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Her Secret Bridegroom
Bride by deception!
After a whirlwind wedding in Venice, Amy discovered that her brand-new husband had married her to gain a priceless old ring! Fleeing Italy, Amy never told anyone of her marriage to ruthless billionaire Vincenzo Ravenelli.
Four years later, while Amy knew she'd never really love another man as she loved Vincenzo, she needed to be free of the past. The time had come to return to Venice and confront her secret bridegroom....
After a whirlwind wedding in Venice, Amy discovered that her brand-new husband had married her to gain a priceless old ring! Fleeing Italy, Amy never told anyone of her marriage to ruthless billionaire Vincenzo Ravenelli.
Four years later, while Amy knew she'd never really love another man as she loved Vincenzo, she needed to be free of the past. The time had come to return to Venice and confront her secret bridegroom....
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
About the author
Kate Walker
505 books150 followersI was born in Nottinghamshire, England, but I didn't live there for very long. The family moved to West Yorkshire when I was just eighteen months old and so I have always regarded Yorkshire as my home. I grew up there as the middle child in a family of five—all girls—in a home where books were vitally important and I read anything I could get my hands on.
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
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October 8, 2019
Re Her Secret Bridegroom - otherwise known as Kate Walker's tedious mess with people who were dropped on their heads at birth and now are really, really, really dumb.
The backstory on this is that the H and h were married in Venice four years earlier. The h was in love, but the H's motives appeared to be that he and his competitive slime slurper cousin made a bet that the H couldn't get the h.
The prize for winning that bet was NOT the h as someone's unicorn grooming, sweetly blushing bride. The real prize was a priceless ruby ring and family heirloom that the H really, really wanted. So both the slime slurper and the H went all out to seduce the h.
However when the h played with unicorns, they lent her extra unicorn magic and she had a spine of steel in resisting any and all efforts to get her into the lurve club swinging party. So the H married her - he clearly states he did so because that was the only way the h would allow her unicorn license to be revoked.
Naturally, as this is HPlandia and we have RULES here, the h finds out about the bet right after the wedding - from none other than the H's very envious and mean slime slurping cousin. The h is upset and promptly declares that she only married the H for his money anyways.
Everybody has a drama moment, Operatic Italian Style and the h wanders back home to England, sans the H.
Four years on, the story opens with the h wanting a divorce to move on with her life. So she heads to Italy and the H. There is a lot of lies, some romantic Venetian H wooing and an H vow that he has been celibate for the last four years.
The h doesn't care, cause she wants to be LOVED and she still thinks the H is only hanging on because he has his personal honor to uphold. So the h tells the H she needs a divorce to marry her social climbing, money grubbing and very pedantic boss.
The H is all about checking out the competition, so he tells the h they will go back to England together and if the H likes what he sees, he will sign the divorce papers.
(The H is really serious about this, he loves the h and wants her to be happy - so he even gives the h's OM dating pointers and wooing advice.)
The h gets more and more shrewish as the H and OM compete for her affections and the H keeps offering the OM really good business deals- so that the OM can support the h in comfort and wealth.
Eventually it all peaks out at the h's country cottage getaway weekend she had booked for herself. The H maneuvers himself into accompanying the h and we get the big purple passion lurve club reunion moment.
When the h starts crying, the H finally throws in the towel and says he will sign the divorce papers. The h is hurt and whiny all over again cause she thought the reunification explosion meant they were rebooting their marriage, but the H claims he got what he wanted from her.
The h thinks that her deep dark seekrit confession that her very own father never wanted her has turned the H right off of her charms and her person, so she has to have a big mopey moment that all men everywhere, (and probably a few unicorns too,) don't think she is good enough to love.
It isn't until the OM shows up to declare that he and the h are not a thing that the h decides she will tell the H that she loves him now and wants to stay married to him. The h makes her grand confession and the H is relieved.
The H was just trying to help the h be happy and find her best life, but he is really glad that the h has decided to be happy in Italy with him, for the final leap to the big HEA.
This one was just too much misunderstanding with a whole bunch of brain deprived characters. The h was definitely one of the dumb and mean with it types who lashes out in her pain and the H was not the sharpest tool in the shed either.
I really do wonder if adequate head protection was provided for these two as infants, but the H was really nice after he got over his bickering and everybody stayed celibate - which is reason enough to tolerate this as a bit below average HPlandia outing.
The backstory on this is that the H and h were married in Venice four years earlier. The h was in love, but the H's motives appeared to be that he and his competitive slime slurper cousin made a bet that the H couldn't get the h.
The prize for winning that bet was NOT the h as someone's unicorn grooming, sweetly blushing bride. The real prize was a priceless ruby ring and family heirloom that the H really, really wanted. So both the slime slurper and the H went all out to seduce the h.
However when the h played with unicorns, they lent her extra unicorn magic and she had a spine of steel in resisting any and all efforts to get her into the lurve club swinging party. So the H married her - he clearly states he did so because that was the only way the h would allow her unicorn license to be revoked.
Naturally, as this is HPlandia and we have RULES here, the h finds out about the bet right after the wedding - from none other than the H's very envious and mean slime slurping cousin. The h is upset and promptly declares that she only married the H for his money anyways.
Everybody has a drama moment, Operatic Italian Style and the h wanders back home to England, sans the H.
Four years on, the story opens with the h wanting a divorce to move on with her life. So she heads to Italy and the H. There is a lot of lies, some romantic Venetian H wooing and an H vow that he has been celibate for the last four years.
The h doesn't care, cause she wants to be LOVED and she still thinks the H is only hanging on because he has his personal honor to uphold. So the h tells the H she needs a divorce to marry her social climbing, money grubbing and very pedantic boss.
The H is all about checking out the competition, so he tells the h they will go back to England together and if the H likes what he sees, he will sign the divorce papers.
(The H is really serious about this, he loves the h and wants her to be happy - so he even gives the h's OM dating pointers and wooing advice.)
The h gets more and more shrewish as the H and OM compete for her affections and the H keeps offering the OM really good business deals- so that the OM can support the h in comfort and wealth.
Eventually it all peaks out at the h's country cottage getaway weekend she had booked for herself. The H maneuvers himself into accompanying the h and we get the big purple passion lurve club reunion moment.
When the h starts crying, the H finally throws in the towel and says he will sign the divorce papers. The h is hurt and whiny all over again cause she thought the reunification explosion meant they were rebooting their marriage, but the H claims he got what he wanted from her.
The h thinks that her deep dark seekrit confession that her very own father never wanted her has turned the H right off of her charms and her person, so she has to have a big mopey moment that all men everywhere, (and probably a few unicorns too,) don't think she is good enough to love.
It isn't until the OM shows up to declare that he and the h are not a thing that the h decides she will tell the H that she loves him now and wants to stay married to him. The h makes her grand confession and the H is relieved.
The H was just trying to help the h be happy and find her best life, but he is really glad that the h has decided to be happy in Italy with him, for the final leap to the big HEA.
This one was just too much misunderstanding with a whole bunch of brain deprived characters. The h was definitely one of the dumb and mean with it types who lashes out in her pain and the H was not the sharpest tool in the shed either.
I really do wonder if adequate head protection was provided for these two as infants, but the H was really nice after he got over his bickering and everybody stayed celibate - which is reason enough to tolerate this as a bit below average HPlandia outing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 8, 2019
Re Her Secret Bridegroom - otherwise known as Kate Walker's tedious mess with people who were dropped on their heads at birth and now are really, really, really dumb.
The backstory on this is that the H and h were married in Venice four years earlier. The h was in love, but the H's motives appeared to be that he and his competitive slime slurper cousin made a bet that the H couldn't get the h.
The prize for winning that bet was NOT the h as someone's unicorn grooming, sweetly blushing bride. The real prize was a priceless ruby ring and family heirloom that the H really, really wanted. So both the slime slurper and the H went all out to seduce the h.
However when the h played with unicorns, they lent her extra unicorn magic and she had a spine of steel in resisting any and all efforts to get her into the lurve club swinging party. So the H married her - he clearly states he did so because that was the only way the h would allow her unicorn license to be revoked.
Naturally, as this is HPlandia and we have RULES here, the h finds out about the bet right after the wedding - from none other than the H's very envious and mean slime slurping cousin. The h is upset and promptly declares that she only married the H for his money anyways.
Everybody has a drama moment, Operatic Italian Style and the h wanders back home to England, sans the H.
Four years on, the story opens with the h wanting a divorce to move on with her life. So she heads to Italy and the H. There is a lot of lies, some romantic Venetian H wooing and an H vow that he has been celibate for the last four years.
The h doesn't care, cause she wants to be LOVED and she still thinks the H is only hanging on because he has his personal honor to uphold. So the h tells the H she needs a divorce to marry her social climbing, money grubbing and very pedantic boss.
The H is all about checking out the competition, so he tells the h they will go back to England together and if the H likes what he sees, he will sign the divorce papers.
(The H is really serious about this, he loves the h and wants her to be happy - so he even gives the h's OM dating pointers and wooing advice.)
The h gets more and more shrewish as the H and OM compete for her affections and the H keeps offering the OM really good business deals- so that the OM can support the h in comfort and wealth.
Eventually it all peaks out at the h's country cottage getaway weekend she had booked for herself. The H maneuvers himself into accompanying the h and we get the big purple passion lurve club reunion moment.
When the h starts crying, the H finally throws in the towel and says he will sign the divorce papers. The h is hurt and whiny all over again cause she thought the reunification explosion meant they were rebooting their marriage, but the H claims he got what he wanted from her.
The h thinks that her deep dark seekrit confession that her very own father never wanted her has turned the H right off of her charms and her person, so she has to have a big mopey moment that all men everywhere, (and probably a few unicorns too,) don't think she is good enough to love.
It isn't until the OM shows up to declare that he and the h are not a thing that the h decides she will tell the H that she loves him now and wants to stay married to him. The h makes her grand confession and the H is relieved.
The H was just trying to help the h be happy and find her best life, but he is really glad that the h has decided to be happy in Italy with him, for the final leap to the big HEA.
This one was just too much misunderstanding with a whole bunch of brain deprived characters. The h was definitely one of the dumb and mean with it types who lashes out in her pain and the H was not the sharpest tool in the shed either.
I really do wonder if adequate head protection was provided for these two as infants, but the H was really nice after he got over his bickering and everybody stayed celibate - which is reason enough to tolerate this as a bit below average HPlandia outing.
The backstory on this is that the H and h were married in Venice four years earlier. The h was in love, but the H's motives appeared to be that he and his competitive slime slurper cousin made a bet that the H couldn't get the h.
The prize for winning that bet was NOT the h as someone's unicorn grooming, sweetly blushing bride. The real prize was a priceless ruby ring and family heirloom that the H really, really wanted. So both the slime slurper and the H went all out to seduce the h.
However when the h played with unicorns, they lent her extra unicorn magic and she had a spine of steel in resisting any and all efforts to get her into the lurve club swinging party. So the H married her - he clearly states he did so because that was the only way the h would allow her unicorn license to be revoked.
Naturally, as this is HPlandia and we have RULES here, the h finds out about the bet right after the wedding - from none other than the H's very envious and mean slime slurping cousin. The h is upset and promptly declares that she only married the H for his money anyways.
Everybody has a drama moment, Operatic Italian Style and the h wanders back home to England, sans the H.
Four years on, the story opens with the h wanting a divorce to move on with her life. So she heads to Italy and the H. There is a lot of lies, some romantic Venetian H wooing and an H vow that he has been celibate for the last four years.
The h doesn't care, cause she wants to be LOVED and she still thinks the H is only hanging on because he has his personal honor to uphold. So the h tells the H she needs a divorce to marry her social climbing, money grubbing and very pedantic boss.
The H is all about checking out the competition, so he tells the h they will go back to England together and if the H likes what he sees, he will sign the divorce papers.
(The H is really serious about this, he loves the h and wants her to be happy - so he even gives the h's OM dating pointers and wooing advice.)
The h gets more and more shrewish as the H and OM compete for her affections and the H keeps offering the OM really good business deals- so that the OM can support the h in comfort and wealth.
Eventually it all peaks out at the h's country cottage getaway weekend she had booked for herself. The H maneuvers himself into accompanying the h and we get the big purple passion lurve club reunion moment.
When the h starts crying, the H finally throws in the towel and says he will sign the divorce papers. The h is hurt and whiny all over again cause she thought the reunification explosion meant they were rebooting their marriage, but the H claims he got what he wanted from her.
The h thinks that her deep dark seekrit confession that her very own father never wanted her has turned the H right off of her charms and her person, so she has to have a big mopey moment that all men everywhere, (and probably a few unicorns too,) don't think she is good enough to love.
It isn't until the OM shows up to declare that he and the h are not a thing that the h decides she will tell the H that she loves him now and wants to stay married to him. The h makes her grand confession and the H is relieved.
The H was just trying to help the h be happy and find her best life, but he is really glad that the h has decided to be happy in Italy with him, for the final leap to the big HEA.
This one was just too much misunderstanding with a whole bunch of brain deprived characters. The h was definitely one of the dumb and mean with it types who lashes out in her pain and the H was not the sharpest tool in the shed either.
I really do wonder if adequate head protection was provided for these two as infants, but the H was really nice after he got over his bickering and everybody stayed celibate - which is reason enough to tolerate this as a bit below average HPlandia outing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 19, 2014
Her Secret Bridegroom is a book by British author, Kate Walker, in the Latin Lovers series. Amy Redman goes on holiday to Italy, succumbs to a whirlwind courtship by Vincenzo Ravenelli and is married. After one night of passion, she discovers that Cenzo married her on a bet to regain the Ravenelli ruby from his cousin. Amy runs back to England; he follows but she refuses to see him and keeps her marriage secret (really?? he didn’t try terribly hard…) Four years later she decides to go back to Italy to demand a divorce. Cenzo, the stereotypical Latin lover, refuses, he’s been faithful all that time (yeah, right). Amy, instantly overcome with desire by his masculinity any time he is near, tries to convince him she loves her milquetoast boss, David. A paper-thin plot and cardboard characters, mediocre sex scenes and not a line of humour, this is 187 pages of tiresome, tedious melodrama: save your precious reading time for something better.
April 2, 2017
This was a cute read. Though the misunderstanding was trivial and pointless, it all boils down to communication, love, trust and knowing each other. I love Italian men who can cook. Great read !
October 18, 2019
Both MCs are stupid but h was more.
July 28, 2021
I wondered what I stepped into with this one as both the H and the h were incredibly childish, they acted like they were about 12 years old.
The H makes a bet to get an heirloom back and doesn't explain himself well as heis reliving the plot of Liar Liar in an endless loop and can't tell lies is an idiot.
The h childishly retaliates by telling the H she only married him for his money.
Fast forward 4 years and the H has left the h totally alone for that entire period as when he chased after her the day after they were married he told her she would have to come to him. She comes to ask for a divorce but completely welches because she is a wuss and weak for the H. She then even more stupidly makes up a fiance when she decides 2 days later to let the H know she wants the divorce after giving him mixed signals the entire time.
I felt sorry for this H stuck with this woman. She messed him around bigtime blowing hot and cold and he never once really lost it with her he was very kind and supportive. Once he had a chance to explain the bet situation you realised how immature the h was as this could have been sorted in 30 seconds. I have no idea why the H left her alone though other than out of respect and how long he planned to leave her alone for. He was also a total beta idiot for letting the h do what she wanted and helped her OM out giving him tips to woo her.
Be happy the H is happy, he is a total fool but he is clearly mad about the silly h.
I give an extra star for being set in a town I've never heard of and is probably not real in West Yorkshire (my home county) and Grasmere in the Lake District - home of Wordsworth and inspiration for his Daffodils. The weather for the Lakes was 100% accurate!
The H makes a bet to get an heirloom back and doesn't explain himself well as he
The h childishly retaliates by telling the H she only married him for his money.
Fast forward 4 years and the H has left the h totally alone for that entire period as when he chased after her the day after they were married he told her she would have to come to him. She comes to ask for a divorce but completely welches because she is a wuss and weak for the H. She then even more stupidly makes up a fiance when she decides 2 days later to let the H know she wants the divorce after giving him mixed signals the entire time.
I felt sorry for this H stuck with this woman. She messed him around bigtime blowing hot and cold and he never once really lost it with her he was very kind and supportive. Once he had a chance to explain the bet situation you realised how immature the h was as this could have been sorted in 30 seconds. I have no idea why the H left her alone though other than out of respect and how long he planned to leave her alone for. He was also a total beta idiot for letting the h do what she wanted and helped her OM out giving him tips to woo her.
Be happy the H is happy, he is a total fool but he is clearly mad about the silly h.
I give an extra star for being set in a town I've never heard of and is probably not real in West Yorkshire (my home county) and Grasmere in the Lake District - home of Wordsworth and inspiration for his Daffodils. The weather for the Lakes was 100% accurate!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 25, 2017
Why didn't they talk to each other? Both of them told lies that could easily have been avoided if they'd talked. Yes, I understand that Amy was hurt when she thought Vicenzo married her on a bet, but the whole plot just didn't hold up, rather weak in fact.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 23, 2010
Ini dia misua pujaanku... Udah keren, tajir, gigih, manipulatif, posesif, penyayang tapi sekaligus gualak banget.... (Heran ya, pdhl gw dah galak, tapi masih demen juga ama co galak. hmpfh).
Ceritanya, Amy itu menikah hanya sehari dgn misuanya si Vincenzo (yg mengingatkan gw pd misuaku - Sebastian St. Vincent. hmpfh) yang ternyata ketahuan hanya menikahi Amy demi memenangkan taruhan cincin pusaka keluarganya dr sepupunya. Dasar Amy yg pny gengsi tinggi, dia ga mau kalah, dia bilang menikah dg Vincenzo hanya demi uang, maka diusirlah si Amy ini.
Ceritanya berlanjut 4 tahun kmd, Amy datang lagi ke Venesia utk minta cerai ama misuanya ini, tp ditolak mentah2 karena alasan Vincenzo, sbg orang Italia tidak mengenal adanya perceraian (how I love this statement....^^ Nanti gw mau cari misua orang Italia aja d)... dan Vincenzo mulai melancarkan serangan2 manipulatif nya yg super duper romantis (tapi ga noraq ky sinetron2 indo) spt naik gondola, dll. Dan mnrt pengakuan Vincenzo, dia selibat selama 4 tahun... Bayangkan... ^^ (Misua gw si Sebastian aja cuman bertahan 3 bulan. hmpfh)... Amy juga 'bersih' tidak menjalin hubungan romansa dgn siapapun dan ternyata punya trauma di masa kecil krn ayahnya tidak menginginkan kehadirannya.
Pokoknya ini novel mengaduk-aduk emosi gw dan endingnya tidak segampang ketebak seperti HQ yg lain. 10 jempol buat Kate Walker sbg authornya.
Kesimpulan: Vincenzo Ravenelli is mine!!!
Ceritanya, Amy itu menikah hanya sehari dgn misuanya si Vincenzo (yg mengingatkan gw pd misuaku - Sebastian St. Vincent. hmpfh) yang ternyata ketahuan hanya menikahi Amy demi memenangkan taruhan cincin pusaka keluarganya dr sepupunya. Dasar Amy yg pny gengsi tinggi, dia ga mau kalah, dia bilang menikah dg Vincenzo hanya demi uang, maka diusirlah si Amy ini.
Ceritanya berlanjut 4 tahun kmd, Amy datang lagi ke Venesia utk minta cerai ama misuanya ini, tp ditolak mentah2 karena alasan Vincenzo, sbg orang Italia tidak mengenal adanya perceraian (how I love this statement....^^ Nanti gw mau cari misua orang Italia aja d)... dan Vincenzo mulai melancarkan serangan2 manipulatif nya yg super duper romantis (tapi ga noraq ky sinetron2 indo) spt naik gondola, dll. Dan mnrt pengakuan Vincenzo, dia selibat selama 4 tahun... Bayangkan... ^^ (Misua gw si Sebastian aja cuman bertahan 3 bulan. hmpfh)... Amy juga 'bersih' tidak menjalin hubungan romansa dgn siapapun dan ternyata punya trauma di masa kecil krn ayahnya tidak menginginkan kehadirannya.
Pokoknya ini novel mengaduk-aduk emosi gw dan endingnya tidak segampang ketebak seperti HQ yg lain. 10 jempol buat Kate Walker sbg authornya.
Kesimpulan: Vincenzo Ravenelli is mine!!!
October 16, 2021
Her Secret Bridegroom
Their marriage began and ended in a bet. She had been an unwitting pawn between two people. One whom she fell in love with. But when the truth comes out she left. Now four years later she wants a divorce. To get one she must confront the past. But what happens when he demands her back? Will he get her?
Their marriage began and ended in a bet. She had been an unwitting pawn between two people. One whom she fell in love with. But when the truth comes out she left. Now four years later she wants a divorce. To get one she must confront the past. But what happens when he demands her back? Will he get her?
May 3, 2025
The book was meh. Could never find the reason why the FL wanted a divorce from the ML. Throughout the whole book she used the other guy as an excuse but never gave the main reason why she wanted the divorce in the first place. The story lost the whole premise at the whole point where the author's main reason for initiating reconciliation was so bogus. Oh god it's making me angry because I genuinely thought it was something big and then there was nothing.
August 9, 2018
Very "i want go (but i love you)"
March 4, 2020
Horrible. A waste of time. Pure nonsense.
December 24, 2020
2.5stars
Left me cold.
Left me cold.
August 17, 2024
The book is amazing
September 1, 2025
#148 - 2025
Genre: Harlequin Romance
Genre: Harlequin Romance
August 23, 2008
Empat tahun yang lalu,Amy meninggalkan pernikahannya dengan Vincenzo Ravenelli di Venesia karena merasa telah ditipu oleh Vincenzo. Tapi setelah empat tahun berlalu, Amy merasa harus kembali menghadapi masa lalunya. Tapi ketika kembali, ternyata keadaan telah berubah sama sekali, Voncenzo telah menjadi pewaris seluruh kekayaan Ravenelli. Dan yang membuat Amy gusar adalah Vincenzo bahkan tidak mau melepaskan Amy untuk selamanya. Bahkan ketika Amy mengatakan telah bertunangan dengan David bosnya, Vincenzo bahkan tidak percaya begitu saja, dan bersama-sama Amy pergi ke inggris untuk melihat seperti apa calon suami Amy itu...
June 4, 2021
Bride by deception!
After a whirlwind wedding in Venice, Amy discovered that her brand-new husband had married her to gain a priceless old ring! Fleeing Italy, Amy never told anyone of her marriage to ruthless billionaire Vincenzo Ravenelli.
Four years later, while Amy knew she'd never really love another man as she loved Vincenzo, she needed to be free of the past. The time had come to return to Venice and confront her secret bridegroom....
After a whirlwind wedding in Venice, Amy discovered that her brand-new husband had married her to gain a priceless old ring! Fleeing Italy, Amy never told anyone of her marriage to ruthless billionaire Vincenzo Ravenelli.
Four years later, while Amy knew she'd never really love another man as she loved Vincenzo, she needed to be free of the past. The time had come to return to Venice and confront her secret bridegroom....
March 7, 2012
Untuk cerita yang dimaksudkan sekedar menjadi hiburan ringan ini sangat menyenangkan. Seberapa sering orang bisa berlibur ke Venesia dan tiba2 menikahi jutawan ganteng Venesia? Only harlequin's romance can do that.
August 2, 2011
Penasaran gara-gara Eka ngasih 5 bintang dan langsung mengklaim si tokoh cowok. Ternyata daku dan dirinya beda selera di novel ini. :D
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