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Something from the Heart
Morgan's coming home!" her stepfather cried
Those three words should have released a flood of warm memories for Leigh. Instead, thoughts of their last disastrous encounter blotted out the rest.
Just when she'd been coming to terms with her awakening feelings, Morgan had seemed intent on resisting the passion that flowed between them.
"Why must it be you of all women who tempts me almost beyond endurance?" he'd said. Why couldn't he see that she was nothing like her mother? And why was the thought of seeing him again casting her world into turmoil...?
Those three words should have released a flood of warm memories for Leigh. Instead, thoughts of their last disastrous encounter blotted out the rest.
Just when she'd been coming to terms with her awakening feelings, Morgan had seemed intent on resisting the passion that flowed between them.
"Why must it be you of all women who tempts me almost beyond endurance?" he'd said. Why couldn't he see that she was nothing like her mother? And why was the thought of seeing him again casting her world into turmoil...?
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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Amanda Browning
112 books30 followersAmanda Browning (born in Essex, England) is an English writer of over 25 romance novels since 1987.
Browning is a twin, who grew up in a big family in the borders of Essex.
She worked for years in libraries, and when she left her job, she decided began to write. Although her first two manuscripts could not be used, the third was accepted and published in 1987.
She is single and continues living in the old family home on the borders of Essex. She is great-aunt to eighteen nieces and nephews.
Browning is a twin, who grew up in a big family in the borders of Essex.
She worked for years in libraries, and when she left her job, she decided began to write. Although her first two manuscripts could not be used, the third was accepted and published in 1987.
She is single and continues living in the old family home on the borders of Essex. She is great-aunt to eighteen nieces and nephews.
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August 3, 2017
Re Something From the Heart - This is a wrecki drama angstfest complete with forced marriage, extreme tart shaming and for once an incredibly high maintenance H and a fairly practical h that still manages to be unable to explain herself for 175 pages.
This one starts with the 20 yr old h being told by her adored and beloved stepfather that his son is finally coming home. This event is some what concerning to the h because of what happened when her step brother left a year earlier. The h's mother is an amoral, gold digging tart and is still married to the H's dad, but she likes to lurve and live it up, so we only get occasional mercenary swoops of her pot stirring appearance in this story.
One year ago the h's mother had a house party at the family estate with characters of dubious acquaintance. The h stuck around at the party to keep people from stealing the silver. There was one married guy who was consistently chasing after the h and as she was only 19, she was having a hard time evading him, but she really liked his very nice wealthy wife.
Finally she gets the guy to give her one of his very wealthy wife's bracelets as a down payment on carnal services the h is supposed to render. But the h's actual intention is to set the guy up by letting his wife know what kind a louse he really is as she gives the wife back the bracelet and since the wife has the money, she will cut pervy guy off and justice and nineteen year olds will be saved. Her plan works like a charm and the wife writes a very nice thank you note to the h for helping her out, after her divorce was final.
(Side note: AB is one of the most outrageous drama queens for wrecki angst in all of HPlandia, no scenario is too outrageous - so abandon all sensibility or logic, all ye who read her.)
The only flaw in the plan is that the H wanders in unobserved and sees the h's big ploy to get the wife's diamond bracelet to return it to her later. Since the h's mother had propositioned him a few weeks earlier and the h looks just like her, the H assumes the worst. Cue up five chapters of tarty gold digger harlot of HPlandia shaming and the h trying to explain the situation, failing and calling the H an idiot. The verbal battles are epic and the h manages to hold her own, but I did wonder just how much the H wanted the h's mother, as his attacks on the h had all the classic traits of transference and sublimation.
The H and h's mutual antagonism and wish to one up each other leads to one after dinner attack by one of the h's male friends where the H has to rescue her -- which leads to the stepfather finding them asleep in the h's room together after the H was trying to comfort the h during a nightmare. The stepfather, who along with every other character in this book can't wait to pimp the h to the H cause his dearest wish is for his son and devoted stepdaughter to marry, is ecstatic that he can now get his way and he demands that the H marry the h.
The h is in love with the H and has been for a while. The H is on the definitely NOT on love side of the equation and his tart baiting gets even worse, with the h's mother stirring the pot. The h tells the H that she loves him and the H is very amused that she thinks she can use protestations of affection to get him to loosen up the access to the family fortunes, but he is not adverse to tickling her tonsils and adding some gropey fondles when the mood strikes.
There is huge debates over the h wearing the family engagement ring, as it is a gigantic diamond traditionally given only to true loves. The h declares she would rather have a old brass curtain ring that was given with real affection. The h is also insisting that the H really loves her cause he gives her roofie kisses and then there is some h crying and extreme martyrism when the H continues to insist she is a gold digging harlot that he will never love.
On top of all that drama the h's mother connives with the H's father to make sure that the H is willing to provide children for the marriage by getting the father to change his will.
Finally the wedding day arrives and the H and h are married. The H is still insulting and rejecting, the h is having a long term mopey moment and the h's mother is preening that she helped the h hook a hugely wealthy catch. The h has taken to baiting the H back every time he insults her and calls her a tart.
So on the honeymoon while the H is working, cause he wanted to avoid the h, the h implies she is having a fling with the resort's wind surfing instructor. This sends the H into a frenzy and he angrily storms the beach, only to find that nothing sinister or affairish is going on, the h is learning things. The H and h eventually call a truce, but the h is still having the "he doesn't love me" martyrish mopey moments.
So the h decides to seduce the H, then when he agrees to take her to bed, she starts whining that he doesn't love her. However that doesn't stop her from melting when the H starts up with the lurve club mojo and the h is eager to rack the club. But before the club can fall, the phone rings. The H's father is in hospital fatally ill and he has been very sick for a while, so the H and h have to return to England with the shores of passion untouched.
They later find comfort together in the dark and the big boudoir tower of power ride finally happens. The H is happy she was untouched, but he is very honest that the h looks too much like her mother for him to stay married to her or to trust her.
(Which again makes me wonder if this H actually did sleep with the h's mum, cause he is overly hostile to both the woman herself and the h cause she is a younger look alike version. It can't be just that the H thinks the mother is an amoral tart, cause the H's preferred lady buffet type is EXACTLY like the h's mother- as we see early in the book when the H brings a date to a party the h is at.)
The h asks him if he even wants to try to work things out and the H answers he doesn't know, but he will give the h an answer as soon has he can, cause he REALLY likes the use of the h's body but wants to be brutally honest too. Our martyrish h is perfectly fine with that, so maybe she is a bit masochistic too.
A little while later the H's father dies and the h tries to comfort the H, but he claims he can't trust her mother, so he can't trust the h. The H's father's will is read and the H's father made it a provision that the H and h have to a child and stay married for the next two years or the h gets the family estate and all the money instead of the H.
The H is furious cause the h's mother shows up and is delighted that her tactics to get the h as much of the H's dad's money as she could worked. She knows she can manipulate the h into supporting her lifestyle and she figures the H will never agree to have a child with the h or alternatively, that she can convince the h to walk out.
The H is furious cause he thinks the h and her mother plotted together to trap him into marriage and then steal his inherited wealth. Then the H demands the exact opposite, if the h loves him, she will get preggers immediately and show that she doesn't want the money or the estate. The h has a mini rant at her mother for setting her up and then belatedly kicks her out of the house.
The h has a huge mopey moment again, cause the H is blackmailing her into proving her love. She resignedly tells him that she has no choice, if that is the test of her devotion and love, she does love him and she will do it and then drops the bombshell that she is already preggers. The H tries to lurve her up, but it is the h's turn to reject him and after some very bitter accusations, the h decides the H is not to touch her anymore.
The next morning the h is going to church with one of her male friends, who is like her honorary brother, cause her car wouldn't start. The honorary bro wants to thank the h for helping him propose to his girl.
The H comes storming out and gets into a fight with the guy, cause he thinks the h is leaving him for the other man. The h pretends to faint, the H stops fighting and carries her in the house where we FINALLY get to the big declaration of true love. The h is happy that the H cared enough to fight for her and the H is happy that the h is preggers and he can seduce her into staying. The big finale is the H running all over town to find the h a brass curtain ring, thus really proving his love with a brass ring given in sincere devotion.
There is a TON of drama and wrecki angst in this book. The H and h literally talk in circles around each other with the big misunderstandings just growing exponentially. The bickery back and forth between the H and h and the deliberate escalation of them taunting and baiting each other really gave me a headache. I just ran out of patience with the endless accusations, the endless assumptions and the endless h obfuscations when she should have stood on a chair and repeatedly shouted small syllable words over and over to the H that she was not a gold digging tart or her mother until the H collapsed in exhaustion and was willing to listen.
The HEA is a bit of problem too, cause technically the h is preggers. But they have to stay married for two years at least for the H to inherit, so it kinda makes his true love avowal a bit doubtful - they had only been married a few months by the end of the book, so the H has to keep her around somehow.
The h's mother as the OW was kinda tacky too. It was very frustrating that the h acknowledged that her mother is malicious and likes to mess people up, but she consistently refused to stand up to her until the bitter end, even tho the h states she despises her mother in every chapter.
Overall this was not the best HP outing for me, but mileage varies and this book is tops on wrecki-angst. If you read this, stock up on adult beverages and rosy glow glasses, and always wear your seatbelts for potential trainwrecks in HPlandia like this one can be dangerous.
This one starts with the 20 yr old h being told by her adored and beloved stepfather that his son is finally coming home. This event is some what concerning to the h because of what happened when her step brother left a year earlier. The h's mother is an amoral, gold digging tart and is still married to the H's dad, but she likes to lurve and live it up, so we only get occasional mercenary swoops of her pot stirring appearance in this story.
One year ago the h's mother had a house party at the family estate with characters of dubious acquaintance. The h stuck around at the party to keep people from stealing the silver. There was one married guy who was consistently chasing after the h and as she was only 19, she was having a hard time evading him, but she really liked his very nice wealthy wife.
Finally she gets the guy to give her one of his very wealthy wife's bracelets as a down payment on carnal services the h is supposed to render. But the h's actual intention is to set the guy up by letting his wife know what kind a louse he really is as she gives the wife back the bracelet and since the wife has the money, she will cut pervy guy off and justice and nineteen year olds will be saved. Her plan works like a charm and the wife writes a very nice thank you note to the h for helping her out, after her divorce was final.
(Side note: AB is one of the most outrageous drama queens for wrecki angst in all of HPlandia, no scenario is too outrageous - so abandon all sensibility or logic, all ye who read her.)
The only flaw in the plan is that the H wanders in unobserved and sees the h's big ploy to get the wife's diamond bracelet to return it to her later. Since the h's mother had propositioned him a few weeks earlier and the h looks just like her, the H assumes the worst. Cue up five chapters of tarty gold digger harlot of HPlandia shaming and the h trying to explain the situation, failing and calling the H an idiot. The verbal battles are epic and the h manages to hold her own, but I did wonder just how much the H wanted the h's mother, as his attacks on the h had all the classic traits of transference and sublimation.
The H and h's mutual antagonism and wish to one up each other leads to one after dinner attack by one of the h's male friends where the H has to rescue her -- which leads to the stepfather finding them asleep in the h's room together after the H was trying to comfort the h during a nightmare. The stepfather, who along with every other character in this book can't wait to pimp the h to the H cause his dearest wish is for his son and devoted stepdaughter to marry, is ecstatic that he can now get his way and he demands that the H marry the h.
The h is in love with the H and has been for a while. The H is on the definitely NOT on love side of the equation and his tart baiting gets even worse, with the h's mother stirring the pot. The h tells the H that she loves him and the H is very amused that she thinks she can use protestations of affection to get him to loosen up the access to the family fortunes, but he is not adverse to tickling her tonsils and adding some gropey fondles when the mood strikes.
There is huge debates over the h wearing the family engagement ring, as it is a gigantic diamond traditionally given only to true loves. The h declares she would rather have a old brass curtain ring that was given with real affection. The h is also insisting that the H really loves her cause he gives her roofie kisses and then there is some h crying and extreme martyrism when the H continues to insist she is a gold digging harlot that he will never love.
On top of all that drama the h's mother connives with the H's father to make sure that the H is willing to provide children for the marriage by getting the father to change his will.
Finally the wedding day arrives and the H and h are married. The H is still insulting and rejecting, the h is having a long term mopey moment and the h's mother is preening that she helped the h hook a hugely wealthy catch. The h has taken to baiting the H back every time he insults her and calls her a tart.
So on the honeymoon while the H is working, cause he wanted to avoid the h, the h implies she is having a fling with the resort's wind surfing instructor. This sends the H into a frenzy and he angrily storms the beach, only to find that nothing sinister or affairish is going on, the h is learning things. The H and h eventually call a truce, but the h is still having the "he doesn't love me" martyrish mopey moments.
So the h decides to seduce the H, then when he agrees to take her to bed, she starts whining that he doesn't love her. However that doesn't stop her from melting when the H starts up with the lurve club mojo and the h is eager to rack the club. But before the club can fall, the phone rings. The H's father is in hospital fatally ill and he has been very sick for a while, so the H and h have to return to England with the shores of passion untouched.
They later find comfort together in the dark and the big boudoir tower of power ride finally happens. The H is happy she was untouched, but he is very honest that the h looks too much like her mother for him to stay married to her or to trust her.
(Which again makes me wonder if this H actually did sleep with the h's mum, cause he is overly hostile to both the woman herself and the h cause she is a younger look alike version. It can't be just that the H thinks the mother is an amoral tart, cause the H's preferred lady buffet type is EXACTLY like the h's mother- as we see early in the book when the H brings a date to a party the h is at.)
The h asks him if he even wants to try to work things out and the H answers he doesn't know, but he will give the h an answer as soon has he can, cause he REALLY likes the use of the h's body but wants to be brutally honest too. Our martyrish h is perfectly fine with that, so maybe she is a bit masochistic too.
A little while later the H's father dies and the h tries to comfort the H, but he claims he can't trust her mother, so he can't trust the h. The H's father's will is read and the H's father made it a provision that the H and h have to a child and stay married for the next two years or the h gets the family estate and all the money instead of the H.
The H is furious cause the h's mother shows up and is delighted that her tactics to get the h as much of the H's dad's money as she could worked. She knows she can manipulate the h into supporting her lifestyle and she figures the H will never agree to have a child with the h or alternatively, that she can convince the h to walk out.
The H is furious cause he thinks the h and her mother plotted together to trap him into marriage and then steal his inherited wealth. Then the H demands the exact opposite, if the h loves him, she will get preggers immediately and show that she doesn't want the money or the estate. The h has a mini rant at her mother for setting her up and then belatedly kicks her out of the house.
The h has a huge mopey moment again, cause the H is blackmailing her into proving her love. She resignedly tells him that she has no choice, if that is the test of her devotion and love, she does love him and she will do it and then drops the bombshell that she is already preggers. The H tries to lurve her up, but it is the h's turn to reject him and after some very bitter accusations, the h decides the H is not to touch her anymore.
The next morning the h is going to church with one of her male friends, who is like her honorary brother, cause her car wouldn't start. The honorary bro wants to thank the h for helping him propose to his girl.
The H comes storming out and gets into a fight with the guy, cause he thinks the h is leaving him for the other man. The h pretends to faint, the H stops fighting and carries her in the house where we FINALLY get to the big declaration of true love. The h is happy that the H cared enough to fight for her and the H is happy that the h is preggers and he can seduce her into staying. The big finale is the H running all over town to find the h a brass curtain ring, thus really proving his love with a brass ring given in sincere devotion.
There is a TON of drama and wrecki angst in this book. The H and h literally talk in circles around each other with the big misunderstandings just growing exponentially. The bickery back and forth between the H and h and the deliberate escalation of them taunting and baiting each other really gave me a headache. I just ran out of patience with the endless accusations, the endless assumptions and the endless h obfuscations when she should have stood on a chair and repeatedly shouted small syllable words over and over to the H that she was not a gold digging tart or her mother until the H collapsed in exhaustion and was willing to listen.
The HEA is a bit of problem too, cause technically the h is preggers. But they have to stay married for two years at least for the H to inherit, so it kinda makes his true love avowal a bit doubtful - they had only been married a few months by the end of the book, so the H has to keep her around somehow.
The h's mother as the OW was kinda tacky too. It was very frustrating that the h acknowledged that her mother is malicious and likes to mess people up, but she consistently refused to stand up to her until the bitter end, even tho the h states she despises her mother in every chapter.
Overall this was not the best HP outing for me, but mileage varies and this book is tops on wrecki-angst. If you read this, stock up on adult beverages and rosy glow glasses, and always wear your seatbelts for potential trainwrecks in HPlandia like this one can be dangerous.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 4, 2017
There is not enough boogenhagen kool-aid in the world to help me get over this story. Why do I do this to myself? I hated the hero intensely, I was totally annoyed by the stupid heroine and don't even get me started on the Mother "Call me Mrs. Robinson' of the h. YUK! I was just stunned that she was the OW. Oh and there was also a Carol too that he stayed out all night and day with. I really thought it was going to be the case like other HP stories where the H loved her from afar and waited for her to grow up and that once they were married he would be lost in love but NO. He hated her because she looked like her Mother who hit on him all the time while she was married to the H's Dad. Just gross! And he took it all out on the h like it was her fault. Everything was her fault and it made no sense. After all, he was the one that told his Dad they were getting married. She didn't. But no it was all the h's fault. He was just an evil twisted monster and he never let up on her. Even after she declared her love, even after he found out she was a virgin, even after she supported him for the two months before his Dad died. He still was just a bad hero. I did not buy their HEA. He would go psycho on her again after their next argument. And the h was so annoying with her actions and I just wanted to slap her silly. Like pretending she had all these boyfriends and letting a drunk man into her house that was known for his lechery. And the scene at the beginning where she asked the guy for a bracelet so she could show his wife???? How dumb can you be? I just hated how she acted, at least up until the point she declared her love. Then she became almost normal. You notice I said almost. Just crazy stuff. But the H ruined the book for me and I just can't believe he would ever change. I bet their life will be miserable. Their child will grow up like him and they will all live happily never after.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 14, 2020
How did I miss this trainwreck until now? This is a case of misunderstandings on steroids and I loved it. H/h are stepsiblings with an 8 year age difference. Heroine’s mother is a beautiful maneater and hero hates her. When hero comes home during a party and sees a man drunkenly coming on to the twenty year-old heroine and she asks him for a diamond bracelet before she will put out, he thinks she is now following in her mother’s footsteps. (She was trying to avoid a scene) Hero won’t listen to explanations and has now branded heroine a harlot.
Heroine thinks he’ll get over it and realize his true feelings for her, but he never does – lol.
Not through all the compromising situation the heroine finds herself in.
Or the damaging statements from heroine’s mother.
Or when circumstances force them to marry for his father’s sake.
When they have a truce on their honeymoon.
When his father ends up in the hospital.
When they start having sex.
When his father dies.
It is only when he gives the heroine an ultimatum to fulfill his father’s will, does he go too far and he realizes he’s going to lose her. He grovels and heroine lets him off the hook way too easily.
This was an intense story with an unreasonable hero and a martyr-to-love heroine – in other words – an acquired taste.
Boogenhagen has all the details in her spoiler review.
Heroine thinks he’ll get over it and realize his true feelings for her, but he never does – lol.
Not through all the compromising situation the heroine finds herself in.
Or the damaging statements from heroine’s mother.
Or when circumstances force them to marry for his father’s sake.
When they have a truce on their honeymoon.
When his father ends up in the hospital.
When they start having sex.
When his father dies.
It is only when he gives the heroine an ultimatum to fulfill his father’s will, does he go too far and he realizes he’s going to lose her. He grovels and heroine lets him off the hook way too easily.
This was an intense story with an unreasonable hero and a martyr-to-love heroine – in other words – an acquired taste.
Boogenhagen has all the details in her spoiler review.
July 26, 2022
Uhh no. There’s no way in hell that I can overlook an overly needy and clingy h who has no self respect.
The h is in love with her step brother who hates her. He once caught her in a compromised position with an older man in a house party and since then thinks the worst of her. To top it off, the h’s mother also made moves on him while she’s still married to his father. And now he despises the h whom he thinks is just the apple of her mother’s tree and a lose woman.
The h was just plain ol stupid. She’s good looking and is pursued by men of all ages and she eggs them on all the time. She has nothing holding her back from letting other men kiss her on the LIPS, be it someone’s old husband, a neighbor, a friend, a stranger. This woman would let all these men flirt with her and drop her kisses just to annoy the hell out of her step brother.
The step brother was like a grumbling old crone. His slut shaming wouldn’t end and I don’t blame him because this woman really was just like her mother and would go pecking men as a first come first serve basis.
There’s a whole bunch of drama that I skimmed through and nothing changed. The h kept singing her accolades of love for this man and he kept reminding her how she was such a floozy. It got old and annoying and I couldn’t care for their HEA. They would bicker their way through life without respecting each other!
The h is in love with her step brother who hates her. He once caught her in a compromised position with an older man in a house party and since then thinks the worst of her. To top it off, the h’s mother also made moves on him while she’s still married to his father. And now he despises the h whom he thinks is just the apple of her mother’s tree and a lose woman.
The h was just plain ol stupid. She’s good looking and is pursued by men of all ages and she eggs them on all the time. She has nothing holding her back from letting other men kiss her on the LIPS, be it someone’s old husband, a neighbor, a friend, a stranger. This woman would let all these men flirt with her and drop her kisses just to annoy the hell out of her step brother.
The step brother was like a grumbling old crone. His slut shaming wouldn’t end and I don’t blame him because this woman really was just like her mother and would go pecking men as a first come first serve basis.
There’s a whole bunch of drama that I skimmed through and nothing changed. The h kept singing her accolades of love for this man and he kept reminding her how she was such a floozy. It got old and annoying and I couldn’t care for their HEA. They would bicker their way through life without respecting each other!
December 28, 2023
Calling this a massive train wreck would be an understatement. My original review is below which still stands at a pathetic 1 star. However, this time I just couldn't get past the excessive abuse and it made me very uncomfortable from start to finish.
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And, this is why HP's get such a bad rap. Horrible, avoid at all cost!
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And, this is why HP's get such a bad rap. Horrible, avoid at all cost!
January 28, 2020
If I weren't short of raki stock and h was little less masochist, I would have given 5 stars this OTT trainwreck.
June 12, 2013
Leigh is in love with her stepbrother Morgan ever since she was a child. Morgan used to love her too but when he sees her in the arms of a married man he believes she is a gold-digger just like her mother who married his father for his fortune. When Morgan is back he treats Leigh with contempt and cruelty. But when his father thinks Morgan has seduced Leigh he forces them to marry. Still Morgan is determined to keep his wife at a distance even if his heart years for her and is crazy with jealousy.
Amazing story. These two made a fantastic adorable couple. The heroine was strong-willed, sassy and the hero a sexy possessive alpha male. I love how the heroine sees something special in the hero and is determined to find a way to his heart no matter his tough exterior. She doesn't whine or hide her feelings. Instead she wears her heart on her sleeve and fights his coldness with courage and warmth.
I loved the little humorous moments and even the angsty moments. Both characters came across very real and I was rooting for them with passion! Great read!
Amazing story. These two made a fantastic adorable couple. The heroine was strong-willed, sassy and the hero a sexy possessive alpha male. I love how the heroine sees something special in the hero and is determined to find a way to his heart no matter his tough exterior. She doesn't whine or hide her feelings. Instead she wears her heart on her sleeve and fights his coldness with courage and warmth.
I loved the little humorous moments and even the angsty moments. Both characters came across very real and I was rooting for them with passion! Great read!
June 14, 2013
Hero was way too cruel and judgmental for my tastes and the heroine a martyr for love, marrying the hero and putting up with him all because she loved him. He made her feel low, belittles and hurts her at every turn, compared her to her hated mother and she just forgives him without any grovelling.
February 9, 2014
omg i was exasperated n so annoyed ! morgan was like a ninny, he was so insecure n needed so much reassurance!! this also pushed him 2 being cruel. it's also not believable dat on one catastrophic encounter, he thought the worst of leigh !? he had seen her growing up, he had known her 4 a decade n was very close 2 her. yet overnight he changed his mind !? i can only gather he never really liked her n always had her mother against her. i mean, he cud not get past the fact she was una's daughter n always had dat against her even when being nice. bcoz at the mere provocation, he turned against her.
November 24, 2025
WARNING BELOW THERE BE SPOILERS
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Dear AITAH:
My husband (28M) and myself (20F) have been married for about 6 months. My FIL just died and in his will he left everything to my DH (dear husband) as long as we stay married for at least 2 years and I have a child. If we divorce before then, or I do not bear a child within that time limit, everything reverts to me. My husband is angry and has now given me an ultimatum that if I truly love him, I will go ahead and fulfill the terms of the will. I love him with all my heart, do not want to divorce him, and in fact am already pregnant with his child, but now that he's making it an ultimatum, I kind of think I should divorce him.
AITAH for wanting to divorce my husband for giving me an ultimatum to stay with him and fulfill the terms of a will that will benefit both of us?
Some background: My FIL was also my mother's husband, which makes my DH also technically my stepbrother. My mother and FIL/stepfather, who raised me from the age of 10, are separated but not divorced. My mother has always been kind of a narcissist and greedy, and I'm pretty sure she made passes at my DH at least once or twice before we were married.
My DH is usually a wonderful husband, except for he keeps telling me he doesn't really love me, he doesn't trust me, he thinks I'm a gold-digger who married him to manipulate him and my stepfather and gain access the family jewels even though I told him I only wanted a curtain ring engagement ring. When we got engaged, it was partly because my stepfather caught us in bed together (only sleeping!) after this other friend of mine unexpectedly tried to rape me, but I do love my husband and I know he secretly loves me too, or he wouldn't have such a hard time not sexually assaulting me all the time even though he thinks I'm a golddigger and claims to hate me. He said it was a marriage of convenience, but I'm hoping I can eventually get him to realize how much he does love me even though once he said he loathed and despised all I stood for.
Anyway, I'm positive that he will eventually fall in love with me, but I'm not sure what I should do right now. Maybe I should just tell him I'm already pregnant and will stay with him till the end? Or maybe I should just remind him how much I love him; so much that I refuse to stay married to him and have his children just to satisfy his ultimatum?
Update: So, I didn't think anything would happen this quickly, but after some back and forth (I told him no, then I told him that of course I would stay with him and have his kids but he wouldn't like it very much; then I decided to go visit my stepfather's grave and get some guidance but my car broke down so my BFF Toby who just got engaged showed up and was going to give me a ride to the churchyard, but my husband got mad and tried to beat him up so I fake fainted to get them to stop fighting, bruising myself in the process BUT finally my husband admitted he was in love with me!) we decided to stay married and have children and basically live happily ever after.
Some of you mentioned that my husband's behavior was less than ideal and maybe even a little bit mean, but he apologized for everything and said I drove him nuts so he had no choice but to be cruel to guard his heart. So, we both agreed we both made mistakes, but we're going to look to the future and not the past because we love each other and we're together now!
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Dear AITAH:
My husband (28M) and myself (20F) have been married for about 6 months. My FIL just died and in his will he left everything to my DH (dear husband) as long as we stay married for at least 2 years and I have a child. If we divorce before then, or I do not bear a child within that time limit, everything reverts to me. My husband is angry and has now given me an ultimatum that if I truly love him, I will go ahead and fulfill the terms of the will. I love him with all my heart, do not want to divorce him, and in fact am already pregnant with his child, but now that he's making it an ultimatum, I kind of think I should divorce him.
AITAH for wanting to divorce my husband for giving me an ultimatum to stay with him and fulfill the terms of a will that will benefit both of us?
Some background: My FIL was also my mother's husband, which makes my DH also technically my stepbrother. My mother and FIL/stepfather, who raised me from the age of 10, are separated but not divorced. My mother has always been kind of a narcissist and greedy, and I'm pretty sure she made passes at my DH at least once or twice before we were married.
My DH is usually a wonderful husband, except for he keeps telling me he doesn't really love me, he doesn't trust me, he thinks I'm a gold-digger who married him to manipulate him and my stepfather and gain access the family jewels even though I told him I only wanted a curtain ring engagement ring. When we got engaged, it was partly because my stepfather caught us in bed together (only sleeping!) after this other friend of mine unexpectedly tried to rape me, but I do love my husband and I know he secretly loves me too, or he wouldn't have such a hard time not sexually assaulting me all the time even though he thinks I'm a golddigger and claims to hate me. He said it was a marriage of convenience, but I'm hoping I can eventually get him to realize how much he does love me even though once he said he loathed and despised all I stood for.
Anyway, I'm positive that he will eventually fall in love with me, but I'm not sure what I should do right now. Maybe I should just tell him I'm already pregnant and will stay with him till the end? Or maybe I should just remind him how much I love him; so much that I refuse to stay married to him and have his children just to satisfy his ultimatum?
Update: So, I didn't think anything would happen this quickly, but after some back and forth (I told him no, then I told him that of course I would stay with him and have his kids but he wouldn't like it very much; then I decided to go visit my stepfather's grave and get some guidance but my car broke down so my BFF Toby who just got engaged showed up and was going to give me a ride to the churchyard, but my husband got mad and tried to beat him up so I fake fainted to get them to stop fighting, bruising myself in the process BUT finally my husband admitted he was in love with me!) we decided to stay married and have children and basically live happily ever after.
Some of you mentioned that my husband's behavior was less than ideal and maybe even a little bit mean, but he apologized for everything and said I drove him nuts so he had no choice but to be cruel to guard his heart. So, we both agreed we both made mistakes, but we're going to look to the future and not the past because we love each other and we're together now!
March 6, 2012
This was good and had some very gut-wrenching angst, but I wasn't crazy about the last third of it when it became apparent that the hero actually wasn't secretly in love with her. I never like those "hero learns how to love" stories quite as much. Also, he should have done WAAAAYYYYY more groveling. Still though, definitely 4 stars for the extreme angst.
July 19, 2021
Cheers to a cruel hero who knows how to play his role well!
I loved every second of this absolutely messy book. There were so many funny and sexy moments i was living for it!!! I also loved their antics when they tried to throw each other’s desire in their faces, especially the heroine cos she knew her power and she did not come to play with it. Period.
Even though there were some tiny annoying moments, this book deserved my liberal 5 stars more than some other HPs i’ve given 5 stars to so that’s okay.
I hope the rest of the books by this author are as good!
I loved every second of this absolutely messy book. There were so many funny and sexy moments i was living for it!!! I also loved their antics when they tried to throw each other’s desire in their faces, especially the heroine cos she knew her power and she did not come to play with it. Period.
Even though there were some tiny annoying moments, this book deserved my liberal 5 stars more than some other HPs i’ve given 5 stars to so that’s okay.
I hope the rest of the books by this author are as good!
January 4, 2020
Somethings didn't make sense but romance was not bad.
August 3, 2021
Morgan's coming home!" her stepfather cried. Those three words should have released a flood of warm memories for Leigh. Instead, thoughts of their last disastrous encounter blotted out the rest.
Just when she'd been coming to terms with her awakening feelings, Morgan had seemed intent on resisting the passion that flowed between them.
"Why must it be you of all women who tempts me almost beyond endurance?" he'd said. Why couldn't he see that she was nothing like her mother? And why was the thought of seeing him again casting her world into turmoil...
Just when she'd been coming to terms with her awakening feelings, Morgan had seemed intent on resisting the passion that flowed between them.
"Why must it be you of all women who tempts me almost beyond endurance?" he'd said. Why couldn't he see that she was nothing like her mother? And why was the thought of seeing him again casting her world into turmoil...
March 25, 2015
This bitch had zero pride and the H was a total cacahole...don't read if pathetic women and senseless men piss you off.
March 19, 2016
La historia se me hizo muy sosa.
En momentos me estresaba el comportamiento tanto de Leigh como de Morgan.
Entretenido, pero hasta ahí...
October 30, 2022
This is a classic harlequin weather is so much angst that it's almost destroying the main characters. It's a story about a colossal idiot meaning a doormat. I have never fought in my life that there would be someone who would take as much verbal abuse and be hurt as much by someone and continue to love them right into the very end and it's only at the end that the main male character let her know that he loved her but even though he loved her he wasn't sure he could get over her appearance that she looks so much like her mother.
While the writing is very good the author definitely talented it was hard to get behind the characters, it was hard to feel sympathy for the female lead as she just kept getting her head beaten in verbally. And it definitely there was no sympathy for the male main character as he just kept acting like a jerk.
However that is the way most of the old harlequins were written and as such this is definitely a typical harlequin. If you can Overlook how hard it was to watch this relationship without cringing it was not too bad of a book. But definitely not a reread.
While the writing is very good the author definitely talented it was hard to get behind the characters, it was hard to feel sympathy for the female lead as she just kept getting her head beaten in verbally. And it definitely there was no sympathy for the male main character as he just kept acting like a jerk.
However that is the way most of the old harlequins were written and as such this is definitely a typical harlequin. If you can Overlook how hard it was to watch this relationship without cringing it was not too bad of a book. But definitely not a reread.
December 21, 2020
......"we both made mistakes"......I'm sorry, hero, only one of us was being a total d-bag through out this story, there was no two sides, it was YOUR side. The wrong, mean, stupid, vindictive, blind, idiot, cruel, jerkwad side. Hero is just awful, just so stupid, treat the heroine like absolute dirt but she of course loves him unconditionally. Sweetie, he is borderline abusive...leave. Get a career and leave. Her mom sucks, but the heroine kinda treats her with kid gloves for no reason. Liked the stepdad, he was nice and thoughtful. But this hero couldn't say a right thing if his fictional life depended on it! And when he catches the feels its WAY too late in the book for it to matter or for us readers to believe him. Did like the heroine, she was a tough bird and I repeated that, so she deserved anyone else, maybe that rapist guy? I don't know just not the hero. I say read for the mess that it is.
February 26, 2012
Leigh's stepbrother was on his way home finally. The last time she saw Morgan, he was telling her how much she was like her user and tramp of a mother. It broke her heart at the time because she had loved him so much, following him around since childhood.
Now Morgan was on his way back to her and his father. She had hoped it would be an exciting time and one of healing, however she was wrong. Morgan still thought she was just like her mother, just because one incident that blew out of proportion the last time they had been together.
Through the whole time that Morgan is back, he treats Leigh cruelly until finally they are forced to marry, which only makes Morgan hate her more. Soon though, Morgan finds himself absolutely unable to resist Leigh. Morgan didn't know why this had occurred. How could he hate Leigh, yet want her so badly? Love. He was in love with her and raving jealous. It takes some time but eventually they sort it out together.
I really loved this book, I thought it was beautifully written and the author obviously has amazing talent. The characters were well written and the plot of the whole thing amazing. Also I have a thing for step sibling romances. To grow from childhood to have a brother, friend, protector and lover, is so beautiful and amazing!
Now Morgan was on his way back to her and his father. She had hoped it would be an exciting time and one of healing, however she was wrong. Morgan still thought she was just like her mother, just because one incident that blew out of proportion the last time they had been together.
Through the whole time that Morgan is back, he treats Leigh cruelly until finally they are forced to marry, which only makes Morgan hate her more. Soon though, Morgan finds himself absolutely unable to resist Leigh. Morgan didn't know why this had occurred. How could he hate Leigh, yet want her so badly? Love. He was in love with her and raving jealous. It takes some time but eventually they sort it out together.
I really loved this book, I thought it was beautifully written and the author obviously has amazing talent. The characters were well written and the plot of the whole thing amazing. Also I have a thing for step sibling romances. To grow from childhood to have a brother, friend, protector and lover, is so beautiful and amazing!
January 24, 2015
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October 23, 2016
2.5 stars
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