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A Fiery Baptism

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This is one of Lynne Graham's best. Sarah and Rafael get seperated because of interference from Sarah's parents and meet almost 5 years later at a party. Rafael is a Spanish painter and is surprised to find out that Sarah had twins. Of course Rafeal wants their twins and Sarah to come live with him in Spain and the fun begins. (This is my first review for Amazon. It drives me crazy when there is no blurb or review so I had to share how great this Lynne Graham is.)

"Why had Rafael Alejandro come back?

In the five years since their marriage ended, Sarah had devoted herself to her beloved twins. She'd never expected Rafael to walk back into her life, nor had she realized he'd been unaware of the twin's existence.

Theirs had been a whirlwind courtship. Rafael loved with passion; he created hauntingly beautiful works of art with passion; and Sarah realized now on a tide of pain and regret, he hated with that same emotional intensity.

Rafael hadn't changed - he was still a determined, dangerous man. But with the wounds of the past unhealed within her, Sarah wasn't going to get burned again!
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First of all, I don't know where in the book the previous rewiewer started reading, but the hero doesn't declare his love from the very beginning. And the heroine not being a doormat? Have we read the same book?

This book is almost like two. The first part is the h/h meeting again after five years where we find out just how much strain and stress the young heroine had been under during the marriage - between her overbearing and crazy parent and her overbearing and crazy husband. I mean, for g's sake, her father puts her in a mental institution while she's pregnant to split the h/h up! In any circumstance, though, I don't think it would have been expecting too much to hope that the hero actually made more of an effort to find the heroine when she 'fell of the face of the earth' even if he thought that she had had an abortion~

Then we are treated to the hero's double standard of being disdainful of the heroine's sudden sexual drive because of what he believes was her experience with other men during their separation, when he admits to having had other sexual encounters himself but simply dismisses those as having happened when he was unbearably depressed! Why did he never ask why she had been frigid during their marriage? Talk about insensitive!

The second part of the book is like your typical HP romance - unresolved distrust and family secrets come poring out until the story ends on a predictably abrupt note with the h/h declaring their love for each other. It is exquisitely maddening and not in a good way!

The only part of this book that was remotely interesting was the restaurant scene where the heroine gets drunk and speaks honestly and casually. Of course, that is also dampened a bit by the fact that until she says these things out loud, the hero nevers seems to have the things through~

This is the first Lynne Graham book where the hero has proclaimed love for the heroine from the get go,
and the heroine is not a dormat either, I hope she writes more like this book. I have read it several times, truly a keeper.