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The Greek Tycoon's Unwilling Wife
He thought she was his mistress...
Recuperating on his private Greek island after a car crash, Andreas Petrakos had no memory of the previous year. The last thing he remembered was his passionate affair with beautiful Rebecca Ainsworth.
...when, actually, she was his wife!
Becca returned to the island because Andreas asked for her. But she had to hide the truth. What would happen when Andreas recalled throwing Becca out―on their wedding day―for a reason only he knew?
Recuperating on his private Greek island after a car crash, Andreas Petrakos had no memory of the previous year. The last thing he remembered was his passionate affair with beautiful Rebecca Ainsworth.
...when, actually, she was his wife!
Becca returned to the island because Andreas asked for her. But she had to hide the truth. What would happen when Andreas recalled throwing Becca out―on their wedding day―for a reason only he knew?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 2007
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About the author
Kate Walker
496 books148 followersI was born in Nottinghamshire, England, but I didn't live there for very long. The family moved to West Yorkshire when I was just eighteen months old and so I have always regarded Yorkshire as my home. I grew up there as the middle child in a family of five—all girls—in a home where books were vitally important and I read anything I could get my hands on.
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
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December 24, 2019
This is so worthless. Boy, I really hope the author doesn't read this. I know I've read some of her other stuff, but this was terrible.
The heroine was a blithering idiot who couldn't get two words out and when she did they were stupid lies. The hero, ha, was a cruel jackass who, well, let's say that he raised the level of cruelty and rage to a new level. These two raise the stakes on one dimensional and annoying H and h. That's saying something for a Harlequin.
No evidence of love is seen between the two not even in flashback. All you see is evidence of lust which is not a bad thing but not in this venue.
The heroine was a blithering idiot who couldn't get two words out and when she did they were stupid lies. The hero, ha, was a cruel jackass who, well, let's say that he raised the level of cruelty and rage to a new level. These two raise the stakes on one dimensional and annoying H and h. That's saying something for a Harlequin.
No evidence of love is seen between the two not even in flashback. All you see is evidence of lust which is not a bad thing but not in this venue.
April 15, 2017
This book was absolute rubbish. Rubbish characters, rubbish plot, rubbish story progression, and rubbish resolution. Almost half the book was the first scene. I was so close to DNFing this book because it moved sooo slow. But how convenient that every issue was solved in the last chapter and in the most simplified and ridiculous way. Rubbish.
November 14, 2008
Kate Walker has yet again charmed her readers and fans with The Greek Tycoon's Unwilling Wife. Andreas Petrakos is not only proud, he's sexy, rich, brooding, headstrong, angry and on top of this, he's suffering from amnesia, bruises which he's received in a recent car accident. What this demanding Greek wants is his wife to nurse him, a wife he so hurtfully sent away a year ago on their wedding night!
A little over a year ago, Becca was sent home on the eve of her wedding, shorting after their marriage was consummated. As she was protecting her sister, she was unable to give an explanation to her new husband, one he would forgive! While I thought Becca sweet, I wanted to shake her.......why? Because she was so weak in standing up for herself, so weak with the love she felt for this proud man, it broke my heart! I also wanted to shake Andreas, make him see how much this lovely woman adored and loved him.
However, this is one of those books once you begin reading it you absolutely can't put it down! I'm truly amazed at how Kate, time and time again brings "freshness" to her stories, never letting her readers down.
You will love The Greek's Tycoon's Unwilling Wife. Keep tissues close by, you're going to need them!
Book Description
He thought she was his mistress...
Recuperating on his private Greek island after a car crash, Andreas Petrakos had no memory of the previous year. The last thing he remembered was his passionate affair with beautiful Rebecca Ainsworth.
...when, actually, she was his wife!
Becca returned to the island because Andreas asked for her. But she had to hide the truth. What would happen when Andreas recalled throwing Becca out—on their wedding day—for a reason only he knew?
A little over a year ago, Becca was sent home on the eve of her wedding, shorting after their marriage was consummated. As she was protecting her sister, she was unable to give an explanation to her new husband, one he would forgive! While I thought Becca sweet, I wanted to shake her.......why? Because she was so weak in standing up for herself, so weak with the love she felt for this proud man, it broke my heart! I also wanted to shake Andreas, make him see how much this lovely woman adored and loved him.
However, this is one of those books once you begin reading it you absolutely can't put it down! I'm truly amazed at how Kate, time and time again brings "freshness" to her stories, never letting her readers down.
You will love The Greek's Tycoon's Unwilling Wife. Keep tissues close by, you're going to need them!
Book Description
He thought she was his mistress...
Recuperating on his private Greek island after a car crash, Andreas Petrakos had no memory of the previous year. The last thing he remembered was his passionate affair with beautiful Rebecca Ainsworth.
...when, actually, she was his wife!
Becca returned to the island because Andreas asked for her. But she had to hide the truth. What would happen when Andreas recalled throwing Becca out—on their wedding day—for a reason only he knew?
September 6, 2011
Hero was the west end of a east bound turkey!!!!!! This books writing style...not to my taste. To many rehashes of one particular day taking place, it seemed the book was filled with it. Tell me what happened once......then move on.
March 26, 2012
This was just a bad book. It was a story that just never pulled me in...the H has lost some of his memory and doesn't remember marrying her, but he is rude and crude at every turn while she acts like a complete ninny all of the silly premise that she is trying to get money for her sick niece. He is a jerk, she is just lame, and the story just never makes good!
January 3, 2012
★★★½✩ Why am I always a sucker for an amnesia plot? It is a sickness, I tell you. (Mine, not the character's, in case you had any doubt.)
November 6, 2013
This one is monumentally bad. From the cover I cannot even blame it as an old school harlequin that features relatively weakminded h that will spasm on the floor in a pool of desire when the H so much as walk into the room.
The desire I guess I can even tolerate. What I cannot stand is her stupidity. I cannot understand what the H sees in her. She vies from oh yes kiss me to oh no must think of the niece then oh don't want to think of anything but the bed even when thinking that the H didn't love her stopped her before. Ok I can even talk myself into understanding this grand passion making her unable to think clearly, what I loath about her is her ill logic and penchant to play little childish games, like bluffing to leave and being smug about the H's reaction and getting all smart mouthed in the most serious conversation when it is pretty obvious all she needs to do is just dish out the truth.
I also don't understand her stubbornness in disclosing the so called "secret". Not only does this undermine the depth of the relationship (like she doesn't trust him?), it's so stupid a "misunderstanding" that I just think she totally should be dumped. What does she expect him to do once armed with this totally insignificant knowledge? He's living 5 countries or so away and doesn't even know and I doubt care much about the parties to this secret. He also doesn't have anything to gain at all if he goes about telling anyone and seriously who cares about this other than the parties to the secret anyways? I cannot figure out her logic (listening to an apparently immature and not even close relation). For a while there I thought the sister was party to the scam the first time, which makes total sense to me considering how tstl the h is.
The stars are for the H mostly as I think it's incredible that he'll still want her back considering all the immature and stupid things she'd said and done. Of course he's had his tstl moment when he didn't actually confront her with what he's got, but I can understand his pride and feelings are hurt and couldn't bare to be humiliated, plus if the h had come clean as she should have done right off the bat, there won't even be this story happening and written, and I would have thanked god for that. 3-40 pages in, I already cannot wait for the book to end (cannot dnf it due to my infernal ocd unfortunately, plus I'm curious to see the H's perspective). The other star is for the ending. I like both parties' desire to let bygones be bygones and start anew despite all the acrimony, this speaks a lot of their feelings for each other (though both often insisted it's lust).
By the end of the book I realized I've read it before though I didn't remember being so impatient to get this over with (checking progress often and cheering myself along to get this torture over with). Maybe I'm just in a bad mood with all the stress in rl.
The desire I guess I can even tolerate. What I cannot stand is her stupidity. I cannot understand what the H sees in her. She vies from oh yes kiss me to oh no must think of the niece then oh don't want to think of anything but the bed even when thinking that the H didn't love her stopped her before. Ok I can even talk myself into understanding this grand passion making her unable to think clearly, what I loath about her is her ill logic and penchant to play little childish games, like bluffing to leave and being smug about the H's reaction and getting all smart mouthed in the most serious conversation when it is pretty obvious all she needs to do is just dish out the truth.
I also don't understand her stubbornness in disclosing the so called "secret". Not only does this undermine the depth of the relationship (like she doesn't trust him?), it's so stupid a "misunderstanding" that I just think she totally should be dumped. What does she expect him to do once armed with this totally insignificant knowledge? He's living 5 countries or so away and doesn't even know and I doubt care much about the parties to this secret. He also doesn't have anything to gain at all if he goes about telling anyone and seriously who cares about this other than the parties to the secret anyways? I cannot figure out her logic (listening to an apparently immature and not even close relation). For a while there I thought the sister was party to the scam the first time, which makes total sense to me considering how tstl the h is.
The stars are for the H mostly as I think it's incredible that he'll still want her back considering all the immature and stupid things she'd said and done. Of course he's had his tstl moment when he didn't actually confront her with what he's got, but I can understand his pride and feelings are hurt and couldn't bare to be humiliated, plus if the h had come clean as she should have done right off the bat, there won't even be this story happening and written, and I would have thanked god for that. 3-40 pages in, I already cannot wait for the book to end (cannot dnf it due to my infernal ocd unfortunately, plus I'm curious to see the H's perspective). The other star is for the ending. I like both parties' desire to let bygones be bygones and start anew despite all the acrimony, this speaks a lot of their feelings for each other (though both often insisted it's lust).
By the end of the book I realized I've read it before though I didn't remember being so impatient to get this over with (checking progress often and cheering myself along to get this torture over with). Maybe I'm just in a bad mood with all the stress in rl.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 14, 2016
After a car accident, Becca is called back to Greece to come see her estranged husband. After not seeing him for a year she doesn't know what he could possibly want with her but when she realizes that he has lost the memory of their separation she doesn't know how she's going to keep her love for him a secret.
Becca is a charming main character and her memories of her time with Andreas are very heart-wrenching and her character is really easy to identify with. At first, Andreas seems totally over the top and angry but when his thoughts and feelings are shown, we get to see a side of him that has just been hurt and is trying to protect himself.
I really enjoyed the buildup of the book but I found that the ending and resolution of the book was a little too tied together. A lot of the explanations were too simple for me and while I did predict it would end the way it did, some of the reactions seemed a little unrealistic. Even though I didn't particularly like how the book resolved the conflict I thought it was understandable because it is a Harlequin novel so those simple plots are a given. I did enjoy the book for what it was though.
While I wouldn't say this was a bad book and I did enjoy reading it, I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend this book to someone either. It was a nice quick read though so I enjoyed it from that aspect.
Becca is a charming main character and her memories of her time with Andreas are very heart-wrenching and her character is really easy to identify with. At first, Andreas seems totally over the top and angry but when his thoughts and feelings are shown, we get to see a side of him that has just been hurt and is trying to protect himself.
I really enjoyed the buildup of the book but I found that the ending and resolution of the book was a little too tied together. A lot of the explanations were too simple for me and while I did predict it would end the way it did, some of the reactions seemed a little unrealistic. Even though I didn't particularly like how the book resolved the conflict I thought it was understandable because it is a Harlequin novel so those simple plots are a given. I did enjoy the book for what it was though.
While I wouldn't say this was a bad book and I did enjoy reading it, I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend this book to someone either. It was a nice quick read though so I enjoyed it from that aspect.
March 5, 2017
This is the kind of reunion romance I love. Andreas Petrakos doesn't remember throwing out his wife on the day of their wedding a year ago. Yet she was the first person he asked for when he woke up after an accident.
Rebecca was never sure exactly why Andreas suddenly turned against her and she doubts the information that Andreas was asking for her. But she needs help for her baby niece and while he promised he would never give her love, she could have money for the asking.
I really enjoyed this story and the emotional roller coaster ride. The ending is very satisfying.
Rebecca was never sure exactly why Andreas suddenly turned against her and she doubts the information that Andreas was asking for her. But she needs help for her baby niece and while he promised he would never give her love, she could have money for the asking.
I really enjoyed this story and the emotional roller coaster ride. The ending is very satisfying.
February 25, 2014
It was alright. I just couldn't fathom the premise at all. He gets mad at her after their wedding night for a stupid reason when all's he had to do was ask her and show her the photographs in the first place. Then there would be no reason for this book. It just seemed silly. And I love my Alpha males. But this just didn't make any sense whatsoever.
June 29, 2011
spectacularly bad book
May 10, 2013
This book made me want to scream, what a load of tosh.
July 2, 2013
becca is stupid, pathetic and 2 dramatic.
August 21, 2021
I normally enjoy this trope. The writing and the editing were good. It was the storyline that gave me some problems. The h just finds out that she has a half sister and puts her needs above those of her finance/husband. So he is loved enough to marry but not to trust??? She give a vast sum of money to save new half sister but refuses to discuss it with husband. Yet she now seeks even more money for newly discovered half sister and has yet to inform her husband of her family and their needs!!!
The H feels deeply for the h...but believes the sister's ex's lies and throws her out. Trust??
After the accident, the h arrives to care for the H...and to get even more money from him to save a family member she has still failed to discuss. Communicate people!
The H feels deeply for the h...but believes the sister's ex's lies and throws her out. Trust??
After the accident, the h arrives to care for the H...and to get even more money from him to save a family member she has still failed to discuss. Communicate people!
September 22, 2023
This is not good, one star.
Despite the amnesia trope, and the Greek setting.
The heroine is an idiot, keeping unnecessary and stupid secrets from a husband who should have asked some obvious questions before banishing her.
They deserve each other, and if they can keep each other happy it saves another man and woman from getting involved with them.
Despite the amnesia trope, and the Greek setting.
The heroine is an idiot, keeping unnecessary and stupid secrets from a husband who should have asked some obvious questions before banishing her.
They deserve each other, and if they can keep each other happy it saves another man and woman from getting involved with them.
January 15, 2021
This had very little story and lots of sex. Not my cup of tea, skimmed.
February 12, 2021
Boring so so boring
June 30, 2022
Good book
I know a book is good when it gives me a head ache. Lies told, stubborn Greeks that know best. Read this and give yourself a head ache.
I know a book is good when it gives me a head ache. Lies told, stubborn Greeks that know best. Read this and give yourself a head ache.
February 23, 2024
Hero is emotionally abusive AH in need of anger management therapy for 80% of this book. The addictive angst is not worth it. Save yourselves.
June 3, 2021
Andreas Petrakos is not only proud, he's sexy, rich, brooding, headstrong, angry and on top of this, he's suffering from amnesia, bruises which he's received in a recent car accident. What this demanding Greek wants is his wife to nurse him, a wife he so hurtfully sent away a year ago on their wedding night!
A little over a year ago, Becca was sent home on the eve of her wedding, shorting after their marriage was consummated. As she was protecting her sister, she was unable to give an explanation to her new husband, one he would forgive! While I thought Becca sweet, I wanted to shake her.......why? Because she was so weak in standing up for herself, so weak with the love she felt for this proud man, it broke my heart! I also wanted to shake Andreas, make him see how much this lovely woman adored and loved him.
However, this is one of those books once you begin reading it you absolutely can't put it down! I'm truly amazed at how Kate, time and time again brings "freshness" to her stories, never letting her readers down.
You will love The Greek's Tycoon's Unwilling Wife. Keep tissues close by, you're going to need them!
Book Description
He thought she was his mistress...
Recuperating on his private Greek island after a car crash, Andreas Petrakos had no memory of the previous year. The last thing he remembered was his passionate affair with beautiful Rebecca Ainsworth.
...when, actually, she was his wife!
Becca returned to the island because Andreas asked for her. But she had to hide the truth. What would happen when Andreas recalled throwing Becca out—on their wedding day—for a reason only he knew?
A little over a year ago, Becca was sent home on the eve of her wedding, shorting after their marriage was consummated. As she was protecting her sister, she was unable to give an explanation to her new husband, one he would forgive! While I thought Becca sweet, I wanted to shake her.......why? Because she was so weak in standing up for herself, so weak with the love she felt for this proud man, it broke my heart! I also wanted to shake Andreas, make him see how much this lovely woman adored and loved him.
However, this is one of those books once you begin reading it you absolutely can't put it down! I'm truly amazed at how Kate, time and time again brings "freshness" to her stories, never letting her readers down.
You will love The Greek's Tycoon's Unwilling Wife. Keep tissues close by, you're going to need them!
Book Description
He thought she was his mistress...
Recuperating on his private Greek island after a car crash, Andreas Petrakos had no memory of the previous year. The last thing he remembered was his passionate affair with beautiful Rebecca Ainsworth.
...when, actually, she was his wife!
Becca returned to the island because Andreas asked for her. But she had to hide the truth. What would happen when Andreas recalled throwing Becca out—on their wedding day—for a reason only he knew?
July 15, 2021
The Greek Tycoon's Unwilling Wife
After their marriage he kicked her out. But she didn't understand why. Now a year later she has to go to him. She needs help. Will he be willing? He was in an accident and has lost his memory. He remembers her but not the marriage. This story has many twists and turns. There had been lies told and believed. Now they have been given time to unravel the mystery.
After their marriage he kicked her out. But she didn't understand why. Now a year later she has to go to him. She needs help. Will he be willing? He was in an accident and has lost his memory. He remembers her but not the marriage. This story has many twists and turns. There had been lies told and believed. Now they have been given time to unravel the mystery.
August 12, 2014
A wonderful charming read.....once again misunderstandings & jealousy bring down a new love & marriage which could have been the end....but the hero suffers an accident & they are given a second chance. A well done read.....you come to understand their pain: in his reject of her love & his belief in her affair which is a rejection of his love.
July 14, 2013
WTF Andreas is a jerk and she just let it go way too easily. That was a dysfunctional relationship from the beginning. More importantly she could have explained Roy immediately after he asked not hesitated. Would have made the story much much shorter.
October 4, 2015
I liked it but I wished the ending had more to it.
September 3, 2013
4.5. intriquing
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