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Xander Pascalis can buy anything...including a wife! At millions of dollars, Helen is lavishly expensive. But Xander thinks he knows a good deal when he sees one....
However, when Helen refuses to share his bed, Xander is forced to take his headstrong wife to his private Greek island to tame her into keeping her marriage vows. He wants value for money: she will give him the wedding night that, so far, she's denied him....
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A book worth reading,
This review is from: The Purchased Wife (Harlequin Presents, No. 2358) (Mass Market Paperback)
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He bought her for cash-his payback is passion! Xander Pascalis can buy anything...including a wife! At millions of dollars, Helen is lavishly expensive. But Xander thinks he knows a good deal when he sees one... However, when Helen refuses to share his bed, Xander is forced to take his headstrong wife to his private Greek island to tame her into keeping her marriage vows. He wants value for money: she will give him the wedding night that, so far, she's denied him... Comments: Both the heroine and hero possessed strong personalities throughout the entire book, but not to the point that it became overly annoying. Xander is a true alpha male who struggled with showing Helen how much he truly loved her and gaining her trust. He also struggled with forgiving past mistakes done to him by others. What made this book so great was that the reader got an inside view of what the hero was thinking throughout the book (not just the heroine's point of view) and the author displayed Xander's flaws and insecurities. Helen is no wimpy wife and puts up a fight against Xander and makes him prove his love to her. I don't want to give the story away, but this book is a definite keeper.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Miscommunication,
By msbooklady "msbooklady" (Biloxi, MS) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Purchased Wife (Harlequin Presents, No. 2358) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is a good example of why communication is important in a relationship. Xander is such a jerk sometimes, that it keeps me from giving this story a 5 star rating. He is such a domineering control freak, even when he breaks and falls in love you find it hard to forgive. That's the downside, but the upside is you can feel the heat between these two burning up the pages. when Helen is injured in a car accident trying to leave her husband Xander, he whisks her away to a secluded island to heal where she is trapped and at his mercy. On their wedding day a year ago, Helen sees a picture of him with his reported mistress taken days before. When she confronts him, he never denies it and basically tells her she is his property and he doesn't care about her feelings. Well, she doesn't allow him to have his wedding night and he deposits her under strict security at his villa and that is where the story starts. All of this couple's problems could have been prevented with a little communication.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A little disappointing, but otherwise a good read,
By Sara M (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Purchased Wife (Harlequin Presents, No. 2358) (Mass Market Paperback)
Michelle Reid seldom disappoints, but this book has been so hyped that I expected better - like Price of a Bride maybe (her very best ever). It seemed to me that the hero treats the heroine badly, even though it really isn't her fault that they're married, as they only married so he could financially bail out her father. When she discovers this she won't sleep with the hero. It's not her fault throughout, and yet the hero goes on blaming her, and says he's been 'too patient' with her - he is, of course, sulking because he thinks she's about to run off with another man, even though he's done nothing to reasure her tha he is not having an affair, though the evidence is there (he isn't, and he could have told her that!). So becasue of his attitude to her I just never warmed to the hero. However, he definitely has his problems, notably his horrible parents. He has to look after his dead father's mistress, who is stupid rather than bad for having had an affair with a married man, and he is the only one who cares about her child. His father rejected the child as the price of getting his own wife back. Both are disgraceful for ignoring a baby's needs. He does become more sympathetic in the end, but he never persuaded me he was a decent guy, worthy of the heroine.
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