Header PromotionThe Heat of Passion by Lynne Graham (HP 1908)
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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?'
Another Fav Scene: (I love that we see the alpha rejected, and unforgiving)
She would never ever forget the way he had looked at her on her wedding-day. With smouldering incredulous fury and naked hatred. The Alpha male, fabulously rich, indecently successful and stunningly handsome... rejected. Right up until the very last moment Carlo had expected her to change her mind and fling herself at his feet.
'I will never forgive you.' Carlo Saracini's parting assurance outside the church door.
Yet Another Fav Scene: (he wants to make her love him!)
'You're out of your mind,' she whispered. 'I could never love you.'
‘I will settle for nothing less,' Carlo told her softly in the steadily thickening atmosphere.
My Review:
Whew! This one is incredibly passionate. The hero chased his heroine so hard six years ago, and she married another man. Now in the present he has an opportunity to blackmail her into his bed and finally finally have her the way he wanted. He takes it and his eagerness for her is intense and delightful. Her marriage isn't as it seems though: her husband was her childhood best friend and he had an impotency problem that made her five year marriage hell, and kept her a virgin. She doesn't want to tell the hero that he's her first lover because it's what he wanted to be all along and it will give him pleasure that he doesn't deserve. The chemistry is just HUGE and flies off the page. There are so many passionate moments I was tempted to quote. I'm going to label this one a KEEPER.
My Rating: 4.5/5 stars, huge passion, sexual tension that goes wild.
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