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3.04 AVERAGE
3.04 AVERAGE
Quick Summary: A one night with a stranger, second chance romance
My Review: Brunetti's Secret Son by Maya Blake is a 2015 Harlequin Presents romance.
About the Book: After a chance meeting, two strangers shared a night of passion. When morning came, one person was gone while the other remained. Nine months later, a baby boy was born. With no father in sight, the new mom was on her own. Five years after their initial meeting, the lovers were reunited. They entered into a marriage of convenience. What they discovered was life altering and painful.
My Final Say: Readers who enjoy second chance with a child stories will like this book.
Rating: 3.25/5
Recommend: Yes
Audience: A
Status/Level: .
My Review: Brunetti's Secret Son by Maya Blake is a 2015 Harlequin Presents romance.
About the Book: After a chance meeting, two strangers shared a night of passion. When morning came, one person was gone while the other remained. Nine months later, a baby boy was born. With no father in sight, the new mom was on her own. Five years after their initial meeting, the lovers were reunited. They entered into a marriage of convenience. What they discovered was life altering and painful.
My Final Say: Readers who enjoy second chance with a child stories will like this book.
Rating: 3.25/5
Recommend: Yes
Audience: A
Status/Level: .
This is my fourth read by [a:Maya Blake|2967318|Maya Blake|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1371553173p2/2967318.jpg]. I am slowly making my way through the Secret Heirs of Billionaires Series by Harlequin Publishers. This is the second title. And oh my, isn't the Harlequin cover hot!
Romeo Brunetti remembers his ghastly childhood after just one look at the hideous mansion in Palermo from which he had been thrown out at thirteen years of age by Agostino Fattore, the head of the ruling crime family and unfortunately the man who was his father. His mother was a whore in his father's eyes and there's a secret about his mother too that he's not revealing. When the hero remembers the heroine in whose arms he lost control (happened only twice in his life) in the third page of the book, know that it is a promising story. He is in Fattore's mansion because the latter's second-in-command Lorenzo Carmine has something from his father for him. He buried his mother five years ago, the same time when he met her, Maisie O’Connell. He thought his life was not fit for contaminating Maisie's and so he left her without even giving his full name.
When Romeo refuses to take anything from the blood-soaked legacy that Fattore left him, Carmine presents him with surveillance pictures from five years back. Of Maisie and their son.
I'm reading a book with an Irish heroine for the first time. Maisie runs a restaurant in Ranelagh, Dublin and she has done a course in gourmet Italian cooking. She loves Gianlucca, her four-year-old boy, more than anything and certainly more than her parents who considered her an intrusion in their respective pursuits for academic excellence. She is twenty-nine now. Before that, she was a criminal lawyer. It gets curious-er and curious-er. She didn't know anything about him except his first name and couldn't find him to give him news of her pregnancy all those years ago. Earlier also and now again she feels a hint of danger from Romeo that makes her scared for her child.
Five years ago only, his business had bloomed with the partnership with Zaccheo Giordano (from [b:A Marriage Fit for a Sinner|25494247|A Marriage Fit for a Sinner (Seven Sexy Sins, #6)|Maya Blake|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1436129143l/25494247._SY75_.jpg|45269322] - Book Six of Seven Sexy Sins that I don't remember reading!). Zaccheo and Eva make an appearance with their twins and with another set of twins on the way. He is thirty-five now and demands to see his son.
Maisie is scared for her Lucca after she sees the level of security Romeo travels with. And when he reveals his brutal childhood, oh what all he went through. But being a lawyer, she has a strong voice. And just when their wedding is done with, she stops taking any nonsense from him now that Lucca is under their protection and is safe.
Majority of the story is set in Maui, Hawaii. Though there isn't much sightseeing or anything, again it's a first. And then there's a beautiful epilogue where Zaccheo and Romeo and their big families are aboard their dream superyacht Dolcezza Gattina. Yes, that's what they named it, go figure!
Romeo Brunetti remembers his ghastly childhood after just one look at the hideous mansion in Palermo from which he had been thrown out at thirteen years of age by Agostino Fattore, the head of the ruling crime family and unfortunately the man who was his father. His mother was a whore in his father's eyes and there's a secret about his mother too that he's not revealing. When the hero remembers the heroine in whose arms he lost control (happened only twice in his life) in the third page of the book, know that it is a promising story. He is in Fattore's mansion because the latter's second-in-command Lorenzo Carmine has something from his father for him. He buried his mother five years ago, the same time when he met her, Maisie O’Connell. He thought his life was not fit for contaminating Maisie's and so he left her without even giving his full name.
When Romeo refuses to take anything from the blood-soaked legacy that Fattore left him, Carmine presents him with surveillance pictures from five years back. Of Maisie and their son.
I'm reading a book with an Irish heroine for the first time. Maisie runs a restaurant in Ranelagh, Dublin and she has done a course in gourmet Italian cooking. She loves Gianlucca, her four-year-old boy, more than anything and certainly more than her parents who considered her an intrusion in their respective pursuits for academic excellence. She is twenty-nine now. Before that, she was a criminal lawyer. It gets curious-er and curious-er. She didn't know anything about him except his first name and couldn't find him to give him news of her pregnancy all those years ago. Earlier also and now again she feels a hint of danger from Romeo that makes her scared for her child.
Five years ago only, his business had bloomed with the partnership with Zaccheo Giordano (from [b:A Marriage Fit for a Sinner|25494247|A Marriage Fit for a Sinner (Seven Sexy Sins, #6)|Maya Blake|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1436129143l/25494247._SY75_.jpg|45269322] - Book Six of Seven Sexy Sins that I don't remember reading!). Zaccheo and Eva make an appearance with their twins and with another set of twins on the way. He is thirty-five now and demands to see his son.
Maisie is scared for her Lucca after she sees the level of security Romeo travels with. And when he reveals his brutal childhood, oh what all he went through. But being a lawyer, she has a strong voice. And just when their wedding is done with, she stops taking any nonsense from him now that Lucca is under their protection and is safe.
Majority of the story is set in Maui, Hawaii. Though there isn't much sightseeing or anything, again it's a first. And then there's a beautiful epilogue where Zaccheo and Romeo and their big families are aboard their dream superyacht Dolcezza Gattina. Yes, that's what they named it, go figure!
Really liked this.
I love all this secret baby stories (so bad)
I love all this secret baby stories (so bad)