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Η Εκδίκηση του Ράιαν - Χρυσά Άρλεκιν #1134
Καμιά γυναίκα δεν εγκατέλειπε τον Ράιαν Φάλκονερ! Ο εγωισμός του είχε πληγωθεί ανεπανόρθωτα όταν η Βιρτζίνια εξαφανίστηκε μια νύχτα πριν από το γάμο τους. Γι' αυτό τώρα, δύο χρόνια αργότερα, είχε επιστρέψει για να την κάνει να πληρώσει!
Όταν τον είδε ξαφνικά μπροστά της, η Βιρτζίναι συνειδητοποίησε ότι μάταια κρυβόταν εδώ και τόσο καιρό -και μάταια προσπαθούσε να πείσει τον εαυτό της ότι δεν τον αγαπούσε πια. Όμως ο Ράιαν είχε έρθει από τη Νέα Υόρκη με μοναδικό σκοπό την εκδίκηση κι αυτή τη φορά ήταν αποφασισμένος να την παντρευτεί -είτε το ήθελε εκείνη είτε όχι!
Όταν τον είδε ξαφνικά μπροστά της, η Βιρτζίναι συνειδητοποίησε ότι μάταια κρυβόταν εδώ και τόσο καιρό -και μάταια προσπαθούσε να πείσει τον εαυτό της ότι δεν τον αγαπούσε πια. Όμως ο Ράιαν είχε έρθει από τη Νέα Υόρκη με μοναδικό σκοπό την εκδίκηση κι αυτή τη φορά ήταν αποφασισμένος να την παντρευτεί -είτε το ήθελε εκείνη είτε όχι!
160 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2002
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About the author
Lee Wilkinson
260 books39 followersLee Wilkinson was born in Nottingham, the only child of loving parents. She was educated at an all-girls' school, and after leaving, tried her hand at several jobs, including modeling swimwear.
At 22 she met and married her husband, Denis. They had a traditional white wedding and a honeymoon in Italy, and have been happily married ever since. They have two children, a son and a daughter—both now grown up and married—and four lovely grandchildren.
Lee's writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She has had more than 20 Mills and Boon romance novels published to date.
Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking. Traveling is her main love, and teaming up with her daughter and American son-in-law, she and her husband spent a year going round the world, taking in India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the States.
Last year she rented a palazzo in the heart of Venice, followed by a quick hop aboard the Orient Express. Lee is currently saving up for a whirlwind tour of Japan, a romantic and exotic destination she has wanted to visit since childhood.
At present she lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which gets cut off by snow most winters
At 22 she met and married her husband, Denis. They had a traditional white wedding and a honeymoon in Italy, and have been happily married ever since. They have two children, a son and a daughter—both now grown up and married—and four lovely grandchildren.
Lee's writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She has had more than 20 Mills and Boon romance novels published to date.
Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking. Traveling is her main love, and teaming up with her daughter and American son-in-law, she and her husband spent a year going round the world, taking in India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the States.
Last year she rented a palazzo in the heart of Venice, followed by a quick hop aboard the Orient Express. Lee is currently saving up for a whirlwind tour of Japan, a romantic and exotic destination she has wanted to visit since childhood.
At present she lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which gets cut off by snow most winters
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November 30, 2018
Heroine leaves hero two years previously, hero tracks her down to find out why. I liked the hero and wonderful New York City and London settings.
November 27, 2014
I wanted to like this one, it's the first I've read from this author, but somehow I couldn't connect to the hero Ryan or the heroine. The emotions were all surface to me. I do like a hero pursuing his love, and I liked the glimpses of his feelings for heroine, but really didn't like
1) heroine using a perfectly nice man who has helped her out a lot, and stringing him along, and hero humiliating the same man,
2) hero putting so much emphasis on heroine being "his own lollipop" (that he doesn't want to share) and not being with any other men for their 2.5 years apart, with repeated questioning about her celibacy, and did her tell her that he wasn't with anyone else because he really loves her? I don't recall seeing that...please someone point out the lines I missed...it was very jarring to me especially after he questions her faithfulness repeatedly, and
3) Ryan decides at the end to be all indignant that heroine believed his ex sister-in-law about their ongoing affair, BUT he had a prior sexual relationship with his brother's wife that he neglected to tell heroine about???? You bring her into your family and subject her to your former lover (one you know is still after you) and don't arm her with the knowledge that you've had an affair with your brother's wife, but are shocked that she believes the former lover? Just not cool. Reminded me of the hero's lie in The Italian's Revenge.
I will try this author again...I think if author wasn't trying so hard to create a formulaic HP, the dialogue and plot would flow more freely and realistically...
1) heroine using a perfectly nice man who has helped her out a lot, and stringing him along, and hero humiliating the same man,
2) hero putting so much emphasis on heroine being "his own lollipop" (that he doesn't want to share) and not being with any other men for their 2.5 years apart, with repeated questioning about her celibacy, and did her tell her that he wasn't with anyone else because he really loves her? I don't recall seeing that...please someone point out the lines I missed...it was very jarring to me especially after he questions her faithfulness repeatedly, and
3) Ryan decides at the end to be all indignant that heroine believed his ex sister-in-law about their ongoing affair, BUT he had a prior sexual relationship with his brother's wife that he neglected to tell heroine about???? You bring her into your family and subject her to your former lover (one you know is still after you) and don't arm her with the knowledge that you've had an affair with your brother's wife, but are shocked that she believes the former lover? Just not cool. Reminded me of the hero's lie in The Italian's Revenge.
I will try this author again...I think if author wasn't trying so hard to create a formulaic HP, the dialogue and plot would flow more freely and realistically...
July 18, 2022
He’s a hot alpha male in pursuit. He lays down the law for her. He knows what he wants and he tells her. He is wicked and determined.
She is worse than Pinocchio. Was there anything she didn’t lie about? And she used the OM to protect her from the H’s seduction. 🙄
The 4 stars are all for him. She is zero stars.
And thank you, Lee Wilkinson, for not letting the h become pregnant like so many other HP h’s. Not using birth control is so 1860.
She is worse than Pinocchio. Was there anything she didn’t lie about? And she used the OM to protect her from the H’s seduction. 🙄
The 4 stars are all for him. She is zero stars.
And thank you, Lee Wilkinson, for not letting the h become pregnant like so many other HP h’s. Not using birth control is so 1860.
June 6, 2014
A truly five star book. One of the best I've ever read! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 13, 2019
Fortunately, this is a quick read. Unfortunately, it's a bad one. The dude is just Not Right. He 'falls in love' with a painting of the woman when she was 17 (yikes). Hunts her down and when he finally finds her he flatters her, offers her a dream job, takes her out of the country and sets her up next door to him, proposes marriage in like a one week period (if that). ThEN his sister-in-law, and former lover, wages a war against the woman (sniping, being negative, playing into her insecurities and eventually out and out lying about the man - saying they're conducting an affair and need the woman for cover). Naturally, the woman believes the lies because she has known mr. manipulative for all of two months.
His behavior only worsens from there. The lengths he went to in order to manipulate the woman back into his bed are just mind-boggling and actually criminal. Monstrous behavior on the dude's part throughout the story and an almost total lack of his POV in the narrative that could have at least softened some of the actions for the reader made him utterly unredeemable to me.
The woman was so entirely sexually hypnotized by him that nothing he did was a deal-breaker for longer than a few moments when she wasn't in his immediate vicinity. Completely disturbing.
His behavior only worsens from there. The lengths he went to in order to manipulate the woman back into his bed are just mind-boggling and actually criminal. Monstrous behavior on the dude's part throughout the story and an almost total lack of his POV in the narrative that could have at least softened some of the actions for the reader made him utterly unredeemable to me.
The woman was so entirely sexually hypnotized by him that nothing he did was a deal-breaker for longer than a few moments when she wasn't in his immediate vicinity. Completely disturbing.
November 13, 2020
Just once I'd like the good guy to get the girl, but nope, didn't happen with this novel either.
January 11, 2021
Un poco cliché, muy parecido a otros, el final de me hizo muy decepcionante, solo por ver un cuadro se enamoro???
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July 22, 2022
Jilted at the altar! No one could do that to Ryan Falconer and get away with it. That’ s why, two years later, Ryan’ s back. He’ s going to reclaim his bride— and he wants revenge.
Ryan needs to discover why Virginia left him, as he’ s convinced the passionate love they shared isn’ t dead, and he’ s determined to prove it. Ryan’ s revenge: to lead Virginia down the aisle— willing or not!
Ryan needs to discover why Virginia left him, as he’ s convinced the passionate love they shared isn’ t dead, and he’ s determined to prove it. Ryan’ s revenge: to lead Virginia down the aisle— willing or not!
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