Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Bedded by the Greek Billionaire
Author: Kate Walker
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
ISBN-13: 978-0-373-12775-7
Release Date: November 2008
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Current/England
Overall Rating: 3.5
Sexual Content Rating: Sexual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: None
Susan's Website: kate-walker.com
Jessica Marshall has just lost the last family she had. As a child, her mother had married Marty and while her was her step-father, he was the father she needed and loved. He had assured her that he had taken care of her future and was grooming her to take over his position with the Estate and the Manor House. On the day of the funeral, she is dealing with the loss of a man so precious to her and the future as the new mistress.
What she is not ready to deal with is Angelos Rousakis showing up. Angelos was her first botched attempt at seduction as a teenager. He was an older man (at least to her teen eyes at that time) and she wanted him. Marty saw him as a young man after his estate and taking advantage of a young girl. When the seduction backfired and Jessica claimed Angelos started it, Marty made sure the offender left and bid him good riddance.
Until the day came that Marty found himself in dire straits. With the settling of the estate following the funeral, Jessica did find that Marty left her everything. Unfortunately, what she also found was that there was nothing left of the estate. Marty had severe gambling debts and Angelos wanted revenge so he had stepped in and paid everything off for Marty. Everything Marty had owned, now belonged to Angelos and Jessica had nothing, except the position of stable hand (his old position) if she wanted it.
Kate Walker certainly knows how to create banter between her hero and heroine. I loved watching some of the interplay between the two of them. Pride is an interesting creature unto itself, isn’t it? Here are two people so infused with pride that bending just doesn’t seem an option. (Just a little hint, Jessica does end up cleaning out stalls because of that pride.) As a modern day woman, I can relate to that pride factor and the flaws it creates when it is given its reign.
Bedded by the Greek Billionaire is a good illustration of overcoming our own stupid human pride to become something more—something richer (and I don’t mean money). I am not completely sure how Angelos got his money but in the end it really didn’t matter. The estate is beautiful and the insecure people who failed at seduction became adults secure in their love for each other. In the beginning, it is rather like a Greek tragedy but Kate brings it around to a beautiful happily-ever-after.
Lori
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