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A Wife of Convenience
Cuando Rosie estuvo de acuerdo en ayudar a su hermana gemela tomando su lugar por unos pocos días. todo parecía muy simple. Pero el prometido de su hermana no se tomó demasiado bien el haber sido engañado.
Morgan Urquart era un hombre orgulloso y estaba decidido a castigar a Rosie. Él necesitaba una esposa obediente y conveniente, ¡y Rosie parecía la candidata perfecta!
Rosie estaba a punto de casarse con un hombre que no la amaba. Sin embargo prontó descubrió que él la deseaba apasionadamente.
Morgan Urquart era un hombre orgulloso y estaba decidido a castigar a Rosie. Él necesitaba una esposa obediente y conveniente, ¡y Rosie parecía la candidata perfecta!
Rosie estaba a punto de casarse con un hombre que no la amaba. Sin embargo prontó descubrió que él la deseaba apasionadamente.
Hardcover
First published December 18, 2013
About the author
Kim Lawrence
901 books214 followersThough lacking much authentic Welsh blood, Kim Lawrence comes from English-Irish stock. She was born and brought up in North Wales. She returned there when she married, and her sons were both born on Anglesey, an island off the coast. Though not isolated, Anglesey is a little off the beaten track, but lively Dublin, which Kim loves, is only a short ferry ride away. Today they live on the farm her husband was brought up on. Welsh is the first language of many people in this area and Kim's husband and sons are all bilingual she is having a lot of fun, not to mention a few headaches, trying to learn the language! She is a keen gardener and cook and enjoys running often on the beach, as living on an island the sea is never very far away. She is usually accompanied by her Jack Russell, Sprout don't ask, it's long story!
With small children, the unsocial hours of nursing didn't look attractive so encouraged by a husband who thinks she can do anything she sets her mind to, Kim tried her hand at writing. Always a keen Mills & Boon reader, it seemed natural for her to write a romance novel. In 1995, she published her first novels and now she can't imagine doing anything else.
With small children, the unsocial hours of nursing didn't look attractive so encouraged by a husband who thinks she can do anything she sets her mind to, Kim tried her hand at writing. Always a keen Mills & Boon reader, it seemed natural for her to write a romance novel. In 1995, she published her first novels and now she can't imagine doing anything else.
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October 15, 2021
Great premise for a story - heroine takes her slutty twin's place in a marriage of convenience. Hero recognizes the deception right away, but forces the marriage because he's smitten.
Unfortunately, the constant bickering got on my nerves. Lol at the heroine travelling straight into a hurricane with the hero right behind her. That about sums up their contributions to the world.
Reeder has all the details in her review.
Unfortunately, the constant bickering got on my nerves. Lol at the heroine travelling straight into a hurricane with the hero right behind her. That about sums up their contributions to the world.
Reeder has all the details in her review.
December 23, 2018
Meh. Really a meh minus, but it's the holiday season, so I'm bumping it up to meh.
This book is built on such promising tropes. The repressed, virginal heroine receives a call from her sophisticated, experienced twin asking for help. The twin has managed to get herself engaged to a man who needs to marry in order to claim his inheritance.
I'm not quite clear how this happened. The twin was at a boring party and was also quarreling with the man she actually loves because he refuses to marry her until he makes his first million. Personally, I've always taken that excuse as a sign the guy just isn't that into me, but apparently Bill-the-not-millionaire really does love the twin because after she gets MoCly-engaged to the hero, he proposes. But now the twin is afraid of repercussions from the hero, who is a powerful and dangerous man, so she asks her sister to string him along until...you know, it's really unclear to me when it would be safe to let the hero know his fiancée isn't going to marry him.
The heroine agrees because twins. Parent Trap twins, in fact, as their parents split the kids up in the divorce, with the heroine being raised by her wild, artistic mother and her twin being raised by their staid, banker father. See what happened there? The banker somehow raises a wild child, while the notorious mother raised a conventional woman. Her mother's and sister's reputations will haunt the heroine throughout the book.
She shows up at the hero's estate to discover a teenager throwing a tantrum while simultaneously attempting to seduce the 35-year-old hero because everyone knows that if his grandfather had just waited until she was a little older before dying, the hero would have married her not this trollopy stranger who is coming to visit. The heroine walks in on the scene and is promptly slapped by the teenager, who then flounces. (Keep an eye on the teenager. She's not going away.)
The hero and heroine then slice at each other with verbal knives for a while. They attend a gallery opening, where the hero becomes suspicious of the heroine's closeness to the galley owner. Then the hero reveals he knows she isn't her twin because the glamorous twin would never be seen with unpolished nails.
The hero, who is a widower, deliberately chose the twin as a convenient wife because he thought she was superficial, wouldn't fall in love with him, and could hostess his dinner parties and birth his heir while allowing him to claim his inheritance. Now he blackmails the heroine into marrying him by threatening her twin's new husband's career.
There's a delightful scene where the heroine, irate at being commanded to attend a dinner party at the H's mother's home, dresses outrageously in the belief that the hero will then refuse to take her. Instead, he changes into some equally informal clothes and they ride in on his motorcycle. (So our ruthless hero is shaping up into this ideal British upper class bad boy.) At the dinner -- which her father is attending -- the tantrum-throwing teenager and the hero's aristo mum make bitchy comments about the heroine's supposed moral laxity and her sister's well-documented promiscuity. The heroine holds her own with dignity, but I would have liked to see some protective response from the hero.
They marry, go to his private island in the Bahamas for their honeymoon, he discovers she's a virgin on their wedding night, verbal slicing, verbal slicing, verbal slicing, then he gets called back to London on business.
From this point on, the heroine is jealous of his late wife (both her m-i-l and the tantrum-throwing teen have told her the couple were absolutely devoted), her twin (the hero keeps saying he should have married the twin), and the tantrum-throwing teen. But because her jealousy is flying off in all directions, it's difficult to get emotional traction. I can't simultaneously angst that the hero's heart might be buried with his wife AND worry that he's attracted to the more soignée sister AND believe he's cheating on his wife with a seventeen-year-old. Choose one OW and stick with her.
But the heroine doesn't discover that until she flies back to their honeymoon island in the middle of a hurricane and the hero comes to rescue her. Long talk. HEA.
The verbal jabs characterized their interaction throughout the book, so I never quite got when or why they fell in love. I'll just have to take their word for it.
This book is built on such promising tropes. The repressed, virginal heroine receives a call from her sophisticated, experienced twin asking for help. The twin has managed to get herself engaged to a man who needs to marry in order to claim his inheritance.
I'm not quite clear how this happened. The twin was at a boring party and was also quarreling with the man she actually loves because he refuses to marry her until he makes his first million. Personally, I've always taken that excuse as a sign the guy just isn't that into me, but apparently Bill-the-not-millionaire really does love the twin because after she gets MoCly-engaged to the hero, he proposes. But now the twin is afraid of repercussions from the hero, who is a powerful and dangerous man, so she asks her sister to string him along until...you know, it's really unclear to me when it would be safe to let the hero know his fiancée isn't going to marry him.
The heroine agrees because twins. Parent Trap twins, in fact, as their parents split the kids up in the divorce, with the heroine being raised by her wild, artistic mother and her twin being raised by their staid, banker father. See what happened there? The banker somehow raises a wild child, while the notorious mother raised a conventional woman. Her mother's and sister's reputations will haunt the heroine throughout the book.
She shows up at the hero's estate to discover a teenager throwing a tantrum while simultaneously attempting to seduce the 35-year-old hero because everyone knows that if his grandfather had just waited until she was a little older before dying, the hero would have married her not this trollopy stranger who is coming to visit. The heroine walks in on the scene and is promptly slapped by the teenager, who then flounces. (Keep an eye on the teenager. She's not going away.)
The hero and heroine then slice at each other with verbal knives for a while. They attend a gallery opening, where the hero becomes suspicious of the heroine's closeness to the galley owner. Then the hero reveals he knows she isn't her twin because the glamorous twin would never be seen with unpolished nails.
The hero, who is a widower, deliberately chose the twin as a convenient wife because he thought she was superficial, wouldn't fall in love with him, and could hostess his dinner parties and birth his heir while allowing him to claim his inheritance. Now he blackmails the heroine into marrying him by threatening her twin's new husband's career.
There's a delightful scene where the heroine, irate at being commanded to attend a dinner party at the H's mother's home, dresses outrageously in the belief that the hero will then refuse to take her. Instead, he changes into some equally informal clothes and they ride in on his motorcycle. (So our ruthless hero is shaping up into this ideal British upper class bad boy.) At the dinner -- which her father is attending -- the tantrum-throwing teenager and the hero's aristo mum make bitchy comments about the heroine's supposed moral laxity and her sister's well-documented promiscuity. The heroine holds her own with dignity, but I would have liked to see some protective response from the hero.
They marry, go to his private island in the Bahamas for their honeymoon, he discovers she's a virgin on their wedding night, verbal slicing, verbal slicing, verbal slicing, then he gets called back to London on business.
From this point on, the heroine is jealous of his late wife (both her m-i-l and the tantrum-throwing teen have told her the couple were absolutely devoted), her twin (the hero keeps saying he should have married the twin), and the tantrum-throwing teen. But because her jealousy is flying off in all directions, it's difficult to get emotional traction. I can't simultaneously angst that the hero's heart might be buried with his wife AND worry that he's attracted to the more soignée sister AND believe he's cheating on his wife with a seventeen-year-old. Choose one OW and stick with her.
But the heroine doesn't discover that until she flies back to their honeymoon island in the middle of a hurricane and the hero comes to rescue her. Long talk. HEA.
The verbal jabs characterized their interaction throughout the book, so I never quite got when or why they fell in love. I'll just have to take their word for it.
May 26, 2020
H was too silly to be a successful CEO alas this is the vintage HPlandia so everything is possible.
June 9, 2025
2.5 stars
March 21, 2023
I liked this but it should have been so much better. Somehow she falls in love, it read as though she just decided to.
First time I read this it was 4 stars, but second time through I found their endless needs to hide “love” tiresome, especially the H since he had all the power in this marriage.
First time I read this it was 4 stars, but second time through I found their endless needs to hide “love” tiresome, especially the H since he had all the power in this marriage.
March 29, 2018
You can't blackmail me to the altar!"
Rosie's plea was desperate. It had seemed so simple -- pretending to be her twin sister for just a few days. But her sister's fiance didn't take kindly to being tricked!
Morgan Urquart was a proud, merciless man -- and he was determined to punish Rosie. He needed a dutiful, convenient wife ... and Rosie seemed the perfect candidate!
Rosie's plea was desperate. It had seemed so simple -- pretending to be her twin sister for just a few days. But her sister's fiance didn't take kindly to being tricked!
Morgan Urquart was a proud, merciless man -- and he was determined to punish Rosie. He needed a dutiful, convenient wife ... and Rosie seemed the perfect candidate!
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July 29, 2014
Great plotline with an interesting twists and turns.
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