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Bride In Barbados
BARBADOS!
Land of searing heat and fiery sunsets. This was where Susan chose to make her home with Travis Sennett, the husband she barely knew. And there in that honeyed land, on a lush island made for love, they would carve out their future and found a dynasty that would survive forever beneath the flaming sun.
Land of searing heat and fiery sunsets. This was where Susan chose to make her home with Travis Sennett, the husband she barely knew. And there in that honeyed land, on a lush island made for love, they would carve out their future and found a dynasty that would survive forever beneath the flaming sun.
- GenresMarriage Of Convenience
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First published May 1, 1982
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Jeanne Stephens
50 books9 followersA pseudonym used by Jean Hager. AKA Leah Crane and Marlaine Kyle.
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March 27, 2021
Sexy Miami lounge singer gets swept up by sexy Barbados island tycoon into a hasty marriage, only to repent at leisure. It is only after the wedding and after she is ensconced on his island estate with no way out that she realizes he married her as a condition of his grandfather's will, in order to inherit the estate. He has to produce a legitimate heir in the next fifteen months and he figured the heroine could be an enjoyable blow up doll and broodmare for him. That is exactly how he treats her at the beginning and would have continued to treat her if she hadn't found out the truth and consequently told him off like the two day old piece of dried-up turd that he is and barred her bedroom door to him. The rest of the story is the hero realizing too late how atrociously he has behaved, how he has fallen in love with his wife, and coming up with various ways, some high-handed, other actually intimate and affectionate, to regain her trust, respect and love. There are two villainous cousins waiting on the sideline to see if the marriage will fail and they can move in to contest the will, as well as an OW and OM creating further dissension in their marriage.
What I LOVED about this story was the heroine. She had a spine of steel and made hero suffer greatly for all his lies and manipulations. She had some experience in her past that made her a lot stronger and more realistic about people in general so she was not willowy, virginal ninny who just crumbles and lets everyone steamroll over her. She genuinely fell in love with her husband despite previous bad experiences and cynicism about lying, manipulative men so I could feel what a blow it was to her to discover that the man she had believed to be her ultimate Prince Charming was just another toad.
So it was a just comeuppance that heroine lashed out at hero by flirting with the OM and dangling him before his nose while he seethed helplessly. I would normally not condone this type of behavior but in this case, the hero truly deserved it, and it was justice served. After all the horrible books where heroes dangle fang-toothed viper OWs to make the heroine suffer, it was truly a balm to my heart.
I also liked how she didn't let the OW or the villains of the story get the better of her. The OW wasn't an outright bitch and she had never had an affair with the hero, it was just a case of years-long unrequited love, BUT she did maintain an inappropriate intimacy with the hero, having him confide in her and get her advice in a way that shut the heroine out. In the end, it was clear that the heroine, and not the OW, was the priority in hero's life, especially after he let down his walls and revealed all his most intimate thoughts and vulnerability to her.
I think for sure hero didn't love his wife at the beginning and was just using her to fulfill the will but her spirit and personality is what made him grow to respect her and fall in love with her. I had no doubt by the end of the story that he is putty in her hands. He went from an arrogant, selfish and manwhorish rake to a devoted husband who actually felt remorse for his actions, wanted desperately to atone for them, and when it came to a life and death situation, begged the doctor to save his wife's life ahead of their baby if it had to come to that, even if that meant the will would be set aside. All in all, it was a pretty enjoyable story :)
What I LOVED about this story was the heroine. She had a spine of steel and made hero suffer greatly for all his lies and manipulations. She had some experience in her past that made her a lot stronger and more realistic about people in general so she was not willowy, virginal ninny who just crumbles and lets everyone steamroll over her. She genuinely fell in love with her husband despite previous bad experiences and cynicism about lying, manipulative men so I could feel what a blow it was to her to discover that the man she had believed to be her ultimate Prince Charming was just another toad.
So it was a just comeuppance that heroine lashed out at hero by flirting with the OM and dangling him before his nose while he seethed helplessly. I would normally not condone this type of behavior but in this case, the hero truly deserved it, and it was justice served. After all the horrible books where heroes dangle fang-toothed viper OWs to make the heroine suffer, it was truly a balm to my heart.
I also liked how she didn't let the OW or the villains of the story get the better of her. The OW wasn't an outright bitch and she had never had an affair with the hero, it was just a case of years-long unrequited love, BUT she did maintain an inappropriate intimacy with the hero, having him confide in her and get her advice in a way that shut the heroine out. In the end, it was clear that the heroine, and not the OW, was the priority in hero's life, especially after he let down his walls and revealed all his most intimate thoughts and vulnerability to her.
I think for sure hero didn't love his wife at the beginning and was just using her to fulfill the will but her spirit and personality is what made him grow to respect her and fall in love with her. I had no doubt by the end of the story that he is putty in her hands. He went from an arrogant, selfish and manwhorish rake to a devoted husband who actually felt remorse for his actions, wanted desperately to atone for them, and when it came to a life and death situation, begged the doctor to save his wife's life ahead of their baby if it had to come to that, even if that meant the will would be set aside. All in all, it was a pretty enjoyable story :)
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September 29, 2021
Plantation-owner hero marries the lounge-singer heroine after a whirlwind romance in Miami. Heroine is in love until she finds out that he married her for his inheritance. Since she's broke and pregnant, she runs around the island with a shady OM. Heroine is in danger at one point, but hero saves her and eventually realizes how much he cares.
This was a lot of fun. Naksed has more details in her review.
This was a lot of fun. Naksed has more details in her review.
March 29, 2021
Not bad. 3.5 to 4 stars.
This is my first book by this author and I was not disappointed. The heroine in this one was definitely not a push over.
Its a marriage in trouble trope. The couple have a whirlwind courtship and wedding and go back to the Hero’s plantation in Barbados. Soon after arriving the heroine finds out the terms of the Hero’s grandfather’s will stating that he needs to marry and have an heir to inherit.
The heroine freaks! Well, of course right? Her rose colored glasses and her feelings of love at first sight have just been ripped off. Naturally she feels betrayed, duped and used, but she doesnt take it lying down, she gives the Hero a piece of her mind and throws him out of the master bedroom 😂😂😂 I like how she immediately appropriated it for herself.
Of course she is sad and heartbroken. The Hero takes her to a party where she meets some of his friends, including a kind of OM who she flirts with. The Hero stomps around jealously but she insists on having her own friends. These tension filled state of affairs continues for months. The heroine even manages to keep her pregnancy fr the Hero for 5 months!
Things continue in this manner, with the heroine seeing her ‘friend’ to the displeasure of the Hero, until the time she has to give birth. During the birth its quite difficult and the Hero is in such agony, that after the heroine comes to believe that maybe cares about her, even if he married her under deceitful circumstances.
They talk everything over and finally get their hard won HEA.
This is my first book by this author and I was not disappointed. The heroine in this one was definitely not a push over.
Its a marriage in trouble trope. The couple have a whirlwind courtship and wedding and go back to the Hero’s plantation in Barbados. Soon after arriving the heroine finds out the terms of the Hero’s grandfather’s will stating that he needs to marry and have an heir to inherit.
The heroine freaks! Well, of course right? Her rose colored glasses and her feelings of love at first sight have just been ripped off. Naturally she feels betrayed, duped and used, but she doesnt take it lying down, she gives the Hero a piece of her mind and throws him out of the master bedroom 😂😂😂 I like how she immediately appropriated it for herself.
Of course she is sad and heartbroken. The Hero takes her to a party where she meets some of his friends, including a kind of OM who she flirts with. The Hero stomps around jealously but she insists on having her own friends. These tension filled state of affairs continues for months. The heroine even manages to keep her pregnancy fr the Hero for 5 months!
Things continue in this manner, with the heroine seeing her ‘friend’ to the displeasure of the Hero, until the time she has to give birth. During the birth its quite difficult and the Hero is in such agony, that after the heroine comes to believe that maybe cares about her, even if he married her under deceitful circumstances.
They talk everything over and finally get their hard won HEA.
October 2, 2021
It was really nice to read a heroine with a steel backbone!
July 22, 2023
Good story, good characters, right amounts of heartbreak and travelogue.
January 9, 2026
I just couldn't get into this story. I would have liked it better if the whole thing with the grandfather's will had been out in the open and the H was honest from the start, instead of trying to keep it from her. It could have been a business arrangement for them both, since she was out of a job, wasn't into her singing career anymore, and had her fill of crummy guys, so it could have been a way out for her, too and later things start to change, and a good story might have come out of it.
Instead, it seems like he was only using her from the start; he needed a wife ASAP, so why not someone he knew he wouldn't mind hitting the sheets with, so he'd at least get good bedroom action out of the deal?
When she confronts him with the truth, he admits he should have told her from the start. You think???? Well, DUH!!!!!
The h, for all her supposed feistiness and backbone, was a bit of a dim bulb when it came to men. In college, she fell for a guy without a clue that he had another girlfriend, then she makes the brilliant decision to get involved with her professor and is "shocked" to discover he's married! (Well, COME ON!!! Didn't it occur to her that a man his age just might have a wife, as well as kids????) After this, she gets engaged to a real loser but doesn't discover this fact until almost a year of wearing his ring! Later, she has a sleazy boss who makes it clear he wants to get in her panties, yet she puts up with his crap way too long! Finally, she meets the H, jumps into bed with him almost immediately, and agrees to marry him only a few days later, despite hardly knowing anything about him, convinced that it's true love! THAT BULB GETS DIMMER ALL THE TIME!
She shows her feistiness and backbone when she finds out the truth about why the H married her, then she determines to have revenge, make him pay, etc., when he refuses to agree to a divorce.
Instead of apologizing and asking her to forgive him, he acts like a jerk, telling her he'll see to it she doesn't leave him, will keep her there by force, and other "charming" phrases. (How could she possibly resist him???)
And (big surprise) there's a bun in the oven that she doesn't want to tell him is baking. Naturally, there's also the OM/OW to stir up jealousy, with the h using the OM as part of her revenge, and the H taking advantage of the OW (for once a decent person) and her love for him, by relying on her friendship and choosing to overlook how she feels about him.
Neither the H nor the h has a problem with using people.
Also, once again you have a couple who have nothing in common except sex, yet we're supposed to believe they're soulmates! HAH!! Even with the baby, I can't see a HEA for them.
DNF
Instead, it seems like he was only using her from the start; he needed a wife ASAP, so why not someone he knew he wouldn't mind hitting the sheets with, so he'd at least get good bedroom action out of the deal?
When she confronts him with the truth, he admits he should have told her from the start. You think???? Well, DUH!!!!!
The h, for all her supposed feistiness and backbone, was a bit of a dim bulb when it came to men. In college, she fell for a guy without a clue that he had another girlfriend, then she makes the brilliant decision to get involved with her professor and is "shocked" to discover he's married! (Well, COME ON!!! Didn't it occur to her that a man his age just might have a wife, as well as kids????) After this, she gets engaged to a real loser but doesn't discover this fact until almost a year of wearing his ring! Later, she has a sleazy boss who makes it clear he wants to get in her panties, yet she puts up with his crap way too long! Finally, she meets the H, jumps into bed with him almost immediately, and agrees to marry him only a few days later, despite hardly knowing anything about him, convinced that it's true love! THAT BULB GETS DIMMER ALL THE TIME!
She shows her feistiness and backbone when she finds out the truth about why the H married her, then she determines to have revenge, make him pay, etc., when he refuses to agree to a divorce.
Instead of apologizing and asking her to forgive him, he acts like a jerk, telling her he'll see to it she doesn't leave him, will keep her there by force, and other "charming" phrases. (How could she possibly resist him???)
And (big surprise) there's a bun in the oven that she doesn't want to tell him is baking. Naturally, there's also the OM/OW to stir up jealousy, with the h using the OM as part of her revenge, and the H taking advantage of the OW (for once a decent person) and her love for him, by relying on her friendship and choosing to overlook how she feels about him.
Neither the H nor the h has a problem with using people.
Also, once again you have a couple who have nothing in common except sex, yet we're supposed to believe they're soulmates! HAH!! Even with the baby, I can't see a HEA for them.
DNF
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