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He Belonged to Another Woman! Even as the champagne flowed at her engagement party, Bess realized she was promising herself to the wrong man... Her fiancee was kind, loving. Bess had even looked forward to becoming the perfect wife. Until Luke Vaccari walked into the party, mesmerizing her with his raw, shameless sex appeal. The intensity of her attraction was almost frightening...it was also forbidden. Luke was about to marry her sister, and her feelings for Luke would have to remain a guilty secret. If only Luke hadn't confessed to sharing mutual illicit desires!
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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 11, 2019
Re A Guilty Affair - Diana Hamilton goes with the doormat h with the Uber Tacky Slime Slurper family trope in this.
Not that the h is that much better really, she sleeps with the guy who she believes is her Witch Skank Sister's man AND cheats on her fiancee at the same time. But I am getting ahead of myself with the Epic Tale of Tarty Tackiness and way too much keepin' it in the family.
The book opens with the h's engagement party. She is to marry the son of her father's business partner. The h has her own career as a travel agent, but she just got offered a really exciting job shepherding high dollar luxury tourist outings at various locals around the world, with better pay and more challenges.
Her mother is a snobish, patronizing bovine cow who treats the h like a skivvy, her sister is a trampy tart harlot former model who continually covets whatever the h has and makes sure she puts the h down at every opportunity and the fiance is a chauvinistic patronizing slime pustule who continually berates, badgers and tries to bully the h to fit some image he has in his mind.
The h is so used to being walked on she tolerates the abuse, but then at her engagement party, she meets the H. He is a gorgeous, wealthy Italian who takes one look at the h and starts stalking her like a cat toying with it's prey.
Over the weekend that the h is visiting her parent's home, the H is all about poking and prodding the h to change her life and he is also all over her with grabby hands and roofie kisses the h furiously resists.
The H continually points out that her fiance is wrong for her, she lets her sister and her family walk all over her and she should really be getting her own life. The h despises the H and believes that he is going to marry her sister, but it does set her off in some new directions.
After the h has an argument with her fiance over taking the new job, coupled with a complete disgust of the boarding house owner where her fiance dictated the h should stay, (while the h worked very hard to give him more money for 'their future',) the h gets a wild impulse and makes some changes.
She takes the new job, moves in with an old school friend and on her first day at work, she finds she has a finance meeting with the H. (The h's new boss needs some capital and the H is like a venture capitalist.) The H finagles things so that the h has to spend some time with him in Tuscany and it is at this point the h is put to the test.
The h is supposed to be the dutiful fiancee and help her slime gulper betrothed suck up to his contemptuous aunt the same weekend the H wants her in Tuscany. The h knows her job is on the line and she doesn't want to hear the bitter recriminations from her fiance if she loses her job and can't give the snot snarfer most of her income anymore.
So the h goes to Tuscany and after some more banter and exchanges with the H, they become lovers and unicorn grooming skills are lost. This precipitates a crisis of conscience within the h and she soothes herself by telling herself that she was dumping the fiancee anyways.
The H proposes that the h move in with him as a bed partner for an unforeseen amount of time. The h is resistant at first, but after she hears the H's sob story about how his first wife bailed on him in a time of financial difficulty, cleaned out his bank accounts and terminated the H's baby she was carrying, the h melts and agrees to be his live in lover.
But she has to break her engagement first and she is so het up about it, she fails to recognize the malicious gleam in her sister's eyes as she goes to seek out her fiance. When she finds the fiance, he is nervous and unsure and the h is still too stupid to see what should be smacking her in the face.
The h breaks up with the guy, gives him back his ring and goes home to the news that her harlot sister is pregnant and getting married. The h has an internal hissy fit and storms out, because the h believes that the H got her sister preggers and to keep his future heir, he is marrying the sister.
(It is totally obvious that her mealy mouthed preachy fiancee has been shagging the harlot hotty sister on the side all along and was afraid of the fall out, so the H did the sister a favor and seduced the h so the happy couple could escape any blame.)
The h tells the H off and goes off to do work things all over the place, she ends up in Italy again and the H finds her and kidnaps her for the night. There is some fighting and then a reunion and the H claims that he fell in love at first sight and wants to marry her.
Then the H has to patiently explain in short words, aided by crayoned pictures, about the h's sister and the ex-fiancee. He also claims that he was only with the sister to give her a loan for a clothing boutique that she wants to open and he never slept with her.
(Which I did not find exactly believable, the H was too vague and acting too suspicious about the whole sister situation to run with the "it's just business and not monkey business" theme.)
The h is overwhelmed with emotion and since she has been having a pining heart mopey moment for the last three chapters, she agrees to marry the H and we leave them lurving it up, (tho I doubt the H is really going to be faithful IF he marries her,) and we can call it an HP day with a mediocre HEA.
The story has a lot of dramatic angst, but the feelings were lacking. The h was an utter idiot and the H was too all over the place to get a solid read on him. Plus they both like to lie a bit.
I can never decide if the H just figures the h will make a good broodmare and domestic engineering mushroom, to be kept in the dark and fed fertilizer, or if he owed her sister a massive favor for services rendered and decided to provide a distraction and false cover while the sister stole yet another thing from the h.
(Tho given how pedantically annoying and pathetically bullying the ex-fiance is, the sister will hopefully get a huge dose of karmic justice sometime after the end of this story.)
Either way, the h is a doormat cheater, while the H wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Which makes this a pretty mediocre day for this HP outing, but there is a lot of trainwrecky whacktastic drama if you attempt it.
Not that the h is that much better really, she sleeps with the guy who she believes is her Witch Skank Sister's man AND cheats on her fiancee at the same time. But I am getting ahead of myself with the Epic Tale of Tarty Tackiness and way too much keepin' it in the family.
The book opens with the h's engagement party. She is to marry the son of her father's business partner. The h has her own career as a travel agent, but she just got offered a really exciting job shepherding high dollar luxury tourist outings at various locals around the world, with better pay and more challenges.
Her mother is a snobish, patronizing bovine cow who treats the h like a skivvy, her sister is a trampy tart harlot former model who continually covets whatever the h has and makes sure she puts the h down at every opportunity and the fiance is a chauvinistic patronizing slime pustule who continually berates, badgers and tries to bully the h to fit some image he has in his mind.
The h is so used to being walked on she tolerates the abuse, but then at her engagement party, she meets the H. He is a gorgeous, wealthy Italian who takes one look at the h and starts stalking her like a cat toying with it's prey.
Over the weekend that the h is visiting her parent's home, the H is all about poking and prodding the h to change her life and he is also all over her with grabby hands and roofie kisses the h furiously resists.
The H continually points out that her fiance is wrong for her, she lets her sister and her family walk all over her and she should really be getting her own life. The h despises the H and believes that he is going to marry her sister, but it does set her off in some new directions.
After the h has an argument with her fiance over taking the new job, coupled with a complete disgust of the boarding house owner where her fiance dictated the h should stay, (while the h worked very hard to give him more money for 'their future',) the h gets a wild impulse and makes some changes.
She takes the new job, moves in with an old school friend and on her first day at work, she finds she has a finance meeting with the H. (The h's new boss needs some capital and the H is like a venture capitalist.) The H finagles things so that the h has to spend some time with him in Tuscany and it is at this point the h is put to the test.
The h is supposed to be the dutiful fiancee and help her slime gulper betrothed suck up to his contemptuous aunt the same weekend the H wants her in Tuscany. The h knows her job is on the line and she doesn't want to hear the bitter recriminations from her fiance if she loses her job and can't give the snot snarfer most of her income anymore.
So the h goes to Tuscany and after some more banter and exchanges with the H, they become lovers and unicorn grooming skills are lost. This precipitates a crisis of conscience within the h and she soothes herself by telling herself that she was dumping the fiancee anyways.
The H proposes that the h move in with him as a bed partner for an unforeseen amount of time. The h is resistant at first, but after she hears the H's sob story about how his first wife bailed on him in a time of financial difficulty, cleaned out his bank accounts and terminated the H's baby she was carrying, the h melts and agrees to be his live in lover.
But she has to break her engagement first and she is so het up about it, she fails to recognize the malicious gleam in her sister's eyes as she goes to seek out her fiance. When she finds the fiance, he is nervous and unsure and the h is still too stupid to see what should be smacking her in the face.
The h breaks up with the guy, gives him back his ring and goes home to the news that her harlot sister is pregnant and getting married. The h has an internal hissy fit and storms out, because the h believes that the H got her sister preggers and to keep his future heir, he is marrying the sister.
(It is totally obvious that her mealy mouthed preachy fiancee has been shagging the harlot hotty sister on the side all along and was afraid of the fall out, so the H did the sister a favor and seduced the h so the happy couple could escape any blame.)
The h tells the H off and goes off to do work things all over the place, she ends up in Italy again and the H finds her and kidnaps her for the night. There is some fighting and then a reunion and the H claims that he fell in love at first sight and wants to marry her.
Then the H has to patiently explain in short words, aided by crayoned pictures, about the h's sister and the ex-fiancee. He also claims that he was only with the sister to give her a loan for a clothing boutique that she wants to open and he never slept with her.
(Which I did not find exactly believable, the H was too vague and acting too suspicious about the whole sister situation to run with the "it's just business and not monkey business" theme.)
The h is overwhelmed with emotion and since she has been having a pining heart mopey moment for the last three chapters, she agrees to marry the H and we leave them lurving it up, (tho I doubt the H is really going to be faithful IF he marries her,) and we can call it an HP day with a mediocre HEA.
The story has a lot of dramatic angst, but the feelings were lacking. The h was an utter idiot and the H was too all over the place to get a solid read on him. Plus they both like to lie a bit.
I can never decide if the H just figures the h will make a good broodmare and domestic engineering mushroom, to be kept in the dark and fed fertilizer, or if he owed her sister a massive favor for services rendered and decided to provide a distraction and false cover while the sister stole yet another thing from the h.
(Tho given how pedantically annoying and pathetically bullying the ex-fiance is, the sister will hopefully get a huge dose of karmic justice sometime after the end of this story.)
Either way, the h is a doormat cheater, while the H wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Which makes this a pretty mediocre day for this HP outing, but there is a lot of trainwrecky whacktastic drama if you attempt it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 25, 2014
Book starts with heroine and her fiancee having a engagement party. She and Tom have a safe relationship but when Bess meets
Luke Vaccari she falls crazy in love with him. But her love is a forbidden love. Luke was about to marry her sister, and she is already engaged to her childhood friend.
The problem is she can't resist temptation but things with Luke and her sister are not exactly what they seem. Plus Luke's ex wife was a first class bitch who took his money and left, then aborted his child so he has commitment issues.
Angsty super romantic read. Hero and heroine are obsessively in love and so desperate for each other I was swooning the whole time! Their love is not superficial but deep, true and unquenchable!!
Luke Vaccari she falls crazy in love with him. But her love is a forbidden love. Luke was about to marry her sister, and she is already engaged to her childhood friend.
The problem is she can't resist temptation but things with Luke and her sister are not exactly what they seem. Plus Luke's ex wife was a first class bitch who took his money and left, then aborted his child so he has commitment issues.
Angsty super romantic read. Hero and heroine are obsessively in love and so desperate for each other I was swooning the whole time! Their love is not superficial but deep, true and unquenchable!!
December 11, 2020
"A Guilty Affair" is the story of Bess and Luke.
Plain Jane heroine is treated like the ugly stepchild by her family, pushed over by her sister and is her fiance's puppet. She meets her sister's hot friend- the hero- during her engagement, and feels the sparks of lust for the first time. But her sister claims to be committed to him, and she decides to ignore the attraction, until the hero begins pursuing her. As they embark on a passionate sexual relationship, the heroine is caught between cheating on her fiance and with her sister's potential one. How will this tangled mess resolve?
Super horny MCs engaging of sexual romps while miscommunicating the hell out of their lives. So much predictable confusion in this one!
Good one time read.
Safe..ish
3/5
Plain Jane heroine is treated like the ugly stepchild by her family, pushed over by her sister and is her fiance's puppet. She meets her sister's hot friend- the hero- during her engagement, and feels the sparks of lust for the first time. But her sister claims to be committed to him, and she decides to ignore the attraction, until the hero begins pursuing her. As they embark on a passionate sexual relationship, the heroine is caught between cheating on her fiance and with her sister's potential one. How will this tangled mess resolve?
Super horny MCs engaging of sexual romps while miscommunicating the hell out of their lives. So much predictable confusion in this one!
Good one time read.
Safe..ish
3/5
December 14, 2010
I was trying to think of the perfect shelf for this book, but neither “hero-is-a-slimball” nor “hero-is-a-douchbag” seemed quite right. Finally I hit on it: “hero-is-a-sulky-spoiled-baby.” Throw in “big-misunderstandings-up-the-wazoo” and you have a good picture of this one. The entire plot could have been averted if the characters had simply paid attention to one another instead of jumping to assumptions and wallowing in self-pity. I'll give it two stars for the achievement of keeping me reading instead of tossing.
December 15, 2017
This was a very disappointing read for me. I love Diana Hamilton books however, this book didn't work for me. Though the author tells you how deeply they love each other, I just didn't feel this intense connection between the hero and heroine. There was too much inner dialogue and the author would state when/how things took place instead of letting the reader read it for themselves. There was a major theme throughout the book in regards to the heroine being unappreciated and undervalued by her family and fiance and Diana Hamilton NEVER reconciled this matter in the book. The heroine was owed apologies by her parents, sister and fiance in regards to how they treated her and it NEVER happened. I was really looking forward to reading this book and it was such a disappointment. I REALLY struggled on if I should give the book 1 or 2 Stars and ended up giving it 2 Stars simply because I like the author.
September 24, 2017
Filled with angst, uncertainty and miscommunication, this book was an interesting read.
Bess met Luke, her sister’s boyfriend, during her engagement party to Tom. She found herself disturbed by Luke and uncertain as to what it meant.
She soon learned that she was deeply attracted to Luke and meeting him was the catalyst to some much needed changes in her life, including the loss of her virginity.
Sadly, Luke was not in the market for a wife. He was looking for a lover. This devastated Bess who was madly in love with him. I mean she boinked him thinking that he and her sister were a couple. If that ain’t love I don’t know what is *sarcasm*
The plot takes a few weak twists and we learn that all isn’t what it seemed with Bess’s sister and her fiancé. But in the end, it all ends as it should - with a HEA for me. 😆
Bess met Luke, her sister’s boyfriend, during her engagement party to Tom. She found herself disturbed by Luke and uncertain as to what it meant.
She soon learned that she was deeply attracted to Luke and meeting him was the catalyst to some much needed changes in her life, including the loss of her virginity.
Sadly, Luke was not in the market for a wife. He was looking for a lover. This devastated Bess who was madly in love with him. I mean she boinked him thinking that he and her sister were a couple. If that ain’t love I don’t know what is *sarcasm*
The plot takes a few weak twists and we learn that all isn’t what it seemed with Bess’s sister and her fiancé. But in the end, it all ends as it should - with a HEA for me. 😆
August 16, 2019
Harlequin miscommunication at its best!
June 9, 2018
Tacky, Tacky, Tacky,
Its a credit to the writer that I didn't give this 1 star but to me neither character was likeable and the frankly racist stereotyping of Italian men made the book seem very outdated.
The H was arrogant and a bit gross when he decided to interfere in the mousy h's life by trying it on with her because he felt sorry for her. He is at pains to explain this and put her off for the first half of the book so it makes his declaration at the end where he loved her from the first just sound like he was sitting on throne of lies.
The h was a spineless wally and a cheater as well. I don't care that she was engaged to a prat who in the end cheated on her with her sister she was still engaged and had no business diddling with the H.
Nobody in this book came out well from the arrogant H who asked the h to live with him because he could never love again to the cheater McCheaterson h and her vacuous model sister and parents who disregarded their second child.
On reflection I may still give this 1 star because typing this is making me mad.
Its a credit to the writer that I didn't give this 1 star but to me neither character was likeable and the frankly racist stereotyping of Italian men made the book seem very outdated.
The H was arrogant and a bit gross when he decided to interfere in the mousy h's life by trying it on with her because he felt sorry for her. He is at pains to explain this and put her off for the first half of the book so it makes his declaration at the end where he loved her from the first just sound like he was sitting on throne of lies.
The h was a spineless wally and a cheater as well. I don't care that she was engaged to a prat who in the end cheated on her with her sister she was still engaged and had no business diddling with the H.
Nobody in this book came out well from the arrogant H who asked the h to live with him because he could never love again to the cheater McCheaterson h and her vacuous model sister and parents who disregarded their second child.
On reflection I may still give this 1 star because typing this is making me mad.
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July 18, 2011
Just ugh! Cheating all around in this. With a family like this...jeez, I felt so sorry for the heroine. Well, at least she got the hot Italian in the end!
December 17, 2017
Too many misunderstandings.
May 14, 2023
Sometimes I feel the person being cheated on all of sudden secretly cheating ..doesn’t not work for me. That was only thing I didn’t like about this book just seen it too many time and too convenient of a plot addition.
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July 26, 2021
He Belonged to Another Woman!
Even as the champagne flowed at her engagement party, Bess realized she was promising herself to the wrong man...
Her fiancee was kind, loving. Bess had even looked forward to becoming the perfect wife. Until Luke Vaccari walked into the party, mesmerizing her with his raw, shameless sex appeal. The intensity of her attraction was almost frightening...it was also forbidden. Luke was about to marry her sister, and her feelings for Luke would have to remain a guilty secret. If only Luke hadn't confessed to sharing mutual illicit desires!
Even as the champagne flowed at her engagement party, Bess realized she was promising herself to the wrong man...
Her fiancee was kind, loving. Bess had even looked forward to becoming the perfect wife. Until Luke Vaccari walked into the party, mesmerizing her with his raw, shameless sex appeal. The intensity of her attraction was almost frightening...it was also forbidden. Luke was about to marry her sister, and her feelings for Luke would have to remain a guilty secret. If only Luke hadn't confessed to sharing mutual illicit desires!
March 23, 2017
I don't get why this one has such terrible ratings! I loved it! It was angsty, full of miserable misunderstandings, a bitchy sister, and one of the most desirable heroes from a HP I've come across. He strived to save her, make her a better her, and was so sweet while still being alpha-dominant.
December 31, 2017
great plot!
February 18, 2022
This get one less star because it had all the material and plots ready but failed to execute any of it. The heroine makes the same mistake TWICE!!! It makes her look so stupid! And she just willy nilly jumps to whatever the hero wants instantly makes her weak. We didn’t get into any of her family drama! And her pos sister and fiancé didn’t get the kick in the teeth they deserve. Proud that the heroine didn’t move in with the hero to be his mistress, even though it was because she assumed wrongly again. Our hero was alright, a bit sleezy at times. And when we switch point of view to him for the tiny amount of times it happens it’s jarring. All the right elements were there the author was too scared to execute them. Skip.
November 3, 2021
Barely get through it
Lack of dialogue made this hard to read. The whole stranger taking over her life was a bit ridiculous. The author could have them know each other for a little while to make the hero's interference believe. But mostly it was that lack of dialogue. I personally want to have characters engaging with each other and not just page.after page.of thought life, a couple comments to each other, then more pages of thought life.
Lack of dialogue made this hard to read. The whole stranger taking over her life was a bit ridiculous. The author could have them know each other for a little while to make the hero's interference believe. But mostly it was that lack of dialogue. I personally want to have characters engaging with each other and not just page.after page.of thought life, a couple comments to each other, then more pages of thought life.
March 4, 2020
Eh, not great.
September 26, 2022
I liked this despite icky plot and characters. It’s clean, emotional. The h is willfully stupid and blind and neither she nor any of the characters are honest or admirable or likable. About 2/3 through I realized the h was determined to ignore reality while H only wanted a live-in now and a baby-factory wife later. Ugh.
April 9, 2012
Wow. Okay is the right word used for this book. First Luke/Luca is a sucky boy throughout almost the whole book when he doesn't get his way. Bess was the understated younger sister who's older sister had the morals of an alley cat. It was quite the book. I still don't get why Bess would want to be in love with a sucky baby instead of a real man. Tom was a total disgusting rat, patronizing Bess constantly and trying to change her, when he was doing the nasty with Bess's sister Helen. Gods, it was a blooming mess of mistakes, lies, cheating. I was quite shocked about the whole thing to be honest!
May 29, 2023
Much better the second time around
I enjoyed this book so much more after the second reading. Why? Not sure , older with a different perspective? More experience?
But I appreciated the plot and the characters. I still think the female lead is way to naive and the male lead a little to arrogant but all in all a good solid Harlequin.
I enjoyed this book so much more after the second reading. Why? Not sure , older with a different perspective? More experience?
But I appreciated the plot and the characters. I still think the female lead is way to naive and the male lead a little to arrogant but all in all a good solid Harlequin.
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December 24, 2017He Belonged to Another Woman!
Even as the champagne flowed at her engagement party, Bess realized she was promising herself to the wrong man...
Her fiancee was kind, loving. Bess had even looked forward to becoming the perfect wife. Until Luke Vaccari walked into the party, mesmerizing her with his raw, shameless sex appeal. The intensity of her attraction was almost frightening...it was also forbidden. Luke was about to marry her sister, and her feelings for Luke would have to remain a guilty secret. If only Luke hadn't confessed to sharing mutual illicit desires!
Even as the champagne flowed at her engagement party, Bess realized she was promising herself to the wrong man...
Her fiancee was kind, loving. Bess had even looked forward to becoming the perfect wife. Until Luke Vaccari walked into the party, mesmerizing her with his raw, shameless sex appeal. The intensity of her attraction was almost frightening...it was also forbidden. Luke was about to marry her sister, and her feelings for Luke would have to remain a guilty secret. If only Luke hadn't confessed to sharing mutual illicit desires!
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