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New Zealand Knights #2
The CEO's Contract Bride
With her wedding nine days away, Gwen Jones's fiance suddenly disappeared, along with her bank account. Now, to save her home, she had to marry businessman Declan Knight--the man with whom she'd shared one torrid, mistaken night of passion.
Declan also needed to marry in order to access his inheritance. So he agreed to Gwen's plan despite his previous vow to keep his hands off her. Yet now he had to convince his family their charade was for real. Which meant marching Gwen straight into his bedroom and surrendering his hard-earned control...
Declan also needed to marry in order to access his inheritance. So he agreed to Gwen's plan despite his previous vow to keep his hands off her. Yet now he had to convince his family their charade was for real. Which meant marching Gwen straight into his bedroom and surrendering his hard-earned control...
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2007
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Yvonne Lindsay
655 books113 followersA typical Piscean, USA Today! Best-selling author, Yvonne Lindsay, has always preferred the stories in her head to the real world. Yvonne is a five-time Romance Writers of Australia R*BY nominee and three-time nominee and 2015 winner of the Romance Writers of New Zealand Koru Award of Excellence. She spends her days crafting the stories of her heart and in her spare time she can be found with her nose firmly in someone else’s book.
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June 16, 2015
3 Stars ~ Eight years ago when Renata had died tragically in a climbing accident, Gwen had lost her best friend and Declan has lost his fiancee. It seemed natural that they should comfort each other but when sharing grief turned into red hot passion, both woke the next morning devastated by their betrayal to Renata's memory. Gwen rebuilt the walls around her heart and Declan pushed her away with a shudder and for years they barely knew the other existed. But now Gwen has to seek Declan out as Steve, Declan's financial manager and Gwen fiance, has embezzled all of Declan's company funds and cleared out all of Gwen's. It's a week to their wedding and Steve purposely left her a gloating message, one that he knew she'd receive too late to stop him, outlining just what he'd done.
After Renata's death Declan had poured himself into his work, but he'd taken grave risks with his company and at a lowest point in his life he agreed to grant his father a place on the board. A place that quickly his father took advantage of and soon the company was in his control. Declan again has poured everything he owns into the company, trying to raise the capital he needs to bid on a property restoration that will see he gets control over his life again. Steve's betrayal and the embezzlement of all Declan's funds leaves Declan in a desperate situation. His only way out is to convince Gwen, whose wedding is already set for a week away, to replace her groom with himself. Once he's married he'll have access to the trust his mother had set up for him, and he'd be able to save Gwen's house from foreclosure and his company too. Gwen's first instinct to his proposal is an emphatic No!, but as Declan assures her that he can save her family home which means the world to her, she finds herself caving in. There are ground rules though that she insists on, no sex with each other or with anyone else for the duration of the marriage. Putting pen to paper is easy, living their contract proves a challenge.
This is the second story in Ms. Lindsay's trilogy of the Knight brothers. Declan is the oldest and has a very strong sense of responsibility and a need to protect. Gwen has a wounded soul from the multitudes of rejection she's faced, and yet each time she calmly counts to ten, straightens her spine and lifts her chin proudly. I thoroughly enjoyed that Ms. Lindsay wrote much of the story from Declan's point of view and he's the first to realize he's fallen in love. Gwen struggles with her emotions, and doesn't allow herself to name her love until Declan is ready to call it all quits and she feels like she's being thrown away again. While I enjoyed Declan and Gwen's journey to HEA, something in the pacing seemed slightly off. I think maybe their HEA came rather rushed after the angst of their black moment. I enjoy Ms. Lindsay's writing voice very much and look forward to reading the next Knight brother's story.
After Renata's death Declan had poured himself into his work, but he'd taken grave risks with his company and at a lowest point in his life he agreed to grant his father a place on the board. A place that quickly his father took advantage of and soon the company was in his control. Declan again has poured everything he owns into the company, trying to raise the capital he needs to bid on a property restoration that will see he gets control over his life again. Steve's betrayal and the embezzlement of all Declan's funds leaves Declan in a desperate situation. His only way out is to convince Gwen, whose wedding is already set for a week away, to replace her groom with himself. Once he's married he'll have access to the trust his mother had set up for him, and he'd be able to save Gwen's house from foreclosure and his company too. Gwen's first instinct to his proposal is an emphatic No!, but as Declan assures her that he can save her family home which means the world to her, she finds herself caving in. There are ground rules though that she insists on, no sex with each other or with anyone else for the duration of the marriage. Putting pen to paper is easy, living their contract proves a challenge.
This is the second story in Ms. Lindsay's trilogy of the Knight brothers. Declan is the oldest and has a very strong sense of responsibility and a need to protect. Gwen has a wounded soul from the multitudes of rejection she's faced, and yet each time she calmly counts to ten, straightens her spine and lifts her chin proudly. I thoroughly enjoyed that Ms. Lindsay wrote much of the story from Declan's point of view and he's the first to realize he's fallen in love. Gwen struggles with her emotions, and doesn't allow herself to name her love until Declan is ready to call it all quits and she feels like she's being thrown away again. While I enjoyed Declan and Gwen's journey to HEA, something in the pacing seemed slightly off. I think maybe their HEA came rather rushed after the angst of their black moment. I enjoy Ms. Lindsay's writing voice very much and look forward to reading the next Knight brother's story.
June 16, 2021
القصة رائعة وتسلسل الاحداث فيها وحبكة القصة ممتازة
لقد قرأت سلسلة قصص Knight وأستطيع القول بأن هذه القصة من أفضل القصص لهذه السلسلة وأعطيها كتقييم ١٠ من ١٠
في سياق تتابع القصة ليس هناك اي مجال للملل من بدايتها لنهايتها لأن أحداثها حماسية وتضطر لتنتظر ما هو التالي في كل فصل
أرى انها تستحق القراءة خلافا للروايتين التي قبلها وبعدها
قصة أولاد نايت knight الثلاثة جيدة الى حد ما ولكن انصح بقراءة هذه الرواية بالذات
لقد قرأت سلسلة قصص Knight وأستطيع القول بأن هذه القصة من أفضل القصص لهذه السلسلة وأعطيها كتقييم ١٠ من ١٠
في سياق تتابع القصة ليس هناك اي مجال للملل من بدايتها لنهايتها لأن أحداثها حماسية وتضطر لتنتظر ما هو التالي في كل فصل
أرى انها تستحق القراءة خلافا للروايتين التي قبلها وبعدها
قصة أولاد نايت knight الثلاثة جيدة الى حد ما ولكن انصح بقراءة هذه الرواية بالذات
November 22, 2020
I did like the hero and heroine but I didn't like their past and that she was his dead fiance's best friend and that whole tragic story. I didn't like that they had sex after the fiance's death and it took 8 years for hero and heroine to talk again. Np.
December 16, 2010
The night of Declan Knight's fiancee's funeral shouldn't have ended the way it did, with him in bed with her best friend, Gwen Jones. But it did and he couldn't take it back. So what did he do? Closed her off from his life had moved on.
But when she comes to him eight years later and tells him her fiancee and his fiance manger fled, cleaning out both their bank accounts, he can't help but feel this need to help. When he realizes that without his money he won't be able to start up his dream project, he comes up with the perfect solution: they get married.
Declan's mother's will states he must be married 6 months before he can touch his inheritance. Gwen's home has been in the family for generations and with her money gone she may lose it. So it's a perfect win-win situation.
What isn't win-win is the attraction that continuously grows between them, especially when they must act convincingly to convince his father it isn't a shame. Together they finally make peace with that rock climb that went so horrible wrong and find themselves in each other.
But when she comes to him eight years later and tells him her fiancee and his fiance manger fled, cleaning out both their bank accounts, he can't help but feel this need to help. When he realizes that without his money he won't be able to start up his dream project, he comes up with the perfect solution: they get married.
Declan's mother's will states he must be married 6 months before he can touch his inheritance. Gwen's home has been in the family for generations and with her money gone she may lose it. So it's a perfect win-win situation.
What isn't win-win is the attraction that continuously grows between them, especially when they must act convincingly to convince his father it isn't a shame. Together they finally make peace with that rock climb that went so horrible wrong and find themselves in each other.
March 4, 2017
A So-so book. I'm not sure I really buy the hatred/dislike that the two characters have for each other at the beginning of this book. I could believe discomfort, but outright dislike? Because you slept together out of guilt after your wife's funeral? I mean, come on, it's been 8 years since it happened!
Well, they find out that it's best if they get married. So they do and despite the contract agreement not to sleep together, they do. And with all the ups and down these two have, it almost feels like they just won't get together. Like I said. A so-so book. Nothing special.
Well, they find out that it's best if they get married. So they do and despite the contract agreement not to sleep together, they do. And with all the ups and down these two have, it almost feels like they just won't get together. Like I said. A so-so book. Nothing special.
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April 16, 2012
Surprisingly this is the only novel in the Knight's series that doesn't involve one of the brothers getting the heroine pregnant. Although it was an alright novel, the moral values in it were pretty despicable in my opinion. I was turned off by some of the aspects in the book greatly. Other than that it was well written and a great addition to the series.
March 22, 2011
Not one of the best.
July 28, 2011
A cute story filled with how all encompassing love truly can be and how fast it can sneak into your heart when you least expect it.
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