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Secret Heirs of Billionaires #31
Bajo la luz del norte
El objetivo de él era conseguir que las relaciones románticas fuesen fáciles.
Lottie Dawson se había quedado atónita al descubrir la identidad del padre de su hija, aquel irresistible desconocido con el que había pasado una única e increíble noche. Ella no había conocido a su padre, de modo que tomó la decisión de encontrar a Ragnar Stone por el bien de su hija, a pesar de que lo que aquel hombre la hacía sentir le aterrase…
La caótica infancia de Ragnar le había inspirado para crear su millonaria app de citas. Cuando Lottie le reveló que el indescriptible encuentro de ambos había tenido consecuencias, decidió de inmediato y sin dudas reclamar a su bebé. Pero los sentimientos que despertaba Lottie en él… ¡eso era infinitamente más complicado!
152 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2019
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January 29, 2020
This book had me researching a trip to Iceland. I’m a tropical girl, I don’t like the cold. But I want to go visit Iceland now.
Other than making me dream of hot rivers, glacial waterfalls and hot blond godlike men, this book was a really wonderfully done “reunion/secret baby from a one night stand” book.
I adored everything about Ragnar. Even his robotic like personality. His reasoning for shutting down his emotions when he did was completely understandable, if annoying af!
Lottie made him have all the feels though. She heated that cool boy up and he didn’t know how to deal with it. She was also such a great character. I could totally relate to her.
The book was truly based on these two characters attempting to work out their differences and create a relationship for their child. Spoiler: it’s harder than it sounds. :D
Great book. Wonderfully written. Left me with decisions to make about my future Icelandic vacay.
Other than making me dream of hot rivers, glacial waterfalls and hot blond godlike men, this book was a really wonderfully done “reunion/secret baby from a one night stand” book.
I adored everything about Ragnar. Even his robotic like personality. His reasoning for shutting down his emotions when he did was completely understandable, if annoying af!
Lottie made him have all the feels though. She heated that cool boy up and he didn’t know how to deal with it. She was also such a great character. I could totally relate to her.
The book was truly based on these two characters attempting to work out their differences and create a relationship for their child. Spoiler: it’s harder than it sounds. :D
Great book. Wonderfully written. Left me with decisions to make about my future Icelandic vacay.
December 6, 2019
Proof of Their One-Night Passion by Louise Fuller is a lovely ‘secret baby’ romance for a couple who planned only to have a one night stand and who end up with so much more.
When Lottie Dawson turns up pregnant after a one night stand with a man she met on a dating app, she’s unable to find him to tell him about the pregnancy. Months later she sees him on television and realizes why she couldn’t find him – he’d given her a fake last name. Though she’s quite content caring for her 11 month old daughter Soley herself with the help of her brother and mother, she knows what it’s like to grow up without a father and wants to to at least tell Ragnar of the existence of his child.
Ragnar is stunned to discover that he has a daughter. As the inventor of the successful dating app, he’d only used it that one time and he’d never forgotten Lottie. He’s determined to be involved in his daughter’s life, and asks Lottie to come with him to his estate in Iceland where they can get to know each other better and they can figure out how they can be co-parents. Of course, once on Ragnar’s estate together, it’s not long before their attraction results in a heated affair. Can it also lead to a happy ever after?
I loved the setting of this story! There aren’t many romances set in Iceland and Ragnar’s estate is beautiful and remote. Naturally, there is some awkwardness for Ragnar and Lottie as they come to terms with their new situation. Even though Lottie was the one who came forward to tell Ragnar about their daughter, she is used to being a single parent and having all the say about her daughter’s upbringing. She finds it difficult to share Soley with Ragnar in the beginning, and is somewhat jealous when her daughter takes to her father so easily. The emotions are understandable and by midway through the book she is able to admit her feelings and realize that she’s sometimes being unreasonable. Ragnar is patient through all this, wanting only to make up for some of the lost time. He doesn’t resent Lottie for it, he just wants to move forward.
But Ragnar also has some difficulty expressing his emotions, due to a complicated upbringing with multiple parents, step-parents and step-siblings. He loves them all, but has learned to compartmentalize and view their problems (of which there are many as there always seems to be some kind of ongoing drama) dispassionately. He is afraid of the feelings he is developing for Lottie and Soley because his upbringing has taught him that strong feelings mean upheaval and he doesn’t want that in his well ordered life. But he risks losing Lottie and Soley if he doesn’t open up to them. He makes some mistakes but is willing to admit them and ask for forgiveness. The end result is a thoroughly enjoyable romance that shows very human characters working their way to a satisfying happy ending.
This review also appears at Harlequin Junkie: https://harlequinjunkie.com/review-pr...
A copy of this story was provided by the publisher for review.
When Lottie Dawson turns up pregnant after a one night stand with a man she met on a dating app, she’s unable to find him to tell him about the pregnancy. Months later she sees him on television and realizes why she couldn’t find him – he’d given her a fake last name. Though she’s quite content caring for her 11 month old daughter Soley herself with the help of her brother and mother, she knows what it’s like to grow up without a father and wants to to at least tell Ragnar of the existence of his child.
Ragnar is stunned to discover that he has a daughter. As the inventor of the successful dating app, he’d only used it that one time and he’d never forgotten Lottie. He’s determined to be involved in his daughter’s life, and asks Lottie to come with him to his estate in Iceland where they can get to know each other better and they can figure out how they can be co-parents. Of course, once on Ragnar’s estate together, it’s not long before their attraction results in a heated affair. Can it also lead to a happy ever after?
I loved the setting of this story! There aren’t many romances set in Iceland and Ragnar’s estate is beautiful and remote. Naturally, there is some awkwardness for Ragnar and Lottie as they come to terms with their new situation. Even though Lottie was the one who came forward to tell Ragnar about their daughter, she is used to being a single parent and having all the say about her daughter’s upbringing. She finds it difficult to share Soley with Ragnar in the beginning, and is somewhat jealous when her daughter takes to her father so easily. The emotions are understandable and by midway through the book she is able to admit her feelings and realize that she’s sometimes being unreasonable. Ragnar is patient through all this, wanting only to make up for some of the lost time. He doesn’t resent Lottie for it, he just wants to move forward.
But Ragnar also has some difficulty expressing his emotions, due to a complicated upbringing with multiple parents, step-parents and step-siblings. He loves them all, but has learned to compartmentalize and view their problems (of which there are many as there always seems to be some kind of ongoing drama) dispassionately. He is afraid of the feelings he is developing for Lottie and Soley because his upbringing has taught him that strong feelings mean upheaval and he doesn’t want that in his well ordered life. But he risks losing Lottie and Soley if he doesn’t open up to them. He makes some mistakes but is willing to admit them and ask for forgiveness. The end result is a thoroughly enjoyable romance that shows very human characters working their way to a satisfying happy ending.
This review also appears at Harlequin Junkie: https://harlequinjunkie.com/review-pr...
A copy of this story was provided by the publisher for review.
December 10, 2023
Oh I loved this one! Louise Fuller writes superbly adult, sensitive and realistic characters and stories which draw you in and carry you along to their wonderful endings. Lottie and Ragnar have a one night stand which results in a baby but Lottie cannot trace the father since Ragnar didn’t give her his proper name.
The story of them getting together so that Ragnar can get to know his daughter is just beautifully done and I loved them. We can understand the motivations and concerns of both of them. Ragnar is actually a sweetie and it is Lottie who is actually a bit of a pain at times but we understand why. This was as good as. ‘Her hot Havana night’ and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The story of them getting together so that Ragnar can get to know his daughter is just beautifully done and I loved them. We can understand the motivations and concerns of both of them. Ragnar is actually a sweetie and it is Lottie who is actually a bit of a pain at times but we understand why. This was as good as. ‘Her hot Havana night’ and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
August 21, 2021
This is fine but fairly unexciting. Over the last few months I’ve read a fair amount of older category romances and one of the, um, interesting things about them is the way in which they’re actually pretty explicit about why they’re using Mediterranean/Greek/Italian heroes (lots of adjectives like “hot-blooded” and excuses for his "passionate nature"). When you think about it, there’s no reason in this modern era that the heroes are all Greek/Italian; like, how many Greek shipping magnates are there even these days? You’re not going to find a category romance which mentions the Greek financial crisis, that’s for sure. Anyway, they’ve started adding in Russians, but this one is going in the opposite direction from all the cliches - our hero Ragnar is Icelandic, so no excuses for going heavy on the Fiery Temper bit.
The problem is, it’s pretty boring. Lacking a thin layer of nationalistic preconceptions to layer over our hero, the author just makes him… dull. He doesn’t have to be Italian, he can still be wildly over-the-top! It really is not dependent on his passport! But no. Instead, she goes for the precise opposite: Ragnar is a passive-aggressive doormat. He vacillates wildly between being ridiculously supportive (sure, he encourages the heroine to come to his remote estate in middle of nowhere Iceland whence she can only escape by private helicopter, but he also says things like “I’m here to support you in whatever way I can,” and nods understandingly when she’s not ready to include him in the baby’s bedtime routine) and getting angry at the heroine because he’s upset with other people. He’s decided on minimal evidence that the heroine is a drama queen from an unstable family, so for example he hands her an envelope and says his lawyers drew up a basic custody agreement and then spends several pages being mad that the heroine’s response is “okay, I’ll hand this off to my own lawyers” and leaving the room. What - what was she supposed to do? Later he gets mad at his sister, then the baby is crying and he shows up and mansplains stuff to the heroine and he storms out because “he’d reached his day’s quota of conversations with irrational childish women.”
Like, actually dude has a lot of anger at various points, but the way he chooses to direct it at the heroine isn’t really a sexy Harlequin Presents “I am obsessed by you” kind of way, it’s more like, “I’m mad at all the other people in my life because I’m a doormat, but you’re here so I’m going to take it out on you.” Which is both gross and, well, not sexy. I feel weird saying that the typical HP alpha jackass is sexy, but part of the HP thing is generally the intense emotional connection between the hero and heroine, and here it feels like the heroine is incidental - he’s not driven by emotions towards her, he’s driven by emotions towards other people (women) in his life and he’s taking them out on her. This feels way too much like, well, real life. Gross dudes in real life.
The larger context of the novel didn’t work for me, either; our hero has invented a hook-up app (which he used to hook up with the heroine, giving her a false name, not that he acknowledges how creepy/wrong this was), and at various points he thinks things about how “the algorithm” indicated they should have been happy with just a night together. I find that category romances generally do really poorly when they get too aggressive with the modern tech stuff - there isn’t enough space in category romance to get into it, and the authors aren’t really leaning into the techbro thing. (Obligatory mention of Robin Covington here, who actually does this quite well; the hero of Seducing His Secret Wife is both a realistic techbro and a great category hero.)
Anyway, I stalled out at about fifty percent. It seems like there was some nice Icelandic tourist stuff in there (ponies! yay!) but I hadn't connected with the heroine and, as the preceding several paragraphs of ranting indicate, I found the hero obnoxious in a way that is entirely too realistic. Life is too short etc. I like Louise Fuller's writing so will doubtless try some more of hers. Maybe not set in Iceland though.
The problem is, it’s pretty boring. Lacking a thin layer of nationalistic preconceptions to layer over our hero, the author just makes him… dull. He doesn’t have to be Italian, he can still be wildly over-the-top! It really is not dependent on his passport! But no. Instead, she goes for the precise opposite: Ragnar is a passive-aggressive doormat. He vacillates wildly between being ridiculously supportive (sure, he encourages the heroine to come to his remote estate in middle of nowhere Iceland whence she can only escape by private helicopter, but he also says things like “I’m here to support you in whatever way I can,” and nods understandingly when she’s not ready to include him in the baby’s bedtime routine) and getting angry at the heroine because he’s upset with other people. He’s decided on minimal evidence that the heroine is a drama queen from an unstable family, so for example he hands her an envelope and says his lawyers drew up a basic custody agreement and then spends several pages being mad that the heroine’s response is “okay, I’ll hand this off to my own lawyers” and leaving the room. What - what was she supposed to do? Later he gets mad at his sister, then the baby is crying and he shows up and mansplains stuff to the heroine and he storms out because “he’d reached his day’s quota of conversations with irrational childish women.”
Like, actually dude has a lot of anger at various points, but the way he chooses to direct it at the heroine isn’t really a sexy Harlequin Presents “I am obsessed by you” kind of way, it’s more like, “I’m mad at all the other people in my life because I’m a doormat, but you’re here so I’m going to take it out on you.” Which is both gross and, well, not sexy. I feel weird saying that the typical HP alpha jackass is sexy, but part of the HP thing is generally the intense emotional connection between the hero and heroine, and here it feels like the heroine is incidental - he’s not driven by emotions towards her, he’s driven by emotions towards other people (women) in his life and he’s taking them out on her. This feels way too much like, well, real life. Gross dudes in real life.
The larger context of the novel didn’t work for me, either; our hero has invented a hook-up app (which he used to hook up with the heroine, giving her a false name, not that he acknowledges how creepy/wrong this was), and at various points he thinks things about how “the algorithm” indicated they should have been happy with just a night together. I find that category romances generally do really poorly when they get too aggressive with the modern tech stuff - there isn’t enough space in category romance to get into it, and the authors aren’t really leaning into the techbro thing. (Obligatory mention of Robin Covington here, who actually does this quite well; the hero of Seducing His Secret Wife is both a realistic techbro and a great category hero.)
Anyway, I stalled out at about fifty percent. It seems like there was some nice Icelandic tourist stuff in there (ponies! yay!) but I hadn't connected with the heroine and, as the preceding several paragraphs of ranting indicate, I found the hero obnoxious in a way that is entirely too realistic. Life is too short etc. I like Louise Fuller's writing so will doubtless try some more of hers. Maybe not set in Iceland though.
January 31, 2020
He is the owner of a dating app (Ice/breakr, i guess the opp of Tindr) and uses it to meet h under a false name and shuts off his profile. The h learning his name from a TV newsclip, reaches out to him. On hearing about his daughter for the first time doesn't ask for any details except about monetary terms. The h on recollecting in the subsequent chapter(2) thinks his attitude of clinical judgement then dwells on the thread of dark current of desire. With this kind of self delusion and this heights of desperation, I thought there wouldn't be any redeeming it but the storyline improved quite a bit with the Iceland trip where we get a glimpse of his family with its soap opera proportioned drama and empathize with his need for solitude. The h also improves a bit on acquaintance but still is a bit too weepy with it.
August 12, 2025
I was at the Goodwill and I thought, what the hey? It's been years since my last Harlequin binge, these are always a trip, let's do it.
I know the formula sometimes forces fairly ridiculous contrivances to move the plot along, but this one just did not pass the vibe test. Also, it's okay to set boundaries with your bonkers family.
I know the formula sometimes forces fairly ridiculous contrivances to move the plot along, but this one just did not pass the vibe test. Also, it's okay to set boundaries with your bonkers family.
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Secret Heirs of Billionaires
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Secret Heirs of Billionaires
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December 1, 2019Categories
Romance, Contemporary Romance
Miniseries
Secret Heirs of Billionaires
Romance, Contemporary Romance
Miniseries
Secret Heirs of Billionaires
March 26, 2020
Didn't enjoy this story at all. Finished it because I don't like to leave a story in the middle. But as much as I tried I could not get into this one. Too much "nothing" for me.
April 12, 2020
I appreciated that most of the drama was internalized, they didn't really lash out too much at each other and they both behaved like mostly intelligent adults.
October 26, 2020
Nice story.
January 16, 2021
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April 6, 2025
Best stand out of this HP Presents is the beautiful Iceland setting. Otherwise checks all the same reliable HP Presents requirements.
December 30, 2020
Just your regular average meh rurrrrrmance with unexpected pregnancy, rich father and so forth.
July 10, 2020
A baby revelation beneath the northern lights
Lottie Dawson is stunned to finally learn the identity of her child’s father, the irresistible stranger she spent one incredible night with. Never having known her own father, Lottie must find Ragnar Stone for her daughter’s sake, despite being terrified of the way he makes her feel…
Ragnar’s chaotic childhood inspired his billion-dollar dating app. He must keep romantic attachments simple. When Lottie reveals their heart-stopping encounter had consequences, there’s no question that Ragnar will demand his baby. But his feelings for Lottie? They’re infinitely more complicated!
Lottie Dawson is stunned to finally learn the identity of her child’s father, the irresistible stranger she spent one incredible night with. Never having known her own father, Lottie must find Ragnar Stone for her daughter’s sake, despite being terrified of the way he makes her feel…
Ragnar’s chaotic childhood inspired his billion-dollar dating app. He must keep romantic attachments simple. When Lottie reveals their heart-stopping encounter had consequences, there’s no question that Ragnar will demand his baby. But his feelings for Lottie? They’re infinitely more complicated!
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