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The Rinucci Brothers #7
Accidentally Expecting!
On a trip to Italy Ferne Edmunds is dazzled by lighthearted charmer Dante Rinucci. What she doesn't realize is that it's easy for Dante to live for the moment when every day could be his last….But when Ferne discovers she's accidentally pregnant, Dante's chance to be called "Daddy" gives him a reason to fight. This baby could save Dante's life….Tear-jerking and touching, this is an emotional story that lingers long after the last page….
192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 21, 2010
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About the author
Lucy Gordon
691 books90 followersChristine Sparks was born in England, UK. She wanted to be a writer all her life, and began by working on a British women's magazine. As a features writer, she gained a wide variety of experience. She interviewed some of the world's most attractive and interesting men, including Warren Beatty, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Alec Guiness.
Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time. Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian artist, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day. Three months later they were married. Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never last, but they celebrated their 25 anniversary, they are still married, still happy and in love.
After 13 years on the magazine Christine decided that it was now or never if she was ever going to write that novel. So she wrote Legacy of Fire which became a Silhouette Special Edition, followed by another, Enchantment in Venice. Then she did something crazy gave up her job. Since then she has concentrated entirely on writing romances for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette and has written over 75 books. Her settings have been European and her heroes mainly English or Italian. Christine now claims to be an expert on one particular subject. Italian men are the most romantic in the world. They are also the best cooks.
A few years ago she and her husband returned to Venice and lived there for a couple of years. This proved the perfect base for exploring the rest of Italy, and she has given many of her books Italian settings: Venice (of course), Rome, Florence, Milan, Sicily, Tuscany. She has also used the Rhine in Germany for Song of the Lorelei, for which she won her first RITA Award, in 1991. Her second RITA came in 1998, with His Brother's Child, set in Rome.
Eventually Christine Fiorotto and her husband returned to England, where they now live. She write and he paints, they have no children, but have a cat and a dog.
Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time. Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian artist, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day. Three months later they were married. Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never last, but they celebrated their 25 anniversary, they are still married, still happy and in love.
After 13 years on the magazine Christine decided that it was now or never if she was ever going to write that novel. So she wrote Legacy of Fire which became a Silhouette Special Edition, followed by another, Enchantment in Venice. Then she did something crazy gave up her job. Since then she has concentrated entirely on writing romances for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette and has written over 75 books. Her settings have been European and her heroes mainly English or Italian. Christine now claims to be an expert on one particular subject. Italian men are the most romantic in the world. They are also the best cooks.
A few years ago she and her husband returned to Venice and lived there for a couple of years. This proved the perfect base for exploring the rest of Italy, and she has given many of her books Italian settings: Venice (of course), Rome, Florence, Milan, Sicily, Tuscany. She has also used the Rhine in Germany for Song of the Lorelei, for which she won her first RITA Award, in 1991. Her second RITA came in 1998, with His Brother's Child, set in Rome.
Eventually Christine Fiorotto and her husband returned to England, where they now live. She write and he paints, they have no children, but have a cat and a dog.
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April 29, 2011
Somehow although this had all the elements to be angsty, it missed the mark. I think because while we know that the hero has a life threatening condition we are never in his POV and he is hiding his illness from the heroine so angsty moments are just not there. Title and back blurb are a bit misleading since the accidental pregnancy doesn't happen until the very end of the book.
April 14, 2017
Leído el 06/07/2010
June 14, 2011
This is more of a mini-novel than your typical HP. Cool. Not what I was expecting and NOT your traditional light HP.
Jeez, another HP where pregnancy is in the TITLE but the pregnancy, literally, comes in the last pages of the book!!!
The ending was also kinda weird, a reserved kind of happy that had more to do with Dante's illness than anything...except, Ferne's reaction to the baby that SHE wanted seemed a bit distant. I don't know how to explain it.
Oh, one thing that was also "interesting," the hero was basically a real estate agent. His family has an estate home, of course, but he was basically a real estate agent.
Jeez, another HP where pregnancy is in the TITLE but the pregnancy, literally, comes in the last pages of the book!!!
The ending was also kinda weird, a reserved kind of happy that had more to do with Dante's illness than anything...except, Ferne's reaction to the baby that SHE wanted seemed a bit distant. I don't know how to explain it.
Oh, one thing that was also "interesting," the hero was basically a real estate agent. His family has an estate home, of course, but he was basically a real estate agent.
July 6, 2020
Did not like it. Too angsty but not in an enjoyable way, it was annoying honestly. P.
August 17, 2020
Never ever judge the book by the cover, LESS THIS ONE! 😖
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February 1, 2024Easy Reading!
February 26, 2014
When you pick up a Harlequin, one normally thinks "Fast paced, fast read with a sweet message. A great short story." This one blew me out of the water. Lucy Gordon brings together a dying man and an emotionally scarred woman and breathes life back into them both through laughter, danger, long hours of teasing, and finally, confrontation.
This "accidental pregnancy" isn't even hinted at until the very end, but it is well timed to give Ferne the last bit of courage she had needed to go back to Dante. Be prepared to smile, laugh, and to cry.
This "accidental pregnancy" isn't even hinted at until the very end, but it is well timed to give Ferne the last bit of courage she had needed to go back to Dante. Be prepared to smile, laugh, and to cry.
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May 31, 2015I had a number of issues with this book:
- The heroine doesn't realise she's pregnant until the last quarter of the book. The title is very misleading.
- The writing is stilted. I didn't feel like I was reading a contemporary novel published in 2009 but rather a historical book.
- The heroine and hero had little chemistry and the introduction of the hero's health issue and it's resolution were not engaging. The ending also had a bit of grimness to it.
- The heroine doesn't realise she's pregnant until the last quarter of the book. The title is very misleading.
- The writing is stilted. I didn't feel like I was reading a contemporary novel published in 2009 but rather a historical book.
- The heroine and hero had little chemistry and the introduction of the hero's health issue and it's resolution were not engaging. The ending also had a bit of grimness to it.
August 25, 2016
2+ stars - HR #4151
October 20, 2018
Not very believable.
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