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The Barons #2
More Than a Mistress
He is her prize...but will she be his mistress?
Surely Travis Baron is a man for whom any woman would want to bid! Blisteringly handsome and immensely successful, the corporate lawyer is the possible heir to Espada, his father's sprawling ranch -- and he's up for grabs at a charity auction.
But when Alexandra Thorpe wins Travis for the weekend, she doesn't claim her prize. Why has the cool blond beauty staked thousands of dollars on Travis...and then just walked away? Travis is determined to pursue the lady who bought him, and exact his own price!
THE BARONS -- FOUR BROTHERS: BONDED BY INHERITANCE, BATTLING FOR LOVE!
Surely Travis Baron is a man for whom any woman would want to bid! Blisteringly handsome and immensely successful, the corporate lawyer is the possible heir to Espada, his father's sprawling ranch -- and he's up for grabs at a charity auction.
But when Alexandra Thorpe wins Travis for the weekend, she doesn't claim her prize. Why has the cool blond beauty staked thousands of dollars on Travis...and then just walked away? Travis is determined to pursue the lady who bought him, and exact his own price!
THE BARONS -- FOUR BROTHERS: BONDED BY INHERITANCE, BATTLING FOR LOVE!
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1999
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Sandra Marton
589 books540 followersI've been a writer, one way or another, all my life. Before I could read, I made up poems and my mom wrote them down for me. In elementary school, my teachers almost always let me write poems or stories instead of requiring me to do art projects. Always, I dreamed of becoming a published writer...and that dream came true! I write novels about sexy, powerful men and independent-minded women, and what happens when they find each other and fall in love. My books are sexy and romantic, and they've very often full of romantic suspense. I write the kinds of books I love to read, and I hope that makes my readers happy.
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May 16, 2019
Re More Than a Mistress - Sandra Marton continues her Baron's series, this one features the oldest misogynist Baron scion and a his pursuit of a socialite h.
This book is very non-pc. If you like the old skool "little lady" type chauvinistic H's of the 1970's, this will be right up your alley.
The h is a divorced heiress whose controlling and patronizing father married her off to an emotionally abusive, sadistic bully. When the h found her husband in bed with her supposed BFF, she finally had a reason for divorce and kicked him to the curb ASAP.
The vindictive ex and the ex BFF then spread it all about that the h was a frigid, spoilt, rich witch and the h happens to overhear two other socialite women repeating that remark at a charity event.
This spurs the h into glamming herself up and placing the winning bid on the H at a charity bachelor auction.
The H kinda got conned into participating, but his giant ego is expanded even further when the h pays $20,000 for him. The H and every other character in the story assumes the h is paying for the H to demonstrate his well known lady lurving skillz.
But after the h and H have a semi-public gropey roofie kissing moment and some sharp words about public decency , the embarrassed h pulls herself together and then leaves.
There is a bunch of sexist and patronizing H thoughts, while the h is ashamed of herself for acting like a tart. Then the H decides that he needs to force a lurve club event on the h, because how dare she buy him, be groped by him and then leave him hanging without a public banging.
The H shows up at the h's house, forces his way inside and the assaults her - only SM passes it off as eventual mutual forced seduction.
This leads to 9 chapters of the h being subjected to misogynistic tart shaming from the H-- when he isn't teaching the h to drive a high powered sports car and instigating all sorts of lurve club events.
There is more sequel baiting at the H's father's big party where we see glimpses of the other brother's story lines. SM finally realizes that she is going to have to do some major last minute rehab of the H's character, because aside from giving the h some purple passion climactic moments, this H is as abusive as the h's slime slurping ex-husband.
So SM pulls out the big guns and has the h become very ill with flu. Using the patented Penny Jordan Sponging ® techniques, the H spends five days demonstrating his caring side and soothing wiping techniques upon the h, who is falling in love with the H.
The h is finally comfortable sleeping with the H and thinks they are having a mutual relationship. Until the H tells his brother the h is only a bit more than a mistress and the h overhears and dumps him.
The h goes off to her vineyard, that the H was supposed to buy for his father, to have herself an unrequited love mopey moment. The H chases after in the middle of a bad storm and when he gets to the h's, he again forces his way in.
But this time the H declares he loves the h and he wants to marry her, the h declares her love back and agrees to be married. We leave the two of them happy and keeping the vineyard for their soon to be family, while we await the next Baron brother slated for HP bliss and the big HEA.
This book was just a Typhoon of Tackiness and I totally wasn't feelin' the love. I also had to frown upon the forced seduction events. But to be fair, I don't like most SM HP voyages anyways. If you like the old skool, semi cruel domineering H, this will be right in your wheelhouse.
The HEA is believable enough and it was a very nice job of H Redemptive Sponging ™ to get to the end of a mediocre HPlandia outing.
This book is very non-pc. If you like the old skool "little lady" type chauvinistic H's of the 1970's, this will be right up your alley.
The h is a divorced heiress whose controlling and patronizing father married her off to an emotionally abusive, sadistic bully. When the h found her husband in bed with her supposed BFF, she finally had a reason for divorce and kicked him to the curb ASAP.
The vindictive ex and the ex BFF then spread it all about that the h was a frigid, spoilt, rich witch and the h happens to overhear two other socialite women repeating that remark at a charity event.
This spurs the h into glamming herself up and placing the winning bid on the H at a charity bachelor auction.
The H kinda got conned into participating, but his giant ego is expanded even further when the h pays $20,000 for him. The H and every other character in the story assumes the h is paying for the H to demonstrate his well known lady lurving skillz.
But after the h and H have a semi-public gropey roofie kissing moment and some sharp words about public decency , the embarrassed h pulls herself together and then leaves.
There is a bunch of sexist and patronizing H thoughts, while the h is ashamed of herself for acting like a tart. Then the H decides that he needs to force a lurve club event on the h, because how dare she buy him, be groped by him and then leave him hanging without a public banging.
The H shows up at the h's house, forces his way inside and the assaults her - only SM passes it off as eventual mutual forced seduction.
This leads to 9 chapters of the h being subjected to misogynistic tart shaming from the H-- when he isn't teaching the h to drive a high powered sports car and instigating all sorts of lurve club events.
There is more sequel baiting at the H's father's big party where we see glimpses of the other brother's story lines. SM finally realizes that she is going to have to do some major last minute rehab of the H's character, because aside from giving the h some purple passion climactic moments, this H is as abusive as the h's slime slurping ex-husband.
So SM pulls out the big guns and has the h become very ill with flu. Using the patented Penny Jordan Sponging ® techniques, the H spends five days demonstrating his caring side and soothing wiping techniques upon the h, who is falling in love with the H.
The h is finally comfortable sleeping with the H and thinks they are having a mutual relationship. Until the H tells his brother the h is only a bit more than a mistress and the h overhears and dumps him.
The h goes off to her vineyard, that the H was supposed to buy for his father, to have herself an unrequited love mopey moment. The H chases after in the middle of a bad storm and when he gets to the h's, he again forces his way in.
But this time the H declares he loves the h and he wants to marry her, the h declares her love back and agrees to be married. We leave the two of them happy and keeping the vineyard for their soon to be family, while we await the next Baron brother slated for HP bliss and the big HEA.
This book was just a Typhoon of Tackiness and I totally wasn't feelin' the love. I also had to frown upon the forced seduction events. But to be fair, I don't like most SM HP voyages anyways. If you like the old skool, semi cruel domineering H, this will be right in your wheelhouse.
The HEA is believable enough and it was a very nice job of H Redemptive Sponging ™ to get to the end of a mediocre HPlandia outing.
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May 21, 2016
Once again I was annoyed, first by the first novel of The Baron series and second by the second book. I almost want to give up and throw in the towel on this series. I've read a few books out of the series which I haven't reviewed yet and found them lacking. The hero annoyed me to no end, he seemed to think that because he was a Baron and heroine was a woman, that she would want him and fall into his bed easily. It really made me detest him and men in the real world who are like him! Now the heroine actually believed that this behavior was politically correct and shows interest in him. *barfs* I wasn't amused!
May 3, 2015
This book has one of my least favorite kinds of heroes. The guy who takes one look at the beautiful heroine and is certain that she desires him, as much as he desires her. Given his certainty about her interest in him sexually, he begins throwing out the most god_awful pick-up lines. Things like “You need me and I need you. And I promise you, we’ll satisfy our needs before the night ends.” Instead of the heroine being turned-off or freaked-out or just amused by such obnoxiousness, she is actually turned-on. PLEASE!!!
My second problem with this book is the way it portrays the heroine’s ex-husband. Apparently, they split up because she was frigid in bed. He, of course, informed his new wife of this and she promptly spread the news around the social circles that Alexandra inhabits. I can buy this as a legitimate plot devise to send the heroine to bachelor auction looking for a stud. What I can’t buy is how later in the book, when Travis is trying to convince Alexandra to get her kink on in the bedroom, she admits to feeling uncomfortable because her ex’ had always told her it wasn’t ladylike to do certain sexual things. This seems like a raging contradiction to me. Did the ex’ dump Alexandra because she was frigid or did he keep her frigid on purpose??!?
The book manages to earn three stars because Alexandra eventually gets her act together and stands up to the hero treating her like a disposable girlfriend, but this definitely isn’t something I’m ever going to pick up again.
My second problem with this book is the way it portrays the heroine’s ex-husband. Apparently, they split up because she was frigid in bed. He, of course, informed his new wife of this and she promptly spread the news around the social circles that Alexandra inhabits. I can buy this as a legitimate plot devise to send the heroine to bachelor auction looking for a stud. What I can’t buy is how later in the book, when Travis is trying to convince Alexandra to get her kink on in the bedroom, she admits to feeling uncomfortable because her ex’ had always told her it wasn’t ladylike to do certain sexual things. This seems like a raging contradiction to me. Did the ex’ dump Alexandra because she was frigid or did he keep her frigid on purpose??!?
The book manages to earn three stars because Alexandra eventually gets her act together and stands up to the hero treating her like a disposable girlfriend, but this definitely isn’t something I’m ever going to pick up again.
July 12, 2024
It was better than Gage and Slade's books, but I still didn't like it.
The heroine was ok, I didn't like how cold and judgey she was though. How she looked down on hero because she thought he was just a cowboy. She wasn't bad though once she wasn't so uptight and combative at all times.
The hero was not my favorite. I did not like how much of a manwhore he was, he saw multiple women at the same time (he thought of 2 women he was seeing and thinking who he could call to buy him at the auction). He kind of forced himself on heroine (she gave in after he kissed her) and after sleeping with him when she came to her senses she kicked him out and then he questioned how many other men she had slept with. Conviently forgetting that she left him the night before never planning to see him again, then he barged into her house, chased her around her house and seduced her.
They didn't see each other for 2 weeks, he didn't sleep with other women, but at his father's birthday party he made out with another woman (his father said he didn't look like he was enjoying it).
After they reunited at her vineyard (his father sent him to look into buying it from her) the story was ok. Np.
The heroine was ok, I didn't like how cold and judgey she was though. How she looked down on hero because she thought he was just a cowboy. She wasn't bad though once she wasn't so uptight and combative at all times.
The hero was not my favorite. I did not like how much of a manwhore he was, he saw multiple women at the same time (he thought of 2 women he was seeing and thinking who he could call to buy him at the auction). He kind of forced himself on heroine (she gave in after he kissed her) and after sleeping with him when she came to her senses she kicked him out and then he questioned how many other men she had slept with. Conviently forgetting that she left him the night before never planning to see him again, then he barged into her house, chased her around her house and seduced her.
They didn't see each other for 2 weeks, he didn't sleep with other women, but at his father's birthday party he made out with another woman (his father said he didn't look like he was enjoying it).
After they reunited at her vineyard (his father sent him to look into buying it from her) the story was ok. Np.
December 20, 2025
Marton’s going 2 for 2 so far in this series. Loved this book. And just like its predecessor, it’s going on my keeper shelf. I just adore when the hero is OTT crazy about the heroine and tries to bluster to himself about it but it’s so obvious to even a blind man. Lol!
October 24, 2023
I guess that was a book....but not really a good one. Skip, nothing is going on, not interesting.
July 17, 2013
I've read this way back but decided to try again last night. I must say I like it better now, maybe because I'm more mature and can relate more (I think I was in high scholl when I first read this LOL).
October 7, 2015
Travis and Alex are one magnetic pair, though somewhere i could not understand why she was continuously denying the attraction between the both...
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