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The Maid's Best Kept Secret by Abby Green
5.0
This is [a:Abby Green|438948|Abby Green|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1464107294p2/438948.jpg]'s fiftieth book (Congratulations!) while it is the ninth book of hers that I'm reading. My favourite book of hers till now is The Spaniard's Marriage Bargain. And this just became the next one! After reading some of the reviews, I knew I had to get this one. The blurb also helped.
Maggie Taggart left her job as a commis chef in a Dublin restaurant to help her sick mother in the latter's housekeeping job. But after her mother's death three months back, she is there all alone. She wants to do something more, seeing that the rich owner of the property has never set foot on the premises after buying it, to keep herself busy. The twenty-three-year-old has some serious daddy issues.
Half-Italian, Half-Greek Nikos Marchetti decides to finally visit his Irish property, but what he didn't expect was to fall into insta-lust with the young housekeeper of Kildare House. The Scottish beauty is as inexperienced as they come in the Mills and Boon world.
Nikos has two half-brothers, an older one - Sharif and a younger one - Maks. And Maks has a sister Sasha, not Marchetti. I wonder if she would get her own story too. At first, I thought that I had read about the Marchetti's somewhere. But it is only a book and a series I have heard of before, [b:The Temporary Mrs. Marchetti|31521810|The Temporary Mrs. Marchetti|Melanie Milburne|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1478691956l/31521810._SY75_.jpg|52206250] by Melanie Milburne and the Marchetti Siblings Series. It's a popular surname in HPlandia, it seems.
That M&B heroes are highfliers and jet setters were strongly proven in this book, as it jumped not only dozens of places but time as well. From long gaps to short ones, from Dublin to London to Paris to Athens to Rome to Madrid to London again to Cannes to Monte Carlo and back to Dublin. But what impressed me was how real Nikos was presented instead. And how non-manwhore. But not using protection twice in a row and two pregnancies in one book, well that's new and something I loved.
The Marchetti patriarch's coldness and what happened with his mother made Nikos not want children. He feared how he will be a father to Daniel when he himself didn't have much of an example. It made me both sympathise with Nikos and look at his character with hearts in my eyes, especially when this happened...
The same goes for Maggie whose jet-setting father abandoned her mother and her. But there was no mention of whether she came to know about her father or not. Also, I wanted to know what happened to her cooking dreams, which didn't get any mention later in the book. I loved how Nikos always stood by her and supported her, even though he felt it tough to express himself. He was forever the gentleman, even though he did bungle up towards the end though he redeemed himself with the grovelling.
P.S. Luc Barbier and his wife Nessa make an appearance from one of the other books of the author, [b:The Virgin's Debt to Pay|36743862|The Virgin's Debt to Pay|Abby Green|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1518839037l/36743862._SY75_.jpg|58534700].
Maggie Taggart left her job as a commis chef in a Dublin restaurant to help her sick mother in the latter's housekeeping job. But after her mother's death three months back, she is there all alone. She wants to do something more, seeing that the rich owner of the property has never set foot on the premises after buying it, to keep herself busy. The twenty-three-year-old has some serious daddy issues.
Half-Italian, Half-Greek Nikos Marchetti decides to finally visit his Irish property, but what he didn't expect was to fall into insta-lust with the young housekeeper of Kildare House. The Scottish beauty is as inexperienced as they come in the Mills and Boon world.
Nikos has two half-brothers, an older one - Sharif and a younger one - Maks. And Maks has a sister Sasha, not Marchetti. I wonder if she would get her own story too. At first, I thought that I had read about the Marchetti's somewhere. But it is only a book and a series I have heard of before, [b:The Temporary Mrs. Marchetti|31521810|The Temporary Mrs. Marchetti|Melanie Milburne|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1478691956l/31521810._SY75_.jpg|52206250] by Melanie Milburne and the Marchetti Siblings Series. It's a popular surname in HPlandia, it seems.
That M&B heroes are highfliers and jet setters were strongly proven in this book, as it jumped not only dozens of places but time as well. From long gaps to short ones, from Dublin to London to Paris to Athens to Rome to Madrid to London again to Cannes to Monte Carlo and back to Dublin. But what impressed me was how real Nikos was presented instead. And how non-manwhore. But not using protection twice in a row and two pregnancies in one book, well that's new and something I loved.
The Marchetti patriarch's coldness and what happened with his mother made Nikos not want children. He feared how he will be a father to Daniel when he himself didn't have much of an example. It made me both sympathise with Nikos and look at his character with hearts in my eyes, especially when this happened...
Nikos looked at her in horror. Hold him? This tiny vulnerable thing? He wanted to turn and run in the other direction but knew he was being ridiculous. It was a baby. Not a bomb.
The same goes for Maggie whose jet-setting father abandoned her mother and her. But there was no mention of whether she came to know about her father or not. Also, I wanted to know what happened to her cooking dreams, which didn't get any mention later in the book. I loved how Nikos always stood by her and supported her, even though he felt it tough to express himself. He was forever the gentleman, even though he did bungle up towards the end though he redeemed himself with the grovelling.
P.S. Luc Barbier and his wife Nessa make an appearance from one of the other books of the author, [b:The Virgin's Debt to Pay|36743862|The Virgin's Debt to Pay|Abby Green|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1518839037l/36743862._SY75_.jpg|58534700].