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The Spanish Connection
The Spanish Connection by Kay Thorpe released on May 25, 1994 is available now for purchase.
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 1993
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Kay Thorpe
181 books65 followersKay Thorpe was born on 1935 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. An avid reader from the time when words on paper began to make sense, she developed a lively imagination of her own, making up stories for the entertainment of her young friends. After leaving school, she tried a variety of jobs, including dental nursing, and a spell in the Women's Royal Airforce from which she emerged knowing a whole lot more about life - if only as an observer.
In 1960, she married with Tony, but didn't begin thinking about trying her hand at writing for a living until she gave up work some four years later to have a baby, John. Having read Mills & Boon novels herself, and done some market research in the local library asking readers what it was they particularly liked about the books, she decided to aim for a particular market, and was fortunate to have her very first, completed manuscript accepted - The Last of the Mallorys, published in 1968. Since then she has written over seventy five books, which doesn't begin to compare with the output of some Mills & Boon authors, but still leaves her wondering where all those words came from.
Sometimes, she finds she has become two different people: the writer at her happiest when involved in the world of books and authors; and the housewife, turning her hands to the everyday needs of husband and son. Once in a while, she finds it difficult to step from one role to the other. She likes cooking, for instance, but she finds that it can be an irritating interruption when she's preoccupied with work on a novel, so the quality of her efforts in the kitchen tend to be a little erratic. She says, "As my husband once remarked, my writing gives life a fascinating element of uncertainly: one day a perfect coq au vin, the next day a couple of burned chops!"
Luckily Kay has daily professional help with her housework, and that leaves her time to indulge in her hobbies. Like many other Mills & Boon authors, she admits to being a voracious consumer of books, a quality she shares with her readers. She likes music and horseback riding, which she does in the countryside near her home. But her favorite hobby is travel - especially to places that will make good settings for her books.
Kay now lives on the outskirts of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, along with husband, Tony, and a huge tabby cat called Mad Max, her one son having flown the coop. Some day she'll think about retiring, but not yet awhile.
In 1960, she married with Tony, but didn't begin thinking about trying her hand at writing for a living until she gave up work some four years later to have a baby, John. Having read Mills & Boon novels herself, and done some market research in the local library asking readers what it was they particularly liked about the books, she decided to aim for a particular market, and was fortunate to have her very first, completed manuscript accepted - The Last of the Mallorys, published in 1968. Since then she has written over seventy five books, which doesn't begin to compare with the output of some Mills & Boon authors, but still leaves her wondering where all those words came from.
Sometimes, she finds she has become two different people: the writer at her happiest when involved in the world of books and authors; and the housewife, turning her hands to the everyday needs of husband and son. Once in a while, she finds it difficult to step from one role to the other. She likes cooking, for instance, but she finds that it can be an irritating interruption when she's preoccupied with work on a novel, so the quality of her efforts in the kitchen tend to be a little erratic. She says, "As my husband once remarked, my writing gives life a fascinating element of uncertainly: one day a perfect coq au vin, the next day a couple of burned chops!"
Luckily Kay has daily professional help with her housework, and that leaves her time to indulge in her hobbies. Like many other Mills & Boon authors, she admits to being a voracious consumer of books, a quality she shares with her readers. She likes music and horseback riding, which she does in the countryside near her home. But her favorite hobby is travel - especially to places that will make good settings for her books.
Kay now lives on the outskirts of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, along with husband, Tony, and a huge tabby cat called Mad Max, her one son having flown the coop. Some day she'll think about retiring, but not yet awhile.
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May 3, 2018
Re The Spanish Connection - Kay Thorpe is back with a keep it in the family situation.
As far as the H goes, well KT only does one kind, The Uber Bully Manly Super Lurve Mojo Alpha, and she just changes the name and the country depending on where she sets the book. I think it is her h's that really give her problems sometimes.
KT's h's are not the usual HP h, if they went to another author's HP province, they would most likely be the OW. I can only imagine the conversations KT has with her heroine's in order to get them to cooperate.
KT: 'Lauren, come on, get out of the character closet please. I am on deadline here and you are not cooperating by getting on the page.
Lauren, (KT's latest HP h) : 'I don't wanna be a mother of twins married to cheater. I am 23 years old and hot and I wanna party in London and have a great career. You want me to be a doormat to some obnoxious misogynistic browbeating Alpha, whose idear of romance is to roofie a woman and drag her off by her hair!'
KT: 'Please Lauren! I am not debating this with you. My Hero's are a standard type and I like them, I am not changing their utterly antagonizing Alphaness even for you. My reader's like my Hero's, they are all seekritly wanting one themselves, (or at least my editor does,) so get on that page and do what you are told.'
Lauren: 'I REFUSE! I am better than a spineless doormat willing to sell out her kids per the instructions of a tyranic domineering donkey's butt and you can't MAKE me!'
KT: *sighs* ' OK Lauren, I give in. The hero in this is filthy rich and has a huge home and you can shop until you drop. He has tons of house staff, including nannies who will raise the children for you. "
Lauren: ' Well, money is good, staff and 24/7 childcare is even better, but I don't want to live in Spain! I will never be able to get my groove on and put my awesomely hot body to the use my surging hormones want it for.'
KT snappily: 'Oh for Pity's Sake Lauren, Spain has major shopping cities, with designer boutiques too, it isn't Siberia. They have several coastal resorts where you can get your party monster out if you need to as well. But the hormone situation, hmmm. Well I promise this Hero is smoking in bed with lots and lots of STAMINA. Multiple delights are awaiting you, if you will just GET IN THERE!'
Lauren: 'MULTIPLE Delights? Are you sure? You swear? Really?'
KT: 'MULTIPLE, and you can find that out within hours of your arrival, I promise. You will be feeling the Alpha Bully Lurve Force Mojo within five hours of meeting this Hero, after a nice refreshing shower and siesta of course.
I want you looking your awesomely hottest for this man, it will be a entirely incandescent explosion when you meet. There might be few pesky family members and an OW or two, but think of all the lovely money, shopping, house staff and powerful physical gestaults you are getting in return. It will all be worth it, I promise.'
Lauren: 'It does sound good. Okay then, I will do this - let's get started.'
And so we begin our book...
Lauren is the h in this one and has recently lost her cheating hubby of four years. They married when she was 19 and stupid, cause her slime pustule Spanish boyfriend got her preggers, with twins.
Lauren likes her kids, but they are a bit of a handful and money is scarce, cause of course the slime pustule was a spendthrift and he was also very estranged from his family. Lauren writes to the family to let them know of his death, after she finds the information in her late slime pustule's papers. The family immediately writes back and extend her and her sons an invitation to visit.
Lauren waits a few months, then she decides to go. We arrive at the H's huge ancient house to meet him and his other brother. After some conversation and a few oblique threats and veiled hints that the H has some plans for retaining the h's sons, the h finds herself seduced by the H and having a fabulous time with the Lurve Club Purple Passion experience.
Then we meet the OW, who owns a hotel she is trying to sell to the H and is also obviously his lover. The H's other brother, who is engaged to a sweet Spanish girl, is also stirring the pot with hints as to the H's OW and his motivations for seducing the h.
The h finds herself trapped by the H on his grand Spanish estate, he canceled her return tickets, she doesn't have a car or much money and now she is pretty much at his mercy. The H proposes and the h accepts.
There is more Lurve Force Mojo boudoir experiences and the h helps the other brother's fiancee get a backbone and not put up with the little brother's attempts at macho bullying. The h also believes the H is lying to her about fidelity and tracks him down to the OW's hotel, where she thinks the OW and the H had a big lurve event.
There is some twin son mischief adventures and the h has to stop the H from firing the nice nanny too. The h decides that since the H can't be bothered to be faithful, she can't be bothered to be married and she and her sons will just live at the H's house and she will just have him pay for everything.
Then the H's little brother admits he lied about the H and OW, he tells the h she should just go ask the H what he was doing with the OW and the h does. We find out the H was buying the OW's hotel, he dumped her and their affair a long time ago. Despite the OW flaunting another man at the H in an attempt to get him back, the H is madly in love with the h and has been since he met her.
So the h decides it is okay to marry the H now. Mainly cause he is rocking in the bedroom, frequently lets her shop with an unlimited budget and throws really great parties. Her sons also get to have a lot of staff to adore them and the best schools and toys too, so really this is winning situation all around.
KT can send off her manuscript and kick back now with a sigh in satisfaction, cause another recalcitrant h has been bribed and coerced into another successful conclusion to an HP outing and it was an interesting, but kinda golddiggery day at the HP office.
As far as the H goes, well KT only does one kind, The Uber Bully Manly Super Lurve Mojo Alpha, and she just changes the name and the country depending on where she sets the book. I think it is her h's that really give her problems sometimes.
KT's h's are not the usual HP h, if they went to another author's HP province, they would most likely be the OW. I can only imagine the conversations KT has with her heroine's in order to get them to cooperate.
KT: 'Lauren, come on, get out of the character closet please. I am on deadline here and you are not cooperating by getting on the page.
Lauren, (KT's latest HP h) : 'I don't wanna be a mother of twins married to cheater. I am 23 years old and hot and I wanna party in London and have a great career. You want me to be a doormat to some obnoxious misogynistic browbeating Alpha, whose idear of romance is to roofie a woman and drag her off by her hair!'
KT: 'Please Lauren! I am not debating this with you. My Hero's are a standard type and I like them, I am not changing their utterly antagonizing Alphaness even for you. My reader's like my Hero's, they are all seekritly wanting one themselves, (or at least my editor does,) so get on that page and do what you are told.'
Lauren: 'I REFUSE! I am better than a spineless doormat willing to sell out her kids per the instructions of a tyranic domineering donkey's butt and you can't MAKE me!'
KT: *sighs* ' OK Lauren, I give in. The hero in this is filthy rich and has a huge home and you can shop until you drop. He has tons of house staff, including nannies who will raise the children for you. "
Lauren: ' Well, money is good, staff and 24/7 childcare is even better, but I don't want to live in Spain! I will never be able to get my groove on and put my awesomely hot body to the use my surging hormones want it for.'
KT snappily: 'Oh for Pity's Sake Lauren, Spain has major shopping cities, with designer boutiques too, it isn't Siberia. They have several coastal resorts where you can get your party monster out if you need to as well. But the hormone situation, hmmm. Well I promise this Hero is smoking in bed with lots and lots of STAMINA. Multiple delights are awaiting you, if you will just GET IN THERE!'
Lauren: 'MULTIPLE Delights? Are you sure? You swear? Really?'
KT: 'MULTIPLE, and you can find that out within hours of your arrival, I promise. You will be feeling the Alpha Bully Lurve Force Mojo within five hours of meeting this Hero, after a nice refreshing shower and siesta of course.
I want you looking your awesomely hottest for this man, it will be a entirely incandescent explosion when you meet. There might be few pesky family members and an OW or two, but think of all the lovely money, shopping, house staff and powerful physical gestaults you are getting in return. It will all be worth it, I promise.'
Lauren: 'It does sound good. Okay then, I will do this - let's get started.'
And so we begin our book...
Lauren is the h in this one and has recently lost her cheating hubby of four years. They married when she was 19 and stupid, cause her slime pustule Spanish boyfriend got her preggers, with twins.
Lauren likes her kids, but they are a bit of a handful and money is scarce, cause of course the slime pustule was a spendthrift and he was also very estranged from his family. Lauren writes to the family to let them know of his death, after she finds the information in her late slime pustule's papers. The family immediately writes back and extend her and her sons an invitation to visit.
Lauren waits a few months, then she decides to go. We arrive at the H's huge ancient house to meet him and his other brother. After some conversation and a few oblique threats and veiled hints that the H has some plans for retaining the h's sons, the h finds herself seduced by the H and having a fabulous time with the Lurve Club Purple Passion experience.
Then we meet the OW, who owns a hotel she is trying to sell to the H and is also obviously his lover. The H's other brother, who is engaged to a sweet Spanish girl, is also stirring the pot with hints as to the H's OW and his motivations for seducing the h.
The h finds herself trapped by the H on his grand Spanish estate, he canceled her return tickets, she doesn't have a car or much money and now she is pretty much at his mercy. The H proposes and the h accepts.
There is more Lurve Force Mojo boudoir experiences and the h helps the other brother's fiancee get a backbone and not put up with the little brother's attempts at macho bullying. The h also believes the H is lying to her about fidelity and tracks him down to the OW's hotel, where she thinks the OW and the H had a big lurve event.
There is some twin son mischief adventures and the h has to stop the H from firing the nice nanny too. The h decides that since the H can't be bothered to be faithful, she can't be bothered to be married and she and her sons will just live at the H's house and she will just have him pay for everything.
Then the H's little brother admits he lied about the H and OW, he tells the h she should just go ask the H what he was doing with the OW and the h does. We find out the H was buying the OW's hotel, he dumped her and their affair a long time ago. Despite the OW flaunting another man at the H in an attempt to get him back, the H is madly in love with the h and has been since he met her.
So the h decides it is okay to marry the H now. Mainly cause he is rocking in the bedroom, frequently lets her shop with an unlimited budget and throws really great parties. Her sons also get to have a lot of staff to adore them and the best schools and toys too, so really this is winning situation all around.
KT can send off her manuscript and kick back now with a sigh in satisfaction, cause another recalcitrant h has been bribed and coerced into another successful conclusion to an HP outing and it was an interesting, but kinda golddiggery day at the HP office.
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August 28, 2013
meh..not sure what to make of this one. It could have been a great read, but the heroine kept getting in the way.
Also, I really hate it when author's don't quite read their own work, or care so little about it, that they make blatant mistakes within the same book. What am I as a reader supposed do with the fact that the author can't remember what she wrote on page 4?
Heroine's husband dies. While going through his paperwork she realizes that he has been estranged from his Spanish family. Duty bound she writes to them of his death also letting them know he had two children. Of course, they insist she come visit, but she hesitates and puts the decision off for several months. Yet, later on when the hero has set out to seduce her, and convince him to marry her, she indicates her husband has only been dead three months. So was it 7 months or 3 months? Who knows?
I found it a bit ironic that she was worried what people would think if she married so quickly after her husbands death. Yet she could jump into bed with her deceased husband's brother the same night she meets him. Does "slut" come to mind, "mare in heat" , or was it simply just "show me the money"? (family was very wealthy)
Sorry, I couldn't get past either points.
Also, I really hate it when author's don't quite read their own work, or care so little about it, that they make blatant mistakes within the same book. What am I as a reader supposed do with the fact that the author can't remember what she wrote on page 4?
Heroine's husband dies. While going through his paperwork she realizes that he has been estranged from his Spanish family. Duty bound she writes to them of his death also letting them know he had two children. Of course, they insist she come visit, but she hesitates and puts the decision off for several months. Yet, later on when the hero has set out to seduce her, and convince him to marry her, she indicates her husband has only been dead three months. So was it 7 months or 3 months? Who knows?
I found it a bit ironic that she was worried what people would think if she married so quickly after her husbands death. Yet she could jump into bed with her deceased husband's brother the same night she meets him. Does "slut" come to mind, "mare in heat" , or was it simply just "show me the money"? (family was very wealthy)
Sorry, I couldn't get past either points.
July 30, 2014
Starts out as a wonderful read but loses some ump as it goes along. Has some intense passion but a lot of trickery involved on the behalf of our hero which I think would make the normal woman pissed off & leave. But our heroine becomes ensalved by his sexual charm & brainwashed so that she becomes a puddle of ooze & loses the ability to be independent & carry through on her plans for her & her twin boys.
January 7, 2018
The Spanish Connection
The heroine along with her twins to Spain to meet her deceased husband's family. There she meets his older brother who has an alpha male attitude about family. He wants her sons to live with him and since they are Spanish he will be their guardian. If he has to marry her so be it. This story is old but timeless in the telling. I enjoyed the plot.
The heroine along with her twins to Spain to meet her deceased husband's family. There she meets his older brother who has an alpha male attitude about family. He wants her sons to live with him and since they are Spanish he will be their guardian. If he has to marry her so be it. This story is old but timeless in the telling. I enjoyed the plot.
February 15, 2022
This has so many problems, ranging from a stupid h to an obnoxious jerk H and tons of stereotyping. Please see my longer review here: https://www.morebooksthantime.com/the...
November 22, 2016
This book is a little to romantic.
May 12, 2024
"The Spanish Connection" is the story of Lauren and Rafael.
'You are more to me than life itself!' he declared fiercely. 'How can you not know what I feel for you when you possess my very soul?'
The heroine travels to Spain with her twins to meet her deceased husband's relatives. He was a philanderer, and estranged from his family. So she finds herself shocked when his older brother decides to take control of her and her boys. Thus begins a battle of wills between a determined hero, and a willful heroine.
Lots of passion, some OW and family drama, sweet moments with the family but the focus remains on the main couple.
Enjoyed it
Safe
3.5/5
'You are more to me than life itself!' he declared fiercely. 'How can you not know what I feel for you when you possess my very soul?'
The heroine travels to Spain with her twins to meet her deceased husband's relatives. He was a philanderer, and estranged from his family. So she finds herself shocked when his older brother decides to take control of her and her boys. Thus begins a battle of wills between a determined hero, and a willful heroine.
Lots of passion, some OW and family drama, sweet moments with the family but the focus remains on the main couple.
Enjoyed it
Safe
3.5/5
March 21, 2022
Reads like a travelogue for the first half - interspersed with the hero wielding financial control over the heroine in the interests of kidnapping her unrealistically precocious twins, plus the de rigeur punishing kisses and betrayal of the heroine's body. Everyone was made of cardboard and it all just felt faintly icky. Plenty of background misogyny and sexism if that's the sort of thing one likes in a novel, sigh.
December 17, 2019
this kind of rapist is not my kind of lead romantic male
December 7, 2016
Star Rating: ★½☆☆☆
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