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Wed for the Spaniard's Redemption
He’ll give her five million reasons…
To marry him!
Infuriatingly, the only way Rafael Mendoza-Casillas can become CEO of the Casillas Group is if he marries. Yet this notorious Spanish playboy isn’t the commitment kind. Until penniless single mother Juliet Lacey confides she’s about to lose everything. Rafael offers to save her financially if she marries him. But as the intensity of their attraction deepens, can he keep their marriage purely for appearances…?
Walk down the aisle with the Spaniard’s bought bride…
To marry him!
Infuriatingly, the only way Rafael Mendoza-Casillas can become CEO of the Casillas Group is if he marries. Yet this notorious Spanish playboy isn’t the commitment kind. Until penniless single mother Juliet Lacey confides she’s about to lose everything. Rafael offers to save her financially if she marries him. But as the intensity of their attraction deepens, can he keep their marriage purely for appearances…?
Walk down the aisle with the Spaniard’s bought bride…
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published June 18, 2019
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Chantelle Shaw
659 books158 followersI grew up without a TV, let alone DVD’s, computer games etc that my kids spend so much time engrossed in, but I learned to read at an early age and from then on I was always entertained – so much so that my friends used to hide their books when I visited them because all I wanted to do was read!
When I was a teenager I discovered Mills & Boon romances in my local library, and so began a lifelong love affair. I still remember that feeling of anticipation when I settled down with a pile of books - all bearing the famous rose logo - knowing that I would be drawn into a world of love, passion and emotional intensity that I have never found in any other books. I enjoy reading a wide range of books, especially historical novels, and I am a big fan of Agatha Christie, mainly I think because her characters seem so real, but I love romances and unashamedly admit that I only want to read books with a guaranteed happy ending. Reading is my joy and pleasure and I don’t want to cry buckets at the end of a book or have my sleep disturbed by its gruesome content.
For me, the characters in Harlequin Mills & Boon romances are the key. I love reading and writing about strong, alpha heroes and feisty, independent heroines who find that they can’t fight the blazing attraction between them.
When I married my own tall, dark, but sadly not wealthy hero, we moved out of London to the Kent coast and started a family that grew and grew. I adore my six children, and when they were small I loved being a stay-at-home mum, but there can be days, as I’m sure many of you know, when you feel isolated and – dare I say it – bored of conversing with three-year-olds. Harlequin Mills & Boon romances were my life-line and my sanity and I read them whenever I had a spare five minutes (in the bath, pacing the floor at three am with colicky baby on one shoulder and a book in the other hand!)
My imagination soared and I decided to try and write a book myself. My first attempt was typed up on a manual type-writer with the full-stop key and the letter p missing. Luckily my hero and heroine were not called Paul and Poppy, but it still meant going over my manuscript with a pen to fill in the gaps!
That first book was duly rejected as were my next two. I suppose I was disheartened and by now I had four small children and very little spare time, so although I continued to read romances, I gave up writing. It wasn’t until my youngest son started school that I tried writing again. I was struggling to come to terms with the death of my darling mum Gabrielle and writing became my therapy. Mum had always nagged me to get on and write a book and had an unshakeable belief that I would one day be published – I’m so glad that she was proved right and my biggest regret is that she isn’t here to share my success with me.
I wrote two more books which were both rejected by HM&B, but I was given some advice on my writing from the editorial team that encouraged me to try again. Third time lucky certainly applied to me – the day I received ‘the call’ was exactly four years after Mum had died. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life - but instead of chatting to the editor about contracts I had to dash off and pick my sick daughter up from school. Reality is never far away in my house!
I have now had nine books published - At the Sheikh's Bidding was released in September 08. My next book, Argentinian Playboy, Unexpected Love-Child will be out in the UK in July 09, and The Greek Billionaire's Innocent Princess in the UK in August 09. I have just had my twelfth book accepted and am already busy on my thirteenth. Now that my children are growing up I am able to write every day between 9 am and 3 pm, but often I become so involved with my characters that I sneak off to write again in the evening!
I feel I must be one of the luckiest people in the world to be doing something that I love, but I work hard at my luck and I believe that w
When I was a teenager I discovered Mills & Boon romances in my local library, and so began a lifelong love affair. I still remember that feeling of anticipation when I settled down with a pile of books - all bearing the famous rose logo - knowing that I would be drawn into a world of love, passion and emotional intensity that I have never found in any other books. I enjoy reading a wide range of books, especially historical novels, and I am a big fan of Agatha Christie, mainly I think because her characters seem so real, but I love romances and unashamedly admit that I only want to read books with a guaranteed happy ending. Reading is my joy and pleasure and I don’t want to cry buckets at the end of a book or have my sleep disturbed by its gruesome content.
For me, the characters in Harlequin Mills & Boon romances are the key. I love reading and writing about strong, alpha heroes and feisty, independent heroines who find that they can’t fight the blazing attraction between them.
When I married my own tall, dark, but sadly not wealthy hero, we moved out of London to the Kent coast and started a family that grew and grew. I adore my six children, and when they were small I loved being a stay-at-home mum, but there can be days, as I’m sure many of you know, when you feel isolated and – dare I say it – bored of conversing with three-year-olds. Harlequin Mills & Boon romances were my life-line and my sanity and I read them whenever I had a spare five minutes (in the bath, pacing the floor at three am with colicky baby on one shoulder and a book in the other hand!)
My imagination soared and I decided to try and write a book myself. My first attempt was typed up on a manual type-writer with the full-stop key and the letter p missing. Luckily my hero and heroine were not called Paul and Poppy, but it still meant going over my manuscript with a pen to fill in the gaps!
That first book was duly rejected as were my next two. I suppose I was disheartened and by now I had four small children and very little spare time, so although I continued to read romances, I gave up writing. It wasn’t until my youngest son started school that I tried writing again. I was struggling to come to terms with the death of my darling mum Gabrielle and writing became my therapy. Mum had always nagged me to get on and write a book and had an unshakeable belief that I would one day be published – I’m so glad that she was proved right and my biggest regret is that she isn’t here to share my success with me.
I wrote two more books which were both rejected by HM&B, but I was given some advice on my writing from the editorial team that encouraged me to try again. Third time lucky certainly applied to me – the day I received ‘the call’ was exactly four years after Mum had died. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life - but instead of chatting to the editor about contracts I had to dash off and pick my sick daughter up from school. Reality is never far away in my house!
I have now had nine books published - At the Sheikh's Bidding was released in September 08. My next book, Argentinian Playboy, Unexpected Love-Child will be out in the UK in July 09, and The Greek Billionaire's Innocent Princess in the UK in August 09. I have just had my twelfth book accepted and am already busy on my thirteenth. Now that my children are growing up I am able to write every day between 9 am and 3 pm, but often I become so involved with my characters that I sneak off to write again in the evening!
I feel I must be one of the luckiest people in the world to be doing something that I love, but I work hard at my luck and I believe that w
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June 30, 2019
So heroine is a single mother. THIS IS MY BIGGEST PET PEEVE OF ALL TIME. Still I enjoyed this love story. It was passionate and emotional. Hero's crappy childhood made him a cold and ruthless man but heroine and her daughter melted his black heart. I loved Rafael. He was the ultimate alpha hero. A playboy, a man-whore but also dark and tortured because of the abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of his father. Heroine was sweet but feisty and a great mother. Marriage of convenience is my favorite trope and Chantelle Shaw delivered. Epilogue with their 2 kids and pregnant heroine was dreamy. I highly recommend this book if you like the MOC trope and alpha heroes!
March 14, 2020
The two sexy for his own good H needs a insta-bride for a quick MOC so he can inherit the family business. He’s not good enough according to his grandfather and his mother as he is the product of a very bad match. He meets the herione and offers her a deal she can’t refuse.
The hero is your typical arrogant smarm bucket that has no problem with a ONS or an affair with a married woman as he doesn’t worry about other people’s morals, or his for that matter. The single mother heroine is aces though. Coming across as a poe-faced dweeby doormat initially, she ends up roaring like a lioness.
To the H’s rude grandfather….
She looked over at Hector. ‘Presumably you are unaware that I speak Spanish and that I can understand the horrible things you have said about me? I am not from the gutter. My parents weren’t wealthy but they were hard-working, and they taught me good manners—which you seem to lack.’
A gasp went around the table, and beside her she felt Rafael stiffen, but she was too angry to care.
‘And there is no shame in doing domestic work. Without the staff who run this house you would have to clean your own floors.’
She also takes the H’s bad mother to task on abandoning him and his sister to an abusive, drug dealing dad.
Brava!
The H makes one of the quickest turnarounds from cold and shut down H to besotted and charming so a low angst book with a very sweet HEA.
The hero is your typical arrogant smarm bucket that has no problem with a ONS or an affair with a married woman as he doesn’t worry about other people’s morals, or his for that matter. The single mother heroine is aces though. Coming across as a poe-faced dweeby doormat initially, she ends up roaring like a lioness.
To the H’s rude grandfather….
She looked over at Hector. ‘Presumably you are unaware that I speak Spanish and that I can understand the horrible things you have said about me? I am not from the gutter. My parents weren’t wealthy but they were hard-working, and they taught me good manners—which you seem to lack.’
A gasp went around the table, and beside her she felt Rafael stiffen, but she was too angry to care.
‘And there is no shame in doing domestic work. Without the staff who run this house you would have to clean your own floors.’
She also takes the H’s bad mother to task on abandoning him and his sister to an abusive, drug dealing dad.
Brava!
The H makes one of the quickest turnarounds from cold and shut down H to besotted and charming so a low angst book with a very sweet HEA.
March 13, 2020
Ok read.
Loved the brave and strong heroine.
Recommended.
Loved the brave and strong heroine.
Recommended.
September 18, 2019
This was a nice MOC story. Our h is a single mother whose parents were killed in the same car accident that injured her and ended her ballet career. The H is an arrogant, wealthy manwhore of epic proportions who needs a wife fast. He is secretly thrilled that he will be presenting such a woman to his grandfather. A woman who is plain, drab, broke, and has an illegitimate daughter.
The H is very cruel to the h but not out of meanness but simply through his own arrogance and thoughtlessness. He takes no time to know the woman he proposed to, only looking at the surface and rejoicing in her inferiority. Little does he know that she is an educated, intelligent woman who performed in the ballet in London's greatest theatres. She is drab and skinny because she's been working two jobs to care for her daughter alone, and has been skipping meals so her child can eat. She also has a bad flu the day of the wedding and couldn't have looked worse.
The H is about to get a big dose of humble pie. The h has a fierceness about her that reminds him of a tigress. She defends herself, her daughter and her husband to his snobbish family. He doesn't know what to make of his new view of her and his sudden attraction.
This book was well written and it didn't get caught up in the cycle of "he's only pretending to enjoy kissing me it's all fake for his grandfather's sake" for very long. And the h was no doormat and when she realized why he married her she really lays into him. He does begin to feel guilt, then protectiveness, then attraction and slowly, love and admiration.
I do wish the romance had developed a little more on page instead of the author relying on the passage of time to mature their love. I had a hard time at the end feeling rushed into the HEA. The ending is very nice when they come to an understanding and the H admits his feelings. It had a very sweet ending.
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The H is very cruel to the h but not out of meanness but simply through his own arrogance and thoughtlessness. He takes no time to know the woman he proposed to, only looking at the surface and rejoicing in her inferiority. Little does he know that she is an educated, intelligent woman who performed in the ballet in London's greatest theatres. She is drab and skinny because she's been working two jobs to care for her daughter alone, and has been skipping meals so her child can eat. She also has a bad flu the day of the wedding and couldn't have looked worse.
The H is about to get a big dose of humble pie. The h has a fierceness about her that reminds him of a tigress. She defends herself, her daughter and her husband to his snobbish family. He doesn't know what to make of his new view of her and his sudden attraction.
This book was well written and it didn't get caught up in the cycle of "he's only pretending to enjoy kissing me it's all fake for his grandfather's sake" for very long. And the h was no doormat and when she realized why he married her she really lays into him. He does begin to feel guilt, then protectiveness, then attraction and slowly, love and admiration.
I do wish the romance had developed a little more on page instead of the author relying on the passage of time to mature their love. I had a hard time at the end feeling rushed into the HEA. The ending is very nice when they come to an understanding and the H admits his feelings. It had a very sweet ending.
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June 28, 2019
4.5 stars
Loved it ! A great read with loving MC's
The H Rafael is a tortured man who suffered under his father's hands ( the father was a monster) he used to beat the H 😥
The h juliet is a sweet and kind single mom who is trying to make a decent life for her 3 year old daughter
I loved everything, the way they met , how they couldn't fight the attraction (the sex scenes were hot ) , how kind and caring the H was with his nieces and with poppy (juliet's daughter) , how she defended him in front of his grandfather and his mom when no one had ever done that before 😍
But
What I loved the most is that they saved each other ♡
The epilogue was so cute and full with kids they already had their baby boy and now expecting a twin girls 😊
Loved it ! A great read with loving MC's
The H Rafael is a tortured man who suffered under his father's hands ( the father was a monster) he used to beat the H 😥
The h juliet is a sweet and kind single mom who is trying to make a decent life for her 3 year old daughter
I loved everything, the way they met , how they couldn't fight the attraction (the sex scenes were hot ) , how kind and caring the H was with his nieces and with poppy (juliet's daughter) , how she defended him in front of his grandfather and his mom when no one had ever done that before 😍
But
What I loved the most is that they saved each other ♡
The epilogue was so cute and full with kids they already had their baby boy and now expecting a twin girls 😊
May 10, 2022
4 stars
It was actually really good and the heroine kicked ass. :)
I had mixed feelings about this book after the first chapter but the book gets really really good later on and I loved it.
My first read from Shaw and deffo not last.
I'm only taking one star away for the first chapter that didn't work for me and the title, because that is kinda cheesy.
It was actually really good and the heroine kicked ass. :)
I had mixed feelings about this book after the first chapter but the book gets really really good later on and I loved it.
My first read from Shaw and deffo not last.
I'm only taking one star away for the first chapter that didn't work for me and the title, because that is kinda cheesy.
June 8, 2019
Just so bad. The writer did such an excellent job of painting this female lead as so ugly and unappealing that there’s just not coming back from it. These characters have absolutely no chemistry and it is completely unbelievable that a gorgeous billionaire with a body that doesn’t quit is gonna suddenly have a change of heart from his beautiful super models and actresses to pursue this hideous “malnourished” ( I wish that wasn't an actual quote) woman “from the gutter”. It’s just so stupid. Completely unbelievable which most of these stories are, but this one takes the cake on being completely unbelievable. The writer would have done better not to paint such a horrid picture of the female lead. There is just no coming back from it. Plus, there is is no spark, no tension and no chemistry between these characters. Just no. Really bad. Complete waste of time and money. I actually wish I could unread this stupidity.
June 8, 2019
I loved it! Despite having a sweet child, Juliet was innocent and warm-hearted. Being a selfless mother she sacrificed and made a date devil deal with Raffael, the tainted blood, tycoon. He ruthlessly selected to get even with Hector, his grandfather, who blackmailed him to marry so he can earn his birthright in being CEO of a company he worked diligently for. Rafael chose Juliet because she was anthethis of the wife Hector wanted for him. I almost hate the hero when he subjected to his family's disrespect and snobbery. However, when Juliet's inner beauty started to shine when she stood up to Hector with Spunk and courage. Rafael started to warm up to her. He was already smitten with Juliet's daughter. The cream of the crop was the transformation of Juliet's wardrobe and from a street urchin she metamorphosised into A glorious beauty that stole the remaining heart of Raffael, he never stood a chance. With both have insecurities and major deep scars they had to fight for each other. Beautiful story and great epilogue too!
June 25, 2019
A lovely, sweet read.
The innocent heroine whose has had to fight through life’s challenges and make a life for her child and herself.
The cold, unfeeling alpha hero who had to fight for himself and his baby sister after being abandoned by his mother and left with a violent, drug dealing monster of a father.
They came together to attain specific goals for themselves, but soon found that there was more to their MOC agreement than they thought.
I enjoyed it.
The innocent heroine whose has had to fight through life’s challenges and make a life for her child and herself.
The cold, unfeeling alpha hero who had to fight for himself and his baby sister after being abandoned by his mother and left with a violent, drug dealing monster of a father.
They came together to attain specific goals for themselves, but soon found that there was more to their MOC agreement than they thought.
I enjoyed it.
October 28, 2021
Rafael and Sofia are half-Gypsy.Their aristocratic mother has since then remarried to a cousin and has a much younger son, Francisco(20). Sofia is married to an Englishman and they have twin girls,Ana and Inez.When their mother deserted them, Rafael and Sofia stayed with their violent and abusive father.Hector, their grandfather, brought them to the family fold when Rafael was 12.
Now Hector is 80 and plans to retire is CEO of the family business. Rafael expects to be named the next CEO, as the oldest grandson, but there is a catch.Rafael is single and was involved with a married woman.So Hector gives him 6 weeks to present his bride.
London.
Rafael meets Juliet, a single mother to Poppy (3). Juliet has just lost her sandwich catering business on his office building.Also, her Australian ex-boyfriend decides he wants custody of Poppy. Juliet, a former classical ballerina, was injured in her leg in a car accident whiched caused the death of her parents. She lived with her aunt in Australia after that and learned some Spanish from her uncle.
Rafael offers Juliet 5 millions to marry him "in name only".He presents his new wife and stepdaughter to his family. Hector and especially her mother-in-law look down on Juliet,thinking she is a dirt-poor domestic. So Juliet tells them off- in Spanish ! (her spoken language is much better than written ).
Hector suspects this is a fake marriage and puts another spike in the weels : they have to stay together-in Valencia- for an year !
Poppy loves "Raf" and her new cousins.
Who will cave in first?
Now Hector is 80 and plans to retire is CEO of the family business. Rafael expects to be named the next CEO, as the oldest grandson, but there is a catch.Rafael is single and was involved with a married woman.So Hector gives him 6 weeks to present his bride.
London.
Rafael meets Juliet, a single mother to Poppy (3). Juliet has just lost her sandwich catering business on his office building.Also, her Australian ex-boyfriend decides he wants custody of Poppy. Juliet, a former classical ballerina, was injured in her leg in a car accident whiched caused the death of her parents. She lived with her aunt in Australia after that and learned some Spanish from her uncle.
Rafael offers Juliet 5 millions to marry him "in name only".He presents his new wife and stepdaughter to his family. Hector and especially her mother-in-law look down on Juliet,thinking she is a dirt-poor domestic. So Juliet tells them off- in Spanish ! (her spoken language is much better than written ).
Hector suspects this is a fake marriage and puts another spike in the weels : they have to stay together-in Valencia- for an year !
Poppy loves "Raf" and her new cousins.
Who will cave in first?
October 19, 2019
Rafael Mendoza-Casillas has one goal in life. To be the follow in his grandfather's footsteps and be the CEO of the company business. But having had a brutal gypsy for a father, and not coming in to his grandfather's life until he was twelve made him a family outsider. The stipulation that he must marry first is not what he ever planned to do, but when Juliet Lacey crashed in to his life, he knew that he could buy a wife.
Juliet was more than just struggling as a single mom. She was drowning. A single mother to three year old, she is no match for Rafael after crashing in to his world. The chance to fulfill her dreams would make the cost of a year of her life as Rafael's wife at first blush seemed a miracle. But the more she found out about Rafael, the more put off and drawn in she was.
A very nice story.
Juliet was more than just struggling as a single mom. She was drowning. A single mother to three year old, she is no match for Rafael after crashing in to his world. The chance to fulfill her dreams would make the cost of a year of her life as Rafael's wife at first blush seemed a miracle. But the more she found out about Rafael, the more put off and drawn in she was.
A very nice story.
February 25, 2021
After my HP slump, I finally got a really romantic and sexy read!
Juliet and Raphael seem like the typical MOC story. This time Chantelle Shaw made the heroine a single mom. Single parents are an HP unicorn. I get why readers don't want children outside of marriage (pure fairytale), but I also like when authors try new things.
I loved their meeting (wrecking his car lol) and the way the love story progressed. Raphael fell in love with her daughter and got over his daddy issues and was able to love. This book had many cute and quite sexy scenes and I really enjoyed it. Just what I needed!
Juliet and Raphael seem like the typical MOC story. This time Chantelle Shaw made the heroine a single mom. Single parents are an HP unicorn. I get why readers don't want children outside of marriage (pure fairytale), but I also like when authors try new things.
I loved their meeting (wrecking his car lol) and the way the love story progressed. Raphael fell in love with her daughter and got over his daddy issues and was able to love. This book had many cute and quite sexy scenes and I really enjoyed it. Just what I needed!
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June 6, 2020To marry him!
Infuriatingly, the only way Rafael Mendoza-Casillas can become CEO of the Casillas Group is if he marries. Yet this notorious Spanish playboy isn’t the commitment kind. Until penniless single mother Juliet Lacey confides she’s about to lose everything. Rafael offers to save her financially if she marries him. But as the intensity of their attraction deepens, can he keep their marriage purely for appearances…?
Walk down the aisle with the Spaniard’s bought bride
Infuriatingly, the only way Rafael Mendoza-Casillas can become CEO of the Casillas Group is if he marries. Yet this notorious Spanish playboy isn’t the commitment kind. Until penniless single mother Juliet Lacey confides she’s about to lose everything. Rafael offers to save her financially if she marries him. But as the intensity of their attraction deepens, can he keep their marriage purely for appearances…?
Walk down the aisle with the Spaniard’s bought bride
March 1, 2020
I enjoyed this a lot. Relatively low angst, the dude was a jackass at first but I bought him falling in love and his gradual behavior change. I liked the woman right out of the gate. Her openness and ability to stand up for herself and others was really nice. I liked his sister and her kids too. I didn't even mind the number of kids they ended up with in the epilogue.
December 10, 2021
I like the story, which is the surprising for this genre. But, I need to proses the behaviour of the grandfather and the mother. They are really getting my nerve. Not to mention, with the whole other family's members. I don't really agreed that they reconciled at the end of story. It should take longer time for forgiveness. And I like how strong Juliet handling the in-laws.
December 11, 2019
I rather enjoyed this one . A good read
June 24, 2020
Gekocht door de Spaanse playboy
August 10, 2024
Enjoyed book
June 26, 2019
A sweet but passionate romance with a hero who is the reluctant type and a heroine who although not your usual modern lead makes such a refreshing change as she has such a strong heart.
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