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A Bride for His Convenience
For Convenience—Or For Real?
Rob Leicester's wealth was matched by his arrogance. Initially Caiti found working for the millionaire Australian resort owner tough. But hostility turned to attraction and virginal Caiti gave Rob everything. She was overjoyed when he proposed that they wed.
However, Caiti's joy turned to shame when she discovered that Rob had married her purely for reasons of convenience. Her only option was to leave and build a new life elsewhere. But Rob wasn't about to let her go. As soon as an opportunity arose, he was in Caiti's life again, ready to claim her—but, this time, as his wife for real!
Rob Leicester's wealth was matched by his arrogance. Initially Caiti found working for the millionaire Australian resort owner tough. But hostility turned to attraction and virginal Caiti gave Rob everything. She was overjoyed when he proposed that they wed.
However, Caiti's joy turned to shame when she discovered that Rob had married her purely for reasons of convenience. Her only option was to leave and build a new life elsewhere. But Rob wasn't about to let her go. As soon as an opportunity arose, he was in Caiti's life again, ready to claim her—but, this time, as his wife for real!
184 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 2005
About the author
Lindsay Armstrong
320 books92 followersGillian Smith (alias Lindsay Armstrong) was born in South Africa. She grew up with three ambitions: to become a writer, to travel the world, and to be a game ranger. She didn't achieve the last one, but her fascination for wildlife and that special something about Africa and its big game still remains with her. When she went to work it was in travel, at an agency and an airline, and this started her on the road to seeing the world.
Lindsey met her New Zealand-born husband, who had been working in West Africa, when he was on his way home through Johannesburg. He did go home but in a matter of weeks he was back in South Africa, and six months later they were married. Three of their five children were born in South Africa. Then one in London and one in Australia, after they made the decision to emigrate from South Africa.
It wasn't until her youngest child started school that Lindsay sat down at the kitchen table determined to tackle her other ambition to stop dreaming about writing and do it! She hasn't stopped since. She's not happy unless she has a book under way, and she's discovered she can write through just about anything.
Lindsay and her husband have moved around a lot. They've trained racehorses,farmed, and lived on their boat for six months while they sailed it from the Gold Coast to the Torres Strait and back, an epic voyage! They currently live in Queensland, overlooking the water; they sold their farm, and they're looking around for another boat. She and her husband love to travel and have been back to Africa twice in the past few years. The highlight of one of their trips was a visit to the Serengeti, in Tanzania, where Lindsay did the one thing she swore she would never do: take a ride in a hot-air balloon. She was a nervous wreck as the balloon tottered upright, but will remember it as a unique experience to see the game spreading out on the Serengeti plain beneath her as the sun rose.
"They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there..."
Despite this passion for wildlife and Africa, Lindsay considers Australia her home now and loves the country. She travelled to Sydney to witness the closing weekend of the Olympic Games in September 2000; it made her proud to be an adopted Aussie!
Lindsey met her New Zealand-born husband, who had been working in West Africa, when he was on his way home through Johannesburg. He did go home but in a matter of weeks he was back in South Africa, and six months later they were married. Three of their five children were born in South Africa. Then one in London and one in Australia, after they made the decision to emigrate from South Africa.
It wasn't until her youngest child started school that Lindsay sat down at the kitchen table determined to tackle her other ambition to stop dreaming about writing and do it! She hasn't stopped since. She's not happy unless she has a book under way, and she's discovered she can write through just about anything.
Lindsay and her husband have moved around a lot. They've trained racehorses,farmed, and lived on their boat for six months while they sailed it from the Gold Coast to the Torres Strait and back, an epic voyage! They currently live in Queensland, overlooking the water; they sold their farm, and they're looking around for another boat. She and her husband love to travel and have been back to Africa twice in the past few years. The highlight of one of their trips was a visit to the Serengeti, in Tanzania, where Lindsay did the one thing she swore she would never do: take a ride in a hot-air balloon. She was a nervous wreck as the balloon tottered upright, but will remember it as a unique experience to see the game spreading out on the Serengeti plain beneath her as the sun rose.
"They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there..."
Despite this passion for wildlife and Africa, Lindsay considers Australia her home now and loves the country. She travelled to Sydney to witness the closing weekend of the Olympic Games in September 2000; it made her proud to be an adopted Aussie!
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February 13, 2019
It's color-by-numbers Lindsay Armstrong. The cold, arrogant guy with major emotional walls enters a marriage of convenience with the sweet virgin heroine in order to ward off the slutty OW, in this case his own sister-in-law.
The reason this wasn't as vomit-inducing as LA's other similarly tropey MOC stories is that the heroine had a solid spine, and the hero did some needed grovel, or as much grovel as an LA hero can muster. His concluding ILY was not only moving, it was believable, a real rarity in the LA oeuvre.
What was missing was a confrontation with the OW and a resolution of that thread once and for all, preferably kicking her to the curb never to be seen or heard from again. Unfortunately, everything happens off page. We never meet the OW though her specter flies malevolently over the protagonists' sunny wilderness camp, and it seems she is solidly entrenched in the family, which will make future family Sunday dinners very interesting to say the least.
The reason this wasn't as vomit-inducing as LA's other similarly tropey MOC stories is that the heroine had a solid spine, and the hero did some needed grovel, or as much grovel as an LA hero can muster. His concluding ILY was not only moving, it was believable, a real rarity in the LA oeuvre.
What was missing was a confrontation with the OW and a resolution of that thread once and for all, preferably kicking her to the curb never to be seen or heard from again. Unfortunately, everything happens off page. We never meet the OW though her specter flies malevolently over the protagonists' sunny wilderness camp, and it seems she is solidly entrenched in the family, which will make future family Sunday dinners very interesting to say the least.
February 13, 2019
I found a cure for insomnia! This book was a total snoozefest and I actually fell asleep reading it. The heroine was an idiot and the H needed to learn to communicate properly. Just a boring boring story about man and wife meeting up after 18 months apart. The wife ran away because she felt the H married her for convenience and he kind of did but he ended up loving her. He ran an adult type summer camp and his ex lover married his brother but wanted the hero on the side so the hero liked the h and was going to use her as a deterrent. It all worked out but it took far too long. I just kept hoping it would get better but that is a big NO! It never did. Would not recommend.
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July 29, 2024
LA trademark emotionally unavailable H Rob Leicester, owner of a kind of rainforest holiday camp, goes after half French tour guide Caiti then proposed marriage after realizing he's deflowered a virgin who is head over heels. He has all sorts of family baggage, including his brother's wife being his ex. Two days after the wedding, poor Caiti overhears him admitting to what is essentially a MoC and does a runner. The story starts 18 months later when by complete HP coincidence they are reunited as best man and chief bridesmaid for her cousin's wedding. I think she was right to hold out as.much as she could until he sorted himself out and grovelled. Poor girl. Some of these LA Hs. Man.🙄
October 10, 2024
Holy gawd this was boring
February 20, 2016
If you love flash backs and dumbassed storylines this is one for you. Cait goes to cairns to be bridesmaid for her best friends wedding only to meet up with her separated husband Rob, who is the best man at the same wedding. Drama drama drama, not surprisingly they get back together. I had to look up the publish date 'cause the couple referred each other by their titles.
July 19, 2018
Standard Harlequin category romance, I guess. I don't love the way this one is set up - we meet the heroine on her way to her cousin's wedding, where she learns that the best man is her estranged secret husband, and then experience periodic flashbacks to her meeting and marrying said husband. The hero's a jackass - he's the heroine's boss when they meet and is mean to her because she's so pretty he assumes she trades on her looks to get anywhere, and then proceeds to sexually harass her. There are also a lot of secondary relationships playing out in various ways that don't get nearly enough airtime for me to care about their resolutions.
June 13, 2013
the storyline is so fucked up
October 26, 2018
A Bride for His Convenience
This was about a second chance at their marriage. They married in hast. She finds out it was just about the convenience to him and takes off. They had issues but her running away made things worse. Now there is a chance to get the while story from him.
This was about a second chance at their marriage. They married in hast. She finds out it was just about the convenience to him and takes off. They had issues but her running away made things worse. Now there is a chance to get the while story from him.
March 27, 2022
Sweet romance. I liked both MCs and the story. The H was emotionally inhibited but I believed he really loved the heroine. What he said was pretty bad but he redeemed himself.
It could be shorter and it could be even more angsty.
It could be shorter and it could be even more angsty.
December 27, 2020
Second chance romance.... good but not great
June 23, 2024
Good story with h who reacts the way one would. I get so tired of Hs who wall themselves off/don’t want to fall in love/don’t recognize or admit when they do.
Reread,confirm rating.
Reread,confirm rating.
May 29, 2011
La narrativa mezcla presente y pasado en una dosis perfecta, aunque la historia no va mas allá de estar tibia. A lo mejor, son los conflictos entre otra pareja que atrapan al lector, pues Rob y Caiti carecen de carisma.
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