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The Millionaire's Virgin Mistress
He wants her -- but she won't give in!
Paige Howard has had a secret desire for New Zealand tycoon Marc Corbett ever since they'd met -- when he married her best friend!
Six years later, still a virgin, Paige has never felt the same about anyone else. When her friend's bequest sends Marc back to Paige, they are caught in the grip of a reluctant attraction. But Paige will never give herself to a man who only seems to want her as his mistress -- no matter how strong the temptation....
Paige Howard has had a secret desire for New Zealand tycoon Marc Corbett ever since they'd met -- when he married her best friend!
Six years later, still a virgin, Paige has never felt the same about anyone else. When her friend's bequest sends Marc back to Paige, they are caught in the grip of a reluctant attraction. But Paige will never give herself to a man who only seems to want her as his mistress -- no matter how strong the temptation....
187 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2003
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Robyn Donald
449 books149 followersRobyn Elaine Donald was born on 14 August 1940 in Northland, New Zealand. She was the oldest child in her family, and as a child, she thrilled her four sisters and one brother with bloodcurdling adventure tales, usually very like the latest book she'd borrowed from the library.
Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.
The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.
Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.
The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.
Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
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August 9, 2019
Title generator got the mistress part wrong, but the rest is accurate.
Heroine met French Millionaire hero when she was 17 and a bridesmaid at his wedding to her bff. It was love/lust at first sight for both the H/h, but they didn’t act on it. Heroine “hates” the hero now because her bff confided in her that she thought the H was having an affair with his personal assistant. Heroine’s father also cheated and made her mother miserable, so heroine has given up on men.
When the story opens five years later, the heroine’s mother is dead, the bff has been dead for two years and the hero is still hanging around with his PA. The hero sees the heroine with a sick baby exiting a strip club. Hero assumes that heroine is a stripper and baby is hers from one of her many men.
Heroine lets him think this.
Eventually the hero discovers it’s the heroine’s flatmate’s backstory, but by then the heroine has had the flu and has been blacklisted around town by her sexual harassing former employer. Hero explains the bff has left the heroine a bracelet in her will, but she must go to the hero’s island off the coast of NZ to claim it and she must stay for a week.
There is a letter from the bff essentially giving her blessing to the H/h getting together. It’s either sweet or creepy (I’m going with creepy and controlling. Who writes a letter like this in their 20’s. And who marries a man knowing he is attracted to your 17 year-old bridesmaid?) Also, PA is the hero’s half-sister.
There’s also a storm and a dog rescue to round out the second half since there isn’t enough spark/conflict between the H/h for the author to explore.
Heroine met French Millionaire hero when she was 17 and a bridesmaid at his wedding to her bff. It was love/lust at first sight for both the H/h, but they didn’t act on it. Heroine “hates” the hero now because her bff confided in her that she thought the H was having an affair with his personal assistant. Heroine’s father also cheated and made her mother miserable, so heroine has given up on men.
When the story opens five years later, the heroine’s mother is dead, the bff has been dead for two years and the hero is still hanging around with his PA. The hero sees the heroine with a sick baby exiting a strip club. Hero assumes that heroine is a stripper and baby is hers from one of her many men.
Heroine lets him think this.
Eventually the hero discovers it’s the heroine’s flatmate’s backstory, but by then the heroine has had the flu and has been blacklisted around town by her sexual harassing former employer. Hero explains the bff has left the heroine a bracelet in her will, but she must go to the hero’s island off the coast of NZ to claim it and she must stay for a week.
There is a letter from the bff essentially giving her blessing to the H/h getting together. It’s either sweet or creepy (I’m going with creepy and controlling. Who writes a letter like this in their 20’s. And who marries a man knowing he is attracted to your 17 year-old bridesmaid?) Also, PA is the hero’s half-sister.
There’s also a storm and a dog rescue to round out the second half since there isn’t enough spark/conflict between the H/h for the author to explore.
December 7, 2020
There are better fairytales.
January 9, 2025
The title of the book is a bit of a misnomer. She is never his mistress.
I don’t get why Robyn Donald wrote so many novels in which the heroine marries her cousin’s/ best friend’s widower.
I didn’t like it.
The heroine was 17 when her dear older friend married the hero.
Hero heroine took one look at each other and grew enamoured.
The poor wife/other woman had to die just so that the plot could get them both together . She of course never had deep feelings.
Hero and heroine are only possessors of all deep feelings and emotions.
I didn’t like it. Frankly.
There’s nothing wrong with the book. Just my personal opinion.
I don’t get why Robyn Donald wrote so many novels in which the heroine marries her cousin’s/ best friend’s widower.
I didn’t like it.
The heroine was 17 when her dear older friend married the hero.
Hero heroine took one look at each other and grew enamoured.
The poor wife/other woman had to die just so that the plot could get them both together . She of course never had deep feelings.
Hero and heroine are only possessors of all deep feelings and emotions.
I didn’t like it. Frankly.
There’s nothing wrong with the book. Just my personal opinion.
January 8, 2024
I really liked this, sweet and a little sad. H’s dead wife, very good friend of h, did not know H had fallen in love/lust with h when they met although she realized H had something with someone, thought it was his PA, later decided H told hur truth that he did not have affair with putative OW. Instead wife/friend sensed the emotional connection.
The wife wrote h a note for her to get only after she married H, if in fact she did. There is no attempt to control her or H.
The wife wrote h a note for her to get only after she married H, if in fact she did. There is no attempt to control her or H.
August 18, 2019
3.5 stars
November 29, 2014
A good read.
The passion/love between Paige and Marc is sweet and tame but in some moments also violent. For 6 years they have been in lust/love but have resisted because Marc married her best friend. So at times they hate each other and themselves for this feeling. They have both been scarred by their parents' past and for Paige trusting and believing in a man to be faithful and for Marc trusting enough to let go will take a leap of faith on both their parts. The passion that is kept underwraps is really explosive once they let go...you can feel it simmering throughout the whole story.
A really charming read.
The passion/love between Paige and Marc is sweet and tame but in some moments also violent. For 6 years they have been in lust/love but have resisted because Marc married her best friend. So at times they hate each other and themselves for this feeling. They have both been scarred by their parents' past and for Paige trusting and believing in a man to be faithful and for Marc trusting enough to let go will take a leap of faith on both their parts. The passion that is kept underwraps is really explosive once they let go...you can feel it simmering throughout the whole story.
A really charming read.
October 8, 2018
She is not a mistress as the cheesy title implies.
h is a little stilted and frozen character.
h is a little stilted and frozen character.
February 17, 2020
The backstory here is when the heroine Paige is 17 and going to be a bridesmaid to her best friend. The night before the wedding the groom whom she hasn’t met till now comes her room to give the traditional grooms gift to the bridesmaid. In that brief meeting they both feel the tension and chemistry between them, but neither act on it. Marc goes forward and marries.
Years later the wife is dead and she’s left something for Paige, who must travel to Marc’s island home to receive it, so Marc comes to find her, the minute they meet the same strong chemistry and tension is still there between them. She does reluctantly agree to go. The terms were that Paige was not to receive the piece of jewellery for 2 years. When the wife was still alive she had confided to Paige that she was sure Marc’s assistant was also his lover. As Paige’s father was a cheater she’s not going to go there with Marc not when he already has a lover, the same woman as before.
I’ve read other books by this author where there’s loads of tension and drama, often they’re not considered politically correct by today’s standards, this in comparison was quite soppy. As to the two main characters I can’t say I was keen on either of them, I found it odd that Paige was eventually willing to get with her dead best friends husband, the explanation that the personal assistant was not nor had ever been his lover was finally told to Paige there was a reason but it seems not one he had ever given to his wife, as it was top secret, that was nonsense, therein lies my main problem with this it had too many ridiculous excuses and reasons behind the characters actions that were implausible. I found myself constantly rolling my eyes while reading this. Also the heroine Paige was not at any time in this the hero Marc’s mistress, so for me the title is wholly inaccurate.
Years later the wife is dead and she’s left something for Paige, who must travel to Marc’s island home to receive it, so Marc comes to find her, the minute they meet the same strong chemistry and tension is still there between them. She does reluctantly agree to go. The terms were that Paige was not to receive the piece of jewellery for 2 years. When the wife was still alive she had confided to Paige that she was sure Marc’s assistant was also his lover. As Paige’s father was a cheater she’s not going to go there with Marc not when he already has a lover, the same woman as before.
I’ve read other books by this author where there’s loads of tension and drama, often they’re not considered politically correct by today’s standards, this in comparison was quite soppy. As to the two main characters I can’t say I was keen on either of them, I found it odd that Paige was eventually willing to get with her dead best friends husband, the explanation that the personal assistant was not nor had ever been his lover was finally told to Paige there was a reason but it seems not one he had ever given to his wife, as it was top secret, that was nonsense, therein lies my main problem with this it had too many ridiculous excuses and reasons behind the characters actions that were implausible. I found myself constantly rolling my eyes while reading this. Also the heroine Paige was not at any time in this the hero Marc’s mistress, so for me the title is wholly inaccurate.
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August 23, 2021
2.5 ⭐️ rounded to 3 ⭐️ because my difficulty with this book is that I was in a mood for a Robyn Donald cruel unrelenting bastard of a hero, and instead I got a hero who was a decent guy who sometimes pretended to be an asshole.
He enters a MOC with the h’s best friend, then meets the 17 year old h on the eve of his wedding day and Cupid hits him and her with a grenade. They are honorable and do nothing about it, but its there.
Life goes on, he believes no matter what one stays faithful. The h falls on hard times, then 6 years later she bumps into the hero as she is leaving a strip club holding a baby(her roommate is the stripper and the baby belongs to the roommate this gets cleared up fairly early on) Anyhoo the h’s very good friend died 2 years earlier, but she has left something for the h. The stipulation is that she needs to go with the H to his island home. They still have this strong pull but Lauren, his pa is still with him, and the h’s now deceased friend was pretty sure that Lauren did more than handle his business appointments. So our h is leery of the H because she has had first hand experience with men who think nothing of cheating on their wives(her father being one of them).
Of course there is bonding on the island except most of it happens via phone because the hero left to go on a business trip. At least the h gets real time with the dog fancy. The h’s friend has left her a letter beyond the grave and wants the h to be happy and not worry. She also leaves her a bracelet and tells her she loved her like a sister. The h wasn’t to get the letter until 2 years after the friend’s death per her instructions.
When the hero gets back from his trip a day early, and a day before the h leaves to go back home, they finally give into their mutual lust(love). The H is happy yet shocked that the h is a virgin. Then Lauren, the “ow” flies in and the h sees how very connected the two are. This is like a bucket of cold water, and the next thing we know it is 3 months later and the h is back home working on her dream of being a plant breeder.
The H shows up and they clear up any and all misunderstandings…unfortunately I didn’t really like all that was revealed. Had the h’s friend not died in a car crash at such a young age our h and H would have never gotten together…I guess it shows that when the H makes a promise he will keep it, but he had a real marriage with the friend and plans for children so I don’t know that just kind of wrecked the HEA part for me.
Except all is suppose to be good when the h gets another letter from the dead friend that the housekeeper gives her on her wedding day to the H. Again, the stipulation was to give it to the h 2 years after the friends death and in the event she married the H. (This IS Robyn Donald right?) So this all has a very supernatural feel to it(which I do like supernatural crap, so I should eat this up but again it fell flat for me) I have read quite a few RD books, but not as many as others, so this whole thing was new to me. Maybe RD uses this in other books and I have yet to read those.
So, my final verdict, I think many people will enjoy this love story, even though most of the angst is low level. But again, if you are looking for a RD hero you may find in Mansion for My Love, or An Unbreakable Bond.. or heaven forbidSmoke in the Wind then you will be let down!
See Stmargarets review as she also points out that the title is way off the mark… https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
He enters a MOC with the h’s best friend, then meets the 17 year old h on the eve of his wedding day and Cupid hits him and her with a grenade. They are honorable and do nothing about it, but its there.
Life goes on, he believes no matter what one stays faithful. The h falls on hard times, then 6 years later she bumps into the hero as she is leaving a strip club holding a baby(her roommate is the stripper and the baby belongs to the roommate this gets cleared up fairly early on) Anyhoo the h’s very good friend died 2 years earlier, but she has left something for the h. The stipulation is that she needs to go with the H to his island home. They still have this strong pull but Lauren, his pa is still with him, and the h’s now deceased friend was pretty sure that Lauren did more than handle his business appointments. So our h is leery of the H because she has had first hand experience with men who think nothing of cheating on their wives(her father being one of them).
Of course there is bonding on the island except most of it happens via phone because the hero left to go on a business trip. At least the h gets real time with the dog fancy. The h’s friend has left her a letter beyond the grave and wants the h to be happy and not worry. She also leaves her a bracelet and tells her she loved her like a sister. The h wasn’t to get the letter until 2 years after the friend’s death per her instructions.
When the hero gets back from his trip a day early, and a day before the h leaves to go back home, they finally give into their mutual lust(love). The H is happy yet shocked that the h is a virgin. Then Lauren, the “ow” flies in and the h sees how very connected the two are. This is like a bucket of cold water, and the next thing we know it is 3 months later and the h is back home working on her dream of being a plant breeder.
The H shows up and they clear up any and all misunderstandings…unfortunately I didn’t really like all that was revealed. Had the h’s friend not died in a car crash at such a young age our h and H would have never gotten together…I guess it shows that when the H makes a promise he will keep it, but he had a real marriage with the friend and plans for children so I don’t know that just kind of wrecked the HEA part for me.
Except all is suppose to be good when the h gets another letter from the dead friend that the housekeeper gives her on her wedding day to the H. Again, the stipulation was to give it to the h 2 years after the friends death and in the event she married the H. (This IS Robyn Donald right?) So this all has a very supernatural feel to it(which I do like supernatural crap, so I should eat this up but again it fell flat for me) I have read quite a few RD books, but not as many as others, so this whole thing was new to me. Maybe RD uses this in other books and I have yet to read those.
So, my final verdict, I think many people will enjoy this love story, even though most of the angst is low level. But again, if you are looking for a RD hero you may find in Mansion for My Love, or An Unbreakable Bond.. or heaven forbidSmoke in the Wind then you will be let down!
See Stmargarets review as she also points out that the title is way off the mark… https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
November 5, 2015
Paige is having problems finding a grown-up person’s job because her last boss groped her and then blacklisted her all over town. So Paige is now living with an exotic dancer and babysitting her baby. When the baby gets sick, Paige is rushing it out of its exotic dancer mum’s dressing room, and happens to overhear some posh bitch tell some guy that Paige looks like she belongs on a ‘Mothers, don’t let your daughters grow up to be strippers’ poster.
Paige realises that she knows the guy. She’s had a huge crush on him for years, ever since she was bridesmaid at his wedding to her best friend.
Marc pats his posh bitch friend on the head for being so clever and snarky, and then goes to help fallen woman Paige take her baby to hospital. He’s all like: so … how’d you end up as a single mother and part-time stripper, that must be an interesting story? Are you maybe on drugs too? Can I meet your pimp?
Paige decides her life is none of his damn business and he can thinks what he wants, and she doesn’t want him to buy her a new kettle, because she Knows Things about his marriage, and he’s a bastard.
Paige’s best friend and Marc’s first wife died about 18 months ago. Before that, Paige would get regular letters from her friend about how she didn’t really love Marc, and how Marc was having an affair with the posh bitch, which she didn’t really mind about, other than he should just be honest with her.
Marc starts getting the actual Paige origin story from the exotic dancer. He then tells Paige that his dead wife left Paige a letter, a present and some money, but Paige has to come to Marc’s island home for a holiday to collect her legacy. It’s all very complicated and clearly made up. For most of the book I thought Marc had probably come up with the whole thing on the fly, so he could do something nice for Paige and then persuade her to get in bed with him.
Even for a girl as outraged and hard done by as Paige is, a legacy and a holiday is intriguing. So off she goes.
Marc drops her off at the island home, smoulders at her for a few minutes, and then flies away in his helicopter to do important business things. However, he does call her every night, and these phone calls are so magic that Paige’s love is reawakened, and unbalances all the awkwardness of desiring her dead best friend’s cheating husbands.
I first read Robyn Donald in the late 90s, and thought she was awesome. New Zealand is super exotic and cool, and I love how everyone has these great beach houses, and Robyn Donald’s heroines are always so hard done by. Plus, there’s usually an exciting Adventure at Sea, where the plucky heroine almost gets herself killed, and I like those. They remind me of Enid Blyton books.
Paige has this goal of doing botany things, and she’s independent enough to get herself sorted, so I liked her. I thought Marc wasn’t really around enough to be interesting, but this was a fun read, and reminded me of Donald’s old stuff.
Paige realises that she knows the guy. She’s had a huge crush on him for years, ever since she was bridesmaid at his wedding to her best friend.
Marc pats his posh bitch friend on the head for being so clever and snarky, and then goes to help fallen woman Paige take her baby to hospital. He’s all like: so … how’d you end up as a single mother and part-time stripper, that must be an interesting story? Are you maybe on drugs too? Can I meet your pimp?
Paige decides her life is none of his damn business and he can thinks what he wants, and she doesn’t want him to buy her a new kettle, because she Knows Things about his marriage, and he’s a bastard.
Paige’s best friend and Marc’s first wife died about 18 months ago. Before that, Paige would get regular letters from her friend about how she didn’t really love Marc, and how Marc was having an affair with the posh bitch, which she didn’t really mind about, other than he should just be honest with her.
Marc starts getting the actual Paige origin story from the exotic dancer. He then tells Paige that his dead wife left Paige a letter, a present and some money, but Paige has to come to Marc’s island home for a holiday to collect her legacy. It’s all very complicated and clearly made up. For most of the book I thought Marc had probably come up with the whole thing on the fly, so he could do something nice for Paige and then persuade her to get in bed with him.
Even for a girl as outraged and hard done by as Paige is, a legacy and a holiday is intriguing. So off she goes.
Marc drops her off at the island home, smoulders at her for a few minutes, and then flies away in his helicopter to do important business things. However, he does call her every night, and these phone calls are so magic that Paige’s love is reawakened, and unbalances all the awkwardness of desiring her dead best friend’s cheating husbands.
I first read Robyn Donald in the late 90s, and thought she was awesome. New Zealand is super exotic and cool, and I love how everyone has these great beach houses, and Robyn Donald’s heroines are always so hard done by. Plus, there’s usually an exciting Adventure at Sea, where the plucky heroine almost gets herself killed, and I like those. They remind me of Enid Blyton books.
Paige has this goal of doing botany things, and she’s independent enough to get herself sorted, so I liked her. I thought Marc wasn’t really around enough to be interesting, but this was a fun read, and reminded me of Donald’s old stuff.
March 22, 2025
"The Millionaire's Virgin Mistress" is the story of Paige and Marc.
The title is a total misnomer because there is no mistress!
Heroine falls madly in love with the hero.. 2 days before he marries her best friend. He feels the attraction too. They both care for her best friend too much, and time passes.. until his wife passes and they lose contact with each other.
Years later, the friend's will brings them back together. They realize the feelings they tried so hard to suppress have resurfaced, and how they navigate through the misunderstandings forms the story.
Actually quite a nice read for such a ridiculous title. The letters were a nice touch, however I did not like the hero shaming her stripper friend every opportunity he got. The Lauren reveal was predictable.
Unsafe
3/5
The title is a total misnomer because there is no mistress!
Heroine falls madly in love with the hero.. 2 days before he marries her best friend. He feels the attraction too. They both care for her best friend too much, and time passes.. until his wife passes and they lose contact with each other.
Years later, the friend's will brings them back together. They realize the feelings they tried so hard to suppress have resurfaced, and how they navigate through the misunderstandings forms the story.
Actually quite a nice read for such a ridiculous title. The letters were a nice touch, however I did not like the hero shaming her stripper friend every opportunity he got. The Lauren reveal was predictable.
Unsafe
3/5
January 24, 2021
The Millionaire's Virgin Mistress
They first met the night before he married her older friend. Now seven years later he has entered her world by chance. Her mother and friend have both died. And he is free to move on. Their one kiss those many years ago had a lasting memory on both of them. We, the readers, get an insight into his thoughts. She has not had an easy time. But there is a way when they can connect. But what was told to her many times and years about men and women and fidelity. This story was interesting to read. Maybe I will reread it again.
They first met the night before he married her older friend. Now seven years later he has entered her world by chance. Her mother and friend have both died. And he is free to move on. Their one kiss those many years ago had a lasting memory on both of them. We, the readers, get an insight into his thoughts. She has not had an easy time. But there is a way when they can connect. But what was told to her many times and years about men and women and fidelity. This story was interesting to read. Maybe I will reread it again.
August 22, 2017
Sweet, so sweet. awwwwww.. :)
June 21, 2021
Que horrible encontrar el amor en esas circunstancias, negar tus sentimientos porque pueden dañar a tu ser querido...
February 12, 2022
Kinda boring, could have raised the stakes more, heroine is pretty bland.
August 9, 2014
So Paige...what do I say about her? She was not the heroine I expected. Paige's bestfriend married a guy that she fell for when they first met, but being morally good she makes sure to never act on her feelings. She was in her late teens when they met.
Marc comes across as lecherous because he also had the hots for a teenage Paige when he met her the night before his wedding to her best friend. Fast forward many years later, the friend/wife is dead and Marc and Paige meet randomly. And it's all straightforward after they meet.
Paige has sex with him and doesn't expect anything more. She has plans for her life and Marc can't possibly be interested in a relationship. The one thing I really liked about her is that she doesn't want to be the woman who can't live without the guy. She's going to have a full life even if she can't be with Marc. I liked that. Yes she was miserable but life goes on.
Marc is a non-entity to me because he was so typical. Full of assumptions about the morality of others. Paige's roommate is a stripper and he was so moralistic about why any woman would be and that annoyed me about him. Also his need to take care of her as if she can't do it herself annoyed me. All in all an okay story.
Marc comes across as lecherous because he also had the hots for a teenage Paige when he met her the night before his wedding to her best friend. Fast forward many years later, the friend/wife is dead and Marc and Paige meet randomly. And it's all straightforward after they meet.
Paige has sex with him and doesn't expect anything more. She has plans for her life and Marc can't possibly be interested in a relationship. The one thing I really liked about her is that she doesn't want to be the woman who can't live without the guy. She's going to have a full life even if she can't be with Marc. I liked that. Yes she was miserable but life goes on.
Marc is a non-entity to me because he was so typical. Full of assumptions about the morality of others. Paige's roommate is a stripper and he was so moralistic about why any woman would be and that annoyed me about him. Also his need to take care of her as if she can't do it herself annoyed me. All in all an okay story.
May 27, 2020
Paige Howard has held a reluctant and secret desire for New Zealand tycoon Marc Corbett ever since they met—when he married her best friend!
Six years later, still a virgin, Paige has never felt the same for anyone else. When her friend's legacy sends Marc back to Paige, they are caught again in the grip of their reluctant attraction. But she's heard that Marc was disloyal during his marriage. Paige will never give herself to a man who only seems to want her as his mistress—no matter how strong the temptation
Six years later, still a virgin, Paige has never felt the same for anyone else. When her friend's legacy sends Marc back to Paige, they are caught again in the grip of their reluctant attraction. But she's heard that Marc was disloyal during his marriage. Paige will never give herself to a man who only seems to want her as his mistress—no matter how strong the temptation
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August 3, 2014الوجه الآخر للحب
روبين دونالد
لطالما شعرت بايج هاورد بانجذاب خفي نحو المليونير النيوزيلاندي مارك كوربيت وذلك منذ لقائهما الاول يوم تزوج مارك بصديقتها الحميمة .
بعد مرور ست سنوات بقيت مشاعر بايج على حالها.. ولم يتحرك قلبها تجته أي شخص آخر وعندما عاد مارك لينفذ وصية زوجته المتوفاة التقيا مجددا ووقعا مرة أخرى في فخ الانجذاب القوي المتبادل بينهما .
لكن بايج كانت تعرف أن مارك هو من تسبب بوفاة زوجته أعز صديقاتها ...فهل ستلاقي نفس المصير؟
روبين دونالد
لطالما شعرت بايج هاورد بانجذاب خفي نحو المليونير النيوزيلاندي مارك كوربيت وذلك منذ لقائهما الاول يوم تزوج مارك بصديقتها الحميمة .
بعد مرور ست سنوات بقيت مشاعر بايج على حالها.. ولم يتحرك قلبها تجته أي شخص آخر وعندما عاد مارك لينفذ وصية زوجته المتوفاة التقيا مجددا ووقعا مرة أخرى في فخ الانجذاب القوي المتبادل بينهما .
لكن بايج كانت تعرف أن مارك هو من تسبب بوفاة زوجته أعز صديقاتها ...فهل ستلاقي نفس المصير؟
March 1, 2011
La trama era predecible pero atrapante en fin. Una lectura rápida y recomendable!
July 30, 2014
I liked this. there is crazy over the top flowery language in it, but it didn't detract from the story for me.
N.Z.
N.Z.
November 16, 2020
2/3 stars
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