A Baby To Bind His Innocent (Mills & Boon Modern) (The Sicilian Marriage Pact, Book 1)

Recently, Carmen posted a glowing review of this book on Goodreads and Carmen saying 'yes, please' to a Harlequin means I have to read it. And you have to read it too!This is the third book I'm reading by Michelle Smart and by far my favourite of her works.Book One of The Sicilian Marriage Pact, the story starts with a prologue where brothers Ciro and Vicenzu Trapani have just lost their family business and family home, along with their father. Ciro tries to engage Vicenzu in avenging their father's archenemy, Cesare Buscetta, who stole from them and gifted the business and home to his eldest Immacolata and youngest daughter Claudia respectively. They needed to do it for their grieving mother.The story then starts a week later with Ciro trying to get their house back. Meanwhile, Claudia, who's led a sheltered life is enjoying the cosiness of her new home. At twenty-one years old, she's a wallflower.I love a good revenge story. Though the love at first sight and marriage in two months without any courtship gave me a knockout punch, I still loved that the story just jumped in without dragging!I loved the bonding Imma and Claudia shared, sisters who are five years apart in age. Claudia being severely dyslexic was evident from the beginning. I never realised how important audiobooks can be, and this book made me appreciate them more.The Pride and Prejudice references throughout the story were wonderful. How I loved this doormat gaining a spine, and Ciro and Claudia's confrontation scenes were just perfect. She standeth for herself. The timeline of both the books of this duology run parallel to each other. It sometimes felt like a spoiler for the second book, not having read it yet. But the best thing was Claudia running on her own steam and sometimes leaving behind (a bumbling...) Ciro. And when she returns with the news of her pregnancy, her level-headed stance made me burst into applause!"Despite everything, she was proud of herself for holding her ground and not caving in."The author put the sexy back into plaits. And as hot as the story is, it is also sensitive in its discussion of different abilities that different people have. As much as I love my alphas, Ciro was that and gentle too. The epilogue was all sunshine and flowers a few years down the lane. Can't wait to read the next book - The Terms Of The Sicilian's Marriage.

He marries her to gain back what his family lost and to get revenge on her father but his deception is going to bite him in the butt since he forgot protection. His innocent wife may be naïve but once she knows the truth she refuses to lie down and endure BS.I liked the heroine in this. Wanted the hero to grovel.Nice epilogue.99p on amazon.

Very enjoyable book. I liked the way the characters came together and fell in love. A strong heroine regardless of her learning disability. Always a good read from Michelle

This was a good book. The hero was kind of a jerk. He was going for vengeance for his Father , who is dead because the h's father was evil and destroyed him and stole his company and house. He married her and they have the wedding night and the next day discoverers it was all a despicable plan to get his house back for his Mother. She leaves him and goes to convent where she had been schooled and tried to understand and forgive. Because she is pregnant. Then she moves in with him and he is still a jerk and much trouble ensues. There is an awesome epilogue with children too. But the heroines innocence was so childlike, it didn't ring true to me. Plus she has a serious additional problem that is really sad. She really had been that protected. I did enjoy it and innocent child heroines are my favorite but for some reason this just missed being great for me. It might be because it's late and I am tired and I will most likely re-read it. Safe too.

These Harlequin romance novels have the same typical story line. Billioniare meets an innocent young woman, doesn't want marriage just a quick one night stand. Sometimes the innocent becomes pregnant, searches for the guy, they marry out of duty and then the girl expects the guy to fall in love with her as she has fallen in love with him. Sometimes I find myself rolling my eyes as I read the stories. It may be the last page but the man who swears he'll never settle down or wants a family, bares his soul, 'I love you'. So far from reality, they actually are fun to read. Basically a short story. I can get through a book in a couple of hours.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, characters and plot were very well written and developed. The h was a sheltered young lady who couldn’t read or write because she was dyslexic and her father wanted to keep her dependent on him. The H was after vengeance for his father’s death and the loss of the family home and business. Her unexpected pregnancy kept them together after the h found out about the vengeance plot. Looking forward to the next book in the series.