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ジェイドはギリシアの島で独りきりのバカンスを楽しんでいた。タブロイド紙の記者という職に疑問を感じて悩む日々だったが、リフレッシュするために、こののどかで美しい楽園に来たのだ。それなのに軽薄な旅行者の男たちにつきまとわれ困っていると、圧倒的な存在感をもつ浅黒い肌の男性に助けられる。その顔には見覚えがあった。前日に外で食事をしていたとき、刺すような鋭い眼差しでこちらを見ていた危険な香りのする男。他人を言葉で組み敷くのに慣れた口調で送っていくと言われ、ジェイドは反感を抱きつつも、思わず従ってしまうが……。
156 pages, Paperback Shinsho
Published July 1, 1997
About the author
Sharon Kendrick
1,247 books457 followersI was told off as a child for making up stories—little did I know that one day I’d earn my living by writing them!
To the horror of my parents, I left school at sixteen and held a bewildering variety of jobs: I was a London DJ (in the now-trendy Primrose Hill), a decorator and a singer. After that I became a cook, a photographer and, eventually, a nurse. I waitressed in the south of France, drove an ambulance in Australia, saw lots of beautiful sights but could never settle down. Everywhere I went I felt like a square peg—until one day I started writing again and then everything just fell into place. I felt like Cinderella must have when the glass slipper fit!
Today, I have the best job in the world, writing passionate romances for Harlequin. I like writing stories which are sexy and fast-paced, yet packed full of emotion—stories that readers will identify with, laugh and cry along with.
My interests are many and varied—chocolate and music, fresh flowers and bubble baths, films, cooking and trying to keep my home from looking burglarized! Simple pleasures—you can’t beat them!
I live in Winchester, one of the most stunning cities in the world, but don’t take my word for it—come see for yourself! I regularly visit London and Paris. Oh, and I love hearing from my readers all over the world…so I think it’s over to you!
To the horror of my parents, I left school at sixteen and held a bewildering variety of jobs: I was a London DJ (in the now-trendy Primrose Hill), a decorator and a singer. After that I became a cook, a photographer and, eventually, a nurse. I waitressed in the south of France, drove an ambulance in Australia, saw lots of beautiful sights but could never settle down. Everywhere I went I felt like a square peg—until one day I started writing again and then everything just fell into place. I felt like Cinderella must have when the glass slipper fit!
Today, I have the best job in the world, writing passionate romances for Harlequin. I like writing stories which are sexy and fast-paced, yet packed full of emotion—stories that readers will identify with, laugh and cry along with.
My interests are many and varied—chocolate and music, fresh flowers and bubble baths, films, cooking and trying to keep my home from looking burglarized! Simple pleasures—you can’t beat them!
I live in Winchester, one of the most stunning cities in the world, but don’t take my word for it—come see for yourself! I regularly visit London and Paris. Oh, and I love hearing from my readers all over the world…so I think it’s over to you!
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May 7, 2019
H/h meet on a Greek beach. They are immediately smitten with each other and spend the last 3 days of the h’s vacation together. H asks her to marry him, but doesn’t push for sex since he knows she is a virgin.
Heroine returns to England, wondering how she’ll break the news she is a cub reporter for a tabloid. It didn’t matter at the time because she didn’t know the hero was a billionaire until her roommate clued her in.
Turns out that hero has already found out she lied by omission and has followed her to England.
He seduces her in his hotel room (they don’t make it to bed) then he sneers at her loss of virginity and he kicks her out. Heroine gets drunk and spills her story to her sympathetic editor – who promptly betrays her by writing about the encounter for the next morning’s paper.
Hero is angry and looking for vengeance. He’s bought the newspaper and will throw everyone out of work if heroine doesn’t marry him. It’s a matter of honor.
They end up having sex again before their registry wedding, but it’s not a new beginning. Hero is cold the next morning. He’s remains cold as they travel to Greece for their honeymoon and have to put up with the hero’s jealous stepsister. Heroine can’t take it and begs to go home. Hero then tells her he loves her and he’s been so cruel because he didn’t like these new feelings. Heroine sips the Kool-aid and has her HEA.
The courtship scenes at the beginning of the story helped sell the idea that the H/h are suited and will have a happy marriage. The hero’s sense of “betrayal” was a bit OTT considering he lied by omission to the heroine as well. Heroine seemed to like his dominant ways, so who knows? She’s done with the rat race and can write her novel in peace without worrying about paying the bills.
Heroine returns to England, wondering how she’ll break the news she is a cub reporter for a tabloid. It didn’t matter at the time because she didn’t know the hero was a billionaire until her roommate clued her in.
Turns out that hero has already found out she lied by omission and has followed her to England.
He seduces her in his hotel room (they don’t make it to bed) then he sneers at her loss of virginity and he kicks her out. Heroine gets drunk and spills her story to her sympathetic editor – who promptly betrays her by writing about the encounter for the next morning’s paper.
Hero is angry and looking for vengeance. He’s bought the newspaper and will throw everyone out of work if heroine doesn’t marry him. It’s a matter of honor.
They end up having sex again before their registry wedding, but it’s not a new beginning. Hero is cold the next morning. He’s remains cold as they travel to Greece for their honeymoon and have to put up with the hero’s jealous stepsister. Heroine can’t take it and begs to go home. Hero then tells her he loves her and he’s been so cruel because he didn’t like these new feelings. Heroine sips the Kool-aid and has her HEA.
The courtship scenes at the beginning of the story helped sell the idea that the H/h are suited and will have a happy marriage. The hero’s sense of “betrayal” was a bit OTT considering he lied by omission to the heroine as well. Heroine seemed to like his dominant ways, so who knows? She’s done with the rat race and can write her novel in peace without worrying about paying the bills.
July 30, 2013
The heroine Jade, a tabloid reporter, is vacationing on a Greek island. There she meets a Greek sexy alpha male Constantine. She hides from him the fact that she is a shady journalist because she isn't very proud of her job. She assumes Constantine works in a Greek tavern and that he is a poor waiter. They fall in love and he proposes marriage just before she leaves the island and she accepts.
Back in London she is interviewing a creep in a luxurious hotel and ofcourse the hero sees creep flirting with the heroine and on top of that learns her true profession. Heroine is in shock cause she realizes hero is not a poor waiter but a famous tycoon. Hero is furious with her because he thinks she seduced him in order to sell a good story and when their scandalous affair hits the headlines he blackmails her into marriage. Enter the evil stepsister who is in love with the hero, tries to humiliate the heroine and announces her engagement is over so she is free to pursue the hero and you have a very miserable bride who feels her marriage is doomed.
Fantastic read! It has a vintage feel and I was kind of surprised because I don't consider this author that good but this story was engaging and well written and addictive. Heroine was a sweetheart and hero was ruthless and harsh but his tender caring side warmed my heart. Wish there was an epilogue!
Back in London she is interviewing a creep in a luxurious hotel and ofcourse the hero sees creep flirting with the heroine and on top of that learns her true profession. Heroine is in shock cause she realizes hero is not a poor waiter but a famous tycoon. Hero is furious with her because he thinks she seduced him in order to sell a good story and when their scandalous affair hits the headlines he blackmails her into marriage. Enter the evil stepsister who is in love with the hero, tries to humiliate the heroine and announces her engagement is over so she is free to pursue the hero and you have a very miserable bride who feels her marriage is doomed.
Fantastic read! It has a vintage feel and I was kind of surprised because I don't consider this author that good but this story was engaging and well written and addictive. Heroine was a sweetheart and hero was ruthless and harsh but his tender caring side warmed my heart. Wish there was an epilogue!
October 13, 2021
So the hero should have been the big bad wolf, but eventually he was not so bad.
And actually I love wolves.
The heroine is a journalist for a scandal sheet and the hero is a greek billionaire, they meet in Greece when she is on holiday, both of them lie about their jobs, he pretends to be a restaurant owner, and she pretend to be a typist, they fall in love, almost have sex and he asks her to marry.
Then she has to go back home and here we have the first inconsistency: since they were engaged, they should have planned to meet again, but it seems that she olny gave him her telephone number and after some time they meet again but only accidentally when she's in a hotel to interview a sleazy aging rockstar who tries to maul her and he's at a business meeting.
Imagine his shock.
And her shock.
She goes to his suite to talk to him, but he's cold and distant and tells her he called her but her friend revealed that she's a journalist so he thinks she knew who he where all along because she wanted an interview with him.
Of course she doesn't even know who he is, and she's surprised that he's a billionaire.
He's angry and treats her like a tart and here we have the savage seduction as the title say, that is nothing more than consensual sex, because she thinks he's happy to see her while he only means to have sex and then he throws her out of his room.
But the heroine is not a crybaby and she goes out after sending him to hell.
I appreciated this.
Then she does something very stupid, that is she reveals all about their relationship to her boss, who of course writes a very hot article about them.
The hero buys the newspaper and forces her to marry him, giving all sorts of stupid explanations for this act.
We all understand that he wants to marry her and he's still besotted with her, since no one would ever marry a woman because a scandal sheet says so, especially a woman he despises and considers a gold digger.
So the book take a dive from here, because he tries to be cruel but he's not so cruel and she's not a doormat for sure, even if she suffers from a severe case of TBS, all the book she really gives him tit for tat.
In the end we have a little ow drama, with a bitchy stepsister who tries to grab the hero, but this only lasts a few pages.
The hero in the end declares he loves her and he's loved her all along, and he knew she was a virgin but he was too ashamed of his behaviour to apologize (really?) and, thinking she would never forgive him, he blackmailed her into marrying him hoping to win her back.
Very sweet but not very believable.
His explanations are excuses and not very good ones, but we can't expect too much from those hp heroes: they are handsome, they are ultra rich, they are good in bed.
We can't also expect they are smart too can we.
And actually I love wolves.
The heroine is a journalist for a scandal sheet and the hero is a greek billionaire, they meet in Greece when she is on holiday, both of them lie about their jobs, he pretends to be a restaurant owner, and she pretend to be a typist, they fall in love, almost have sex and he asks her to marry.
Then she has to go back home and here we have the first inconsistency: since they were engaged, they should have planned to meet again, but it seems that she olny gave him her telephone number and after some time they meet again but only accidentally when she's in a hotel to interview a sleazy aging rockstar who tries to maul her and he's at a business meeting.
Imagine his shock.
And her shock.
She goes to his suite to talk to him, but he's cold and distant and tells her he called her but her friend revealed that she's a journalist so he thinks she knew who he where all along because she wanted an interview with him.
Of course she doesn't even know who he is, and she's surprised that he's a billionaire.
He's angry and treats her like a tart and here we have the savage seduction as the title say, that is nothing more than consensual sex, because she thinks he's happy to see her while he only means to have sex and then he throws her out of his room.
But the heroine is not a crybaby and she goes out after sending him to hell.
I appreciated this.
Then she does something very stupid, that is she reveals all about their relationship to her boss, who of course writes a very hot article about them.
The hero buys the newspaper and forces her to marry him, giving all sorts of stupid explanations for this act.
We all understand that he wants to marry her and he's still besotted with her, since no one would ever marry a woman because a scandal sheet says so, especially a woman he despises and considers a gold digger.
So the book take a dive from here, because he tries to be cruel but he's not so cruel and she's not a doormat for sure, even if she suffers from a severe case of TBS, all the book she really gives him tit for tat.
In the end we have a little ow drama, with a bitchy stepsister who tries to grab the hero, but this only lasts a few pages.
The hero in the end declares he loves her and he's loved her all along, and he knew she was a virgin but he was too ashamed of his behaviour to apologize (really?) and, thinking she would never forgive him, he blackmailed her into marrying him hoping to win her back.
Very sweet but not very believable.
His explanations are excuses and not very good ones, but we can't expect too much from those hp heroes: they are handsome, they are ultra rich, they are good in bed.
We can't also expect they are smart too can we.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 20, 2012
Before I Read The Novel:
This could be bad..
In The Novel:
So I'm half way into it and I cannot believe how cruel Constantine is. He reduces her to nothing and takes everything. He doesn't even let her explain. It saddens me.
Side comments: (as I'm reading the novel)
- Her boss is a bitch
- I want to punch the ignorant stepsister..
In The Novel:
When I finished the novel I thought all together it was good. However I'm annoyed how everything is swept under the rug after someone says 'I love you'. What he did was cruel and heartless, yet she forgives him! Maybe I have too much pride but I don't think I could ever forgive him.
SUCKAGE!:
I wanted the heroine to have more guts and she kind of failed in that department, she was more of a mouse.
This could be bad..
In The Novel:
So I'm half way into it and I cannot believe how cruel Constantine is. He reduces her to nothing and takes everything. He doesn't even let her explain. It saddens me.
Side comments: (as I'm reading the novel)
- Her boss is a bitch
- I want to punch the ignorant stepsister..
In The Novel:
When I finished the novel I thought all together it was good. However I'm annoyed how everything is swept under the rug after someone says 'I love you'. What he did was cruel and heartless, yet she forgives him! Maybe I have too much pride but I don't think I could ever forgive him.
SUCKAGE!:
I wanted the heroine to have more guts and she kind of failed in that department, she was more of a mouse.
November 16, 2022
Update
November 15/2022
I need to reread/skim the story because I don't remember many details. What I remember is that the hero was a total @$$HOLE :(
Some tears of mine were for the heroine (T_T)
November 15/2022
I need to reread/skim the story because I don't remember many details. What I remember is that the hero was a total @$$HOLE :(
Some tears of mine were for the heroine (T_T)
November 27, 2013
Hero was such an asshat and how he escaped her not walking out on him is beyond me. His explanations were pretty fucking lame.
June 10, 2015
Mi primer Harlequin de Sharon. Y la primera con la que empecé la colección, tengo debilidad por estos personajes precisamente por ello. Constantine Sioulas un personaje kind-of cabrón demasiado duro y la prota demasiado blanda y rápida para caer en la cama del héroe. Una de mis favoritas, sin duda.
December 18, 2017
The H was really sweet at the start, until he assumed that the h was out to screw him over, then he became a bastard.
Needless to say, his assumptions were waaay off base, but he tormented the poor h for most of the book. She tried fighting back but she loved him, and that damned inconvenient sexual chemistry made it impossible to resist him.
An enjoyable read. Not too OTT. The attempted OW towards the end of the book was just unnecessary. The step-sister was just ... ewwww!
Needless to say, his assumptions were waaay off base, but he tormented the poor h for most of the book. She tried fighting back but she loved him, and that damned inconvenient sexual chemistry made it impossible to resist him.
An enjoyable read. Not too OTT. The attempted OW towards the end of the book was just unnecessary. The step-sister was just ... ewwww!
June 8, 2021
When enemies marry… Constantine Sioulas was a man of primitive passions…. Jade knew that. But she couldn't believe it when, after a whirlwind courtship, he insisted that she marry him! Things like that simply didn't happen to girls like her…did they? And Constantine soon made it clear that, far from loving Jade, he despised her for her apparent betrayal. But, locked into this marriage of convenience, Jade was determined to enjoy her husband's special brand of savage seduction! He doesn’t believe she is a virgin. Tries to dump her but he can’t.
December 1, 2022
cw: attempted sexual assault
A classic Harlequin that has the hero and heroine hot for each other but who bicker due to miscommunication. I remember enjoying it while reading it, despite me forgetting it right now as I write this review. Oh well.
A classic Harlequin that has the hero and heroine hot for each other but who bicker due to miscommunication. I remember enjoying it while reading it, despite me forgetting it right now as I write this review. Oh well.
March 17, 2025
This was a good storyline, but the whole book was spoilt by endless number of errors. So many words hyphenated which should not have been which spoilt it. Whoever typed or more importantly proofread this clearly did not have a good command of the English language.
August 17, 2008
Jade bertemu dengan Constantine saat tengah berlibur di Yunani. Selama 4 hari terakhir liburannya, Constantine terus menemaninya. Gairah antara mereka berdua pun meluap-luap. Hanya saja, Constantine masih bisa menahan diri. Tak disangka pula pria ini malah menyatakan cinta dan melamarnya. Jade tak kuasa menolak. Constantine pun berjanji akan ke Inggris untuk mengurus tetek bengek pernikahan.
Setelah kembali ke Inggris, Jade bertemu kembali dengan Constantine dalam situasi yang tidak mengenakkan. Saat di hotel Granchester, Constantine memergoki Jade sedang dipeluk lelaki lain!!
Constantine sangat marah kepada Jade dan ketika Jade sangat sedih tentang Constantine, ia tanpa sadar dan karena pengaruh minuman keras- malah menceritakan kepada editornya bahwa pria Yunani ini sudah melamarnya, bla bla bla. Betapa terkejutnya Jade saat keesokan harinya dia diuber-uber para wartawan. Ternyata, di koran Daily View terpampang berita bahwa dirinya dan Constantine akan menikah!
Constantine memaksa Jade untuk menikahinya, karena dalam adat Yunani, apabila ada pengumuman pernikahan, maka pernikahan harus dilaksanakan. Terpaksalah Jade menikah dengan pria ini.
Setelah menikah, Jade dibawa ke Yunani dan tinggal di rumah pribadi Constantine. Tak disangka kedatangan mereka sudah disambut -secara dingin- oleh Elena -saudara tiri dan Marina -Ibu tiri Constantine.
Saat melihat Eleni, langsung taulah Jade bahwa Eleni naksir berat pada suaminya. Sejak saat itu, ia menyadari bahwa ia cinta Constantine. Tapi, berhubung pria itu tidak mencintainya dan ada Eleni, memilih untuk mengakhiri pernikahannya.
Tidak tahan, pada keesokan malamnya Jade pun meminta cerai dari Constantine. Siapa sangka, pria itu malah meyakinkan Jade tentang cintanya. Jadilah mereka berdua bahagia.
Setelah kembali ke Inggris, Jade bertemu kembali dengan Constantine dalam situasi yang tidak mengenakkan. Saat di hotel Granchester, Constantine memergoki Jade sedang dipeluk lelaki lain!!
Constantine sangat marah kepada Jade dan ketika Jade sangat sedih tentang Constantine, ia tanpa sadar dan karena pengaruh minuman keras- malah menceritakan kepada editornya bahwa pria Yunani ini sudah melamarnya, bla bla bla. Betapa terkejutnya Jade saat keesokan harinya dia diuber-uber para wartawan. Ternyata, di koran Daily View terpampang berita bahwa dirinya dan Constantine akan menikah!
Constantine memaksa Jade untuk menikahinya, karena dalam adat Yunani, apabila ada pengumuman pernikahan, maka pernikahan harus dilaksanakan. Terpaksalah Jade menikah dengan pria ini.
Setelah menikah, Jade dibawa ke Yunani dan tinggal di rumah pribadi Constantine. Tak disangka kedatangan mereka sudah disambut -secara dingin- oleh Elena -saudara tiri dan Marina -Ibu tiri Constantine.
Saat melihat Eleni, langsung taulah Jade bahwa Eleni naksir berat pada suaminya. Sejak saat itu, ia menyadari bahwa ia cinta Constantine. Tapi, berhubung pria itu tidak mencintainya dan ada Eleni, memilih untuk mengakhiri pernikahannya.
Tidak tahan, pada keesokan malamnya Jade pun meminta cerai dari Constantine. Siapa sangka, pria itu malah meyakinkan Jade tentang cintanya. Jadilah mereka berdua bahagia.
July 14, 2013
Constantine baru bertemu dengan Jade, dan tanpa basa-basi lgsg ngajak nikah. Jade msh ragu, tapi tetap menghabiskan liburan dgn Constantine. Constantine menutupi siapa dirinya, demikian jg dengan Jade. Ketika tiba di London, mereka bertemu lagi dlm situasi yg berbeda. Merasa dibohongi, baik Constantine dan Jade marah, tapi berujung pada adegan Constantine merengut keperawanan Jade, lalu mengusir Jade setelahnya. Jade sakit hati (soalnya dia mencintai Constantine), trus dia curhat sama rekannya. Rekannya yg tahu siapa Constantine merekam curhatan Jade trus diterbitkan di tabloid murahan.
Constantine kesal karena diberitakan akan menikah dengan Jade, malah mengajak Jade menikah. Meski sempat kesal, tp karena emang suka Jade mau juga diajak nikah. Habis nikah masih sok jual mahal tapi pengen.
Yg bikin bintangnya berkurang karena ceweknya sok jual mahal tp disentuh dikit aja langsung klepek2. Meh..
Constantine kesal karena diberitakan akan menikah dengan Jade, malah mengajak Jade menikah. Meski sempat kesal, tp karena emang suka Jade mau juga diajak nikah. Habis nikah masih sok jual mahal tapi pengen.
Yg bikin bintangnya berkurang karena ceweknya sok jual mahal tp disentuh dikit aja langsung klepek2. Meh..
May 21, 2011
-Bagus
-Seru
-Lucu
-Sweet
Constantine terpaksa kalang kabut karena, gw lupa nama tokoh wanitanya, perasaannya terhadap wanita itu berbeda dari wanita-wanita lain. Constantine ingin sekali terus bersama tokoh wanitanya dan melupakan semua hal tentang kerajaan bisnisnya. satu sisi, tokoh wanita juga merasa nyaman dengan kehidupan sederhana. Alangkah terkejutnya Constatine ketika tahu bahwa pekerjaan dari tokoh wanita tersebut adalah wartawan gosip yang dicurigai Constatine adalah untuk mendapatkan cerita tentangnya.
Tokoh wanita juga terkejut ketika tahu bahwa Constatine adalah pria yang kaya raya. Pulau tempat dia berlibur adalah miliknya begitu juga dengan perusahaan besar lainnya.
Sangat menyenangkan untuk membaca buku ini,,gw pribadi sudah lebih dari 10 x untuk membaca ini:-)
-Seru
-Lucu
-Sweet
Constantine terpaksa kalang kabut karena, gw lupa nama tokoh wanitanya, perasaannya terhadap wanita itu berbeda dari wanita-wanita lain. Constantine ingin sekali terus bersama tokoh wanitanya dan melupakan semua hal tentang kerajaan bisnisnya. satu sisi, tokoh wanita juga merasa nyaman dengan kehidupan sederhana. Alangkah terkejutnya Constatine ketika tahu bahwa pekerjaan dari tokoh wanita tersebut adalah wartawan gosip yang dicurigai Constatine adalah untuk mendapatkan cerita tentangnya.
Tokoh wanita juga terkejut ketika tahu bahwa Constatine adalah pria yang kaya raya. Pulau tempat dia berlibur adalah miliknya begitu juga dengan perusahaan besar lainnya.
Sangat menyenangkan untuk membaca buku ini,,gw pribadi sudah lebih dari 10 x untuk membaca ini:-)
October 3, 2009
premis awalnya lumayan sih, tapi lagi-lagi finishingnya bikin konflik yang dibangun di awal cerita jadi kayak masalah sepele. barangkali novel harlequin ada standarnya ya, harus tamat sebelum dua ratus halaman, dan penyelesaian masalahnya harus segampang dan secepat mungkin. and then they live happily for ever after...
January 4, 2009
It's so hot !!!
The romance between Greek Thycon and the ordinary english girl just so hot and temting.
The romance between Greek Thycon and the ordinary english girl just so hot and temting.
November 22, 2015
The Hero and his reasoning for being so mean and cruel to h did not seem to be a very good reason for forgiveness. I wanted him to grovel more.
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