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The Rinucci Brothers #5
The Mediterranean Rebel's Bride
Venue jusqu’à Naples pour rencontrer Ruggiero Rinucci, l’ancien amant de sa cousine aujourd’hui disparue, Polly ne peut s’empêcher de ressentir une légère appréhension… et pour cause ! Elle doit lui annoncer une nouvelle qui menace de mettre en péril son existence de play-boy : il est le père d’un petit garçon de deux ans…
192 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2007
About the author
Lucy Gordon
694 books91 followersChristine Sparks was born in England, UK. She wanted to be a writer all her life, and began by working on a British women's magazine. As a features writer, she gained a wide variety of experience. She interviewed some of the world's most attractive and interesting men, including Warren Beatty, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Alec Guiness.
Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time. Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian artist, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day. Three months later they were married. Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never last, but they celebrated their 25 anniversary, they are still married, still happy and in love.
After 13 years on the magazine Christine decided that it was now or never if she was ever going to write that novel. So she wrote Legacy of Fire which became a Silhouette Special Edition, followed by another, Enchantment in Venice. Then she did something crazy gave up her job. Since then she has concentrated entirely on writing romances for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette and has written over 75 books. Her settings have been European and her heroes mainly English or Italian. Christine now claims to be an expert on one particular subject. Italian men are the most romantic in the world. They are also the best cooks.
A few years ago she and her husband returned to Venice and lived there for a couple of years. This proved the perfect base for exploring the rest of Italy, and she has given many of her books Italian settings: Venice (of course), Rome, Florence, Milan, Sicily, Tuscany. She has also used the Rhine in Germany for Song of the Lorelei, for which she won her first RITA Award, in 1991. Her second RITA came in 1998, with His Brother's Child, set in Rome.
Eventually Christine Fiorotto and her husband returned to England, where they now live. She write and he paints, they have no children, but have a cat and a dog.
Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time. Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian artist, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day. Three months later they were married. Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never last, but they celebrated their 25 anniversary, they are still married, still happy and in love.
After 13 years on the magazine Christine decided that it was now or never if she was ever going to write that novel. So she wrote Legacy of Fire which became a Silhouette Special Edition, followed by another, Enchantment in Venice. Then she did something crazy gave up her job. Since then she has concentrated entirely on writing romances for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette and has written over 75 books. Her settings have been European and her heroes mainly English or Italian. Christine now claims to be an expert on one particular subject. Italian men are the most romantic in the world. They are also the best cooks.
A few years ago she and her husband returned to Venice and lived there for a couple of years. This proved the perfect base for exploring the rest of Italy, and she has given many of her books Italian settings: Venice (of course), Rome, Florence, Milan, Sicily, Tuscany. She has also used the Rhine in Germany for Song of the Lorelei, for which she won her first RITA Award, in 1991. Her second RITA came in 1998, with His Brother's Child, set in Rome.
Eventually Christine Fiorotto and her husband returned to England, where they now live. She write and he paints, they have no children, but have a cat and a dog.
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August 27, 2018
Se oli hyvä kirja :)
May 2, 2020
Good read.
April 12, 2012
Another of the Rinucci Brothers series. I nearly put it down when it opened with the wedding of Carlo and Della from The Italian's Wife By Sunset which left me severely depressed considering how lovely the story was. This story didn't have the same effect fortunately. Ruggiero is adorable but struggling with his memories of a lost love that may turn out to be just a fantasy when his lost loves cousin turns up with the child of that two week romance. What Polly has to tell Ruggiero is shattering and most of the book is about how he comes to terms with the news she gives him and the different picture of his idyll and the lovely "Saphire" he'd fallen for. Polly, the practical one has to help him through this transition from fantasy to truth and also help him connect with his child. Both Ruggiero and Polly have issues to deal with from their relationship with Polly's cousin and this may very well derail the romance everyone else but they seem to accept as inevitable. The portrayal of the large Italian family was nice but it seemed like the other happily married siblings were dragged in just for the sake of it at times. In 50k words it seems overkill to individually name every one of them when only a couple actually got to say a word. The story overall was lovely and I liked it.
January 22, 2012
This is 5th in a series of six novels featuring the Rinucci family. I read the last book a few years ago as a library discard and liked the Rinucci parents Holly and Toni. The family Lucy Gordon built was very entertaining and although neither book 'wowed' me, they were nice stories centred around nice people. This might seem as 'damning with faint praise' but in the world of books sometimes the nucleus of a loving family gets less play.
February 14, 2008
This book is good, I love it, you can feel how desperate Ruggiero when he think about Sapphire, and when finally he tried to found Polly, when she came back to her home.
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April 22, 2018Plain Jane and the Italian rebel--Polly Hanson must go to Naples to find Ruggiero Rinucci, and what she has to tell him will surely end his bachelor ways--he is the father of her late cousin's baby! But nothing quite prepares Polly for Ruggiero's reaction.
Outwardly he's a carefree playboy; inwardly he once loved so passionately it nearly broke him. Polly wants to help him, yet she feels forever in her cousin's shadow. Can plain Polly tame this wild Italian's heart?
Outwardly he's a carefree playboy; inwardly he once loved so passionately it nearly broke him. Polly wants to help him, yet she feels forever in her cousin's shadow. Can plain Polly tame this wild Italian's heart?
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