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Μια Γυναίκα με Παρελθόν
Η αλήθεια ήταν πως δεν ήξερε σχεδόν τίποτα για τη γυναίκα του ...
Ο Νέιθαν Μονρό δεν ήξερε τι να πιστέψει. Μόλις πριν λίγο είχε ακούσει ότι η γυναίκα που παντρεύτηκε δεν ήταν αυτή που έδειχνε. Η Ολίβια Μονρό ήταν μια αδίστακτη υπολογίστρια που θα έκανε τα πάντα για να πετύχει το σκοπό της!
Όμως τι πραγματικά ήξερε για κείνη ο Νατ; Είχαν κάνει ένα γάμο αστραπή, και στην ουσία γνώριζε ελάχιστα ο ένας για τον άλλο. Το μόνο σίγουρο ήταν πως η Ολίβια έκρυβε κάποιο σκοτεινό μυστικό. Τρελός από τη ζήλια και τις αμφιβολίες, ο Νατ έβλεπε πως αν ήθελε να σώσει το γάμο του, έπρεπε να ανακαλύψει όλη την αλήθεια για το παρελθόν της γυναίκας του ...
Ο Νέιθαν Μονρό δεν ήξερε τι να πιστέψει. Μόλις πριν λίγο είχε ακούσει ότι η γυναίκα που παντρεύτηκε δεν ήταν αυτή που έδειχνε. Η Ολίβια Μονρό ήταν μια αδίστακτη υπολογίστρια που θα έκανε τα πάντα για να πετύχει το σκοπό της!
Όμως τι πραγματικά ήξερε για κείνη ο Νατ; Είχαν κάνει ένα γάμο αστραπή, και στην ουσία γνώριζε ελάχιστα ο ένας για τον άλλο. Το μόνο σίγουρο ήταν πως η Ολίβια έκρυβε κάποιο σκοτεινό μυστικό. Τρελός από τη ζήλια και τις αμφιβολίες, ο Νατ έβλεπε πως αν ήθελε να σώσει το γάμο του, έπρεπε να ανακαλύψει όλη την αλήθεια για το παρελθόν της γυναίκας του ...
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Diana Hamilton
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Diana Hamilton was born in a English town. Wanting to be a country child, her imagination came into play at an early age, transforming a neighbor’s tree into a forest, a hole in a stone wall into a gingerbread house, a gas puddle into a fairyland, complete with mountains, lakes and flower meadows. She loathed housework but made to do her share, to lessen the boredom, she told herself stories, in a very loud voice, featuring princesses and flower gardens, discovering that telling herself stories was almost as good as reading them in a book.
She loathed school with an equal passion and got through it by pretending to be somewhere else. Even so she left grammar school with respectable grades... And was sent to art college when she wanted to study to be a vet. This was nowhere as bad as it had seemed because it was there, at age 18, she first saw Peter. He had returned from two years’ active service in Korea to resume his studies, and Diana immediately fell in love with him.
Gaining a degree in advertising copywriting, Diana worked as a copywriter and married Peter. They moved to a remote part of Wales after the birth of their second child, Paul, when their daughter, Rebecca, was three years old. There, Diana enjoyed pony trekking and walking in the mountains; and her third child, Andrew, was born. Itchy feet brought them back to England to the beautiful county of Shropshire four years later and they have been there ever since, gradually restoring the rambling Elizabethan manor that Diana gave her heart to on sight, creating a garden out of a wilderness of nettles, brambles and old bedsteads.
In the mid-'70s Diana took up her pen again to write stories to read to her three children at bedtime. These were never offered for publication but the bug had bitten. Over the next 10 years she combined writing over 30 novels, published by Robert Hale of London, with bringing up her children, gardening and cooking for the restaurant of a local inn—a wonderful excuse to avoid the dreaded housework! In 1987 Diana realized her dearest ambition—the publication of her first Mills & Boon romance, Song in a Strange Land. She had come home. And that feeling persists to this day as, around 30 Harlequin/Mills & Boon romantic novels late, she was still in love with the genre.
Sadly, Diana Hamilton passed away on May 3, 2009, at her home in Shropshire, surrounded by her family. She will be sorely missed by her fans and everyone at Mills & Boon/Harlequin
Diana Hamilton was born in a English town. Wanting to be a country child, her imagination came into play at an early age, transforming a neighbor’s tree into a forest, a hole in a stone wall into a gingerbread house, a gas puddle into a fairyland, complete with mountains, lakes and flower meadows. She loathed housework but made to do her share, to lessen the boredom, she told herself stories, in a very loud voice, featuring princesses and flower gardens, discovering that telling herself stories was almost as good as reading them in a book.
She loathed school with an equal passion and got through it by pretending to be somewhere else. Even so she left grammar school with respectable grades... And was sent to art college when she wanted to study to be a vet. This was nowhere as bad as it had seemed because it was there, at age 18, she first saw Peter. He had returned from two years’ active service in Korea to resume his studies, and Diana immediately fell in love with him.
Gaining a degree in advertising copywriting, Diana worked as a copywriter and married Peter. They moved to a remote part of Wales after the birth of their second child, Paul, when their daughter, Rebecca, was three years old. There, Diana enjoyed pony trekking and walking in the mountains; and her third child, Andrew, was born. Itchy feet brought them back to England to the beautiful county of Shropshire four years later and they have been there ever since, gradually restoring the rambling Elizabethan manor that Diana gave her heart to on sight, creating a garden out of a wilderness of nettles, brambles and old bedsteads.
In the mid-'70s Diana took up her pen again to write stories to read to her three children at bedtime. These were never offered for publication but the bug had bitten. Over the next 10 years she combined writing over 30 novels, published by Robert Hale of London, with bringing up her children, gardening and cooking for the restaurant of a local inn—a wonderful excuse to avoid the dreaded housework! In 1987 Diana realized her dearest ambition—the publication of her first Mills & Boon romance, Song in a Strange Land. She had come home. And that feeling persists to this day as, around 30 Harlequin/Mills & Boon romantic novels late, she was still in love with the genre.
Sadly, Diana Hamilton passed away on May 3, 2009, at her home in Shropshire, surrounded by her family. She will be sorely missed by her fans and everyone at Mills & Boon/Harlequin
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January 27, 2019
Re Scandalous Bride - Diana Hamilton does the finale of the Scandals! series with this book and she opens it with a bang.
These are the opening lines of the story as the newly wedded H and h make an appearance at a nightclub and run into the vituperative man spouting them to all and sundry. The H is ready to pound the guy's face in, but the h intervenes and asks him to just ignore the guy. Which the H eventually does, but it is clear he isn't happy about it.
With that opening DH sets up a story that hinges upon the reader's discernment of being able to judge an unreliable narrator h vs a seemingly nematode slime swilling H.
The backstory on this is that the h comes from a very broken home. Her parent's divorced when she was young and her very bitter mother blamed the h for driving her father away because he did not want children.
The h refuted those claims when it turned out that the father remarried and happily had three more kids, so the h and her mother were estranged from a very young age when the h blamed her mother's own behavior on her divorce.
The h left home early and started her career as a PA to a man who eventually became replacement family to the h, along with his really nice wife. The h has worked very hard to rise to the executive assistant level and is virtually number two in the company after her boss, she is quite justly proud of her success and her accomplishments.
Particularly because the h's career success came about during a very bad marriage, where she had to force herself to succeed because her husband was too frivolous and to caught up in trying "the next greatest thing" project that never panned out.
What actually went on during the h's first marriage isn't fully revealed until the very end, but the h supported her and husband both and we learn that the h had to work doubly hard to hold off financial insolvency because of her first husband's money losing schemes.
Her boss and his wife became her main emotional support during this trying time and in the aftermath of her first husband's death, the h grew even closer and more devoted to them. The h's loyalty to her adopted family includes tolerating her boss's really nasty and evil brother, who is the one making the assertions that the h is her boss's mistress in the beginning of the story.
It also explains why the h prevents the H from interceding on the h's behalf with the brother. She knows her boss doesn't really like or want his brother in the company, but family being family, he tolerates the man and the h isn't up to rocking that boat.
Which puts her marriage to the H into a bad position. The H and h have only been married for two months when the story starts and they married after only knowing each other for three weeks. It was a coupe de fourde type of impulse marriage and neither the H nor the h know each other very well.
So when the evil slime ball starts making accusations, the h's reluctance to let the H confront the man becomes very suspect in the eyes of the H. Adding to the turmoil is the H's very meddling mother continually trying to manipulate the H into things like buying a country manor near to them and she is really lobbying hard to get the h and H reproducing.
As the H gets more and more convinced the h is really having an affair with her boss, he gets more punishing and vindictive. That the h is not willing to explain why she is so devoted to her boss and his wife only adds to the tension that is building.
Eventually the H issues an ultimatum that the h quit her job to travel with him or else and after a few chapters of tense debate where the h is adamant she won't give up her career, the h finally caves as she values her marriage more than her adopted family relationships.
So the h gives her month's notice, only to have her boss beg her to stay for another six months. The reason is that his wife is pregnant with a fragile pregnancy and the vile boss's brother has been embezzling and destroying the company's business contracts.
The boss needs the h to save the company from bankruptcy and asks the h to stay for six more months and this infuriates the H.
After the h runs off again to support her boss by staying overnight with his wife, who is threatening miscarriage while the boss is out of town, while the H's mother is staying with them and also after the h goes to Italy for three days with the boss while the H is off on his own trip and the h doesn't let him know, the H decides that turnabout is fair play.
On his next trip and during subsequent H/h interactions after that, the H gives all the appearance of a man involved in a passionate affair with his new bombeshell blonde secretary.
To make matters even worse, it appears that this affair is taking place in the h's own home. Every day she comes home from work to the perfume of the new 'secretary' permeating the place and the bed suspiciously rumpled.
The h is frantic with worry and jealousy and to top it all off, the h is preggers unintentionally and the H is accusing her boss of fathering the child. But it is the evil brother slime swiller's final act of vengeance that brings the story to it crux.
The evil brother was originally dating the woman who eventually became the boss's wife, so when the rumors reach the hospitalized pregnant woman that the h and the boss are having an affair, her condition goes from bad to worse.
The h, out of loyalty, had never told the boss about what rumors his brother was spreading around town and when the boss calls the h in complete shock and demands that the h come talk to his wife, the h decides that the evil brother needs to be called to account for his sins.
She and the H go over to the evil brother's apartment and the H forces the man to go explain to his sister in law the depth of his lies. But the evil brother also throws out the accusation that the h murdered her first husband and the h is unable to refute it to the H.
After the evil brother gets beat up by the H and then goes and confesses his lies to the pregnant sister in law, the H makes it clear that he believes the h really is having an affair with her boss. The h, despondently thinking her marriage is over anyways, doesn't try to explain what happened until the H is packing to leave her and outlining the divorce.
Then the h explains that she never had an affair with her boss, but she is guilty of killing her first husband, leaving the H determined to haul her into the police for criminal prosecution, tho he does agree to hire a top notch defense attorney.
The utterly distraught h finally explains what really happened in her first marriage, as the coroner's inquiry verdict was the first husband's death was a car accident that the h wasn't responsible for.
It turns out that the h was driving her drunken husband home from yet another get rich quick scheme. This time the husband had mortgaged their house to finance the thing and was also demanding that the h ask her boss for a loan to cover the rest.
The h, tired of being the caretaker to an abusive, immature brat, told her husband she wouldn't do it and that they were at the end of the line.
The husband hit her while she was driving and then kept on hitting her, so when another car turned in front of them, the h ended up driving into a wall to avoid the car and the wreck killed her first husband.
The h feels tremendous guilt over this, she honestly feels she was a bad wife for not managing her first husband's fits and starts better. Then she explains that she has always had to take care of problems herself, which makes sharing them with an intimate partner very hard to do.
The H has his own confession to make. The blonde bombeshell secretary is really not his secretary. The H decided to treat the h like he felt she was treating him and hired an actress to show up a couple of times to infuriate the h. He also messed the bed up and sprayed the OW's brand of perfume around the house everyday to try and force the h to give up her job and devote herself to him.
The H isn't really sorry he went to such extremes and the h is still so caught up in PTSD and survivor guilt that she believes the H's explanation for things. Since the H now believes that the baby is his and he claims to love the h, we leave the two of them planning on more connubial bliss and that is the HEA.
We get a little epilogue where the H and h and their little son are holidaying with the h's boss and his wife and their little son too, everyone is the best and most mutually supportive of friends and all is well in DH's HPlandia once again.
This book starts out great and the opening is really intense. But the story starts to drag with the h not being willing to discuss her past with her first husband and it gets plain ludicrous with the H's retaliation machinations.
I wasn't feeling that these two should be together by the end. DH has a way of making even an innocent H look terribly guilty and I for sure wasn't buying the mutual 'I love you's' by the end.
The h needed therapy and the H needed a smash with the skillet, but the story does have a lot of trainwrecky drama and the H is magnificent in his cruel intensity - I just did not think anybody should be married to him.
Which is why this one is highly dramatic in wrecky sort of way, but rather mediocre as a believable HEA HPlandia outing.
“Olivia Monroe killed her first husband then jumped into bed with her boss, the richest married rat in town!”
Olivia and Nat stood behind the man as he continued to make the scandalous allegations. “Ask anyone—she’s been sleeping with my big brother for years, and it’s not going to stop just because she’s got herself a solid gold meal ticket for life, all legally tied up with wedding lines!"
These are the opening lines of the story as the newly wedded H and h make an appearance at a nightclub and run into the vituperative man spouting them to all and sundry. The H is ready to pound the guy's face in, but the h intervenes and asks him to just ignore the guy. Which the H eventually does, but it is clear he isn't happy about it.
With that opening DH sets up a story that hinges upon the reader's discernment of being able to judge an unreliable narrator h vs a seemingly nematode slime swilling H.
The backstory on this is that the h comes from a very broken home. Her parent's divorced when she was young and her very bitter mother blamed the h for driving her father away because he did not want children.
The h refuted those claims when it turned out that the father remarried and happily had three more kids, so the h and her mother were estranged from a very young age when the h blamed her mother's own behavior on her divorce.
The h left home early and started her career as a PA to a man who eventually became replacement family to the h, along with his really nice wife. The h has worked very hard to rise to the executive assistant level and is virtually number two in the company after her boss, she is quite justly proud of her success and her accomplishments.
Particularly because the h's career success came about during a very bad marriage, where she had to force herself to succeed because her husband was too frivolous and to caught up in trying "the next greatest thing" project that never panned out.
What actually went on during the h's first marriage isn't fully revealed until the very end, but the h supported her and husband both and we learn that the h had to work doubly hard to hold off financial insolvency because of her first husband's money losing schemes.
Her boss and his wife became her main emotional support during this trying time and in the aftermath of her first husband's death, the h grew even closer and more devoted to them. The h's loyalty to her adopted family includes tolerating her boss's really nasty and evil brother, who is the one making the assertions that the h is her boss's mistress in the beginning of the story.
It also explains why the h prevents the H from interceding on the h's behalf with the brother. She knows her boss doesn't really like or want his brother in the company, but family being family, he tolerates the man and the h isn't up to rocking that boat.
Which puts her marriage to the H into a bad position. The H and h have only been married for two months when the story starts and they married after only knowing each other for three weeks. It was a coupe de fourde type of impulse marriage and neither the H nor the h know each other very well.
So when the evil slime ball starts making accusations, the h's reluctance to let the H confront the man becomes very suspect in the eyes of the H. Adding to the turmoil is the H's very meddling mother continually trying to manipulate the H into things like buying a country manor near to them and she is really lobbying hard to get the h and H reproducing.
As the H gets more and more convinced the h is really having an affair with her boss, he gets more punishing and vindictive. That the h is not willing to explain why she is so devoted to her boss and his wife only adds to the tension that is building.
Eventually the H issues an ultimatum that the h quit her job to travel with him or else and after a few chapters of tense debate where the h is adamant she won't give up her career, the h finally caves as she values her marriage more than her adopted family relationships.
So the h gives her month's notice, only to have her boss beg her to stay for another six months. The reason is that his wife is pregnant with a fragile pregnancy and the vile boss's brother has been embezzling and destroying the company's business contracts.
The boss needs the h to save the company from bankruptcy and asks the h to stay for six more months and this infuriates the H.
After the h runs off again to support her boss by staying overnight with his wife, who is threatening miscarriage while the boss is out of town, while the H's mother is staying with them and also after the h goes to Italy for three days with the boss while the H is off on his own trip and the h doesn't let him know, the H decides that turnabout is fair play.
On his next trip and during subsequent H/h interactions after that, the H gives all the appearance of a man involved in a passionate affair with his new bombeshell blonde secretary.
To make matters even worse, it appears that this affair is taking place in the h's own home. Every day she comes home from work to the perfume of the new 'secretary' permeating the place and the bed suspiciously rumpled.
The h is frantic with worry and jealousy and to top it all off, the h is preggers unintentionally and the H is accusing her boss of fathering the child. But it is the evil brother slime swiller's final act of vengeance that brings the story to it crux.
The evil brother was originally dating the woman who eventually became the boss's wife, so when the rumors reach the hospitalized pregnant woman that the h and the boss are having an affair, her condition goes from bad to worse.
The h, out of loyalty, had never told the boss about what rumors his brother was spreading around town and when the boss calls the h in complete shock and demands that the h come talk to his wife, the h decides that the evil brother needs to be called to account for his sins.
She and the H go over to the evil brother's apartment and the H forces the man to go explain to his sister in law the depth of his lies. But the evil brother also throws out the accusation that the h murdered her first husband and the h is unable to refute it to the H.
After the evil brother gets beat up by the H and then goes and confesses his lies to the pregnant sister in law, the H makes it clear that he believes the h really is having an affair with her boss. The h, despondently thinking her marriage is over anyways, doesn't try to explain what happened until the H is packing to leave her and outlining the divorce.
Then the h explains that she never had an affair with her boss, but she is guilty of killing her first husband, leaving the H determined to haul her into the police for criminal prosecution, tho he does agree to hire a top notch defense attorney.
The utterly distraught h finally explains what really happened in her first marriage, as the coroner's inquiry verdict was the first husband's death was a car accident that the h wasn't responsible for.
It turns out that the h was driving her drunken husband home from yet another get rich quick scheme. This time the husband had mortgaged their house to finance the thing and was also demanding that the h ask her boss for a loan to cover the rest.
The h, tired of being the caretaker to an abusive, immature brat, told her husband she wouldn't do it and that they were at the end of the line.
The husband hit her while she was driving and then kept on hitting her, so when another car turned in front of them, the h ended up driving into a wall to avoid the car and the wreck killed her first husband.
The h feels tremendous guilt over this, she honestly feels she was a bad wife for not managing her first husband's fits and starts better. Then she explains that she has always had to take care of problems herself, which makes sharing them with an intimate partner very hard to do.
The H has his own confession to make. The blonde bombeshell secretary is really not his secretary. The H decided to treat the h like he felt she was treating him and hired an actress to show up a couple of times to infuriate the h. He also messed the bed up and sprayed the OW's brand of perfume around the house everyday to try and force the h to give up her job and devote herself to him.
The H isn't really sorry he went to such extremes and the h is still so caught up in PTSD and survivor guilt that she believes the H's explanation for things. Since the H now believes that the baby is his and he claims to love the h, we leave the two of them planning on more connubial bliss and that is the HEA.
We get a little epilogue where the H and h and their little son are holidaying with the h's boss and his wife and their little son too, everyone is the best and most mutually supportive of friends and all is well in DH's HPlandia once again.
This book starts out great and the opening is really intense. But the story starts to drag with the h not being willing to discuss her past with her first husband and it gets plain ludicrous with the H's retaliation machinations.
I wasn't feeling that these two should be together by the end. DH has a way of making even an innocent H look terribly guilty and I for sure wasn't buying the mutual 'I love you's' by the end.
The h needed therapy and the H needed a smash with the skillet, but the story does have a lot of trainwrecky drama and the H is magnificent in his cruel intensity - I just did not think anybody should be married to him.
Which is why this one is highly dramatic in wrecky sort of way, but rather mediocre as a believable HEA HPlandia outing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 13, 2019
I enjoyed this waaay more than I should. Every character is TERRIBLE.
Let’s do a roll call (in order of appearance):
OM’s brother starts a vicious rumor that the h and OM are having an affair, tries to undermine his brother’s business, and his only punishment is that
Heroine has been married to the H for two months. She is a widow and carries guilt She has an obsessive loyalty to the OM, her boss, because he was kind to her after her husband’s death. She brings on the hero’s jealousy by explaining *nothing* until the end of the story.
Hero is a control freak, jealous, obsessive tycoon who travels all the time. In short, a typical HP hero. He has a hair-trigger temper so he flounces before the tongue-tied heroine can say something and therefore never gets the whole story. He is so jealous and spiteful that he (LOL)
OM’s wife needs to grow the hell up and stay by herself at night.
Hero’s mother is a passive/aggressive control freak who hides her obsessive need to interfere in her son’s life behind a cheery facade. More blurred boundaries for the heroine!
OW, the actress really needs to star in an HP of her own, doing the same thing to help out a friend. That hero can be fooled by her sophisticated OW façade and find a sweet virgin from the country underneath. *happy sigh*
This reviewer loves a trainwreck, even though this one was slow-moving and tedious at times. H/h are a match made in heaven since they deserve every self-made moment of angst. Boogenhagen has a proper review.
Let’s do a roll call (in order of appearance):
OM’s brother starts a vicious rumor that the h and OM are having an affair, tries to undermine his brother’s business, and his only punishment is that
Heroine has been married to the H for two months. She is a widow and carries guilt She has an obsessive loyalty to the OM, her boss, because he was kind to her after her husband’s death. She brings on the hero’s jealousy by explaining *nothing* until the end of the story.
Hero is a control freak, jealous, obsessive tycoon who travels all the time. In short, a typical HP hero. He has a hair-trigger temper so he flounces before the tongue-tied heroine can say something and therefore never gets the whole story. He is so jealous and spiteful that he (LOL)
OM’s wife needs to grow the hell up and stay by herself at night.
Hero’s mother is a passive/aggressive control freak who hides her obsessive need to interfere in her son’s life behind a cheery facade. More blurred boundaries for the heroine!
OW, the actress really needs to star in an HP of her own, doing the same thing to help out a friend. That hero can be fooled by her sophisticated OW façade and find a sweet virgin from the country underneath. *happy sigh*
This reviewer loves a trainwreck, even though this one was slow-moving and tedious at times. H/h are a match made in heaven since they deserve every self-made moment of angst. Boogenhagen has a proper review.
March 4, 2017
This is not a perfect book but my rule of thumb is, if you can make me cry, I'll give you five stars if I'm happy at the end.
Olivia and Nat met and fell in love in a whirlwind romance that found them married after only weeks. Now, after a two month honeymoon, reality is about to hit them hard.
Olivia is a widow with some baggage and a strong sense of obligation to her boss and his wife, who helped her make it through the trauma of her husband's death. Her marriage is something she doesn't talk about. This makes it altogether worse when her boss's brother is overheard by Nat claiming she killed her first husband and was having a longstanding affair with her boss.
Nat and Olivia are already at odds over her job because he wants her free to travel with him for his business dealings that take him all over the world. Olivia is prepared to give notice, but things are complicated when her boss asks her to stay longer because of problems caused by his brother.
It seems like their marriage is going to end as fast as it began. Both are at fault with neither communicating, but especially Olivia, who expects Nat to accept her decisions without understanding why, giving credence to the rumors about her and her boss. Nat behaves badly too, exacerbating the situation, reacting with a lack of trust.
This is a roller coaster ride, full of emotion and frustration for both Nat and Olivia and the reader. It worked for me and I found the ending satisfying.
Olivia and Nat met and fell in love in a whirlwind romance that found them married after only weeks. Now, after a two month honeymoon, reality is about to hit them hard.
Olivia is a widow with some baggage and a strong sense of obligation to her boss and his wife, who helped her make it through the trauma of her husband's death. Her marriage is something she doesn't talk about. This makes it altogether worse when her boss's brother is overheard by Nat claiming she killed her first husband and was having a longstanding affair with her boss.
Nat and Olivia are already at odds over her job because he wants her free to travel with him for his business dealings that take him all over the world. Olivia is prepared to give notice, but things are complicated when her boss asks her to stay longer because of problems caused by his brother.
It seems like their marriage is going to end as fast as it began. Both are at fault with neither communicating, but especially Olivia, who expects Nat to accept her decisions without understanding why, giving credence to the rumors about her and her boss. Nat behaves badly too, exacerbating the situation, reacting with a lack of trust.
This is a roller coaster ride, full of emotion and frustration for both Nat and Olivia and the reader. It worked for me and I found the ending satisfying.
July 23, 2022
My heart ached for the H when he got stood up by her for the lunch date and he went to her workplace and he found her working cozy with her boss.
The H and the h are newlyweds. She has been married before.
She promises the H to quit her job. The next day she promises her boss to stay on another 6 months. 🙄
All the time I was rooting for him to divorce her and just dump her, so I was disappointed when the inevitable HEA came.
The H and the h are newlyweds. She has been married before.
She promises the H to quit her job. The next day she promises her boss to stay on another 6 months. 🙄
All the time I was rooting for him to divorce her and just dump her, so I was disappointed when the inevitable HEA came.
March 4, 2020
Didn't care for it at all. I personally did not like the storyline.
February 26, 2019
Almost every chapter written didn't feel like fiction. The behaviors, then reactions and the emotions of the characters are superbly written and makes the readers feel as if you are getting a glimpse of their life. It's not your typical meet cute with love declaration at the end of the book with an epilogue to follow but the trials after a marriage and getting used to being a married couple after the honeymoon. All 4 stars go to the writing but not the story. It truly was not a romance novel at all. The H with his games, his jealousies and considering his family background with close parents and a loving childhood came across as a selfish, spoiled brat who trusted innuendos and rumors more than his own wife. The h is an idiot who goes to confront unscrupulous evil characters with no preparation but appeal to a goodness of heart that h herself acknowledges doesn't exist. She is a spineless stupid female. For all that the plot and the characters are not like-able, this books is truly addicting the way a bad soap is. Like spectators of a train wreck, this book can hold you with the way its so well written! I really haven't come across anything this gripping despite its atrocious plot!
February 22, 2021
Based upon StMargaret's review I consumed this book, thank you Stmargaret.
Wow, if main characters ever comminicated there would be very few romance books. The h got on my nerves as did the H! All they had to do was....communicate. I know, unique concept. The h put her job as a higher priority than her husband, a control freak. Yup, trouble coming especialle since brother of her boss states that the h and boss are having an affair. Hubby freaks.
This idiot hires an actress to play the OW rule and the wife freaks. Does h ever tell her boss about the rumors his brother is spreading? Nope. Does she allow the H to help her? Nada. It seems like she is concerned about her boss, his wife and her guilt more than the H and their marriage.
The truth does come out.....finally....without the use of torture devices and they achieve their HEA.
Wow, if main characters ever comminicated there would be very few romance books. The h got on my nerves as did the H! All they had to do was....communicate. I know, unique concept. The h put her job as a higher priority than her husband, a control freak. Yup, trouble coming especialle since brother of her boss states that the h and boss are having an affair. Hubby freaks.
This idiot hires an actress to play the OW rule and the wife freaks. Does h ever tell her boss about the rumors his brother is spreading? Nope. Does she allow the H to help her? Nada. It seems like she is concerned about her boss, his wife and her guilt more than the H and their marriage.
The truth does come out.....finally....without the use of torture devices and they achieve their HEA.
August 29, 2025
I think I got this book when I decided to get all the Diana Hamilton Ebooks Harlequin offered. (A sale of course plus I like her stories.). It’s been lurking in my Want To Read shelf for a couple years but I can’t get past chapter 1. Tried skipping to later chapters but this is just not for me. How could a husband not realize his wife is wracked by guilt over first rotter husband? Or simply ASK about extra close friendship with her boss and his needy wife? And why would anyone put up with endless nastiness from boss’s brother and suffer in silence, not tell boss, not talk to husband, even stop husband from tearing creep brother’s head off?
Folks, magic words are please, thank you and silence while you listen.
Folks, magic words are please, thank you and silence while you listen.
May 24, 2023
This was over the top and utterly ridiculous.
And I loved every minute.
I actually loled when he admitted to hiring an actress.
For real, who does that?
Only a Harleyland hero.
And I loved every minute.
I actually loled when he admitted to hiring an actress.
For real, who does that?
Only a Harleyland hero.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 19, 2023
Todo mundo nesse livro é insuportável, do casal aos amigos e a sogra. Não escapa niguém.
É uma mistura de rede de fofocas com preconceito e ciúme.
Divertidíssimo.
É uma mistura de rede de fofocas com preconceito e ciúme.
Divertidíssimo.
August 3, 2016
3 Stars! ~ From the moment they set eyes on each other, Nathan and Olivia knew they belonged together. A whirlwind courtship, lead to a whirlwind wedding and then a heavenly two month honeymoon. Coming home, all that they didn't know about each other started to come between them; beginning with horrible gossip that Olivia was having an affair with her boss, James. Her reluctance to quit her job, only fuels the seed of doubt planted in Nat. But an affair was only part of the gossip; it was the part that she had killed her first husband, that made Olivia cringe and fear for her marriage. How could she confess to her new husband that it was true.
I have mixed feelings on this one. We only see Nat through Olivia's eyes, and because of that we tend to see Nat as overbearing and overly possessive. There are hints to Olivia's past but it's not discussed until the end of the book. This too, I found leaving me unsatisfied. As the story progresses, Olivia's weakness in not telling Nat the truth, makes Nat's behaviour actually acceptable and I found myself losing sympathy for her. This had a great beginning chapter, but I'm sorry to say that Ms. Hamilton let me down. The premise is good, just not fulfilled.
I have mixed feelings on this one. We only see Nat through Olivia's eyes, and because of that we tend to see Nat as overbearing and overly possessive. There are hints to Olivia's past but it's not discussed until the end of the book. This too, I found leaving me unsatisfied. As the story progresses, Olivia's weakness in not telling Nat the truth, makes Nat's behaviour actually acceptable and I found myself losing sympathy for her. This had a great beginning chapter, but I'm sorry to say that Ms. Hamilton let me down. The premise is good, just not fulfilled.
April 29, 2012
Halaman 11
"Apakah yang mereka katakan tadi dusta belaka?" suara Nathan melukai Olivia
Hah? Dusta belaka?
Ini terjemahan tahun berapa? Hahahaha... lupa bahwa ini novel roman harlequin. :))
Sebetulnya saya suka banget ama tema/cerita tentang pasangan yang udah nikah dan konfliknya. Meskipun emang agak gregetan sih ama Olivia. Tapi terjemahannya itu bikin saya nyengir terus. :))
"Apakah yang mereka katakan tadi dusta belaka?" suara Nathan melukai Olivia
Hah? Dusta belaka?
Ini terjemahan tahun berapa? Hahahaha... lupa bahwa ini novel roman harlequin. :))
Sebetulnya saya suka banget ama tema/cerita tentang pasangan yang udah nikah dan konfliknya. Meskipun emang agak gregetan sih ama Olivia. Tapi terjemahannya itu bikin saya nyengir terus. :))
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