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Marsha Kane is shocked to see her soon-to-be ex-husband again. She hasn't seen Taylor since she left him because she suspected him of having an affair. Now she's trying desperately not to fall for him all over again. After all, he cheated on her...didn't he? But he is gorgeous--too gorgeous by half....
Taylor is determined to prove to Marsha he wants her back--and he always gets what he wants...doesn't he? He's going to be her passionate husband--prepare the perfect seduction scene, turn on the charm and, finally, reclaim Marsha as his wife...or is he too confident by half?
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Helen Brooks
406 books119 followersRita Bradshaw was born on 1949 in Northampton, England, where she was educated as a good Christian. She met Clive, her husband, at the age of 16 andnow the magic is still there. They have three lovely children, Cara, Faye, and Benjamin, and have always had a menagerie of animals in the house, which at the present is confined to two endearing and very comical dogs who would make a great double act on TV! The children, friends, and pets all keep the house buzzing and the food cupboards empty but Helen wouldn't have it any other way. She still lives today in Northampton with her family. Although having enjoyed some wonderful holidays abroad she has never been tempted to live anywhere else, although she rather likes the idea of a holiday home close to the sea one day.
Being a committed Christian and fervent animal lover she finds spare time is always at a premium, but long walks in the countryside with her husband and dogs, meals out followed by the cinema or theatre, reading, swimming, and having friends over for dinner are all fitted in somehow. She also enjoys sitting in her wonderfully therapeutic, rambling old garden in the sun with a glass of red wine, (under the guise of resting while thinking of course!)
For years, she was a secretary. She began writing in 1990 as she approached that milestone of a birthday 40! She realized her two teenage ambitions (writing a novel and learning to drive) had been lost amid babies and hectic family life, so set about resurrecting them.
Her first novel was for Mills and Boon and was accepted after one rewrite in 1992 as Helen Brooks, and she passed her driving test (the former was a joy and the latter an unmitigated nightmare!) She has written 50 novels as well as several sagas as Rita Bradshaw.
Since becoming a full-time writer she has found her occupation one of pure joy and often surprised when her characters develop a mind of their own but she loves exploring what makes people tick and finds the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction" to be absolutely true. She would love to hear from any readers care of Mills & Boon.
Being a committed Christian and fervent animal lover she finds spare time is always at a premium, but long walks in the countryside with her husband and dogs, meals out followed by the cinema or theatre, reading, swimming, and having friends over for dinner are all fitted in somehow. She also enjoys sitting in her wonderfully therapeutic, rambling old garden in the sun with a glass of red wine, (under the guise of resting while thinking of course!)
For years, she was a secretary. She began writing in 1990 as she approached that milestone of a birthday 40! She realized her two teenage ambitions (writing a novel and learning to drive) had been lost amid babies and hectic family life, so set about resurrecting them.
Her first novel was for Mills and Boon and was accepted after one rewrite in 1992 as Helen Brooks, and she passed her driving test (the former was a joy and the latter an unmitigated nightmare!) She has written 50 novels as well as several sagas as Rita Bradshaw.
Since becoming a full-time writer she has found her occupation one of pure joy and often surprised when her characters develop a mind of their own but she loves exploring what makes people tick and finds the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction" to be absolutely true. She would love to hear from any readers care of Mills & Boon.
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January 2, 2021
I can't stand plots where the twit of a heroine believes the slithering serpent's lies over her own husband, and leaves without giving him a fair chance to defend himself. It doesn't work for me when it's the guy who throws his chickee out based on flimsy evidence and it sure doesn't work for me the other way around either. Cause I'm fair like that :)
Here the idjeet heroine believes the lies of hero's deranged sister who convinces her that her husband is cheating on her. That chick sure could give Iago a run for his money. Heroine not only refuses to believe her husband's repeated and passionate protestations of innocence and all of his painstakingly accumulated witness evidence (which it must have been so embarrassing for him to obtain since it forced him to make a total stranger privy to his marital problems) but she also covers up her own source of her misinformation for years, just because deranged sister made her promise. Promise? What about heroine's own promise as in VOWS that she took upon marriage. This woman had no loyalty and no self-worth to dump her marriage like that based on such flimsy evidence.
And the reason the sister had for ruining her supposedly beloved brother's marriage? She was unhappy in her own marriage and decided to spread the misery around. That's it, that's her whole motivation. And she didn't stop at innuendos and insinuations. She took action, calling the hotel where hero and his assistant had booked separate rooms for their business trips and changing the reservation to a couple's suite, and intercepting a letter from her brother to his wife by posing as the heroine before the mailman. The psychopath sister does absolutely NOTHING for the next eighteen months to recant her stories even when she sees her supposedly beloved brother and her supposed friend the heroine absolutely distraught and miserable without each other. Even when she is given another chance to come clean, she still doubles down on her lies about her brother being a philandering ass who cheated on his wife for the entire duration of their marriage.
Psychopath sister then is magnanimously forgiven by all, including her own husband, when she FINALLY confesses her misdeeds after a botched suicide attempt because she couldn't live with the guilt anymore (yeah right! It's just more manipulation if you ask me) and the story finishes with them all singing koombaya together at a family picnic, as heroine readies herself to give birth to their first baby. Helen Brooks is normally bloodthirsty when it comes to inflicting comeuppance on her villains who come between her hero and heroine so what happened here? Her heroine here is also one of the worst. This is definitely one turkey I won't ever be rereading :(
Here the idjeet heroine believes the lies of hero's deranged sister who convinces her that her husband is cheating on her. That chick sure could give Iago a run for his money. Heroine not only refuses to believe her husband's repeated and passionate protestations of innocence and all of his painstakingly accumulated witness evidence (which it must have been so embarrassing for him to obtain since it forced him to make a total stranger privy to his marital problems) but she also covers up her own source of her misinformation for years, just because deranged sister made her promise. Promise? What about heroine's own promise as in VOWS that she took upon marriage. This woman had no loyalty and no self-worth to dump her marriage like that based on such flimsy evidence.
And the reason the sister had for ruining her supposedly beloved brother's marriage? She was unhappy in her own marriage and decided to spread the misery around. That's it, that's her whole motivation. And she didn't stop at innuendos and insinuations. She took action, calling the hotel where hero and his assistant had booked separate rooms for their business trips and changing the reservation to a couple's suite, and intercepting a letter from her brother to his wife by posing as the heroine before the mailman. The psychopath sister does absolutely NOTHING for the next eighteen months to recant her stories even when she sees her supposedly beloved brother and her supposed friend the heroine absolutely distraught and miserable without each other. Even when she is given another chance to come clean, she still doubles down on her lies about her brother being a philandering ass who cheated on his wife for the entire duration of their marriage.
Psychopath sister then is magnanimously forgiven by all, including her own husband, when she FINALLY confesses her misdeeds after a botched suicide attempt because she couldn't live with the guilt anymore (yeah right! It's just more manipulation if you ask me) and the story finishes with them all singing koombaya together at a family picnic, as heroine readies herself to give birth to their first baby. Helen Brooks is normally bloodthirsty when it comes to inflicting comeuppance on her villains who come between her hero and heroine so what happened here? Her heroine here is also one of the worst. This is definitely one turkey I won't ever be rereading :(
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July 13, 2021
Helen Brooks is working overtime for the patriarchy here. All the women (including the heroine) are neurotic, and their men folk are trying to be patient with their emotional, illogical selves. I really wonder if HB hates women, because her heroines are usually awful – but the women in this story sink to new depths.
Heroine is neurotic because she believed her sister-in-law that her husband was having an affair with his secretary. She walked out on him for 18 months. The separation lasted so long because she never received the letter from the hero explaining the situation with the hotel rooms. Nor did she know that *she* would have to come back to him since he is innocent. (Hero reminds her often that she is insecure because of her orphaned childhood, etc.)
Sister-in-law is neurotic because she wants to have a baby, she overspent on their new house, her husband had an affair and she’s jealous because heroine has taken up all of her brother’s time.
Don’t worry, though. A suicide attempt by the sister-in-law and groveling by the heroine soothe the fevered brow of these innocent/misunderstood males who barely have to lift a finger to clear up misunderstandings.
Gross. If I wanted a “bitch-be-crazy” story, I could listen to some rap music.
Naksed has all the details.
Heroine is neurotic because she believed her sister-in-law that her husband was having an affair with his secretary. She walked out on him for 18 months. The separation lasted so long because she never received the letter from the hero explaining the situation with the hotel rooms. Nor did she know that *she* would have to come back to him since he is innocent. (Hero reminds her often that she is insecure because of her orphaned childhood, etc.)
Sister-in-law is neurotic because she wants to have a baby, she overspent on their new house, her husband had an affair and she’s jealous because heroine has taken up all of her brother’s time.
Don’t worry, though. A suicide attempt by the sister-in-law and groveling by the heroine soothe the fevered brow of these innocent/misunderstood males who barely have to lift a finger to clear up misunderstandings.
Gross. If I wanted a “bitch-be-crazy” story, I could listen to some rap music.
Naksed has all the details.
July 4, 2019
This book was only mildly absorbing, and only because you want to see how things are resolved for this estranged couple. She accuses him of cheating (the low-down, cheating, lying, philandering rat.) and he tells her that she needs to have more faith in him and herself too.
‘Why is it easier to believe lies than the truth? Have you ever asked yourself that?’
‘Meaning regarding you and Tanya, I suppose?’ she said flatly.
He sat back in his seat, studying her over the rim of his glass. ‘Has it never occurred to you that you might be wrong about all this.”
All problems are attributed to her low self-esteem and (mommy) desertion issues. Of course, there was a serpent in their happy Eden who caused trouble and helped render them apart by sowing doubts and distrust.
The h is irritating for much of the book. The usual HP kind who has to believe and be nice to everyone, but the H. Many times, I wished he'd just give up on her shrewish and self righteous self and get on with his life. Even the purported ow sounded nice.
And the reason for the H’s absence and distance for 18 months, and now this present storming of the Castle Cold was also not explained convincingly. Letters? Who writes letter?
But, the book (and the h) took the turn for the better in the final throes. I liked the resolution and finally they seemed like a couple who could have a hea.
And some lines were worth reading again.
‘I’m trying to say no nicely.’ She eyed him severely.
‘Try saying yes badly.’
‘Why is it easier to believe lies than the truth? Have you ever asked yourself that?’
‘Meaning regarding you and Tanya, I suppose?’ she said flatly.
He sat back in his seat, studying her over the rim of his glass. ‘Has it never occurred to you that you might be wrong about all this.”
All problems are attributed to her low self-esteem and (mommy) desertion issues. Of course, there was a serpent in their happy Eden who caused trouble and helped render them apart by sowing doubts and distrust.
The h is irritating for much of the book. The usual HP kind who has to believe and be nice to everyone, but the H. Many times, I wished he'd just give up on her shrewish and self righteous self and get on with his life. Even the purported ow sounded nice.
And the reason for the H’s absence and distance for 18 months, and now this present storming of the Castle Cold was also not explained convincingly. Letters? Who writes letter?
But, the book (and the h) took the turn for the better in the final throes. I liked the resolution and finally they seemed like a couple who could have a hea.
And some lines were worth reading again.
‘I’m trying to say no nicely.’ She eyed him severely.
‘Try saying yes badly.’
September 23, 2021
I would give five stars to the hero because he's one of the best heroes ever.
He and the heroine have been married 18 months when the heroine, thinking he cheated on her with his PA, leaves him and threaten to kill herself if he follows her (!!!!)
After one years and a half they are about getting a divorce and he's back to her, trying to talk and explain what happened.
The hero was abroad with his sexy PA and when the heroine called his hotel suite she answered. The heroine was frantic because his sister had just confessed that the hero cheated on her repeatedly, and his PA was the last of his women.
Since the h came from a very traumatic childhood and was rejected by her mother and never found a family who wanted to adopt her, she's also very insecure and thinks that nobody can love her, so she boycotts her relathionship with her husband before he can do it, since this is what she expects him to do. This was a very good job. The psychological insight is impressive, it works just like that. People with such a background tends to repeat the same pattern of relationship they had with their first caregivers, and expect to be treated the same way.
She doesn't even give a chance to her husband to explain and immediately runs away asking for divorce.
The hero wrote her a letter (that she never received) explaining what happened and asking her to call him when she's ready to talk to him, but since she never calls him back, he decides to go to her and try to clear the air.
He's very sweet and she's very stubborn and doesn't even have any doubts, even when he gives her all the proofs he's innocent of cheating. There was a mistake in reservation at the hotel, so he went to sleep with another male guest and left the suite to his PA. He also gives her the man's card, so she can call him if she wants.
She doesn't even listen.
I hated her at this point, because she blindly believed her sister-in-law without even asking her husband.
She should have given him her trust, not her sil.
She judged without any proofs.
he was sweet and caring and she never asked herself why a cheating husband would go to such lenghts to keep a wife he didn't really want if he wasn't innocent and very much in love with her.
Why didn't he simply proceed with the divorce if he was cheating with ow and he didn't care about her?
And after she almost told him she believed he was also a mob boss because he had a difficult start and had to be ruthless and he explained that ruthless didn't mean criminal I wondered why he wanted to keep her. Truly.
She really was unlovable.
He really deserved better.
Eventually he gave up on her and I hoped he really found another woman.
Sadly his sister who was a little deranged, tried to kill herself and asked to see the heroine, and she confessed he set them up and tried to ruin their marriage.
She also tells the hero all the truth and so he's back to the heroine and almost apologizes with her.
He apologizes???
It's her who had to apologize. For trusting his sil and not her husband! For never questioning the ow's words. For never giving him a chance to explain.
This was one of the worst heroine ever!
He and the heroine have been married 18 months when the heroine, thinking he cheated on her with his PA, leaves him and threaten to kill herself if he follows her (!!!!)
After one years and a half they are about getting a divorce and he's back to her, trying to talk and explain what happened.
The hero was abroad with his sexy PA and when the heroine called his hotel suite she answered. The heroine was frantic because his sister had just confessed that the hero cheated on her repeatedly, and his PA was the last of his women.
Since the h came from a very traumatic childhood and was rejected by her mother and never found a family who wanted to adopt her, she's also very insecure and thinks that nobody can love her, so she boycotts her relathionship with her husband before he can do it, since this is what she expects him to do. This was a very good job. The psychological insight is impressive, it works just like that. People with such a background tends to repeat the same pattern of relationship they had with their first caregivers, and expect to be treated the same way.
She doesn't even give a chance to her husband to explain and immediately runs away asking for divorce.
The hero wrote her a letter (that she never received) explaining what happened and asking her to call him when she's ready to talk to him, but since she never calls him back, he decides to go to her and try to clear the air.
He's very sweet and she's very stubborn and doesn't even have any doubts, even when he gives her all the proofs he's innocent of cheating. There was a mistake in reservation at the hotel, so he went to sleep with another male guest and left the suite to his PA. He also gives her the man's card, so she can call him if she wants.
She doesn't even listen.
I hated her at this point, because she blindly believed her sister-in-law without even asking her husband.
She should have given him her trust, not her sil.
She judged without any proofs.
he was sweet and caring and she never asked herself why a cheating husband would go to such lenghts to keep a wife he didn't really want if he wasn't innocent and very much in love with her.
Why didn't he simply proceed with the divorce if he was cheating with ow and he didn't care about her?
And after she almost told him she believed he was also a mob boss because he had a difficult start and had to be ruthless and he explained that ruthless didn't mean criminal I wondered why he wanted to keep her. Truly.
She really was unlovable.
He really deserved better.
Eventually he gave up on her and I hoped he really found another woman.
Sadly his sister who was a little deranged, tried to kill herself and asked to see the heroine, and she confessed he set them up and tried to ruin their marriage.
She also tells the hero all the truth and so he's back to the heroine and almost apologizes with her.
He apologizes???
It's her who had to apologize. For trusting his sil and not her husband! For never questioning the ow's words. For never giving him a chance to explain.
This was one of the worst heroine ever!
January 26, 2022
Helen Brooks knows how to portray a H in her books who is even better than in your romantic dreams. This H is like that.
This h however is TSTL and annoying. In the beginning of the book the H says to her that she lacks common sense and logic. He is right.
She is of course blonde and slender, like all Helen Brooks’ h’s. Shoulder length hair. Her h’s are like Stepford Wives. All the same looks.
I didn’t like the end of the story (with his sister being forgiven too easily) and I didn’t like the epilogue. The H’s sister did several things to purposely end her brother’s marriage. His sister was mentally not well. And then in the epilogue, it says that his sister stopped seeing her therapist after she had given birth to twins. That is just dumb. As if giving birth makes you suddenly mentally sane.
It’s actually 3 stars. But because of the H - I love a determined, besotted H - I’ll rate it 4 stars.
This h however is TSTL and annoying. In the beginning of the book the H says to her that she lacks common sense and logic. He is right.
She is of course blonde and slender, like all Helen Brooks’ h’s. Shoulder length hair. Her h’s are like Stepford Wives. All the same looks.
I didn’t like the end of the story (with his sister being forgiven too easily) and I didn’t like the epilogue. The H’s sister did several things to purposely end her brother’s marriage. His sister was mentally not well. And then in the epilogue, it says that his sister stopped seeing her therapist after she had given birth to twins. That is just dumb. As if giving birth makes you suddenly mentally sane.
It’s actually 3 stars. But because of the H - I love a determined, besotted H - I’ll rate it 4 stars.
December 9, 2018
La novelita recae en todos los tópicos comunes de una novela de Helen Brooks: una heroína insegura, un héroe que se aguanta todo con tan de estar con ella, drama todo el tiempo, y reducir el párrafo de la escena sexual en la misma oración cursi copy/paste del %80 de sus novelas, el célebre "un mundo de luz y color". No sé si será así en inglés, pero dudo mucho que la traductora se haya hecho cargo de, fácil, unas cincuenta novelas que leí donde se repite esa frase.
La protagonista cree cualquier cosa del héroe, pero él la sigue por doquier buscándola para que se de cuenta de que deben estar juntos (ohh~), ella le dice cosas hirientes mientras tanto, haciéndose detestar.
La protagonista cree cualquier cosa del héroe, pero él la sigue por doquier buscándola para que se de cuenta de que deben estar juntos (ohh~), ella le dice cosas hirientes mientras tanto, haciéndose detestar.
February 6, 2011
I love marriage-in-trouble-with-built-in-hea-clause-in-their-post-nup-contract
and I love the way helen brooks usually tackles this theme with her emotive writing....but not so in this book.
not a review, but a rant!
My giant supposition = This book is another example of an author taking out her real life frustrations on men and *therefore* miseries (*impish smile*) by penning..
(a) a gamma H with custom cruel tendencies who predictably does something humongously unforgivable (like swagger into the author's thought process while she is stewing over a fight with her own real mr.H)..anyway, so follows the supergrovel which seems to be the ongoing ideal HEA for best ratings and as a salve to the5 starred scarred mind of a romance reader
(b) an alpha H who cleverly mocks the h and gets away with a few home truths but gets his come uppance when the tstl h cutely walks into danger and makes the H run after her..so for all his swearing, she proves she is special (character @#$%!^&%) to him anyway!
(c) the nice beta H who wears his heart on his sleeve and has to repeatedly prove to the h that he is worthy while she decides whether he is a keeper or not
In this book, the h is clearly in the wrong but its the H who says sorry..a wasted session of mistaken man-bashing when there are so many other deserving candidates, some of whom I have dated for real.
I'm just a disillusioned romance junkie..I prefer my man-bashing sessions to be in the form of chic-lits, chic-flicks, or during a happy hour, girl talk meet up ..not in my romance novels, thank you!
and I love the way helen brooks usually tackles this theme with her emotive writing....but not so in this book.
not a review, but a rant!
My giant supposition = This book is another example of an author taking out her real life frustrations on men and *therefore* miseries (*impish smile*) by penning..
(a) a gamma H with custom cruel tendencies who predictably does something humongously unforgivable (like swagger into the author's thought process while she is stewing over a fight with her own real mr.H)..anyway, so follows the supergrovel which seems to be the ongoing ideal HEA for best ratings and as a salve to the
(b) an alpha H who cleverly mocks the h and gets away with a few home truths but gets his come uppance when the tstl h cutely walks into danger and makes the H run after her..so for all his swearing, she proves she is special (character @#$%!^&%) to him anyway!
(c) the nice beta H who wears his heart on his sleeve and has to repeatedly prove to the h that he is worthy while she decides whether he is a keeper or not
In this book, the h is clearly in the wrong but its the H who says sorry..a wasted session of mistaken man-bashing when there are so many other deserving candidates, some of whom I have dated for real.
I'm just a disillusioned romance junkie..I prefer my man-bashing sessions to be in the form of chic-lits, chic-flicks, or during a happy hour, girl talk meet up ..not in my romance novels, thank you!
May 10, 2017
Leído el 11/03/2012
Protagonistas: Taylor y Marsha Kane
Argumento:
Una noche con su marido podría cambiarlo todo...
Marsha Kane no esperaba volver a ver a su futuro ex marido. De hecho no lo había visto desde que lo abandonó al enterarse de que estaba teniendo una aventura. Ahora tendría que luchar para no volver a enamorarse de él, ya que la había engañado... ¿o no?
Taylor había decidido demostrarle a Marsha que quería que volviera con él, y él siempre conseguía lo que quería. Se convertiría en su apasionado marido y la seduciría de tal modo que ella no podría hacer nada para resistirse...
Protagonistas: Taylor y Marsha Kane
Argumento:
Una noche con su marido podría cambiarlo todo...
Marsha Kane no esperaba volver a ver a su futuro ex marido. De hecho no lo había visto desde que lo abandonó al enterarse de que estaba teniendo una aventura. Ahora tendría que luchar para no volver a enamorarse de él, ya que la había engañado... ¿o no?
Taylor había decidido demostrarle a Marsha que quería que volviera con él, y él siempre conseguía lo que quería. Se convertiría en su apasionado marido y la seduciría de tal modo que ella no podría hacer nada para resistirse...
February 20, 2021
This started good and angsty, and I thought it would be at least three or four stars. But unfortunately, I can only give it two. This has to be one of the stupidest HP plots I've ever read. Seriously? There were times that I kept hoping that the hero will give her the divorce and move on. This heroine was simply TSTL too many times for me.
July 22, 2024
All good but the H sister should have kicked out her cheating husband
May 3, 2025
No me gusta cuando terceras personas les dicen algo a ellos y en vez de hablarlo, se van sin discutir o comprobar que lo que dicen es verdad. Para mí, no hay excusa en lo que la hermana de él hizo. Lo siento, tal vez está mal que sea así, pero yo no volvería a confiar en ella. Él protagonista me encantó. Un amor, detrás de ella, mostrando su afecto. Ella un poco testaruda, pero al final entró en razón y comprendió que él nunca la engañaría, pues estaba loco por ella.
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November 3, 2019Marsha Kane is shocked to see her soon-to-be ex-husband again. She hasn't seen Taylor since she left him because she suspected him of having an affair. Now she's trying desperately not to fall for him all over again. After all, he cheated on her...didn't he? But he is gorgeous--too gorgeous by half....Taylor is determined to prove to Marsha he wants her back--and he always gets what he wants...doesn't he? He's going to be her passionate husband--prepare the perfect seduction scene, turn on the charm and, finally, reclaim Marsha as his wife...or is he too confident by half? (le
April 18, 2014
A wonderful man to dream about.....good read.
May 8, 2022
Wow. The husband had the patience of a SAINT lol. Besotted H, the h is too but the H has to carry a bucket around for all the drool he accumulates looking and touching her. They are estranged due to the selfish, pathological manipulative lies of H's sister. The sister was brought up by the orphaned H and set up with a nice house and a free riding job for her cheating, adulterer, spendthrift husband. So OFCOURSE when the H tells her about how much he loves the h, she thinks the h will steal her brother's attention and if they have any children that attention will be further diluted--- PUKE! Sister eventually loses it and has a BPD phase where she projects her own life on the h. She tells the newly married h that the H is sleeping around with his secretary and that this is one in line of many, she then makes deliberate international calls and lies to hotel staff to make fake bookings of the H rooming with the fake OW, and then when the distraught H writes a tell-all apology/evidence letter, she intercepts the post via identity theft and destroys the evidence. PS. The H has been celibate throughout.
The H's sister keeps spiraling in her mental health illness where she frequently begs the h for reassurance that h is NOT a crumbling mess, and when it looks like her secret might come out, the sister opts to attempt suicide via pill overdose. Of course, this leads to a magical solving of all the sister's CRIMINAL actions where everyone forgives her, and there is a HEA.
I am so happy for the H and h but I wish the h had not been that loyal to the sister over the H himself - that's ridiculous, and the H was genuinely shattered. The h should have groveled on bended knee till the H forgave her, but it was the H taking the first step TILL THE LAST PAGE. Oh well. They do have a nice epilogue and a lovely baby boy in the end. The h needs a therapist to get over her childhood trauma, because even in the last 2 pages she has a one line suspicion towards the h's female business contact Penelope. Not healthy. The H could not keep his hands off her lol.
The H's sister keeps spiraling in her mental health illness where she frequently begs the h for reassurance that h is NOT a crumbling mess, and when it looks like her secret might come out, the sister opts to attempt suicide via pill overdose. Of course, this leads to a magical solving of all the sister's CRIMINAL actions where everyone forgives her, and there is a HEA.
I am so happy for the H and h but I wish the h had not been that loyal to the sister over the H himself - that's ridiculous, and the H was genuinely shattered. The h should have groveled on bended knee till the H forgave her, but it was the H taking the first step TILL THE LAST PAGE. Oh well. They do have a nice epilogue and a lovely baby boy in the end. The h needs a therapist to get over her childhood trauma, because even in the last 2 pages she has a one line suspicion towards the h's female business contact Penelope. Not healthy. The H could not keep his hands off her lol.
September 7, 2024
She thought he cheated on her so she left him and 18 months later he is back to get her. He loved her so much. You could see it and feel it but she didn't. She believed someone else over him and it was due to her insecurities. She loved him too and you know he never cheated. Even if she did.
And the person who told her was a,shock. No wonder she believed them. He finds out and they reunite. I loved that we had a hero who was faithful and didn't sleep around while they were separate. It was so refreshing. I want to read it again for the 1st time. This is why I love Harlequins. Restores my faith in romances. I haven't been wanting to read any lately. They have all been loser heroes. I hate it.
And the person who told her was a,shock. No wonder she believed them. He finds out and they reunite. I loved that we had a hero who was faithful and didn't sleep around while they were separate. It was so refreshing. I want to read it again for the 1st time. This is why I love Harlequins. Restores my faith in romances. I haven't been wanting to read any lately. They have all been loser heroes. I hate it.
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May 29, 2019
4 stars!
A great story although it frustrated me a bit. Love the hero, would love one as my husband. Heroine a bit hard to like but I kinda understood why she did what she did and felt what she felt. It was a bit meh at first chapters as I was not intrigued by it but soon after it captivated me and held my interest until the end. Cute ending with pregnant heroine and the delivery of their baby boy.
A great story although it frustrated me a bit. Love the hero, would love one as my husband. Heroine a bit hard to like but I kinda understood why she did what she did and felt what she felt. It was a bit meh at first chapters as I was not intrigued by it but soon after it captivated me and held my interest until the end. Cute ending with pregnant heroine and the delivery of their baby boy.
April 1, 2024
"The Passionate Husband" is the story of Marsha and Taylor.
So this has one of the sweetest and most smitten, loving heroes.. married to a stupid heroine.
You are telling me she left the man who worships her, cant breathe without her without investigating the matter? Yes the source was a bit trustworthy but she did not fight for their relationship at all. The hero did all the heavy lifting and the villain was forgiven too easily.
Meh
Safe
3/5
So this has one of the sweetest and most smitten, loving heroes.. married to a stupid heroine.
You are telling me she left the man who worships her, cant breathe without her without investigating the matter? Yes the source was a bit trustworthy but she did not fight for their relationship at all. The hero did all the heavy lifting and the villain was forgiven too easily.
Meh
Safe
3/5
June 20, 2024
Not one of author’s best. I hate stories where one character - h or H, doesn't matter - believes some lying snake in the grass over their own spouse and I detest plots that require one to destroy their marriage because they made a foolish promise. This h doesn't want to destroy the relationship her husband has with his sister so she won't tell him that the sis is the lying serpent. How can anyone be that askew? Your marriage, your spouse are the most important thing and person. Period.
July 19, 2020
Marsha has been separated from her husband and close to obtaining a divorce when they meet again. Taylor does not want the divorce he wants her back. Lies separated them will the truth come out in time? I have read other books by Helen Brooks and have enjoyed them all. This one also.
June 23, 2025
I don't know why I bother with Helen Brooks because all of her stories are the same! I liked A Whirlwind Marriage enough but the rest of them grate on my nerves. FMC never gives MMC the full story but she has no problem accusing him of everything under the sun. Annoying.
July 27, 2018
Good.
September 8, 2024
Always thought this is one of the best from category romance
January 11, 2018
347 ثم عاد الأمس (هيلين بروكس )the passionate husband
روايات احلام
صدمت مارشا حين رأت ثانية زوجها الذي فرّت منه إلى غير رجعة. كان تايلور يخدعها طوال الوقت، ومع هذا راحت تقاوم بيأس حين وقعت عيناها عليه كي لا تنجرف ثانية عليه وتقع مجدداً فريسة تأثيره عليها. ماذا عليها أن تفعل؟ وإذا بالجواب يوافيها لا شيء! لن تفعلي شيئاً. هو لم يعد في حياتك ولا يمكنه أن يسبب لك أي ضرر، ولكن إذا كان هذا صحيحاً، لماذا تشعر وكأن العالم انهار من حولها؟ ذلك العالم الذي أنشأته بعناية بالغة في الأشهر الأخيرة؟ وجاءها الجواب مرة آخر إنها لم تنسه! لا يمكن أن تنسى شخصاً مثل تايلور، كل ما هناك أنها اعتادت العيش مع الألم..
روايات احلام
صدمت مارشا حين رأت ثانية زوجها الذي فرّت منه إلى غير رجعة. كان تايلور يخدعها طوال الوقت، ومع هذا راحت تقاوم بيأس حين وقعت عيناها عليه كي لا تنجرف ثانية عليه وتقع مجدداً فريسة تأثيره عليها. ماذا عليها أن تفعل؟ وإذا بالجواب يوافيها لا شيء! لن تفعلي شيئاً. هو لم يعد في حياتك ولا يمكنه أن يسبب لك أي ضرر، ولكن إذا كان هذا صحيحاً، لماذا تشعر وكأن العالم انهار من حولها؟ ذلك العالم الذي أنشأته بعناية بالغة في الأشهر الأخيرة؟ وجاءها الجواب مرة آخر إنها لم تنسه! لا يمكن أن تنسى شخصاً مثل تايلور، كل ما هناك أنها اعتادت العيش مع الألم..
January 11, 2015
Another marriage in trouble. Marsha has left Taylor for infidelity and has filed for divorce. Taylor comes back into her life after 18 months. He does not a divorce. He wants her to tell tell who told her about his so called indiscretions. She refuses to tell him as he would be devastated.
Taylor is a good guy. He loves Marsha. And he has always been faithful to her, even when they were separated. Marsha has some issues....
All in all a good romance novel....
Taylor is a good guy. He loves Marsha. And he has always been faithful to her, even when they were separated. Marsha has some issues....
All in all a good romance novel....
April 29, 2023
Different
One thing about the older HQN's is that they can surprise you with the direction the plot twists.
This was a good one! No doormats here . Both main characters likeable making you root for their HEA.
A sweet HEA to end off the story with an epilogue.
One thing about the older HQN's is that they can surprise you with the direction the plot twists.
This was a good one! No doormats here . Both main characters likeable making you root for their HEA.
A sweet HEA to end off the story with an epilogue.
October 31, 2012
Otra de esas tontas que hacen caso a las palabras de otra mujer a causa de su inseguridad. Unas sorpresitas por el camino hacer que el libro sea mejor que la mayoría.
August 22, 2014
taylor is the perfect man to be dreamt of ever. the plot is short n good
October 2, 2016
I kind of liked this one even if it had almost the same storyline as the "Millionaire's Christmas Wife"
November 28, 2021
Que despreciable la hermana, ser tan mala que quiere que todos sufran su desengaño, cuando ellos son inocentes, tendría que hacer pagar a su marido, quien es el que se lo merece...
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