Pregnancy

Calder Brown's friend Owen Chase has just got married

This was my first book by her and I have one other in my tbr pile. I found it an emotional read and I enjoyed the author’s voice. This is about Ally and Finn. Ally met and married Finn in a whirlwind courtship. Ally then returned to Denmark with Finn and that is when everything changed. The honeymoon was over.

4 Stars! ~~~ This is a fast paced emotional read and I enjoyed it very much

The Kouvaris Marriage by Diana Hamilton

Harlequin Presents # 2614 ~ March 2007

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When tall, dark, rich and gorgeous Dante di Andrea made love to her, Bliss knew she couldn't keep him in her life. But then he discovered she was pregnant! Dante was furious! No child of his would be brought up in poverty.

However, Bliss wasn't happy when Dante proposed. Surely he needed to marry a woman of his own kind—and do it for love…?

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Favourite Scene:

‘Where is your bedroom?’ Raising his head, Dante stared down into Bliss’s glazed violet eyes with possessive intent, his need to make her properly his urgent and primitive and driving every other coherent thought far from his mind. Trying to straighten her dishevelled clothing and meeting his avaricious gaze with equal hunger as she moved away from the wall, Bliss didn’t reply—just headed dazedly down the hall to a door right at the end and went inside.

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Everyone seems to have forgotten Jane's birthday—but meeting handsome, brooding millionaire Mitch Holland gives her good reason to celebrate. The attraction between them is intense, but Mitch puts a strict limit on their time together: he can offer her one night only.

A few weeks later, Jane is still struggling to forget gorgeous Mitch—and their unforgettably sexy night together. Then she discovers she's pregnant….
 

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Favourite Scene:

‘Doing things you’ve always wanted to do.’

She could feel her skin heating. ‘Things most women have done by the age of twenty-five.’ And since she could guess what he was thinking, she threw the words at him. ‘If you must know, top of the list was kissing a tall, dark, handsome stranger. But I was too chicken and took your photo instead.’

The corner of his mouth quirked. ‘You were going to kiss me?’

She glared at him. Talk about maximum humiliation.

‘Interesting.’

Before she realised his intentions, he’d pulled her onto his lap, slid one hand across the nape of her neck, and then his mouth was moving against hers. Teasing her. Tasting her. Tiny, nibbling kisses along her lower lip that incited her to open her mouth and let him deepen the kiss.

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Sheikh Khalifa is bored by the potential wives paraded in front of him. So when he catches sweet, innocent Beth Torrance trespassing on his private beach, he is more than ready to be distracted….

Beth comes to the island a naïve virgin, but leaves an awakened woman—and unknowingly pregnant with the sheikh's baby! When the desert king vows to claim his child—and take its mother as his permanent mistress—Beth is powerless to refuse a royal decree!

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Favourite Scene: (when she first met him, he was naked)

She’d just have to make sure she didn’t blurt out something completely inappropriate, Beth thought, starting to panic. She definitely mustn’t say, ‘I hardly recognised you in your clothes.’  

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Life has taught Prince Vereham al a'Karim bin Hakar to control his emotions. Duty to his kingdom drives the enigmatic sheikh.
But one unexpected, intensely sexy encounter with inexperienced Samantha McLellan shakes Vere's steely control. And when he discovers that Sam could be betraying his country, he decides to blackmail her—into being his mistress!

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Favourite Scene: (she just told him it wasn't likely she was pregnant)

Vere had no idea why Sam’s assertion that she had not conceived his child should make him feel that dark bitterness and pain. All he did know was that it also made him feel angry and alone. Shamefully, it also made him feel that he wanted to take her back in his arms and make love to her until she was crying out to him to possess her. And this time when he did so he wanted to ensure that…That what? That he impregnated her with his seed? That her body, her womb, would ripen with it and with his child? The fierce clutch of savage joy at his heart was giving him a message that was totally at odds with the logical rejection inside his head.  

4 Stars! ~~~ This is an intensely emotional, compelling lovestory... I read it in one sitting, and quickly went back to read it again!

Savage Obsession by Diana Hamilton

Harlequin Presents # 1588 ~ September 1993

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Wealthy rancher Mitch Ramsey had never given much of a second look to his neighbor Emma Davis, until an unexpected encounter led to a night of unbridled passion. Mitch figured their affair could be a discreet diversion, one they had both gone into with eyes wide-open.

Then Emma's father made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Marry Emma and Mitch would inherit what he had always coveted--the entire Davis ranch. But Emma was never to know....
 

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Favourite Scene:

To hell with their drinks. To hell with his vow to keep things platonic. He wanter her… now, with a single-minded determination that made him feel like a bull charging a red flag.... 

Before the sound of his door closing had finished echoing through the cab, he was on her. Reaching out, draging her across the vinyl seat and kissing her senseless. His hands were everywhere, groping, yanking, tearing her clothes away so he could get to her naked flesh. 

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Telling her high-society family she was about to be an unwed mother had been tough. So how could she possibly inform the Garrison clan that the baby's father was their archenemy? Brooke planned to keep the paternity secret…then millionaire hotel mogul Jordan Jefferies learned the truth. And he was not about to let her fear of scandal stop him from claiming his child. Or from making Brooke his wife. 

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Favourite Scene: (I loved Parker/Jordan's rivalry and fighting)

A vein throbbed in Parker's temple. "Who the hell are you to tell me how to speak to my sister?" 

"I'm the man who's going to marry your sister." 

Before she could remind Jordan she'd only agreed to date him, he'd gently moved her aside as Parker shouted, "Like hell."  In a blink both men launched across the table.