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An Innocent in His Bed #2
The Greek Tycoon's Innocent Mistress
Cat McKenzie is set to inherit a fortune--and Nicholas Zentenas will bed her, wed her and ensure the money stays out of her treacherous family's hands. After years of waiting, Nicholas can finally put his plans for revenge into action....
But now Nicholas is in danger of finding that Cat is not at all what he thought she would be--starting with the fact that she's a virgin!
Will Nicholas's innocent mistress become his pregnant wife?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
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Kathryn Ross
171 books46 followers Kathryn Ross is a professional beauty therapist, but writing is her first love. At thirteen she was editor of her school magazine and wrote a play for a competition, and won. Ten years later she was accepted by Mills & Boon, who were the only publishers she ever approached with her work. Kathryn lives in Lancashire, is married and has inherited two delightful stepsons. She has written over twenty novels now and is still as much in love with writing as ever and never plans to stop.
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November 28, 2010
Just about everything an HP should be. Arrogant, misguided hero who thinks the heroine is out for number one? Check. Virgin heroine who can't resist the hero's sexual advances? Check. Pregnant the first time you have sex? Check. Sex on a private jet? Sex in the shower? Sex up against the wall? Check. Check. Check. Plus torn undies and bare lady bits for the rest of the date, every other scene. Okay, that's new.
Well written. Good characterization. The plot depended on him being blind to her real personality and believing an incompetent PI. But hey it's an HP. I know what I'm signing up for. The heroine was not a total doormat even though she was totally susceptable to his wicked advances. She tried not to fall for him and even hung up on him and told him not to come over, she was busy. She was very suspicious of his motives and didn't trust him. But he was just too good in bed I guess.
Loved the scene at the end when she hears him on the phone right in front of her plotting to marry her for her inheritance.
"Why don't you just ask me now?"
"Ask you what?"
"Ask me to marry you, of course, and get it over with."
He leaned back in his chair and said nothing. Silence stretched between them, as tense as an elastic band drawn back as far as it could go and almost at breaking point. She could almost see his brain ticking over. "What makes you think I'm going to ask you to marry me?"
"What makes you think I don't understand Greek?"
Oh snap! Dang that incompetent PI!
Let's follow that up with a good bit of groveling. I thought she made him work for it and when she was ready, she just let him off the hook. Quite satisfying.
Well written. Good characterization. The plot depended on him being blind to her real personality and believing an incompetent PI. But hey it's an HP. I know what I'm signing up for. The heroine was not a total doormat even though she was totally susceptable to his wicked advances. She tried not to fall for him and even hung up on him and told him not to come over, she was busy. She was very suspicious of his motives and didn't trust him. But he was just too good in bed I guess.
Loved the scene at the end when she hears him on the phone right in front of her plotting to marry her for her inheritance.
"Why don't you just ask me now?"
"Ask you what?"
"Ask me to marry you, of course, and get it over with."
He leaned back in his chair and said nothing. Silence stretched between them, as tense as an elastic band drawn back as far as it could go and almost at breaking point. She could almost see his brain ticking over. "What makes you think I'm going to ask you to marry me?"
"What makes you think I don't understand Greek?"
Oh snap! Dang that incompetent PI!
Let's follow that up with a good bit of groveling. I thought she made him work for it and when she was ready, she just let him off the hook. Quite satisfying.
November 22, 2017
This was a four star revenge story until the very abrupt ending. The hero does apologize and he does grovel, but the heroine goes from angry and hurt to blissfully happy in a ten minute period. Just no.
An Open Letter to the Heroine:
This guy was planning revenge- discussing it with his lawyer on the phone, no less - right up until you overheard him. We the readers might know that his feelings have changed - but you, silly heroine, don't know any such thing.
You should have returned to your flat in London and let the hero follow you and work for your forgiveness. And you were totally ripped off of an epilogue. Your dad and half-brother didn't get their comeuppance. We don't know when you married the hero. And what about your job? You were good at it. Inquiring minds want to know . . .
Good luck going forward with so many loose threads.
St. Margarets
An Open Letter to the Heroine:
This guy was planning revenge- discussing it with his lawyer on the phone, no less - right up until you overheard him. We the readers might know that his feelings have changed - but you, silly heroine, don't know any such thing.
You should have returned to your flat in London and let the hero follow you and work for your forgiveness. And you were totally ripped off of an epilogue. Your dad and half-brother didn't get their comeuppance. We don't know when you married the hero. And what about your job? You were good at it. Inquiring minds want to know . . .
Good luck going forward with so many loose threads.
St. Margarets
December 1, 2020
First I thought to open a shelf named idiot H but then every H should go there, I dropped the idea. Lol
June 20, 2011
The female character Catherine is three months away from her 21st birthday and if she is married before that date then, as per the conditions of her grandfathers will, she will inherit the entire family fortune. Catherine has an unhappy family life, her mother died when she was young and discovered that she had a half brother from an affair her father had. Her father and half-brother are also little better than con-men, who she has had to spend her education trust fund on bailing them out of one scheme after the other. They are bitterly angry that Catherine was left the family fortune and have been trying to force her to marry some of their 'associates' and then to try and get hold of the fortune.
The male character Nicholas was once in business with Cat's father but he was conned, he has vowed revenge on the family. He has somehow found out about the conditions of the will and is under the impression that Cat is in league with her family and just as duplicitous. He plans to get Cat to marry him then take the inheritance away from her and then dump her.
Once he starts to get to know Cat he starts to realise that she is perhaps not what he thought but cannot let his feelings get in the way of his revenge plan.
I usually like the revenge plot lines, and thought that this had great potential as a good story. However I just could not warm to it. The male character was written as little more than a misogynist, he spent most of the book talking to Cat like she was something nasty on the bottom of his shoe, and Cat just seemed to take it. Some of the story was also implausible, such as the fact the Nicholas had hired a private investigator to check Cat out and he reported that she was involved in a scam her brother pulled in Crete, yet in actual fact she was not involved but instead paid back all those affected by the scam, any PI would have been able to get this info, so he must have hired a really crap one. There was a pregnancy that just seemed to be crow barred in there for no reason, and when Nicholas revealed that he was adopted all seemed to be forgiven and that was it...he's forgiven, lets be together forever!?
I found it very hard to read, at times I actually had to put the book down, take a couple of deep breaths and go back to it. In my opinion it was a poorly executed story and an example of taking the Alpha-male concept way too far...
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
The male character Nicholas was once in business with Cat's father but he was conned, he has vowed revenge on the family. He has somehow found out about the conditions of the will and is under the impression that Cat is in league with her family and just as duplicitous. He plans to get Cat to marry him then take the inheritance away from her and then dump her.
Once he starts to get to know Cat he starts to realise that she is perhaps not what he thought but cannot let his feelings get in the way of his revenge plan.
I usually like the revenge plot lines, and thought that this had great potential as a good story. However I just could not warm to it. The male character was written as little more than a misogynist, he spent most of the book talking to Cat like she was something nasty on the bottom of his shoe, and Cat just seemed to take it. Some of the story was also implausible, such as the fact the Nicholas had hired a private investigator to check Cat out and he reported that she was involved in a scam her brother pulled in Crete, yet in actual fact she was not involved but instead paid back all those affected by the scam, any PI would have been able to get this info, so he must have hired a really crap one. There was a pregnancy that just seemed to be crow barred in there for no reason, and when Nicholas revealed that he was adopted all seemed to be forgiven and that was it...he's forgiven, lets be together forever!?
I found it very hard to read, at times I actually had to put the book down, take a couple of deep breaths and go back to it. In my opinion it was a poorly executed story and an example of taking the Alpha-male concept way too far...
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
April 12, 2010
It seems somebody stole the last chapter from my copy of this book....or at least it sure seems that way. On page 184 she is still mad at him for the big misunderstanding and on page 185 (all of 3 1/2 sentences) all is well and it's HEA time. I seriously paged through the ads at the end looking for more. It was a decent HP read all the way up to the totally abrupt ending.
September 13, 2015
This book rubbed me wrong way, I don't know. Maybe because I was not in the mood to this type of story: revenge, suspicion and deliberate misunderstanding. Maybe because she's not even twenty one. Maybe because he's an arrogant asshole. Maybe because she's suddenly gone from understand few words in Greek to translator whorty. Maybe because he didn't grovel enough and she forgive him too easily...
September 19, 2013
Couldn't warm up to the heroine. She was cold, unfeeling and very cynical. The ending was extremely abrupt and disappointing!
February 26, 2015
absolutely disliked it! the heroine took the prize for dumb blonde!
July 22, 2017
This book is better than I thought it would be. A Harlequin Present heroine that worked and *gasps* had a career *gasps* (although she was still at the beginning of it)? Several conversations between the hero and the heroine that actually about work (summarized, but it still felt real enough)? And a heroine that spoke Greek? I mean, while I enjoy reading HP, many times I couldn't help but think how could the romance ever last if these heroines didn't seem to show interest in learning their lover's native language? (Okay, I admit that I made a mistake here. That mistake is to actually THINK about logic in HP romance.)
Anyway, this is a fresh take of harlequin romance for me.
Anyway, this is a fresh take of harlequin romance for me.
February 16, 2020
Cat McKenzie is set to inherit a fortune--and Nicholas Zentenas will bed her, wed her and ensure the money stays out of her treacherous family's hands. After years of waiting, Nicholas can finally put his plans for revenge into action....But now Nicholas is in danger of finding that Cat is not at all what he thought she would be--starting with the fact that she's a virgin!Will Nicholas's innocent mistress become his pregnant wife?
March 9, 2014
I really wanted to have a better ending. It just ended so suddenly. Which in turn made me dislike the novel a little bit and give it a lower rating.
June 19, 2021
It was well written, so therefore 3 stars, but I couldn’t warm up to the h and the H.
She is the typical beautiful HP h with the standard looks of blonde hair and a perfect figure. When are HP writers going to get out of the box and write about chubby h’s with dark hair.
Anyway, what I didn’t like, is that she begs him to do it with her. And after she begs him, he stops. Ughhh. He stops because he thinks about his revenge. At the end of the book with the HEA, he says to her that he never thought about revenge when she was in his arms. But that’s a lie.
I don’t have the feelling that he was crazy in love with her. Yeah, he liked to have sex with her, but which man wouldn’t like that with a gorgeous blonde with a perfect body.
She was a virgin at the time, but the first time they had sex she undressed herself for him and she dropped on his knees for him immediately to take his male part in her mouth. Strange to see a virgin that sexually agressive. I didn’t like it.
What I also didn’t like, was that there was no (or hardly any) groveling at the end from the H. She forgave him too easy. She was weak all through the entire book.
She is the typical beautiful HP h with the standard looks of blonde hair and a perfect figure. When are HP writers going to get out of the box and write about chubby h’s with dark hair.
Anyway, what I didn’t like, is that she begs him to do it with her. And after she begs him, he stops. Ughhh. He stops because he thinks about his revenge. At the end of the book with the HEA, he says to her that he never thought about revenge when she was in his arms. But that’s a lie.
I don’t have the feelling that he was crazy in love with her. Yeah, he liked to have sex with her, but which man wouldn’t like that with a gorgeous blonde with a perfect body.
She was a virgin at the time, but the first time they had sex she undressed herself for him and she dropped on his knees for him immediately to take his male part in her mouth. Strange to see a virgin that sexually agressive. I didn’t like it.
What I also didn’t like, was that there was no (or hardly any) groveling at the end from the H. She forgave him too easy. She was weak all through the entire book.
September 6, 2017
Storyline pretty much followed your average Harlequin Romance novel. The hero of the novel (Nicholas Zentenas) is looking for revenge against Catherine McKenzie and her family for a shady business deal that was done to his local community in Crete. Catherine is about to inherit a lot of money and Nicholas wants to stop that money from landing in the hands of her conniving father and step brother. He will stop at nothing to keep this from happening including bedding (and marrying) Catherine but is Catherine really in cahoots with her family or is she really an innocent in their duplicity. Read the book to find out.
February 12, 2018
Soooo nothing actually came of anything in this plot. The hero drags the heroine around promising to work with her but really wants to seduce her and ignores everything she says. Very repetitive. The author wrote the characters into a corner in the last chapters and it makes no sense that they are still together at the end of the story. Their reconciliation is so false.
January 27, 2021
Gosh, what a couple of doofus characters! Talk about being blind to another's character and allowing sex to cloud one's emotions, this book has it all. Nonetheless it is well written with good characters and it's better than OK.
November 21, 2017
2.5 stars.
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March 27, 2021Ended abruptly and needed an epilogue. He’s also a douche
February 8, 2025
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February 3, 2015I rate books by the amount of tears I have shed and I definitely wept 2/3 times with this book. So I would recommend this book as a light fairytale type of read
February 27, 2019
I thought it was good. The ending was a bit abrupt though. Usually I don't mind the absence of an epilogue, but on this occasion it really would have been beneficial!
April 19, 2019
The ending felt a bit abrupt, and the angst the woman went through was a little too high to be comfortable, but it was otherwise okay.
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