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The Bridal Suite
Anything can happen behind closed doors !
The newspapers called her new boss a financial genius; the gossip columns branded him gorgeous. But Dana knew Griffin McKenna took whatever he wanted, be it a company or a woman. She could think of other words to describe arrogant, egotistical, self-important....
When Dana and Griffin arrived at an important conference to find they had to share a room, Dana was ready to run-a whole weekend spent with Griffin in the Bridal Suite ? But then she experienced for herself the McKenna take-over techniaue...to genius and gorgeous, add great lover !
The newspapers called her new boss a financial genius; the gossip columns branded him gorgeous. But Dana knew Griffin McKenna took whatever he wanted, be it a company or a woman. She could think of other words to describe arrogant, egotistical, self-important....
When Dana and Griffin arrived at an important conference to find they had to share a room, Dana was ready to run-a whole weekend spent with Griffin in the Bridal Suite ? But then she experienced for herself the McKenna take-over techniaue...to genius and gorgeous, add great lover !
286 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1998
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Sandra Marton
582 books542 followersI've been a writer, one way or another, all my life. Before I could read, I made up poems and my mom wrote them down for me. In elementary school, my teachers almost always let me write poems or stories instead of requiring me to do art projects. Always, I dreamed of becoming a published writer...and that dream came true! I write novels about sexy, powerful men and independent-minded women, and what happens when they find each other and fall in love. My books are sexy and romantic, and they've very often full of romantic suspense. I write the kinds of books I love to read, and I hope that makes my readers happy.
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March 11, 2019
Re The Bridal Suite - Sandra Marton kicks off the randomly multi-year, multi-line HQN Do Not Disturb! miniseries, where the tagline is "Do Not Disturb: Anything can happen behind closed doors!"
The h in this one is that very rare HP breed, she is a world class computer program writer and she works for the biggest lady lurvin' chauvinistic misogynist in NYC.
Unfortunately for her, her immediate boss is a former computer genius who went to the dogs early in his career and is now a raging drunk person who can't code a single variable. Her immediate boss is also the old college frat chum of the Lady Lurvin' Chauvinistic Misogynist the h ultimately works for.
This is unfortunate because the LLCM H bought the company the h is coding like a mad dervish for right before it went completely under.
His assignment, for his Drunken Frat Brother Former Coding Genius and boss of the h. is to write a revolutionary computer program that does taxes, walks the dog and can creep you out with the voice of Hannibal Lecter asking if you really want him to turn on the light at three o'clock in the morning.
Except the Drunken Frat Bro is too drunk to write the code, so the h has been doing it. Then Drunken Frat Bro is going back in to 'review' and re-coding it wrong.
So the big company saving computer program isn't going to work - the H is taking it to a big convention on the beach in Florida for the upcoming weekend. He is only going to get the Blue Screen of Death - and hundreds of employees will descend into the cobalt abyss with it.
The h is trying to do the right thing and warn the H of his new company's imminent demise, but Drunken Frat Bro already spiked her guns, he told the LLCM H that the h was a bitter die hard feminist and that she was mad that Drunken Frat Bro got the big Vice Presidency of Research promotion and she did not.
The h is also beautiful and doesn't look like a horn rimmed computer nerd girl geek freak, so of course her stacked and sultry curves and golden hair means she doesn't have a brain in her body and Drunken Frat Bro claims she has only been doing lolipop charms on the coding anyways.
The h tries multiple times to get into see the seriously patronizing H and his seriously patronizing old biddy secretary won't let her in the H's office door.
When the H finally spies her luscious curves at the door of his office, he hauls the h right on in, he can improvise a casting couch. But the whole situation devolves into a HUGE bickerfest, twice.
The second time the h tries to explain the looming disaster, the H blows her off as being petty and vindictive over not getting promoted and then he kisses her. The h punches him in the stomach and the H fires her, then he kisses her again and she quits.
The h then goes to find her sorta boyfriend she thinks she might marry and her work BFF who is an avid gossip and she mopes and complains and rants about Chauvinistic Misogynists who are great kissers but horrible people otherwise.
The sorta boyfriend is not really the h's type, he is nice, but he bores her and she just can't help but walk all over his pedantic, judgey hiney. It would be more of an issue if the man could get a word in edgewise, but the h is so bored in his company, she pretty much steamrolls all over his attempts at conversation.
Needless to say, the H soon finds out just how wrong he was and his company's future is on the line in the next few days. So he has to woo back the h and he shows up at her door very early in the morning.
The H isn't sorry and the h may be the female version of Tim Berners-Lee, but she is no businesswoman.
Instead of demanding a sub-contract with a six figure initial pay out up front and a percentage of the H's future program sales after the net calculations, the h agrees to accept a Vice Presidency at the H's company if she will go to Florida with him and fix the code enough to make the demo program work over the weekend.
So we all go to Florida and true to the implications of the Do Not Disturb tag line, the H and h wind up sharing the Bridal Suite, the hotel reservations got messed up and there are no other rooms available.
We get the now increasingly obligatory HP fashion revamp when the h loses her luggage, cause the H grabbed the wrong bag and the H has to buy the h clothes in the fancy resort boutique. The H manages to buy the most slinky suit he could find and bunch of thong undies for the h, but to be fair he thought the ivory silk, slim cut, wrap around no button jacket suit looked boring on the hangar.
So the h does some coding and gets some programs running and then she shows up for the first round of events with the H. She is dressed in her new suit and it is about as conservative as Cher's 1988 Oscar dress.
The h gets a LOT of attention and if looks alone could sell award winning computer programs, the H's company would be on Forbes Billion Dollar Company's list in three weeks. This leads the H to do some inspired seduction attempts on the h of his own, in between their continual bickerfests.
The roofie kissing moments get put on pause when the h's sorta boyfriend AND the H's sorta future wife his mother picked show up.
The non-dynamic duo manage to put a kibosh on the H and h's intense bickery foreplay and since there are no rooms left in the hotel and the H and h don't want to admit they are sharing, the very femininely old fashion OW and the pedantic OM get shuffled off to another hotel after another H/h verbal debate.
The h goes to finish the program coding and lock the H out of their shared suite. After the H makes a scene, the h lets him in and the bickering foreplay pays off as the lurve club passion moments begin. The next day, the h and H are both seekritly in love with each other, but the re-appearance of the non-dynamic dish rag duo guilt the H and h into denying their feelings.
More misunderstandings and bickering occur between the H and h, with the outcome being the h takes a job in Boston and the H has to resignedly decide to marry his mother approved Old Fashioned OW and both of them have huge mopey moments for a few months.
Then the h's Gossip Girl BFF, who still works for the H, figures out from the H's persistent questioning that the H and h are in love. So she tricks the h into meeting the H for dinner and finally these two stop bickering long enough to declare their love.
There is a last minute reader panic, because the limp rag non-dynamic duo show up at the H and h rendezvous. But the limp rags have managed to dry themselves out enough to cling together and they only wanted to tell the H and h that they have fallen in love and the H and h are dumped.
So the cheatin' H and h are free to avow their true love and devotion to bickering forever and SM lets us know that their merger finally pays out dividend three years later, when the h and H have a bouncing baby future lady lurvin' little boy for the big HEA.
This one is really fast and in places, hysterically funny. The banter and bickering is pretty much every other page and that can be tedious, but some of it is fall out of your chair time in the laughs department and for the most part, it was well done.
I do recommend that you be in the right mood for this, but if you like some funny Doris Day/Rock Hudson Pillow Talk type drama, don't mind SM's huge feminist and chauvinist stereotypes and have a large tolerance for dishrags, this is actually a pretty decent HPlandia outing.
The h in this one is that very rare HP breed, she is a world class computer program writer and she works for the biggest lady lurvin' chauvinistic misogynist in NYC.
Unfortunately for her, her immediate boss is a former computer genius who went to the dogs early in his career and is now a raging drunk person who can't code a single variable. Her immediate boss is also the old college frat chum of the Lady Lurvin' Chauvinistic Misogynist the h ultimately works for.
This is unfortunate because the LLCM H bought the company the h is coding like a mad dervish for right before it went completely under.
His assignment, for his Drunken Frat Brother Former Coding Genius and boss of the h. is to write a revolutionary computer program that does taxes, walks the dog and can creep you out with the voice of Hannibal Lecter asking if you really want him to turn on the light at three o'clock in the morning.
Except the Drunken Frat Bro is too drunk to write the code, so the h has been doing it. Then Drunken Frat Bro is going back in to 'review' and re-coding it wrong.
So the big company saving computer program isn't going to work - the H is taking it to a big convention on the beach in Florida for the upcoming weekend. He is only going to get the Blue Screen of Death - and hundreds of employees will descend into the cobalt abyss with it.
The h is trying to do the right thing and warn the H of his new company's imminent demise, but Drunken Frat Bro already spiked her guns, he told the LLCM H that the h was a bitter die hard feminist and that she was mad that Drunken Frat Bro got the big Vice Presidency of Research promotion and she did not.
The h is also beautiful and doesn't look like a horn rimmed computer nerd girl geek freak, so of course her stacked and sultry curves and golden hair means she doesn't have a brain in her body and Drunken Frat Bro claims she has only been doing lolipop charms on the coding anyways.
The h tries multiple times to get into see the seriously patronizing H and his seriously patronizing old biddy secretary won't let her in the H's office door.
When the H finally spies her luscious curves at the door of his office, he hauls the h right on in, he can improvise a casting couch. But the whole situation devolves into a HUGE bickerfest, twice.
The second time the h tries to explain the looming disaster, the H blows her off as being petty and vindictive over not getting promoted and then he kisses her. The h punches him in the stomach and the H fires her, then he kisses her again and she quits.
The h then goes to find her sorta boyfriend she thinks she might marry and her work BFF who is an avid gossip and she mopes and complains and rants about Chauvinistic Misogynists who are great kissers but horrible people otherwise.
The sorta boyfriend is not really the h's type, he is nice, but he bores her and she just can't help but walk all over his pedantic, judgey hiney. It would be more of an issue if the man could get a word in edgewise, but the h is so bored in his company, she pretty much steamrolls all over his attempts at conversation.
Needless to say, the H soon finds out just how wrong he was and his company's future is on the line in the next few days. So he has to woo back the h and he shows up at her door very early in the morning.
The H isn't sorry and the h may be the female version of Tim Berners-Lee, but she is no businesswoman.
Instead of demanding a sub-contract with a six figure initial pay out up front and a percentage of the H's future program sales after the net calculations, the h agrees to accept a Vice Presidency at the H's company if she will go to Florida with him and fix the code enough to make the demo program work over the weekend.
So we all go to Florida and true to the implications of the Do Not Disturb tag line, the H and h wind up sharing the Bridal Suite, the hotel reservations got messed up and there are no other rooms available.
We get the now increasingly obligatory HP fashion revamp when the h loses her luggage, cause the H grabbed the wrong bag and the H has to buy the h clothes in the fancy resort boutique. The H manages to buy the most slinky suit he could find and bunch of thong undies for the h, but to be fair he thought the ivory silk, slim cut, wrap around no button jacket suit looked boring on the hangar.
So the h does some coding and gets some programs running and then she shows up for the first round of events with the H. She is dressed in her new suit and it is about as conservative as Cher's 1988 Oscar dress.
The h gets a LOT of attention and if looks alone could sell award winning computer programs, the H's company would be on Forbes Billion Dollar Company's list in three weeks. This leads the H to do some inspired seduction attempts on the h of his own, in between their continual bickerfests.
The roofie kissing moments get put on pause when the h's sorta boyfriend AND the H's sorta future wife his mother picked show up.
The non-dynamic duo manage to put a kibosh on the H and h's intense bickery foreplay and since there are no rooms left in the hotel and the H and h don't want to admit they are sharing, the very femininely old fashion OW and the pedantic OM get shuffled off to another hotel after another H/h verbal debate.
The h goes to finish the program coding and lock the H out of their shared suite. After the H makes a scene, the h lets him in and the bickering foreplay pays off as the lurve club passion moments begin. The next day, the h and H are both seekritly in love with each other, but the re-appearance of the non-dynamic dish rag duo guilt the H and h into denying their feelings.
More misunderstandings and bickering occur between the H and h, with the outcome being the h takes a job in Boston and the H has to resignedly decide to marry his mother approved Old Fashioned OW and both of them have huge mopey moments for a few months.
Then the h's Gossip Girl BFF, who still works for the H, figures out from the H's persistent questioning that the H and h are in love. So she tricks the h into meeting the H for dinner and finally these two stop bickering long enough to declare their love.
There is a last minute reader panic, because the limp rag non-dynamic duo show up at the H and h rendezvous. But the limp rags have managed to dry themselves out enough to cling together and they only wanted to tell the H and h that they have fallen in love and the H and h are dumped.
So the cheatin' H and h are free to avow their true love and devotion to bickering forever and SM lets us know that their merger finally pays out dividend three years later, when the h and H have a bouncing baby future lady lurvin' little boy for the big HEA.
This one is really fast and in places, hysterically funny. The banter and bickering is pretty much every other page and that can be tedious, but some of it is fall out of your chair time in the laughs department and for the most part, it was well done.
I do recommend that you be in the right mood for this, but if you like some funny Doris Day/Rock Hudson Pillow Talk type drama, don't mind SM's huge feminist and chauvinist stereotypes and have a large tolerance for dishrags, this is actually a pretty decent HPlandia outing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 11, 2012
Dana the heroine works for the hero Griffin. She tries to tell Griffin repeatedly that the computer program she's helped to develop has major problems and that her department head, Dave, isn't dealing with it. Unfortunately, Dave who is an old college friend of Griffin's has already convinced him that Dana is just upset because she wasn't made department head. He also convinces Griffin that she is a man hating feminist and Griffin is a card holding chauvinist. He makes it clear that he doesn't think much of her intelligence or competence. The two of them have several fiery confrontations and then he fires her. The H then finds out very quickly that Dave is a drunk, that he may be a genius but if he's not sober he can't fix the problems in the program that is to be demonstrated at a conference the day after he's fired Dana.
There is lot's of bickering in this book. I like bickering but for those who don't you won't like this one. This is definitely a love/hate relationship. They can't keep their hands off each other but can't stop arguing either. The H obviously has to hire Dana back, and quickly. He manages to do this without groveling too much. There is eventually a very nice HEA and a sweet I love you.
There is lot's of bickering in this book. I like bickering but for those who don't you won't like this one. This is definitely a love/hate relationship. They can't keep their hands off each other but can't stop arguing either. The H obviously has to hire Dana back, and quickly. He manages to do this without groveling too much. There is eventually a very nice HEA and a sweet I love you.
June 22, 2019
A delightfully fun read. I found myself chuckling through most of the book. Really enjoyable.
March 30, 2012
Rating 3.5
Sandra Marton books are predictable, depending on one's mood it can be a good thing or bad thing and for me I was in a good mood today so I enjoyed it.
There was a lot of a bickering in the book, the hero comes across as a jolly good guy while the heroine is career oriented and thinks he is a chauvinist who doesn't want to listen to her complaints about her boss and his friend.
She is fired and as usual as in SM land, there are forced kisses.
He does come to his senses and comes to her, offering her better perks etc if she comes back & she agrees and they get the Bridal Suite. Soon the hero is sure he wants to marry for love, likes how assertive she is and then of course they are mis-understandings and the impulsive heroine says stuff to him quits and decides to get married to a guy she is kind of dating.
Both try to pretend they don't miss each other, fail, viola, HEA.
Sandra Marton books are predictable, depending on one's mood it can be a good thing or bad thing and for me I was in a good mood today so I enjoyed it.
There was a lot of a bickering in the book, the hero comes across as a jolly good guy while the heroine is career oriented and thinks he is a chauvinist who doesn't want to listen to her complaints about her boss and his friend.
She is fired and as usual as in SM land, there are forced kisses.
He does come to his senses and comes to her, offering her better perks etc if she comes back & she agrees and they get the Bridal Suite. Soon the hero is sure he wants to marry for love, likes how assertive she is and then of course they are mis-understandings and the impulsive heroine says stuff to him quits and decides to get married to a guy she is kind of dating.
Both try to pretend they don't miss each other, fail, viola, HEA.
March 13, 2019
This one was an absolute hoot.
Loved Dana and Griffin together
A strong heroine and a caveman hero perfect match.
Loved loved loved it!!!
Loved Dana and Griffin together
A strong heroine and a caveman hero perfect match.
Loved loved loved it!!!
August 15, 2024
This was the first romance novel I read. I was 13 years old and fell in love with the romance genre!
May 9, 2022
Hot mess. A lot and I mean A LOT of fighting. And it didn’t seem to lead to tension, but the author said it did. I say skip, not a fun read.
August 2, 2025
If you were a man, the sky was the limit. But if you were a woman, there was a glass ceiling. And she had reached it.
Sandra Marton’s The Bridal Suite is one of those romances that manages to be equal parts sexy, funny, and emotionally charged. The premise itself sets the stage for sparks to fly; Dana Anderson, a brilliant programmer battling the constant underestimation of women in a male-dominated workplace, suddenly finds herself trapped in a situation with Griffin McKenna, the financial genius with a pirate’s reputation for taking whatever he wants. When business forces them to share a room at a conference and of all places, the bridal suit, the inevitability of their simmering attraction becomes impossible to deny.
Griffin is the quintessential alpha hero: hot-blooded, smug, and unapologetically arrogant at the start. His reputation as a womanizer precedes him, and his take-no-prisoners attitude in business leaves Dana bristling at every turn. Yet beneath that exterior lies a man who is all passion, intensity, and just enough vulnerability to keep readers hooked. Dana, on the other hand, is his match in every way. Smart, independent, and unafraid to stand her ground, she is not dazzled by Griffin’s charm or cowed by his authority, if anything, she delights in throwing his arrogance back at him.
What makes their dynamic so delicious is the constant push-and-pull between them. The misunderstandings, jealousy, and denial fuel the sexual tension that is already sizzling from the very start. Griffin may be used to being in control, but Dana keeps him perpetually off-balance, while she herself struggles to reconcile her attraction to a man she insists she wants nothing to do with. It is opposites attract at its finest, where both are forced to confront truths about themselves in order to see the other clearly.
What I loved most about this story is how unashamedly emotional and irrational both characters can be when it comes to love. The angst is sweetly realistic, because honestly, who remains calm and rational when every touch and kiss threatens to consume you? I feel sad sometimes when I read books of today where everyone is calm and rational about their feelings. No, life does not work like that, especially when you are in the throes of passion and uncertain of your place with the one you want to be. The humor threaded through their interactions lightens the narrative, balancing the tension with laugh-out-loud moments that makes the ride even more entertaining. The ending, tender and satisfying, ties everything together beautifully.
Recommended for: readers who love boss-employee dynamics, opposites attract, and sizzling banter that will keep you grinning as much as it makes you swoon.
Final Verdict: A witty, passionate romance with a hero to make you melt and a heroine who refuses to bow to him; The Bridal Suite is Sandra Marton at her sparkling best.
Rating = 5/5
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February 19, 2022
The sexist ceo to feminist in love pipeline is truly insane. I just know that I wouldn’t have had the patience to deal with men pre-1996.
July 11, 2020
Anything can happen behind closed doors !
The newspapers called her new boss a financial genius; the gossip columns branded him gorgeous. But Dana knew Griffin McKenna took whatever he wanted, be it a company or a woman. She could think of other words to describe him: arrogant, egotistical, self-important....
When Dana and Griffin arrived at an important conference to find they had to share a room, Dana was ready to run-a whole weekend spent with Griffin in the Bridal Suite ? But then she experienced for herself the McKenna take-over techniaue...to genius and gorgeous, add great lover ! (less)
The newspapers called her new boss a financial genius; the gossip columns branded him gorgeous. But Dana knew Griffin McKenna took whatever he wanted, be it a company or a woman. She could think of other words to describe him: arrogant, egotistical, self-important....
When Dana and Griffin arrived at an important conference to find they had to share a room, Dana was ready to run-a whole weekend spent with Griffin in the Bridal Suite ? But then she experienced for herself the McKenna take-over techniaue...to genius and gorgeous, add great lover ! (less)
May 22, 2013
A very easy book to read, I seemed to fly through it! Way to quickly.
I know some say mills and boon are predictable but I love the predictability of the 2 characters meeting under various circumstance and falling in love and getting their happy ever after!
I know some say mills and boon are predictable but I love the predictability of the 2 characters meeting under various circumstance and falling in love and getting their happy ever after!
December 29, 2023
Bueno para pasar el rato
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