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Pregnancy of Revenge
A tycoon seduces the daughter of the man who destroyed his sister in this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.A money-grabbing beauty, that’s all she was—and Jake D’Amato was determined to make Charlotte Summerville pay. His plan was he’d take revenge in his bed!Actually, Charlie’s intentions were purely innocent—just like her. But suddenly she found herself married to a man who wanted her but seemed to hate her . . . and now she was pregnant with his child!Originally published in 2005.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2005
About the author
Jacqueline Baird
283 books262 followersJacqueline Baird was born on the 1st of April at home in a small village Northumbria, England, UK, where she raised. She went to the local village school, and later an all-girls' grammar school where she passed the University of Oxford General Certificate of Education in various subjects. On leaving school she joined the civil service in the then Post Office department.
She met her husband Jim, when she was only eighteen. Eight years later, after working as a hotel receptionist in a five-star hotel in Scotland and traveling abroad for a few years, she came home and married him. They still live in Northumbria and have two grown sons.
Her number one love is writing. She has always been an avid reader, and she had her first success as a writer at the age of eleven, when she won the first prize in the Nature Diary of the Year competition at school. But she always felt a little guilty because her diary was more fiction than fact. Apart from a spell as a hopeful painter in oils, when she actually did have a painting accepted for the Federation of Northern Artists' annual exhibition her real passion was for romance novels. When her sons went to school all day she thought she would try writing one. Jacqueline Baird's been writing for Mills & Boon since 1988, and she still gets a thrill every time a new book is published.
When Jacqueline is not busy writing she likes to spend her time traveling, reading and playing cards. She was a keen sailor until a knee injury ended her sailing days, but she still enjoys swimming in the sea. She visits a gym twice a week now and has made the surprising discovery that she gets some good ideas while doing the mind-numbingly boring exercises on the cycling and weight machines.
She met her husband Jim, when she was only eighteen. Eight years later, after working as a hotel receptionist in a five-star hotel in Scotland and traveling abroad for a few years, she came home and married him. They still live in Northumbria and have two grown sons.
Her number one love is writing. She has always been an avid reader, and she had her first success as a writer at the age of eleven, when she won the first prize in the Nature Diary of the Year competition at school. But she always felt a little guilty because her diary was more fiction than fact. Apart from a spell as a hopeful painter in oils, when she actually did have a painting accepted for the Federation of Northern Artists' annual exhibition her real passion was for romance novels. When her sons went to school all day she thought she would try writing one. Jacqueline Baird's been writing for Mills & Boon since 1988, and she still gets a thrill every time a new book is published.
When Jacqueline is not busy writing she likes to spend her time traveling, reading and playing cards. She was a keen sailor until a knee injury ended her sailing days, but she still enjoys swimming in the sea. She visits a gym twice a week now and has made the surprising discovery that she gets some good ideas while doing the mind-numbingly boring exercises on the cycling and weight machines.
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March 10, 2010
The title doesnt make sense since the hero doesnt impregnate her for revenge, nor does the heroine poke holes in the condom for revenge either.
Instead, I was treated to one of those tiresome gazillionaires who can't trust any women because one betrayed him back in the Stone Age. Once. Ruthless gazillionaire tycoons are such fragile flowers emotionally in Harlequinland. Excuse me as I play the world's smallest violin.
Trope: older man (he's 38, she's 26)
Instead, I was treated to one of those tiresome gazillionaires who can't trust any women because one betrayed him back in the Stone Age. Once. Ruthless gazillionaire tycoons are such fragile flowers emotionally in Harlequinland. Excuse me as I play the world's smallest violin.
Trope: older man (he's 38, she's 26)
April 10, 2011
Um, whose getting preggers from revenge here?
Actually it was poor birth control planning, but I guess the title sounded good at the time. Italian H named ?Jake? unwillingly falls in lurve with daughter of man who discarded his sister like yesterday's newspaper and the sis killed herself.
The h knows nothing of this of course and can't figure out why the H is so difficult. One daring h cliffhanging rescue of small boy later the H is ready to avow true lurve for evah and the h is ready to dump his rear.
True Love wins and everybody is happy. I still don't see how you have an Italian tycoon named Jake, but it was a good story.
Actually it was poor birth control planning, but I guess the title sounded good at the time. Italian H named ?Jake? unwillingly falls in lurve with daughter of man who discarded his sister like yesterday's newspaper and the sis killed herself.
The h knows nothing of this of course and can't figure out why the H is so difficult. One daring h cliffhanging rescue of small boy later the H is ready to avow true lurve for evah and the h is ready to dump his rear.
True Love wins and everybody is happy. I still don't see how you have an Italian tycoon named Jake, but it was a good story.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 22, 2016
Okay, finished this yesterday and I've already forgotten how they overcame the big misunderstanding.
The H is at an art gallery to buy the nude painting of his foster sister and wreck vengeance on the bitch daughter (H's words not mine) of the painter who's now dead. I lied, that last part about wrecking vengeance is an add-on activity. The h's father had a trend of bedding women for a while then ditching them; the H's sister was the last one before he died.
He lures the h away and the virginal h has sex with the man magnate. She ends up getting pregnant, gasp, and finds out only after she's gone home to the hotel she inherited from her dead mother. She tries to get in touch with the now distant H, and finally leaves a frustrated message with his housekeeper. He marries her and sweeps her away to Italy.
This is where I had my first REAL problem. He adores his foster parents whose daughter just died, but he doesn't invite them to the wedding? His skeevy best friend is there. I would think that they would want to be there SINCE THEIR ONLY OTHER CHILD IS DEAD! Once again, I am confusing reality with HarleyLand.
Somehow she finds out that his foster-sister was her father's lover which puts a small kink in the honeymoon. He makes it clear he does not believe in love, but, hey, the sex is off the charts and they're gonna have a baby. Romantic he is not. She throws a hissy fit or two as well as throws a few truths at the hero who reacts quite petulantly. He is quite ensconced in his ivory tycoon tower, and to be perfectly honest the h caves quickly to his magic p.
Oh, yeah. I remember now. The h ends up rescuing the castello's plot moppet. When the hero sees her scaling a mountain he realizes he loves her.
I didn't buy anything this Italian H was selling. He dropped the whole vengeance thing in regard to his little sister; doesn't touch base with his foster parents too much. Why the little sis committed suicide is never known. I know in real life that is often an issue, but boy howdy, THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE.
Just eh.
The H is at an art gallery to buy the nude painting of his foster sister and wreck vengeance on the bitch daughter (H's words not mine) of the painter who's now dead. I lied, that last part about wrecking vengeance is an add-on activity. The h's father had a trend of bedding women for a while then ditching them; the H's sister was the last one before he died.
He lures the h away and the virginal h has sex with the man magnate. She ends up getting pregnant, gasp, and finds out only after she's gone home to the hotel she inherited from her dead mother. She tries to get in touch with the now distant H, and finally leaves a frustrated message with his housekeeper. He marries her and sweeps her away to Italy.
This is where I had my first REAL problem. He adores his foster parents whose daughter just died, but he doesn't invite them to the wedding? His skeevy best friend is there. I would think that they would want to be there SINCE THEIR ONLY OTHER CHILD IS DEAD! Once again, I am confusing reality with HarleyLand.
Somehow she finds out that his foster-sister was her father's lover which puts a small kink in the honeymoon. He makes it clear he does not believe in love, but, hey, the sex is off the charts and they're gonna have a baby. Romantic he is not. She throws a hissy fit or two as well as throws a few truths at the hero who reacts quite petulantly. He is quite ensconced in his ivory tycoon tower, and to be perfectly honest the h caves quickly to his magic p.
Oh, yeah. I remember now. The h ends up rescuing the castello's plot moppet. When the hero sees her scaling a mountain he realizes he loves her.
I didn't buy anything this Italian H was selling. He dropped the whole vengeance thing in regard to his little sister; doesn't touch base with his foster parents too much. Why the little sis committed suicide is never known. I know in real life that is often an issue, but boy howdy, THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE.
Just eh.
December 8, 2017
This is revenge-lite. The hero goes from suspicious to smitten with lightning speed. The heroine is just plain smitten until she finds out the hero's little scheme on their wedding night.
Reason for revenge? Hero's foster sister was a lover of the heroine's father. The father died and the sister died a few months later from drunk driving accident. Somehow the heroine is at fault because the father sent his lover away when the heroine visited? Whatever - this is HPlandia.
There are lots of misunderstandings - most of them trivial and JB spends several pages at the end explaining the hero's blow-hot, blow-cold behavior. The memorable scenes are the heroine buying the hero a gift at the Kew Gardens gift shop. And the heroine climbing a cliff to rescue a boy and the hero freaking out.
Reason for revenge? Hero's foster sister was a lover of the heroine's father. The father died and the sister died a few months later from drunk driving accident. Somehow the heroine is at fault because the father sent his lover away when the heroine visited? Whatever - this is HPlandia.
There are lots of misunderstandings - most of them trivial and JB spends several pages at the end explaining the hero's blow-hot, blow-cold behavior. The memorable scenes are the heroine buying the hero a gift at the Kew Gardens gift shop. And the heroine climbing a cliff to rescue a boy and the hero freaking out.
October 26, 2021
H was bad but not as bad as JB's vintage jerks!
January 10, 2016
It was good. Your typical Harlequin novella. Jake was a totally dick though. Granted in the end he redeems himself but I was kind of hoping Charlotte would have put him in his place long before and left his ass.
It's a book about miscommunication. Jake wants revenge for his sister who was Charlotte's father's lover. Charlotte is guilty really by association. She's an innocent, who knew her dad was a douche but still loved him. Jake thinks sleeping with Charlotte and casting her aside like her father did to his sister will give Jake the greatest revenge. Well of course she ends up pregnant and thus starts the whole how to ruin a relationship without communicating. Ugh
Anywho, I enjoyed.
It's a book about miscommunication. Jake wants revenge for his sister who was Charlotte's father's lover. Charlotte is guilty really by association. She's an innocent, who knew her dad was a douche but still loved him. Jake thinks sleeping with Charlotte and casting her aside like her father did to his sister will give Jake the greatest revenge. Well of course she ends up pregnant and thus starts the whole how to ruin a relationship without communicating. Ugh
Anywho, I enjoyed.
June 23, 2016
Ah, the classic vengeance against the daughter of the man who wronged your sister plot. I remember it well from Baird’s ‘The Billionaire’s Blackmailed Bride.’ If you are a wounded misogynist seeking a good woman willing to tolerate your crap in exchange for some mind-blowing cuddle times, this is a great way to meet her.
Jake d’Amato, 38 and rich, is in a London gallery to buy a naked portrait of his dead foster sister. Not because he’s got a sex fetish, mind you. He treats seeing his dead foster sister’s boobs on canvas with the proper amount of distaste. She’d been hopelessly in love and living with a skeevy artist for two years. She thought they were going to be married! And then the skeevy artist sent her away because his daughter was visiting, and his daughter was a bitch who wouldn’t meet her daddy’s special lady friend.
Then, the skeevy artist died. Then, the sister had a car accident and died. Then Charlotte, the snotty daughter who refuses to meet hussies, decides to sell off her dad’s naked lady collection. Her dad was famous as a landscape artist, but he also liked to paint the ladies he was sleeping with. Jake’s view is that these women, and his sister in particular, would not have consented to their nude portraits ending up in a public sale. The gallery handling the sale refuses to allow Jake to buy the painting before it goes on exhibition. Jake is really angry about it. Angry that Charlotte is greedily selling off the private naked lady collection to buy herself useless lady trinkets. He’s going to confront her, and denounce her in public. That will be a fitting revenge. Don’t look so sceptical, it will!
Charlotte is going ahead with the sale so she can donate the money to charity, which I’m assuming is an attempt to put her on some moral high ground. She personally doesn’t like portraits of naked ladies, they make her uncomfortable. Plus, she acknowledges that they aren’t her father’s best work. She had asked the only lady she knew how she felt about the sale, and that lady was fine with it.
This whole objection to paintings of naked ladies irritated me no end. I feel I am being invited to sympathise with these characters’ squeamishness, maybe on the assumption that I too, would have a problem with art. I don’t.
There’s that whole gendered thing about the male gaze, and if Baird had done something with this I might have been more on board with Charlotte’s and Jake’s distaste, but that isn’t what’s going on here. What really irritates me is that I think Jake, even though his concern was mostly for his foster parents discovering that a naked painting of their daughter exists, has been publically displayed and sold, actually has a point. He undercuts it later, but I think he’s correct that this is exploitative. While the women knew they were being painted by a successful artist, it does seem as though they were not consenting for those paintings to go on public display. Possibly, most of them wouldn’t have cared. Possibly, some of them would have cared, but when they objected would have been told that they had no right to object because a) it’s not illegal, and b) what did they expect? They posed naked for an artist.
This was published in 2005, and I’m looking at this from 2016. When girls and women have learned that sharing images of their naked bodies with someone they’ve been intimate with is no guarantee that their privacy will be respected. They are told they can’t object. Because what did they expect? They were the ones who decided to get naked and send someone a picture. And they’ve unfairly worn the entire burden of shame as a result.
I recognise that a digital image is on a very different scale to an oil painting, in terms of reach and position in popular culture. And the painted women, none of them would have thought that this artist would die at the relatively young age of 46, and maybe some of them even thought that any assurances he’d given them that their painting would never be sold were only a guarantee for that moment, not forever. Still, it’s wrong. It doesn’t matter where the money from the sale goes, this still feels like a really grey area.
And I’m not even started on what a selfish, arrogant and controlling bastard Jake d’Amato is! Mostly because there’s really no point in talking about it: of course he is. All Jacqueline Baird heroes are direly awful, because her big pay-off is his abject grovelling when it finally dawns on him just how terrible he’s been. And that if he wants the love of his life to stick around, he’d better do some pretty fancy talking.
When Jake meets Charlotte, he decides his revenge will be much more satisfying if he seduces her. Charlotte is beautiful, 26, a rock climber, a member of a rescue team, and she owns a pretty tourist hotel in the Lakes District. She falls hard for Jake, and spends two weeks in his swanky London hotel in a haze of sexual bliss. She notices that he works too hard. She occasionally notices that he puts down the shutters when she’s getting a bit close. But she’s in love, and she tells him so. She doesn’t tell him that he’s her first, she’s a bit sensitive about being so inexperienced at 26.
I got off on the wrong foot with Charlotte over the paintings, and it annoyed me that she was a virgin. Virginity in romance is invariably a state with physical evidence: that pesky little fictional hymen as a seal on the virgin’s lady parts. It’s not always immediately clear to the hero that he has ripped through this barrier, and when it is not clear, there is always plot angst. Jake doesn’t realise he’s been a Hymenator. He has to wait for Charlotte to prove how much he has wronged her by throwing it in his face later (what a great visual that would be). This is another example of the rule that no one with a hymen is evil. Stupid fictional hymens, I’m sick of them.
I wish we could outgrow this trope. The hero’s big misunderstanding about the heroine’s innocence and her general worthiness as a human being often seems to rest on whether or not she had an intact hymen. I can’t believe how often I’m still manipulated into caring about this damn hymen. I find myself thinking: hah! Just wait hero, when you find out she had one, then you’ll know just how wrong you are. It makes me so cranky with myself, like when an ad for insurance makes me cry even though I know it’s being manipulative, and my reaction says more about how laughably simple it is to put stuff in my brain that I really don’t want there. Sometimes, it just seems like a hymen is all the heroine needed to prove that she’s a good person. Not so much in this book: Jake is unshakeably certain that any woman who makes his peepee go twang is evil. But in other books … while there’s still some realisation that a heroine has other good qualities that made her loveable, the hymen is always there as that final physical proof. To reassure the hero that this time, he’s got it right. This time, he can finally place his trust in a woman.
Inevitably, from that one time they don’t bring a condom into the shower, Charlotte gets pregnant. So now they ‘have’ to get married, and Jake is once again proved correct: women are terrible. Naturally, this doesn’t go over very well with Charlotte. If it is going to frustrate you that Charlotte can’t really effectively stand up for herself, I probably wouldn’t recommend Baird. Her heroines are strong and balanced, but have a sometimes baffling amount of tolerance for heroes with garbage attitudes. However, rants not withstanding: this is a great book if you’re in the mood for a bad hero making a good grovel.
Jake d’Amato, 38 and rich, is in a London gallery to buy a naked portrait of his dead foster sister. Not because he’s got a sex fetish, mind you. He treats seeing his dead foster sister’s boobs on canvas with the proper amount of distaste. She’d been hopelessly in love and living with a skeevy artist for two years. She thought they were going to be married! And then the skeevy artist sent her away because his daughter was visiting, and his daughter was a bitch who wouldn’t meet her daddy’s special lady friend.
Then, the skeevy artist died. Then, the sister had a car accident and died. Then Charlotte, the snotty daughter who refuses to meet hussies, decides to sell off her dad’s naked lady collection. Her dad was famous as a landscape artist, but he also liked to paint the ladies he was sleeping with. Jake’s view is that these women, and his sister in particular, would not have consented to their nude portraits ending up in a public sale. The gallery handling the sale refuses to allow Jake to buy the painting before it goes on exhibition. Jake is really angry about it. Angry that Charlotte is greedily selling off the private naked lady collection to buy herself useless lady trinkets. He’s going to confront her, and denounce her in public. That will be a fitting revenge. Don’t look so sceptical, it will!
Charlotte is going ahead with the sale so she can donate the money to charity, which I’m assuming is an attempt to put her on some moral high ground. She personally doesn’t like portraits of naked ladies, they make her uncomfortable. Plus, she acknowledges that they aren’t her father’s best work. She had asked the only lady she knew how she felt about the sale, and that lady was fine with it.
This whole objection to paintings of naked ladies irritated me no end. I feel I am being invited to sympathise with these characters’ squeamishness, maybe on the assumption that I too, would have a problem with art. I don’t.
There’s that whole gendered thing about the male gaze, and if Baird had done something with this I might have been more on board with Charlotte’s and Jake’s distaste, but that isn’t what’s going on here. What really irritates me is that I think Jake, even though his concern was mostly for his foster parents discovering that a naked painting of their daughter exists, has been publically displayed and sold, actually has a point. He undercuts it later, but I think he’s correct that this is exploitative. While the women knew they were being painted by a successful artist, it does seem as though they were not consenting for those paintings to go on public display. Possibly, most of them wouldn’t have cared. Possibly, some of them would have cared, but when they objected would have been told that they had no right to object because a) it’s not illegal, and b) what did they expect? They posed naked for an artist.
This was published in 2005, and I’m looking at this from 2016. When girls and women have learned that sharing images of their naked bodies with someone they’ve been intimate with is no guarantee that their privacy will be respected. They are told they can’t object. Because what did they expect? They were the ones who decided to get naked and send someone a picture. And they’ve unfairly worn the entire burden of shame as a result.
I recognise that a digital image is on a very different scale to an oil painting, in terms of reach and position in popular culture. And the painted women, none of them would have thought that this artist would die at the relatively young age of 46, and maybe some of them even thought that any assurances he’d given them that their painting would never be sold were only a guarantee for that moment, not forever. Still, it’s wrong. It doesn’t matter where the money from the sale goes, this still feels like a really grey area.
And I’m not even started on what a selfish, arrogant and controlling bastard Jake d’Amato is! Mostly because there’s really no point in talking about it: of course he is. All Jacqueline Baird heroes are direly awful, because her big pay-off is his abject grovelling when it finally dawns on him just how terrible he’s been. And that if he wants the love of his life to stick around, he’d better do some pretty fancy talking.
When Jake meets Charlotte, he decides his revenge will be much more satisfying if he seduces her. Charlotte is beautiful, 26, a rock climber, a member of a rescue team, and she owns a pretty tourist hotel in the Lakes District. She falls hard for Jake, and spends two weeks in his swanky London hotel in a haze of sexual bliss. She notices that he works too hard. She occasionally notices that he puts down the shutters when she’s getting a bit close. But she’s in love, and she tells him so. She doesn’t tell him that he’s her first, she’s a bit sensitive about being so inexperienced at 26.
I got off on the wrong foot with Charlotte over the paintings, and it annoyed me that she was a virgin. Virginity in romance is invariably a state with physical evidence: that pesky little fictional hymen as a seal on the virgin’s lady parts. It’s not always immediately clear to the hero that he has ripped through this barrier, and when it is not clear, there is always plot angst. Jake doesn’t realise he’s been a Hymenator. He has to wait for Charlotte to prove how much he has wronged her by throwing it in his face later (what a great visual that would be). This is another example of the rule that no one with a hymen is evil. Stupid fictional hymens, I’m sick of them.
I wish we could outgrow this trope. The hero’s big misunderstanding about the heroine’s innocence and her general worthiness as a human being often seems to rest on whether or not she had an intact hymen. I can’t believe how often I’m still manipulated into caring about this damn hymen. I find myself thinking: hah! Just wait hero, when you find out she had one, then you’ll know just how wrong you are. It makes me so cranky with myself, like when an ad for insurance makes me cry even though I know it’s being manipulative, and my reaction says more about how laughably simple it is to put stuff in my brain that I really don’t want there. Sometimes, it just seems like a hymen is all the heroine needed to prove that she’s a good person. Not so much in this book: Jake is unshakeably certain that any woman who makes his peepee go twang is evil. But in other books … while there’s still some realisation that a heroine has other good qualities that made her loveable, the hymen is always there as that final physical proof. To reassure the hero that this time, he’s got it right. This time, he can finally place his trust in a woman.
Inevitably, from that one time they don’t bring a condom into the shower, Charlotte gets pregnant. So now they ‘have’ to get married, and Jake is once again proved correct: women are terrible. Naturally, this doesn’t go over very well with Charlotte. If it is going to frustrate you that Charlotte can’t really effectively stand up for herself, I probably wouldn’t recommend Baird. Her heroines are strong and balanced, but have a sometimes baffling amount of tolerance for heroes with garbage attitudes. However, rants not withstanding: this is a great book if you’re in the mood for a bad hero making a good grovel.
March 29, 2015
I have a soft spot for a hero who is out for revenge and an unexpected pregnancy! Very romantic book!
July 23, 2013
Not memorable. Hero hates heroine because her father (who was a womanizer) painted a nude picture of his sister and, according to the sister, the h refused to meet her because she thought she was too good for her. Both the father and the sister are killed, so the H only has the h to focus his vengeance on. Does that sound convulted? That's because it was.
September 11, 2018
***TWO STARS***
Well, THAT was a let down. Going by the blurb of this story, it should have had every one of my favorite themes in it, but it didn't. The "Revenge" aspect of the story was a joke. There was no revenge, and even though Jake had misjudged Charlotte wrongly, he didn't even try to make her "Pay" as the blurb suggested. I didn't even like either of the main characters enough to care about them one way or the other. Total disappointment.
January 4, 2016
Mala. Demasiado odio, arrogancia y petulancia sin sentido.
February 2, 2020
Reread 8/2/2021: note to self… rock climbing heroine.
January 28, 2025
A great book!
A love at first site - Enemies to Lovers ( though the MFC did not know they were enemies).
A journey of learning to love, to forgive and forget revenge. Love at first sight except the MMC did not get his feelings were love.
At the end the love is flowing and the couple walk into the sunset (or into the cute Epilogue)
A love at first site - Enemies to Lovers ( though the MFC did not know they were enemies).
A journey of learning to love, to forgive and forget revenge. Love at first sight except the MMC did not get his feelings were love.
At the end the love is flowing and the couple walk into the sunset (or into the cute Epilogue)
October 23, 2018
3.5 stars ⭐️.
This was high on angst and drama and I quite enjoyed how the story unfolded. The passion and se*ual tension was delicious.
I liked the heroine very much. But hero, I have mixed feelings. He was protective but obtuse, he loved her but refused to admit even to himself, he was very cruel with words but he apologized. Still I thought heroine got the bad end in pain wise.
Epilogue was good.
Recommended.
This was high on angst and drama and I quite enjoyed how the story unfolded. The passion and se*ual tension was delicious.
I liked the heroine very much. But hero, I have mixed feelings. He was protective but obtuse, he loved her but refused to admit even to himself, he was very cruel with words but he apologized. Still I thought heroine got the bad end in pain wise.
Epilogue was good.
Recommended.
December 17, 2013
it was an ok read but not my cup of tea. it did have some great moments n was very promising but miss jacqueline failed 2 deliver.charlotte was a ray of sunshine, fun, easy-going n warm n add 2 dat beautiful. she actually had the sunny character of her father without being easy though. i mean; not letting any man jump in2 her panties. jake, who's supposed 2 be an experienced man, did not realise she was a virgin. i dunno how an experienced man can't no a thing like dat. he was really set 2 believe the worst of her !! his vendetta made no sense u no. just bcoz he thought charlotte refused 2 meet anna !? is dat a crime !? i think even if charlotte had not done dat, it wud not have been smthng vicious or bad bcoz she has the right not 2 want 2 be bothered wid her father's sluts
August 20, 2020
Dunno, maybe I've just been ruined by vintage Harleys, but I was so bored. I should have known from the dumb title that this was not for me (although nary a mention of Billionaires, Virgins, etc., so thought maybe I was safe). The title's not even accurate--there's was no revenge pregnancy at all. I think of revenge pregnancies as "heroine took her jilting cousin's place at altar and outraged badass Greek alpha husband plans to keep her captive, more or less, until she bears him a son" (thank you Violet Winspear--that's "revenge pregnancy!"). I've heard so much about JB's revenge stories that I was anticipating a better read, so maybe my expectations going in were too high.
Oh the blandness. I was SO BORED. The improbable virgin (26, beautiful, it's 201o, OK) Mary-Sue heroine bored me. The cookie cutter "alpha" Anglicized Italian hero bored me. They meet, he has vague suspicions that her possible past refusal to meet his sister-or cousin-or-whatever (la-la-la-la-la) somehow compounded the sister (orwhatever)s heartbreak/eventual death (? did she die? I didn't even care by then), caused by the heroine's playboy father--oh, and heroine MAY BE mercenary by selling off deaddad's nudie paintings too.
So he woos her with vague plans for revenge-seduction that soon go away because she is so wonderful--beautiful, innocent, fun, naive, sexstational, and a mountain-rescue-team member to boot (okay, he doesn't find that out til later, but for the reader she is all things wonderful of course!). The sex is mindblowing (virginity notwithstanding) and endless for days. When he returns to Italy, he only phones once or twice, so sadness :-( and then the one-shot pregnancy kicks in, so she leaves some hissy fit message for him, he shows up, they get married. Let the idiotic misunderstandings begin!
Seriously, the attempt at angst is dumb. She finds out he may have had misconceptions about her to begin with and it's cause for her to want to leave him immediately! He still has suspicions that she might not have wanted to meet his sister-cousin-whatever (even though he's now sure she's not the raging bitch he was led to believe she was--and has been sure of that since day 1). There literally was zero reason for any real problems/conflict between them other than some contrived plot B/s.
Gah, save me from TSTL plots, let alone characters. I'll give JB another shot, but based on this one, I have to wonder why I'd bother.
Oh the blandness. I was SO BORED. The improbable virgin (26, beautiful, it's 201o, OK) Mary-Sue heroine bored me. The cookie cutter "alpha" Anglicized Italian hero bored me. They meet, he has vague suspicions that her possible past refusal to meet his sister-or cousin-or-whatever (la-la-la-la-la) somehow compounded the sister (orwhatever)s heartbreak/eventual death (? did she die? I didn't even care by then), caused by the heroine's playboy father--oh, and heroine MAY BE mercenary by selling off deaddad's nudie paintings too.
So he woos her with vague plans for revenge-seduction that soon go away because she is so wonderful--beautiful, innocent, fun, naive, sexstational, and a mountain-rescue-team member to boot (okay, he doesn't find that out til later, but for the reader she is all things wonderful of course!). The sex is mindblowing (virginity notwithstanding) and endless for days. When he returns to Italy, he only phones once or twice, so sadness :-( and then the one-shot pregnancy kicks in, so she leaves some hissy fit message for him, he shows up, they get married. Let the idiotic misunderstandings begin!
Seriously, the attempt at angst is dumb. She finds out he may have had misconceptions about her to begin with and it's cause for her to want to leave him immediately! He still has suspicions that she might not have wanted to meet his sister-cousin-whatever (even though he's now sure she's not the raging bitch he was led to believe she was--and has been sure of that since day 1). There literally was zero reason for any real problems/conflict between them other than some contrived plot B/s.
Gah, save me from TSTL plots, let alone characters. I'll give JB another shot, but based on this one, I have to wonder why I'd bother.
May 30, 2014
PREDICTABLE
This is not a new story it was originally published in 2005. This author is a bit of a hit or miss for me, this time it's a miss! Needless to say this is so predictable. The hero is out for revenge, unfortunately the object of his hatred is dead. So instead he turns his focus to the mans daughter. Her father had been a womaniser and had had an affair with the heroes sister then dumped her, of course our gallant hero never laid any blame at his sisters feet. So the story progresses with the heroine getting pregnant by the big jerk then being forced to marry him.
Terrible story with characters that are totally forgettable. I'm can't think why the publisher has reissued this.
This is not a new story it was originally published in 2005. This author is a bit of a hit or miss for me, this time it's a miss! Needless to say this is so predictable. The hero is out for revenge, unfortunately the object of his hatred is dead. So instead he turns his focus to the mans daughter. Her father had been a womaniser and had had an affair with the heroes sister then dumped her, of course our gallant hero never laid any blame at his sisters feet. So the story progresses with the heroine getting pregnant by the big jerk then being forced to marry him.
Terrible story with characters that are totally forgettable. I'm can't think why the publisher has reissued this.
October 31, 2014
There is something that I don't understand in most of the novels that I so far read, why the virginity of most heroines must be not well acknowledged by the heroes?? why there is almost no mention of the blood that should and must by seen at the first time of intimate encounter?
as far as i know this has to happen to all females on their first! so why the hero is most times confused with this fact a only she is being tight!! I do not like that .
I hope I can find an answer to my question!
as far as i know this has to happen to all females on their first! so why the hero is most times confused with this fact a only she is being tight!! I do not like that .
I hope I can find an answer to my question!
February 25, 2017
Re-read and I really hated the hero for most of the book. He would love her up and then think awful stuff about her. I liked that she had a backbone and wasn't afraid to use it. She called him out on his claim that she was selfish and money grubbing and a totally hateful person. He was her first lover but he constantly accused her of having multiple lovers. He was just a jerk. Another cute epilogue with a baby but getting to there was just average.
April 29, 2017
I enjoyed the story because I adore hero seeking revenge stories but I think it ran a little long
August 9, 2018
Everything happened too fast for an undying love to develope.
Also a man`s name as nick for h is irritating.
Also a man`s name as nick for h is irritating.
June 20, 2017
leído el 06/10/2012
Protagonistas: Jake d'Amato y Charlotte Summerville
Argumento:
De pronto estaba casada con un hombre que la deseaba, pero también la odiaba...
Una cazafortunas, eso era Charlotte Summerville e iba a recibir su merecido. El millonario Jake d’Amato estaba decidido a hacer pagar a aquella ambiciosa mujer. Y su plan era muy simple: se vengaría de ella... en la cama.
Quizá pareciera avariciosa, pero sus intenciones eran inocentes, tan inocentes como ella misma. Lo que compartía con Jake la volvía loca, pero la pasión tenía sus consecuencias...
Protagonistas: Jake d'Amato y Charlotte Summerville
Argumento:
De pronto estaba casada con un hombre que la deseaba, pero también la odiaba...
Una cazafortunas, eso era Charlotte Summerville e iba a recibir su merecido. El millonario Jake d’Amato estaba decidido a hacer pagar a aquella ambiciosa mujer. Y su plan era muy simple: se vengaría de ella... en la cama.
Quizá pareciera avariciosa, pero sus intenciones eran inocentes, tan inocentes como ella misma. Lo que compartía con Jake la volvía loca, pero la pasión tenía sus consecuencias...
February 3, 2016
3 Revenge is Sweet Stars
“I might have known you would have an ulterior motive.”
“You wouldn't believe my motives if I told you”
Revenge isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be and this book is a great example of a planned revenge going wrong…or right.
Charlie’s father was an artist and a womanizer. Now that he is dead his work has become collectible, especially the nudes that no one knew about. So Charlie puts them up for sale with definite plans for the money.
Jake has a reason to hate the artist that painted a nude of his sister. He wants his revenge and since the artist is dead, his daughter will do. If only it was that simple.
Enjoyed this story. Jake is a butthead, especially in the beginning of the book. Charlie is amazing! She’s a rock climber and a ember of several rescue teams. She runs a hotel and is just a lovely person. Jake didn’t stand a chance, though he fought it, poor sap.
This was a good read with Ms. Baird’s steamy sex scenes littered throughout. The dynamic between Charlie and Jake makes this worth the read. This is one that you should definitely read .
“I might have known you would have an ulterior motive.”
“You wouldn't believe my motives if I told you”
Revenge isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be and this book is a great example of a planned revenge going wrong…or right.
Charlie’s father was an artist and a womanizer. Now that he is dead his work has become collectible, especially the nudes that no one knew about. So Charlie puts them up for sale with definite plans for the money.
Jake has a reason to hate the artist that painted a nude of his sister. He wants his revenge and since the artist is dead, his daughter will do. If only it was that simple.
Enjoyed this story. Jake is a butthead, especially in the beginning of the book. Charlie is amazing! She’s a rock climber and a ember of several rescue teams. She runs a hotel and is just a lovely person. Jake didn’t stand a chance, though he fought it, poor sap.
This was a good read with Ms. Baird’s steamy sex scenes littered throughout. The dynamic between Charlie and Jake makes this worth the read. This is one that you should definitely read .
June 24, 2012
I was missing the whole revenge aspect of this story. He didn't even follow through with it so it really had no reason for being in the title. Perhaps because I was expecting a revenge read the book fell flat for me.
March 20, 2015
I, honestly, would have liked it better if she got hurt when she was climbing the rocks because then Jake would be beating himself for not protecting her and stuff... I love those kinds of books... I don't think he suffered enough.
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July 30, 2018
dumb and dumbass
December 11, 2018
To be honest this book was not my cup of tea, but if you don't mind a female lead with no spine and a typical douche bag male lead then go ahead and try reading this.
Jake has a foster sister - Anna - who was seeing an older guy, Charlotte's father who is an artist who is also a slut for lack of a better term. Anna was living with Charlotte's father until he sent her away because Charolette was coming to town. Anna was bitter about it and told her brother Jake how Charolette was such a greedy, selfish, spoilt bitch. Which is totally not the case.
Anyway, Anna later dies and Jake gets angry after finding out his sister's nude painting was going to be in an art gallery that Charolette is hosting and thus him meeting Charlotte and the story begins.
This book is totally cliche with it's plot in my opinion. Rough patch in the beginning because one of the two - this case Jake - has bad intentions at first, then realizes that he doesn't want to do that to her, that he really cares about her, loves her or whatever. Only Jakey over here doesn't realize his feelings for her until LITERALLY the ending.
I'm so disappointed. I really thought she was going to leave his sorry ass after what he put her through, but that was my fault for believing any book would allow the two main leads to not end up together.
Jake has a foster sister - Anna - who was seeing an older guy, Charlotte's father who is an artist who is also a slut for lack of a better term. Anna was living with Charlotte's father until he sent her away because Charolette was coming to town. Anna was bitter about it and told her brother Jake how Charolette was such a greedy, selfish, spoilt bitch. Which is totally not the case.
Anyway, Anna later dies and Jake gets angry after finding out his sister's nude painting was going to be in an art gallery that Charolette is hosting and thus him meeting Charlotte and the story begins.
This book is totally cliche with it's plot in my opinion. Rough patch in the beginning because one of the two - this case Jake - has bad intentions at first, then realizes that he doesn't want to do that to her, that he really cares about her, loves her or whatever. Only Jakey over here doesn't realize his feelings for her until LITERALLY the ending.
I'm so disappointed. I really thought she was going to leave his sorry ass after what he put her through, but that was my fault for believing any book would allow the two main leads to not end up together.
August 17, 2021
Jacqueline Baird is an excellent writer. So three stars for her writing. But I didn’t like the h, I didn’t like the H and I didn’t like the story line, so no extra stars. She is the standard blonde bombshell HP woman. Most HP h’s are blondes.
It’s a shame this book has the same story line as so many of the HP’s this century: they meet, they have sex that same day or within a few days (when they hardly know each other) and of course she gets pregnant. HP men and women are incredibly fertile.
Anyway, the H is out for revenge, but actually he is kind of nice to her. After he tells her somewhere in the middle of the book that he wanted to meet her out of revenge, he explains that his revenge feelings quickly vanished when he saw her. He tries his best to repair their relationship.
She is naive. She hardly knows the guy, jumps into bed with him, she gets pregnant and she doesn’t see or speak to him for a couple of weeks. And yet she still thought he was in love with her, although he never said it.
But yeah, I understand her naivity. We women like to fool ourselves with thinking the men in our lives actually feel more for us than they really do. Many self-help books are written because of women being delusional about men. This h is delusional too. It’s a man’s world.
It’s a shame this book has the same story line as so many of the HP’s this century: they meet, they have sex that same day or within a few days (when they hardly know each other) and of course she gets pregnant. HP men and women are incredibly fertile.
Anyway, the H is out for revenge, but actually he is kind of nice to her. After he tells her somewhere in the middle of the book that he wanted to meet her out of revenge, he explains that his revenge feelings quickly vanished when he saw her. He tries his best to repair their relationship.
She is naive. She hardly knows the guy, jumps into bed with him, she gets pregnant and she doesn’t see or speak to him for a couple of weeks. And yet she still thought he was in love with her, although he never said it.
But yeah, I understand her naivity. We women like to fool ourselves with thinking the men in our lives actually feel more for us than they really do. Many self-help books are written because of women being delusional about men. This h is delusional too. It’s a man’s world.
December 23, 2022
Wasn't sure if I should go with 2 or 3 stars, but it's closer to a 3, I guess.
Charlie, the h, had the spunk but not the likability of Phoebe from The Sabbides Secret Baby, at least for me. Charlie was more shrewish and petty, though given the circumstances, who could blame her? Jake was a major judgmental asshole! (But nowhere near the level of some other Jacqueline Baird alpha-holes. Ahem, one in particular. Seriously, nobody -- and I mean nobody has yet reached the level of Gianfranco of The Italian's Runaway Bride!)
So anyway, both h and H were annoying, the H slightly more so. I like that they talked about their issues, but damn, this just led to even MORE misunderstandings, and it was sooooo frustrating!!!
CURRENT RANKING OF JB's ALPHA-HOLE HEROES (as of December 2022)
Charlie, the h, had the spunk but not the likability of Phoebe from The Sabbides Secret Baby, at least for me. Charlie was more shrewish and petty, though given the circumstances, who could blame her? Jake was a major judgmental asshole! (But nowhere near the level of some other Jacqueline Baird alpha-holes. Ahem, one in particular. Seriously, nobody -- and I mean nobody has yet reached the level of Gianfranco of The Italian's Runaway Bride!)
So anyway, both h and H were annoying, the H slightly more so. I like that they talked about their issues, but damn, this just led to even MORE misunderstandings, and it was sooooo frustrating!!!
CURRENT RANKING OF JB's ALPHA-HOLE HEROES (as of December 2022)
December 14, 2024
It was ok, but I wouldn't want to re-read.
The hero wasn't the worst, but he wasn't great either. I just wasn't a fan of how he kept being hot and cold with heroine, then she just ignored when he was cold to her because then he was seducing her and she loved him. Also his reasons for revenge against heroine felt very weak, I'm not a fan of wanting revenge against a person for what their parents did.
Heroine had lots going for her, she could support herself and she was admirable in that was a rock climber and she volunteered to rescue people. I get it's a story and needs to be drama and conflict, but I wish there was more of her being how she was in the last couple chapters, knowing she deserves better and him realizing he messed up.
As for if they would have ended up together if she wasn't pregnant, I'm not sure. He left her and after a week quit talking her calls for 4 weeks and didn't call her back, he only come back to her because she told his housekeeper she was pregnant. There was not much insight of his weeks away so it's unclear how hard it was for him to stay away. P.
The hero wasn't the worst, but he wasn't great either. I just wasn't a fan of how he kept being hot and cold with heroine, then she just ignored when he was cold to her because then he was seducing her and she loved him. Also his reasons for revenge against heroine felt very weak, I'm not a fan of wanting revenge against a person for what their parents did.
Heroine had lots going for her, she could support herself and she was admirable in that was a rock climber and she volunteered to rescue people. I get it's a story and needs to be drama and conflict, but I wish there was more of her being how she was in the last couple chapters, knowing she deserves better and him realizing he messed up.
As for if they would have ended up together if she wasn't pregnant, I'm not sure. He left her and after a week quit talking her calls for 4 weeks and didn't call her back, he only come back to her because she told his housekeeper she was pregnant. There was not much insight of his weeks away so it's unclear how hard it was for him to stay away. P.
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