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Passionate Enemy
"You're on my home turf now."
Paul glared across the room at Rebecca. "You'd be well advised to remember that if you want what you came for."
Once they'd been as close as lovers, but until recently more than an ocean had separated them. And only family duty had induced Rebecca to travel to Martinique to meet the man she'd once hurt so deeply.
Then, she'd had no chance to make amends. Now, the tables were turned and Rebecca was in Paul's power....
Paul glared across the room at Rebecca. "You'd be well advised to remember that if you want what you came for."
Once they'd been as close as lovers, but until recently more than an ocean had separated them. And only family duty had induced Rebecca to travel to Martinique to meet the man she'd once hurt so deeply.
Then, she'd had no chance to make amends. Now, the tables were turned and Rebecca was in Paul's power....
189 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1991
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Patricia Wilson
122 books181 followersPatricia Wilson (1929 – 2010) was a best-selling writer of 53 romance novels for the Mills & Boon publisher from 1986 to 2004. She placed her novels primarily in England, Spain or France.
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May 14, 2013
I liked the vibe of the hero being the boy who picks on the girl because he likes her. I remember my mom always said that was why certain boys at school picked on me. I never believed her. Looking back, I think she was right about some of those. Nothing annoys a boy more than a girl he likes ignoring him or looking down her nose at him. This thwarted affection comes out in pranks like hair-pulling and name calling. Not very mature, but there you have it.
In the case of Paul, it was very clear how much he adored Rebecca, even though he didn't want to. I am not justifying some of the mean things he says and does to Rebecca. It was interesting that Rebecca felt a lot of guilt about how she treated Paul as a youngster and submits to some of this treatment out of a sense of justice. I think that her humility showed strength of character that she lacked as a young girl. I can't really blame her for that behavior, since she was an immature kid. Paul of course, was the object of that behavior, so he had to work past his feelings of betrayal and learn to forgive Rebecca, and to trust that she's not just running a game on him like she did when they were younger.
I admit I read a lot between the lines, since Wilson doesn't spend a lot of page time on developing this dynamic. I'm okay with that. Harlequin Presents are very short, and I admit part of the fun of reading these books is reading into the subtext of the books. Since we don't get the hero's POV, it's especially fun to guess what the hero is thinking, and we can check our understanding in the last few pages when we get the reveal.
While this book lacked some tension, I liked it because I liked the idea of Paul being so in love with Rebecca for such a long time, almost obsessed with her. And I liked how Rebecca was able to come out of her shell and acknowledge that her feelings for Paul had always been love, even if she couldn't own up to it due to her repression from having toxic parents.
Again, I admit I am reading a lot into this book, and some readers might scratch their head and wonder how I got all this. What can I say? I find reading highly subjective. We see what we want to or what our minds bring to the forefront.
I enjoyed this book.
In the case of Paul, it was very clear how much he adored Rebecca, even though he didn't want to. I am not justifying some of the mean things he says and does to Rebecca. It was interesting that Rebecca felt a lot of guilt about how she treated Paul as a youngster and submits to some of this treatment out of a sense of justice. I think that her humility showed strength of character that she lacked as a young girl. I can't really blame her for that behavior, since she was an immature kid. Paul of course, was the object of that behavior, so he had to work past his feelings of betrayal and learn to forgive Rebecca, and to trust that she's not just running a game on him like she did when they were younger.
I admit I read a lot between the lines, since Wilson doesn't spend a lot of page time on developing this dynamic. I'm okay with that. Harlequin Presents are very short, and I admit part of the fun of reading these books is reading into the subtext of the books. Since we don't get the hero's POV, it's especially fun to guess what the hero is thinking, and we can check our understanding in the last few pages when we get the reveal.
While this book lacked some tension, I liked it because I liked the idea of Paul being so in love with Rebecca for such a long time, almost obsessed with her. And I liked how Rebecca was able to come out of her shell and acknowledge that her feelings for Paul had always been love, even if she couldn't own up to it due to her repression from having toxic parents.
Again, I admit I am reading a lot into this book, and some readers might scratch their head and wonder how I got all this. What can I say? I find reading highly subjective. We see what we want to or what our minds bring to the forefront.
I enjoyed this book.
August 2, 2017
Re Passionate Enemy - Patricia Wilson is back with her typical ultra feminine sugar sweet h who is very ashamed of her past bad behavior paired with her normal bossy Alpha H type.
In this instance the H is ostensibly out for payback for past horrible treatment from the h. But while the h thinks her past bad behavior was on the level of the second coming of the anti-Christ, every other character in the book including the vengeful H, thinks it was on par with putting a fluffy soft clawed kitten into battle toads and watching as she tries to hit things with an empty sock.
Which probably explains why his vengeance mainly consists of telling the h she can't leave and she has to stay with him, basically terrifying her in her overactive imagination, while the whole time he is saving her from falls, predatory OM, taking her to lunch and dinner and shopping and taunting her a bit by dancing with another woman.
If real angry Alpha HP vengeance is what you are looking for, well you won't find it here. The H's terrible vengeance mainly consists of verbal lashings with an overcooked spaghetti noodle and few roofie kisses on the beach.
The start of this story is the h shows up in Martinique to ask the H to agree to sell her father's business as the father died and left all the money to the H. The backstory on this is that the h has terrible parents. Mummy Dearest is all about her social status and ladies who lunch and Daddy dearest was only into a son to take over his firm.
The H is not related to them, but when his father died when the H was 16, the h's father became the H 's guardian and tried to co-opt him as a successor. The h's mother went ballistic and the h was pretty much dragooned into taking the mother's side whenever she complained about the H living with them.
The h claims she was mean to the H when she was growing up. But I don't think telling a 16 yr old boy that ten year old little girls don't want to play with him is terrible, nor did I think it was really terrible that the h did not leap to the H's defense when he pulled her out of the local river when she got stuck and her mother acted like the H tried to drown her.
The h was jealous of the attention the H got from her father, but there wasn't anything really specifically rotten that she did, more it was an omission of behavior. Things came to a big blow up when the h turned 18 and the H kissed her and her mother walked in on it and went ballistic. The h tried to calm her mother, but did not defend the H - and the way it was written she wasn't given much of a chance in between the mother's hysterics and the H's angry leave taking- which resulted in the H taking off and six years of non contact with vows of vengeance when they reconnect.
But now the h's mother sent the h to the H's home on Martinique, where he owns an airline, to ask the H to agree to the sale of business and pay off the mother's house, as specified in the h's father's will. When daddy dearest died, he left full control of things to the H. The h has her own little career as a pop pianist in a band and they just had a record put out and are doing a tour of America soon. Essentially the h is there because her mother won't stop hounding her if she doesn't. She is desperately sorry for her past bad behavior and she is quite prepared to suffer the H's wrath if he will just sign the paper work to pay off her mother's house.
So when the H tells her he will make her suffer horribly, the h is resigned and then we get a sorta 'Angry H ordering the h about' lite. The H's whole vengeance consists of cuddling her up when ever he feels the need to, saving her from mishaps, taking her out and about and letting her believe that he is going to the marry the catty OW that he doesn't even sleep with.
The h just loves the H and has been in love with him since he kissed her at 18 and she is prepared to suffer torture just to show how sorry she is. Fortunately the H only wants the comfort of the h's loving arms when one of his young pilots goes missing but then gets found and the h is happy cause she got the full lurve mojo treatment from the H, (cause he knows his HP job,) and unicorns flew away over sparkly double rainbows.
The H decides he will let the h off the hook and sign off on selling the business and paying off the mother's house, so the h can go on tour with her very nice band members. Things are looking rosy all over until the OW convinces the h that the H is marrying her and the h has a little mopey moment and then goes off on tour cause her very nice band members are depending on her.
Then she has to quit the band when the tour is over, cause now she is preggers. But the h is happy, cause the H is marrying the OW, but she will have his baby and the H made sure she got half of her father's business sale proceeds in her own account, so she won't be poor either. The h tells off her mother in an EPIC smackdown, which was very well done and takes herself off to her very own little Scottish cottage.
The H tracks her down, because he is totally besotted and has been since before the book even started. Of course he isn't marrying the OW, he only ever took her out as an adjunct to dining at the local yacht club and now he is seriously kicking himself for implying to the h that there was anything between him and the OW at all. To his credit, the H realized when he saw how hurt the h was the first time that OW flaunting was a bad idear, and after that the only OW scenes with the h were when the OW just showed up out the blue to stir the pot.
The h's former band members told him about the baby and the H loves the h and she loves him back, so they get married and then we get a lovely five page epilogue where the H and h are lurved up and happy and the H is quitting flying to chain the h to him at all times which she enthusiastically agrees with and have more babies and the H will become a hotel magnate instead of a pilot for the big HEA.
This one was cute, but very average PW. Still if besotted H's are your thing and you like the sweet, feminine cuddlesome h's in your HP outings, this would probably be a story for you.
In this instance the H is ostensibly out for payback for past horrible treatment from the h. But while the h thinks her past bad behavior was on the level of the second coming of the anti-Christ, every other character in the book including the vengeful H, thinks it was on par with putting a fluffy soft clawed kitten into battle toads and watching as she tries to hit things with an empty sock.
Which probably explains why his vengeance mainly consists of telling the h she can't leave and she has to stay with him, basically terrifying her in her overactive imagination, while the whole time he is saving her from falls, predatory OM, taking her to lunch and dinner and shopping and taunting her a bit by dancing with another woman.
If real angry Alpha HP vengeance is what you are looking for, well you won't find it here. The H's terrible vengeance mainly consists of verbal lashings with an overcooked spaghetti noodle and few roofie kisses on the beach.
The start of this story is the h shows up in Martinique to ask the H to agree to sell her father's business as the father died and left all the money to the H. The backstory on this is that the h has terrible parents. Mummy Dearest is all about her social status and ladies who lunch and Daddy dearest was only into a son to take over his firm.
The H is not related to them, but when his father died when the H was 16, the h's father became the H 's guardian and tried to co-opt him as a successor. The h's mother went ballistic and the h was pretty much dragooned into taking the mother's side whenever she complained about the H living with them.
The h claims she was mean to the H when she was growing up. But I don't think telling a 16 yr old boy that ten year old little girls don't want to play with him is terrible, nor did I think it was really terrible that the h did not leap to the H's defense when he pulled her out of the local river when she got stuck and her mother acted like the H tried to drown her.
The h was jealous of the attention the H got from her father, but there wasn't anything really specifically rotten that she did, more it was an omission of behavior. Things came to a big blow up when the h turned 18 and the H kissed her and her mother walked in on it and went ballistic. The h tried to calm her mother, but did not defend the H - and the way it was written she wasn't given much of a chance in between the mother's hysterics and the H's angry leave taking- which resulted in the H taking off and six years of non contact with vows of vengeance when they reconnect.
But now the h's mother sent the h to the H's home on Martinique, where he owns an airline, to ask the H to agree to the sale of business and pay off the mother's house, as specified in the h's father's will. When daddy dearest died, he left full control of things to the H. The h has her own little career as a pop pianist in a band and they just had a record put out and are doing a tour of America soon. Essentially the h is there because her mother won't stop hounding her if she doesn't. She is desperately sorry for her past bad behavior and she is quite prepared to suffer the H's wrath if he will just sign the paper work to pay off her mother's house.
So when the H tells her he will make her suffer horribly, the h is resigned and then we get a sorta 'Angry H ordering the h about' lite. The H's whole vengeance consists of cuddling her up when ever he feels the need to, saving her from mishaps, taking her out and about and letting her believe that he is going to the marry the catty OW that he doesn't even sleep with.
The h just loves the H and has been in love with him since he kissed her at 18 and she is prepared to suffer torture just to show how sorry she is. Fortunately the H only wants the comfort of the h's loving arms when one of his young pilots goes missing but then gets found and the h is happy cause she got the full lurve mojo treatment from the H, (cause he knows his HP job,) and unicorns flew away over sparkly double rainbows.
The H decides he will let the h off the hook and sign off on selling the business and paying off the mother's house, so the h can go on tour with her very nice band members. Things are looking rosy all over until the OW convinces the h that the H is marrying her and the h has a little mopey moment and then goes off on tour cause her very nice band members are depending on her.
Then she has to quit the band when the tour is over, cause now she is preggers. But the h is happy, cause the H is marrying the OW, but she will have his baby and the H made sure she got half of her father's business sale proceeds in her own account, so she won't be poor either. The h tells off her mother in an EPIC smackdown, which was very well done and takes herself off to her very own little Scottish cottage.
The H tracks her down, because he is totally besotted and has been since before the book even started. Of course he isn't marrying the OW, he only ever took her out as an adjunct to dining at the local yacht club and now he is seriously kicking himself for implying to the h that there was anything between him and the OW at all. To his credit, the H realized when he saw how hurt the h was the first time that OW flaunting was a bad idear, and after that the only OW scenes with the h were when the OW just showed up out the blue to stir the pot.
The h's former band members told him about the baby and the H loves the h and she loves him back, so they get married and then we get a lovely five page epilogue where the H and h are lurved up and happy and the H is quitting flying to chain the h to him at all times which she enthusiastically agrees with and have more babies and the H will become a hotel magnate instead of a pilot for the big HEA.
This one was cute, but very average PW. Still if besotted H's are your thing and you like the sweet, feminine cuddlesome h's in your HP outings, this would probably be a story for you.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 22, 2019
Hero was adopted into the heroine’s family when he was 16 and heroine was 10. Heroine’s mother made his life hell and heroine followed along out of fear and jealousy, although part of her loved the “golden giant.” When she was 18, the H/h shared a passionate kiss. Heroine burst into tears when her mother caught them. Hero took this as a sign that the heroine set him up to be ostracized from the family, and he left without another word. Heroine has felt guilty ever since.
The story opens six years later with the heroine traveling to Martinique where the hero owns a cargo flight business. Heroine is a pianist and is becoming independent of her shrewish mother. However, the hero has inherited their house and if the hero doesn’t sign it over they will be homeless.
Hero has every intention of signing over the house, but he wanted the heroine to come to him and beg as part of his revenge.
The rest of the story is the hero making empty threats and showing how besotted he still is with the heroine.
The heroine, because of her guilt, doesn’t see it – and that’s the main conflict. Hero buys her clothes, takes her everywhere with him – the OW’s parent’s tea, the local club, on a cargo flight, etc. . . Hero shows his jealousy of any male that speaks to the heroine. His big "tell" is when he calls her "Becky" or "gypsy." (This is a vintage, no H pov).
It’s a sweet revenge scenario - if that makes any sense. By the time the H/h find their HEA they have been helped by every side character – even the OW who confesses her part in misleading the heroine. No one, not even the evil mother, can stand in the way of this hero’s love.
Boogenhagen has all the spoilers if you’re interested.
The story opens six years later with the heroine traveling to Martinique where the hero owns a cargo flight business. Heroine is a pianist and is becoming independent of her shrewish mother. However, the hero has inherited their house and if the hero doesn’t sign it over they will be homeless.
Hero has every intention of signing over the house, but he wanted the heroine to come to him and beg as part of his revenge.
The rest of the story is the hero making empty threats and showing how besotted he still is with the heroine.
The heroine, because of her guilt, doesn’t see it – and that’s the main conflict. Hero buys her clothes, takes her everywhere with him – the OW’s parent’s tea, the local club, on a cargo flight, etc. . . Hero shows his jealousy of any male that speaks to the heroine. His big "tell" is when he calls her "Becky" or "gypsy." (This is a vintage, no H pov).
It’s a sweet revenge scenario - if that makes any sense. By the time the H/h find their HEA they have been helped by every side character – even the OW who confesses her part in misleading the heroine. No one, not even the evil mother, can stand in the way of this hero’s love.
Boogenhagen has all the spoilers if you’re interested.
June 4, 2019
"Passionate Enemy" is the story of Rebecca and Paul.
Our h and H have had a troubled past. The H was adopted into the h's family when she was a teenager, and when her set of unloving parents decide to give him the attention she craved- his father as an heir and his mother with hatred- she develops strong dislike against him. The stay is even worse for the orphan H, who becomes indifferent to the callous attitude and barbs from the h's family, and after a disastrous incident, leaves them.
In present, the H has been left incharge of the h and her controlling mother's property, and she coerced to go and convince him to give them their due. The h is very ashamed of her past behavior, and sees this as an opportunity to repent. The H however, has other ideas..
He continually taunts her, calling her a gypsy, but strangely cannot let her go. He drags her everywhere with him, does not let any other man near her, and soon we realize the truth of what happened in the past, and how hatred and love are two sides of the same coin.
We have a regretful but strong heroine who is filled with remorse and sorrow, a brooding alpha hero who cannot keep his eyes off her, relentless longing, a catty OW, loads of passion and feelings, heavy angst, supportive friends, some drama and a sweet HEA.
I absolutely ADORED it!
Safe/SWE
4.5/5
Our h and H have had a troubled past. The H was adopted into the h's family when she was a teenager, and when her set of unloving parents decide to give him the attention she craved- his father as an heir and his mother with hatred- she develops strong dislike against him. The stay is even worse for the orphan H, who becomes indifferent to the callous attitude and barbs from the h's family, and after a disastrous incident, leaves them.
In present, the H has been left incharge of the h and her controlling mother's property, and she coerced to go and convince him to give them their due. The h is very ashamed of her past behavior, and sees this as an opportunity to repent. The H however, has other ideas..
He continually taunts her, calling her a gypsy, but strangely cannot let her go. He drags her everywhere with him, does not let any other man near her, and soon we realize the truth of what happened in the past, and how hatred and love are two sides of the same coin.
We have a regretful but strong heroine who is filled with remorse and sorrow, a brooding alpha hero who cannot keep his eyes off her, relentless longing, a catty OW, loads of passion and feelings, heavy angst, supportive friends, some drama and a sweet HEA.
I absolutely ADORED it!
Safe/SWE
4.5/5
March 25, 2012
Generally I am not the hugest Patricia Wilson fan. It's unfortunate because her plots and set-ups are ones that normally I love, and she seems to do everything exactly the same as a lot of other authors I do like, but for some reason I find her characters overly obvious and silly. This one was better than some of the others I've read though. It was too long and got a little boring in the end, but I still enjoyed it enough to finish it.
December 8, 2015
He is adopted to her family. There's a lot of play with haunting emotions. She had to have his permission to liquidate some assets of her deceased father. He thought she was finally ready to face their music.
August 26, 2019
The words he said was cruel but I couldn't feel heroine's angst.
March 24, 2020
The hero had been sort of adopted by the heroine’s family after his father died. The heroine’s mother has a histrionic personality, while her father seems to be a misogynist who is thoroughly pleased that he now has a son to leave his business to. The history while the hero was with the heroine’s family comes to a head and eventually he leaves.
Fast forward the heroine’s father is dead and her and her mother are in danger of losing their home, they need the hero’s signature on papers. So the mother despatches the heroine off to see the hero and get it done.
I get that the hero had issues with the heroine, but I wasn’t onboard with how he treated her, there is another woman, whom the hero uses to make the heroine jealous, of course he eventually dumps her. I felt quite sorry for her being used like that. As to the main couple I wasn’t quite feeling the chemistry, passion ect, I did feel a lot of anger though
Fast forward the heroine’s father is dead and her and her mother are in danger of losing their home, they need the hero’s signature on papers. So the mother despatches the heroine off to see the hero and get it done.
I get that the hero had issues with the heroine, but I wasn’t onboard with how he treated her, there is another woman, whom the hero uses to make the heroine jealous, of course he eventually dumps her. I felt quite sorry for her being used like that. As to the main couple I wasn’t quite feeling the chemistry, passion ect, I did feel a lot of anger though
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April 21, 2016
i actually already read this one. what Rebecca did to Paul was unforgivable. they had never been close as lovers. she was a bitch while growing up and i dunno how Paul still felt the same way about her. was he a glutton for punishment !? she has obviously changed now, when her mother is not around to tell her how to behave.lol!
November 19, 2025
A father adopts a 16-year-old boy because he needs a son; a hurt daughter is the most unpleasant to him; and a manipulative mother makes his life in their house a hell.
Fast forward 6 years.
The father dies, leaving everything to the “son,” and the mother pleads with the h to go to Martinique and beg the H to let them stay in their house, which now belongs to him.
The h is a concert pianist; the H owns an air freight company.
They were caught kissing by her mother when she was 18 and he was 24 (their first and only kiss), and they go back to kissing, although the h believes he’s almost engaged.
The girl is naïve and childish. She also believes that her father's money rightfully belongs to the H because her father wanted it so.
Fast forward 6 years.
The father dies, leaving everything to the “son,” and the mother pleads with the h to go to Martinique and beg the H to let them stay in their house, which now belongs to him.
The h is a concert pianist; the H owns an air freight company.
They were caught kissing by her mother when she was 18 and he was 24 (their first and only kiss), and they go back to kissing, although the h believes he’s almost engaged.
The girl is naïve and childish. She also believes that her father's money rightfully belongs to the H because her father wanted it so.
October 14, 2013
The author didn't do it for me. I thought the romance was underdeveloped and I couldn't connect with the protagonists even though heroine was a sweetheart and hero a vulnerable kindhearted man.
May 5, 2018
3.5* Paul and Rebecca had so much history and emotional baggage between them!
At 16 the orphaned Paul was adopted by Becky's father who's always wanted a son to inherit the engineering business. Becky grew up knowing both parents did not care about her so Paul's presence in the house was even more antagonising. Both Becky and her mother were horrid to Paul!
Things changed though when Becky was 18 and Paul 24. Becky realised it's a fine line between hate and love and Paul could not hide his feelings anymore...unfortunately Becky's mother walked in on them and Paul thought Becky was putting on an act to trick and trap him...as she'd done before when she was much younger! He packed his bags and walked out of their lives and that was 6 years ago.
Now Becky's father was dead and action was needed from the incommunicado Paul or Becky and mother would lose even the roof over their heads! In desperation and at her mother's bidding Becky went to Martinique to see Paul. She knew how much he hated them so she was expecting him to humiliate and pay them back in whichever way possible. ..she was resigned to fate.
To be honest Paul COULD have been much worse...to call him an enemy wasn't quite right. In vintage Mills & Boon land there were many more assholey heroes who had much less cause to be so!
If course there's an Other Woman Selina in the wings adding conflict and causing mischief...but as Paul and Bevky revealed their real feelings and clarified the past, their HEA was so sweet! Paul explaining his own actions in the past was even more loving. ..he did not need to stay with the Waynes but had stayed to look after Becky. Even he could see how coldly her own parents treated her! Aww...
At 16 the orphaned Paul was adopted by Becky's father who's always wanted a son to inherit the engineering business. Becky grew up knowing both parents did not care about her so Paul's presence in the house was even more antagonising. Both Becky and her mother were horrid to Paul!
Things changed though when Becky was 18 and Paul 24. Becky realised it's a fine line between hate and love and Paul could not hide his feelings anymore...unfortunately Becky's mother walked in on them and Paul thought Becky was putting on an act to trick and trap him...as she'd done before when she was much younger! He packed his bags and walked out of their lives and that was 6 years ago.
Now Becky's father was dead and action was needed from the incommunicado Paul or Becky and mother would lose even the roof over their heads! In desperation and at her mother's bidding Becky went to Martinique to see Paul. She knew how much he hated them so she was expecting him to humiliate and pay them back in whichever way possible. ..she was resigned to fate.
To be honest Paul COULD have been much worse...to call him an enemy wasn't quite right. In vintage Mills & Boon land there were many more assholey heroes who had much less cause to be so!
If course there's an Other Woman Selina in the wings adding conflict and causing mischief...but as Paul and Bevky revealed their real feelings and clarified the past, their HEA was so sweet! Paul explaining his own actions in the past was even more loving. ..he did not need to stay with the Waynes but had stayed to look after Becky. Even he could see how coldly her own parents treated her! Aww...
March 25, 2019
Rebecca had a traumatic childhood. Her father was not satisfied with having a daughter so he adopted a teenage recently orphaned son called Paul! Since she wanted her father's affection and her mother was too selfish and spoiled to even give her any real attention at all, Rebecca rejected and resented Paul's existence in her life. It was until she became 18 years old that she understood she loved him! Unfortunately, it was too late then to make him understand her. He left and she lived 8 years regretting not expressing her feelings and defending him.
After the death of her father, her selfish mother asked her to go and convince Paul to either run her father's business or sell it in order to maintain some kind of financial security. Rebecca, though afraid of being kicked out and never given a chance to bleed her case and ask for forgiveness, agreed to go and see him. She didn't not bargain for Paul's domination and manipulation, though. Nor was she prepared for Selina, the current woman in his life.
After the death of her father, her selfish mother asked her to go and convince Paul to either run her father's business or sell it in order to maintain some kind of financial security. Rebecca, though afraid of being kicked out and never given a chance to bleed her case and ask for forgiveness, agreed to go and see him. She didn't not bargain for Paul's domination and manipulation, though. Nor was she prepared for Selina, the current woman in his life.
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November 18, 2023
This trope really appeals to me... and I'm not even sure what it is! h was horrible to H when she was a teen, and is forced to approach him years later, as an adult, to plead for his help. She's full of remorse for how she acted in the past, and realizes the H will most likely want to hurt and humiliate her. He does! She takes it as her due punishment, and 'bends the neck' so to speak, which is at first satisfying to the H, then mortifying as he realizes how he loves her and doesn't actually want to humiliate her.
What I love is the h being so calm and dignified as she accepts what she feels is her just desserts, and how the H can't help but admire her for it.
Anyway - whatever that trope may be I love it!
What I love is the h being so calm and dignified as she accepts what she feels is her just desserts, and how the H can't help but admire her for it.
Anyway - whatever that trope may be I love it!
April 24, 2020
This book is overall well balanced despite the heroine’s sometimes taxing inner monologue.
I would’ve given it two stars if not for a few things like how she kept idolizing “Paul’s baby.” That really got me. Hello, it’s your child too. Also, she was just so dang ready to give up her fulfilling job to either be a wife or a mother. Hello, motherhood is not the end of a woman’s life. And, last but not least, I generally dislike the fainting type. Some exercise definitely wouldn’t hurt. Hello, you’re about to give birth. Your doctor literally just told you a page ago that you need to keep in good health. Also the ending is lackluster.
I would’ve given it two stars if not for a few things like how she kept idolizing “Paul’s baby.” That really got me. Hello, it’s your child too. Also, she was just so dang ready to give up her fulfilling job to either be a wife or a mother. Hello, motherhood is not the end of a woman’s life. And, last but not least, I generally dislike the fainting type. Some exercise definitely wouldn’t hurt. Hello, you’re about to give birth. Your doctor literally just told you a page ago that you need to keep in good health. Also the ending is lackluster.
September 18, 2020
The hero is crazy about her. I love Patricia Wilson’s book. This one is no exception. She doesn’t waste time in letting the chemistry in. Very enjoyable read. If you don’t like a dominant alpha male, this book is not for you.
November 18, 2018
I actually enjoyed this one
August 18, 2024
No podia parar de leerlo, lo termine en menos de 1 dia!
Me encanto la tension y la quimica entre los protagonistas. ❤️
Calificación final: 4.4⭐
Me encanto la tension y la quimica entre los protagonistas. ❤️
Calificación final: 4.4⭐
September 7, 2024
4.5
A good chemistry that takes one to another world
A good chemistry that takes one to another world
February 10, 2025
I really enjoyed reding this story. The hero and heroine were meant to be together!
October 26, 2021
You're on my home turf now."
Paul glared across the room at Rebecca. "You'd be well advised to remember that if you want what you came for."
Once they'd been as close as lovers, but until recently more than an ocean had separated them. And only family duty had induced Rebecca to travel to Martinique to meet the man she'd once hurt so deeply.
Then, she'd had no chance to make amends. Now, the tables were turned and Rebecca was in Paul's power
Paul glared across the room at Rebecca. "You'd be well advised to remember that if you want what you came for."
Once they'd been as close as lovers, but until recently more than an ocean had separated them. And only family duty had induced Rebecca to travel to Martinique to meet the man she'd once hurt so deeply.
Then, she'd had no chance to make amends. Now, the tables were turned and Rebecca was in Paul's power
January 10, 2015
3.5 stars
I really liked the tension in the book and the obviousness of the H's love for the h.
I really liked the tension in the book and the obviousness of the H's love for the h.
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