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BETH NÃO SE DEIXARIA ENCANTAR OUTRA VEZ PELO FASCÍNIO DE ALEX! ''Realmente pensou que eu iria deixá-la escapar, sem fazer amor com você outra vez?'' As palavras de Alex ainda ecoavam nos ouvidos de Beth Haley. Será que Alex não compreendera que ela desejava simplesmente vê-lo bem distante, esquecer que um dia o conhecera. Mas a vida não era tão simples assim, e Alex deixou bem claro que não iria deixá-la partir, sem antes resolver uma antiga pendência entre os dois. Beth sabia que seria difícil fugir de Alex, principalmente se ele usasse os mesmos artifícios do passado: um toque de sedução!
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Uma noite era tudo que ela queria ...
Poucos alunos de Beth a teriam reconhecido como a encantadora sedutora que invadiu uma festa chique em Londres, chamou a atenção imediata de Alex Thiarchos, descaradamente o seduziu ... e desapareceu.
Mas sua missão foi cumprida. Ela estava grávida. E ela estava feliz e decididamente sozinha. Certamente a imagem assustadora de seu primeiro e único amante - o pai de seu filho - desapareceria com o tempo?
Errado. Uma tragédia no campus trouxe Alex de volta à sua vida, estimulando necessidades, desejos e complicações que Beth não queria. Agora Alex conhecia a dor de cabeça em primeira mão, e desta vez ele não a deixaria ir!
****
Uma noite era tudo que ela queria ...
Poucos alunos de Beth a teriam reconhecido como a encantadora sedutora que invadiu uma festa chique em Londres, chamou a atenção imediata de Alex Thiarchos, descaradamente o seduziu ... e desapareceu.
Mas sua missão foi cumprida. Ela estava grávida. E ela estava feliz e decididamente sozinha. Certamente a imagem assustadora de seu primeiro e único amante - o pai de seu filho - desapareceria com o tempo?
Errado. Uma tragédia no campus trouxe Alex de volta à sua vida, estimulando necessidades, desejos e complicações que Beth não queria. Agora Alex conhecia a dor de cabeça em primeira mão, e desta vez ele não a deixaria ir!
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Anne Mather
799 books358 followersAnne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
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April 25, 2018
Re A Secret Rebellion - The first HP Plus of July of 1994 goes to this little gem of utter whacktasticness, Anne Mather gives us the h stealing the H's Lurve Mojo Motilators trope.
The Lurve Mojor Motilator heist is not one that is used often in HPlandia, but when it is, you can bet the story is going to be on the trainwrecki side. This one is no exception.
The book starts with the 27ish lady professor with a family history of bitterness and abandonment and betrayal wanting a baby but not a relationship. So she goes to a London party, far from her Yorkshire market town and gets herself a hot hunk of Greek Alpha Manly HP H.
She manages to get him back to her temporary abode for the night, gets him a bit toasted on Chivas Regal and then proceeds to have her unicorn banishing way with him - after she lies about her name and her profession.
The next bit is the h confirming her impending stork arrival and showing us and her co-workers that she is a reserved and elusive lady and doesn't have time for relationships. Her one sorta-but-not-really BFF is a bossy busybody gossip and the h plans on taking a year long sabbatical from her professorship under the guise of writing a book. She will then have the baby and pass it off as a nephew or something.
Except the h gets pulled into the trainwreck shambles of one of her student's affairs. The girl seekritly married another young Greek student and is now dealing with the shock of widowhood after he crashed his car during a rumored suicide attempt and he died.
There are rumors of drug use, parental disownment and the h's young student is kinda a witchy brat that the h winds up coddling and convincing to meet her dead husband's Greek family. The girl is also the unknown daughter in law of the Alpha Greek Hunk the h had her big one nighter with.
The Alpha Greek Hunk is eager for a repeat performance of the h's night o'love, he had private detectives trying to track her down and he essentially harasses the h into pushing his new widowed daughter in law into a visit to Greece to meet the H's evil father, once he runs into the h again at his son's funeral.
The H himself is kinda beta against his dad. He married young by his father's arrangement, had a son and then his wife dumped him for South America. The H finds himself coming more into conflict with his father because the young widow now controls part of the family business shares and the H's father doesn't like that. AM also throws in an investigation into the cause of the young man's death subplot, as the H battles his father for answers.
The h decides to go along with the H's maneuvers because she feels guilty that she is hiding a replacement child for his son. (Told you this was tacky.) She also is very curious about the H's back ground and lifestyle. (Let us not forget the HP Lurve Force Mojo too, that forces even sensible, staid ladies to do outrageous things and this h is a huge universe away from sensible. )
So after pages and pages of the widowed daughter in law's drama and whining in Greece, a few lurve mojo sessions with the H after he wears the h down and a sorta confrontation with the evil Grandfather, who really did drive the H's son to suicide with threats of cutting off his inheritance and banishing him from the family unless he did as he was told, the h is finally free to make her way into her sabbatical and single mum-hood life.
But then the whiny widow calls and the h has to make a choice, cause it appears the H is going to drink himself to death or something.
(The h's problems are from the death of her mother and sisters. The h's mother was incapable of being faithful to one man and continuously cheated on the h's very bitter father. She died when one of her lover's swept her off on a ski trip and there was an avalanche and the h's mum perished, while her father basically abdicated all responsibility to sulk and brood.
Then her older sister, who was a beautiful model, got into a plane crash and her looks were ruined and her fiance abandoned her due to the ugly scarring, so she overdosed and died. The h believes that the men in her mother's and sister's lives were the cause of their deaths and so she wants nothing to do with them.)
The h goes rushing off to the H's London home, hoping to save the life of her baby daddy, cause Whining Widow made his disintegration sound serious. The H has managed to assume control of the family business ventures outside of Greece and it seems he finally told his evil father where to jump. When the h arrives, the H is surly and drunk and tries to throw the h out. The h is terrified that the H will drink himself to death or have an accident, so she faints.
The H's manservant picks the h up and puts her on the couch and the H is now frantic, trying to revive the h. The two of them finally get their wires uncrossed and admit that they love each other and have a purple passion reunion lurve club event. Then the h has to make her Grand Motilator Borrowing confession and the H is absolutely delighted, he decides they will marry straight away.
We leave the two of them married, with a little girl and vacationing on the H's Inherited Greek Island while they decide to forgive the H's father for another totally tacky trainwrecky, but highly entertaining AM HP outing.
The Lurve Mojor Motilator heist is not one that is used often in HPlandia, but when it is, you can bet the story is going to be on the trainwrecki side. This one is no exception.
The book starts with the 27ish lady professor with a family history of bitterness and abandonment and betrayal wanting a baby but not a relationship. So she goes to a London party, far from her Yorkshire market town and gets herself a hot hunk of Greek Alpha Manly HP H.
She manages to get him back to her temporary abode for the night, gets him a bit toasted on Chivas Regal and then proceeds to have her unicorn banishing way with him - after she lies about her name and her profession.
The next bit is the h confirming her impending stork arrival and showing us and her co-workers that she is a reserved and elusive lady and doesn't have time for relationships. Her one sorta-but-not-really BFF is a bossy busybody gossip and the h plans on taking a year long sabbatical from her professorship under the guise of writing a book. She will then have the baby and pass it off as a nephew or something.
Except the h gets pulled into the trainwreck shambles of one of her student's affairs. The girl seekritly married another young Greek student and is now dealing with the shock of widowhood after he crashed his car during a rumored suicide attempt and he died.
There are rumors of drug use, parental disownment and the h's young student is kinda a witchy brat that the h winds up coddling and convincing to meet her dead husband's Greek family. The girl is also the unknown daughter in law of the Alpha Greek Hunk the h had her big one nighter with.
The Alpha Greek Hunk is eager for a repeat performance of the h's night o'love, he had private detectives trying to track her down and he essentially harasses the h into pushing his new widowed daughter in law into a visit to Greece to meet the H's evil father, once he runs into the h again at his son's funeral.
The H himself is kinda beta against his dad. He married young by his father's arrangement, had a son and then his wife dumped him for South America. The H finds himself coming more into conflict with his father because the young widow now controls part of the family business shares and the H's father doesn't like that. AM also throws in an investigation into the cause of the young man's death subplot, as the H battles his father for answers.
The h decides to go along with the H's maneuvers because she feels guilty that she is hiding a replacement child for his son. (Told you this was tacky.) She also is very curious about the H's back ground and lifestyle. (Let us not forget the HP Lurve Force Mojo too, that forces even sensible, staid ladies to do outrageous things and this h is a huge universe away from sensible. )
So after pages and pages of the widowed daughter in law's drama and whining in Greece, a few lurve mojo sessions with the H after he wears the h down and a sorta confrontation with the evil Grandfather, who really did drive the H's son to suicide with threats of cutting off his inheritance and banishing him from the family unless he did as he was told, the h is finally free to make her way into her sabbatical and single mum-hood life.
But then the whiny widow calls and the h has to make a choice, cause it appears the H is going to drink himself to death or something.
(The h's problems are from the death of her mother and sisters. The h's mother was incapable of being faithful to one man and continuously cheated on the h's very bitter father. She died when one of her lover's swept her off on a ski trip and there was an avalanche and the h's mum perished, while her father basically abdicated all responsibility to sulk and brood.
Then her older sister, who was a beautiful model, got into a plane crash and her looks were ruined and her fiance abandoned her due to the ugly scarring, so she overdosed and died. The h believes that the men in her mother's and sister's lives were the cause of their deaths and so she wants nothing to do with them.)
The h goes rushing off to the H's London home, hoping to save the life of her baby daddy, cause Whining Widow made his disintegration sound serious. The H has managed to assume control of the family business ventures outside of Greece and it seems he finally told his evil father where to jump. When the h arrives, the H is surly and drunk and tries to throw the h out. The h is terrified that the H will drink himself to death or have an accident, so she faints.
The H's manservant picks the h up and puts her on the couch and the H is now frantic, trying to revive the h. The two of them finally get their wires uncrossed and admit that they love each other and have a purple passion reunion lurve club event. Then the h has to make her Grand Motilator Borrowing confession and the H is absolutely delighted, he decides they will marry straight away.
We leave the two of them married, with a little girl and vacationing on the H's Inherited Greek Island while they decide to forgive the H's father for another totally tacky trainwrecky, but highly entertaining AM HP outing.
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September 29, 2019
Normally it would have been the man who used a woman for a one night stand, in "Secret Rebellion" it is the heroine who uses the hero for a one night...to get pregnant!
WOW,Elizabeth had some balls to seduce the dark and intimidating Tycoon Alex Thiarchos for sex just because she wanted to have a baby,GOD how i laughed my ass off at that scene! She leaves him the morning after, and disappears,not leaving any trace after her. She is a very independant woman and works as a school-teacher (which makes it more hilarious). The only thing that really puzzled me was that she has a dislike for the opposite sex which made no sense. Her mother and sister had got hurt by men, and both had died of that heartbreak. But we didn`t get deeper into that statement. Overall i liked it that she was willing to step up for the man she loves in the end (he deserved it after the hell she put him through), even while risking everything for it.
Alex Thiarchos was one HELL of a YUMMI hero! Jeez he was both insanely sexy inside of his POV and outside from the POV of Elizabeth!(and LOOK at that cover!) And already from the start of the book i fell for him like a melting butter! He is NOT a man-whore which i found intriguing (cuz he is a Half-Greek and they usually have tons of mistresses) and he had a failed marriage behind him, which had been a disaster before it even started. A man who knows what he wants, he gets immediately attracted when Elizabeth introduces herself to him at the party from the beginning of the book, and it doesn`t take long until he falls head over heels in love with her. After she leaves him he searches for her all the time they were separated until they meet again at his sons funeral (OF ALL PLACES) and this time he is open about that he will never let her leave again. A hot in pursuit of a hero striving for his heroines love..Ahhh i am such a sucker for them! This hero had an incredible vulnerability that touched me to the core and i thought Beth blind for not seeing what he was not even trying to hide.
The chemistry are Ohoooo so burning and sexy..as i said Alex is a hell of a sexy hero,his smouldering looks and touches inflamed Beth as it did me and i have lost count at how many times i swooned! Just look at the cover! Their display of passion on that beach are FOREVER printed in my brain! Alex, i love you!
It isn`t often i pick up a book by Anne Mather, but this Keeper directly deserved to be thrown into my shelve "favourites", it has a plot that turns the tables, exotic Greek locales, off the page sexual chemistry, a sultry romance with a unstoppable love between two very passionate characters that will forever love each other irrevocably..! Its Romance after all, and i love it!
WOW,Elizabeth had some balls to seduce the dark and intimidating Tycoon Alex Thiarchos for sex just because she wanted to have a baby,GOD how i laughed my ass off at that scene! She leaves him the morning after, and disappears,not leaving any trace after her. She is a very independant woman and works as a school-teacher (which makes it more hilarious). The only thing that really puzzled me was that she has a dislike for the opposite sex which made no sense. Her mother and sister had got hurt by men, and both had died of that heartbreak. But we didn`t get deeper into that statement. Overall i liked it that she was willing to step up for the man she loves in the end (he deserved it after the hell she put him through), even while risking everything for it.
Alex Thiarchos was one HELL of a YUMMI hero! Jeez he was both insanely sexy inside of his POV and outside from the POV of Elizabeth!(and LOOK at that cover!) And already from the start of the book i fell for him like a melting butter! He is NOT a man-whore which i found intriguing (cuz he is a Half-Greek and they usually have tons of mistresses) and he had a failed marriage behind him, which had been a disaster before it even started. A man who knows what he wants, he gets immediately attracted when Elizabeth introduces herself to him at the party from the beginning of the book, and it doesn`t take long until he falls head over heels in love with her. After she leaves him he searches for her all the time they were separated until they meet again at his sons funeral (OF ALL PLACES) and this time he is open about that he will never let her leave again. A hot in pursuit of a hero striving for his heroines love..Ahhh i am such a sucker for them! This hero had an incredible vulnerability that touched me to the core and i thought Beth blind for not seeing what he was not even trying to hide.
The chemistry are Ohoooo so burning and sexy..as i said Alex is a hell of a sexy hero,his smouldering looks and touches inflamed Beth as it did me and i have lost count at how many times i swooned! Just look at the cover! Their display of passion on that beach are FOREVER printed in my brain! Alex, i love you!
It isn`t often i pick up a book by Anne Mather, but this Keeper directly deserved to be thrown into my shelve "favourites", it has a plot that turns the tables, exotic Greek locales, off the page sexual chemistry, a sultry romance with a unstoppable love between two very passionate characters that will forever love each other irrevocably..! Its Romance after all, and i love it!
September 4, 2018
I had a hard time with this book. The story was too convoluted.
It starts with the h Beth crashing the birthday party of a student. (She’s a college lecturer.) She meets the H, Alex, at the party, takes him home, gets him drunk and has her wicked way with him and skips out as soon as he fell asleep. #MeToo
The h was a virgin when she MeToo’d the H. She did it with a goal of getting herself pregnant. (Shades of Heart’s “All I Wanna Do” all over this). The next time she see’s the H was at his son’s funeral. She didn’t know that his son was a student at the uni she lectured at. His girlfriend was one of her students, Linda. Linda asked the h to go to the funeral with her as support because she had no family. She was forced to see the H again after the funeral, knowing and hiding the fact that she was pregnant.
That’s when she learned that Linda and the H’s son had married in secret and the H and his father wanted Linda to go to Greece. Linda refused and would only go if the h went too. She takes the trip to Greece, still hiding her pregnancy, and while there she and the H had a lovely night of beach sex.
There’s a lot going on with at this point with the H’s father and the fact that he may have inadvertently cause the H’s son to commit suicide. The H’s father was a manipulative bastard and resented the H for standing up to him. So he attempted to manipulate the H by controlling his son.
Anyhoo, after leaving Greece, the h closes up her house and takes herself away from it all. She’s living her best pregnant life until Linda sends out the bat signal. The H is a mess. Not eating, showering, only drinking himself into a stupor. So the h dons her batgirl costume and rushes in to save him. She tells him about the coming baby. The ILY’s are said and all is resolved.
Sadly, the writing frustrates me. I disliked the h for her callousness. She was protecting herself but her lack of sympathy for the H after he lost his son just got to me. Linda was useless. OMG she irritated me. And the H needed a bit of arrogance. I mean the guy got #MeToo‘d in the first chapter. He was a good Beta, he was not an Alpha.
Soooo in closing, it was an ok read. Not thrilling or fantastic. It didn’t keep me riveted, I was able to put it down and walk away without any urge to get back to it. I was able to finish it and I consider that an achievement! Yay me!
It starts with the h Beth crashing the birthday party of a student. (She’s a college lecturer.) She meets the H, Alex, at the party, takes him home, gets him drunk and has her wicked way with him and skips out as soon as he fell asleep. #MeToo
The h was a virgin when she MeToo’d the H. She did it with a goal of getting herself pregnant. (Shades of Heart’s “All I Wanna Do” all over this). The next time she see’s the H was at his son’s funeral. She didn’t know that his son was a student at the uni she lectured at. His girlfriend was one of her students, Linda. Linda asked the h to go to the funeral with her as support because she had no family. She was forced to see the H again after the funeral, knowing and hiding the fact that she was pregnant.
That’s when she learned that Linda and the H’s son had married in secret and the H and his father wanted Linda to go to Greece. Linda refused and would only go if the h went too. She takes the trip to Greece, still hiding her pregnancy, and while there she and the H had a lovely night of beach sex.
There’s a lot going on with at this point with the H’s father and the fact that he may have inadvertently cause the H’s son to commit suicide. The H’s father was a manipulative bastard and resented the H for standing up to him. So he attempted to manipulate the H by controlling his son.
Anyhoo, after leaving Greece, the h closes up her house and takes herself away from it all. She’s living her best pregnant life until Linda sends out the bat signal. The H is a mess. Not eating, showering, only drinking himself into a stupor. So the h dons her batgirl costume and rushes in to save him. She tells him about the coming baby. The ILY’s are said and all is resolved.
Sadly, the writing frustrates me. I disliked the h for her callousness. She was protecting herself but her lack of sympathy for the H after he lost his son just got to me. Linda was useless. OMG she irritated me. And the H needed a bit of arrogance. I mean the guy got #MeToo‘d in the first chapter. He was a good Beta, he was not an Alpha.
Soooo in closing, it was an ok read. Not thrilling or fantastic. It didn’t keep me riveted, I was able to put it down and walk away without any urge to get back to it. I was able to finish it and I consider that an achievement! Yay me!
May 31, 2010
Enjoyable HP read with one exception. The book was really lacking in expaining her motivatation. She deliberately planned to get pregnant by a stranger and never tell him about the baby because of her dislike of men based on what?? The book never really expains. It would have to have been something very major, but we are left hanging on this key issue.
May 24, 2020
One night was all she'd wanted...
Few of Beth's students would have recognized her as the seductive charmer who crashed a posh London party, commanded the immediate attention of Alex Thiarchos, brazenly seduced him...and disappeared. But her mission was accomplished. She was pregnant. And she was happily and quite determinedly alone. Surely the haunting image of her first and only lover -- the father of her child -- would fade in time? Wrong. A campus tragedy brought Alex back into her life, stirring needs, desires and complications Beth didn't want. Now Alex knew heartache firsthand, and this time he wouldn't let her go!
Few of Beth's students would have recognized her as the seductive charmer who crashed a posh London party, commanded the immediate attention of Alex Thiarchos, brazenly seduced him...and disappeared. But her mission was accomplished. She was pregnant. And she was happily and quite determinedly alone. Surely the haunting image of her first and only lover -- the father of her child -- would fade in time? Wrong. A campus tragedy brought Alex back into her life, stirring needs, desires and complications Beth didn't want. Now Alex knew heartache firsthand, and this time he wouldn't let her go!
September 27, 2019
I remember this one and despite some odd plot choices (the hero loses his grown son) I enjoyed this a lot. I think it was one of the first I read by the author so her per tropes didn’t irk me then. By my standards - any Harlequin which I remember fondly a decade after is a great read. Very scientific I think.
May 7, 2025
3,5⭐️
Този път и двамата герои са симпатични.
Този път и двамата герои са симпатични.
August 14, 2012
I pretty much thought this novel was amazing although there were certain things I absolutely disliked. The heroine met the hero at a party and seduced him, getting herself pregnant. She didn't want to know who the hero was or to have anything to do with him until the heroes son dies and he runs into the heroine and knows that she was with him that night and that she's having his child and heir.
June 2, 2020
3.5 stars
Appreciated the story featuring a clever-career driven h who plans to get pregnant without the complications of a relationship.
She carefully plots to “pick up” a man for a one night stand.
She succeeds but fate gets in the way: the H/h meet again, she discovers that escaping him is not so simple but, most of all, escaping the need for love and passion.
I knew, being the novel part of HP, that a HEA was sure; nevertheless, I enjoyed the read very much: great characterization, angst and good-almost realistic love/sex scenes.
Only in HP one night stand have such a satisfying epilogue 😏
Appreciated the story featuring a clever-career driven h who plans to get pregnant without the complications of a relationship.
She carefully plots to “pick up” a man for a one night stand.
She succeeds but fate gets in the way: the H/h meet again, she discovers that escaping him is not so simple but, most of all, escaping the need for love and passion.
I knew, being the novel part of HP, that a HEA was sure; nevertheless, I enjoyed the read very much: great characterization, angst and good-almost realistic love/sex scenes.
Only in HP one night stand have such a satisfying epilogue 😏
July 1, 2017
A quick M&B read to cleanse my reading palette.
This is from the early 90s and I remember loving it (which is why it is still in my possession). I haven't read it in 20 years and it was still okay and I read it in a couple of hours, but by gosh these books have dated (or maybe I have just changed so much in what I consider socially acceptable in a male lead).
Usual issue with trying to cram too many troupes into one book - professor in her late 20s who is still a virgin (of course as they all are), who is bitter with the world (and with males in particular) who wants a baby so goes to some random student party and picks up a much older guy there who just happens to be a very wealthy Greek. His son dies and she gets caught up in it all and bla bla bla, a few misogynist comments later by everyone including some random taxi driver and they all live happily ever after.
I think I am ready to let this book go into the charity bag and free up some space on the bookshelf. Farewell to 90s reading books....
This is from the early 90s and I remember loving it (which is why it is still in my possession). I haven't read it in 20 years and it was still okay and I read it in a couple of hours, but by gosh these books have dated (or maybe I have just changed so much in what I consider socially acceptable in a male lead).
Usual issue with trying to cram too many troupes into one book - professor in her late 20s who is still a virgin (of course as they all are), who is bitter with the world (and with males in particular) who wants a baby so goes to some random student party and picks up a much older guy there who just happens to be a very wealthy Greek. His son dies and she gets caught up in it all and bla bla bla, a few misogynist comments later by everyone including some random taxi driver and they all live happily ever after.
I think I am ready to let this book go into the charity bag and free up some space on the bookshelf. Farewell to 90s reading books....
December 9, 2016
Second chances
This story touched my heart. Second chances . Beth wanted someone to love, hence her scheme. Alex also needed someone, hence his reaction to Beth and what ensued. I'd they had gotten together again and got to know each other, then all would be well. Thanks to Linda, they met again and aired their feelings. As for the baby, second chances. I would recommend this book to Mt friends who are romance fanatic like me. Loved the beach and make up scenes.
This story touched my heart. Second chances . Beth wanted someone to love, hence her scheme. Alex also needed someone, hence his reaction to Beth and what ensued. I'd they had gotten together again and got to know each other, then all would be well. Thanks to Linda, they met again and aired their feelings. As for the baby, second chances. I would recommend this book to Mt friends who are romance fanatic like me. Loved the beach and make up scenes.
April 28, 2022
What I remember, I found some of the stuff too macabre for a harlequin romance.
A man who has lost a son isn’t going to be that much into having a love affair.
The level of callousness and lack of emotion Anne Mather’s characters show. They are very hard hearted people basically.
There is a lack of empathy for other people’s feelings by her main characters. Always
Tell me am I wrong?
A man who has lost a son isn’t going to be that much into having a love affair.
The level of callousness and lack of emotion Anne Mather’s characters show. They are very hard hearted people basically.
There is a lack of empathy for other people’s feelings by her main characters. Always
Tell me am I wrong?
July 31, 2017
I remember reading this in my teens and it was one of those M&B books that stood out for me and all I wanted to go is go to Greece!
Still a good read 20 years later although I am a tad offended by our feeble and weak of body the woman is, very swoony and light of limbs, even for a pregnant one!
Still a good read 20 years later although I am a tad offended by our feeble and weak of body the woman is, very swoony and light of limbs, even for a pregnant one!
October 28, 2023
WTF!!! The woman never heard of IUI???? Some professor she is!!!
And why aren't readers outraged at her behavior???? What if the H had plied the h with wine and then seduced her? They'd sure be angry with him, and with just cause! That same cause goes for this case, too!
DNF
And why aren't readers outraged at her behavior???? What if the H had plied the h with wine and then seduced her? They'd sure be angry with him, and with just cause! That same cause goes for this case, too!
DNF
May 28, 2024
She wants a child so has a one night stand with a man whose son then dies. The son was daring a student of the h's and she gets pulled into the H s life. An emotionally believable plot and well written.
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November 12, 2010
Look at that cover! Now, yes, look again. I really did read this book. In about an hour. In one sitting. :) We grabbed this book from a book exchange at a very eclectic convenience store called "The Firm Worm" while on what we affectionately call "The Fat Wisconsin Tour." These terms should probably explain that I never intended to take anything about this book seriously. And I didn't But I really did enjoy it immensely because I couldn't resist the cheesy conversations, the explosive sex scenes, and the over-the-top ordeals that the characters faced before they (GASP!) found true love, passion and riches beyond description. (Sorry - didn't mean to give away the ending... Now I guess you won't want to read it...)
Would I recommend this book? Hell no - unless you have the same love of Kitsch that motivated me & Lisa to rescue this book from swap pile at the Firm Worm. In that case, it might not be a total waste of 1.5 hours of your life, and you may walk away with a few new phrases to describe love-making, desire, and romantic angst.
Come on - who wants it? :)
Would I recommend this book? Hell no - unless you have the same love of Kitsch that motivated me & Lisa to rescue this book from swap pile at the Firm Worm. In that case, it might not be a total waste of 1.5 hours of your life, and you may walk away with a few new phrases to describe love-making, desire, and romantic angst.
Come on - who wants it? :)
August 13, 2021
Leitura adocicada típico da Autora.
O amor que nasce entre um grego poderoso e uma professora da Universidade.
Beth deseja ter um filho sem casar. Numa festa de seus alunos encontra o homem ideal.
O que era para ser só uma noite de amor se transformou em algo mais.
Ela engravida.
Ele perde u filho único adulto.
Entre idas e vindas, eles se reencontram. Beth não conta que está grávida. Ele acha que a relação acabou.
Mas Beth resolve que ele merece saber a verdade. E a vida segue com a chegada de uma menina.
O amor que nasce entre um grego poderoso e uma professora da Universidade.
Beth deseja ter um filho sem casar. Numa festa de seus alunos encontra o homem ideal.
O que era para ser só uma noite de amor se transformou em algo mais.
Ela engravida.
Ele perde u filho único adulto.
Entre idas e vindas, eles se reencontram. Beth não conta que está grávida. Ele acha que a relação acabou.
Mas Beth resolve que ele merece saber a verdade. E a vida segue com a chegada de uma menina.
October 3, 2020
Likeable characters and a nice story.
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