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An Innocent in His Bed #4
The Cattle Baron's Virgin Wife
Sienna Torrance is used to helping people get back on their feet.
But she's finding rugged billionaire Finn McLeod an impossible patient! Spending every day with him is confusing for Sienna—not least because of the searing attraction that flares up between them.
Nevertheless, Sienna's amazed when Finn proposes! How could someone so powerful and charismatic want her—an inexperienced little mouse—as his bride?
But she's finding rugged billionaire Finn McLeod an impossible patient! Spending every day with him is confusing for Sienna—not least because of the searing attraction that flares up between them.
Nevertheless, Sienna's amazed when Finn proposes! How could someone so powerful and charismatic want her—an inexperienced little mouse—as his bride?
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Lindsay Armstrong
317 books91 followersGillian Smith (alias Lindsay Armstrong) was born in South Africa. She grew up with three ambitions: to become a writer, to travel the world, and to be a game ranger. She didn't achieve the last one, but her fascination for wildlife and that special something about Africa and its big game still remains with her. When she went to work it was in travel, at an agency and an airline, and this started her on the road to seeing the world.
Lindsey met her New Zealand-born husband, who had been working in West Africa, when he was on his way home through Johannesburg. He did go home but in a matter of weeks he was back in South Africa, and six months later they were married. Three of their five children were born in South Africa. Then one in London and one in Australia, after they made the decision to emigrate from South Africa.
It wasn't until her youngest child started school that Lindsay sat down at the kitchen table determined to tackle her other ambition to stop dreaming about writing and do it! She hasn't stopped since. She's not happy unless she has a book under way, and she's discovered she can write through just about anything.
Lindsay and her husband have moved around a lot. They've trained racehorses,farmed, and lived on their boat for six months while they sailed it from the Gold Coast to the Torres Strait and back, an epic voyage! They currently live in Queensland, overlooking the water; they sold their farm, and they're looking around for another boat. She and her husband love to travel and have been back to Africa twice in the past few years. The highlight of one of their trips was a visit to the Serengeti, in Tanzania, where Lindsay did the one thing she swore she would never do: take a ride in a hot-air balloon. She was a nervous wreck as the balloon tottered upright, but will remember it as a unique experience to see the game spreading out on the Serengeti plain beneath her as the sun rose.
"They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there..."
Despite this passion for wildlife and Africa, Lindsay considers Australia her home now and loves the country. She travelled to Sydney to witness the closing weekend of the Olympic Games in September 2000; it made her proud to be an adopted Aussie!
Lindsey met her New Zealand-born husband, who had been working in West Africa, when he was on his way home through Johannesburg. He did go home but in a matter of weeks he was back in South Africa, and six months later they were married. Three of their five children were born in South Africa. Then one in London and one in Australia, after they made the decision to emigrate from South Africa.
It wasn't until her youngest child started school that Lindsay sat down at the kitchen table determined to tackle her other ambition to stop dreaming about writing and do it! She hasn't stopped since. She's not happy unless she has a book under way, and she's discovered she can write through just about anything.
Lindsay and her husband have moved around a lot. They've trained racehorses,farmed, and lived on their boat for six months while they sailed it from the Gold Coast to the Torres Strait and back, an epic voyage! They currently live in Queensland, overlooking the water; they sold their farm, and they're looking around for another boat. She and her husband love to travel and have been back to Africa twice in the past few years. The highlight of one of their trips was a visit to the Serengeti, in Tanzania, where Lindsay did the one thing she swore she would never do: take a ride in a hot-air balloon. She was a nervous wreck as the balloon tottered upright, but will remember it as a unique experience to see the game spreading out on the Serengeti plain beneath her as the sun rose.
"They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there..."
Despite this passion for wildlife and Africa, Lindsay considers Australia her home now and loves the country. She travelled to Sydney to witness the closing weekend of the Olympic Games in September 2000; it made her proud to be an adopted Aussie!
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November 16, 2017
Sienna Torrance is a physiotherapist and her patient is cattle baron, Finn McLeod, who injured his leg in a car accident that also killed his fiancée. Finn wants Sienna to come with him to his homestead/cattle station, Waterford, to continue his treatment there. Eventually, Sienna and Finn become more than therapist and patient. This was a pretty sweet Presents story, low on melodrama and love scenes, but I quite liked it. The characters were very likable, the Australian setting was nice, and it was an enjoyable time passer.
December 13, 2010
I had a few qualms before reading this. I always put this off for the other Harlequin September 2008 releases because the title didn't appeal to me - it seemed too provincial for my taste, and I thought the setting was in a farm, with boring scenery. So I was quite surprised when I gave it a try.
The first few chapters were quite promising. I liked the patient-therapist angle, and while I know they'll end up together, I'm still intrigued as to the how of it. When Finn requested (could be demanded because he didn't leave her a choice) Sienna to continue his therapy at Waterford (his estate w/cattle), she suddenly had something to barter with - for Finn to be her escort at her sister's upcoming wedding, and the groom, of all the people, happens to be her ex (who dumped her for her sister).
The plot thickens from there, but everything went downhill for some inexplicable reason. They had a few dates, and while Sienna has this strong facade, that's all there is to it, a facade. There wasn't any development, no solid foundation for marriage and the thing I hated most was the author built up sexual tension, but didn't follow through. I had to read twice to understand that they've already been intimate. That ruined it for me. This is a damned love story? Where are the steamy sex scenes? It was a tease.
I really wanted to appreciate the whole thing, but the only things I liked are the mystery about Finn's deceased fiancee and the other truths revealed. In a nutshell, this could've been better.
The first few chapters were quite promising. I liked the patient-therapist angle, and while I know they'll end up together, I'm still intrigued as to the how of it. When Finn requested (could be demanded because he didn't leave her a choice) Sienna to continue his therapy at Waterford (his estate w/cattle), she suddenly had something to barter with - for Finn to be her escort at her sister's upcoming wedding, and the groom, of all the people, happens to be her ex (who dumped her for her sister).
The plot thickens from there, but everything went downhill for some inexplicable reason. They had a few dates, and while Sienna has this strong facade, that's all there is to it, a facade. There wasn't any development, no solid foundation for marriage and the thing I hated most was the author built up sexual tension, but didn't follow through. I had to read twice to understand that they've already been intimate. That ruined it for me. This is a damned love story? Where are the steamy sex scenes? It was a tease.
I really wanted to appreciate the whole thing, but the only things I liked are the mystery about Finn's deceased fiancee and the other truths revealed. In a nutshell, this could've been better.
January 18, 2018
I liked it but think it could have been easily cut down as some places dragged a bit impacting on my enjoyment.
August 4, 2024
4 stars is a stretch but it’s better than 3, rounding up since I like it.
Both h and H have some emotional baggage from relationships with exes; his is much bigger than hers. She’s a bit wary since her fiancé dumped her for her sister but she’s actually over that, realizing she didn’t love ex as much as she hated damaging sister relationship.
His ex died in the car accident shortly before they were to marry that seriously injured him - h is the physical therapist who helped him recover - and ex was beautiful, charming and vivacious. H won’t talk about her and h thinks she may always be second best. That’s her real baggage and it’s a doozy and h doesn’t think she can tell H that. (Silly maybe but since he was cold after their honeymoon it’s understandable.)
The h is exhausted and worried about H’s ex and falls asleep on wedding night. There is a nasty scene where H looks at sleeping h and thinks the whole thing is a fraud, that she maybe wants kids, loves his outback home and manipulated him. Sounds goofy but he’s got experience with that.
His baggage is also the ex. She was manipulating him, or trying to, blackmailing his brother and trying to blackmail H. She died when H was taking her home after breaking their engagement.
H doesn’t tell h any of this.
At the h/H wedding sister tells h how happy she is for h, h tells her she doesn’t regret her ex, wishes sister well in her marriage to ex. After the h and H’s wedding day h’s sister breaks up with ex and says it was the h who made her see the romance wasn’t there but she’s ambiguous and her folks tell her and H that sister broke engagement because of h. Naturally folks and H think h dissuaded sister because she still loved and wanted ex.
He confronts h when folks call and again when he walks in on ex grabbing h to talk her into convincing sister to go ahead with wedding since what will people think and it’s all her fault sister dumped him. If h still had any feelings for ex they sprout wings at this point. Of course H doesn’t believe that h didn’t try to break up sister.
Story revolves around both her and H handling their joint baggage. She finds part of a note H’s ex wrote that made it clear the ex and H were not lovebirds. H doesn’t answer fully and accuses h again of being just like dead ex.
Honesty and trust would have resolved much of the conflict. When sister shows up 4 months later, while h is pregnant and both she and H are polite and distant she says something that completely validates what h said all along. The h said nothing to dissuade sister. It was only seeing h together with H that made sister realize she didn’t have it with ex.
Yay to h because she was blunt with H. Just because he’s now willing to believe h doesn’t matter. He should have trusted her and should not have believed parents and OM instead of h.
Author handles this well. We get hints that H was maybe not brokenhearted when his ex died but Armstrong trails the backstory out very well.
Both h and H have some emotional baggage from relationships with exes; his is much bigger than hers. She’s a bit wary since her fiancé dumped her for her sister but she’s actually over that, realizing she didn’t love ex as much as she hated damaging sister relationship.
His ex died in the car accident shortly before they were to marry that seriously injured him - h is the physical therapist who helped him recover - and ex was beautiful, charming and vivacious. H won’t talk about her and h thinks she may always be second best. That’s her real baggage and it’s a doozy and h doesn’t think she can tell H that. (Silly maybe but since he was cold after their honeymoon it’s understandable.)
The h is exhausted and worried about H’s ex and falls asleep on wedding night. There is a nasty scene where H looks at sleeping h and thinks the whole thing is a fraud, that she maybe wants kids, loves his outback home and manipulated him. Sounds goofy but he’s got experience with that.
His baggage is also the ex. She was manipulating him, or trying to, blackmailing his brother and trying to blackmail H. She died when H was taking her home after breaking their engagement.
H doesn’t tell h any of this.
At the h/H wedding sister tells h how happy she is for h, h tells her she doesn’t regret her ex, wishes sister well in her marriage to ex. After the h and H’s wedding day h’s sister breaks up with ex and says it was the h who made her see the romance wasn’t there but she’s ambiguous and her folks tell her and H that sister broke engagement because of h. Naturally folks and H think h dissuaded sister because she still loved and wanted ex.
He confronts h when folks call and again when he walks in on ex grabbing h to talk her into convincing sister to go ahead with wedding since what will people think and it’s all her fault sister dumped him. If h still had any feelings for ex they sprout wings at this point. Of course H doesn’t believe that h didn’t try to break up sister.
Story revolves around both her and H handling their joint baggage. She finds part of a note H’s ex wrote that made it clear the ex and H were not lovebirds. H doesn’t answer fully and accuses h again of being just like dead ex.
Honesty and trust would have resolved much of the conflict. When sister shows up 4 months later, while h is pregnant and both she and H are polite and distant she says something that completely validates what h said all along. The h said nothing to dissuade sister. It was only seeing h together with H that made sister realize she didn’t have it with ex.
Yay to h because she was blunt with H. Just because he’s now willing to believe h doesn’t matter. He should have trusted her and should not have believed parents and OM instead of h.
Author handles this well. We get hints that H was maybe not brokenhearted when his ex died but Armstrong trails the backstory out very well.
September 18, 2012
I liked this. It had sort of an old fashioned feel. The pace of it was a bit like older HPs from the 70s sort of slow and meandering. The ending was nice and there were some good romantic quotes at the end. Very readable.
June 20, 2020
2.5 stars
Nice but a little strained. I appreciate L. Armstrong writing style and the story is good but I had a hard time to connect to the characters...
Nice but a little strained. I appreciate L. Armstrong writing style and the story is good but I had a hard time to connect to the characters...
September 25, 2022
A typical harlequin story only no OW or OM and the male lead was nice for a change, still there was romance, angst, a wee bit of light steam and an HEA.
A good read when you are looking for a lighter but still enjoyable book.
A good read when you are looking for a lighter but still enjoyable book.
August 6, 2022
Algunos de sus actitudes me dieron tanda rabia. En vez de insultarse y quedarse callados, lo hubieran hablado.
June 21, 2013
Good.
August 27, 2017
The beginning of this book was quite boring. The first half basically consist of the h brooding and doing things alone. It gets a bit better after they merry and the drama begins. Nice little mini grovel at the end and a sweet HEA. I think I have said this before about this author, but her earlier work is better. Her newer books tend to be boring imo.
I also, like another reviewer said, missed the steam.
I also, like another reviewer said, missed the steam.
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