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منذ خمس سنوات وولف تالامنتس يفتش عن روان كوربت لكي ينتقم، وحين عثر عليها اكتشف أنها كما توقّع: رائعة الجمال، ساحرة إلى حد القتل!. لكن براءتها صعقته وحيرته فأضاعت مقاومته...
وكما ظهرت في حياته فجأة، عادت واختفت، ولكن ولف يستسلم بسهولة بل سيبحث عنها حتى يجدها ويجبرها على أن تقر له بالحقيقة!
فهل سينجح؟ أم سيكون نصيبه الموت على يدها أيضاً؟
وكما ظهرت في حياته فجأة، عادت واختفت، ولكن ولف يستسلم بسهولة بل سيبحث عنها حتى يجدها ويجبرها على أن تقر له بالحقيقة!
فهل سينجح؟ أم سيكون نصيبه الموت على يدها أيضاً؟
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About the author
Robyn Donald
448 books148 followersRobyn Elaine Donald was born on 14 August 1940 in Northland, New Zealand. She was the oldest child in her family, and as a child, she thrilled her four sisters and one brother with bloodcurdling adventure tales, usually very like the latest book she'd borrowed from the library.
Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.
The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.
Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.
The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.
Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
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August 3, 2017
The story has a trope done up so many times before.
The suspense is simple, and the secret easily surmised.
But still the author keeps the tension sharp and an edgy expectation keeps you turning over the pages.
Even the sometimes-purplish prose doesn’t distract.
Only thing that lets it down is the swift anti-climactic resolution. When was it/what was it that made the H finally accepts her version? I wanted him to not believe her so easily, behave more crappily, then get hit by facts/proofs and come back for a mega-grovel! Rather he does leave, but on a sappy she-deserves-better note. Major face-palm moment!
The last chapter redoing of the cute or not-so-cute first meet doesn’t work in all stories, let me tell you.
And certainly not wearing the same dress/shirt – especially if it’s borrowed and had got coffee spilled over it the last time. And then got dunked in the bathtub for a wash by the H. (OMG it’s silk and is ruined now, you moron!)
I prefer my Hs to get them dry-cleaned!
(Umm, just excuse my dry cleaning fixation and crazed rant, folks. Put it down to my disappointment or maybe just hypoglycemia!)
*reaches for my sugar laced tea with a trembling hand*
The suspense is simple, and the secret easily surmised.
But still the author keeps the tension sharp and an edgy expectation keeps you turning over the pages.
Even the sometimes-purplish prose doesn’t distract.
Only thing that lets it down is the swift anti-climactic resolution. When was it/what was it that made the H finally accepts her version? I wanted him to not believe her so easily, behave more crappily, then get hit by facts/proofs and come back for a mega-grovel! Rather he does leave, but on a sappy she-deserves-better note. Major face-palm moment!
The last chapter redoing of the cute or not-so-cute first meet doesn’t work in all stories, let me tell you.
And certainly not wearing the same dress/shirt – especially if it’s borrowed and had got coffee spilled over it the last time. And then got dunked in the bathtub for a wash by the H. (OMG it’s silk and is ruined now, you moron!)
I prefer my Hs to get them dry-cleaned!
(Umm, just excuse my dry cleaning fixation and crazed rant, folks. Put it down to my disappointment or maybe just hypoglycemia!)
*reaches for my sugar laced tea with a trembling hand*
May 27, 2025
I’ve read other books 📚by Robyn Donald and thoroughly enjoyed them. 😃
This one— not so much. The writing felt so stilted. And the whole 27 year old virgin heroine sleeping with the hero within a couple of hours of first meeting him 🥴, felt so forced and completely unbelievable. 🫣
Even the way it was done, the whole entire setup was ludicrous! 🤦♀️
Oh but it’s ok, because his magic cock 🍆 must have cast a spell 💦 on her because apparently it was all enough to make her fall deeply in love with him. 😍🤷♀️
Bottom line: Not my fave by a long shot so I think it’s ok if others want to just skip this one. ☝️ 👍
3 STARS (I did at least finish it, but it was a struggle for sure)
This one— not so much. The writing felt so stilted. And the whole 27 year old virgin heroine sleeping with the hero within a couple of hours of first meeting him 🥴, felt so forced and completely unbelievable. 🫣
Even the way it was done, the whole entire setup was ludicrous! 🤦♀️
Oh but it’s ok, because his magic cock 🍆 must have cast a spell 💦 on her because apparently it was all enough to make her fall deeply in love with him. 😍🤷♀️
Bottom line: Not my fave by a long shot so I think it’s ok if others want to just skip this one. ☝️ 👍
3 STARS (I did at least finish it, but it was a struggle for sure)
August 28, 2018
Nice hero and heroine. Hero believed heroine easily (oddity of modern HPs) so there is not enough angst.
December 23, 2017
Not as good as some of Ms Donald`s other books.
August 23, 2023
Re-read. Like sliding my feet into a comfortable pair of slippers. Know exactly what I'm getting in mid-late RD and this was perfectly acceptable. Wolfe wants to get to the bottom of his stepbrother's death. There's been an inquest (6 years ago) but he didn't believe the conclusion and his mother is ailing. He blames the woman his brother was in love with, then known as Anne who subsequently disappeared. He has her tracked down at long last. She is going by the name of Rowan and is a potter of some talent. It's taken so long because she'd gone to Japan to study under a master there for 5 years and had not long been back. There's a lovely German Shepherd called Lobo. The sexual attraction between Wolfe and Rowan is immediate and intense - she loses her v card to him very willingly on the same night they meet. There's a beautiful yacht and a bach style beach house in Northland. Would it even be a RD without that. Cantered through very easily in one sitting.
April 10, 2018
Always been a fan of this author, but moreso her older books than her newer ones. Her newer works (which are probably still several years old by now) were interesting and different, with sharp writing and heroines who were NOT doormats! But then she started writing clichéd characters and situations, all billionaires and royalty crap.
This one featured a billionaire of course and though we do have the instant attraction and strong feelings the author writes so well, the heroine still was a little flatter than what I'm used to from this author. But more disappointing was the sharp right the author took at the end of the book. (Spoilers ahead). The heroine carries this dark secret, the hero harasses her for the truth, but when its finally revealed, the hero just says 'you should have told me sooner, of course I believe you', despite the great struggled the whole book where he doubts her character and carries a lot of anger and prejudice against her. To so easily give it up? Very odd and disjointed-fell flat and deflated the build up.
Still, i'm always going to be a fan of hers, and this book was a good quick read when I needed one during tax season. So, no regrets!
This one featured a billionaire of course and though we do have the instant attraction and strong feelings the author writes so well, the heroine still was a little flatter than what I'm used to from this author. But more disappointing was the sharp right the author took at the end of the book. (Spoilers ahead). The heroine carries this dark secret, the hero harasses her for the truth, but when its finally revealed, the hero just says 'you should have told me sooner, of course I believe you', despite the great struggled the whole book where he doubts her character and carries a lot of anger and prejudice against her. To so easily give it up? Very odd and disjointed-fell flat and deflated the build up.
Still, i'm always going to be a fan of hers, and this book was a good quick read when I needed one during tax season. So, no regrets!
June 3, 2021
Wolfe has been looking for Rowan Corbett for five long years. She is the only one who knows the truth about his brother's death.
But the woman he encounters is not the temptress he expected. In fact, Wolfe can hardly resist the lure of Rowan's innocence..
But the woman he encounters is not the temptress he expected. In fact, Wolfe can hardly resist the lure of Rowan's innocence..
August 12, 2025
Hero thinks the heroine was responsible for his half-brother's death. She disappeared after the inquest and he's been looking for her ever since (7 years?).
Heroine is a potter and they meet at her first gallery showing. The attraction is instant and virgin heroine falls into his bed. She runs out on him when she realizes he has a connection to the half-brother.
Hero follows her to her remote cabin on the North Island of NZ. Heroine eventually tells the hero what he needs to know and he believes her. (That's how you know this is a newer Harlequin). Heroine tries her hand a sculpture for six months and hero is there for her next gallery showing for an HEA.
This was very predictable, but RD is such a good writer that it was fun to cover old ground with her. There's very little angst for all the heavy subject matter. I miss vintage RD.
Heroine is a potter and they meet at her first gallery showing. The attraction is instant and virgin heroine falls into his bed. She runs out on him when she realizes he has a connection to the half-brother.
Hero follows her to her remote cabin on the North Island of NZ. Heroine eventually tells the hero what he needs to know and he believes her. (That's how you know this is a newer Harlequin). Heroine tries her hand a sculpture for six months and hero is there for her next gallery showing for an HEA.
This was very predictable, but RD is such a good writer that it was fun to cover old ground with her. There's very little angst for all the heavy subject matter. I miss vintage RD.
October 9, 2025
God help me with the heroine! 😩
She’s always in a dilemma, one minute she’s like, “Go!” and pushes the hero away, and the next, she’s whispering, “Wolfe…” and seducing him again. 😅
Then she feels humiliated because the hero calls her out for doing exactly that. Meeehh...
Other than her so-called powerful beauty, if I ever met this kind of woman in real life, I swear I’d go mad.
And oh, Mr. Hero… are you really sure that what you feel is love, not just lust and obsession? Run, man. Save yourself. 😂
She’s always in a dilemma, one minute she’s like, “Go!” and pushes the hero away, and the next, she’s whispering, “Wolfe…” and seducing him again. 😅
Then she feels humiliated because the hero calls her out for doing exactly that. Meeehh...
Other than her so-called powerful beauty, if I ever met this kind of woman in real life, I swear I’d go mad.
And oh, Mr. Hero… are you really sure that what you feel is love, not just lust and obsession? Run, man. Save yourself. 😂
December 16, 2023
2 1/2 stars, 2 for story with too easy redemption and a half star for making h a potter. H is truly awful but has a sudden epiphany and does a micro grovel but we still have a chapter to go. Pacing is off, unusual for RD.
September 30, 2019
Heroine is stalked by hero and his mother demanding answers about untimely death of hero’s brother... who was also stalking her, not that his family will believe her. Ugh.
October 27, 2019
A bit meh, after everything that family subjects her to, I needed a stronger ending.
January 8, 2021
يزعجنى السماح الغير مبرر للبطلة التي سامحت البطل على ترهيبه اياها والمبرر اخوه فلم لم يحاول اتخاذ أى خطوة تجاهها بس احببت القصة
February 2, 2022
The heroine’s treacherous body syndrome and her stubborn refusal to not tell the hero anything until the last one quarter of the book were very annoying.
October 17, 2023
It was ok,kinda boring and not too much angst
that's why 2 star.
that's why 2 star.
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