Secreto oculto

by Clare Connelly

De pasar la noche en la cama del huésped vip…. ¡a estar embarazada del heredero al trono! Tras una breve pero apasionada aventura con el jeque Sariq, la vida de Daisy Carrington ya no volvió a ser la misma. Se había resignado a revivir el placer de aquella noche como un maravilloso recuerdo… Como Sariq no lograba olvidar su encuentro con Daisy, no comprendía que ella declinara la invitación de ir a su palacio. ¡Pero el descubrimiento de que estaba secretamente embarazada exigía medidas drásticas! No era ni mucho menos la candidata apropiada, pero, por el bien de su hijo, Sariq debía coronarla… ¡Si Daisy aceptaba!

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2020

About the author

For all things Clare Connelly, please see www.clareconnelly.co.uk, the official home of Clare Connelly on the web.

Clare Connelly grew up in a small country town in Australia. Surrounded by rainforests, and rickety old timber houses, magic was thick in the air, and stories and storytelling were a huge part of her childhood.

From early on in life, Clare realised her favourite books were romance stories, and read voraciously. Anything from Jane Austen to Georgette Heyer, to Mills & Boon and (more recently) 50 Shades, Clare is a romance devotee. She first turned her hand to penning a novel at fifteen (if memory serves, it was something about a glamorous fashion model who fell foul of a high-end designer. Sparks flew, clothes flew faster, and love was born.)

Clare has a small family and a bungalow near the sea. When she isn't chasing after energetic little toddlers, or wiping fingerprints off furniture, she's writing, thinking about writing, or wishing she were writing.

Reviews

[Jenny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sheikh Sariq spends one night with hotel concierge Daisy. Weeks later she finds out she is pregnant and scandal erupts because she was already married. She is a divorced American woman and Sariq thinks his people will not accept her. But it doesn't matter. He is determined to make her his wife. It was ok I guess. Epilogue was very short and lame we didn't get to see them with their baby. Safety: heroine not a virgin her first husband was a bastard who stole all her money and left her destitute. Hero was not a manwhore but definitely not a virgin. Overall not a very exciting read.

[Debbie DiFiore · Rating 4 out of 5]

What was the secret?

I have no idea where that title came from. There was nothing kept from the King. That bothered me all through the book. I keep waiting for his cranky Adviser to do something underhanded like know that the heroine was pregnant and or steal the heroine away and keep it a secret. But nothing like that happened. The heroine actually told him. I really didn't like the idea of a divorced unvirginal heroine but it was done very well. The king had moments of sheer stupidity but he redeemed himself at the end of the story. Oh those HP heroes really know how to cut it close don't they! And I really did enjoy This story. He was determined not to love her but he couldn't stay away from her. I did enjoy this but I have one gripe; no epilogue. Still a very good read

[Jo · Rating 1 out of 5]

Secreto Oculto (Versión)

[iamGamz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Update: Reread this book two years later and still have the same opinion. It was just… eh.

An ok read. I found the story enjoyable for the most part. The characters were a bit annoying but not enough to put me off the book.

[Tabatha Reed · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one is a big old miss. A two night stand with the king of a small middle eastern country results in a pregnancy. The fairly innocent h has resolved to not tell him because he’s due to be announcing his engagement in a politically arranged marriage very soon and and she doesn’t want to mess it up. However when he tries to solicit her as a secret mistress for the 3 months before his engagement she is forced to spill the truth.

Of course, now he literally forces her to marry him. The big problem with the story came afterwards. All these harlequins are based around the irresistible chemistry between H/h. The Hs always want or demand the physical relationship while constantly reminding innocent hs it doesn’t mean he loves ger. God that sounds awful right lol. The hs are always so weak for Hs advances she agrees. Then they always fall in love and he doesn’t until the literal last minute. HEA.

Because he feels guilty for forcing the marriage he vows to leave her alone. So he drops her in her wing and bounces. At one point he gets weak and tries to persuade her to get on board with some meaningless nookie. She refuses. Then later dumbly begs him a to bang her. He does and immediately bounces again because he’s a pansy.

So third act, she says she wants a divorce and he end up agreeing. Some time later he comes to his senses and she forgives him immediately. Blah blah blah.

Safe. No cheating despite his impending engagement before. No ow/OM drama

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hate the "You're afraid to love me" trope. It's awkward and so is this story.

[Mattie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't like it. Neither one wanted to be married to the other at all and they wouldn't have gotten married if it wasn't for the pregnancy.

Hero may have been drawn to heroine and 3 months later still thinking about her, however he wouldn't have gone after her if she hadn't asked for money, which she wouldn't have asked for if she hadn't been pregnant. He was days away from announcing engagement to another woman (yet to be decided out of 2 women).

Heroine may have liked the hero and still thought about him months later. She was accepting of him marrying other woman soon and adamantly didn't want to marry him herself once he demanded it.
I would have fully understood her not wanting to marry him after he told her why she was so unsuitable to date publicly and he wanted to sleep with her for 3 months then he would marry another woman, however the reasons she didn't want to marry him were because her first marriage and never wanting to marry again.

I did not understand her anger and her telling him she hated him for demanding she marry him for the reasons she was mad. She came across as very unreasonable and that she overreacted. She was not upset that he basically told her she wasn't good enough to be Queen that is until he found out she was pregnant. Maybe it was her being deprived of the choice to marry him or not. Her reaction was quit over the top in my opinion.

Once they were married their connection felt nonexistent. They went weeks without talking to each other, the hero planned to never sleep with heroine again (so was he planning on having mistresses?).
I get him not wanting to spend much time with her for fear of falling in love, however not wanting to sleep with her ever again and them being married was ludicrous.

Near the end heroine tells hero they fell in love with each other in New York (IMO it didn't feel like they were at that point) and then she demands a divorce when he tells her that's not the kind of marriage he wanted. He realized after 40 days of her being gone that he loved her and went to her. Epilogue was really short. P.

[Raffaella · Rating 3 out of 5]

The hero and the heroine has a brief affair, he's a king and has to marry a suitable bride so he leaves her. She gets pregnant and since her ex husband left her with a huge debt to pay she decides to ask him for money, saying that she needs it to study piano. He wants to see her a last time but when he sees her he asks her to be his mistress until he's married. She's furious and tells him about her pregnancy. He asks her to marry, but keeps himself aloof since his country is dangerous and he has already lost his mother in a terrorist attack years before. The heroine is sad and alone, eventually he goes to her and declares he cannot live without her. Nice story with an emotional scarred hero and a strong heroine.

[Martha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Daisy is a hotel concierge and they have a very important guess that she has to ensure has everything he needs in the suite he needs. She goes in to do her duties and is supposed to be unseen and she does this, but Sariq is intrigued with her and ensures she is always the one who arrives to take care of his requirements. He leaves the hotel and goes back to the palace and explains to Daisy that the affair ends at the hotel. He then summons her to his palace and she declines the invitation. She is not suitable for Queen, but he will crown her as she is carrying his child. It was a good book and I will probably reread in the future.

[Gloriana · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't usually enjoy secret baby plots, but this was in the Ripped Bodice I got for Galentine's Day and I'm nothing if not a completist. That part of the plot ended up not bothering me too much, because our heroine, Daisy, ends up telling our hero, Sariq, fairly quickly that she's expecting a royal heir, whereupon he turns around and forces her to marry him and go off with him to his country in the Middle East. These two clearly had love, and lust, at first sight, and surprisingly enough it wasn't his country's traditions or culture that was the big obstacle in their path towards an HEA; it was Sadiq's conviction that he couldn't, under any circumstance, fall in love with his wife, that stood in their way. The end resolved itself rather quickly, imo, without enough groveling from the dummy hero, but it was still an enjoyable, albeit problematic, read.

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

[Nicci Schroenn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed it. A bit predictable, but still it is perfect for a beach holiday read.

[Rebecca Eddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful story that keeps you until the last page.

[RomLibrary]

From the VIP guest’s bed…

…to expecting his royal heir!

After a fleeting yet exhilarating affair with Sheikh Sariq, hotel concierge Daisy knows life can’t be ordinary again! She resigns herself to only ever reliving the pleasure in her memory. But then she makes a shocking discovery that will cause chaos for this duty-bound king…

Unable to forget their connection, Sariq is intrigued when Daisy declines his summons to his palace. Yet finding out she’s secretly pregnant demands dramatic action! She’s far from a suitable bride…but for their baby he’ll crown her. If Daisy will accept!

[Marwah .Qoura]

I won't read this , Sariq in Arabic means thief !...Yes ,who is the evil person who told the author that Sariq was a decent name in Arabic ,and for a prince??? !!!..That's an evil practical joke indeed ...and I thought Zakour was tolerable ...:/

[Lisa Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice read