Customer Reviews

The Secret Baby Revenge (Harlequin Presents)

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What is it with the romance cliché of women always having children and hiding then hiding them from the father? Unless the father will in some way harm the child then they have a right to know. That is such a huge irritation for me when reading romance novels. The other reasons this book only received three stars was because of the quick ending, there was an accident and suddenly they're running to the alter. The daughter was absolutely irresistibly cute and refreshing. I feel the heroine in this story is a liar and she is hard to like. This is unusual, in most books it's the hero's arrogance that is a turn off but in this book the hero is charming and wonderful.

Emma Darcy has written some enjoyable books but this is not one of them. The story is corny and deserves two and a half stars perhaps. Nicole and Quin were lovers living together. However, Nicole was dissatisfied that Quin shut her out of his world --- never divulging anything about his family and personal history. She thought he treated her just as a sex slave. When she discovered she was pregnant, she left and went to another country. Now after five years, she was back in Sydney and they met again in a night club. Quin still felt powerfully drawn to her and she, in a whim, offered to trade her body for twenty-six nights in return for a big sum of money to save her and her mother from financial ruin. So the deal was struck . But actually Quin wanted more than sex from her. He genuinely cared for her and loved her but it was difficult to break down her defenses as she all the time blamed him for their split even after Quin disclosed his secret which made a valid reason for his behaviour. At that time, Quin was working his head off to pay back the money his Father defrauded of their friends and relatives. His mind was totally focussed on ridding his family of the stigma of his father's crimes and winning back respectability for his mother and him in Argentina. However, Nicole was not ready to forgive. Then, accidentally, he discovered that they had a little girl Zoe whom Nicole gave birth to after she went away. This made him more determinded than ever to wed Nicole so that they had a whole family. As the story progresses, I feel more and more resentment towards the mean- mindedness of Nicole. One feels she sort of uses the daughter to hold the man ransom and plays hard-to-get and refuses to understand and compromise. Actually,it was as much her fault as his that they broke up. If she had told Quin about the pregnancy, he would have done the honorable thing. But she imagined all his flaws to convince herself to up and leave. This kind of stupidity is so often repeated in romances that it has become cliched and over-worn. And the ending is just as predictable.When there was a car accident and Quin was in a a coma, she finally relented and there was a big wedding.

This isn't the best book by a long shot, and it's not the worst by a long shot. It is just OK.
Nicole and Quin were a couple living together. Nicole gets tired of being shut out of his life. She felt that all their passion was in the bedroom. She gets pregnant and doesn't tell him just moves out and moves to another country. Years later they run into eachother at a dance club. He is big money now so she offers herself for 26 nights of sex for money to help her and her moms business. I thought that part was a little tacky. It really made her less appealing as a character for me. Luckily Quin wanted more than sex so their nights turn out to be dates.
Then he happens by her house one night and discovers his daughter.
This makes him more than determined to be apart of Nicole and his daughters life. But Nicole is still putting up walls. It got a little old.
Quin was loveable, Nicole comes across as a using somewhat heartless person. It could of been a way better story of the heroine wasn't so hard and unbending.

back cover: International affairs, seduction and passion guaranteed
The price of passion...
Joaquin Luis Sola (I love you!) is true to his Argentinian heritage: proud and passionate, he has rebuilt his family`s fortunes from scratch. It rankles with him that beautiful Nicole Ashton left him five years ago, and still he yearns to possess her.
Now an opportunity has come for Quin to settle this old score: Nicole is willing to offer herself to him once more, for twenty-six nights of lovemaking, if he will pay her debts. Quin is already wealthy through making smart investments, and this proposition promises that he will see a most satisfying return...
*Ruthless : ) Men who can`t be tamed...or so they think!*

opinion: best in this book is definitely Joaquin Luis Sola alias Quin *ups*