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The Brunelli Baby Bargain (Mills & Boon Historical Romance)

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This book was one of the best Harlequin novels I've read in a long time. I've read a lot Harlequins in my lifetime and I am hard pressed to remember liking two characters as much as I liked the hero and heroine in this book. I have never bothered to write a review before but I just had to let people know about this gem. If you are looking for a well written romance with a hero that you will adore, then this is the book for you. The hero is strong, sexy and loyal. He's also totally into the heroine. The heroine is witty and spunky and you won't be able to help but root for her. This is the kind of book that will send you searching through the archives checking out previous releases by the author. While I have read plenty of books by this author and liked alot them, I can't recall a novel where she ever gotten things soooo right.

When I read the blurb for The Brunelli Baby Bargain by Kim Lawrence, I was really excited because it sounded interesting. But it just fell short of the mark when I read the actual story. I was disappointed too because it didn't feel like a K. Lawrence book to me. I usually enjoy her books more.

Cesare Brunelli has been blinded in an accident saving a little girl's life (not too much is mentioned about this in the story). He goes to Scotland to get away from things and ends up having a one-night stand with a virgin, the heroine. He thinks that she is the cleaning lady. Samantha immediately leaves the next morning embarrassed about the whole situation.

Samantha is now pregnant so she tracks Cesare down to let him know. His reaction is a marriage demand. Samantha doesn't want to marry Cesare just because she is pregnant. Plus, she has some self-esteem issues about the way she looks (very redundant).(spoiler) When they do marry, surprise, surprise, Cesare gets his sight back, but doesn't tell her until after they are married. Now, Samantha is scared that Cesare will trade her for his ex-fiance. Too much banter/bickering between hero and heroine, and the heroine was very wishy-washy.

I have been loving this author's last couple of books but this one is not in the same league.

I know harlequin Presents are known for their predictability but this book is too much. I was cringing when reading the dialogue between the H and h. It reads like a romance between couple of teenager's.

Why Must the Heroine be always pregnant and the Hero's reaction is always marriage. Boring and insulting to women in the time that we are in to just go along with it.

The way the h handled the ex was very stupid, what kind of a wife asks for a divorce when some bitter ex says she wants your husband.

The ending was too mushy and the epilogue added nothing to the story.

Please Harlequin presents authors challenge yourselves and write a decent romance story with something new.

Couldn't put this book down! Loved both characters and their story! His struggle with this short term disability does not take away from his manliness and she is no shrinking violet. I like the dialog in this book. Not overloaded with the characters thoughts. Highly recommend.

Taken from the Back of the Book
Dark, imposing billionaire Cesare Brunelli lost his sight saving a little girl from a burning car. The only person who treated him without pity was the soft-skinned virgin with whom he spent a passionate night. Now she's expecting his baby!

In my opinion this book is one of Ms Lawrence good works it tell the story of a girl who had too much to deal. She had a terrible experience with a man she thought she loved and then gave herself to a mystery man who she didnt even know. To make matters worst she ends up pregnant, when she goes to tell him she in confronted with the fact that he is blind. Upon telling him that she's expecting his child he demands marriage. Thinking that he's out of his mind she runs away, determined that she can do this on her own.

Cesare is taken by surprise no one has ever spoken to him like Samantha, he is intriged by this, everyone in his life walks on egg shells when they are around him and he just wants someone who puts him in his place every now and then. They treat him like a hero and he resents the fact that they treat him like a hero for saving the little girls life but dont acknowledge the part that the little girls family played.

This is a wonderful story I would deff reccomend it.

Samantha helps her sister-in-law out during a flu epidemic by cleaning guest rooms at the estate her SIL and brother own and manage. In doing so she comes across guest Cesare. He is recently blind and full of self-pity. She is the first person to talk to him like he's a person, not a blind person, which Cesare appreciates. She is also the first, and only, woman he has been interested in since he became blind. There are unable to stop the mutual attraction and they have sex. She leaves the next morning before he wakes up. Neither knows the other's name (even though Cesare tried to find out) until Sam runs across an article on Cesare. She confronts him to tell him she is pregnant. At which point he proposes. Cesare is a millionaire and determined to get his way.

Samantha has a confidence issue because she believes that if Cesare could see, he wouldn't be interested in her as she is not "his type".

Before I read this book I read the reviews on here, and despite some negative ones, I read the book anyway. I'm very glad I did because it is a great book.

I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was well written, exciting, sexy, romantic. I wanted to know what happened next. I was not disappointed.

I would give this book 4.5 stars, but can't do that so I rounded to five. Still a great read and I highly recommend!

Dark, imposing billionaire Cesare Brunelli lost his sight saving a little girl from a burning car. The only person who treated him without pity was the soft-skinned virgin with whom he spent a passionate night. Now she's expecting his baby!
Samantha gets the one reaction she didn't expect--a marriage demand! But when Cesare suddenly regains his sight, Sam's sure he's going to trade her--his diminutive, fiery-haired bride--for one of the tall, slim blondes he used to date....
Kim Lawrence has written a very intense and incredible contemporary romance with The Brunelli Baby Bargain. It all begins in a very bizarre way when Cesare Brunelli has decided to heal his wounds in a castle because he's now blind because he saved a child in a car accident. The castle where he's staying is owned by Samantha's brother and wife and they're in need of someone to help with housekeeping so Samantha agrees to assist. There is absolutely now way to describe the encounter between Samantha and Cesare, it's bizarre for both of them. However, one realizes they both have a need for whatever reasons and they share a night of passion with consequences........a baby. And now Samantha feels an obligation to tell him about the baby.

He had a need and she was there but what about her? He took her breath away and then she disappeared only to return to tell him her baby news plus the fact that she was a journalist, a profession he hated! Was she after a story? He wasn't sure but he insisted on marriage because he wouldn't have his child grow up without a father as he did. They both had issues she a cheating boyfriend and he went from model to starlit. And then they met and combustion!

This was a very interesting story especially when Cesare regained his sight and chose not to reveal it to Samantha. Even when he was blind he could feel and believe she was lovely. It was also very interesting reading how they met, the baby and the ex-model girlfriend who wants to make trouble for their marriage. But when Cesare gives his heart and love.....beautiful.

This had got to be one of the best Harlequin Presents books I've ever read. I enjoyed everything about it - the romance, the humor (lots of it from start to finish). The hero and heroine could not have been written any better. I loved them both!

I thought that this book would be a great read. Sadly, however, it failed. From the back of the book I thought it would have drama, love, and understanding. What it turned out being was 179 pages of back and forth bickering. The hero, Cesare, was the typical Presents alpha-male no suprise there. The heroine, Samantha, was what made the book a failure. I didn't know whether or not she was a strong independent woman, or a nagging shrew. There was a part in the book where Samantha tells Cesare's ex that she was not going to give up without a fight, and then turn the next page, and she is ready for a divorce. The storyline was pretty much nonexistent, there were times where I would just skim over pages. The epilogue was nice, but that wasn't enough to save it. I don't read Kim Lawrence a lot, and now I remember why.