Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Roccanti's marriage revenge Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! She found herself praying that the older woman did make it successfully through the recovery process and managed to stay off drugs.
Paola asked her about the garden and then offered to show it to her. Paola had already visited a garden centre nearby. Zara was quick to suggest that they should go back there together the following week and she agreed a date and time while hoping that Vitale would approve and not think her guilty of interference.
It was late afternoon the next day before Vitale returned to the palazzo. Dressed in a simple white sundress, Zara was arranging an armful of lavender in a fat crystal vase in the hall. He strode through the door and came to a halt, brilliant dark eyes locking to her tiny figure, picking up straight away on the troubled look she shot at him.
Her pregnancy was becoming obvious now, a firm swell that made her dress sit out like a bell above her slender shapely legs. An ebony brow rose. It took a lot of persuasion to get her to move into the villa. I think she deserves a fresh start. I never knew her when I was a child and from the age of eleven until this year I had no contact with her, nor did I want any.
What did you learn from Paola? Feb 04, Vashti rated it liked it Shelves: vashti-shp-challenge. A solid 3. I enjoyed this latest Lynne Graham offering. The hero was quite tame in compare to some of her other heros. This is the 1st of 3 books series and looking forward to the next which is about her eldest half sister and ex-fiancee. View 1 comment. Feb 28, Alex is The Romance Fox rated it really liked it Shelves: romance , harlequin-mills-boon.
However I felt a bit letdown….. He discovers she is a virgin, she gets pregnant after one night of hot and steamy sex. He discards her. She falls in love with him …. She is ostracized by her wicked parents and is struggling along when the hero suddenly comes back and demands that she marry him because she is pregnant with his child.
They discover true love and live happily ever after. His character kept changing from this really cold and cruel to kind and caring. And this was the only reason why he behaved so bad towards Zara Blake!!!!!
What a fickle man I thought. Now, Zara is the other problem I had. Here is this really lovely and soft woman, who has been abused both verbally and physically by her parents who constantly tell her that she is an idiot because of her dyslexia, who continues to go back for more. I began falling in love with her when she moved out of home and started her new life….
Girl, you need your head read!!!!!! I loved this rabbit!!!! Before you begin thinking that I did not like this book…stop…I did. I love the writing style…. The settings are great…London and Tuscany….. The epilogue is great…I liked knowing that they became a really loving and happily family with children. You will enjoy it a lot. But staring at the black-and-white headline that announces the success of his plan doesn't feel half as satisfying as Zara did beneath his touch.
She betrayed her father and his plans for her marriage, for one chance at passion. But that's nothing compared to the headline that will come in nine months' time! Nov 30, Kiki rated it it was ok Shelves: author-to-avoid , hero-celibate-during-separation , harlequin-presents , wheres-the-fucking-grovelling , worthless-revenge-shit.
Yes, he was a nice guy, yes, he was celibate. This the 2 stars. Nope, no suffering because he knew heroine cared, he had a wedding night AND he get to still hide stuff from her and tell her to back off. Do not only there was no grovelling, guy learned nothing.
She might go into MTV withdrawal at any point of time and also has irrational fear of the unfairer sex. View all 7 comments. Feb 02, Saly rated it liked it Shelves: harlequin-presents , harlequin-silhouette , read-in , virgin-heroines , category-romance , marriage-of-convenience. He offers to marry her but she isn't sure, then he starts defending her against a father who loves to use his fists as well as put her down because of her dyslexia.
This plot has been done by this author before I must admit but this was an enjoyable read. This was a sweet pleasant book. There was some conflict but it wasn't high tension. The hero used the heroine but knew pretty much right off the batt that he'd done wrong. The heroine wasn't a doormat. She was just a trusting naive girl who was in over her head with an attractive man.
But she gave him what for when she found out that he'd set her up. The accidental pregnancy was well handled and the two of them didn't fall right into each others' arms but they were fairly rational about their situation. I liked that the hero was very protective of her. Not an deep book, sweet readable fluff.
Zara falling for Vitale and vice versa seemed credible: Zara appreciated Vitale's protective streak, strong family values, and sense of responsibility, while Vitale valued her tenderness, her more than skin-deep beauty, and intelligence. Couple these factors with an intense physical attraction and it's easy to see why they fell in love. I liked how Zara wasn't a doormat with Vitale. She was quick to tell him off as soon as she discovered his deception. And I must mention Zara's rabbit, Fluffy.
So cute! Vitale was a likable but tame hero, and despite his unhappy childhood, a man with a surprising amount of goodness. The title is misleading. Vitale doesn't marry Zara for revenge, but the marriage is a consequence of it.
Nov 10, Vintage rated it liked it Shelves: alpha-romero-h , hea-nope , abuse , baby-on-board , virgin , innocence , magic-penis , martyrdom , out-of-wedlock-baby , grow-a-spine-please. This poor heroine. Toss in a hint of TSTL and some overwhelming action from a magic but potent penis, and you get the kind of book people roll their eyes over. It's not the trope where she is a maid; it's one of the other ones.
Enjoyable for the trope that it is. I doubt if this is a spoiler, but he grows to love her. View all 4 comments. Loved it. Sweet love story about two broken people who love and heal each other, overcome all obstacles and create a beautiful family. Loved this couple and their heartwarming HEA. Jan 28, RLA rated it really liked it. The heroine Zara has lived in the shadow of her controlling and abusive parents all her life, never having the confidence to stand up for herself.
Her father wants her to marry an important business associate of his, and Zara thinks that a marriage of convenience will suit her. She meets the hero Vitale when he hires her company to design the garden for his Tuscan villa. Zara is surprised by the desire and attraction she feels towards Vitale, a bad experience in her youth has left her weary of m The heroine Zara has lived in the shadow of her controlling and abusive parents all her life, never having the confidence to stand up for herself.
Zara is surprised by the desire and attraction she feels towards Vitale, a bad experience in her youth has left her weary of men, and she begins to rethink her marriage plans. Vitale has only one thing on his mind and that is revenge against the man responsible for his beloved sister's death - Zara's father.
He plans to seduce Zara and make it publicly known therefore ruining her father's business merger. However he is not expecting Zara to be innocent, in every sense, or that he would not be able to forget her. Zara is kicked out of her home and family for what happened with Vitale but tries to make the most of her new freedom even if it is a struggle.
But then Vitale comes back into her life and they discover she is pregnant, and suddenly Zara once again feels trapped. I had a difficult time trying to rate this one, I really liked it but at times it did annoy me a little bit. Overall though, I really liked it, it is certainly much more 'Lynne Graham-ish' than her last couple. Let's get the stuff I didn't like out of the way first - Firstly, the hero!
His whole plan is a little darn cruel, and it didn't sit well with me, and also at 29 years old he seemed a little too young to for his situation in life.
And thirdly, I am getting slightly bored of the whole 'hero thinks the heroine is some kind of tart so that is a good enough excuse for his behaviour' thing. Now for the good stuff! The writing is flawless, very evocative, and it drew me into the story almost from the start and kept me interested throughout.
I enjoyed the actual story as well, it surprised me how much I did! The chemistry between he hero and heroine is awesome, it bounces right off the pages. Lastly, the bunny who watches MTV is a nice little charming touch, and made me grin - I always like the inclusion of animals in Lynne Graham's books! Despite some details not being great, I did really like this one. Does deserve a better title though. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Okay going to try to keep this brief: I don't know whether I wasn't in the mood for this book or what, but I have to say that didn't like much about it when I thought I would have especially from the premise of the book.
Thought there would be more angst, more emotional intensity, more back and forth between the couple, and just something more raw and gripping, but that wasn't the case. I thought the whole him using her for his own gains would really establish the deep seated conflict between the Okay going to try to keep this brief: I don't know whether I wasn't in the mood for this book or what, but I have to say that didn't like much about it when I thought I would have especially from the premise of the book.
I thought the whole him using her for his own gains would really establish the deep seated conflict between them and have that emotional rawness and vulnerability to her that made her hurt so much and vowed she would not let Vitale hurt her like he did with his betrayal.
I thought would be the obstacle that he would have to overcome in trying to win her love and get that closeness that he would crave and just make this an emotional love story for them. I have to say, I didn't feel much of the love story aspect of this book, I felt more it was outside conflicts that were presented then addressed then resolved more than their internal conflict with one another. There just wasn't a lot of romance going on and not really a lot of relationship development in my opinion.
I thought there could be so much more and just show that intense emotional connection that they had with one another. But I got none of that really.
It really focused on the revenge aspect that Vitale insisted on inflicting on Zara's father by ruining her upcoming marriage to what her father believed to be an asset to his business and would help him along the way. Vitale pursued Zara by using her business to lure her to Italy where the attraction was there, but I didn't feel it as intense as I have in other books in the past. His sister had been the only person who had ever truly loved him. And the moment that he had worked towards for the better part of twenty years had finally arrived, for Blake looked to be on the brink of his greatest ever triumph.
If Vitale waited any longer his prey might well become untouchable as the father-in-law of so powerful a man as Sergios Demonides. Yet how had Blake contrived to catch a fish as big as Demonides in his net? Was she truly the sole attraction? Vitale had never let a woman come between him and his wits and would have assumed that Demonides had equal common sense.
His mouth curled with derision. If he ensured that the engagement was broken the business deal might well go belly up as well and he would bring down Monty Blake, who desperately needed a buyer.
Should not the punishment be made to fit the crime? This was not the time to be fastidious, he reflected harshly. He could not afford to respect such boundaries.
No, he only had one option: he would have to play dirty to punish the man who had abandoned his sister and her unborn child to their wretched fate. A man who had always enjoyed enormous success with women, Vitale studied his prey, Tinkerbelle.
His shapely mouth quirked. In his opinion she fell easily into the acceptable damage category. Undoubtedly she would regret the loss of so wealthy a catch as Demonides but Vitale imagined that, like her glossy mother, she had the hide of a rhinoceros and the heart of a stone and would bounce back very quickly from the disappointment. Although Bee was only marginally taller than her diminutive half sibling, and the two women had the same father, Bee was built on very different lines.
Monty had a third daughter called Tawny, the result of an extra-marital affair. Although she ha d met Sergios Demonides only once, her shrewd powers of observation, followed up by some careful Internet research on the Greek tycoon, had warned her that he was altogether too tough a proposition for her tenderhearted sister.
Demonides had a very bad reputation with women and he was equally renowned for his cold and calculating nature.
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