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The Spaniard's Blackmailed Bride
Blackmailed into marriage to save her family, Briar Davenport aims to remain a virgin bride—for she despises her husband, Diablo Barrentes! But when the sexy Spaniard touches her, Briar loses all her resolve and reason!
Yet despite their passion, can a marriage of convenience—born out of revenge—ever be anything more? As secrets are revealed, Briar comes to realize that with Diablo it is better the devil you know.
Yet despite their passion, can a marriage of convenience—born out of revenge—ever be anything more? As secrets are revealed, Briar comes to realize that with Diablo it is better the devil you know.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 2009
About the author
Trish Morey
509 books221 followersTrish Morey always fancied herself a writer, but was sternly advised that she better better think about getting a real job instead. Which Trish figures must be why she spent her university years washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant by night and picking gherkins for an Adelaide Hills primary producer by day. (Enough to put you off "real jobs" for life).
It was another twelve years, an accounting career and two babies on that Trish once again turned her mind to writing. it was a further eleven years (and two more babies:)) before Trish sold her first book to Harlequin Presents, and her dream of being a published author came true.
Some forty books later, Trish is now an award winning and USA Today Bestselling Author of some 40+ books. Trish still loves writing romance but these days combines it with all the fun, drama and sisterhood of women, family and girlfriends.
When she’s not out traveling the world in search of inspiration for her stories, Trish lives with her husband, Daisy their over enthusiastic Cavoodle pup, Daisy, and Leo, their very old and totally unenthusiastic cat, down on the glorious South Coast of South Australia where the waves crash over the granite rocks and splash upon the golden sands.
It was another twelve years, an accounting career and two babies on that Trish once again turned her mind to writing. it was a further eleven years (and two more babies:)) before Trish sold her first book to Harlequin Presents, and her dream of being a published author came true.
Some forty books later, Trish is now an award winning and USA Today Bestselling Author of some 40+ books. Trish still loves writing romance but these days combines it with all the fun, drama and sisterhood of women, family and girlfriends.
When she’s not out traveling the world in search of inspiration for her stories, Trish lives with her husband, Daisy their over enthusiastic Cavoodle pup, Daisy, and Leo, their very old and totally unenthusiastic cat, down on the glorious South Coast of South Australia where the waves crash over the granite rocks and splash upon the golden sands.
Trish reckons she has the best job in the world.
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January 19, 2018
This forced-marriage-by-blackmail story is what I like to call a Clan of the Cave Bear book. No, this story isn’t about cavemen, but the hero is a Neanderthal – as in a throw back to an era where Margaret Pargeter and Lilian Peake roamed HPlandia. The heroine is his perfect Neanderthal mate who lets him walk all over her for orgasms.
The Clan of the Cave Bear was not about Neanderthals. In fact, I don’t remember what it was about. Just that I couldn’t put it down and I had to finish reading it before I went out on New Year’s Eve in 1984. It was a snowy night and I was just as content to sit home and read as long as that crackalicious book kept going. By 9:00 I had finished it and then we were out driving from party to party on empty, snowy streets.
A good decision to read CCB? Don’t know. Don’t care. I loved the intensity of it. Good decision to drive around on snowy streets? Probably not – but it was fun and memorable and I’m alive to tell the tale.
So, this story. It’s a reading experience like CCB. It’s a throw back to those infuriating HPs when the hero has the whip hand throughout and only shows the briefest emotion at the very end. I loved feeling like the top of my head was going to peel off from rage. *happy sigh* Especially when the stupid, stupid heroine groveled to *him* and then he shoves her out of his life only to regret it in the next scene.
So spoilers:
The heroine is forced into marriage by her father. They are a high society family and the scandal of losing all of their money to the upstart Spanish hero was too much for any of them to bear. Heroine is a horrified virgin, but she is attracted to Diablo (his name!) against her will.
Everything is against her will as she melts into a puddle of orgasmic goo whenever the hero is around. The heroine does have the foresight to keep taking her birthcontrol pills on the sly and the H/h do manage to walk upright on the beach (with rip currents – foreshadow alert) to round out their honeymoon.
Back in the city, the heroine makes the hero dinner, but he doesn’t come home until the late hours. Then she finds he’s pulled funding from her father. She storms out.
A must read if you’re a fan of high blood pressure and the roller coaster ride of idiot heroine with an alpha who never learns he’s in the 21st century.
The Clan of the Cave Bear was not about Neanderthals. In fact, I don’t remember what it was about. Just that I couldn’t put it down and I had to finish reading it before I went out on New Year’s Eve in 1984. It was a snowy night and I was just as content to sit home and read as long as that crackalicious book kept going. By 9:00 I had finished it and then we were out driving from party to party on empty, snowy streets.
A good decision to read CCB? Don’t know. Don’t care. I loved the intensity of it. Good decision to drive around on snowy streets? Probably not – but it was fun and memorable and I’m alive to tell the tale.
So, this story. It’s a reading experience like CCB. It’s a throw back to those infuriating HPs when the hero has the whip hand throughout and only shows the briefest emotion at the very end. I loved feeling like the top of my head was going to peel off from rage. *happy sigh* Especially when the stupid, stupid heroine groveled to *him* and then he shoves her out of his life only to regret it in the next scene.
So spoilers:
The heroine is forced into marriage by her father. They are a high society family and the scandal of losing all of their money to the upstart Spanish hero was too much for any of them to bear. Heroine is a horrified virgin, but she is attracted to Diablo (his name!) against her will.
Everything is against her will as she melts into a puddle of orgasmic goo whenever the hero is around. The heroine does have the foresight to keep taking her birthcontrol pills on the sly and the H/h do manage to walk upright on the beach (with rip currents – foreshadow alert) to round out their honeymoon.
Back in the city, the heroine makes the hero dinner, but he doesn’t come home until the late hours. Then she finds he’s pulled funding from her father. She storms out.
A must read if you’re a fan of high blood pressure and the roller coaster ride of idiot heroine with an alpha who never learns he’s in the 21st century.
January 31, 2018
This is going to be one of those ranty reviews and you can put it all down to heroine.
A Beauty and the Beast story. Guess who’s the Beast? Yep, the bitchy, strident, entitled, snooty bee-yotch of a heroine. I felt so sorry for Beauty, our poor six foot bajillion inch arrogant Spanish-raised-by-his-bootstraps tycoon, that fell in love with her.
Once again, the apple doesn’t fall from the tree adage comes to life as the heroine is coerced/blackmailed by her two parents, the Worthless's, into the MOC with big, bad Beauty to save their social status, the house and their bank accounts. Actually that’s a lie, Helping Mum and Dad Worthless out is the one point in her favor. Beauty wants her and he wants a family, but the Beast starts popping BC pills right away. Don’t blame her for that at this point.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The morning after, while monologuing to herself about how she doesn’t want him, the Beast is sexually enthralled with Beauty and peeved he’s not making the moves on her.
She attacks him verbally again for being too ambitious and too successful, you know - the two things that allowed him to save her worthless family’s delicate, inbred selves. Push comes to shove and he tells her if she wants him she’ll have to come to him, and he’s very good at waiting.
Loins explode, and they end back in merry old Sydney where it turns out Daddy Worthless has been up to his gambling habits again which negates the deal he made with Beauty. When the Beast finds that out that the deal is off, and that Beauty is NOT going to fund her parents entitled lifestyle anymore she tells him he’s a liar, and she’s leaving him forever, so there.
Beast finds out the truth and starts trying to figure out how she’s going to get back in Beauty's good graces since her bridge done burned.
She tracks the H down and grovels her way back because she loves him sooooo much and wants to have his babies when the other shoe drops. The H finds the her BC pills and kicks her out for lying to him to get the Crackerjack prize.
She leaves and help save a child from drowning, but sadly the Beast survives.
I hated this witch. It’s nice to know that I do hold the same standards of behavior to the h’s that I do to my heroes. This guy is arrogant but he needs a much nicer heroine. Let’s switch her with Lindy, the sweet heroine in Greek Tycoon, Inexperienced Mistress. Beast will do just fine with Atreus.
I was curious enough to check on social hierarchy in Australia and found this quiz and a several articles. Love how the ridiculousness of an HP can actually inspire research.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-28...
A Beauty and the Beast story. Guess who’s the Beast? Yep, the bitchy, strident, entitled, snooty bee-yotch of a heroine. I felt so sorry for Beauty, our poor six foot bajillion inch arrogant Spanish-raised-by-his-bootstraps tycoon, that fell in love with her.
Once again, the apple doesn’t fall from the tree adage comes to life as the heroine is coerced/blackmailed by her two parents, the Worthless's, into the MOC with big, bad Beauty to save their social status, the house and their bank accounts. Actually that’s a lie, Helping Mum and Dad Worthless out is the one point in her favor. Beauty wants her and he wants a family, but the Beast starts popping BC pills right away. Don’t blame her for that at this point.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The morning after, while monologuing to herself about how she doesn’t want him, the Beast is sexually enthralled with Beauty and peeved he’s not making the moves on her.
She attacks him verbally again for being too ambitious and too successful, you know - the two things that allowed him to save her worthless family’s delicate, inbred selves. Push comes to shove and he tells her if she wants him she’ll have to come to him, and he’s very good at waiting.
Loins explode, and they end back in merry old Sydney where it turns out Daddy Worthless has been up to his gambling habits again which negates the deal he made with Beauty. When the Beast finds that out that the deal is off, and that Beauty is NOT going to fund her parents entitled lifestyle anymore she tells him he’s a liar, and she’s leaving him forever, so there.
Beast finds out the truth and starts trying to figure out how she’s going to get back in Beauty's good graces since her bridge done burned.
She tracks the H down and grovels her way back because she loves him sooooo much and wants to have his babies when the other shoe drops. The H finds the her BC pills and kicks her out for lying to him to get the Crackerjack prize.
She leaves and help save a child from drowning, but sadly the Beast survives.
I hated this witch. It’s nice to know that I do hold the same standards of behavior to the h’s that I do to my heroes. This guy is arrogant but he needs a much nicer heroine. Let’s switch her with Lindy, the sweet heroine in Greek Tycoon, Inexperienced Mistress. Beast will do just fine with Atreus.
I was curious enough to check on social hierarchy in Australia and found this quiz and a several articles. Love how the ridiculousness of an HP can actually inspire research.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-28...
July 20, 2018
According to the blurb this was first published in 2007, not that you’d guess that from reading this book. It seems to hark back to the 1970’s. The story line is a bit ridiculous. The leading man Diablo is literally cast as the devil in this. Briar the heroine is forced to marry him to save her family.
I’m giving this one 3 stars for the entertainment factor alone. Diablo and Briar WTF the names are ridiculous. When Briar’s father loses his fortune to Diablo, he agrees that he will let Briar’s parents still live in their mansion with an allowance if Briar marries him. Briar hates Diablo, but he keeps giving her orgasms so she can hardly form a sensible thought poor girl. The end result is that it’s really her father who’s the devil as he bet Briar in a game of cards and Diablo won her, I’m not sure how that exonerates Diablo. But she herself realises that it’s her weak father and simpleminded mother who are the real villains. She lives happily ever after with Diablo.
I’m giving this one 3 stars for the entertainment factor alone. Diablo and Briar WTF the names are ridiculous. When Briar’s father loses his fortune to Diablo, he agrees that he will let Briar’s parents still live in their mansion with an allowance if Briar marries him. Briar hates Diablo, but he keeps giving her orgasms so she can hardly form a sensible thought poor girl. The end result is that it’s really her father who’s the devil as he bet Briar in a game of cards and Diablo won her, I’m not sure how that exonerates Diablo. But she herself realises that it’s her weak father and simpleminded mother who are the real villains. She lives happily ever after with Diablo.
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October 13, 2013
dat was an amazing wonderful read ! i absolutely loved it ! i admired briar's spirit n feisty manners. she never allowed diablo 2 walk over her !! she pestered him, irritated him, did not give him a chance 2 feel peaceful n he deserved it after the stunt he pulled lol ! though at the end, we learn dat all was not as it seemed 2be. appearances were deceitful. briar took the right decision (u will learn what i'm talking about when u read the book), she had 2 think of herself 1st n i think what she did was logical. not like in other books, where heroine is good samaritan n they stretch it beyond limit lol !! in this one, the heroine outshined the hero. she was such a strong character !
November 8, 2014
It's not often that the hero is the one who misjudged. In fact, maybe this is the first from me. I like it :)
August 13, 2018
Did not like the female lead at all. I realise she had issues with the male lead but she ran hot and cold all the time. I cannot understand how he could stay around her. Thankyou Trish Morey for the epilogue. I like to know how things worked out in the long run.
August 25, 2021
the story is kinda boring, both hero and heroine are stubborn, they're kinda a match made in hell.
the hero was marrying the heroine to save her family's from a total bankruptcy. she hated him so much, but she married him anyway. the hero was Spanish and was raised in Australia.
the hero was marrying the heroine to save her family's from a total bankruptcy. she hated him so much, but she married him anyway. the hero was Spanish and was raised in Australia.
May 4, 2017
Leído el 20/08/2011
November 1, 2019
Typical harlequin
March 5, 2022
Ok story with explicit scenes
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May 20, 2016هروب في الليل (روايات أحلام #444)
تأليف تريش موري (تأليف)
اقترب ديابلو منها وقد بدا بوضوح نفاد صبره، فقال: "حسناً! ما الذي قررته؟".
أجابت مارتا بكلمات لاذعة: "إنني أكرهك من صميم قلبي". اخترقت عيناه عينيها، ما جعلها منقطعة الأنفاس غير قادرة على الحراك. تنهد ديابل�� واستدار مبتعداً، ثم قال: "الكراهية وهي الوجه الآخر للشغف".
سحبت مارتا الهواء بقوة إلى رئتيها، فيما صرّح ديابلو ببرود تام: "أريدكم أن توضبوا أغراضكم وترحلوا من هنا مع بداية الأسبوع".
- لا!
استدار نحوها وقال: "ما الذي تقصدينه؟ شروطي واضحة". همست مارتا قائلة: "سوف أفعل ذلك... سأتزوجك!".
تأليف تريش موري (تأليف)
اقترب ديابلو منها وقد بدا بوضوح نفاد صبره، فقال: "حسناً! ما الذي قررته؟".
أجابت مارتا بكلمات لاذعة: "إنني أكرهك من صميم قلبي". اخترقت عيناه عينيها، ما جعلها منقطعة الأنفاس غير قادرة على الحراك. تنهد ديابل�� واستدار مبتعداً، ثم قال: "الكراهية وهي الوجه الآخر للشغف".
سحبت مارتا الهواء بقوة إلى رئتيها، فيما صرّح ديابلو ببرود تام: "أريدكم أن توضبوا أغراضكم وترحلوا من هنا مع بداية الأسبوع".
- لا!
استدار نحوها وقال: "ما الذي تقصدينه؟ شروطي واضحة". همست مارتا قائلة: "سوف أفعل ذلك... سأتزوجك!".
June 4, 2021
Blackmailed into marriage to save her family, Briar Davenport aims to remain a virgin bride--for she despises her husband, Diablo Barrentes! But when the sexy Spaniard touches her, Briar loses all her resolve and reason! Yet despite their passion, can a marriage of convenience--born out of revenge--ever be anything more? As secrets are revealed, Briar comes to realize that with Diablo it is better the devil you know
September 28, 2011
Not terrible, some ok emotional angst. I prefer it when the hero knows he's in love with the heroine before the very end of the book. Side note, OMG, I couldn't stop cringing whenever I saw the word "Blaxlea."
March 7, 2010
sexy6550
March 25, 2019
One of the better ones.
February 17, 2015
not bad
The story was okay. Did not like how she felt superior to him all the time. Too much class distinction. That being said, it was a good story. Read it twice.
The story was okay. Did not like how she felt superior to him all the time. Too much class distinction. That being said, it was a good story. Read it twice.
September 18, 2013
Deceitful bitch heroine ruined the book! Can't believe I read that!
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