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A Spanish Engagement
Carrie Michaels needs a fiancé — fast! Her life in Barcelona was turned upside down when she took on her orphaned niece, but now she can’t imagine life without the little girl. However, when their future together is threatened there’s only one find a man and pretend she’s engaged! Carrie can’t believe her luck when sexy Spanish lawyer Max Santos discovers her dilemma and offers to help her out by becoming her fake fiancé. But little does Carrie realise that Max has needs of his own — one of which is a convenient wife!
180 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 2006
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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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December 14, 2019
3.5 stars ⭐️.
A good read.
Recommended and safe.
A good read.
Recommended and safe.
February 15, 2025
2.5 really. It was just too saccharine sweet for me and had an extremely neurotic heroine, which I always find exhausting to read about, not cute or endearing.
Heroine is an ad exec who has just recently become the guardian of her orphaned niece. The niece's grandparents are threatening to fight her for custody because they don't think a single career girl with a parade of boyfriends and a jet set lifestyle can be a good role model for a little girl. LOL Didn't they watch Murphy Brown? Women can have it all!!!
To prevent a potential custody battle with her niece's grandparents, Heroine lies that her latest client, a suave, Spanish lawyer-turned-winemaker, is her fiance. As it happens, the hero is all for the fake engagement because he too has a family problem: his overworked, very ill father is reluctant to hand over the reins of the family winery until the hero settles down with a nice girl and a family.
So on we go with the fake engagement trope. These two had great chemistry and things seem to go along swimmingly, until the heroine's guilt at lying and her doubts as to hero's feelings get in the way. This uncertainty is solidified when the inevitable fang-toothed viper OW ( hero's cousin's wife) shows up to hiss at the heroine.
The story concludes with the party for their fake engagement, where all the family and friends (minus the viper) sincerely and affectionately congratulate them until the heroine feels too guilty to perpetrate the charade any longer and has a mini nervous breakdown. The hero confesses that he loves her and has loved her all along. In turn, heroine avows her love too and all is well that ends well with a fake engagement turned into a fairytale true engagement with sparkly unicorns and kittens and rainbows shooting into the sky.
I didn't like how neurotic the heroine was: she came up with the big lie then spent the rest of the story being wishy-washy and berating the hero for supposedly being the manipulative one lol. The niece's grandparents’ attitude branding the single heroine as a scarlet woman who could not be trusted to bring up her niece unless a big strong man came along and gave her stability did not ring true of a book published in 2006. The niece got on my nerves. The fang-toothed viper cousin's wife from hell did not get told off, despite the fact that hero knew of her sabotage tactics. Last but not least, the last minute appearance of the hero's ex-fiancee just so that the hero can gaze wistfully at her and caress her pregnant belly in the middle of his own engagement party was CRINGE.
Overall not really my cuppa but not too horrible either. Sorry if I couldn't come up with a ringing endorsement on this one!
Heroine is an ad exec who has just recently become the guardian of her orphaned niece. The niece's grandparents are threatening to fight her for custody because they don't think a single career girl with a parade of boyfriends and a jet set lifestyle can be a good role model for a little girl. LOL Didn't they watch Murphy Brown? Women can have it all!!!
To prevent a potential custody battle with her niece's grandparents, Heroine lies that her latest client, a suave, Spanish lawyer-turned-winemaker, is her fiance. As it happens, the hero is all for the fake engagement because he too has a family problem: his overworked, very ill father is reluctant to hand over the reins of the family winery until the hero settles down with a nice girl and a family.
So on we go with the fake engagement trope. These two had great chemistry and things seem to go along swimmingly, until the heroine's guilt at lying and her doubts as to hero's feelings get in the way. This uncertainty is solidified when the inevitable fang-toothed viper OW ( hero's cousin's wife) shows up to hiss at the heroine.
The story concludes with the party for their fake engagement, where all the family and friends (minus the viper) sincerely and affectionately congratulate them until the heroine feels too guilty to perpetrate the charade any longer and has a mini nervous breakdown. The hero confesses that he loves her and has loved her all along. In turn, heroine avows her love too and all is well that ends well with a fake engagement turned into a fairytale true engagement with sparkly unicorns and kittens and rainbows shooting into the sky.
I didn't like how neurotic the heroine was: she came up with the big lie then spent the rest of the story being wishy-washy and berating the hero for supposedly being the manipulative one lol. The niece's grandparents’ attitude branding the single heroine as a scarlet woman who could not be trusted to bring up her niece unless a big strong man came along and gave her stability did not ring true of a book published in 2006. The niece got on my nerves. The fang-toothed viper cousin's wife from hell did not get told off, despite the fact that hero knew of her sabotage tactics. Last but not least, the last minute appearance of the hero's ex-fiancee just so that the hero can gaze wistfully at her and caress her pregnant belly in the middle of his own engagement party was CRINGE.
Overall not really my cuppa but not too horrible either. Sorry if I couldn't come up with a ringing endorsement on this one!
January 6, 2019
Eminently forgettable. Hence the 2-star rating.
It was just so bland and boring. So easy skim or to put down for another time. The only angst came from their supposed “fake” engagement, but it was all in the heroine’s mind.
Quick summary. The couple embark on a “fake” engagement so that the heroine can keep her orphaned niece, instead of turning the little girl over to the grandparents. Then, for the whole rest of the book, she is worried about deceiving such nice people. 😳
It was just so bland and boring. So easy skim or to put down for another time. The only angst came from their supposed “fake” engagement, but it was all in the heroine’s mind.
Quick summary. The couple embark on a “fake” engagement so that the heroine can keep her orphaned niece, instead of turning the little girl over to the grandparents. Then, for the whole rest of the book, she is worried about deceiving such nice people. 😳
July 5, 2023
2.5. Light, fluffy. Not much angst. Fake engagement.
December 18, 2010
A cute little Harlequin romance that I enjoyed! The ending was a little but rushed, but I appreciated they didn't have to have some huge misunderstanding and split before they figured out their true feelings for one another.
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June 21, 2016I really enjoyed the book, though at some point it felt rushed but it was as cliche as most romance novels are.
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