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Mistress: Pregnant by the Spanish Billionaire

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Library assistant Nell Frost is on a mission to be more confident. Arriving at Luiz Santoro's magnificent Spanish mansion, she's determined to tell him what she thinks of him seducing her niece—and then leave. But Nell has underestimated the powerful Spaniard….

Luiz knows Nell has the wrong man. But this young virgin, dressed in shapeless clothes, could have her uses. He has a vacancy for a temporary mistress—with two no marriage, no children!

But soon Nell has broken all the rules….

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

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Kim Lawrence

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Though lacking much authentic Welsh blood, Kim Lawrence comes from English-Irish stock. She was born and brought up in North Wales. She returned there when she married, and her sons were both born on Anglesey, an island off the coast. Though not isolated, Anglesey is a little off the beaten track, but lively Dublin, which Kim loves, is only a short ferry ride away. Today they live on the farm her husband was brought up on. Welsh is the first language of many people in this area and Kim's husband and sons are all bilingual she is having a lot of fun, not to mention a few headaches, trying to learn the language! She is a keen gardener and cook and enjoys running often on the beach, as living on an island the sea is never very far away. She is usually accompanied by her Jack Russell, Sprout don't ask, it's long story!

With small children, the unsocial hours of nursing didn't look attractive so encouraged by a husband who thinks she can do anything she sets her mind to, Kim tried her hand at writing. Always a keen Mills & Boon reader, it seemed natural for her to write a romance novel. In 1995, she published her first novels and now she can't imagine doing anything else.

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Profile Image for Helen 2.0.
482 reviews1,722 followers
August 4, 2017
So, so silly!!!! I got this little mass market paperback at a library booksale for $1 and thought, "what the hell, why not?"

But yeah, this book is ridiculous and mindless. Funny to me, but I'm not sure that was the author's intention. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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3,241 reviews643 followers
May 25, 2018
Really liked the widower hero in this one. The librarian heroine - not so much. They meet when the heroine is tracking down her 19 year-old niece who is love with a Spanish hotel employee who has the same name as the hero. Turns out it's the hero's cousin and when the H/h finally track down the young couple in the hero's honeymoon cottage, the niece has already changed her mind and returned to England.

On their way to the remote cottage, they run out of gas and have to sleep outdoors. Having known each other for less than 24 hours, they naturally have a one night stand. Heroine is a virgin, has been wearing the same clothes for over a day, it's cold, they have no supplies and . . . I just can't believe that sex under those circumstances would be romantic or enjoyable.

They manage to move their affair to a bed on the next night, but the hero messes up by Heroine leaves him and sends him a letter about her pregnancy, and you know the rest - arguments about marriage for love versus duty.

The author tried to make the heroine out as some sensitive martyr figure (she cries about her father's death after years of caretaking, her sister and brother use her, etc), but she was really mean to the hero for no reason - esp. when they were camping - insulting him at every turn. The hero is impressed since she doesn't try to flatter him, but she just came off as rude and shrill. Even her interactions with her family were rude. She made a crack about her sister's clothes being two sizes too big for her, knowing how her sister felt about her weight struggles. She was not a nice person, she jumped to conclusions, and she put her foot in her mouth one too many times. I guess she was supposed to be a "strong" heroine, but all I can say is "poor hero."

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3,164 reviews563 followers
October 25, 2015
Very sweet and romantic story. I adored this heroine. She was a real sweetheart. Hero was a nice man but the death of his wife haunted him. Letting go of the past can be very difficult but Nell's love healed him and saved him.
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118 reviews20 followers
July 27, 2016
Totally misleading title - it is nothing to do with kept woman.
Wow, they had known each other for only 48 hours and then another 3 days after their 2 month break-up, and I heard the wedding bells!
Nell was kinda annoying at times, and very stupid in her arguments.
But I still liked the story only because of Luiz's temperament and wit.

I'll give a brief overview of the story, before I can move on to the second part of my review:



Now, for the things that really didn't make it for me:



If there wasn't such a big gap of time between the chapters and there were more realistic things, (like for example, where in the world was Luiz working, what was his job, etc.) I would have rated it five stars, but a lot of the things were unresolved.
Profile Image for Fanniny Moreno Zavaleta.
465 reviews105 followers
December 5, 2015
2.5 starts but I'm in a good mood... This book left me so many doubts, to name some: 1. Misleading title, Nell was never a mistress.; 2. How did he get the petrol? He made it sound so easy that I don't see the point of sleeping in the middle of the woods; 3. Lucy, all of her confused me; etc, etc.
604 reviews6 followers
October 18, 2014
Totally misleading title. Book is nothing to do with kept woman.
H and h are together less than 48 hours in entire book. Mind you that includes their meeting first time ever in their life too. No prior acquaintances.
I really dislike story of undying love based on two days only relationship.
Profile Image for Shatarupa  Dhar.
620 reviews88 followers
October 18, 2018
A case of mistaken identity! Nell is on a mission, to search her teenage niece who wants to marry a man named Luiz, and bring her back home. She goes all the way to Spain from England for this purpose. What she doesn't know is that there are two Luiz's, one is the cousin of the other. Luiz Felipe Santoro (the non-guilty party) promises Nell Frost to help her find her niece, Lucy, provided she take part in a charade to deceive his severely ill grandmother, his only proper family, that they were engaged to be married. After all, his grandmother was worried for his loneliness after the death of his wife, Rosa, many years back. Theirs was young love, and he missed her, but was also guilty of day by day forgetting her. Nell, who recently lost her father, to whom she was very close, agrees to the charade for the sake of Luiz's grandmother.

Going to search for her niece and his cousin, Nell and Luiz are stranded on a deserted place, and the chill in the air leads to some very hot moments which leads to pregnancy. Now back in England, Nell is apprehensive of anything to do with Luiz since she believes him to be still in love with his dead wife, Rosa. She has strong reasons to believe that!

I loved this hero, really loved him. Except for one tiny thought of making her his mistress, which I think wasn't even necessary considering the storyline, Luiz is very unlike any other M&B male characters. Their verbal spars were so funny as much as they were intense. I loved Nell's censor-less tongue, her nature, her temperament, her curiosity, her humour, her everything! How she spars with Luiz verbally was just hilarious.
In Luiz's words: "She had more prickles than a porcupine." I completely agree. And this had one of the sweetest endings, but could have done with an epilogue down the years though.

P.S. Towards the end, Luiz mentions to a kid that he has a dog, but there wasn't one in the story, why? Or was it just a white lie told to placate a kid?
Profile Image for Virginia.
124 reviews8 followers
August 2, 2012
Synopsis - A case of mistaken identity leads Nell Frost to confront Luiz Felipe Santoro, who she believes has seduced her beloved niece Lucy and is trying to lure her into marriage at far to young an age. It turns out that Luiz’s cousin is the (more age-appropriate) culprit. Before they go searching for the young lovers, Luiz manipulates Nell into pretending to be his fiancée for the benefit of his sick grandmother. The widower doesn’t want to marry again, but he wants the woman who raised him to rest in peace thinking that he has found love again and will produce heirs. Hijinks ensue.

Review - I could not bring myself to finish this because I knew I had read it before and Nell was already grating on my nerves within the first few pages. God save me from shrewish HP heroines who can’t shut up long enough to get the facts! Luiz seems reasonable and decent, and I refuse to give the author a chance to prove otherwise.
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546 reviews6 followers
April 7, 2022
She was so annoying and no epilogue
Profile Image for Tawnee.
60 reviews
April 15, 2013
THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

Just to start out, I am going to say I kinda liked this book. It was a little more cheesy than I usually like, but I read the entire thing.
At the beginning of the book, Luiz Felipe Santoro comes back to his grandmother's estate after learning that she might not have much time left to live. As soon as he gets there, he is told that a a beautiful women is there, demanding to see him. He goes outside to find the young women, Nell Frost. Nell has come looking to find a Mr.Luiz Felipe Santoro. She had gotten an e-mail by her 19 year old niece, saying that she had fallen in love and is going to get married, and Nell is going to stop this nonsense.
Luiz then goes on to tell her that this person is not him and it is his cousin, his cousin who just happens to have the same exact name as him, and is more age appropriate for her niece. Luiz agrees to take her to them if she will pretend to be his fiance to his grandmother. After she meets his grandmother, they head off to find the kids. On the way to the cottage where Luiz thinks they are,their vehicle breaks down, leaving them stranded. In the middle of the night, they have sex. In the morning, Nell can't believe what she had done. She has kinda freaked out that she had just given away her virginity. They make a fuss about her losing the keys, even though Luiz has them and then the vehicle magically works.
When they get to the cottage, they can't find anyone. Soon enough, Felipe, Luiz's cousin shows up. He then tells them that her niece had left him during the night. They go back to the main house and and have sex again. While asleep Luiz calls out his ex-wife's name, leading Nell to leave.
The book then picks up a month or so later while Nell is babysitting. Luiz shows up, they get into a fight, and she makes him leave. Then, we are off to the library where Nell works. Luiz shows up with a ring and wants to get married. Nell says yes and they live happily ever after.
I left a lot of things out in my review. Even though I liked
Mistress - Pregnant by the Spanish Billionaire, there were some terrible spots.
First, the author doesn't say anything about Nell's niece and Luiz's cousin she Nell left Felipe. There is not a word about Nell talking to her niece or anything. Second, you can't go from leaving Luiz's house into turning on a baby monitor and then going to explain what's happening. My final big no no, was that really, a billionaire wouldn't get his mail, and he wouldn't try to find the girl he was so enamored with. Really? There was this big mass of questions that piled up. I wanted to know what happened with the young couple after being so "in love." If there wasn't such a big gap of time between the chapters and there were more realistic things in the book, I would have rated it five stars, but a lot of the things were unresolved.
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306 reviews10 followers
April 21, 2013
Review posted @ http://tsukibooks.blogspot.com

I have a soft spot for romances about libraries. I do have to take a moment to bash the lack of them and the silly way they are often incorporated. If the heroine or hero mentions they work in a library then we better see them there. We better get a sense of their job just as much as billionaire assistants have to work long hours for their demanding, alpha-male bosses. I love my job but I deal with irate patrons, loud children, and odd hours. If only our librarian heroines dealt with something similar.

Typically the book does one of two things.

1. They are on holiday and their job means virtually nothing to the story. (The above story applies)

2. The story only takes place as they are leaving or in the evenings so the job means virtually nothing to the story. Usually they love to read and this is the automatic answer to explaining that.

In this story, Nell runs off to Spain to tell-off Luiz Santoro off for promising to marry her young niece. Naturally it is a case of mistaken identity when Luiz confesses his cousin has the same name. Nell demands to be taken to the cousin but Luiz puts her off since he is in sudden need of a nice, young woman to play the role of fiancee. His grandmother is dying and would like to see him settled down, plus has been joking about changing her will...

Nell, agrees in order to find her niece and the other Luiz but has bouts of guilt over the deception. On top of that Nell and Luiz have hot, jungle chemistry. Speaking of which, they actually make use of it in the woods of all places during an impromptu camp-out. The story continues when Nell flees home after her brief affair with Luiz whom, of course, got her knocked up.

Why do all Harlequin Presents end in a pregnancy? I never read the one where she ends up not being pregnant or compromised socially (see The Tycoon's Rebel Bride). I usually see the woman getting pregnant after one night of magical sex (um...virgin check party of two). These alpha-heroes have magic sperm which acts as a pain-reliever apparently. No discomfort for any virgin here!

The book was sub-par but not horrible. I really long for a librarian heroine to be explored as though that is important in her life. Seriously there is an opening here for a Nora Roberts Quartet.

3 Stars
Published by Harlequin
May 1, 2010
188 Pages
Provided by--the Library (Courtesy of the Silhouette Desire May 2009 Bundle)
548 reviews16 followers
February 29, 2016
The basic plot was alright, though a little hair-brained. The heroine is out to rescue her niece from a affair with a Spanish boy, and in the process she ends up having a crazy affair with the boy's uncle !

The hero was rich, duh, what a novelty. But what business was he in?? Apart from escorting Hollywood beauties and appearing in newspapers! And the heroine is a librarian. Now, just because you want to show the girl as an innocent, you don't need to make her a librarian ! There are other perfectly innocent jobs for virgins to do :)

Anyway, she dint behave much virgin like because she fell into bed (or whatever rough surfaces in vast barren lands of Spain are called) with the hero within a few hours of knowing and hating him!

And he was supposedly fixated with his first wife. The fixation dint come across quite well though.

The doormat attitude of the heroine towards everyone else in the world other than the hero was a little weird too.

The story was good in bits and parts, but the smooth flow of a pleasing narrative was not there.
12 reviews
September 7, 2014
i didn't love didn't like it that much either when i read the book i was in a certain phase. A harlequin romance phase i checked out a bunch of that had more than a few similarities to pick favorites in the subject and this book didn't stand out much it was a case of mistaken identity turned to hot steamy romance i dont think thats relatable some people can say that they have they accused a guy of sleeping with her niece then falling in his bed pregnant with his child and falling in love with him but i doubt that many women can say that has happened to them. and thats what women look for when they read these books something relatable but at the same time a fantasy that we can escape to but i found that book very unrelatable.
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457 reviews22 followers
April 18, 2013
I loved Nell and Luiz's story. Nell needs to find her niece and convince her not to throw away her life on a summer romance. Nell is the cautious one of the family and her whole family takes advantage of it. Luiz is mistaken by Nell to be the man her niece is planning on marring but in reality it was his cousin of the same name. Fireworks spark between Luiz and Nell but will complications like feelings and pregnancies get in the way. I loved the ending.
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444 reviews20 followers
October 27, 2018
2.5

You pick up this book with some expectations and you find out almost none of these expectations are met.

Profile Image for More Books Than Time  .
2,568 reviews18 followers
February 26, 2024
Just ok, not satisfying. Liked H, h not so much.
Reread. Beginning good, middle sagged, final chapter good. And who sleeps with a stranger in the woods on the ground for the first time? I kept thinking about the sticks and rocks and dirt. Not romantic.

Maybe 2.5 stars.
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3 reviews1 follower
March 3, 2014
The story was cute but I had a difficult time following the writing. Sometimes you couldn't tell who was talking or thinking in the book. Other than that it was good.
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300 reviews
February 15, 2025
I read fluff to break from the heavy. This is something. A Spanish Billionaire and he speaks less than 10 words of Spanish the whole time. I mean he couldn’t even pass a Duolingo lesson if came down to it. It’s like the author just googled a couple of words that means endearing and used them to death. The heroine is a dumbass too. Self centered, spoiled and really judgmental. Look, all I’m saying is she could have written about farmer needs a wife and it might have been a solid fluffy read. Instead we get this thing that reads like a sheltered woman who has never seen a man let alone spoken to one who is any sort of Spanish. C’mon man.
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1,332 reviews45 followers
October 11, 2017
É mais um mini livro da Harlequim que comprei baratinho. Achei tão engraçado a intereção entre Luis e Nell que até tinham a sua piada. Luis divorciou-se da sua mulher porque não queria ter filhos com ela, e Nell vai confrontar o Luis porque ele foi seduzir a sua sobrinha, mal ela esperava que o encontro entre os dois fosse de tal maneira intenso. Achei que faltava qualquer coisa nesta história, achei que era para despachar, mas não deixa de ser engraçada.

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2,043 reviews8 followers
January 29, 2023
I didn't like it, the heroine was extremely shrill and highly emotional, she was always arguing with hero and insulting him. How exactly did he desire her and end up loving her when she was so mean? I didn't like hero still being in love with his deceased wife so much that he said her name in his sleep reaching for heroine. P.
119 reviews4 followers
June 20, 2024
I really love the heroine, she was brave sweet and forgiving. The only thing I did not find romantic is their first sexual encounter. I found it unromantic and unrealistic that heroine who happens to be a virgin, would just within days of meeting the hero have sex with him in the woods. But otherwise I really enjoyed reading this book. K. L. is one of my favourite authors.
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1,291 reviews44 followers
August 6, 2017
I liked it but again I wanted an epilogue with there unborn child. I wanted more of Luiz and Nell and I wanted to see how things changed with Nell and her sibling because she needs to stand up to them. Overall though it was a nice read.
2,246 reviews23 followers
August 10, 2018
On the one hand, yes, it's a library-assistant-doormat meets Spanish billionaire romance. On the other hand, the heroine is entertainingly opinionated and really does give the hero what-for on numerous occasions, while the hero has an actual sense of humor and seems like a decent person.
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2,205 reviews8 followers
August 16, 2020
The plot in this book is so paper thin, 'gotta chase these crazy kids down'....meet only one of them and that problem is solved. Didn't get the feeling that the couple really liked each other. Just throw together for like 2 days. Not very believable love story. Skip.
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90 reviews
June 18, 2020
Is it just me who felt like the ending was rushed? and felt like the story needed more something?

I liked the story and their bickering and they have chemistry it's just that it wasn't enough...for me.
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68 reviews
October 11, 2010
A nice book, i like the hero and heroine here and there were some funny moments.
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