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Holiday Honeymoons #3
Bride for Saint Nick
Was it too late to make her his wife?
SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN HE'D EVER LOVED….
One snowy Christmas, John Gulliver came to a sleepy New England town as a stranger. He had a new name, a new face, and even the woman he'd loved and lost didn't recognize him. Because everything from their shared past - except their passion - had been a lie….
Now John wanted to reclaim the bride who should have been his six years ago. And be a father to the son he'd just discovered. Finally having a family would be the greatest Christmas gift of all. But telling Leigh the truth was not without its price….
HOLIDAY HONEYMOONS. Because when you combine holidays with weddings, something magical happens!
SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN HE'D EVER LOVED….
One snowy Christmas, John Gulliver came to a sleepy New England town as a stranger. He had a new name, a new face, and even the woman he'd loved and lost didn't recognize him. Because everything from their shared past - except their passion - had been a lie….
Now John wanted to reclaim the bride who should have been his six years ago. And be a father to the son he'd just discovered. Finally having a family would be the greatest Christmas gift of all. But telling Leigh the truth was not without its price….
HOLIDAY HONEYMOONS. Because when you combine holidays with weddings, something magical happens!
- GenresHarlequin
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Carole Buck
59 books6 followersCarole Buckland obtained a BA in Political Science at University of Connecticut. She worked as reporter, writer by CNN, and "Larry King Live" producer. She wrote romance novels under the penname Carole Buck.
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June 23, 2012
When I started did this book I didn't check that it was part of a series or that I had read the next book Resolved to Re-Marry(about Lucy Falco, who runs Gulliver Travels). John Gulliver is the owner of Gulliver Travels, the way he is the investor in many business's, working from the comfort of a computer screen. His life is lonely and he has scars, scars from the accident in which he had to give up the woman he loved but when he sees a post-card and the picture of Suzanne, who he loved, he has to break the promise he made five and a half years ago and go looking for her. He cannot contact the Justice Department the people he worked for or the Marshall's protecting he in the Witness Protection Program. He tells himself he only wants to see if she is happy.
Suzanne was 23 & a true innocent when she met the hero, he was 32 an FBI agent masquerading as Nick Marchland, a criminal though in reality he was trying to bring down a crime syndicate. He had an accident which his supervisors suspected was not one and he was badly injured, when he came to and asked about her his supervisors told him that she was told he was dead and put into the program. He wanted to go to her but his boss told him that she would be better off without him and he didn't want to drag her into the months that would take for him to recover and that if he loved her he would let her go, so pained, he did.
He did it because she had had enough suffering in life, she had been alone since 18 and even before that her parents had been reserved people so she had grown up shy and reserved with not too many friends.
She fell like a ton of bricks for the hero even though everyone told her he was criminal but somehow despite not knowing he was government agent John Gulliver, she was able too see through to the good man that lurked underneath.
Enough hints are dropped with her son's paternity for us to ascertain that she was assaulted and that is why she thought of abortion and giving up her baby, after all the man she loved had died and she had been violated and then forced to give up her identity and become Leigh, a book store owner and single mother with a curious boy and she has never had the courage to find out his paternity, no matter how much she tries to think he was Nicholas's. She is different from the woman she was before, wary and protective of her son. Six years ago she was violated and the next day learnt the man she loved was dead.
They were different people before, Nicholas Marchland a man who had to lie about everything and could not voice his love and she was Suzanne, a woman who was shy and had to be coaxed even when they made love.
When they meet again they fall for the new versions of themselves even though the old love is still there. Only the hero knows who he is and he gets to know the changed Leigh, trying to win her trust so that he can tell her who she is. I felt the confession was handled really well, Leigh needed some time to deal with all of it and she does and then tells John what happened. I loved it how he told her it didn't matter whose son Andy was, that he was his.
I kind of deducted the stars because though I enjoyed the love story, I didn't like the creep villain's POV, it was truly gross and I didn't need it.
Suzanne was 23 & a true innocent when she met the hero, he was 32 an FBI agent masquerading as Nick Marchland, a criminal though in reality he was trying to bring down a crime syndicate. He had an accident which his supervisors suspected was not one and he was badly injured, when he came to and asked about her his supervisors told him that she was told he was dead and put into the program. He wanted to go to her but his boss told him that she would be better off without him and he didn't want to drag her into the months that would take for him to recover and that if he loved her he would let her go, so pained, he did.
He did it because she had had enough suffering in life, she had been alone since 18 and even before that her parents had been reserved people so she had grown up shy and reserved with not too many friends.
She fell like a ton of bricks for the hero even though everyone told her he was criminal but somehow despite not knowing he was government agent John Gulliver, she was able too see through to the good man that lurked underneath.
Enough hints are dropped with her son's paternity for us to ascertain that she was assaulted and that is why she thought of abortion and giving up her baby, after all the man she loved had died and she had been violated and then forced to give up her identity and become Leigh, a book store owner and single mother with a curious boy and she has never had the courage to find out his paternity, no matter how much she tries to think he was Nicholas's. She is different from the woman she was before, wary and protective of her son. Six years ago she was violated and the next day learnt the man she loved was dead.
They were different people before, Nicholas Marchland a man who had to lie about everything and could not voice his love and she was Suzanne, a woman who was shy and had to be coaxed even when they made love.
When they meet again they fall for the new versions of themselves even though the old love is still there. Only the hero knows who he is and he gets to know the changed Leigh, trying to win her trust so that he can tell her who she is. I felt the confession was handled really well, Leigh needed some time to deal with all of it and she does and then tells John what happened. I loved it how he told her it didn't matter whose son Andy was, that he was his.
I kind of deducted the stars because though I enjoyed the love story, I didn't like the creep villain's POV, it was truly gross and I didn't need it.
August 9, 2013
MEH! I... just want a book that doesn't drive me crazy. This is a bunch of puns thrown together with a ton of stereotyping and then the whole really crappy 'it's my son- we have matching birthmarks' boloney. Come ON!!
We have Saint Nick, the undercover cop/criminal that the young girl falls for. He fakes his death when he's in a wreck, she's moved into witness protection... with her baby. But is it HIS baby - because she was raped the night of his crash. Years later, he's no longer Saint Nick, now he's the un-funny Gulliver who owns Gulliver's Travels, a travel agency. Hahaha... one was enough, two is too much. He sees a pic of her, and his passion is rekindled, and he goes to find her.
The story execution? It wasn't bad. What I mean is that her writing was good - she drew the reader in and made it a pleasant read. But the whole picture is completely unbelievable and badly thought out... and I HATE the matching birthmark thing. Just get a dadgum paternity test, for the love of Pete.
We have Saint Nick, the undercover cop/criminal that the young girl falls for. He fakes his death when he's in a wreck, she's moved into witness protection... with her baby. But is it HIS baby - because she was raped the night of his crash. Years later, he's no longer Saint Nick, now he's the un-funny Gulliver who owns Gulliver's Travels, a travel agency. Hahaha... one was enough, two is too much. He sees a pic of her, and his passion is rekindled, and he goes to find her.
The story execution? It wasn't bad. What I mean is that her writing was good - she drew the reader in and made it a pleasant read. But the whole picture is completely unbelievable and badly thought out... and I HATE the matching birthmark thing. Just get a dadgum paternity test, for the love of Pete.
April 13, 2013
I read this novel as a stand alone and honestly have no interest thus far of reading the series. However I did enjoy this novel, a lot. It was well written and I could barely read into it. However the emotional base of the novel was not there for me.
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