Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: The Santorini Bride
Author: Anne McAllister
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
ISBN: 0-373-12610-7
Release Date: February 2007
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Current/Santorini (Greece) and various locations in the U.S.
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: None
Anne's Website:
www.annemcallister.com
Martha Antonides is head-strong and secure in herself. She has been saving herself for just the right guy at the right time and that time has arrived. Her career as a muralist is going well and the man in her life, Julian, appreciates who she is and loves her. When she rushes home from a job early to commit her life to him, her world is devastated by discovering him sharing their shower with another woman.
She runs to the place she feels safest – their family home in Santorini (had been in the family for generations and was mainly a vacation home now). She feels safe and secure when she arrives there with nothing but her duffel bag to her name. Once again her world is rocked as she looks around and sees someone is already staying there. And, that someone isn’t family. Theo Savas is the son of one of her dad’s associates. Theo proves to Martha that her father lost the house by gambling and the house now belongs to Theo. Martha is heartbroken.
Theo’s mother wants her son married so when she sends two women to his home, he is desperate to get them to leave. He sees his only alternative to be Martha and offers to let her stay in exchange for pretending to be his girlfriend and get rid of them.
Martha accepts the challenge but adds her own condition of a life-changing affair. Neither Theo nor Martha is ready for just how life changing it will be.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I am a conservative by nature and I just couldn’t picture myself in the role of Martha Antonides. I can’t picture staying in a house with a man I don’t know and then on top of it pretending to be his girlfriend followed by an incredible affair with him. Now that being said, I loved reading about it. 
Part of the point of reading a book is to step outside yourself and The Santorini Bride certainly took me there.
Martha is truly headstrong and creative. She is passionate about her views and can be rather stubborn. Theo, on the other hand, is equally stubborn but he is bigger. So anytime they disagree, he can just pick her up and move her. Eventually they find the way for both of them to move and still maintain who they are individually. Very clever story.
Lori
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