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Forbidden Night With The Duke
One stolen kiss...
Nurse Megan Wheeler won't let that passionate kiss or the way she feels about Jaye Perera ruin her dream job. Yes, he's a duke, a doctor, and devastatingly handsome...but he's also her future boss, and that's a boundary she won't - can't - cross!
But working side by side with him under the Sri Lankan sun is a delicious torture. One that reveals to Megan a different side of guarded Jaye... After the hurt they've both experienced, can they learn to trust in love again?
Nurse Megan Wheeler won't let that passionate kiss or the way she feels about Jaye Perera ruin her dream job. Yes, he's a duke, a doctor, and devastatingly handsome...but he's also her future boss, and that's a boundary she won't - can't - cross!
But working side by side with him under the Sri Lankan sun is a delicious torture. One that reveals to Megan a different side of guarded Jaye... After the hurt they've both experienced, can they learn to trust in love again?
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288 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2017
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March 3, 2020
3 stars. I did genuinely enjoy the story of this one but my favorite aspect of this book was the setting. It takes place in Sri Lanka and I thought the author did a great job and I was interested in everything that was going on. I liked the hero, Jaye, quite a bit. He was self assured but wasn’t afraid to be vulnerable and wear his heart on his sleeve. What didn’t work for me was the romance and the heroine, Megan. She was entirely too self righteous and judgmental for my taste and I think her and Jaye lacked chemistry. They worked well together as friends and co-workers but the romance just wasn’t there for me unfortunately.
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{Challenges completed:
✔Romance Readers Reading Group: March Monthly Challenge (3 out of 10)
✔For Love of a Book: Santa’s Workshop Challenge
✔For Love of a Book: Hunt the Serial Killer Challenge
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November 22, 2019
"Forbidden Night with the Duke" by Annie Claydon is HARLEQUIN MEDICAL ROMANCE #933 (January 2018), and the most current romance novel that I've read, after having read a few from the 1970s-80s. Thankfully the hero of this novel is more respectful of the heroine than in those old novels. I liked how the two main characters were frank with each other about their feelings, rather than dragging things out with misunderstandings, etc. My only complaint is that the happy ending seemed a bit forced; presumably the problem that kept the two from being together (he was her boss) still existed at the end, and so that dilemma was never really solved. There was also the issue that the hero had misled her by making her think that another person in the organization, John, made the decisions about her advancement, when actually it was the hero himself. This secret is apparently never revealed to her.
Don't judge a book by the cover or its title. "Forbidden Night with the Duke" is a steamy-sounding title characteristic of today's Harlequins. In the 1960s, it might have had a bland title like "Nurse Megan's Dilemma" or "Doctor from Sri Lanka." In the 1970s-80s, it might have had a more mysterious title like "Eastern Heat" or "Follow Me." But today we get titles like "Forbidden Night with the Duke," which more accurately might be reworded as "Potentially Inappropriate Relationship with One's Boss (Who Also Happens to be a Duke)." There really is only one "forbidden night" in the novel, a steamy sex scene on pages 227-232 (aside from a brief attempt early on which is abruptly curtailed before anything really happens). The story has some twists and turns which kept things moving dramatically, and I really did wonder if the two lovers would get their happy ending after all.
Overall the book is well-written and I enjoyed it. I look forward to reading more by the author. I'd not read a "Larger Print" Harlequin before, but after a few pages I got used to the larger size of the typeface and in fact now even prefer it. (When I went to read another paperback novel after finishing this one, the smaller typeface of a normal book was bit jarring at first.) I did find one tiny mistake in the text: On page 66, Megan says "When I found David down in the kitchen," she actually means Tim. (I also seem to recall seeing Jaye spelled as Jay once early on but can't find it now.) Despite any above-stated flaws, I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to read a current romance novel -- even someone like myself who prefers the older stuff.
Don't judge a book by the cover or its title. "Forbidden Night with the Duke" is a steamy-sounding title characteristic of today's Harlequins. In the 1960s, it might have had a bland title like "Nurse Megan's Dilemma" or "Doctor from Sri Lanka." In the 1970s-80s, it might have had a more mysterious title like "Eastern Heat" or "Follow Me." But today we get titles like "Forbidden Night with the Duke," which more accurately might be reworded as "Potentially Inappropriate Relationship with One's Boss (Who Also Happens to be a Duke)." There really is only one "forbidden night" in the novel, a steamy sex scene on pages 227-232 (aside from a brief attempt early on which is abruptly curtailed before anything really happens). The story has some twists and turns which kept things moving dramatically, and I really did wonder if the two lovers would get their happy ending after all.
Overall the book is well-written and I enjoyed it. I look forward to reading more by the author. I'd not read a "Larger Print" Harlequin before, but after a few pages I got used to the larger size of the typeface and in fact now even prefer it. (When I went to read another paperback novel after finishing this one, the smaller typeface of a normal book was bit jarring at first.) I did find one tiny mistake in the text: On page 66, Megan says "When I found David down in the kitchen," she actually means Tim. (I also seem to recall seeing Jaye spelled as Jay once early on but can't find it now.) Despite any above-stated flaws, I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to read a current romance novel -- even someone like myself who prefers the older stuff.
January 20, 2018
Review Posted at HarlequinJunkie.com
Megan Wheeler and Jaye Perera have amazing chemistry, but she’s not about to act on her feelings for fear of losing the best job she’s ever had. With the pair working side-by-side in Sri Lanka, Megan discovers there’s more to Jaye than she realized. Will the pair be able to learn to trust again, so they can achieve happy ever after they both deserve; or will they go their separate ways because neither are ready to give the other a chance for fear the relationship could go awry? Read More
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