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Cordero's Forced Bride
Alexa Montague is mortified! She's had to call off her sister's wedding, and now the ruthless, arrogant groom, Santos Cordero, is demanding shy ugly duckling Alexa take her sister's place!
The Montagues have stolen his money and his convenient bride, so Santos will enjoy taking Alexa instead. For Santos does not—cannot—love. But his body burns for Alexa as it has for no other woman before. He'll keep her captive in his bed until she's begging to be his….
The Montagues have stolen his money and his convenient bride, so Santos will enjoy taking Alexa instead. For Santos does not—cannot—love. But his body burns for Alexa as it has for no other woman before. He'll keep her captive in his bed until she's begging to be his….
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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Kate Walker
496 books148 followersI was born in Nottinghamshire, England, but I didn't live there for very long. The family moved to West Yorkshire when I was just eighteen months old and so I have always regarded Yorkshire as my home. I grew up there as the middle child in a family of five—all girls—in a home where books were vitally important and I read anything I could get my hands on.
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
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September 26, 2018
Cordero's Forced Bride, a silent film.
Heroine: *stares at church, her dress, the hero, her stepmother and feckless father.*
A chapter passes
Hero: What are you doing here?
Heroine: My sister is not going to marry you.
*stares and thinks about how hot the hero is, how plain she is, etc . . .*
A chapter passes
Hero: Come to my house
Heroine: *stares and thinks about hot the hero is, how great it is to dance with him, how her feet hurt*
Chapters pass
Hero: you're ankles and feet are bleeding from your sandals.
Heroine: stares and thinks while he bandages her up and takes her home.
They kiss.
Hero: You want me.
Heroine: No
Chapters pass
Hero: You need to marry me so I don't send your dad to jail
Heroine: *stares* A half a chapter passes "No."
Hero: Call your dad.
Kisses/sex/Heroine runs away and calls Dad.
Heroine: *stares, thinking of her father's deal, the hero's betrayal, using her as a substitute for her sister/baby maker*
Chapter passes
Hero: I love you, but here's a gratuitous story of my abusive childhood first.
Heroine: *stares and melts*
Half a chapter later
Heroine: I love you, too.
The inner monologues are off the charts. The hero is a beta in sheep's clothing. The heroine had no pressure from her father or maybe she did - who knows? This was all probably a dream anyway.
Heroine: *stares at church, her dress, the hero, her stepmother and feckless father.*
A chapter passes
Hero: What are you doing here?
Heroine: My sister is not going to marry you.
*stares and thinks about how hot the hero is, how plain she is, etc . . .*
A chapter passes
Hero: Come to my house
Heroine: *stares and thinks about hot the hero is, how great it is to dance with him, how her feet hurt*
Chapters pass
Hero: you're ankles and feet are bleeding from your sandals.
Heroine: stares and thinks while he bandages her up and takes her home.
They kiss.
Hero: You want me.
Heroine: No
Chapters pass
Hero: You need to marry me so I don't send your dad to jail
Heroine: *stares* A half a chapter passes "No."
Hero: Call your dad.
Kisses/sex/Heroine runs away and calls Dad.
Heroine: *stares, thinking of her father's deal, the hero's betrayal, using her as a substitute for her sister/baby maker*
Chapter passes
Hero: I love you, but here's a gratuitous story of my abusive childhood first.
Heroine: *stares and melts*
Half a chapter later
Heroine: I love you, too.
The inner monologues are off the charts. The hero is a beta in sheep's clothing. The heroine had no pressure from her father or maybe she did - who knows? This was all probably a dream anyway.
October 22, 2019
It was an ok read.
At times I got irritated with endless description and monologue.
I liked the hero better than heroine.
Safe and recommended.
At times I got irritated with endless description and monologue.
I liked the hero better than heroine.
Safe and recommended.
January 7, 2021
Mehh boring. The first half takes place within six hours. Where there is just inner monologues and dialogs between the H/h. Then they have sex and then the h runs away. The second half of the book takes place at the h's house. More talking and sex. Then ILY and HEA. There was no depth to this story. Or drama. And most important no marriage. He wants to marry her and tries to blackmail her but she stands firm (apparently her father embezzled money from his company or something). She has fallen in love with him for some reason after knowing him for two days, if that. The H, it felt like, fell in love on the turn of a dime (is that the saying?) in the last pages of the book. This story had been better if it fallowed the standard HP formula.
Example one. H/h fall in to bed together. The h gets pregnant and H forces her to marry him and they spend the book getting to know each other. Then The Big Terrible Misunderstanding happens and the h leaves, the H fallows and HEA.
Example two. The same as the first but instead of the h getting pregnant the H blackmails her because someone in her family has done something, like embezzle money or done his family wrong. You know the usual stuff.
Example one. H/h fall in to bed together. The h gets pregnant and H forces her to marry him and they spend the book getting to know each other. Then The Big Terrible Misunderstanding happens and the h leaves, the H fallows and HEA.
Example two. The same as the first but instead of the h getting pregnant the H blackmails her because someone in her family has done something, like embezzle money or done his family wrong. You know the usual stuff.
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July 1, 2021
Repetitive
I had high hopes for this book because it specifically stated it was about a plain woman. It's hard to find a book about a plain woman who finds love with the hero. This was a love at first sight and there was no unfolding of a story, a building attraction. To write a book where the reader experiences the heros awaking awareness by getting closer and seeing someone's character must not be easy. They meet, fall in lust, then it's love book over. They don't even spend time together.
But what gave it two stars was the lack of dialogue through most of the book and the repetitive thought process especially the heroine. The writer cranked out a quick book with little effort. There would be a sentence of dialogue then you had to wade through paragraph after paragraph to get the the response. You can't give the reader a picture without going on and on. We want dialogue, banter, responses in a book not paragraph after paragraph of no I don't like him but yes I do repeated over and over.
I had high hopes for this book because it specifically stated it was about a plain woman. It's hard to find a book about a plain woman who finds love with the hero. This was a love at first sight and there was no unfolding of a story, a building attraction. To write a book where the reader experiences the heros awaking awareness by getting closer and seeing someone's character must not be easy. They meet, fall in lust, then it's love book over. They don't even spend time together.
But what gave it two stars was the lack of dialogue through most of the book and the repetitive thought process especially the heroine. The writer cranked out a quick book with little effort. There would be a sentence of dialogue then you had to wade through paragraph after paragraph to get the the response. You can't give the reader a picture without going on and on. We want dialogue, banter, responses in a book not paragraph after paragraph of no I don't like him but yes I do repeated over and over.
October 19, 2021
I didn't like it, the hero was attracted to heroine before he was to marry her sister and would have married the sister. I didn't like the things he said to the heroine but could have got past that if heroine had more of a backbone and didn't just let him say what he said and still just fall into bed with him. Np.
January 10, 2019
Too wordy.
Too wordy. Unnecessarily so. So repeative it was a waste. It was hard to read and never once grabbed my attention.
Too wordy. Unnecessarily so. So repeative it was a waste. It was hard to read and never once grabbed my attention.
October 17, 2018
leído en enero 2013
**2.5 estrellas
Protagonistas: Santiago Luzón y Alexa Montague
Argumento:
Aceptado el pago, tendrá que acostarse con él…
¡Alexa Montague se siente humillada! Tras haber tenido que anunciar que la boda de su hermana no se iba a celebrar, el despiadado y arrogante novio, Santiago Luzón, le exige a ella, que es un patito feo, que ocupe el lugar de Natalie.
Los Montague le han robado su dinero, así como a su conveniente novia, por lo que Santiago se resarcirá reemplazando a ésta por Alexa. Él no quiere, no puede amar. Pero ella le excita como ninguna otra mujer lo ha hecho nunca y la mantendrá cautiva en su cama hasta que le suplique ser suya…
**2.5 estrellas
Protagonistas: Santiago Luzón y Alexa Montague
Argumento:
Aceptado el pago, tendrá que acostarse con él…
¡Alexa Montague se siente humillada! Tras haber tenido que anunciar que la boda de su hermana no se iba a celebrar, el despiadado y arrogante novio, Santiago Luzón, le exige a ella, que es un patito feo, que ocupe el lugar de Natalie.
Los Montague le han robado su dinero, así como a su conveniente novia, por lo que Santiago se resarcirá reemplazando a ésta por Alexa. Él no quiere, no puede amar. Pero ella le excita como ninguna otra mujer lo ha hecho nunca y la mantendrá cautiva en su cama hasta que le suplique ser suya…
September 22, 2020
Pretty good. The title isn't very fitting because no one is actually forced into marriage.
December 7, 2021
Way too ponderous
This book had a good premise and hints of passion but it was just so slow and plodding. I had to skip over alot just to get to the point.
This book had a good premise and hints of passion but it was just so slow and plodding. I had to skip over alot just to get to the point.
November 28, 2023
Extremely disappointing `romantic' novel.
Very trite and formulaic.
Not recommended.
Very trite and formulaic.
Not recommended.
March 28, 2024
the story is about a fishwife and an ogre
June 4, 2021
Alexa Montague is mortified! She's had to call off her sister's wedding, and now the ruthless, arrogant groom, Santos Cordero, is demanding shy ugly duckling Alexa take her sister's place!The Montagues have stolen his money and his convenient bride, so Santos will enjoy taking Alexa instead. For Santos does not--cannot--love. But his body burns for Alexa as it has for no other woman before. He'll keep her captive in his bed until she's begging to be his. Not the one where sister leaves to reunite with her ex.
December 4, 2019
Usually a story with sort of compressed time-line and dictatorial dude doesn't work for me, but somehow it did this time. I really liked the woman, although her equivocating at the start (how long it took her to tell everyone her sister had run off) was annoying. But after that, I quite liked her. And the man grew on me enough to not mind the rest of him. Oddly, the resolution worked for me to. The confessions were believable enough.
January 18, 2014
As much as I enjoyed it, this book's a bit confusing.
So Alexa forced to 'marry' Santos because her half-sister ran away with another man? Okay, good start. But the thing is, I don't feel the chemistry between Alexa and Santos. It's like there's something missing and I think the storyline's kind of strange.
But overall, I enjoyed it. Not exactly my favorite though.
So Alexa forced to 'marry' Santos because her half-sister ran away with another man? Okay, good start. But the thing is, I don't feel the chemistry between Alexa and Santos. It's like there's something missing and I think the storyline's kind of strange.
But overall, I enjoyed it. Not exactly my favorite though.
February 21, 2015
Way to much internal dialogue
So much internal dialogue it took away from what could potentially be a great love story. On top of that who falls deeply madly in love in less than 2 days?!? I'm a romantic at heart but this story was to unbelievable.
So much internal dialogue it took away from what could potentially be a great love story. On top of that who falls deeply madly in love in less than 2 days?!? I'm a romantic at heart but this story was to unbelievable.
July 16, 2015
Decent but kinda weird and felt very short and a little cut off at the end :-P
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July 27, 2011I appretiate the brief time span but at the same time I think it is a tad too brief. There are some serious issues being dealt with and I don't know if they convincingly get resolved that quickly
September 13, 2012
The novel was actually a full learning experience. Plus it was sweet as fuck, I swear it. I loved the hero discovering what love was. It was pretty darn beautiful!
September 22, 2012
too short
June 2, 2014
Very quick. Typical M&B romance. Good story and HEA.
April 10, 2016
great falling in love story .....I really would have liked an epilogue because it seemed a little short
January 5, 2017
uhmm una buena historia para pasar un buen momento. <3 <3
August 27, 2017
Too much inner dialogue. The romance didn't feel right.
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