Lyon and Elizabeth fell in love at her 18th birthday party and made love but then he got sent abroad on business for his father and when he got back her entire family had moved. She was pregnant and his father bought her off, telling her Lyon told him to, because he was engaged to someone else. Now years later she's back with her son and Lyon's determined to punish her so he insists she move in with him or he'll sue for custody. Will the flames re-ignite and how will he react when he finds out the truth.
I didn't like the tone of this one, his reaction at the end was too little, too late for me
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I read this book couple
I read this book couple years and I think this book was one that cemented my preference in books about couples married are not who had children when their parted ways without knowledge and was reunited later. I have liked the sentence where I think it was his friend who let him know he had a son by annoucing the lion had a cub. I have always said I will like to read this book along with Shadowed Reunion again
Hero who is determined to
Hero who is determined to punish the heroine, who is actually a victim and should be thanked for raising his child and not totally hating his guts... grrr... this is a plot line I've seen and disliked in other books....
Janet - that's a theme in a lot of Presents that just doesn't
work for me, possibly because I just don't "get" that mindset. When someone does me wrong I write them out of my life or I sort it out, I don't elaborate big plans for revenge because life is too short
Maybe that's a male thing, but it just doesn't work for me
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Sadhbh
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Hmmm.... It does appear
Hmmm.... It does appear in a lot of HPs, yeah... the HPs that feature that kind of storyline don't necessarily make my keeper shelf.
For me though, I can enjoy revenge, I can LOVE a good revenge story... but there has to be certain things there: the hero needs to be driven by love, the hero needs to have the heroine as his weakness, the hero needs to choose not to hurt the heroine at some point, the hero needs to not be unfaithful or use his relationships with other women to hurt the heroine, the hero needs to not be hypocritical and persecute her for her relationships with men.
(You'll notice these are all things the "hero" needs to do, this is because it's the hero's revenge, and these are the things I need to make the hero's "revenge" feel like love. Also, I'm a woman reading from a woman's perspective, so these are things that I like, which help perpetuate the romantic fantasy and make the hero someone I could see myself respecting/loving)