Author: Annie West
Published: October 2022
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Harlequin Presents, Mills & Boon Modern, Enemies-to-Lovers
Blurb:
Reawakening unresolved passion complicates everything in USA TODAY bestselling author Annie West’s 50th book for Harlequin!
She ran from their wedding...
Now the Italian has found her!
After years of searching, Cesare Brunetti finds his wife, Ida, cleaning homes to make ends meet. The Cinderella heiress fled mere hours after their vows, even though he was the one blackmailed into the convenient union!
Cesare intends to finalize their divorce. Yet he hadn’t counted on discovering Ida’s total innocence in their marriage sham. Or on the attraction that rises swift and hot between them beneath the Tuscan sun... before they say goodbye for good, dare they indulge in the wedding night they never had?
My Review:
This book has the tropes and characters
I’m particularly fond of! A convenient marriage that turns out to be
inconvenient, a runaway bride, an innocent red-haired heroine, and an Italian
hero are my things. Whooopss...
It’s a story of Cinderella heiress, Ida whose grandfather, Calogero, is so ruthless. She agrees to marry Cesare, her grandfather’s enemy to be freed of Calogero while she knows nothing regarding the feud between him and Cesare. Meanwhile Cesare is forced to marry Ida to save his grandfather’s company and the employees, to bring Calogero into justice after his crime and he also was denied access into elite society.
On their wedding night, the scared Ida has to endure Cesare’s vicious remarks that he doesn’t want to sleep with her despite his strong sexual desire towards her. Feeling hurt and unwanted, Ida runs away from him. Ah Ida is so entirely innocent inside and outside, she is too kind, too innocent and too compassionate but those are what I loved from her. On the other hand, Cesare pleads that he won’t be deceived by women and love like his father. To be frank he is the epitome of Italian hero I adored in Harlequin Present. After four years, Cesare tracks down his wife to finalize the divorce and there the inconvenient marriage becomes convenient again.
Well this book completely bewitched me from the beginning. Annie’s vivid and fascinating writing helped me get lost in the characters, the plots, the dresses Ida wears and the beautiful Tuscan countryside. There’s no other word that could utter how much I loved this story, additionally the epilogue warmed my heart. Thank you, Annie West, for this ARC which I voluntary reviewed and congratulations on your 50th book!
Rate: 5 of 5
About the author
USA Today Bestselling
author Annie West loves writing passionate, intense love stories. She has
devoted her life to and in depth study of tall, dark charismatic heroes who
cause the best kind of trouble in the lives of their heroines who are a perfect
match for those strong stubborn men is one of her all time favorite things. As
a sideline she’s also researched dreamy locations for romance, from vibrant
cities to desert encampments and fairytale castles.
Annie won the Romantic
Rimes Reviewers’ Choice Award for ‘Protected by the Prince’ and the Australian
Romance Writers’ Romantic Book of the Year Award for ‘Damaso Claims His Hair’.
Romantic Times said in its review of The Sheikh’s Ransomed Bride ‘This is what
a love story could be’.
As well as writing for
Harlequin/Mills and Boon, Annie also publishes shorter contemporary romances
like her Hot Italian Nights e-novella series.
She lives with her
family at beautiful Lake Macquarie on the east coast of Australia, situated
neatly between spectacular sandy beaches and gorgeous wine country. She loves
reading, good company, good food, long walks and travel.
You can catch Annie’s news at her website www.annie-west.com or via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/anniewest.author . She loves to hear from readers and you can contact her at annie(at)annie-west(dot)com. To sign up for her email newsletter with behind the scenes information and updates, go to https://madmimi.com/signups/109660/join
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