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Claiming His Wife
Overwhelmed by her sexy, brand-new Spanish husband, Cassie had let anxiety and inexperience ruin first her wedding night, then her marriage to Roman Fernandez.
Now, after a year apart, Cassie has gained self-confidence. But her brother's in serious trouble with Roman, and Cassie returns to Spain to confront him. She soon realizes with a shiver of...excitement?...that her husband has every intention of claiming his wife and testing her newfound confidence—in the bedroom...
Now, after a year apart, Cassie has gained self-confidence. But her brother's in serious trouble with Roman, and Cassie returns to Spain to confront him. She soon realizes with a shiver of...excitement?...that her husband has every intention of claiming his wife and testing her newfound confidence—in the bedroom...
192 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2001
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Diana Hamilton
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Diana Hamilton was born in a English town. Wanting to be a country child, her imagination came into play at an early age, transforming a neighbor’s tree into a forest, a hole in a stone wall into a gingerbread house, a gas puddle into a fairyland, complete with mountains, lakes and flower meadows. She loathed housework but made to do her share, to lessen the boredom, she told herself stories, in a very loud voice, featuring princesses and flower gardens, discovering that telling herself stories was almost as good as reading them in a book.
She loathed school with an equal passion and got through it by pretending to be somewhere else. Even so she left grammar school with respectable grades... And was sent to art college when she wanted to study to be a vet. This was nowhere as bad as it had seemed because it was there, at age 18, she first saw Peter. He had returned from two years’ active service in Korea to resume his studies, and Diana immediately fell in love with him.
Gaining a degree in advertising copywriting, Diana worked as a copywriter and married Peter. They moved to a remote part of Wales after the birth of their second child, Paul, when their daughter, Rebecca, was three years old. There, Diana enjoyed pony trekking and walking in the mountains; and her third child, Andrew, was born. Itchy feet brought them back to England to the beautiful county of Shropshire four years later and they have been there ever since, gradually restoring the rambling Elizabethan manor that Diana gave her heart to on sight, creating a garden out of a wilderness of nettles, brambles and old bedsteads.
In the mid-'70s Diana took up her pen again to write stories to read to her three children at bedtime. These were never offered for publication but the bug had bitten. Over the next 10 years she combined writing over 30 novels, published by Robert Hale of London, with bringing up her children, gardening and cooking for the restaurant of a local inn—a wonderful excuse to avoid the dreaded housework! In 1987 Diana realized her dearest ambition—the publication of her first Mills & Boon romance, Song in a Strange Land. She had come home. And that feeling persists to this day as, around 30 Harlequin/Mills & Boon romantic novels late, she was still in love with the genre.
Sadly, Diana Hamilton passed away on May 3, 2009, at her home in Shropshire, surrounded by her family. She will be sorely missed by her fans and everyone at Mills & Boon/Harlequin
Diana Hamilton was born in a English town. Wanting to be a country child, her imagination came into play at an early age, transforming a neighbor’s tree into a forest, a hole in a stone wall into a gingerbread house, a gas puddle into a fairyland, complete with mountains, lakes and flower meadows. She loathed housework but made to do her share, to lessen the boredom, she told herself stories, in a very loud voice, featuring princesses and flower gardens, discovering that telling herself stories was almost as good as reading them in a book.
She loathed school with an equal passion and got through it by pretending to be somewhere else. Even so she left grammar school with respectable grades... And was sent to art college when she wanted to study to be a vet. This was nowhere as bad as it had seemed because it was there, at age 18, she first saw Peter. He had returned from two years’ active service in Korea to resume his studies, and Diana immediately fell in love with him.
Gaining a degree in advertising copywriting, Diana worked as a copywriter and married Peter. They moved to a remote part of Wales after the birth of their second child, Paul, when their daughter, Rebecca, was three years old. There, Diana enjoyed pony trekking and walking in the mountains; and her third child, Andrew, was born. Itchy feet brought them back to England to the beautiful county of Shropshire four years later and they have been there ever since, gradually restoring the rambling Elizabethan manor that Diana gave her heart to on sight, creating a garden out of a wilderness of nettles, brambles and old bedsteads.
In the mid-'70s Diana took up her pen again to write stories to read to her three children at bedtime. These were never offered for publication but the bug had bitten. Over the next 10 years she combined writing over 30 novels, published by Robert Hale of London, with bringing up her children, gardening and cooking for the restaurant of a local inn—a wonderful excuse to avoid the dreaded housework! In 1987 Diana realized her dearest ambition—the publication of her first Mills & Boon romance, Song in a Strange Land. She had come home. And that feeling persists to this day as, around 30 Harlequin/Mills & Boon romantic novels late, she was still in love with the genre.
Sadly, Diana Hamilton passed away on May 3, 2009, at her home in Shropshire, surrounded by her family. She will be sorely missed by her fans and everyone at Mills & Boon/Harlequin
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March 22, 2018
Second chance story between a wealthy Spanish land owner with snobby relatives and the English Rose virgin he married after a whirlwind courtship. The heroine left him after two years because he stopped trying to bed her after a disastrous wedding night and his relatives were getting to her. Hero let her go to England to grow up and be independent for the first time in her life.
Now the heroine's twin brother has embezzled money from the hero and the heroine will keep him out of jail by living with and having sex with the hero for three months.
The heroine takes to sex like a duck to water - which makes the hero suspicious that she had a lover in England. Heroine tries to deny it. Besides she's pregnant, but before she can tell the hero, he has offered to let her leave. She takes this as rejection.
She returns to England
And these two drama queens deserve each other. One character tells the heroine that she and the hero have a communication problem. I think so. Anyway - it all works out once the heroine makes her ridiculous offer.
Now the heroine's twin brother has embezzled money from the hero and the heroine will keep him out of jail by living with and having sex with the hero for three months.
The heroine takes to sex like a duck to water - which makes the hero suspicious that she had a lover in England. Heroine tries to deny it. Besides she's pregnant, but before she can tell the hero, he has offered to let her leave. She takes this as rejection.
She returns to England
And these two drama queens deserve each other. One character tells the heroine that she and the hero have a communication problem. I think so. Anyway - it all works out once the heroine makes her ridiculous offer.
July 7, 2020
Okay frigid heroine won't let her husband touch her because she thinks he doesn't love her and she runs from the marriage. A year later she is back to save her worthless twin brother from jail for embezzlement and she gets blackmailed back into the marriage. She becomes a nympho pretty much so the hero thinks she been practicing with other men and is insanely jealous. More misunderstandings ensue including the idiot heroine moving in with the hero's cousin Guy who's in love with heroine. Smart? I think not! He finds them in robes, someone get me out of this book please, and he leaves again. She goes after him and same old HP ending. She even offers to leave the baby, because of course she is pregnant and the hero thinks it's Guys, and throws herself at his mercy because she loves him so much. It never really said he was celibate the last three years. They had horrible sex on their wedding night and she wouldn't let him touch her for two years before she left. And then the one year apart. I think he was because he was so jealous over the cousin and kept hounding her about who she'd been with. Or he has double standards but it was never cleared up. I choose to believe he was celibate.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 29, 2011
Plot rests pretty much entirely on one Big Misunderstanding after another. Characters express all extreme emotion by Not Eating. Heroine, to cheer up the miserable hero who's in the throes of the last Big Misunderstanding, promises that I can't decide if I'm more amused by the novelty and stupidity, or appalled. Honestly, they're so thick, the two protagonists, that if they were criminals, they'd be the kind that draws the disguise on the face with Jiffy markers before going to rob the liquor store.
October 5, 2015
Roman is a fool.
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December 19, 2023This book is basically one miscommunication after the other. No plot except the main leads misunderstanding each other every 5 pages
March 20, 2021
They’re married. She left him a year ago, but she comes back in Spain where he lives because her brother is in trouble.
There are several things I like in this book. First of all I like the fact that they were only separated for a year. In most HP’s the h and H are living separated for several years. I’ve read a HP where they were separated for 10 years and I found that so ridiculous. Then it isn’t love in my opinion if you can stay away from each other that long.
I also liked that she has a full figure. Not a perfect model figure, not thin. Just a fuller figure.
And I liked that the scenes in which she tells him why she did the things she did when they were married, already come up somewhere in the middle of the book. In most HP’s the explanations come at the end of the book.
The erotic scene in which they both lie in bed naked and she touches him, thinking that he is still sleeping, and he pretends to still be sleeping, is gold.
A very good read. The H and h were both a bit annoying at times, so therefore not 5 stars.
There are several things I like in this book. First of all I like the fact that they were only separated for a year. In most HP’s the h and H are living separated for several years. I’ve read a HP where they were separated for 10 years and I found that so ridiculous. Then it isn’t love in my opinion if you can stay away from each other that long.
I also liked that she has a full figure. Not a perfect model figure, not thin. Just a fuller figure.
And I liked that the scenes in which she tells him why she did the things she did when they were married, already come up somewhere in the middle of the book. In most HP’s the explanations come at the end of the book.
The erotic scene in which they both lie in bed naked and she touches him, thinking that he is still sleeping, and he pretends to still be sleeping, is gold.
A very good read. The H and h were both a bit annoying at times, so therefore not 5 stars.
January 9, 2018
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ديانا هاميلتون
روايات احلام
هل شكلت سنة من الفراق فرقا؟
حاولت كاسي إقناع نفسها أن هناك فرق .. فلم تعد تلك العروس الخائفة الساذجة التي أفسدت ليلة زفافها وزواجها من رومان فرنانديز الثري الاسباني الرائع عيبها الوحيد كان هو رومان ! وستعود إليه لتواجه هذا العيب وتتخلص من تأثيره عليها لكن عينيه قالتا لها إنه لم يكن نادما قط وقال لسانه لنرى اذا كان هناك فرق ! أريد حقوقي الزوجية كلها!
ديانا هاميلتون
روايات احلام
هل شكلت سنة من الفراق فرقا؟
حاولت كاسي إقناع نفسها أن هناك فرق .. فلم تعد تلك العروس الخائفة الساذجة التي أفسدت ليلة زفافها وزواجها من رومان فرنانديز الثري الاسباني الرائع عيبها الوحيد كان هو رومان ! وستعود إليه لتواجه هذا العيب وتتخلص من تأثيره عليها لكن عينيه قالتا لها إنه لم يكن نادما قط وقال لسانه لنرى اذا كان هناك فرق ! أريد حقوقي الزوجية كلها!
December 19, 2022
Great angsty HP junky gold!
Jerk hero ✔️
Naive virgin heroine ✔️
Judgemental interfering relatives ✔️
Misunderstandings and failed communication abound✔️
Over the top and slightly ridiculous? You bet.
Reading crack fueling my addiction? I can't deny it.
I ❤️ HP.
Jerk hero ✔️
Naive virgin heroine ✔️
Judgemental interfering relatives ✔️
Misunderstandings and failed communication abound✔️
Over the top and slightly ridiculous? You bet.
Reading crack fueling my addiction? I can't deny it.
I ❤️ HP.
October 15, 2023
Nothing new ... He is an idiot weak asshole and she is a Pathetic doormat .
August 21, 2016
Cassie was overwhelmed by her new husband, Roman. So she ran. Now a year later she has to face him or her brother will go to jail. But is she ready for what is instore for her? He has been patient with her but enough is enough. He wants his wife back. Will he be able to clime all her defenses and build a loving marriage? This story by Diana Hamilton has several parts to it. But they all meld well in the end.
August 3, 2021
Overwhelmed by her sexy, brand-new Spanish husband, Cassie had let anxiety and inexperience ruin first her wedding night, then her marriage to Roman Fernandez.
Now, after a year apart, Cassie has gained self-confidence. But her brother's in serious trouble with Roman, and Cassie returns to Spain to confront him. She soon realizes with a shiver of...excitement?...that her husband has every intention of claiming his wife and testing her newfound confidence—in the bedroom
Now, after a year apart, Cassie has gained self-confidence. But her brother's in serious trouble with Roman, and Cassie returns to Spain to confront him. She soon realizes with a shiver of...excitement?...that her husband has every intention of claiming his wife and testing her newfound confidence—in the bedroom
February 24, 2015
roman was very obviously very much in love wid his wife and had been all along. they got separated due to his family's interference and cassie's immaturity and insecurity! cassie was really pathetic in the past ! i love dat she was now grown-up and cud stand up to roman and his mother and his aunts, and delfina. so many ands! the poor girl must have been really oppressed in-between them.
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