Back Cover:
At Angelos Zouvelekis's command, café waitress Chantal will play the part of his bride-to-be. He will shower her with exquisite jewels and silks…and she will repay him in kind!
He wants his recompense in the bedroom! Angelos worships Chantal's body, although he thinks she's a devious gold digger. But his arrogance is shattered when he discovers Chantal is a virgin….
Angelos bought this innocent, and now he intends to keep her—whatever the cost!
Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers to some degree
Favourite Scene: (post-coital misunderstanding, he wants an explaination for why she was a virgin, she thinks he wants a rating on performance)
‘Speak to me,’ he demanded, and his sharp tone finally roused her from her semi-conscious state.
‘It was amazing,’ she said faintly. ‘You’re very good.’
Shock flared in his dark eyes and he muttered something in Greek under his breath. ‘That is not what I was asking you,’ he breathed, faint colour highlighting the perfection of his bone structure.
Another Fav Scene:
‘My mother was a prostitute.’
‘I don’t care if your mother was a hippopotamus,’ he drawled. ‘I’m not proposing to your mother. I’m proposing to you.’
My Review:
The H/h met at a party the h gatecrashed. Her mother was a prostitute and the h was giving high society the finger by attending the party on the sly. The hero thinks the heroine was using his father, telling his father they were in love and letting him hope they'd get engaged, and he is angry with her. He hunts her down after the party because his father had a heart attack and was so happy when he thought his son was "engaged" to this woman. He finds out the name she used to get in (it was a gold-digging woman's ticket that the h used). When he finds her, he makes her continue the pretence, he reluctantly is attracted to her and as he finds out more about her, he sees her true character and is growing to like and respect her. He gets a surprise when he takes her and finds out she sure isn't a gold-digging divorcee.
I like that the heroine doesn't all of a suddenly happily make use of the hero's money at the end of the book. The hero has to help her get financially independent on her own two feet before she'll consider being in an unequal financial relationship with him (because of her hang ups). Great passion between them, it seemed suiting for them. It was a tad bit unbelievable how the heroine went from a virgin to being content with a purely sexual affair with the hero so fast.
Rating: 4/5 stars, you can sometimes say that books like this have over-bearing self-righteous heroes and poor little heroines, but in this case I didn't feel that was the case, it worked well.
