If You Loved Me

by Starla Kaye

Caitlan Curran MacDonnell's life is a disaster. Forced into marriage at eighteen to a man she never met, at twenty-one she's told the marriage is to be annuled. Only Now her brother wants to force her to marry someone else. She's had enough. She has dreams of her own and they don't include an enormous handsome Scot OR a disgusting old man. It's time to find her "husband" from whom she was separated after her wedding night and get on with her life. Just when Mac is getting on with HIS life, his sassy young bride shows up. He'd been told she'd died, yet there she is, willful and independent as ever, demanding an annulment so she can go off to San Fransisco to be a photographer. That might be want she WANTS, but what she needs is a man to keep her in line. And Mac MacDonnell knows someone who will fill the bill nicely... Ten chapters.

Genres: BDSM

136 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 4, 2010

About the author

Starla often tends to see things and life through the rose-colored eyes of a romantic. She grew up in a loving family, something for which she will always be grateful. Today she is surrounded by a loving family and many wonderful friends who support her in all of her craziness.

Starla is working toward being a full-time writer of romance, everything from sweet to erotic to naughty, and is multi-published at this time. She is a member of RWA (Romance Writers of America), the current Vice-President/Secretary of Kansas Writers Association, the past president of WARA (Wichita Area Romance Authors), and an affiliate memeber of OWFI (Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc.).

Starla writes in a number of romantic sub-genres including contemporary and Old West cowboys, sci-fi, paranormal, Regency and Medieval. When not writing or dreaming up another plotline and a new set of characters, she might be off traveling somewhere. Well, even when she travels to places like Maui, the U.K., France, Italy, or even spots in the good old USA, she's dreaming and plotting. And taking oodles of pictures wherever she goes.

Reviews

[Cozen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Terrible book. If you're into the spanking type of love and romance genre, than this book is for you. I found this book to be lacking in so many areas. The storyline at the beginning has its plot dropped and abandoned somewhere after about the first few chapters. You never get to find out what happened to her brother and this other elder gentleman pursuit of the lead female. Than the lead character is consistently stating she's going to leave but never does. In fact... I don't really think this book let's these characters venture outside the jail cell or the lead character's home. In short I think this book had way too many holes in it and both of the characters were immature at best. The story doesn't make a lot of sense in some places and then there are other times when their lack of information when there needs to be. An example would be like this one: Why did this Scottish guy move all the way over to the U.S.? The book reads that he had a falling out with his father and wanted to earn money to help out his people back home. It seems like a fairly reasonable answer (well maybe only a slightly reasonable one) but then why did he move to a (almost quite literally) one horse town. This all takes place in a town with only a handful of people. I could even go as far as to say that it was a ghost town. Anyways I could go on but I find myself getting more agitated by the minute as I try to recall some of the details and events in this book.

[Alicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great story with one fiesty heroine who has finally had enough and decides to take matters into her own hands. But when she finally finds her husband he refuses to give her an anulment like she wants and decides to keep her. This story has great characters who have reeally good chemistry together.