista, el amor tardará en llegar y tendrá que superar algunas dificultades. Me ha gustado mucho y me lo he leído prácticamente del tirón.
Tia es una joven de 22 años que ha tenido una vida muy humilde y protegida que se encuentra de repente siendo la heredera de su abuelo millonario.
Max Leonelli es un joven millonario de 28 años procedente de un entorno humilde pero que ha conseguido estudiar gracias a la ayuda del abuelo de tía. Cuando su mentor le pide que se case con su nieta para protegerla no duda en aceptar.
Aunque la atracción entre los protagonistas se dará a primera vista, el amor tardará en llegar y tendrá que superar algunas dificultades. Me ha gustado mucho y me lo he leído prácticamente del tirón.
September 23, 2017
I really liked this heroine. Loved the fact that she was stunningly beautiful, smart, sensitive yet strived to be independent and didn't turn into an incoherent mess whenever in the hero's radius. Loved how she became successful in her own right when she left the hero.
She wasn't a martyr that LG is so fond of writing.
P.S. I am not sure I am going to keep the 4* rating because I am tired of the same old pregnancy trope and I skimmed the book towards the end. If I still remember this story at the end of this month I'll keep the rating.
She wasn't a martyr that LG is so fond of writing.
P.S. I am not sure I am going to keep the 4* rating because I am tired of the same old pregnancy trope and I skimmed the book towards the end. If I still remember this story at the end of this month I'll keep the rating.
April 25, 2018
Me llevó más de un mes terminarla y eso quiere decir mucho.
Disfruto las novelas de Lynne, pero en esta oportunidad los personajes me parecieron chatos y sin una tensión que los sustente, por demás de alejados de sus protagonistas indómitos que hacen arder las novelas.
Disfruto las novelas de Lynne, pero en esta oportunidad los personajes me parecieron chatos y sin una tensión que los sustente, por demás de alejados de sus protagonistas indómitos que hacen arder las novelas.
September 7, 2017
can't imagine my life without the great Lynne Graham books love you ♡.
December 8, 2018
I really enjoyed reading Claimed for the Leonelli Legacy. The storytelling reminded me of classic Lynne Graham books. I did like how the heroine and hero talked to each other and got to know each other before the big misunderstanding happened. I've complained before that there needs to be more showing the heroine and hero getting to know each other in the first half of a romance rather than in the last half of the romance. For me it makes the happy ever after more solid. I did find the heroine doing a runner while pregnant annoying but it was necessary so the reader could see the hero be jealous & possessive towards the heroine.
I also think this the first feminist fantasy HP I've given 5 stars. Feminist fantasies are usually annoying because I think the heroine is annoying in her attempt be hard core femininist. In this book the heroine shocks the hero by not wanting to marry him after sex. He has to use her traditional upbringing to convince her to marry him. What made me like the heroine is she still embraced most of her traditional upbringing and didn't totally reject it. She fused it with her desire to be more feminist. So at the end she still went to religious service. I liked that.
What I enjoyed the most was the ending. I see the hero being a loving husband and the heroine being the loving wife and Teddy the dog getting sweets and a family too.
I also think this the first feminist fantasy HP I've given 5 stars. Feminist fantasies are usually annoying because I think the heroine is annoying in her attempt be hard core femininist. In this book the heroine shocks the hero by not wanting to marry him after sex. He has to use her traditional upbringing to convince her to marry him. What made me like the heroine is she still embraced most of her traditional upbringing and didn't totally reject it. She fused it with her desire to be more feminist. So at the end she still went to religious service. I liked that.
What I enjoyed the most was the ending. I see the hero being a loving husband and the heroine being the loving wife and Teddy the dog getting sweets and a family too.
December 8, 2017
This was just a good, old, sweet romance. Not too much drama. No OW, OM, or major angst. Just a well written, fun, romance with just enough drama to keep it from giving you cavities.
Max was asked by his mentor to travel to Brazil, bring home his long lost granddaughter who lived in a convent, and marry her. Max had serious reservations about this entire plan until he met Tia.
She was beautiful, innocent, sweet and Max wanted her the second he saw her. So much so, that he claimed her and took her virginity on the night they left the convent. Before Tia knew what was happening, she was married, pregnant and living in England.
What could have been a very trite story was made fresh and absolutely delightful by Lynne Graham’s wonderful way with words. I highly recommend this one. It is a wonderful read.
Max was asked by his mentor to travel to Brazil, bring home his long lost granddaughter who lived in a convent, and marry her. Max had serious reservations about this entire plan until he met Tia.
She was beautiful, innocent, sweet and Max wanted her the second he saw her. So much so, that he claimed her and took her virginity on the night they left the convent. Before Tia knew what was happening, she was married, pregnant and living in England.
What could have been a very trite story was made fresh and absolutely delightful by Lynne Graham’s wonderful way with words. I highly recommend this one. It is a wonderful read.
September 23, 2017
An innocent...
Tia Grayson has never known life outside the Brazilian convent she calls home. Until Max Leonelli arrives with the shocking news that she is heiress to an English fortune--and ignites a burning need for his touch...
A billionaire...
Tia's grandfather expects a match between his protegee and his heir--but Max is not a marrying man. Until the sight of Tia's ravishing beauty has him reconsidering...
A baby?
Max must escort Tia home, but desire soon overtakes them. After one incendiary night, the potential for consequences gives Max the perfect opportunity to claim Tia as his bride! (
Tia Grayson has never known life outside the Brazilian convent she calls home. Until Max Leonelli arrives with the shocking news that she is heiress to an English fortune--and ignites a burning need for his touch...
A billionaire...
Tia's grandfather expects a match between his protegee and his heir--but Max is not a marrying man. Until the sight of Tia's ravishing beauty has him reconsidering...
A baby?
Max must escort Tia home, but desire soon overtakes them. After one incendiary night, the potential for consequences gives Max the perfect opportunity to claim Tia as his bride! (
October 18, 2017
Little angst in this story, just a fluffy romance.
For the most part I liked Tia, who was raised in a convent, but I felt that she fell into lust too easily. Also, she always insisted that Max was honest with her, but wasn't honest with Max before she left about what she was going through.
As for Max, how could he believe that Tia knew he loved her when he used the words "icing and the cake" to describe her?! At the end he said he loved her, yet the way he constantly held himself back (as described in his thoughts) showed the opposite.
It was a good book, but not exceptional.
For the most part I liked Tia, who was raised in a convent, but I felt that she fell into lust too easily. Also, she always insisted that Max was honest with her, but wasn't honest with Max before she left about what she was going through.
As for Max, how could he believe that Tia knew he loved her when he used the words "icing and the cake" to describe her?! At the end he said he loved her, yet the way he constantly held himself back (as described in his thoughts) showed the opposite.
It was a good book, but not exceptional.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 3, 2018
At first I was really into this book, totally digging the premise, which was something different from anything that I have read before, but then by the middle it just petered out for me and suddenly I wasn’t digging it so much.
The first half of the book was the strongest part of the story by far. It just was different and I really liked the premise surrounding it and I got sucked in. I was really enmeshed in the story because it was such a new a different concept to anything that I have read from the Presents line before. And it was interesting to see it play out with the words on the page to see how it brought something new to the typical formulation of the Presents story, yet at the same time it was familiar too, mainly with a typical rich hero and a sweet, innocent heroine, but with a twist.
That was what really drew me to this story was the set up for this story. The heroine Tia had grew up in a convent all her life and had really no knowledge of the outside world and was innocent in all senses of the world. She had grew up on religious teachings and believed them. Her grandfather, who was a very wealthy man, had never met Tia due to his son aka her father refusing to provide access, but her grandfather wanted to meet her before he passed away from an illness. So, he trusted his right hand man, Max, to go get her and keep her safe. Her grandfather even wanted Max to marry her, so he could protect her from the unsavory outside world that Tia wasn’t used to. The bait to get Max to agree to such terms was that Max would get control of the company that he had spent his blood, sweat, and tears in all those years. And off the story went, even though it was a typical storyline, it felt very different while reading it.
Once Max and Tia met, sparks flew, and the attraction was there from the onset. It was an instant connection for both of them and something that neither had ever experienced before. I loved seeing them interact and flirt and just have this little bit of tension between them as they continued forward in the story.
What really surprised me was how spunky Tia was. She may have been innocent but she was no lap dog either. She stated what she thought and what she wanted to do. The nuns may have called her stubborn, but it was really her just saying what she wanted from her life when she had very little say about it. I like that she stood up for herself, and she put Max in his place a couple times, and I really enjoyed seeing that.
No, surprise they succumb to their heated attraction, which lead to all types of complications and caused them to rush into a marriage because of said consequences that could have occurred.
That was when the story took a serious nosedive for me after they got married. There wasn’t a lot of excitement or angst going on, and at times it felt bland. They had passionate scenes for sure, but that was about it. Yes, they talked about their pasts and what emotional hurts that they had from their parents, but for me it didn’t feel like that pulled them closer together. I just felt like okay, but I didn’t feel like they were getting closer to each other, even know they were getting to know each other. It was just really felt weird.
Bottom line I wasn’t feeling them as a couple by that point. I didn’t really see them falling in love, or that there was any romance really between them. It might have been partially that there was a passage of time thrown in there so things weren’t shown of how their relationship was progressing over the course of the book, but it just felt super rushed, and I didn’t really see that encompassing love that I was expecting on seeing in this story.
Don’t get me wrong there were some serious issues that they were contending with, but a lot of it didn’t pull at my gut like I was expecting it to especially with said issues. There wasn’t that drama, or that tension, or even that angst, instead it felt bland to me. A lot a felt was skipped over too. It just didn’t move me.
I almost felt like their relationship was too easy especially at the end. They just got back together and everything was hunky dory. I was expecting to see them work it out a little bit more especially at the point of their reunion. That just felt really weird too. I don’t know. It just wasn’t feeling it.
Despite the fact that I didn’t like the second half so much, I really did enjoy the first half and everything leading up to that. It was a unique setup. It felt different and fresh from typical Presents stories yet, at the same time it was in the style I liked. I liked seeing their connection and passion for each other in the beginning, but then after awhile I didn’t. It just stopped dead, and I felt like their relationship wasn’t building to something special. I didn’t feel it for the second half. And it was a shame because I was really into the first half. I don’t know what happened but once they got married it was kind of the specialness of the story got sucked out. I was no longer rooting for them as a couple. There needed to be more intensity. More emotionally. Just more something that would have pulled at my heartstrings. It was missing the heart of the story that was in there in the beginning. With that being said I still like Lynne Graham stories, and I will still enjoy the storylines that she writes, and I will read her again and again in the future because she has written some good ones just this one wasn’t my favorite of hers.
The first half of the book was the strongest part of the story by far. It just was different and I really liked the premise surrounding it and I got sucked in. I was really enmeshed in the story because it was such a new a different concept to anything that I have read from the Presents line before. And it was interesting to see it play out with the words on the page to see how it brought something new to the typical formulation of the Presents story, yet at the same time it was familiar too, mainly with a typical rich hero and a sweet, innocent heroine, but with a twist.
That was what really drew me to this story was the set up for this story. The heroine Tia had grew up in a convent all her life and had really no knowledge of the outside world and was innocent in all senses of the world. She had grew up on religious teachings and believed them. Her grandfather, who was a very wealthy man, had never met Tia due to his son aka her father refusing to provide access, but her grandfather wanted to meet her before he passed away from an illness. So, he trusted his right hand man, Max, to go get her and keep her safe. Her grandfather even wanted Max to marry her, so he could protect her from the unsavory outside world that Tia wasn’t used to. The bait to get Max to agree to such terms was that Max would get control of the company that he had spent his blood, sweat, and tears in all those years. And off the story went, even though it was a typical storyline, it felt very different while reading it.
Once Max and Tia met, sparks flew, and the attraction was there from the onset. It was an instant connection for both of them and something that neither had ever experienced before. I loved seeing them interact and flirt and just have this little bit of tension between them as they continued forward in the story.
What really surprised me was how spunky Tia was. She may have been innocent but she was no lap dog either. She stated what she thought and what she wanted to do. The nuns may have called her stubborn, but it was really her just saying what she wanted from her life when she had very little say about it. I like that she stood up for herself, and she put Max in his place a couple times, and I really enjoyed seeing that.
No, surprise they succumb to their heated attraction, which lead to all types of complications and caused them to rush into a marriage because of said consequences that could have occurred.
That was when the story took a serious nosedive for me after they got married. There wasn’t a lot of excitement or angst going on, and at times it felt bland. They had passionate scenes for sure, but that was about it. Yes, they talked about their pasts and what emotional hurts that they had from their parents, but for me it didn’t feel like that pulled them closer together. I just felt like okay, but I didn’t feel like they were getting closer to each other, even know they were getting to know each other. It was just really felt weird.
Bottom line I wasn’t feeling them as a couple by that point. I didn’t really see them falling in love, or that there was any romance really between them. It might have been partially that there was a passage of time thrown in there so things weren’t shown of how their relationship was progressing over the course of the book, but it just felt super rushed, and I didn’t really see that encompassing love that I was expecting on seeing in this story.
Don’t get me wrong there were some serious issues that they were contending with, but a lot of it didn’t pull at my gut like I was expecting it to especially with said issues. There wasn’t that drama, or that tension, or even that angst, instead it felt bland to me. A lot a felt was skipped over too. It just didn’t move me.
I almost felt like their relationship was too easy especially at the end. They just got back together and everything was hunky dory. I was expecting to see them work it out a little bit more especially at the point of their reunion. That just felt really weird too. I don’t know. It just wasn’t feeling it.
Despite the fact that I didn’t like the second half so much, I really did enjoy the first half and everything leading up to that. It was a unique setup. It felt different and fresh from typical Presents stories yet, at the same time it was in the style I liked. I liked seeing their connection and passion for each other in the beginning, but then after awhile I didn’t. It just stopped dead, and I felt like their relationship wasn’t building to something special. I didn’t feel it for the second half. And it was a shame because I was really into the first half. I don’t know what happened but once they got married it was kind of the specialness of the story got sucked out. I was no longer rooting for them as a couple. There needed to be more intensity. More emotionally. Just more something that would have pulled at my heartstrings. It was missing the heart of the story that was in there in the beginning. With that being said I still like Lynne Graham stories, and I will still enjoy the storylines that she writes, and I will read her again and again in the future because she has written some good ones just this one wasn’t my favorite of hers.
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May 21, 2024
Un'ingenua ereditiera e un uomo senza scrupoli.
Tia Grayson non ha mai conosciuto la vita al di fuori del convento nel quale è rinchiusa. Fino a quando Max Leonelli fa irruzione nel suo mondo, affermando che lei è la legittima erede di un'immensa fortuna e riuscendo a incendiarla di desiderio con un solo, unico sguardo.
Il nonno di Tia si aspetta che il suo protetto e la propria erede convolino a giuste nozze. Ma Max non è tipo da matrimonio, anche se la fresca sensualità di Tia potrebbe farlo ricredere.
La storia è molto dolce, unico problema, che poi penso sia un mio problema, è che non si conoscono e si innamorano nel giro di tre giorni. Se non meno.
Io so che essendo romanzi molto corti le autrici devono accellerare i tempi di innamoramento\corteggiamento e trovare degli espedienti per giustificare il tutto. Ma a me questa cosa non va, mi annoia. Poi ripeto il libro è molto carino, però per me è mancato quel qualcosa, quella scintilla che mi facesse provare simpatia per i personaggi, che avevano delle belle storie alle spalle, ma nonostante questo li ho trovati bidimensionali, per non parlare delle loro scelte molto discutibili.
Carino. Si legge velocemente. Per chi non ha troppe pretese è perfetto per un momento di relax.
Per me troppo semplice. Forse sarà perchè ho appena finito La Compagnia dell'Anello, che è di tutt'altro spessore, e quindi nel confronto questo libro ci ha perso.
Tre stelle perchè sono buona. Probabilmente sarebbe da due.
Tia Grayson non ha mai conosciuto la vita al di fuori del convento nel quale è rinchiusa. Fino a quando Max Leonelli fa irruzione nel suo mondo, affermando che lei è la legittima erede di un'immensa fortuna e riuscendo a incendiarla di desiderio con un solo, unico sguardo.
Il nonno di Tia si aspetta che il suo protetto e la propria erede convolino a giuste nozze. Ma Max non è tipo da matrimonio, anche se la fresca sensualità di Tia potrebbe farlo ricredere.
La storia è molto dolce, unico problema, che poi penso sia un mio problema, è che non si conoscono e si innamorano nel giro di tre giorni. Se non meno.
Io so che essendo romanzi molto corti le autrici devono accellerare i tempi di innamoramento\corteggiamento e trovare degli espedienti per giustificare il tutto. Ma a me questa cosa non va, mi annoia. Poi ripeto il libro è molto carino, però per me è mancato quel qualcosa, quella scintilla che mi facesse provare simpatia per i personaggi, che avevano delle belle storie alle spalle, ma nonostante questo li ho trovati bidimensionali, per non parlare delle loro scelte molto discutibili.
Carino. Si legge velocemente. Per chi non ha troppe pretese è perfetto per un momento di relax.
Per me troppo semplice. Forse sarà perchè ho appena finito La Compagnia dell'Anello, che è di tutt'altro spessore, e quindi nel confronto questo libro ci ha perso.
Tre stelle perchè sono buona. Probabilmente sarebbe da due.
June 27, 2023
The usual mills and boon fare. Lots of angst, resulting from virtually no dialogue between the H/h. The story was okay, the writing good, and the romance scenes were nicely done, but the copious internal narration was boring. The M&B authors are fabulous, but I think they have to write to a way too strict, and outdated formula. It's a pity not many self publish.
August 13, 2021
El nombre está un poco exagerado, pero... ¿Quienes somos nosotros para juzgar?
September 19, 2017
A wonderful love story with strong characters and a good plot. Loved it.
June 1, 2021
Lynne Graham’s HP’s are all the same. It’s the same recipe over and over again. The h meets the H, has sex with him that same night (or at least very, very, very soon) and she gets pregnant from their first time sex. *yawn*
I used to like Lynne Graham’s HP’s a lot, but not anymore because it’s too predictable. It’s like her books come from a factory. Lynne Graham doesn’t think about trying different story lines, it seems. And she is obsessed with pregnancies. All her h’s become pregnant.
This book is the same recipe again. It’s not bad and if you haven’t read tons of Lynne Graham’s HP’s (with all the same story line), you will probably like it.
I like HP’s in which the besotted H pursues the h and there is kissing and fondling going for on a while before they actually go all the way. Like in the good old HP’s.
Lynne Graham’s H’s aren’t besotted the first time they have sex with the h. That’s only logical because they hardly know the h they have sex with. It’s the first day they see the h. They are in lust, but not in love.
In this HP even the H says to the h that she should have let him wait for it.
I used to like Lynne Graham’s HP’s a lot, but not anymore because it’s too predictable. It’s like her books come from a factory. Lynne Graham doesn’t think about trying different story lines, it seems. And she is obsessed with pregnancies. All her h’s become pregnant.
This book is the same recipe again. It’s not bad and if you haven’t read tons of Lynne Graham’s HP’s (with all the same story line), you will probably like it.
I like HP’s in which the besotted H pursues the h and there is kissing and fondling going for on a while before they actually go all the way. Like in the good old HP’s.
Lynne Graham’s H’s aren’t besotted the first time they have sex with the h. That’s only logical because they hardly know the h they have sex with. It’s the first day they see the h. They are in lust, but not in love.
In this HP even the H says to the h that she should have let him wait for it.
February 4, 2019
Tia Grayson has spent most of her life being raised in a convent. Abandoned first by her mother, then her father, she waited for her chance to go out in to the real world.
Max Leonelli is tasked with not only bringing his boss and mentor's granddaughter home, but to marry her as well. Andrew Grayson knows that leaving his granddaughter alone when he dies would be the worst thing that could happen to her. She would not be able to handle the money, fame, and load involved in running a multimillion dollar business. Marrying Max, she would have him to rely on.
An ok story. Not sure someone coming out of a convent would immediately sleep with a guy, even if they were gorgeous. But, who knows.
Max Leonelli is tasked with not only bringing his boss and mentor's granddaughter home, but to marry her as well. Andrew Grayson knows that leaving his granddaughter alone when he dies would be the worst thing that could happen to her. She would not be able to handle the money, fame, and load involved in running a multimillion dollar business. Marrying Max, she would have him to rely on.
An ok story. Not sure someone coming out of a convent would immediately sleep with a guy, even if they were gorgeous. But, who knows.
September 10, 2024
Girl raised entirely in a convent meets a damaged man with a face of an angel and a magic penis and becomes a wanton hussy.
Marriage and pregnancy follow then she suddenly becomes TSTL and leaves him without discussing any of what she perceives as their problems.
9 months later she decides she really ought to let him know that she's alive.
Max gets the best lines.
"You should have told me you were coming" she protested.
"My apologies" Max intoned softly. " your nine months of silence killed any manners I ever had stone dead".
"I'm sorry I didn't get in touch sooner" Mia murmured "I didn't know what to say. I know that's no excuse but - ".
" you're right it's not an excuse. If it was I'd have first call on it" Max said " I didn't know what to say when you told me you were pregnant and my god haven't you made me pay for that lack of verbal dexterity".
I liked the dog. ☺️
Three stars.
Marriage and pregnancy follow then she suddenly becomes TSTL and leaves him without discussing any of what she perceives as their problems.
9 months later she decides she really ought to let him know that she's alive.
Max gets the best lines.
"You should have told me you were coming" she protested.
"My apologies" Max intoned softly. " your nine months of silence killed any manners I ever had stone dead".
"I'm sorry I didn't get in touch sooner" Mia murmured "I didn't know what to say. I know that's no excuse but - ".
" you're right it's not an excuse. If it was I'd have first call on it" Max said " I didn't know what to say when you told me you were pregnant and my god haven't you made me pay for that lack of verbal dexterity".
I liked the dog. ☺️
Three stars.
October 20, 2017
Unusual, convent-bred, virgin heroine
Tia Grayson has been living in a convent, in a tiny, impoverished, mining village in Brazil, for the past 20 years. She was abandoned there as an infant by both her mother, a narcissistic former model, and her father, who took vows of poverty and became a fanatical, Catholic missionary. Tia has no vocation for becoming a nun, and she has longed for years to escape the backwater in Brazil where she has spent her whole life. But with her extremely limited education and no money—and no idea at all she has a rich grandfather who might help her—she has felt completely stuck at the convent that has been her only home.
Andrew Grayson, Tia’s grandfather, has longed to bring his only grandchild to live with him all these years, but her father refused to let him, and Andrew didn’t want to completely alienate his only living son by going against his directives about Tia. It is only after her father’s untimely death that Andrew feels he can finally offer Tia a home at his estate in England. Unfortunately, he is suffering from a terminal illness and is too debilitated to fetch Tia himself, so he asks his protégé, Max Leonelli, a 28-year-old, Italian, multimillionaire financier, to bring Tia to him. In the process of making this request, Andrew informs Max that he very much wants Max to marry Tia, even if he doesn’t love her, and even if it is only a temporary, “starter” marriage, in order to keep her safe from the hordes of gold-diggers who will be coming after her because of the massive fortune she will inherit from Andrew when he dies within the next few months. He tells Max there is no one he trusts more than him, and the marriage would make him officially a member of the Grayson family. Max loves and is fiercely loyal to Andrew—would do anything for him he possibly can—but he balks at the very thought of marriage. He comes from a horrible parental background, and he is convinced that he is so tainted by it, he doesn’t believe he is capable of loving and caring for a wife and children. Max was orphaned at age 12 and came to live with his aunt, who was Andrew’s housekeeper and mistress at the time. Andrew took Max under his wing, paid for an expensive, first-class, secondary-school and university education, taught him all about business, and at Andrew’s request, Max has been the acting CEO of Andrew’s international, multi-billion-dollar business empire ever since Andrew became seriously ill. As far as Max is concerned, he owes Andrew everything, and he knows that escorting Tia and marrying her is Andrew’s dying wish. Furthermore, nothing on earth could tempt lonely, alienated Max more than the siren call of being officially part of Andrew’s family, even if only through a short-term marriage. So, off to Brazil he goes.
This novel is a quick, entertaining read. Max is a classic, wounded, Alpha, romance hero, but there is nothing cliché about him. He is a loyal, decent man who soon demonstrates to Tia that he has a deep well inside him of untapped potential for love and generosity. Tia herself has a cheerful, optimistic, forceful disposition and a very kind heart. It is a nice change among Harlequin Presents billionaire romances that, due to Tia’s inheritance from Andrew, she is actually much richer than Max. There is only one other book of over 120 romances that LG has written with a similarly wealthy heroine, The Heiress Bride. It is an enjoyable twist.
Tia’s relationship with her grandfather is quite moving and, as is frequently the case with LG heroines, Tia adopts a stray, terrier-mix dog, who is a beloved pet who has emotionally sustained her during many long, lonely years before meeting the man of her dreams. Teddy is a holy terror of a terrier who adds many welcome moments of humor and pathos to the story.
I only have two quibbles with this overall excellent plot: First, why hasn’t Tia’s grandfather, and her grandmother before she died, bothered to make a relationship with Tia, as their only grandchild, over the past 20 years? As wealthy as Andrew is, he and his wife could have flown to Brazil together in a private jet and visited Tia, and he could have continued to come alone after his wife died. At the very least, he could have sent Tia gifts, written her letters, and/or made regular donations to the convent in order to make her life there easier—and make up for the fact that her father hasn’t paid them any money. Second, Tia has been completely indoctrinated in the teachings of the Catholic Catechism which equates fornication with the sin of breaking the sixth commandment ("Thou shalt not commit adultery"). Yet in spite of this teaching, she doesn’t have a single qualm about leaping into bed with Max within 24 hours of meeting him. Not only that, she is eager to experiment with fellatio on the very next day after she loses her virginity, because she has somehow heard about it and wants to give it a whirl. Her forward-thinking, irreligious attitude about sexual adventure is supposedly based solely on her having listened to fellow female, underage students at the convent’s private, residential school gossiping about sex. Other than that, she has had no other outlet for information about the wider world. There are no magazines, newspapers, television, or internet at the convent which could have exposed her to the concept of sexual liberation.
I rate this book as follows:
Heroine: 4 stars
Hero: 4 stars
Subcharacters: 4 stars
Romance Plot: 4 stars
Writing: 4 stars
Overall: 4 stars
Tia Grayson has been living in a convent, in a tiny, impoverished, mining village in Brazil, for the past 20 years. She was abandoned there as an infant by both her mother, a narcissistic former model, and her father, who took vows of poverty and became a fanatical, Catholic missionary. Tia has no vocation for becoming a nun, and she has longed for years to escape the backwater in Brazil where she has spent her whole life. But with her extremely limited education and no money—and no idea at all she has a rich grandfather who might help her—she has felt completely stuck at the convent that has been her only home.
Andrew Grayson, Tia’s grandfather, has longed to bring his only grandchild to live with him all these years, but her father refused to let him, and Andrew didn’t want to completely alienate his only living son by going against his directives about Tia. It is only after her father’s untimely death that Andrew feels he can finally offer Tia a home at his estate in England. Unfortunately, he is suffering from a terminal illness and is too debilitated to fetch Tia himself, so he asks his protégé, Max Leonelli, a 28-year-old, Italian, multimillionaire financier, to bring Tia to him. In the process of making this request, Andrew informs Max that he very much wants Max to marry Tia, even if he doesn’t love her, and even if it is only a temporary, “starter” marriage, in order to keep her safe from the hordes of gold-diggers who will be coming after her because of the massive fortune she will inherit from Andrew when he dies within the next few months. He tells Max there is no one he trusts more than him, and the marriage would make him officially a member of the Grayson family. Max loves and is fiercely loyal to Andrew—would do anything for him he possibly can—but he balks at the very thought of marriage. He comes from a horrible parental background, and he is convinced that he is so tainted by it, he doesn’t believe he is capable of loving and caring for a wife and children. Max was orphaned at age 12 and came to live with his aunt, who was Andrew’s housekeeper and mistress at the time. Andrew took Max under his wing, paid for an expensive, first-class, secondary-school and university education, taught him all about business, and at Andrew’s request, Max has been the acting CEO of Andrew’s international, multi-billion-dollar business empire ever since Andrew became seriously ill. As far as Max is concerned, he owes Andrew everything, and he knows that escorting Tia and marrying her is Andrew’s dying wish. Furthermore, nothing on earth could tempt lonely, alienated Max more than the siren call of being officially part of Andrew’s family, even if only through a short-term marriage. So, off to Brazil he goes.
This novel is a quick, entertaining read. Max is a classic, wounded, Alpha, romance hero, but there is nothing cliché about him. He is a loyal, decent man who soon demonstrates to Tia that he has a deep well inside him of untapped potential for love and generosity. Tia herself has a cheerful, optimistic, forceful disposition and a very kind heart. It is a nice change among Harlequin Presents billionaire romances that, due to Tia’s inheritance from Andrew, she is actually much richer than Max. There is only one other book of over 120 romances that LG has written with a similarly wealthy heroine, The Heiress Bride. It is an enjoyable twist.
Tia’s relationship with her grandfather is quite moving and, as is frequently the case with LG heroines, Tia adopts a stray, terrier-mix dog, who is a beloved pet who has emotionally sustained her during many long, lonely years before meeting the man of her dreams. Teddy is a holy terror of a terrier who adds many welcome moments of humor and pathos to the story.
I only have two quibbles with this overall excellent plot: First, why hasn’t Tia’s grandfather, and her grandmother before she died, bothered to make a relationship with Tia, as their only grandchild, over the past 20 years? As wealthy as Andrew is, he and his wife could have flown to Brazil together in a private jet and visited Tia, and he could have continued to come alone after his wife died. At the very least, he could have sent Tia gifts, written her letters, and/or made regular donations to the convent in order to make her life there easier—and make up for the fact that her father hasn’t paid them any money. Second, Tia has been completely indoctrinated in the teachings of the Catholic Catechism which equates fornication with the sin of breaking the sixth commandment ("Thou shalt not commit adultery"). Yet in spite of this teaching, she doesn’t have a single qualm about leaping into bed with Max within 24 hours of meeting him. Not only that, she is eager to experiment with fellatio on the very next day after she loses her virginity, because she has somehow heard about it and wants to give it a whirl. Her forward-thinking, irreligious attitude about sexual adventure is supposedly based solely on her having listened to fellow female, underage students at the convent’s private, residential school gossiping about sex. Other than that, she has had no other outlet for information about the wider world. There are no magazines, newspapers, television, or internet at the convent which could have exposed her to the concept of sexual liberation.
I rate this book as follows:
Heroine: 4 stars
Hero: 4 stars
Subcharacters: 4 stars
Romance Plot: 4 stars
Writing: 4 stars
Overall: 4 stars
March 10, 2018
Well...I’m not sure what expectations I had for this book, but fell short of all of them. The premise is the least of its problems. It skips over chunks of time where you should be reading about the events that happened in order for the changes to occur, but instead, it’s all glossed over. There’s little to no character development. And the kicker is that the damn thing ENDS at 68% on the Kindle!!!! She’s naive and astute, and he’s a rake but so sensitive, she’s just too Brazilian to understand his American male personality. Yeesh.
October 4, 2018
This hero was so aloof there was absolutely no chemistry
SPOILER ALERT:
Naturally at the very end of the book he claims he fell for her from the beginning. Yeah right. At no point was there ever a hint that that was happening. On several occasions during his monologues, he said he could never love her. Didn't want kids. When he did speak to her it was always robotic and unemotional.
The heroine was nice and sweet but nothing memorable about her. I liked how she left him and didn't do the chasing.
SPOILER ALERT:
Naturally at the very end of the book he claims he fell for her from the beginning. Yeah right. At no point was there ever a hint that that was happening. On several occasions during his monologues, he said he could never love her. Didn't want kids. When he did speak to her it was always robotic and unemotional.
The heroine was nice and sweet but nothing memorable about her. I liked how she left him and didn't do the chasing.
March 14, 2020
The editor of this book gave up halfway through, cause things started jumping around rapidly. How was the heroine suppose to know hero? She isn't a mind reader! Think it would have been better had she overheard the hero and her grandfather talking about their plan and how well it was working and excited for the baby, not out of joy but out of continuing the plan. Then the heroine could leave. But she just kinda bailed. I didn't like the heroine sleeping with the hero like a day after meeting him...seems a bit off.
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