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The Carlotta Diamond
The wedding night surprise!
Charlotte Christie wore white on her wedding day—and a priceless diamond necklace. Little did she know that her new husband, British billionaire Simon Farringdon, didn't believe she was an innocent. Nor did she realize that the Carlotta Diamond was his real motive for marriage.
But the unexpected passion of their wedding night changed Simon's plans. His new bride was a virgin and he wanted her—.
Charlotte Christie wore white on her wedding day—and a priceless diamond necklace. Little did she know that her new husband, British billionaire Simon Farringdon, didn't believe she was an innocent. Nor did she realize that the Carlotta Diamond was his real motive for marriage.
But the unexpected passion of their wedding night changed Simon's plans. His new bride was a virgin and he wanted her—.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 2005
About the author
Lee Wilkinson
265 books41 followersLee Wilkinson was born in Nottingham, the only child of loving parents. She was educated at an all-girls' school, and after leaving, tried her hand at several jobs, including modeling swimwear.
At 22 she met and married her husband, Denis. They had a traditional white wedding and a honeymoon in Italy, and have been happily married ever since. They have two children, a son and a daughter—both now grown up and married—and four lovely grandchildren.
Lee's writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She has had more than 20 Mills and Boon romance novels published to date.
Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking. Traveling is her main love, and teaming up with her daughter and American son-in-law, she and her husband spent a year going round the world, taking in India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the States.
Last year she rented a palazzo in the heart of Venice, followed by a quick hop aboard the Orient Express. Lee is currently saving up for a whirlwind tour of Japan, a romantic and exotic destination she has wanted to visit since childhood.
At present she lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which gets cut off by snow most winters
At 22 she met and married her husband, Denis. They had a traditional white wedding and a honeymoon in Italy, and have been happily married ever since. They have two children, a son and a daughter—both now grown up and married—and four lovely grandchildren.
Lee's writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She has had more than 20 Mills and Boon romance novels published to date.
Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking. Traveling is her main love, and teaming up with her daughter and American son-in-law, she and her husband spent a year going round the world, taking in India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the States.
Last year she rented a palazzo in the heart of Venice, followed by a quick hop aboard the Orient Express. Lee is currently saving up for a whirlwind tour of Japan, a romantic and exotic destination she has wanted to visit since childhood.
At present she lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which gets cut off by snow most winters
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April 6, 2009
Genre: Set in the UK.
Sensuality: PG
Grade: C-
Content warnings: Other than blindness from looking at the shiny perfect H/H? None.
The backblurb is all wrong.
The plot REALLY goes like this - a grandfather on his deathbed asks his grandson, Simon, to find the descendant of his missing black sheep sister whom he hadn't kept in touch with since, um, 1947. The family had a priceless diamond that has always gone to the eldest daughter for the past 500 years and he wants to make it right before he dies.
This conversation is overheard by Simon's scummy bro-in-law, Rudy, who finds the descendant, Charlotte, first and tries to seduce her. Rudy wants to divorce his wife (Simon's sister), who is paralyzed, (did I mention he's scummy?) and marry Charlotte, who has both her legs AND a priceless diamond to boot. So, answering the call of his hysterical sister complaining that she is losing her scumbag hubby to Charlotte, Simon seduces Charlotte away from Rudy and gets her to marry him instead.
If you like the typical heightened HP mel-o-drama in your books, this aint for you, despite the promising plotline.
However, if you like your HPs sedate where the hero is gorgeous and the heroine is gorgeous and they get their filthy rich Happily Ever After, knock yourself out.
Sensuality: PG
Grade: C-
Content warnings: Other than blindness from looking at the shiny perfect H/H? None.
The backblurb is all wrong.
The plot REALLY goes like this - a grandfather on his deathbed asks his grandson, Simon, to find the descendant of his missing black sheep sister whom he hadn't kept in touch with since, um, 1947. The family had a priceless diamond that has always gone to the eldest daughter for the past 500 years and he wants to make it right before he dies.
This conversation is overheard by Simon's scummy bro-in-law, Rudy, who finds the descendant, Charlotte, first and tries to seduce her. Rudy wants to divorce his wife (Simon's sister), who is paralyzed, (did I mention he's scummy?) and marry Charlotte, who has both her legs AND a priceless diamond to boot. So, answering the call of his hysterical sister complaining that she is losing her scumbag hubby to Charlotte, Simon seduces Charlotte away from Rudy and gets her to marry him instead.
If you like the typical heightened HP mel-o-drama in your books, this aint for you, despite the promising plotline.
However, if you like your HPs sedate where the hero is gorgeous and the heroine is gorgeous and they get their filthy rich Happily Ever After, knock yourself out.
August 12, 2010
This book was absolutely ridiculous!!! First of all, the author did a HORRIBLE job making you relate to and like the male love interest.
The story starts out with an old man (Sir Nigel) speaking with his grandson (Simon) about a sister he had who got pregnant at the age of 17 and essentially was disowned by the family and left. All he knows is that his sister had a baby girl. With Sir Nigel given a very short amount of time to live, he enlists his grandson to find either his sister if she is still alive or on of her decedents. His goal is to give the Carlotta Diamond to the oldest living female decedent of his sister per tradition. As the reader you know that Rudy, Simon's brother in law (Simon's sister, Lucy, husband) is listening in at the door. He decides to find the woman who is to inherit the priceless diamond first and seduce her.
The story cuts to Rudy picking up Charlotte from her apartment and taking her out to a party. There ends up being media people there taking pics to report on the party and Rudy gets upset and lies to Charlotte telling her that if his pic gets around that he will get in trouble with work cause he should be working. So Charlotte lets him slip away to go hide. When they were heading out to leave early, Rudy lied to the host and said that Charlotte had a migraine. Charlotte not liking to lie, they began to argue on the way to the car. Rudy in a foul mood now takes her home and for the first time she invites him up so that they can mend the fences so to speak. He comes up thinking that she is finally going to sleep with him and gets MAD PISSED when he discovers that her roommate is home and going to have dinner with them. He essentially ignores her the whole time and decides to charm the roommate. He drinks a whole bottle of wine on his own and then when he goes to leave he doesn't even make a move to kiss Charlotte goodnight so she grabs him and kisses him in the doorway to the street. She heads up and her roommate dishes that she noticed a silver car follow them out when he picked her up, then again when they came back to the apartment, and yet again just now when Rudy left.
The next day Charlotte is at work (she owns a book store below her apartment) and Simon comes in under the pretense of picking up some old rare books she had tracked down for Sir Nigel. He asks her to dinner to discuss the books uninterrupted. They end up having a wonderful evening out and she starts to have a hard time denying the strong attraction she has to him. As he is dropping her off at home he pulls out a letter that Sir Nigel wrote to her asking her to come visit him at his home for the weekend. Not wanting to deny a dying man, Charlotte agrees and Simon tells her he will pick her up the next day at 10am.
One thing leads to another and they end up "stranded" out in the middle of the woods near an empty cabin during a bad storm. They end up naked and in bed together. The next morning he insists that she marry him. She is so head over heels for him she agrees. Then he informs her that they would plan it for that week so that his grandfather could see them marry and he doesn't want to chance him slipping away before they do. So they marry but not before Sir Nigel has her put on the Carlotta Diamond and tells her it is hers to keep no matter what happens.
The whole day Charlotte felt like Simon was being cold towards her. They finally get to Rome for their honeymoon and Charlotte snaps at him about it and tells him not to touch her. He seduces her and they have sex. Afterwards she cries and tells him they didn't make love but had sex like she was some hooker. He gets upset and leaves to shower. When he comes out he apologizes to her and tells her she deserves better. They end up going out to explore Rome over the next two days. One afternoon when they get back to the villa, a maid comes in upset saying that word got back from his home that his grandfather has taken a turn for the worst.
They hurry back home and are sitting with Sir Nigel when he starts to tell Charlotte the story of his sister. By the end of the story Charlotte knows that Sir Nigel is in fact her great uncle and she leaves the room to have a talk with her new husband and second cousin. She yells at him saying she had a right to know that they were cousins and he informs her that he really isn't. In fact his mother was pregnant with him when his biological father died and she met and then married the man who raised him and he calls father. So technically they are of no blood relation.
Sir Nigel dies and there is a funeral and then he tells her it is time that she meet his sister, Lucy, who is bed ridden from a bad car accident that she was in with her husband. They go to see her and Lucy keeps giving her dirty looks. She and Simon then tell her about Rudy and how Rudy has been stepping out on Lucy since the accident and that Lucy could see that Rudy was especially besotted with Charlotte so she asked Simon to step in. Charlotte gets upset and runs out, and Simon then has to prove to her that he does in fact love her. He does and she stays with him and yadda yadda yadda, happily ever after.
Here are my problems with this one. I dont like the relation part even if they really don't have blood relations is too weird for my comfort. Second, what women in her right mind would be ok with the fact that a man married her so that she wouldn't steal his sisters husband away? Oh and I always have a hard time with stories about two people getting married after knowing each other only a couple days. This was an awful book.
The story starts out with an old man (Sir Nigel) speaking with his grandson (Simon) about a sister he had who got pregnant at the age of 17 and essentially was disowned by the family and left. All he knows is that his sister had a baby girl. With Sir Nigel given a very short amount of time to live, he enlists his grandson to find either his sister if she is still alive or on of her decedents. His goal is to give the Carlotta Diamond to the oldest living female decedent of his sister per tradition. As the reader you know that Rudy, Simon's brother in law (Simon's sister, Lucy, husband) is listening in at the door. He decides to find the woman who is to inherit the priceless diamond first and seduce her.
The story cuts to Rudy picking up Charlotte from her apartment and taking her out to a party. There ends up being media people there taking pics to report on the party and Rudy gets upset and lies to Charlotte telling her that if his pic gets around that he will get in trouble with work cause he should be working. So Charlotte lets him slip away to go hide. When they were heading out to leave early, Rudy lied to the host and said that Charlotte had a migraine. Charlotte not liking to lie, they began to argue on the way to the car. Rudy in a foul mood now takes her home and for the first time she invites him up so that they can mend the fences so to speak. He comes up thinking that she is finally going to sleep with him and gets MAD PISSED when he discovers that her roommate is home and going to have dinner with them. He essentially ignores her the whole time and decides to charm the roommate. He drinks a whole bottle of wine on his own and then when he goes to leave he doesn't even make a move to kiss Charlotte goodnight so she grabs him and kisses him in the doorway to the street. She heads up and her roommate dishes that she noticed a silver car follow them out when he picked her up, then again when they came back to the apartment, and yet again just now when Rudy left.
The next day Charlotte is at work (she owns a book store below her apartment) and Simon comes in under the pretense of picking up some old rare books she had tracked down for Sir Nigel. He asks her to dinner to discuss the books uninterrupted. They end up having a wonderful evening out and she starts to have a hard time denying the strong attraction she has to him. As he is dropping her off at home he pulls out a letter that Sir Nigel wrote to her asking her to come visit him at his home for the weekend. Not wanting to deny a dying man, Charlotte agrees and Simon tells her he will pick her up the next day at 10am.
One thing leads to another and they end up "stranded" out in the middle of the woods near an empty cabin during a bad storm. They end up naked and in bed together. The next morning he insists that she marry him. She is so head over heels for him she agrees. Then he informs her that they would plan it for that week so that his grandfather could see them marry and he doesn't want to chance him slipping away before they do. So they marry but not before Sir Nigel has her put on the Carlotta Diamond and tells her it is hers to keep no matter what happens.
The whole day Charlotte felt like Simon was being cold towards her. They finally get to Rome for their honeymoon and Charlotte snaps at him about it and tells him not to touch her. He seduces her and they have sex. Afterwards she cries and tells him they didn't make love but had sex like she was some hooker. He gets upset and leaves to shower. When he comes out he apologizes to her and tells her she deserves better. They end up going out to explore Rome over the next two days. One afternoon when they get back to the villa, a maid comes in upset saying that word got back from his home that his grandfather has taken a turn for the worst.
They hurry back home and are sitting with Sir Nigel when he starts to tell Charlotte the story of his sister. By the end of the story Charlotte knows that Sir Nigel is in fact her great uncle and she leaves the room to have a talk with her new husband and second cousin. She yells at him saying she had a right to know that they were cousins and he informs her that he really isn't. In fact his mother was pregnant with him when his biological father died and she met and then married the man who raised him and he calls father. So technically they are of no blood relation.
Sir Nigel dies and there is a funeral and then he tells her it is time that she meet his sister, Lucy, who is bed ridden from a bad car accident that she was in with her husband. They go to see her and Lucy keeps giving her dirty looks. She and Simon then tell her about Rudy and how Rudy has been stepping out on Lucy since the accident and that Lucy could see that Rudy was especially besotted with Charlotte so she asked Simon to step in. Charlotte gets upset and runs out, and Simon then has to prove to her that he does in fact love her. He does and she stays with him and yadda yadda yadda, happily ever after.
Here are my problems with this one. I dont like the relation part even if they really don't have blood relations is too weird for my comfort. Second, what women in her right mind would be ok with the fact that a man married her so that she wouldn't steal his sisters husband away? Oh and I always have a hard time with stories about two people getting married after knowing each other only a couple days. This was an awful book.
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February 28, 2024
Two stars only because I did finish it. Gag a maggot time, want to bury this at the bottom of my tablet. I have a shelf for Not Very Good maybe it’s time for an Awful shelf.
This is another HP that has writing suitable for 8th graders.
This is another HP that has writing suitable for 8th graders.
February 19, 2025
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March 12, 2018The wedding night surprise! Charlotte Christie wore white on her wedding day--and a priceless diamond necklace. Little did she know that her new husband, British billionaire Simon Farringdon, didn't believe she was an innocent. Nor did she realize that the Carlotta Diamond was his real motive for marriage. But the unexpected passion of their wedding night changed Simon's plans. His new bride was a virgin and he wanted her
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