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The Sicilian's Defiant Mistress (Harlequin Presents) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jane Porter (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)


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Harlequin Presents February 1, 2006

Cass can't continue with a relationship that involves just her body when her heart is breaking.... But the deal she made with Sicilian tycoon Maximos Borsellino was for sex--and when that fails to be enough for Cass, Maximos ends the affair. Cass is completely destroyed. Worse, she discovers she's pregnant....

But an explosive reunion is on the cards in Jane Porter's dark, passionate and utterly gripping story.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.


Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Harlequin (February 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0373125208
  • ISBN-13: 978-0373125203
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,603,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Award winning novelist, Jane Porter made a smashing debut on the chick lit scene with her single title release, The Frog Prince (Warner, May 2005). With a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from UCLA, and a Master of Arts in Writing from University of San Francisco, Porter has had incredible success as writer of contemporary romance. A two-time Rita finalist, the Romance Writers of America awarded Porter the Golden Heart in Long Contemporary Fiction category in 1998.


 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Take a Sensational Ride on a Roller Coaster, March 10, 2006
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Marilyn Shoemaker (Seattle, Washington) - See all my reviews
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While reading The Sicilian's Defiant Mistress, I felt I was on an emotional roller coaster. It's passionate, sensitive, and emotional; it's Jane Porter, at her best! This book was exceptional because it shared and described emotions women feel and men or some men never admit. Passion, lust, attraction, hurt, anger, betrayal and secrets. However, the emotional ride reading The Sicilian's Defiant Mistress was well worth it!

Max and Cass are dynamite, dynamic, sensual, volatile, passionate, and explosive is all I can say. I read this in one sitting and when finished, I felt emotionally drained yet privileged to have read such a wonderful and incredible story.

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Cass can't continue with a relationship that involves just her body when her heart is breaking.... But the deal she made with Sicilian tycoon Maximos Borsellino was for sex - and when that fails to be enough for Cass, Maximos ends the affair. Cass is completely destroyed. Worse, she discovers she's pregnant
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars too many secrets, June 17, 2010
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D.Daraseng (Sacramento, Ca) - See all my reviews
Cass was Maximos mistress for several years when she decides she wanted more. It was not the plan so they part ways. Six month later she shows up to a wedding with Maximos slimy enemy. My first take of Cass was that she is pathetic and a lunatic to show up just for closure. Maximos had his own secrets too that just keeps unraveling. The dialoge was repetitive in regards to how she should of expect more from him and how she was leaving when she never does..I am partial to books where the heroine has a backbone. At the end the Maximos cries to keep Cass that made it better considering she was the one pleading and crying throughout the book...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book with a rushed ending., February 22, 2009
This review is from: The Sicilian's Defiant Mistress (Harlequin Presents) (Mass Market Paperback)
For nearly three years Cassandra had been the weekend fling girl for Maximos, until the night she'd dared to ask for more by confessing she loved him. He'd walked out and never come back.

Six months later she shows up with his worst enemy at his sister's wedding in order to find closure for herself. At this point her life is a mess, she couldn't get over him and to make matters worse she'd found out she was pregnant not long after he'd abandoned her, only to find out that the baby was abnormal without a hope of surviving. She'd wound up miscarrying and almost lost her own life as well.

The story itself follows Cass while she tries to figure out her life and discovers some home truths about herself. It's very up and down because she's not an emotionally stable person, but the author paints the picture so well that you feel for her character and just want her to have a happy ending.

The problem is Maximos. The only pain it seems that he's really felt is the fact that his wife had been tricked by his business partner into trying to kill him and the baby that she carried wasn't his..probably.

There was no part of Cassandra's life that he didn't manage to destroy, love, children and her job, not out of revenge, not for any reason than the fact that he didn't know or care enough about her to realise how much he was destroying her.

Whenever she came to the point where she was through, where she realised that it was over and was going to leave and put her life back together, he dragged her back to him, only to completely undermine her again.

When we finally come to the end of the book, his explanation for why he was so cruel to her during their almost three year relationship was so out of the ballpark unemotional that it's hard to believe that he really cared.

I was very impressed with Jane Porter because of the simple fact that I was so invested in the character of Cassandra that I was happy that she managed to get a happy ending, despite the fact that I wished Maximos could have been a more sympathetic character. Because of the size of a harlequin presents book, I'd also like to think that some of the plot holes for the character of Maximos are entirely the fault of editing.

If, at some time during the book, Maximos had been shown to understand the torment that Cassandra had gone through, or the horrible things he'd done to her, and possibly felt bad or guilty, this book would have become an instant five stars. Instead the book ended with myself feeling that he'd selfishly taken whatever he wanted and he never really 'got' the fact that he hurt other people along the way.
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