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Sleeping with a Stranger
When passion is stronger than pride...
Helen Shaw's relaxing vacation on the stunning island of Santos is ruined when she steps off the ferry and sees Greek tycoon Milos Stephanides. Years before, they had a scorching affair, until, discovering Milos had been untruthful, Helen left him.
Now Helen has a secret that she is desperate to keep from Milos. She tries to keep her distance, but the powerful attraction between them continues to steadily build under the heat of the Greek sun.
Helen Shaw's relaxing vacation on the stunning island of Santos is ruined when she steps off the ferry and sees Greek tycoon Milos Stephanides. Years before, they had a scorching affair, until, discovering Milos had been untruthful, Helen left him.
Now Helen has a secret that she is desperate to keep from Milos. She tries to keep her distance, but the powerful attraction between them continues to steadily build under the heat of the Greek sun.
184 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 2005
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About the author
Anne Mather
798 books353 followersAnne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
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January 8, 2018
DNF at chapter 1 hahaha...
I was intrigued about the summary. But then I met the heroine's daughter and "okay bye". Not in the mood to deal with a rude, rebellious teenager that she could devour her mother (heroine) in a second. I felt it would be too much for me hahaha...
So, I'll just skip this one and read the comments section and try to find some review who would summarize the whole story. Hehe!
I was intrigued about the summary. But then I met the heroine's daughter and "okay bye". Not in the mood to deal with a rude, rebellious teenager that she could devour her mother (heroine) in a second. I felt it would be too much for me hahaha...
So, I'll just skip this one and read the comments section and try to find some review who would summarize the whole story. Hehe!
January 11, 2018
This story had the perfect setting for a heart breaking love saga filled with desperate longings and a life time of waiting.
One time lovers who find an instant karmic connection get separated by quirks of fate. Only to face each other under different circumstances a decade later.
The 17 year old young dreamy girl is now a world weary mother of a teenager. The guy is still looking for that elusive love of his life.
The author chooses to just glide over the surface of all these emotional circumstances. Leaving the leads looking like shallow people only interested in having a good time with each other.
A promising premise, a wasted opportunity.
The result is just passable fare.
3 stars.
One time lovers who find an instant karmic connection get separated by quirks of fate. Only to face each other under different circumstances a decade later.
The 17 year old young dreamy girl is now a world weary mother of a teenager. The guy is still looking for that elusive love of his life.
The author chooses to just glide over the surface of all these emotional circumstances. Leaving the leads looking like shallow people only interested in having a good time with each other.
A promising premise, a wasted opportunity.
The result is just passable fare.
3 stars.
December 20, 2024
I always like to begin at the beginning. Even if it’s disclosed by author mid book.
So basically the heroine, Helen, is around seventeen and she lives with her mother who works part time in a supermarket. Helen goes to school/college and is in sixth form. Her father who was a wine importer began an affair with a Greek woman. He subsequently divorced Helen’s mother and moved to Greece where he married the lover and took over her vineyard.
Helen’s mother hates the ex husband and their lives are hard and naturally Helen is also cut up with her father.
So the father in a fit of guilt asks a neighbour who is going to England to look up his daughter and try and build bridges. The young man is the father’s friend . (How that came about I don’t know. He has healthy active parents who are more of the heroine’s father’s age and five siblings. Btw. But heroine’s father befriends him. )
The scoundrel father could have built bridges himself. Phoned. Written. Travelled to England. No. He asks the son of his neighbour, a 23 year old young man, Milo, to go and check if his daughter can forgive him.
So Milo dutifully reaches Helen’s mother’s house. He’s having high tea. With the mother. Helen comes back from school. She’s in a jeans and T shirt but she has the kind of bloom only a sixteen year old English girl has. She’s beautiful.
Milo can’t take his eyes off her. He forgets he’s going through a divorce with his arranged marriage rich wife. He’s rich too as we find out. He owns a shipping line because all Greek heroes own shipping lines.
So he’s smitten. He hovers around the house after Helen’s mother leaves for work. He tells himself he wants to talk to Helen for her father. But we all know it’s something else. He wants to catch a glimpse of Helen. Talk to her. Etc etc. He’s obsessed.
Anyway. Helen refuses to let him into her house.
He calls her to have a drink with him at the bar in his hotel. He assumes she is eighteen.
She goes there that night. They talk.
I wonder what they talked about.
The restaurant is full and they don’t have a reservation so after drinks the maitre d offers to send food to Milo’s suite. He refuses but Helen accepts quickly.
They are so into each other. Gazing into each other’s eyes and hero is offering her tasty morsels from his plate. Later hero touches her (shoulder) but he also wants to drop her home. She has no such conflicts. She is very keen to sleep with him and makes no bones about it. He makes a token half hearted resistance. But they do sleep together.
Later that night hero’s wife (soon to be ex) and also called Eleni rings his room and says some things to heroine which make her run away. She refuses to meet hero.
He perhaps does not understand the depth of his own feelings for her.
He leaves.
Heroine finds she’s pregnant. Believes hero is married. She’s seventeen. Terrified.
Out of fear she marries her good for nothing boyfriend who is subsequently quite cruel to her daughter as she grows up. Daughter starts acting out. The husband blames heroine. He also tells the child I’m not your father. The child is uncontrollably rebellious.
The husband dies.
Now steps in heroine’s father. Once again. He invites her over to Greece. With her child.
The hero and heroine meet again. He is obsessed with her immediately all over again. He is 37. Still not married. He recognises that the girl is his daughter when he sees her with his younger sister. Same features.
Some more stuff happens to carry forward plot. Hero attends climate summit. Heroine’s mother has accident so heroine leaves.
Hero follows her to England on his private jet. They sort out their differences. They decide to grab this second chance they have been offered.
They were always into each other yet they somehow missed the chance to be together.
Alls well that ends well.
At the ending the hero has brought his mother in law to his holiday villa. (She broke her arm in an accident).
He has mended bridges with his daughter. He is in love with our heroine.
I had been judgemental when I read it last time several years ago. Did not like the book that much.
Now I can say it was a satisfactory enough read. I suspended judgement. It is any day better than anything which is written today in the name of romance.
Definitely four stars.
I have one grudge. The heroine’s father had a stepson. He is always mentioned. But we don’t see him. No wait. He made a guest appearance at a party the father gives.
So.
So basically the heroine, Helen, is around seventeen and she lives with her mother who works part time in a supermarket. Helen goes to school/college and is in sixth form. Her father who was a wine importer began an affair with a Greek woman. He subsequently divorced Helen’s mother and moved to Greece where he married the lover and took over her vineyard.
Helen’s mother hates the ex husband and their lives are hard and naturally Helen is also cut up with her father.
So the father in a fit of guilt asks a neighbour who is going to England to look up his daughter and try and build bridges. The young man is the father’s friend . (How that came about I don’t know. He has healthy active parents who are more of the heroine’s father’s age and five siblings. Btw. But heroine’s father befriends him. )
The scoundrel father could have built bridges himself. Phoned. Written. Travelled to England. No. He asks the son of his neighbour, a 23 year old young man, Milo, to go and check if his daughter can forgive him.
So Milo dutifully reaches Helen’s mother’s house. He’s having high tea. With the mother. Helen comes back from school. She’s in a jeans and T shirt but she has the kind of bloom only a sixteen year old English girl has. She’s beautiful.
Milo can’t take his eyes off her. He forgets he’s going through a divorce with his arranged marriage rich wife. He’s rich too as we find out. He owns a shipping line because all Greek heroes own shipping lines.
So he’s smitten. He hovers around the house after Helen’s mother leaves for work. He tells himself he wants to talk to Helen for her father. But we all know it’s something else. He wants to catch a glimpse of Helen. Talk to her. Etc etc. He’s obsessed.
Anyway. Helen refuses to let him into her house.
He calls her to have a drink with him at the bar in his hotel. He assumes she is eighteen.
She goes there that night. They talk.
I wonder what they talked about.
The restaurant is full and they don’t have a reservation so after drinks the maitre d offers to send food to Milo’s suite. He refuses but Helen accepts quickly.
They are so into each other. Gazing into each other’s eyes and hero is offering her tasty morsels from his plate. Later hero touches her (shoulder) but he also wants to drop her home. She has no such conflicts. She is very keen to sleep with him and makes no bones about it. He makes a token half hearted resistance. But they do sleep together.
Later that night hero’s wife (soon to be ex) and also called Eleni rings his room and says some things to heroine which make her run away. She refuses to meet hero.
He perhaps does not understand the depth of his own feelings for her.
He leaves.
Heroine finds she’s pregnant. Believes hero is married. She’s seventeen. Terrified.
Out of fear she marries her good for nothing boyfriend who is subsequently quite cruel to her daughter as she grows up. Daughter starts acting out. The husband blames heroine. He also tells the child I’m not your father. The child is uncontrollably rebellious.
The husband dies.
Now steps in heroine’s father. Once again. He invites her over to Greece. With her child.
The hero and heroine meet again. He is obsessed with her immediately all over again. He is 37. Still not married. He recognises that the girl is his daughter when he sees her with his younger sister. Same features.
Some more stuff happens to carry forward plot. Hero attends climate summit. Heroine’s mother has accident so heroine leaves.
Hero follows her to England on his private jet. They sort out their differences. They decide to grab this second chance they have been offered.
They were always into each other yet they somehow missed the chance to be together.
Alls well that ends well.
At the ending the hero has brought his mother in law to his holiday villa. (She broke her arm in an accident).
He has mended bridges with his daughter. He is in love with our heroine.
I had been judgemental when I read it last time several years ago. Did not like the book that much.
Now I can say it was a satisfactory enough read. I suspended judgement. It is any day better than anything which is written today in the name of romance.
Definitely four stars.
I have one grudge. The heroine’s father had a stepson. He is always mentioned. But we don’t see him. No wait. He made a guest appearance at a party the father gives.
So.
August 14, 2012
The hero and heroine had a brief fling when the heroine was seventeen, which resulted in a pregnancy. Before fleeing the hero,the heroine learned that he was a married man, or so she believed. When the heroine returned to England, she married her boyfriend after telling him about being pregnant. When her husband died, she returned to Greece with her daughter and found the hero again. Now the hero knows the truth about the heroines daughter, he knows that he is her father and he won't let the heroine or his daughter go anywhere.
Lots of drama, lies and sizzling secrets in this novel. I felt no emotional connection to the novel though, unfortunately.
Lots of drama, lies and sizzling secrets in this novel. I felt no emotional connection to the novel though, unfortunately.
June 26, 2024
In true older books format...hero, Milos, goes to see Helen to give her a message from her father. They end up in bed. She was only 17, not much older. She finds out he is married and leaves. Now almost 14 years later she goes to see her father and meets Milos. She also has a daughter and is now a widow. Will the secrets of the past become clear? This is a typical 90's type of story where the modern times are not used. So it is a little off in some types of telling. I enjoy reading Anne Mather's stories and will look for more by her at a later date.
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July 14, 2014deal properly with your past before it comes back to bit you in the @**!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 16, 2022
love will out eventually
Super story and very intriguing. I loved Milos and his steadfast belief in his passion for Helen even if it was hard for him to convince her. Melissa was a breath of fresh air which together with the other characters made for an exceptional story of love.
Super story and very intriguing. I loved Milos and his steadfast belief in his passion for Helen even if it was hard for him to convince her. Melissa was a breath of fresh air which together with the other characters made for an exceptional story of love.
January 15, 2022
Enjoyed reading this book.
September 2, 2024
Confessa: Milos é muito bommm. Adorei!!!
February 7, 2017
17 year old Helen falls for her father's friend. They spend one night together and she learns that he is married. She becomes pregnant and marries someone else.
14 years later she's visiting her father in Greece and is met by Milos, her daughter's father. He has no idea that they created a child together, and she wants to keep it that way.
A decent story but I had a hard time finding a real connection between the H and h. They just seemed to go through the motions. It took a lot of work for me to keep my concentration on the book. It was a great premise, I just wish there was more substance between the h & H.
14 years later she's visiting her father in Greece and is met by Milos, her daughter's father. He has no idea that they created a child together, and she wants to keep it that way.
A decent story but I had a hard time finding a real connection between the H and h. They just seemed to go through the motions. It took a lot of work for me to keep my concentration on the book. It was a great premise, I just wish there was more substance between the h & H.
September 2, 2015
Fun. I read it because I am going to read it in Spanish. Normally, Harlequin Romance novels are not my thing!
September 25, 2016
Fue un ejercicio para aprender Espanol. Normalmente, no prefiero Harlequin pero en este caso, fue aceptable.
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