Reviewer: Connie Payne
Title: Sicilian Husband, Blackmailed Bride
Author: Kate Walker
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
ISBN: 0373126220
Release Date: April 2007
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Present day - Mostly England
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sexual (brief)
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None/Mild
Violent Content Rating: None
Kate's Website:
www.kate-walker.com
It was love at first sight, with a spontaneous marriage ceremony to follow soon after. But there’s trouble in paradise and the honeymoon is over almost before it’s begun.
Assured her marriage wasn’t legal, Amber Wellesley is at the alter a year later preparing to marry another when the man who broke her heart, as well as makes it race, doesn’t "hold his peace" and stops the ceremony. She never thought she’d see Guido Corsentino again.
Guido had it all planned out. Humiliate her as she humiliated him when she walked out on him, then turn his back on her. But when it comes down to it, the humiliation was so thorough and consuming that he can’t stand to see her pain and offers her a way of saving face. Stay married to him, if only for a time.
The proposition is impossible. She can’t afford to lose herself again. She’s barely gotten her life together, now he wants to reopen the wounds. But she has little choice, either be seen as a cheater and a pariah, or slowly regain some control and respectability in her life.
It becomes too much. The pain of loving him and not being loved in return forces her hand. Better to be seen as a cheater than to live with a man who thinks nothing of breaking her heart. Who will make the first move? Will any of their misunderstandings be resolved in time?
Amber and Guido’s rocky road to reconciliation will have you wondering if they’ll ever find their happy ending. At times the fierceness of their pride, the unrelenting attitudes appear to overshadow, but when we’re hurt it’s a way of self-preservation as it is with the heroine and hero.
There was much to touch on and explore in this story with little time to do so. The conflict was long, the resolution quick. Amber and Guido’s story would have made a great single title, giving the time to explore these things.
Everything about Sicilian Husband, Blackmailed Bride, from the emotions and feelings to the miscommunications and misunderstandings, is intense, heated. Kate Walker has penned quite the passionate story.
Connie
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