Lynne Graham

"Only days before she was about to give birth, Emily left her husband, Duarte de Monteiro. She'd heard from a friend that he wanted to keep their baby - but not his wife...

Now Duarte has traced her and their baby son, and brought them back to Portugal. He's proud; he wants to keep his wife - especially as he can still possess her with the slightest touch....

Emily still loves Duarte, but has he brought her back because he loves her - or because he loves his son?"

"'I am a close acquaintance of Crown Prince Razul's!'

Rash words indeed... Bethany was desperate to stop her deportation from Datar, and only Razul could help her. But she'd tried so hard to forget him - they'd been involved two years before, and back then Bethany hadn't been able to handle such a proud, passionate man.

Bethany got to stay in Datar. However by renewing her 'close' acquaintance with Razul she paid his price - he demanded that she become his wife!"

Favourite Scene: (absolutely ADORED this scene, especially the "for the second time" and "but all that is absolutely ok!" line that the hero says to stop her from crying) 

‘Are you saying that you love me?’ Andreo shot at her incredulously.

‘To death…love you just so much,’ she stressed, suffering from emotional overload and very near to tears in her over-excitement.

Andreo focused on her with dazed dark golden eyes. ‘But you were leaving me again…’

Pippa nodded and compressed tremulous lips.

‘For the second time,’ Andreo emphasised.

Pippa nodded again, tears of regret clogging up her vocal cords.

‘Even though I’d asked you to marry me…’

The tears overflowed and streamed in a silent river down her cheeks.

‘But all that is absolutely OK!’ Andreo insisted in panic at the sight of those tears. ‘Honestly, I have no idea why I’m so full of complaints. I’m crazy about you and I’ll be crazy about our baby too. I can forgive you for anything. Please don’t cry, amore.’

Keeper!

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Can one passionate night mend a marriage?
Luc Sarrazan's marriage to Star had been hasty and brief. They separated almost immediately and Star disappeared, but Luc never filed for divorce.
Eighteen months later, Luc tracks Star down— fearing she's involved in a fraud. When he discovers that Star is the mother of twins, he feels doubly deceived!
Luc demands his price: he will have the fraud charge dropped if Star will spend just one last time in his bed. But he's not prepared for the cost of that fleeting taste of passion— the morning after, he wants more...even to mend their marriage!

Favourite Scene: (I love how they are welded together)

Afterwards, the first thing she was conscious of was the silence. Luc was still holding her, every damp, hard, muscular line of him welded to her smaller, slighter frame. For a moment she luxuriated in that feeling of intimacy and closeness. Then her mind awakened again, and with a sinking heart she recognised her own weakness.
'Star...' Luc husked in an indolent tone of satiation. 'It's never been like that for me.

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'I am a close acquaintance of Crown Prince Razul's!'

Rash words indeed... Bethany was desperate to stop her deportation from Datar, and only Razul could help her. But she'd tried so hard to forget him - they'd been involved two years before, and back then Bethany hadn't been able to handle such a proud, passionate man.

Bethany got to stay in Datar. However by renewing her 'close' acquaintance with Razul she paid his price - he demanded that she become his wife! 

Favourite Scene: (I love that he drops what he's doing and "flying leaps" upon her) 

"I need a doctor," she told him weakly. 

"A doctor?" He frowned uncertainly at her. 

She pushed the sheet down from her aching arm.  "See?" she pointed out. 

The tray dropped with a thunderous crash of smashing china.  She blinked in bemusement as Razul suddenly came down on the bed beside her in what could only be described as a flying leap. 

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Untouched: Six years ago, Jessica made the worst mistake of her life. The prospect of being Carlo Saracini's mistress was just too hot for her to handle, so she opted for the safety of marriage to Simon instead.
Now Jessica is a widow and faced with the unthinkable: she needs Carlo's help or her father will go to jail. Carlo is suggesting a deal that will give him what he's always wanted—Jessica, in his bed for three months! But Jessica can't give in to Carlo's demands; to let him possess her body and soul will be to give him the ultimate revenge...because he will discover that, even after years of marriage, she is still a virgin!
  

Favourite Scene: (I love how he flares in response to learning she's engaged) 

'I can't take my eyes off you. You may have noticed that. Then, you must be accustomed to a great deal of male attention.'
'Not since I got engaged,' she had muttered stiffly, infuriated by the fashion in which he was openly looking her over as if she were an object on a supermarket shelf there for the taking.
He had stilled, golden eyes narrowing and flaring. ‘You belong to another man?'

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Once his mistress... now his bride!
Milly doesn't remember Gianni D'Angelo.All she knows is that she was found after a hit-and-run accident, pregnant and with her memory gone.
So Milly is horrified when she learns that she was once Gianni's mistress.. .and now he's claiming her little boy is his son! Gianni's solution is simple: marriage!

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"I want to talk about my child because I've waited three years to find him."
"You're not meeting Connor until you tell me what I need to know! What was I to you? A one-night stand? A hooker?" she slung furiously."Or a girlfriend?" With pronounced cool, Gianni came upright to face her."No to all of the above. Leave this for another day, cara," he advised quietly, incisive dark-as-night eyes resting on the revealing clenching and unclenching of her hands."When the time's right, TO tell you everything you want to know."
"I'll ask you one more time before I walk out of here...what was I to you?"  Gianni expelled his breath in a slow hiss. You were my mistress."

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Spanish aristocrat Antonio Rocha viewed Sophie Cunningham as a common little tramp: she sported a tattoo, and was dragging up his orphaned baby niece in a caravan! But although she might not speak or live like a lady, Sophie did have plenty of love for a family of babies. And, contrary to his arrogant assumption, she was a virgin. Inexplicably attracted to Sophie, Antonio decided a marriage arrangement on his terms was the answer . . . 

Line that made me go "wtf": (what hero calls his heroine sluttish???)

He could no longer ignore the obvious: shameful though it was, it could only be her sluttish qualities that attracted him. 

Why do I read books where there is a separation and thus a high chance of the hero having sex with other women and hurting his heroine?  I think sometimes I read the book description and think "ok, the separation was only a year or two, the author could definately swing it so that the hero abstained". 

In this case, the hero's pregnant wife walked out on the marriage believing a woman who claimed the hero cheated with her.  He hadn't, the woman lied, but the heroine didn't know... and the hero was too proud to fight to keep his wife, after she had disappointed him by not trusting him.  He eventually moved on to other women, their divorce was in progress.  Eventually the heroine found out he hadn't slept with the woman who made the claim, and she wanted the hero back.  The moment the heroine realized that the hero had had sex with other women for REAL after their separation, it was as if she was just shot out of her dream world and landed on her ass in reality.  It was so heart-breaking.  It was also heart-breaking to see the hero's reaction to having to confirm to her that there had been other women, he knew it would hurt her now, and he didn't want to hurt her.  This was just crushing.