الباقي من الزمن.. لحظة

The Millionaire Affair #4

by Lindsay Armstrong

أولاً يأخذها كرهينة ثم يطلب يدها للزواج!

لم يكن خاطف جو لوكاس سوى المليونير غافن هاستينغ الرابع.

لقد اخ...

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

160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Gillian Smith (alias Lindsay Armstrong) was born in South Africa. She grew up with three ambitions: to become a writer, to travel the world, and to be a game ranger. She didn't achieve the last one, but her fascination for wildlife and that special something about Africa and its big game still remains with her. When she went to work it was in travel, at an agency and an airline, and this started her on the road to seeing the world.

Lindsey met her New Zealand-born husband, who had been working in West Africa, when he was on his way home through Johannesburg. He did go home but in a matter of weeks he was back in South Africa, and six months later they were married. Three of their five children were born in South Africa. Then one in London and one in Australia, after they made the decision to emigrate from South Africa.

It wasn't until her youngest child started school that Lindsay sat down at the kitchen table determined to tackle her other ambition to stop dreaming about writing and do it! She hasn't stopped since. She's not happy unless she has a book under way, and she's discovered she can write through just about anything.

Lindsay and her husband have moved around a lot. They've trained racehorses,farmed, and lived on their boat for six months while they sailed it from the Gold Coast to the Torres Strait and back, an epic voyage! They currently live in Queensland, overlooking the water; they sold their farm, and they're looking around for another boat. She and her husband love to travel and have been back to Africa twice in the past few years. The highlight of one of their trips was a visit to the Serengeti, in Tanzania, where Lindsay did the one thing she swore she would never do: take a ride in a hot-air balloon. She was a nervous wreck as the balloon tottered upright, but will remember it as a unique experience to see the game spreading out on the Serengeti plain beneath her as the sun rose.

"They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there..."

Despite this passion for wildlife and Africa, Lindsay considers Australia her home now and loves the country. She travelled to Sydney to witness the closing weekend of the Olympic Games in September 2000; it made her proud to be an adopted Aussie!

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 2 out of 5]

HAIKU BOOK REVIEW: The Millionaire's Marriage Claim, by Lindsay Armstrong.

Kidnappings, fires, and floods,
Oh my, and yet it
was all so trite and boring.

[iamGamz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyable. The H kidnaps the h when he believed that she was in league with the people trying to kidnap him. Turns out she was completely innocent of any wrong doing.

During the harrowing situation, the H got shot saving the h’s life and as he passed out, he proposed. They get married and there are many misunderstandings between them that cause more problems for them. Until a flood almost washed them away and they finally confess the truth to each other.

It wasn’t a great read, but it was sweet and I did like the characters. The H’s daughter and mother are real characters. They brought a lot of light humor into what would have been a dry story.

[Dana Al-Basha | دانة الباشا · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Millionaire's Marriage Claim, by Lindsay Armstrong
الباقي من الزمن لحظة للكاتب ليندساي أرمسترونغ

[Marie-Antoinette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Het die boek baie geniet

[رومولا الن emmajain-book · Rating 2 out of 5]

لم احبها
بدايتها كانت جميله
لكن بعد 40 صفحه اصبحت ممله اكملتها بشق الانفس

[Mattie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really disliked this one, I didn't like either character and the plot was not good at all. I also don't like that hero already had a daughter. Np.

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 ½ Stars! ~ It was a string of quirky coincidences that led Gavin Hastings to at first believe that Jo Lucas was one of the kidnappers that had taken over his outback homestead. Gavin is surprised at Jo’s bravery and refusal to be steamrollered. The night spent while first hiding, then trying to escape from the kidnappers, created an intense bond between them. In a fight to escape and protect Jo, Gavin is shot and before he blacks out he asks Jo to marry him. And this begins their journey. Jo knows that Gavin will never fall deeply, wildly, and madly in love; he’d already had that. This is a marriage of convenience; a mother for his daughter and wife in his bed. And Jo will have security and family, something she had lacked all her life growing up in foster care. It’s happened so fast, and Gavin is determined that they will get married.

Ms. Armstrong writes compelling stories that have wonderful twists and conflicts. Opening this story with the kidnapping drama is a wonderful way to see the real insides to these great characters. Gavin is indeed high-handed and always used to getting his way, but Jo proves that she is up to the challenge of putting him in his place. Their chemistry crackles it’s so electric. I love it when both hero and heroine get to be the brave ones and prove to the other that the other comes first. Great secondary characters in this one; a great story all around!

[More Books Than Time · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story but the characters don’t seem real.

Plot should grab us with kidnapping, exploding boat, climbing a tree just as car washes away in flood. Maybe it is too dramatic.

Reread. I think the problem is we feel like we are reading, watching, not participating. My favorite romances usually feel real, albeit situations and characters (gorgeous, rich Hs??) are over the top. I didn’t feel part of story or want to rewrite dialogue as so often I do.

The first part of book was familiar but I didn’t recall the rest after 2 years.

I think this will improve on reread.

[Cristina · Rating 4 out of 5]

¡Al fin encontré un libro que mantiene el mismo ritmo desde el comienzo hasta el fin! Gavin tiene algun sentido de humor mezclado con sarcasmo que le sienta muy bien. Jo es ingenua y tiene un coraje que le va y viene como olas en el mar. Cuando están juntos resultan en una pareja tierna, divertida y que se pelea como si fueron niños. Gavin tiene una hija pequeña que hace el puente entre los adultos cuando las cosas se ponen malas y es protagonista de unas escenas maravillosas.

[Diamond]

الباقي من الزمن ..لحظة
ليندساي أرمسترونغ
أولا يأخذها كرهينة ثم يطلب يدها للزواج !
لم يكن خاطف جو لوكاس سوى المليونير غافن هاستينغ الرابع .
لقد اختطف الرهينة الخطأ وأبقاها سجينة لديه لليلة كاملة ... لكن غروره وجرأته كانا ما أسر قلبها بحق !
وبما أنها بين يديه وتحت رحمته فقد سألها أن تكون عروسه إنه مصر على أن تصبح زوجته ولو بالقوة ... وحده الشك يكدر صفاء حبها .. هل يصر على الارتباط بها بدافع الحب أم أنه لن يجد أما أفضل منها لابنته

[Christy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The hero and heroine in this tale are fairly believable characters, their relationship hang-ups are mostly realistic, but their love story and how quickly that love overcomes their hang-ups weakens the story. Also the hero's mother has lots of unexplored potential, and her situation is pretty much left hanging.

[Michaela · Rating 1 out of 5]

So annoying, boring and stupid.

[Calysta · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this, even though the child didn't sound very much like a 6 year old.