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The Spaniard's Inconvenient Wife
The Spaniard's Inconvenient Wife by Kate Walker released on Sep 27, 2005 is available now for purchase.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 2004
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Kate Walker
496 books148 followersI was born in Nottinghamshire, England, but I didn't live there for very long. The family moved to West Yorkshire when I was just eighteen months old and so I have always regarded Yorkshire as my home. I grew up there as the middle child in a family of five—all girls—in a home where books were vitally important and I read anything I could get my hands on.
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
Even before I could write I was making up stories. My mother tells the story of me recounting the tale of the Three Little Raindrops — Drippy, Droppy and Droopy to my two younger sisters when I was four. I can't remember a time when I wasn't scribbling away at something, and I wrote my first 'book' when I was eleven, an adventure story, most of it in secret in lessons at school—particularly maths lessons, which I hated.
But everyone, particularly teachers and my parents, told me that I would never make a living as a writer, and I should work towards a more secure career. So I decided instead that if I couldn't write books, I could at least work with them and so I settled for becoming a librarian. On leaving school, I went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where I studied English and Librarianship for my degree.
More importantly, university was also where I met my husband who was also studying English there. We married and moved back north, eventually settling in Lincolnshire. Here I worked as a children's librarian until I left work when my son was born.
After three years of being a full-time housewife and mother, I was ready for a new challenge, but needed something I could do at home, and so I turned to my old love of writing. My first attempts at novels were written on the kitchen table, often late into the night when my son was asleep or during a few snatched hours when he was out at nursery school.
The first two novels sent off to Harlequin Mills & Boon were rejected, but the third attempt was successful. I can still remember the moment that a letter arrived instead of the rejection slip I had been dreading. I think I must have read it over and over at least a hundred times before the reality of what it said sank in, and for days I kept checking it just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. In 1984, THE CHALK LINE was published just in time to be one of my best Christmas presents ever.
Fitting in hobbies around working and being a wife and mother can be difficult, but I always find time to read. I love all sorts of fiction, especially Romance, obviously. I also enjoy historical novels, detective fiction and long, absorbing biographies about fascinating people and I can spend hours in bookshops just browsing. I enjoy knitting and embroidery, but I rarely get time to do either now that I'm a full-time writer. I also love looking round antique fairs or junk shops, hoping to add to my collection of Victorian embroidery. During my working hours my four cats, all adopted from the RSPCA, usually keep me company in my study, though they have to be dissuaded from sitting on the piles of papers that they are convinced are there just for them.
I love to travel and visit new places, especially places with an interesting history, and I always enjoy visiting old castles or stately homes and imagining how the people who used to live there spent their days.
I'm often asked if I'm a romantic sort of person because I specialise in writing Romances. Well, if being romantic means caring about other people enough to make that extra special effort, then yes, I am. Romance is about making the important people in your life feel valued and letting them know that you care. But I also write about relationships and the difficulties people sometimes have in understanding each other, or expressing affection, or overcoming problems.
Sometimes—when the right words won't come, or an idea hasn't worked out as I'd thought, I wonder why I don't have some regular nine to five job, but when the story's flowing and the characters come alive, I really can't imagine a
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August 13, 2020
Estrella is being pimped out by her father for supposedly impinging the family honor several years earlier.
Es is alleged to have run off with an older married man, causing him to abandon his high society wife and kids and then disgracefully dying in a car accident a week later.
Ramon wants Es's dad's TV station - it will be his very own business that nobody else in his family can touch. Es is miserable in her father's house and because this is HPlandia, getting a job and a flat and living her own life isn't going to happen.
So Es's dad makes a deal, if Ramon will marry Es and redeem her reputation, he can have the TV station. Es is resigned to the situation, at least Ramon is hot and this is the tenth guy her father has propositioned for her.
Ramon isn't inclined to marriage, but Es is good looking and after a purple passion lurve clubbed up night, he decides she was worth getting a little tarnished for.
However, marriage isn't in his plans and Ramon pretty much tells her to kiss off after the night on the golden shores of Transcendent Bliss.
Ramon does accept a dinner invitation from Es's dad and then sees Es proposition number 11 - an old, fat skeevy guy with an impeccable reputation. Es is just too funky to waste on a guy like that, plus she is looking pretty sad too - Es's Daddy Dearest told her she either gets number 11 to marry her or it is homelessness on the streets for her.
Ramon turns the dinner into an engagement announcement and thus our HP MOC marriage is begun. After lots and lots of lurve club and power of tower events, Ramon finally gets around to asking Es about what really happened in her scandalous past.
It turns out that the guy Es eloped with said he was single and actually married her in a bigamous ceremony to get her into bed. Then he died and disaster struck.
It is all okay in Ramon's eyes tho. He loves Es madly and she loves him back and there will be lots of future reality show producer mini H's in their future, for a pretty happy HEA.
Not KW's best, but it was readable and I wouldn't go screaming for the Captain if I ran into it again.
Es is alleged to have run off with an older married man, causing him to abandon his high society wife and kids and then disgracefully dying in a car accident a week later.
Ramon wants Es's dad's TV station - it will be his very own business that nobody else in his family can touch. Es is miserable in her father's house and because this is HPlandia, getting a job and a flat and living her own life isn't going to happen.
So Es's dad makes a deal, if Ramon will marry Es and redeem her reputation, he can have the TV station. Es is resigned to the situation, at least Ramon is hot and this is the tenth guy her father has propositioned for her.
Ramon isn't inclined to marriage, but Es is good looking and after a purple passion lurve clubbed up night, he decides she was worth getting a little tarnished for.
However, marriage isn't in his plans and Ramon pretty much tells her to kiss off after the night on the golden shores of Transcendent Bliss.
Ramon does accept a dinner invitation from Es's dad and then sees Es proposition number 11 - an old, fat skeevy guy with an impeccable reputation. Es is just too funky to waste on a guy like that, plus she is looking pretty sad too - Es's Daddy Dearest told her she either gets number 11 to marry her or it is homelessness on the streets for her.
Ramon turns the dinner into an engagement announcement and thus our HP MOC marriage is begun. After lots and lots of lurve club and power of tower events, Ramon finally gets around to asking Es about what really happened in her scandalous past.
It turns out that the guy Es eloped with said he was single and actually married her in a bigamous ceremony to get her into bed. Then he died and disaster struck.
It is all okay in Ramon's eyes tho. He loves Es madly and she loves him back and there will be lots of future reality show producer mini H's in their future, for a pretty happy HEA.
Not KW's best, but it was readable and I wouldn't go screaming for the Captain if I ran into it again.
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April 22, 2018
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August 23, 2011
Another great story from Ms Walker.
We met Ramon in the Joachin's story. I obviously knew that I would be reading his story so I paid attention to his character and I really liked him from the start.
He is yet another of the Alcolar family who is wary against love and relationships due to his parents infidelity. In order to obtain a company he really wants he has no option other than marry the daughter of the owner who is basically trying to sell her off to any man who will take her as she has a 'scarlet' reputation. To begin with Ramon is resistent and decides he doesn't want the company enough but then he meets Estrella and instantly wants her.
After a few upsets they both finally agree to marry both thinking the other doesn't love them and is only marrying for their own personal reasons. The wedding night ends up in a bit of a pickle but they eventually declare their love for each other the following morning.
What I really liked about the ending of this story is that Ramon shows his vulnerability and is the first to say 'I Love You' and declares that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her without having a clue as to how Estrella feels. She obviously declares her love for him hence the HEA.
I am looking forward to hearing a bit more about their future in the next story.
We met Ramon in the Joachin's story. I obviously knew that I would be reading his story so I paid attention to his character and I really liked him from the start.
He is yet another of the Alcolar family who is wary against love and relationships due to his parents infidelity. In order to obtain a company he really wants he has no option other than marry the daughter of the owner who is basically trying to sell her off to any man who will take her as she has a 'scarlet' reputation. To begin with Ramon is resistent and decides he doesn't want the company enough but then he meets Estrella and instantly wants her.
After a few upsets they both finally agree to marry both thinking the other doesn't love them and is only marrying for their own personal reasons. The wedding night ends up in a bit of a pickle but they eventually declare their love for each other the following morning.
What I really liked about the ending of this story is that Ramon shows his vulnerability and is the first to say 'I Love You' and declares that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her without having a clue as to how Estrella feels. She obviously declares her love for him hence the HEA.
I am looking forward to hearing a bit more about their future in the next story.
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February 1, 2024
I've had this book sitting on my shelf for years and finally decided to read it. And now I know why it sat so long and I remember why Presents was never my favorite Harlequin line. I had a hard time liking either Estella or Ramon and the romance was non-existent. The two of them fought like cats and dogs and while there was lust, all of the sudden they were in love. I didn't enjoy 99% of their interactions and mostly pushed through to see if it could redeem itself... and it didn't. Really not my cup of tea, but I do thank the author for sending me the book all those years ago.
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July 27, 2011To escape her overbearing father, Estrella is willing to marry Ramon so he can gain control of her father's company. With a tattered past, Estrella is desparate to get Ramon to believe in her.
A nice story.
A nice story.
May 10, 2017
Leído el 02/04/2012
May 11, 2018
رواية عاصفة في القلب
من روايات احلام
كعادة روايات احلام تبدأ العلاقه بالكره وتنتهي بالحب
روايه مسلية رغم انها فكره مكرره لكنني احببتها
من روايات احلام
كعادة روايات احلام تبدأ العلاقه بالكره وتنتهي بالحب
روايه مسلية رغم انها فكره مكرره لكنني احببتها
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June 29, 2013عاصفة في القلب
كان رامون داريو يسعى للحصول على شركة مدرانو بكل قواه، لكن شرطاً غريباً اعترض طريقه، عليه الارتباط باستريلا مدرانو السيئة السمعة...
لم يتخيل رامون أنه سيتعرض يوماً لمثل هذا الموقف: إلا الزواج من تلك المرأة: مستحيل!!
لكن استريلا لم تكن كما يتصور. فسحرها وجمال عينيها لم يفارقا خياله للحظة... وبدأ يفكر... لما لا؟ فزواج المصلحة وزواج الرغبة قد يجتمعان ويحققان صفقة رابحة في النهاية.
December 19, 2011
This was pretty decent. It didn't 100% grab me all the time, but it had some good angst, and yet was done in a more modern style that made it more believable as a story.
October 8, 2014
Enjoyed this one.
December 12, 2019
Nothing awful, but the instalust/love thing was way too fast and unreal for me. It was a quick read though
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