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The Italian's Defiant Mistress
The Italian billionaire's inexperienced mistress
Eve has come to Florence seeking information and only Raphael di Lazaro, heir to the Lazaro Fashion House, holds the answers. Surrounded by glamour, Eve's out of her depth--until she realizes Raphael wants her! If becoming his mistress will help Eve, she'll fake the sophistication Raphael's expecting--but that means being available to his every desire...
Eve has come to Florence seeking information and only Raphael di Lazaro, heir to the Lazaro Fashion House, holds the answers. Surrounded by glamour, Eve's out of her depth--until she realizes Raphael wants her! If becoming his mistress will help Eve, she'll fake the sophistication Raphael's expecting--but that means being available to his every desire...
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2007
About the author
India Grey
127 books95 followersIndia Grey was born in England, UK. A self-confessed romance junkie, she was just thirteen years old when she first sent away for the Mills & Boon Writers' Guidelines. She can still recall the thrill of getting the large brown envelope with its distinctive logo through the letterbox, and subsequently whiled away many a dull school-day staring out the window and dreaming of the perfect hero. She kept these guidelines with her for the next ten years, tucking them carefully inside the cover of each new diary in January, and beginning every list of New Year's resolutions with the words Start Novel. In the meantime she also gained a degree in English literature and language from Manchester University, and in a stroke of genius on the part of the Gods of romance, met her gorgeous future husband on the very last night of their three years there. The last fifteen years have been spent blissfully buried in domesticity, and heaps of pink washing generated by three small daughters, but she has never really stopped daydreaming about romance. She's just profoundly grateful to have finally got an excuse to do it legitimately! After meeting the bestselling novelist Penny Jordan, she returned to writing romance, and sold her first novel in September 2006. In 2009, her novel Mistress: Hired for the Billionaire's Pleasure won the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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November 6, 2011
The Italian’s Defiant Mistress, India Grey’s debut novel was incredibly amazing! That level of writing and the complexity of the story and characters was not what I would expect from a first” timer”!!!! The depth and intricacies of the story make more than just a quick and fast insta-love story.
Set in a world that I am somewhat familiar with – my husband being a fashion/advertising photographer, I was curious about how the author would portray the glitzy and glamorous……
Using some of the most beautiful cities in Italy, we enter the lives of celebrities, of supermodels, the world of fashion shows
An alluring world that we can only dream of, the life of excess and drugs, pervasive need for fame and riches, the constant glare of cameras/flashes recording every moment of your life….more, more and more…
The unique plot, which begins when the young heroine, Eve Middlemiss, arrives in Florence…yes, the amazing and glorious city of Firenze…
To expose and destroy the person who caused her sister’s death. Using the cover of a supermodel’s assistant, she attends the famous di Lazaro fashion house, when she discovers the man that she had been staring at and felt drawn to at the show is Raphael di Lazaro, world famous photographer and eldest son of the di Lazaro dynasty…. and the person she thinks is responsible for supplying the drugs to her sister.
Raphael di Lazaro (damn, I love his name!!!!)and his half brother Luca are heirs to the di Lazaro fashion empire. Raphael is on a mission to expose the true nature of his brother’s life…a drug user and supplier, who feels nothing about using people to achieve his goals….to live a life of hedonism, regardless who he hurts or destroys along the path.
Determined to keep Eve away from his brother’s clutches, he spirits her away to his home in……ooh my gosh….what could be more romantic???
Raphael & Eve shared a sizzling chemistry –
This was a deeply moving story that pulled at so many of my emotions.
Brilliant book and a definite KEEPER …to be read again!!!!!
Set in a world that I am somewhat familiar with – my husband being a fashion/advertising photographer, I was curious about how the author would portray the glitzy and glamorous……
Using some of the most beautiful cities in Italy, we enter the lives of celebrities, of supermodels, the world of fashion shows
An alluring world that we can only dream of, the life of excess and drugs, pervasive need for fame and riches, the constant glare of cameras/flashes recording every moment of your life….more, more and more…
The unique plot, which begins when the young heroine, Eve Middlemiss, arrives in Florence…yes, the amazing and glorious city of Firenze…
on a mission!!!
To expose and destroy the person who caused her sister’s death. Using the cover of a supermodel’s assistant, she attends the famous di Lazaro fashion house, when she discovers the man that she had been staring at and felt drawn to at the show is Raphael di Lazaro, world famous photographer and eldest son of the di Lazaro dynasty…. and the person she thinks is responsible for supplying the drugs to her sister.
Raphael di Lazaro (damn, I love his name!!!!)and his half brother Luca are heirs to the di Lazaro fashion empire. Raphael is on a mission to expose the true nature of his brother’s life…a drug user and supplier, who feels nothing about using people to achieve his goals….to live a life of hedonism, regardless who he hurts or destroys along the path.
Determined to keep Eve away from his brother’s clutches, he spirits her away to his home in……ooh my gosh….what could be more romantic???
Raphael & Eve shared a sizzling chemistry – passionate, painful, sexual tension, conflict, sadness……A complex alpha-hero, strong, caring, responsible, determined and a naïve and feisty and spontaneous heroine……two people who learn that not all in life is black and white, that sometimes things are not what they seem to be and how mistrust and lies can change your life forever. And that along the road on the journey you are going on….to find that love can really make your world be a better place to be in.
This was a deeply moving story that pulled at so many of my emotions.
Brilliant book and a definite KEEPER …to be read again!!!!!
December 19, 2014
It's moments before she has to strut her stuff down a catwalk wearing a plastic dress and Eve's having a bit of a panic. She's no model! She's not even the fashion journalist she's pretending to be. No, Eve is a junior academic in Renaissance poetry, but she's here investigating her sister's death and if that means walking around half naked then, by golly, she'll do it.
'Just focus on one person and pretend you're sex walking to them,’ Eve’s model friend tells her, so Eve myopically does and that's how she first sees Raphael. Blurry hot guy.
The fashion show is a retrospective of Raphael's Dad's long career in fashion, and Raphael's also there for Reasons, but he's really taken with Eve's catwalk sashay. The two of them rapidly transition from eyes meet to intros with dialogue to finding an empty room to kiss and get rather handsy.
It's all moving so fast, quick, throw in some plot! Eve let’s something slip about drugs, and Raphael’s all, woah, maybe she’s involved in the Badness! Must keep a close eye on her and find out what she knows! And take her to my family’s houses and touch her and remember that she is probably the enemy and stop touching her, and then forget that and start touching her again!
This is an embarrassing admission: for almost the entire story I thought Raphael was a secret agent. He's media shy, and he backstories on about how he was in Columbia for 18 months and there were drug lords, and I thought he was probably hanging out with them and drinking whiskey and laughing at divers petty cruelties. Oh look, flies are landing on that tortured minion’s open wounds! I shall guffaw and make snide comments! And then I shall have tiny worries about the darkness corrupting my soul and push them aside because, the mission!
In his opening scenes Raphael’s taking calls from some guy I assumed was some sort of law enforcement about witnesses and evidence and the case against the villain dealer. His job is being a photographer but that was obviously his deep cover story, and while there's nothing at all plausible about him being a secret agent I thought that was the whole point. These books aren’t long enough to give the rich, authentic details of the adventures of secret agents as are found in movies or American TV, so I thought I was being expected to let it all go, and just be all ‘oh neat, Italian James Bond, that’s exactly what I wanted to read.’ Which: happy to give it a go. I was thinking: well, he’s wrapped up the main bit of the mission in Columbia, and this bit in this story is just about the final piece in the puzzle, and this time it’s personal. It continually struck me that all of this was completely unrealistic, but I just kept telling myself: this is fiction, this is Harlequin Presents, shut up brain!
Of course, that never works completely, but I did try. When Raphael and Eve fly to Venice in the family's private plane I was having a debate with myself as to whether he could claim it as travel expenses. I concluded that he could because of the mission, but thought the other agents would probably think he was being a dick if he did.
I was fully expecting the story's crucial scene to be Eve held at gunpoint by the dealer villain while Raphael looks on and feels all the feelings. You know, about how he'd been wrong about her and this job is too filthy and should never have touched something so pure, and how he's so in love with her and couldn't admit it and now it's too late and he'll die before he lets anything happen to her etc. Just imagine that muscle tick moving under his jaw, the only sign that belies the indifference in his glacially cold eyes. Needless to say, that doesn't happen.
I'm not one to complain (such a lie), and there's plenty of other stuff going on to keep me entertained. Eve and Raphael are both highly suspicious of each other - Eve thinks Raphael is the evil dealer, and Raphael thinks she Knows Something. Not much, because he also thinks she's a bimbo and he is not at all impressed by the muckraking publication she supposedly works for. Eve is also an accidental nudist, which is certainly great for getting Raphael's attention, but not great for demonstrating she has much going on, noggin-wise. The both do a satisfactory amount of yearning for each other’s bodies while trying to resist because of the other’s status as a potential baddy, although not quite enough to divert me from the fact that Eve’s sister Ellie was her twin, they looked heaps alike, and Ellie lived with Carolina, who was Raphael’s betrothed before Raphael discovered that she was unfaithful. And, involved in the evil drugs. So at no stage did Raphael ever meet his betrothed’s roommate? And, why did I think Eve thought Ellie had been murdered again? And that Eve had to go undercover to investigate? I don’t know.
There’s a courtroom scene at the end with lawyers yelling obiezione and cross examination to prove their love and a judge who’s like, whatever, I’ll allow it, which is all possibly not exactly how the Italian justice system works, but I’ll allow it too, because it was cute.
'Just focus on one person and pretend you're sex walking to them,’ Eve’s model friend tells her, so Eve myopically does and that's how she first sees Raphael. Blurry hot guy.
The fashion show is a retrospective of Raphael's Dad's long career in fashion, and Raphael's also there for Reasons, but he's really taken with Eve's catwalk sashay. The two of them rapidly transition from eyes meet to intros with dialogue to finding an empty room to kiss and get rather handsy.
It's all moving so fast, quick, throw in some plot! Eve let’s something slip about drugs, and Raphael’s all, woah, maybe she’s involved in the Badness! Must keep a close eye on her and find out what she knows! And take her to my family’s houses and touch her and remember that she is probably the enemy and stop touching her, and then forget that and start touching her again!
This is an embarrassing admission: for almost the entire story I thought Raphael was a secret agent. He's media shy, and he backstories on about how he was in Columbia for 18 months and there were drug lords, and I thought he was probably hanging out with them and drinking whiskey and laughing at divers petty cruelties. Oh look, flies are landing on that tortured minion’s open wounds! I shall guffaw and make snide comments! And then I shall have tiny worries about the darkness corrupting my soul and push them aside because, the mission!
In his opening scenes Raphael’s taking calls from some guy I assumed was some sort of law enforcement about witnesses and evidence and the case against the villain dealer. His job is being a photographer but that was obviously his deep cover story, and while there's nothing at all plausible about him being a secret agent I thought that was the whole point. These books aren’t long enough to give the rich, authentic details of the adventures of secret agents as are found in movies or American TV, so I thought I was being expected to let it all go, and just be all ‘oh neat, Italian James Bond, that’s exactly what I wanted to read.’ Which: happy to give it a go. I was thinking: well, he’s wrapped up the main bit of the mission in Columbia, and this bit in this story is just about the final piece in the puzzle, and this time it’s personal. It continually struck me that all of this was completely unrealistic, but I just kept telling myself: this is fiction, this is Harlequin Presents, shut up brain!
Of course, that never works completely, but I did try. When Raphael and Eve fly to Venice in the family's private plane I was having a debate with myself as to whether he could claim it as travel expenses. I concluded that he could because of the mission, but thought the other agents would probably think he was being a dick if he did.
I was fully expecting the story's crucial scene to be Eve held at gunpoint by the dealer villain while Raphael looks on and feels all the feelings. You know, about how he'd been wrong about her and this job is too filthy and should never have touched something so pure, and how he's so in love with her and couldn't admit it and now it's too late and he'll die before he lets anything happen to her etc. Just imagine that muscle tick moving under his jaw, the only sign that belies the indifference in his glacially cold eyes. Needless to say, that doesn't happen.
I'm not one to complain (such a lie), and there's plenty of other stuff going on to keep me entertained. Eve and Raphael are both highly suspicious of each other - Eve thinks Raphael is the evil dealer, and Raphael thinks she Knows Something. Not much, because he also thinks she's a bimbo and he is not at all impressed by the muckraking publication she supposedly works for. Eve is also an accidental nudist, which is certainly great for getting Raphael's attention, but not great for demonstrating she has much going on, noggin-wise. The both do a satisfactory amount of yearning for each other’s bodies while trying to resist because of the other’s status as a potential baddy, although not quite enough to divert me from the fact that Eve’s sister Ellie was her twin, they looked heaps alike, and Ellie lived with Carolina, who was Raphael’s betrothed before Raphael discovered that she was unfaithful. And, involved in the evil drugs. So at no stage did Raphael ever meet his betrothed’s roommate? And, why did I think Eve thought Ellie had been murdered again? And that Eve had to go undercover to investigate? I don’t know.
There’s a courtroom scene at the end with lawyers yelling obiezione and cross examination to prove their love and a judge who’s like, whatever, I’ll allow it, which is all possibly not exactly how the Italian justice system works, but I’ll allow it too, because it was cute.
December 29, 2015
India Grey, antes de hablar de países ajenos, documentate mejor. Hizo quedar a Colombia como el flagelo de su historia y eso es como decir que las favelas son todo Brasil, o que en Argentina viven todos gauchos. No es así. Hay que derribar algunos mitos tan inconsistentes.
Después, los protagonistas no me transmitieron nada. La leí sólo por inercia, el argumento de la venganza así a la bartola (just for the fun, sin saber bien de quién vengarse...) que se diluye porque la prota tiene la tanga floja, nono. Él ni siquiera está bueno. Aburridísimos los dos.
Después, los protagonistas no me transmitieron nada. La leí sólo por inercia, el argumento de la venganza así a la bartola (just for the fun, sin saber bien de quién vengarse...) que se diluye porque la prota tiene la tanga floja, nono. Él ni siquiera está bueno. Aburridísimos los dos.
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April 24, 2017
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June 25, 2011
I hate how my mind sometimes disconnects me from perfectly enjoyable books. My actual reading grade for it is about 3 stars, but I know it deserves at least 4 - there are just days when I don't enjoy reading (plus, I was all over Wilkie Collins this week so I couldn't be bothered to concentrate on anyone else ;).
Very funny in most instances, very good, funny ending, would recommend.
Very funny in most instances, very good, funny ending, would recommend.
November 15, 2008
The Italian’s Defiant Mistress is India Grey’s debut book and it is smashing! Set in Florence and Venice it is full of fashion, glitz, glamour, celebrities and it is very exciting and alluring. Eve Middlemiss was on an assignment for a fashion magazine but more than that, she is on a mission to find out and expose the person who provided her twin sister with drugs and caused her death. Her assignment is to follow a supermodel and in doing so ends up on the runway herself. As she’s nervous and inexperienced she’s told to focus on something while she traverses the runway and she sees a tall, dark and handsome man who she’s immediately drawn to who ends up being Raphael.
Raphael di Lazaro and his half brother Luca are heirs to the di Lazaro fashion house. Raphael’s mission is to expose his brother Luca for what he is…..a “user” and supplier of drugs to models. Raphael has an axe to grind with Luca as his one time girlfriend left him, went to Luca, ended up an addict, and almost died. He is determined not to let his brother ruin or end another model’s life.
Eve is determined as well that she will expose a di Lazaro and make him pay for ending her sister’s life. She believes the responsible person is Raphael because she learns he has been spending some time in Columbia. Later that evening Eve meets up with both men at a party. When Raphael sees Eve with his brother, he feels honour bound to protect her so he grabs and kisses her senseless and boy do the sparks fly. Later he tries to send her home but the spirited and determined Eve refuses.
Eve and Raphael’s journey is passionate, painful and in the end full of sorrow. When Eve discovers she is in love with him and by chance sees Raphael meeting with his ex-girlfriend she misunderstands and flees. The pain she endures upon returning home and then having to reappear in Italy to testify against Luca di Lazaro will break your heart.
This story was an amazing look into the lives of celebrities and fashion models and reminds me so much of what’s now going on in the lives of young actors and in the music industry all over the world. It is certainly a lesson as to how destructive drugs can be in a person life. Then there is the important lesson of how things are not always as they look and how misunderstood and untrusting we can be of those, we love.
I sincerely and thoroughly enjoyed India Grey’s first romance book The Italian’s Defiant Mistress and I personally look forward to reading many more of her entertaining stories.
Book Description:
The Italian billionaire's inexperienced mistress Eve Middlemiss has come to Florence desperate for information. And only darkly good-looking multimillionaire Raphael di Lazaro, heir to the Lazaro Fashion House, holds the answers she's searching for.
Surrounded by glamour and decadence, Eve is totally out of her depth - until she realises she is the one Raphael wants!If becoming the Italian's mistress is what it takes to find out the truth about her family, Eve realises she must feign the sophistication and experience she's sure Raphael is accustomed to - but that means making herself available to his every desire...
Raphael di Lazaro and his half brother Luca are heirs to the di Lazaro fashion house. Raphael’s mission is to expose his brother Luca for what he is…..a “user” and supplier of drugs to models. Raphael has an axe to grind with Luca as his one time girlfriend left him, went to Luca, ended up an addict, and almost died. He is determined not to let his brother ruin or end another model’s life.
Eve is determined as well that she will expose a di Lazaro and make him pay for ending her sister’s life. She believes the responsible person is Raphael because she learns he has been spending some time in Columbia. Later that evening Eve meets up with both men at a party. When Raphael sees Eve with his brother, he feels honour bound to protect her so he grabs and kisses her senseless and boy do the sparks fly. Later he tries to send her home but the spirited and determined Eve refuses.
Eve and Raphael’s journey is passionate, painful and in the end full of sorrow. When Eve discovers she is in love with him and by chance sees Raphael meeting with his ex-girlfriend she misunderstands and flees. The pain she endures upon returning home and then having to reappear in Italy to testify against Luca di Lazaro will break your heart.
This story was an amazing look into the lives of celebrities and fashion models and reminds me so much of what’s now going on in the lives of young actors and in the music industry all over the world. It is certainly a lesson as to how destructive drugs can be in a person life. Then there is the important lesson of how things are not always as they look and how misunderstood and untrusting we can be of those, we love.
I sincerely and thoroughly enjoyed India Grey’s first romance book The Italian’s Defiant Mistress and I personally look forward to reading many more of her entertaining stories.
Book Description:
The Italian billionaire's inexperienced mistress Eve Middlemiss has come to Florence desperate for information. And only darkly good-looking multimillionaire Raphael di Lazaro, heir to the Lazaro Fashion House, holds the answers she's searching for.
Surrounded by glamour and decadence, Eve is totally out of her depth - until she realises she is the one Raphael wants!If becoming the Italian's mistress is what it takes to find out the truth about her family, Eve realises she must feign the sophistication and experience she's sure Raphael is accustomed to - but that means making herself available to his every desire...
June 16, 2011
The heroine Even has travelled to Florence under the guise of writing an article on a famous model for the di Lazaro fashion house, however she is really there to find the person responsible for supplying her twin sister with drugs that lead to her death. From details found on a scrap of paper in her sisters belongings Eve believes this person to be Raphael di Lazaro, when it is actually his half brother Luca. Raphael has been away from the family for a while, and is now back with the intention of bringing Luca to justice. When Raphael and Eve meet there is an immediate attraction between them. Eve tries to fight this but knows she has to stay close to him in order to expose him and Raphael feels the need to protect her, especially when Luca takes an interest.
As they spend time together they both valiantly try to fight against their growing feelings for one another but eventually a passionate affair begins. But when secrets are revealed and two perfectly timed misunderstandings happen they are both left broken hearted.
If I hadn't already known this was India Grey's debut book then I wouldn't have believed you if you told me! The book is written just as well as any seasoned pro, and I loved it from start to finish.
First things first, I'm obsessed with the fashion industry so to read a book based on this was always going to be popular with me, and even though the industry is not shown in the best of light it was really interesting and very well researched. The look into the lives of celebrities and the unfortunate drug culture within this is a controversial yet very hot button issue and it was executed really well.
The hero and heroine were both fantastic characters; Raphael was the perfect Alpha-male and managed to be both confident and caring without being cruel, and Eve was a fabulous feisty female character.
When the big conflict happened it was so intense and heart breaking that I actually had no idea how these two could ever make it work. I'm desperate to tell you what happens but I'm not going to, you will have to read it for yourself!
India Grey fits perfectly into a class of some of the more recent Mills and Boon writers (e.g. Heidi Rice, Abby Green, Maisey Yates, Lynn Raye Harris and many more!) that have brought these books up to date and really made them their own and far more appealing for the 21st century women!
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
As they spend time together they both valiantly try to fight against their growing feelings for one another but eventually a passionate affair begins. But when secrets are revealed and two perfectly timed misunderstandings happen they are both left broken hearted.
If I hadn't already known this was India Grey's debut book then I wouldn't have believed you if you told me! The book is written just as well as any seasoned pro, and I loved it from start to finish.
First things first, I'm obsessed with the fashion industry so to read a book based on this was always going to be popular with me, and even though the industry is not shown in the best of light it was really interesting and very well researched. The look into the lives of celebrities and the unfortunate drug culture within this is a controversial yet very hot button issue and it was executed really well.
The hero and heroine were both fantastic characters; Raphael was the perfect Alpha-male and managed to be both confident and caring without being cruel, and Eve was a fabulous feisty female character.
When the big conflict happened it was so intense and heart breaking that I actually had no idea how these two could ever make it work. I'm desperate to tell you what happens but I'm not going to, you will have to read it for yourself!
India Grey fits perfectly into a class of some of the more recent Mills and Boon writers (e.g. Heidi Rice, Abby Green, Maisey Yates, Lynn Raye Harris and many more!) that have brought these books up to date and really made them their own and far more appealing for the 21st century women!
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
February 20, 2012
4 Stars! ~ Rumours have it that the world famous photographer Raphael di Lazaro, heir to the Lazaro fashion house, is back in Italy; and Eve Middlemiss knows that he has something to do with her sister Ellie’s death, and she means to prove it. So taking her bestfriend's place as a Fashion Journalist, Eve travels to Florence to shadow a Lazaro model and cover the debut of a new Lazaro fragrance. Raphael has cause to hate paparazzi and any other journalist; but there’s something about Eve that brings out his protective instincts and when he finds his brother, Luca hitting on her, he whisks her away. The power of their attraction is intense, and Eve begins to think that the only way to get close to Raphael is to seduce him. And Raphael knows that the only way to keep Eve safe from his drug pushing brother is to keep Eve with him always.
This was originally released as a Modern Extra by Mills & Boon and is Ms. Grey’s debut. Though Raphael is an alpha hero, he is not quite as sure of himself as the typical Presents hero. Eve is very young, which is reminiscent of the very early Presents. Though young and inexperienced she’s forces herself to overcome her shyness in her desperation for justice in her sister’s death. The chemistry between Raphael and Eve is wonderfully written, and the added intrigue of fashion and the drug world, keeps the story on edge. I think Ms. Grey has done exceptionally well in her debut; her fresh voice is appealing and this reader is eager to read more
This was originally released as a Modern Extra by Mills & Boon and is Ms. Grey’s debut. Though Raphael is an alpha hero, he is not quite as sure of himself as the typical Presents hero. Eve is very young, which is reminiscent of the very early Presents. Though young and inexperienced she’s forces herself to overcome her shyness in her desperation for justice in her sister’s death. The chemistry between Raphael and Eve is wonderfully written, and the added intrigue of fashion and the drug world, keeps the story on edge. I think Ms. Grey has done exceptionally well in her debut; her fresh voice is appealing and this reader is eager to read more
May 1, 2012
This was a very different HP in that it was a "who-done-it" thriller.....with a bit of a love story thrown in the mix. I didn't see the ending coming and loved how the author played that out! My only dislike with the book, is it felt like certain scenes dragged on, and I found myself flipping through the book for a quicker finish.
I have read that this is the author's first HP. I think she is off to a great start!
I have read that this is the author's first HP. I think she is off to a great start!
January 15, 2017
This book was just an ok read. Not bad but I will probably forget I ever read it. One thing that annoyed me was her glasses. She supposedly couldn’t see without them but had no problem seeing things that was important to the plot. A small thing but as a person with very bad eyesight myself, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
September 20, 2017
Eve has come to Florence seeking information and only Raphael di Lazaro, heir to the Lazaro Fashion House, holds the answers. Surrounded by glamour, Eve's out of her depth--until she realizes Raphael wants her! If becoming his mistress will help Eve, she'll fake the sophistication Raphael's expecting--but that means being available to his every desire...
September 2, 2019
An engrossing read. Hugely enjoyable!
This stunning debut for the MODERN/ PRESENTS series shows all of the early story-telling promise that has become such a hallmark of her later books. In Eve she created an engaging heroine that readers were going to have empathy for from the outset and gave her a hero that ticked all the boxes for a Mills & Boon hero. I'd read several of her titles for HMB prior to finding this debut novel second hand in a charity shop, and I'm glad that I did. The author has moved onto longer fiction almost seamlessly and to much deserved critical acclaim and having read this debut it's easy to see why those recent novels have been much sought after and why her fans in the MODERN/PRESENTS series like myself would love to see her come back to these someday.
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This stunning debut for the MODERN/ PRESENTS series shows all of the early story-telling promise that has become such a hallmark of her later books. In Eve she created an engaging heroine that readers were going to have empathy for from the outset and gave her a hero that ticked all the boxes for a Mills & Boon hero. I'd read several of her titles for HMB prior to finding this debut novel second hand in a charity shop, and I'm glad that I did. The author has moved onto longer fiction almost seamlessly and to much deserved critical acclaim and having read this debut it's easy to see why those recent novels have been much sought after and why her fans in the MODERN/PRESENTS series like myself would love to see her come back to these someday.
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December 29, 2025
I didn't like it. It wasn't terrible, but I wouldn't want to re-read it. There was too much miscommunication and secrets. Then there was a 6 month seperation. She thought he cheated and he thought she cheated, both deliberately led to believe that by the hero's brother.
I did like that the hero was celibate for the 2 years before he met heroine. He was also celibate during his 6 month seperation from the heroine. P.
I did like that the hero was celibate for the 2 years before he met heroine. He was also celibate during his 6 month seperation from the heroine. P.
October 31, 2024
Pretty good although the endless misunderstandings got tiresome.
September 15, 2016
Couldn't finish this one.
Too much cheesy emotion based on one day only acquaintance, especially when h suspecting H is responsible of her twin sister`s death.
Too much cheesy emotion based on one day only acquaintance, especially when h suspecting H is responsible of her twin sister`s death.
December 1, 2011
Great romantic locations of Florence and Venice and I liked the hero and heroine's characters. The only reason I gave this 3 and not 4 stars was that the plot seemed a bit too contrived and convoluted to me and though I like complexity in characters, I like a clear, simply presented plot that keeps me turning the page. Still, an enjoyable read.
November 14, 2012
Definitely a nice harlequin worth reading. If you discount the murder and trial, literally and figuratively. I actually liked both hero and heroine and I loved Gianni and how he practically solved everything.
May 18, 2014
It's an ok book with really shit Italian phrases, I'm sorry but if you want to add authenticity to the story, make sure it is authentic! He kept calling her bello, basic Italian 101, o is for boys, a is for girls!
August 27, 2010
Very nice story and the ending was terrific!
October 22, 2012
Great first novel from India Grey. Can't wait to read more of her books
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