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The Greek's Acquisition
When dealing with the devil...It's taken years for the Dimitri-Kalakos-sized hole in Louise Frobisher's heart to heal. Yet now she has to face him once again - she needs the ruthless magnate's financial help...but absolutely nothing more! Be prepared to play with fire! Louise is offering the one thing Dimitri thought his money couldn't buy: the Greek island that should be his! She thinks she can ...
192 pages, ebook
First published September 1, 2012
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Chantelle Shaw
662 books158 followersI grew up without a TV, let alone DVD’s, computer games etc that my kids spend so much time engrossed in, but I learned to read at an early age and from then on I was always entertained – so much so that my friends used to hide their books when I visited them because all I wanted to do was read!
When I was a teenager I discovered Mills & Boon romances in my local library, and so began a lifelong love affair. I still remember that feeling of anticipation when I settled down with a pile of books - all bearing the famous rose logo - knowing that I would be drawn into a world of love, passion and emotional intensity that I have never found in any other books. I enjoy reading a wide range of books, especially historical novels, and I am a big fan of Agatha Christie, mainly I think because her characters seem so real, but I love romances and unashamedly admit that I only want to read books with a guaranteed happy ending. Reading is my joy and pleasure and I don’t want to cry buckets at the end of a book or have my sleep disturbed by its gruesome content.
For me, the characters in Harlequin Mills & Boon romances are the key. I love reading and writing about strong, alpha heroes and feisty, independent heroines who find that they can’t fight the blazing attraction between them.
When I married my own tall, dark, but sadly not wealthy hero, we moved out of London to the Kent coast and started a family that grew and grew. I adore my six children, and when they were small I loved being a stay-at-home mum, but there can be days, as I’m sure many of you know, when you feel isolated and – dare I say it – bored of conversing with three-year-olds. Harlequin Mills & Boon romances were my life-line and my sanity and I read them whenever I had a spare five minutes (in the bath, pacing the floor at three am with colicky baby on one shoulder and a book in the other hand!)
My imagination soared and I decided to try and write a book myself. My first attempt was typed up on a manual type-writer with the full-stop key and the letter p missing. Luckily my hero and heroine were not called Paul and Poppy, but it still meant going over my manuscript with a pen to fill in the gaps!
That first book was duly rejected as were my next two. I suppose I was disheartened and by now I had four small children and very little spare time, so although I continued to read romances, I gave up writing. It wasn’t until my youngest son started school that I tried writing again. I was struggling to come to terms with the death of my darling mum Gabrielle and writing became my therapy. Mum had always nagged me to get on and write a book and had an unshakeable belief that I would one day be published – I’m so glad that she was proved right and my biggest regret is that she isn’t here to share my success with me.
I wrote two more books which were both rejected by HM&B, but I was given some advice on my writing from the editorial team that encouraged me to try again. Third time lucky certainly applied to me – the day I received ‘the call’ was exactly four years after Mum had died. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life - but instead of chatting to the editor about contracts I had to dash off and pick my sick daughter up from school. Reality is never far away in my house!
I have now had nine books published - At the Sheikh's Bidding was released in September 08. My next book, Argentinian Playboy, Unexpected Love-Child will be out in the UK in July 09, and The Greek Billionaire's Innocent Princess in the UK in August 09. I have just had my twelfth book accepted and am already busy on my thirteenth. Now that my children are growing up I am able to write every day between 9 am and 3 pm, but often I become so involved with my characters that I sneak off to write again in the evening!
I feel I must be one of the luckiest people in the world to be doing something that I love, but I work hard at my luck and I believe that w
When I was a teenager I discovered Mills & Boon romances in my local library, and so began a lifelong love affair. I still remember that feeling of anticipation when I settled down with a pile of books - all bearing the famous rose logo - knowing that I would be drawn into a world of love, passion and emotional intensity that I have never found in any other books. I enjoy reading a wide range of books, especially historical novels, and I am a big fan of Agatha Christie, mainly I think because her characters seem so real, but I love romances and unashamedly admit that I only want to read books with a guaranteed happy ending. Reading is my joy and pleasure and I don’t want to cry buckets at the end of a book or have my sleep disturbed by its gruesome content.
For me, the characters in Harlequin Mills & Boon romances are the key. I love reading and writing about strong, alpha heroes and feisty, independent heroines who find that they can’t fight the blazing attraction between them.
When I married my own tall, dark, but sadly not wealthy hero, we moved out of London to the Kent coast and started a family that grew and grew. I adore my six children, and when they were small I loved being a stay-at-home mum, but there can be days, as I’m sure many of you know, when you feel isolated and – dare I say it – bored of conversing with three-year-olds. Harlequin Mills & Boon romances were my life-line and my sanity and I read them whenever I had a spare five minutes (in the bath, pacing the floor at three am with colicky baby on one shoulder and a book in the other hand!)
My imagination soared and I decided to try and write a book myself. My first attempt was typed up on a manual type-writer with the full-stop key and the letter p missing. Luckily my hero and heroine were not called Paul and Poppy, but it still meant going over my manuscript with a pen to fill in the gaps!
That first book was duly rejected as were my next two. I suppose I was disheartened and by now I had four small children and very little spare time, so although I continued to read romances, I gave up writing. It wasn’t until my youngest son started school that I tried writing again. I was struggling to come to terms with the death of my darling mum Gabrielle and writing became my therapy. Mum had always nagged me to get on and write a book and had an unshakeable belief that I would one day be published – I’m so glad that she was proved right and my biggest regret is that she isn’t here to share my success with me.
I wrote two more books which were both rejected by HM&B, but I was given some advice on my writing from the editorial team that encouraged me to try again. Third time lucky certainly applied to me – the day I received ‘the call’ was exactly four years after Mum had died. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life - but instead of chatting to the editor about contracts I had to dash off and pick my sick daughter up from school. Reality is never far away in my house!
I have now had nine books published - At the Sheikh's Bidding was released in September 08. My next book, Argentinian Playboy, Unexpected Love-Child will be out in the UK in July 09, and The Greek Billionaire's Innocent Princess in the UK in August 09. I have just had my twelfth book accepted and am already busy on my thirteenth. Now that my children are growing up I am able to write every day between 9 am and 3 pm, but often I become so involved with my characters that I sneak off to write again in the evening!
I feel I must be one of the luckiest people in the world to be doing something that I love, but I work hard at my luck and I believe that w
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January 30, 2018
Heroine is desperate for money. She needs them for her terminally ill mother. The only man who can help her is the man who broke her heart seven years ago: sexy Greek tycoon Dimitri Kalakos. He agrees to give her the money but only if she becomes his mistress for two weeks. Louise accepts his crazy proposal but they find themselves falling in love with one another all over again.
Chantelle Shaw is a great writer. Her books are romantic, steamy and always heart wrenching. I loved the angst, the passion and the sweet HEA. I loved that hero was heroine’s first and only lover. Hero was a notorious playboy but oh so sexy!
Chantelle Shaw is a great writer. Her books are romantic, steamy and always heart wrenching. I loved the angst, the passion and the sweet HEA. I loved that hero was heroine’s first and only lover. Hero was a notorious playboy but oh so sexy!
July 6, 2017
Good but predictable
February 14, 2013
3.5 stars
The story is good but too predictable, too familiar. Same old plot. A helpless h in immediate need of money to save her dying mother, an arrogant H who thinks she is a gold-digger, a blackmail, the big question : to be a mistress or not to be. What make things more complicated is that Louise' mother was Dimitri's father's mistress who broke his family apart. Also Louise and Dimitri had an affair 7 y ago that ended badly.
The story is good but too predictable, too familiar. Same old plot. A helpless h in immediate need of money to save her dying mother, an arrogant H who thinks she is a gold-digger, a blackmail, the big question : to be a mistress or not to be. What make things more complicated is that Louise' mother was Dimitri's father's mistress who broke his family apart. Also Louise and Dimitri had an affair 7 y ago that ended badly.
July 19, 2024
Second chance romance, with family feud and misunderstanding.
March 24, 2020
A quick tepid read. The h and H meet again as a second chance. They have some intermingled past and the h is asking for the H’s help as a first and only resort. I didn’t care much for either of the mc’s. Lou Lou was a bore and Dimitri was a passionate lover but not as forbidding and ruthless as I mostly prefer my H’s to be. I would’ve given it 4 stars but there was a lot of internal monologue in this one and not much movement in the plot. Easy reading from CS.
August 7, 2012
It was a story of the past, similar to so many others though. The heroine needed money to help her sick mama and the hero needed a mistress. Little did they both know, that they loved each other but in order to have a future they must discuss the past. A past where the heroine has miscarried the heroes baby without telling him.
It was only slightly dramatic and it held my attention but it wasn't all that and a bottle of Coke.
It was only slightly dramatic and it held my attention but it wasn't all that and a bottle of Coke.
January 17, 2013
The sins of the fathers!!!!!! It’s amazing how children, no matter what pain and unhappiness their parents may cause them, will still love them. This is exactly what this lovely book by Chantelle Shaw is about.
Louise & Dimitri had become very close but due to the circumstances surrounding the affair between her mother and his father, were so cruelly torn apart.
Years later Louise is forced to ask Dimitri, who has become a ruthless tycoon, for financial help.
Though he’s not shy to make his feelings towards her mother quite clear – he utterly hates her – is unable to deny the feelings he still has for Louise, even thinking that she’s just like her detestable mother.
He agrees to help her but it comes with a price!!!!!!!! Geez these billionaires …….why can’t he just help her with no strings attached!!!!!!!! But no, nothing is for free!!!!
Okay, so the story started a bit slow for me…..and then I began thinking that I had read this story before because it just so familiar.
I didn’t connect with the h/h at first….he was just a bit hard and she, whilst never wanting to be like her mother, suddenly agrees to do something exactly the same. I was relieved that he redeemed himself just in time for me.
By the end, which just by the way has a little “twist”, I realized that I actually liked the mc’s and was really happy that they did get a second chance to be together and have a HEA.
A delightful and in some way, uplifting story from one of my favorite M&B authors.
September 12, 2021
If you like to read steamy sex scenes in a HP, you’ll like this HP. They have lots of sex. And if they aren’t doing it, they are thinking about it.
This book has a lot of great reviews, but I feel different about this book.
I actually should have liked this book more than I did, because I like the blackmail trope and the virginal h.
But it was a lot of internal stuff, about what they were thinking. The pace in the book felt slow.
They had a night together 7 years before. After 7 years she meets him to ask him to buy her island. And in the second meeting after those 7 years, they have sex.
I missed the romance in this. I miss the pursuit. In my opinion, having lots of sex doesn’t equal romance.
What I also didn’t like, was that she called him bad names more than once, names like ‘bastard’, ‘arrogant bastard’, ‘Neanderthal’.
And she also said things to him like ‘Go to hell’. And of course, the inevitable ‘I hate you’ before she has sex with him on the next page. 🙄
Repeated verbal abuse - whether it’s coming from him or from her - is not something I like to read. It just seems childish. He told her to act like an adult and not like a petulant child and I agree with him.
This book has a lot of great reviews, but I feel different about this book.
I actually should have liked this book more than I did, because I like the blackmail trope and the virginal h.
But it was a lot of internal stuff, about what they were thinking. The pace in the book felt slow.
They had a night together 7 years before. After 7 years she meets him to ask him to buy her island. And in the second meeting after those 7 years, they have sex.
I missed the romance in this. I miss the pursuit. In my opinion, having lots of sex doesn’t equal romance.
What I also didn’t like, was that she called him bad names more than once, names like ‘bastard’, ‘arrogant bastard’, ‘Neanderthal’.
And she also said things to him like ‘Go to hell’. And of course, the inevitable ‘I hate you’ before she has sex with him on the next page. 🙄
Repeated verbal abuse - whether it’s coming from him or from her - is not something I like to read. It just seems childish. He told her to act like an adult and not like a petulant child and I agree with him.
October 11, 2012
Chantelle Shaw know to write romance in such a magical manner that you will feel like the "princess" who finds her "prince".
In the Greek's Acquisition she has done so again. Strong and powerful characters,each with a background that in the end brings them together and a with a secret that simply shocked!
The setting was perfect for romance,the author's plot brilliant and I was transported to a world of captivating and delicious romance.
The dialogue was somewhat quick and witty at times and at others so passionate it moved me very deeply.
Lovers re-united has long been a favourite of mine and each author goes about laying it out to the reader in a different manner,what Mrs Shaw did was to take it to a new level of twists and turns,making it the perfect book to cuddle up to on a rainy day.
I look forward to the next read from Mrs Shaw
5/5 star review
February 11, 2021
I loved everything about this book. It swept me off. I liked how Dimitri ended up being Louise's only one and true love even though he seemed not to believe in love. Their love grew strong and conquered everything even when the odds were against them. I really loved Louise's character and personality. She doesn't change from what she has promised herself, although Dimitri's re-appearance into her life knocks her off from the good-girl's shoes she has worn proudly.
Even though Louise lost her mother but I'm glad she was able to marry her first love and was able to conceive again. Amazing with some Greek touch to it. I highly recommend it if you're a fan of "rough romance".
Even though Louise lost her mother but I'm glad she was able to marry her first love and was able to conceive again. Amazing with some Greek touch to it. I highly recommend it if you're a fan of "rough romance".
December 12, 2018
The Greek's Acquisition
This was about two people who meet because of his father's betrayal to his wife. Her mother had become his mistress and broke the family apart. She was never really loved by her own mother. But she loved her. They had an affair seven years ago and was torn apart when her mother found out. Now she is back to ask him for help. Will he help her? Or will she not let him know what she needs the money for?
This was about two people who meet because of his father's betrayal to his wife. Her mother had become his mistress and broke the family apart. She was never really loved by her own mother. But she loved her. They had an affair seven years ago and was torn apart when her mother found out. Now she is back to ask him for help. Will he help her? Or will she not let him know what she needs the money for?
November 7, 2017
Romantic
A great story with two wonderful characters, I was taken away on love and heartache. A must read for all the romantic s out there !!!!
A great story with two wonderful characters, I was taken away on love and heartache. A must read for all the romantic s out there !!!!
August 19, 2024
3.5. Overall a nice book.
March 22, 2013
Sexy, delicious and oh so compelling, Chantelle Shaw’s The Greek’s Acquisition is vintage Modern Romance!
Louise Frobisher is desperate. She needs to raise enough money for her terminally ill mother to have a life-changing operation that could give her the much needed second chance she so desperately craves. Having exhausted all other avenues, Louise realizes that the time has come for her to swallow her pride and come face to face with the one man who had shattered her heart and destroyed her confidence: handsome Greek billionaire Dimitri Kalakos. Louise has never managed to forgive Dimitri for his cruel betrayal – nor has ever managed to vanquish him from her heart. Yet, Louise is prepared to do anything to save her mother’s life – even beg the one man she has never stopped loving for mercy!
Dimitri had been gobsmacked when Louise had walked through the doors of his luxurious offices – and he was absolutely stunned when she made him a business proposition for the one thing he thought his money couldn’t buy: the beautiful island of Eirenne. Dimitri had been yearning to possess Eirenne for years yet Louise had always refused to sell it to him. So what had prompted this sudden change of heart? Wearing a designer dress straight off the Parisian catwalk, eye-wateringly expensive shoes and exclusive items of jewelry, Louise does not look like she is desperate need of cash. Dimitri is convinced that his former flame is keeping something from him, but Louise is remaining tight-lipped. Determined to reclaim Eirenne and desperate to uncover the secrets Louise is hiding, Dimitri decides to play the long game with Louise and begins his ruthless punishment by claiming a passionate kiss that leaves them both breathless!
Louise is adamant that she will not allow Dimitri’s tempting kisses to distract her from her goal of selling Eirenne and giving her mother a chance of survival. However, resisting Dimitri is easier said than done. As old passions rekindle and long-buried emotions come rushing back to the surface, Louise and Dimitri find themselves falling madly in love with one another all over again.
But are they prepared to give their relationship another chance? Or will they continue to let past mistakes, old wounds and devastating secrets to stand in the way of their happiness?
The Greek’s Acquisition is a sensuous contemporary romance that simmers with blazing passion, intense drama and heart-pounding emotion. Chantelle Shaw never fails to grab her readers’ attention from the very first page and keep them engrossed until the last word and in The Greek’s Acquisition she has penned another hugely enjoyable contemporary romance that will keep readers gleefully turning the pages late into the night.
With an intrepid and resourceful heroine, a gorgeous Greek hero who will make readers swoon, a vivid exotic setting, enthralling twists and turns and feel-good romance, The Greek’s Acquisition is another Chantelle Shaw keeper fans of Mills and Boon Modern Romance will definitely not want to miss!
Louise Frobisher is desperate. She needs to raise enough money for her terminally ill mother to have a life-changing operation that could give her the much needed second chance she so desperately craves. Having exhausted all other avenues, Louise realizes that the time has come for her to swallow her pride and come face to face with the one man who had shattered her heart and destroyed her confidence: handsome Greek billionaire Dimitri Kalakos. Louise has never managed to forgive Dimitri for his cruel betrayal – nor has ever managed to vanquish him from her heart. Yet, Louise is prepared to do anything to save her mother’s life – even beg the one man she has never stopped loving for mercy!
Dimitri had been gobsmacked when Louise had walked through the doors of his luxurious offices – and he was absolutely stunned when she made him a business proposition for the one thing he thought his money couldn’t buy: the beautiful island of Eirenne. Dimitri had been yearning to possess Eirenne for years yet Louise had always refused to sell it to him. So what had prompted this sudden change of heart? Wearing a designer dress straight off the Parisian catwalk, eye-wateringly expensive shoes and exclusive items of jewelry, Louise does not look like she is desperate need of cash. Dimitri is convinced that his former flame is keeping something from him, but Louise is remaining tight-lipped. Determined to reclaim Eirenne and desperate to uncover the secrets Louise is hiding, Dimitri decides to play the long game with Louise and begins his ruthless punishment by claiming a passionate kiss that leaves them both breathless!
Louise is adamant that she will not allow Dimitri’s tempting kisses to distract her from her goal of selling Eirenne and giving her mother a chance of survival. However, resisting Dimitri is easier said than done. As old passions rekindle and long-buried emotions come rushing back to the surface, Louise and Dimitri find themselves falling madly in love with one another all over again.
But are they prepared to give their relationship another chance? Or will they continue to let past mistakes, old wounds and devastating secrets to stand in the way of their happiness?
The Greek’s Acquisition is a sensuous contemporary romance that simmers with blazing passion, intense drama and heart-pounding emotion. Chantelle Shaw never fails to grab her readers’ attention from the very first page and keep them engrossed until the last word and in The Greek’s Acquisition she has penned another hugely enjoyable contemporary romance that will keep readers gleefully turning the pages late into the night.
With an intrepid and resourceful heroine, a gorgeous Greek hero who will make readers swoon, a vivid exotic setting, enthralling twists and turns and feel-good romance, The Greek’s Acquisition is another Chantelle Shaw keeper fans of Mills and Boon Modern Romance will definitely not want to miss!
August 28, 2014
I had an ebook of this for more than a month now but I had bought the hard copy in the bookstore just a week ago since it just costs in the lowest price it could have. The story was good though---what I can say, there was really a story, not just about sex and lust and the blas like most HP have.
I like the part that they had a child (the miscarriage part) and also about Madelleine. Its just too cute that there is a cat in the story. I was a little disappounted to know about the ectopic pregnancy and was like oh God no... there should be a child in the end and...immediately look if there is an epilogue...and thank God, my dream was not crash. hahaha! I really like it when there is a child in the story or in the end of it. That's also the reason why I've been addicted with HP's right now because most plots written here are about secret baby and the likes
I like the part that they had a child (the miscarriage part) and also about Madelleine. Its just too cute that there is a cat in the story. I was a little disappounted to know about the ectopic pregnancy and was like oh God no... there should be a child in the end and...immediately look if there is an epilogue...and thank God, my dream was not crash. hahaha! I really like it when there is a child in the story or in the end of it. That's also the reason why I've been addicted with HP's right now because most plots written here are about secret baby and the likes
June 4, 2021
Seven years have passed. When dealing with the devil…
It's taken years for the Dimitri-Kalakos-sized hole in Louise Frobisher's heart to heal. Yet now she has to face him once again—she needs the ruthless magnate's financial help…but absolutely nothing more!
Be prepared to play with fire!
Louise is offering the one thing Dimitri thought his money couldn't buy: the Greek island that should be his! She thinks she can strike a bargain, but Dimitri knows there can only be one winner—and failure just isn't in his vocabulary. He wants the island—and Louise back in his bed.
It's taken years for the Dimitri-Kalakos-sized hole in Louise Frobisher's heart to heal. Yet now she has to face him once again—she needs the ruthless magnate's financial help…but absolutely nothing more!
Be prepared to play with fire!
Louise is offering the one thing Dimitri thought his money couldn't buy: the Greek island that should be his! She thinks she can strike a bargain, but Dimitri knows there can only be one winner—and failure just isn't in his vocabulary. He wants the island—and Louise back in his bed.
October 29, 2012
typical story-line. what annoyed me the most was that this was a direct rip-off of julia james' his wedding ring of revenge. the item might be different, but the child lost, the mistress part to the father, the villa left to the mistress---all of it was nearly word for word from the other novel. it was so incredibly disappointing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 5, 2012
Super predictable - like most of these kind of books but cute none the less
May 17, 2013
dat one was a very good read n i simply loved lulu (that is louise). a must read
December 19, 2014
Sale old same old Mills and boon
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