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Love's Reward #2
A Bitter Homecoming
He was wrong in his assessment of her . . .
Completely wrong.
But as far as Leon Venetos was concerned -- there was no smoke without fire.
The scandalmongers had branded Alexa as the mistress of wealthy financier Sam Darcy and that was enough for Leon.
"Women like you are easily bought for the price of a few jewels," he told her contemptuously.
That was why Alexa fought so hard against the attraction that drew her inexorably toward him. A man who could never offer her what she really wanted . . .
Completely wrong.
But as far as Leon Venetos was concerned -- there was no smoke without fire.
The scandalmongers had branded Alexa as the mistress of wealthy financier Sam Darcy and that was enough for Leon.
"Women like you are easily bought for the price of a few jewels," he told her contemptuously.
That was why Alexa fought so hard against the attraction that drew her inexorably toward him. A man who could never offer her what she really wanted . . .
187 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1989
About the author
Robyn Donald
450 books150 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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March 24, 2017
RE A Bitter Homecoming - Robyn Donald finally finishes her Hollingworth mini-series that started with Captives of the Past. This time the h is the girl who was the roommate of Cathy from Love's Reward. Sadly our h probably gets the worst H of the bunch and like Melly from Long Journey Back and Jennet from Captives, she gets mauled through the RD patented punishing H wringer for something that was totally not her fault.
The h is a mathematician, quite a brilliant one actually and has been hailed as a child prodigy in some circles. When the book opens, she is working for a London financier who is old enough to be her father. He falls in love with the kind, beautiful and brilliant h. The h is aware of this, but trying to keep things low key and professional.
Her boss's wife, who is angry that her son isn't getting all the nepotism he deserves and the top position in her husband's company, starts a big fuss about the h being top in her firm because she is sleeping with her boss. This scandal is promoted throughout the world's press, (or at least the upper class's gossip rags,) and even the h's own mother doesn't believe the h is innocent. Somehow the h's certified genius status is overlooked, because obviously a woman with her looks cannot possibly have a brain and she must have done a lot of kneeling to get all those honours degrees and so much career advancement so rapidly.
Actually, it is more likely the h's mother is furious that the h did not parlay her supposed quid pro quo of bonos for promos into trading physical assets for martial advancement and a 15 carat rock on the third finger. So the h decides to go to her childhood home which adjoins the H's land on a NZ island. The H, who believes everything the rag mags print about other people while simultaneously decrying as lies everything they print about himself, totally believes the h is a tart and tries to deny her access to her property by refusing her a boat.
The h gets a boat lift from an old school male school friend, who figures an h who puts out as much as the h must have done to get her fancy former job must be just gagging for some after her long stint of gossip mag induced drought. He tries to force himself on her as payment for the boat trip. The H shows up in time to save the h's unblemished status, but he makes it clear that the h is not to step one foot past her property line. This order doesn't prevent him from accosting her at every opportunity on her's tho.
To be fair the H does help her when she is ill, force her into shelter at his place when a big cyclone comes and is generally a decent person when life or limb is at stake. However none of those things mitigate his insults, his assumptions about her morality, (or lack of,) and the very forced seduction that he eventually inflicts -tho it is one of those no, no , ok - that is great kinda RD events.
The H refuses to admit that he debauched an innocent and his continued insults finally make the h realize that the H just doesn't want to see her as anything but a tart and pricey pike receptacle - as he himself claims he witnessed when the h first showed up and she was seducing the male school friend. If the H admitted to the h being anything else, he might have to feel bad about trying to coerce and bully her into being his mistress.
Fortunately the h really is a genius and has a healthy amount of self respect to know a losing proposition when she sees it. She manages to escape her island home when a boat happens by. She gets herself back into the university and a job, where she starts developing Nobel Prize winning math theory and trying to forget her unfortunate love for the H.
Cathy from the previous book is more than ready to stir the pot under the guise of friendship by encouraging the h to go back and pimp herself out to the H. But the h has a chance to collaborate with another math genius, it will require going back to England. So she goes to take one final look at her childhood home before leaving.
The H is waiting for her and he is ready to pounce. He claims he was going to go seek the h if she hadn't finally shown up, he has had spies watching her all the long months she was gone. He also tells the h that he went to see her old boss, who is divorcing his wife and once the boss verified that the h did nothing wrong, the H decided she was good enough to be his permanent broodmare and pole rider.
He is going to marry the h, cause all the appropriate outside verification proves that she isn't a tart - tho it will still be a frozen day in the flames of the netherworld before he will actually take her word for anything. He supposedly can't forgive himself for his abuse of her, but that is okay because his excuse is that she is just too beautiful and talented and his want overwhelmed his brain.
Thus proving the golden HPlandia rule that no matter that the h is innocently writing brilliant math theory five hundred miles away, she is still at fault cause she made him crazy and if she hadn't been so adept at arousing his lurve mojo, ( or at least had taken up his offer to trade clubbings for cash,) his jealousy wouldn't have run amok and all that unpleasantness could have been avoided - he claims they were both fools - but the implication is she is the bigger one.
(Which I kinda have to agree with here, because really she should have just made a beeline for the collaboration with the English math genius and gotten a Nobel Prize instead.)
The h, who has been having intermittent mopey moments when not enthralled by her latest genius mathematical/philosophy combo theory, happily cedes her heart, body and will to the tyranny of the H cause she can't imagine any kind of life without his insults to keep her in her lower status place and swears it is a true love match for the ages in the worst traditions of the classic RD HP HEA.
Needless to say, I wasn't overly feeling the lurve with the conclusion of this book. The first part and the battles were pretty much classic angsty RD and somewhat enjoyable in the angstfest wrecky kinda way.
However that ending and his arrogance and his assumptions were never really mitigated in his big HEA declaration - I just don't buy the reformation and so I can't really believe the HEA. Any H who requires multiple outside verification's of the h's innocence isn't really invested in her as person but only as a status symbol and just because RD tells us the H loves her, it doesn't make it so. This one isn't really a win in the romance department, but at least it ends the miniseries so we call it a day in HPlandia and move on to better and happier HEA's.
The h is a mathematician, quite a brilliant one actually and has been hailed as a child prodigy in some circles. When the book opens, she is working for a London financier who is old enough to be her father. He falls in love with the kind, beautiful and brilliant h. The h is aware of this, but trying to keep things low key and professional.
Her boss's wife, who is angry that her son isn't getting all the nepotism he deserves and the top position in her husband's company, starts a big fuss about the h being top in her firm because she is sleeping with her boss. This scandal is promoted throughout the world's press, (or at least the upper class's gossip rags,) and even the h's own mother doesn't believe the h is innocent. Somehow the h's certified genius status is overlooked, because obviously a woman with her looks cannot possibly have a brain and she must have done a lot of kneeling to get all those honours degrees and so much career advancement so rapidly.
Actually, it is more likely the h's mother is furious that the h did not parlay her supposed quid pro quo of bonos for promos into trading physical assets for martial advancement and a 15 carat rock on the third finger. So the h decides to go to her childhood home which adjoins the H's land on a NZ island. The H, who believes everything the rag mags print about other people while simultaneously decrying as lies everything they print about himself, totally believes the h is a tart and tries to deny her access to her property by refusing her a boat.
The h gets a boat lift from an old school male school friend, who figures an h who puts out as much as the h must have done to get her fancy former job must be just gagging for some after her long stint of gossip mag induced drought. He tries to force himself on her as payment for the boat trip. The H shows up in time to save the h's unblemished status, but he makes it clear that the h is not to step one foot past her property line. This order doesn't prevent him from accosting her at every opportunity on her's tho.
To be fair the H does help her when she is ill, force her into shelter at his place when a big cyclone comes and is generally a decent person when life or limb is at stake. However none of those things mitigate his insults, his assumptions about her morality, (or lack of,) and the very forced seduction that he eventually inflicts -tho it is one of those no, no , ok - that is great kinda RD events.
The H refuses to admit that he debauched an innocent and his continued insults finally make the h realize that the H just doesn't want to see her as anything but a tart and pricey pike receptacle - as he himself claims he witnessed when the h first showed up and she was seducing the male school friend. If the H admitted to the h being anything else, he might have to feel bad about trying to coerce and bully her into being his mistress.
Fortunately the h really is a genius and has a healthy amount of self respect to know a losing proposition when she sees it. She manages to escape her island home when a boat happens by. She gets herself back into the university and a job, where she starts developing Nobel Prize winning math theory and trying to forget her unfortunate love for the H.
Cathy from the previous book is more than ready to stir the pot under the guise of friendship by encouraging the h to go back and pimp herself out to the H. But the h has a chance to collaborate with another math genius, it will require going back to England. So she goes to take one final look at her childhood home before leaving.
The H is waiting for her and he is ready to pounce. He claims he was going to go seek the h if she hadn't finally shown up, he has had spies watching her all the long months she was gone. He also tells the h that he went to see her old boss, who is divorcing his wife and once the boss verified that the h did nothing wrong, the H decided she was good enough to be his permanent broodmare and pole rider.
He is going to marry the h, cause all the appropriate outside verification proves that she isn't a tart - tho it will still be a frozen day in the flames of the netherworld before he will actually take her word for anything. He supposedly can't forgive himself for his abuse of her, but that is okay because his excuse is that she is just too beautiful and talented and his want overwhelmed his brain.
Thus proving the golden HPlandia rule that no matter that the h is innocently writing brilliant math theory five hundred miles away, she is still at fault cause she made him crazy and if she hadn't been so adept at arousing his lurve mojo, ( or at least had taken up his offer to trade clubbings for cash,) his jealousy wouldn't have run amok and all that unpleasantness could have been avoided - he claims they were both fools - but the implication is she is the bigger one.
(Which I kinda have to agree with here, because really she should have just made a beeline for the collaboration with the English math genius and gotten a Nobel Prize instead.)
The h, who has been having intermittent mopey moments when not enthralled by her latest genius mathematical/philosophy combo theory, happily cedes her heart, body and will to the tyranny of the H cause she can't imagine any kind of life without his insults to keep her in her lower status place and swears it is a true love match for the ages in the worst traditions of the classic RD HP HEA.
Needless to say, I wasn't overly feeling the lurve with the conclusion of this book. The first part and the battles were pretty much classic angsty RD and somewhat enjoyable in the angstfest wrecky kinda way.
However that ending and his arrogance and his assumptions were never really mitigated in his big HEA declaration - I just don't buy the reformation and so I can't really believe the HEA. Any H who requires multiple outside verification's of the h's innocence isn't really invested in her as person but only as a status symbol and just because RD tells us the H loves her, it doesn't make it so. This one isn't really a win in the romance department, but at least it ends the miniseries so we call it a day in HPlandia and move on to better and happier HEA's.
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December 31, 2021
The heroine is misjudged, but suffers from lockjaw when defending herself from the press, her own mother and of course the hero. The heroine's crimes? Her banker boss fell in love with her and his wife ran to the papers and made her out to be someone who slept her way to the top. Her mother wanted her away from London to spare her embarrassment, so heroine returns to New Zealand and the small island where she spent her childhood. The hero owns much of the island and tries to block her from using any boat to get to the small house she still owns. A school friend helps her, but expects her to have sex with him in exchange for the boat ride. (He believes the press) Heroine is fending him off when the hero arrives to threaten her with trespass if she goes past her property line.
This was a four star read until I got to the unsatisfactory ending. It was obvious hero had a nicer side - helping heroine when she was sick with her migraine, rescuing people, etc . . . But that grovel wasn't good enough. He didn't work hard enough (at all) to get her back. Heroine was ridiculous in how she wouldn't stick up for herself from the beginning.
This was a four star read until I got to the unsatisfactory ending. It was obvious hero had a nicer side - helping heroine when she was sick with her migraine, rescuing people, etc . . . But that grovel wasn't good enough. He didn't work hard enough (at all) to get her back. Heroine was ridiculous in how she wouldn't stick up for herself from the beginning.
April 13, 2020
This was so, so, so horrible. The hero's continuous emotional and verbal beat down of what he considers the sluttiest of all lying sluts was just too stomach churning. But, hey, it's Robyn Donald. When will I learn? As cautionary as the other reviews are they barely touch on the hero's smirking and condescending, know-it all shame fest.
And the heroine! Good Lord, get some pride girl, a spine. Something, just something I can work with. I can see why she would fall in love and in bed so quickly for someone that tells her she's a lying slut for sleeping with all her lovers to get ahead, refuses to believe that she may be the mathematical hotshot that she is, and finishes off by telling her she'll leave the island when he's had his fill of her and not before. Be still my heart. Barf. Gross. Ick.
Plot:
The heroine is a math whiz and to please her muhtha of a mother has taken on a job as a financial something or other. Her boss/mentor falls for her and goes into a decline, and his apparently jealous bovine wife has so little respect for herself that she outs the heroine's nonexistent affair with her husband to the press and proceeds to feed the press. The h is on the run to her father's old house on an island. There she endures an attempted rape by one bozo who later lies that she came on to him, continuous sexual hassling and humiliation by the afore-mentioned hero jackass, inappropriate leers and more condescension from the H's snotty little brother. Her response to all this...roll over and say, "Thank you Sir, may I have another?"
Rather horrifying to think that this was written by a woman for all the OTT degradation inflicted. It's not just the hero who humiliates her, but her mother, her supposed lover, his stupid wife all hammer at her either personally or through the press. If she had the smallest hint of a spine there would be one heck of a slander and libel lawsuit. I guess that legal action is as foreign a concept as a good PI.
If you like a mean hero, a doormat heroine and angst to the 100th power, this one's for you.
And the heroine! Good Lord, get some pride girl, a spine. Something, just something I can work with. I can see why she would fall in love and in bed so quickly for someone that tells her she's a lying slut for sleeping with all her lovers to get ahead, refuses to believe that she may be the mathematical hotshot that she is, and finishes off by telling her she'll leave the island when he's had his fill of her and not before. Be still my heart. Barf. Gross. Ick.
Plot:
The heroine is a math whiz and to please her muhtha of a mother has taken on a job as a financial something or other. Her boss/mentor falls for her and goes into a decline, and his apparently jealous bovine wife has so little respect for herself that she outs the heroine's nonexistent affair with her husband to the press and proceeds to feed the press. The h is on the run to her father's old house on an island. There she endures an attempted rape by one bozo who later lies that she came on to him, continuous sexual hassling and humiliation by the afore-mentioned hero jackass, inappropriate leers and more condescension from the H's snotty little brother. Her response to all this...roll over and say, "Thank you Sir, may I have another?"
Rather horrifying to think that this was written by a woman for all the OTT degradation inflicted. It's not just the hero who humiliates her, but her mother, her supposed lover, his stupid wife all hammer at her either personally or through the press. If she had the smallest hint of a spine there would be one heck of a slander and libel lawsuit. I guess that legal action is as foreign a concept as a good PI.
If you like a mean hero, a doormat heroine and angst to the 100th power, this one's for you.
December 18, 2025
Hero had serious trust issue and he was rude. Heroine was beautiful, genius and victimized virgin but had her pride. (My dream heroine) But her words/silence and behaviors were perceived as proof of her guilt. Yeah, I know he was dumb and he confessed at the end, he lost his brain around h. Lol. Unfortunately there was not enough grovel so 4,5 stars.
December 27, 2021
It was disturbing.
The heroine is a math genius working for a bank.
She’s also a beautiful young woman and every man is drolling after her, sadly her boss- her older married boss- too. He not only falls in love with her but, when his wife tells the whole sordid story to a journalist, he attempts suicide.
So the heroine leaves the job and the country and goes back to New Zealand where unfortunately she meets the hero.
The hero is a big pig male chauvinist, an idiot prejudiced and gross man who thinks women are only good for bed and if they are beautiful and have a career they surely must have slept their way to the top.
He tells this to the heroine- repeatedly- and treats her like a cheap w***e through all the book, while she, instead of beating him hard with an iron bar, keeps silent and sulks.
And to make thing worse she sleeps with him.
The woman seems to be unable to defend herself in any way.
Ok, I know that sometimes math geeks can be a lil clueless on emotional department but this heroine seems really lacking in self preservation instinct.
She falls in love with that bastard sob of hero who can’t even recognize that maybe- maybe- she’s telling the truth and she’s a victim of an older stupid man who fell hard for a younger woman…
So eventually thank god she runs away and tries to do something useful of her life.
But after months of pining and suffering for the bastard sob she decides to go back to her place- near the hero- and there he apologizes and declares his love.
Oh he only believes her because the old boss told him that he was never the heroine’s lover.
He would have never believed her without this evidence.
But the heroine is so happy and she tells him she would forgive him anything. Really???
Should I be happy?
No! I’m not!
I understand that RD heroes are no prizes but this was really nasty and cruel.
I can understand that he could be cruel because he didn’t believe in the beginning her but during all the book he was nasty and unpleasant and I was waiting for a change that never came, so no, enough is enough and I didn’t enjoy the book at all.
I give two stars because it was really angsty but it would have been one for the hero.
The heroine is a math genius working for a bank.
She’s also a beautiful young woman and every man is drolling after her, sadly her boss- her older married boss- too. He not only falls in love with her but, when his wife tells the whole sordid story to a journalist, he attempts suicide.
So the heroine leaves the job and the country and goes back to New Zealand where unfortunately she meets the hero.
The hero is a big pig male chauvinist, an idiot prejudiced and gross man who thinks women are only good for bed and if they are beautiful and have a career they surely must have slept their way to the top.
He tells this to the heroine- repeatedly- and treats her like a cheap w***e through all the book, while she, instead of beating him hard with an iron bar, keeps silent and sulks.
And to make thing worse she sleeps with him.
The woman seems to be unable to defend herself in any way.
Ok, I know that sometimes math geeks can be a lil clueless on emotional department but this heroine seems really lacking in self preservation instinct.
She falls in love with that bastard sob of hero who can’t even recognize that maybe- maybe- she’s telling the truth and she’s a victim of an older stupid man who fell hard for a younger woman…
So eventually thank god she runs away and tries to do something useful of her life.
But after months of pining and suffering for the bastard sob she decides to go back to her place- near the hero- and there he apologizes and declares his love.
Oh he only believes her because the old boss told him that he was never the heroine’s lover.
He would have never believed her without this evidence.
But the heroine is so happy and she tells him she would forgive him anything. Really???
Should I be happy?
No! I’m not!
I understand that RD heroes are no prizes but this was really nasty and cruel.
I can understand that he could be cruel because he didn’t believe in the beginning her but during all the book he was nasty and unpleasant and I was waiting for a change that never came, so no, enough is enough and I didn’t enjoy the book at all.
I give two stars because it was really angsty but it would have been one for the hero.
February 19, 2018
It took only one short week for their love to flourish, fall in bed and get separated.
He was hateful to here based on information merely from newspaper reports.
He stayed away from her more than half a year even though he learned the truth about her. Not a loving man action.
He was hateful to here based on information merely from newspaper reports.
He stayed away from her more than half a year even though he learned the truth about her. Not a loving man action.
May 23, 2024
Wow, I felt his heat. 😮 He makes no secret of his desire for her. But the end of the book was disappointing. He stayed away from her for months, he only believed her after it was confirmed by other people and he didn’t grovel enough. Otherwise it would have been 5 stars.
July 7, 2020
An interesting one from RD. Her hero in this one is one of her patented cruel alphas in some ways, but he’s also has a protective side, caring for the heroine Alexa (the former roommate of Cathy from Love's Reward) when she is sick or in danger, and saving strangers from certain death at the risk of his own life too. We also begin to see, I think, a slight change in Harley tone about consent, although there is forced seduction or two in this one—but the heroine argues quite persuasively about bodily response not being consent per se, and for a while it does seem to hold the hero off a bit. (RD alphas from earlier books would have shrugged that argument off without a pause.) There’s a ton of slut-shaming and a refusal to believe the heroine is not a cold, manipulative, Machiavellian witch who uses her body for advancement she doesn’t deserve (despite all evidence to the contrary), and he doesn’t let up until the bitter end, when finally she escapes from him In some ways, he’s a typical RD OTT vengeful alpha, but the tropes and attitudesof the early 80s appear to be starting to change a little.
I remembered this book and liked it more when I read it many years ago. This time, I found it an okay read but the hero’s attitude was a bit all over the place and some of his dialog was so stilted and laughable it was hard to get past (he's half Italian--and my heritage is Italian too-- so I guess RD thinks we're, I dunno, flowery?). Even if you accept he was fighting a rear-guard action to keep from falling for the heroine, his eagerness to believe the worst of her and her inability and unwillingness to challenge his view of her got annoying after a while. The seesawing between vintage RD mean alpha mode and a RD-lite alpha mode was a little dizzying too. Overall a pretty good read but just so-so for me.
I remembered this book and liked it more when I read it many years ago. This time, I found it an okay read but the hero’s attitude was a bit all over the place and some of his dialog was so stilted and laughable it was hard to get past (he's half Italian--and my heritage is Italian too-- so I guess RD thinks we're, I dunno, flowery?). Even if you accept he was fighting a rear-guard action to keep from falling for the heroine, his eagerness to believe the worst of her and her inability and unwillingness to challenge his view of her got annoying after a while. The seesawing between vintage RD mean alpha mode and a RD-lite alpha mode was a little dizzying too. Overall a pretty good read but just so-so for me.
August 19, 2019
Alexa Severn was first introduced in Donald's "Love's Reward" (Harlequin Presents, No 1233), as a friend of THAT story's heroine.
Here is her own HEA...which I didn't care for.
Here is her own HEA...which I didn't care for.
May 24, 2018
Alexa suffered a lot from a scandal with her employer so she resigned and ran to her childhood home where she meets Leon who thought her a woman who sells her body to have a good post in the bank.. No one can deny that he's attracted to her but nothing else he don't love her because he didn't show any signs of love in his treatment he insults her all the time, make her feel like a cheap woman.. Alexa is an innocent woman who's a victim of her parents and who's starving for love .Leon treats her badly he didn't respect her at all :/ many times I had a strong feeling to slap his face ..this book disappointed me so much he shows women in a bad pic like they could forget their self respect in front of attraction!! really that's supposed to be a romantic book not a depressing book I regret reading it honestly
January 7, 2023
He was wrong in his assessment of her
Completely wrong. But as far as Leon venetos was concerned, there was no smoke without fire.
The scandalmongers had branded Alexa as the mistress of wealthy financier
Sam Darcy and that was enough for Leon. "Women like you are easily bought for the price of a few jewels," he told her contemptuously.
That was why Alexa fought so hard against the attraction that drew her inexorably toward him. A man who could never offer her what she really wanted..
Completely wrong. But as far as Leon venetos was concerned, there was no smoke without fire.
The scandalmongers had branded Alexa as the mistress of wealthy financier
Sam Darcy and that was enough for Leon. "Women like you are easily bought for the price of a few jewels," he told her contemptuously.
That was why Alexa fought so hard against the attraction that drew her inexorably toward him. A man who could never offer her what she really wanted..
March 4, 2020
Sooo that happened I guess. Why didn’t the heroine just leave. Ditch this dump, find a job and make billions. The hero was abusive. The heroine is so gorgeous that every dude wants to bang her, except when she is taking their jobs. How did that dude survive a freaking gun shot to the head? Did Sean get punished for lying and attempted rape?! Just the book is missing plot, we have repetitive arguments and sex. The hero never says anything nice or believes anything she says. Eh skip around this.
April 4, 2012
This was pretty decent. I didn't think the hero did enough groveling at the end given his horrible behavior, but I did like how it was obvious he was drawn to her against his will.
March 9, 2021
Ένας, αλλά ... Λέων- Robyn Donald, Χρυσά, 486
February 8, 2022
A Real bastard of an H, and insane as well, over the top even for Robyn Donald.
September 11, 2017
This guy was rather irritating with his nastiness towards her, I wanted her to punch him sometimes. I've ridden out hurricanes before and they aren't fun but I'd ride one out with this guy any day. :)
September 3, 2015
Im a sucker of hard mean Heroes and a the think-whatever-you-want type of h. It has this angst that i love. The only reason why i gave it 4 stars is bec of not enough groveling on the H part.
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