By paying the subscription, I accept the payment terms and its automatic renewal specified in offer. Pay Cancel. About the book. Book description. Detailed info. The De Santis Marriage — read a free preview online. Leave comments and reviews, vote for your favorite. Post a review. What do you think about the book? Rate the book. But there's one condition Luc fails to mention--as his wife, Lizzy must produce an heir!
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Luc is an amazing hero and the story plot was very fun and exciting. It made vulnerable tears sting the backs of her eyes and her throat. The next thing Lizzy became aware of was stepping out of the church into brilliant sunlight and a imchelle of sound.
The air sounded choked as it left her lungs. So, I started to write, the desantis marriage by michelle reid hand reir first, scribbling the desantis marriage by michelle reid stories in notebooks which never saw the light of day. He set her up to be the bad guy but he did feel guilty. Five minutes later she walked down the stairs to find Nina waiting for her. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details.
More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The De Santis Marriage. Nov 06, Alex is The Romance Fox rated it liked it Shelves: harlequin-mills-boon , romance , authors-p-z. We all know that underneath all that drabness is a raving beauty, otherwise why would the hero WANT her!!!! So, a few days before the wedding of the century between Bianca and Luc What a catastrophe!!! What will the world think…. He has to act quickly and fast………. After all they almost kissed on the balcony at the pre-wedding party!!!!
And he tells her exactly what her role will be. He offered a shrug. I want - cubs. How could he be so horrid!!! She has to fight back!! Is she serious???? Really, did he just say that???? I kid you not!!! You have to love the interaction between these two……….. Wow, is this woman for real???? Of course Luc is never lost for words…..
This man knows what he wants….. Now, this is a man who is totally in tune with himself!!!!!!!!!!!! And boy, does Lizzy discover those skills within a short time….
So, Luc is busy playing with her breasts and what does Lizzy think and feel????? Of course, Luc being the super lover….. He just used his long fingers to shape the quivering am I mistaken or is there a lot of quivering going on here!!!
A piercing hot sting struck from the centre of her nipple and shot all the way down to her thighs, bending her body like a wand. Oh my…. You guessed right!!! By the time Luc flies her on his private jet No, he does not have a dark past or secret…well his grandfather was a bit of a Romeo…but nothing too heavy and awful….
In fact I was warming up to him pretty fast but hey not old Lizzy. She continued with her complaints and threats and accusations about how awful and horrid Luc was!!! Let me just say that ……. And him having to grovel in the end to get her back!!!!!!!!! Well, I truly hope that their HEA is everlasting.
After all, Lizzy does tell him at the end…. So, finally, what else can I say….. View all 9 comments. Nov 28, StMargarets rated it really liked it Shelves: forced-marriage , print-copy , hero-behaving-badly , 4-stars , vintage , harlequin-presents , hp-reader-s-challenge , author-michelle-reid. Hero first meets the heroine at one of the pre-wedding parties for his marriage to her best friend.
Heroine is attracted but knows he's much too wealthy and experienced for her. Her best friend seems indifferent to the hero, showing up late and generally being a diva. So it's no real surprise to the heroine when her best friend jilts the hero two weeks before the wedding and runs off with the heroine's brother who just embezzled 5 million from their father's ailing business.
What does surprise Hero first meets the heroine at one of the pre-wedding parties for his marriage to her best friend. What does surprise the heroine is that the hero blackmails her into marriage. It's a white wedding with all the trimmings and a honeymoon at a family home in the Caribbean. An astute reader will begin to guess the hero feels something more than just lust for the heroine - and he doesn't necessarily like this new feeling. The heroine remarks on his cynicism and it seems that it is his defense mechanism whenever the heroine throws him for a loop.
The heroine throws him for a loop by her honesty and her insecurity and her passion. For once, I didn't skim the sex scenes - they really did illuminate their growing relationship. The best friend shows up at the end for the requisite black moment. And she claims she's pregnant with the hero's baby which turns out to be a lie. I don't know if I was supposed to feel bad for the best friend - but after her antics at the end of the story, I'm glad the hero escaped her.
They would have brought out the worst in each other. I liked that the heroine was naive, but honest about her feelings. I liked that the hero was complicated and selfish and completely baffled by the heroine at times.
They will both do each other good over time. He'll help her with the self-esteem issues her father thrust on her and she'll make him human. View all 8 comments. Jan 15, Vintage rated it it was ok Shelves: alpha-romero-h , rotten-relatives , bad-best-friend , big-fat-jerk , evil-ow , can-t-say-i-wasn-t-warned , martyrdom , anachronistic , magic-penis , bamboozled-hero.
There are plenty of psychotic HP's out there, but this was more schizophrenic. Did the fiancee OW leave or was she kicked out? Why did Michelle Reid have to destroy a ten-plus year long best friend relationship?
That is the real tragedy in this book. The heroine, who really is not much of a heroine as she licks her best friend's fiancee's throat at their engagement party , lusts after the hero. At least I think she does, she's such an out of touch nincompoop at the beginning of the book, who knows There are plenty of psychotic HP's out there, but this was more schizophrenic. At least I think she does, she's such an out of touch nincompoop at the beginning of the book, who knows.
As for the hero, who is in an engagement because it's right dynastically, falls for the heroine then manipulates a sordid and convoluted escape plan where he has his fiancee run off with the h's brother.
Then he sets up the heroine to marry him to cover the debt her stupid brother created. The H also sets her up to be the bad guy with all of society and her own father. Why not let his ex-fiancee take the fall? He could have paid the chick who sounded like trouble from the gitgo. For that matter, wouldn't it just have been easier to have the fiancee simply break off the engagement?
Or he could have acted the cad and done it himself. Why am I applying reason to an HP anyway? View all 10 comments. Nov 14, AvidReader rated it really liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
I loved the story. But I had some problems with the book especially in last chapter. And I think Mattew and Bianca got away easily. For such strong main character Luc never defended Lizzy not that she needed it.
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