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Baci al ballo
In love with a stranger?
When Loris Bergman attended a party to celebrate the merger of her father's company wih Cosby's, a huge Amercian corporation, she couldn't shake off the feeling that one of the men attending was familiar to her.
Jonathan Drummon insisted they were strangers! Despite his evasiveness about the role he played at Cosby's, a night spent with Jonathan convinced Loris that she loved him. But what, exactly, was on Jonathan's agenda? Marriage... or revenge?
When Loris Bergman attended a party to celebrate the merger of her father's company wih Cosby's, a huge Amercian corporation, she couldn't shake off the feeling that one of the men attending was familiar to her.
Jonathan Drummon insisted they were strangers! Despite his evasiveness about the role he played at Cosby's, a night spent with Jonathan convinced Loris that she loved him. But what, exactly, was on Jonathan's agenda? Marriage... or revenge?
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Lee Wilkinson
264 books39 followersLee Wilkinson was born in Nottingham, the only child of loving parents. She was educated at an all-girls' school, and after leaving, tried her hand at several jobs, including modeling swimwear.
At 22 she met and married her husband, Denis. They had a traditional white wedding and a honeymoon in Italy, and have been happily married ever since. They have two children, a son and a daughter—both now grown up and married—and four lovely grandchildren.
Lee's writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She has had more than 20 Mills and Boon romance novels published to date.
Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking. Traveling is her main love, and teaming up with her daughter and American son-in-law, she and her husband spent a year going round the world, taking in India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the States.
Last year she rented a palazzo in the heart of Venice, followed by a quick hop aboard the Orient Express. Lee is currently saving up for a whirlwind tour of Japan, a romantic and exotic destination she has wanted to visit since childhood.
At present she lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which gets cut off by snow most winters
At 22 she met and married her husband, Denis. They had a traditional white wedding and a honeymoon in Italy, and have been happily married ever since. They have two children, a son and a daughter—both now grown up and married—and four lovely grandchildren.
Lee's writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She has had more than 20 Mills and Boon romance novels published to date.
Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking. Traveling is her main love, and teaming up with her daughter and American son-in-law, she and her husband spent a year going round the world, taking in India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the States.
Last year she rented a palazzo in the heart of Venice, followed by a quick hop aboard the Orient Express. Lee is currently saving up for a whirlwind tour of Japan, a romantic and exotic destination she has wanted to visit since childhood.
At present she lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which gets cut off by snow most winters
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
May 5, 2017
So boring but once I start a book I have to finish it just in case it gets any better - they never do! This one been done before and better so it was a disappointment.
Poor boy wants rich girl, father chases him off, years later he comes back for revenge and to claim his woman the misunderstanding is explained, they loved each other all long and it's HEA time
Poor boy wants rich girl, father chases him off, years later he comes back for revenge and to claim his woman the misunderstanding is explained, they loved each other all long and it's HEA time
April 11, 2010
Have no idea why I finished this. The story was dull--the only potentially interesting conflict is disposed of half a page after it comes up--and the writing has all the elegance and subtlety of a pie in the face,
August 13, 2022
I am actually awed at the author for having created contemptible set of characters as protagonists and even more contemptible set of secondary characters in contrast for redeeming the protagonists.
The h’s father is a womanizer and her first fiancé was a cheating womanizer and knowing her next fiance is also a womanizer and having witnessed and heard that he had an one night stand at h’s urging(!) she still disbelieves when she hears of her fiancé having a child that he has abandoned and rushes forward into marriage. All this while after having met H she herself also had an one night stand with him in her parent’s house and then confessed to it in front of her fiancé and H and still continued her plans to marry her fiancé. Of course, she continues to cheat on her fiancé with H and her fiancé continues to cheat her and it all reads like very bad melodrama.
Wow! Both H, h, her cheating fiancé, her womanizing chauvinist of a father and literally every character in this unlikeable and unrelatable. This is soap opera at its worst in prose form but I am still in awe of a romance novelist writing about characters like these and getting away with publishing it!
The h’s father is a womanizer and her first fiancé was a cheating womanizer and knowing her next fiance is also a womanizer and having witnessed and heard that he had an one night stand at h’s urging(!) she still disbelieves when she hears of her fiancé having a child that he has abandoned and rushes forward into marriage. All this while after having met H she herself also had an one night stand with him in her parent’s house and then confessed to it in front of her fiancé and H and still continued her plans to marry her fiancé. Of course, she continues to cheat on her fiancé with H and her fiancé continues to cheat her and it all reads like very bad melodrama.
Wow! Both H, h, her cheating fiancé, her womanizing chauvinist of a father and literally every character in this unlikeable and unrelatable. This is soap opera at its worst in prose form but I am still in awe of a romance novelist writing about characters like these and getting away with publishing it!
October 23, 2025
WOW SO *NERVOUS LAUGHTER* ROMANTIC THAT HE KNEW HE WANTED HER 6 YEARS AGO AND HAS DONE EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER INCLUDING RUINING HER LIFE TO MAKE SURE HE GOT HER
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