Cap. 178 - Série Wives Wanted - Miranda Lee
Pra variar, mais uma série que começa do fim... *Pelo menos, eu não encontrei os outros dois. Se alguém tiver notícias, me manda, por favor?*
Procurando você - Miranda Lee - Jessica 26
(A scandalous marriage - 2004 - Mills & Boon)
personagens: Natalie Fairlane e Mike Stone
Mike tem um mês pra se casar, se quiser garantir um contrato financeiro muito vantajoso para a sua empresa. Ele era o último homem no planeta a querer se casar. Por isso, decidiu encontrar uma mulher que topasse representar a "sua esposa" pela possibilidade de ganhar um bom dinheiro com isso. Natalie, a chefe da agência Wives Wanted, não era do tipo interesseiro. Só que o dinheiro cairia bem para ajudar a sua mãe a pagar umas contas. E ela aceitou a proposta. Só não imaginava que seria tão difícil resistir ao marido de mentira... E muito menos à tentação de que ele reconsidere a possibilidade e transforme o casamento em verdadeiro.
Curiosidade:
- Este é o terceiro livro da série - e não achei os outros anteriores em Português, as histórias de Reece e Richard.
Segundo pesquisinha rápida na Internet, os outros livros são:
# 1, Richard's story, "Bought: One Bride."
Heroine not strong at all, September 16, 2005Reviewer:E. Lynch "romance book fanatic" (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
Holly has worked in her father's floral shop since she was fifteen. Low pay, six days a week, no partnership in the business. She has been doing this for eleven years and she wants to say her stepmother is the villain? What about the nine years she put in before her father died - he seems just as much to blame! Is Holly just plain stupid? I hate when there is just total "roll over and die" attitude in a woman. She should just gotten on with her life WAY before this! But then there would be no story! Our hero, Richard, a rather egotistical millionaire figures all women are gold diggers including his cheating (now dead) wife and has that theory confirmed by the women he dates from the matchmaker "Wives Wanted." An interesting concept, this unique dating service matches wealthy men with attractive sophisticated women with marriages of convenience in mind. I'm not sure what he expected ... but .... then Richard meets pitiful Holly who happens to be friends with his widowed mother. A couple of fancy dates, fantastic sex and the threat of losing her livelihood by the selling of the flower shop leads Holly to say YES to his marriage proposal. And later HE gets angry cause she is marrying him for his money??? Oh please!!! OK for a quick read. This is the first of a trilogy. You meet the two other men and one is already married to his "bought wife" even though his story is the second one. It is ok but I wish Holly had been stronger and Richard less manipulative. Judged against similar books, it holds its own. Oh, I forgot -- of course there is a pregnancy at the end -- my sympathetic morning sickness is returning again.
# 2, Reece's story: "The Tycoon's Trophy Wife."
Reece knew that Alanna would make the perfect trophy wife! Stunning and sophisticated, she wanted nothing more than a marriage of convenience. And that was fine by Reece! But suddenly, their comfortable life together was turned upside down when Reece discovered that his wife had a dark past. But, he realized, he wasn't prepared to lose Alanna - even if the only thing they shared was passion...
Óbvio que eu vou sair à caça dos outros dois...
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Procurando você - Miranda Lee - Jessica 26
(A scandalous marriage - 2004 - Mills & Boon)
personagens: Natalie Fairlane e Mike Stone
Mike tem um mês pra se casar, se quiser garantir um contrato financeiro muito vantajoso para a sua empresa. Ele era o último homem no planeta a querer se casar. Por isso, decidiu encontrar uma mulher que topasse representar a "sua esposa" pela possibilidade de ganhar um bom dinheiro com isso. Natalie, a chefe da agência Wives Wanted, não era do tipo interesseiro. Só que o dinheiro cairia bem para ajudar a sua mãe a pagar umas contas. E ela aceitou a proposta. Só não imaginava que seria tão difícil resistir ao marido de mentira... E muito menos à tentação de que ele reconsidere a possibilidade e transforme o casamento em verdadeiro.
Curiosidade:
- Este é o terceiro livro da série - e não achei os outros anteriores em Português, as histórias de Reece e Richard.
Segundo pesquisinha rápida na Internet, os outros livros são:
# 1, Richard's story, "Bought: One Bride."
Heroine not strong at all, September 16, 2005Reviewer:E. Lynch "romance book fanatic" (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
Holly has worked in her father's floral shop since she was fifteen. Low pay, six days a week, no partnership in the business. She has been doing this for eleven years and she wants to say her stepmother is the villain? What about the nine years she put in before her father died - he seems just as much to blame! Is Holly just plain stupid? I hate when there is just total "roll over and die" attitude in a woman. She should just gotten on with her life WAY before this! But then there would be no story! Our hero, Richard, a rather egotistical millionaire figures all women are gold diggers including his cheating (now dead) wife and has that theory confirmed by the women he dates from the matchmaker "Wives Wanted." An interesting concept, this unique dating service matches wealthy men with attractive sophisticated women with marriages of convenience in mind. I'm not sure what he expected ... but .... then Richard meets pitiful Holly who happens to be friends with his widowed mother. A couple of fancy dates, fantastic sex and the threat of losing her livelihood by the selling of the flower shop leads Holly to say YES to his marriage proposal. And later HE gets angry cause she is marrying him for his money??? Oh please!!! OK for a quick read. This is the first of a trilogy. You meet the two other men and one is already married to his "bought wife" even though his story is the second one. It is ok but I wish Holly had been stronger and Richard less manipulative. Judged against similar books, it holds its own. Oh, I forgot -- of course there is a pregnancy at the end -- my sympathetic morning sickness is returning again.
# 2, Reece's story: "The Tycoon's Trophy Wife."
Reece knew that Alanna would make the perfect trophy wife! Stunning and sophisticated, she wanted nothing more than a marriage of convenience. And that was fine by Reece! But suddenly, their comfortable life together was turned upside down when Reece discovered that his wife had a dark past. But, he realized, he wasn't prepared to lose Alanna - even if the only thing they shared was passion...
Óbvio que eu vou sair à caça dos outros dois...
Beijos
Beta
