The Carlotta Diamond by Lee Wilkinson

Reviewed by SetonEatsSecretBabys on December 2nd, 2008, 4:44pm

The Carlotta Diamond

by Lee Wilkinson

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Format: Print Books

Series: Harlequin Presents

Genre: Contemporary Series Romance. Set in the UK.

Copyright: 2005

Series: Part of “Dinner at 8″ Series but doesnt even look loosely connected to me.

Pages: 192

Sensuality: PG

Grade: C-

Reason for Reading: Never tried this author before.

Content warnings: Other than blindness from looking at the shiny perfect H/H? None.

Plot: Well, the product description is very misleading-

""The wedding night surprise!

Charlotte Christie wore white on her wedding day—and a priceless diamond necklace. Little did she know that her new husband, British billionaire Simon Farringdon, didn’t believe she was an innocent. Nor did she realize that the Carlotta Diamond was his real motive for marriage.

But the unexpected passion of their wedding night changed Simon’s plans. His new bride was a virgin and he wanted her—""

The plot REALLY goes like this - a grandfather on his deathbed asks his grandson, Simon, to find the descendant of his missing black sheep sister whom he hadn’t kept in touch with since, um, 1947. The family had a priceless diamond that has always gone to the eldest daughter for the past 500 years and he wants to make it right before he dies. This might go into the Guinness Book of World Records for procrastination. I am all admiration. Really.

This conversation is overheard by Simon’s scummy bro-in-law, Rudy, who finds the descendant, Charlotte, first and tries to seduce her. Rudy wants to divorce his wife (Simon’s sister), who is paralyzed, (did I mention he’s scummy?) and marry Charlotte, who has both her legs (but not a third, which is too bad b/c this would have made the book a heck more interesting) AND a priceless diamond to boot. So, answering the call of his hysterical sister, Simon seduces Charlotte away from Rudy and gets her to marry him. There is no recrimination scene or even a mention of the loss of shiny perfect Charlotte’s symbol of her perfection - her shiny hymen - as the description implies. Which is refreshing actually in a Harlequin Presents.

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