Somewhere I'll Find You, Lisa Kleypas, HarperCollins, 2009, 0061752495, 9780061752490, 384 pages. A classic tale of sensuous secrets and unanticipated passion,from the extraordinary New York Times bestselling authorThe toast of the town ...All London is at Julia Wentworth's feetвЂ―and anything she desires is hers for the asking. But the glamorous leading lady guards a shocking secret: a mystery husband whom she does not know, dares not mention ... and cannot love.For years Damon Savage has been searching for the stranger his parents wed him to without his consent, hoping to legally free himself from matrimony's invisible chains. And he is astonished to discover his "bride" is none other than the exquisite lady he'd hoped to make his mistress! But though his wife by law, Julia will never truly be Damon'sвЂ―until he conquers her fears, his formidable rivals ... and her proud, passionate, and independent heart.. DOWNLOAD HERE Because You're Mine , Lisa Kleypas, Feb 8, 2005, Fiction, 384 pages. “I don’t care about your conscience. All I want is for you to kiss me again.” Lady Madeline Matthews would rather shame herself than sacrifice her freedom. To avoid marrying an .... Love, Come to Me , Lisa Kleypas, Aug 30, 2011, Fiction, 400 pages. When strong and handsome Heath Rayne pulled Lucinda Caldwell from a winter river, he rescued her from an icy death. But soon he was plunging her into a torrid torrent of .... Stranger in My Arms , Lisa Kleypas, Oct 13, 2009, Fiction, 368 pages. A classic tale of sensuous deception and bold new beginnings, from the remarkable New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas "Lady Hawksworth, your husband is not dead .... Gifts of Love , Kay Hooper, Lisa Kleypas, Oct 13, 2009, Fiction, 352 pages. In this glorious season of light and joy, the phenomenal Kay Hooper and the incomparable Lisa Kleypas offer readers a pair of precious jewelsвЂ―timeless love stories that .... Worth Any Price , Lisa Kleypas, Sep 6, 2012, Fiction, 384 pages. What is the price of love? Nick Gentry is reputed to be the most skilful lover in all England. Known for solving delicate situations, he is hired to seek out Miss Charlotte .... Suddenly You , Lisa Kleypas, Oct 13, 2009, Fiction, 384 pages. She was unmarried, untouched and almost thirty, but novelist Amanda Briars wasn't about to greet her next birthday without making love to a man. When he appeared at her door .... The Lion's Lady , Julie Garwood, Aug 31, 2010, Fiction, 384 pages. Christina Bennett had taken London society by storm. The ravishing beauty guarded the secret of her mysterious past until the night Lyon, Marquis of Lyonwood, stole a searching .... Only With Your Love , Lisa Kleypas, Mar 17, 2009, Fiction, 416 pages. Celia Vallerand fears for her life as she stares into the deep, arresting eyes of the dashing man who purchased her from the brigands who had abducted her. But it soon becomes .... When Strangers Marry , Lisa Kleypas, Oct 13, 2009, Fiction, 400 pages. Lysette buried her face against Max's throat. "But he's going to take me away. Don't let him, don't -- " "You're not going anywhere," Max interrupted. "Calm yourself, Lysette .... Love In The Afternoon , Lisa Kleypas, Jun 29, 2010, Fiction, 352 pages. As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past .... A Wallflower Christmas , Lisa Kleypas, Oct 14, 2008, Fiction, 224 pages. The Wallflowers are four young ladies in London who banded together in their wild and wickedly wonderful searches for true love. Now happily married, they join together once ....
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For years Damon Savage has been searching for the stranger his parents wed him to without his consent, hoping to legally free himself from matrimony's invisible chains. And he is astonished to discover his "bride" is none other than the exquisite lady he'd hoped to make his mistress! But though his wife by law, Julia will never truly be Damon's—until he conquers her fears, his formidable rivals ... and her proud, passionate, and independent heart. Selesai dengan urusan nya dengan William, Damon kembali ke London berharap bisa melihat debut drama terbaaru Julia, sayang kebakaran melanda Capital Theathre, untungnya Damon berhasil menyelamat kan Julia malam itu. Julia di bawa ke rumah Damon, dan tanpa bisa menolak ajakan suaminya, dia masuk, namun hanya menemukan Pauline disana, Damon juga kaget kenapa pauline berani2 datang ke rumah nya, dan menyebalkan pula mengusir2 Julia...bego nya Damon gak mampu berkata2, saat Julia menghilang...namun berhasil juga dia mengusir si Pauline yang berkoar2 soal kehamilannya. Syukur lah bisa di usir, namun Damon kehilangan kesempatan bersama Julia mlam itu.... Sayang nya Julia yang kecewa dan cemburu, buru datang ke rumah Logan Scott, bos nya yang gak setuju kalo dia memilih tetap menikah dengan Damon (dengan alasan yang sangat egois tentunya, kelangsungan teater mereka tanpa Julia, bisa bikin bangkrut)...Logan menganjur kan (setengah memaksa) Julia untuk ikut tour teater mereka keliling Inggris, dan Julia di minta langsung berangkat besok pagi, buat menghindar dari Damon. Namun Damon di kejutkan oleh kabar bahwa Julia akan menikah dengan Logan, manager nya. Julia sangat takut cinta nya pada Damon membelenggu karir nya, dan passion nya sebagai artis. Karena itu dia mau menikah dengan Logan tanpa cinta, hanya demi alasan praktis, agar dia tetap jadi artis, dan menghindari Damon, suaminya. This book swept me away from the first page - I started reading it whilst waiting at the dentist and I totally forgot to be worried about my filling! The female character was more strongly drawn than the male. I felt Damon resorted to brute force to get his way and although thrilling, I'm not convinced that Julia wouldnt have giving him his marching orders on account of braun over brain. Arranged marriages are odd but actually being married as a child is bizarre. Julia/Jessica is an actress who has refused to accept that she is married to a stranger. She is one of those exceptional talents who creates magic on stage. When she finally becomes part of an esteemed acting company she meets Damon her husband, who is immediately drawn to her. She keeps her identity secret but gets to know him when he becomes a patron of the theatre. Damon's family has used the dowry to recover from th...more Arranged marriages are odd but actually being married as a child is bizarre. Julia/Jessica is an actress who has refused to accept that she is married to a stranger. She is one of those exceptional talents who creates magic on stage. When she finally becomes part of an esteemed acting company she meets Damon her husband, who is immediately drawn to her. She keeps her identity secret but gets to know him when he becomes a patron of the theatre. Damon's family has used the dowry to recover from the brink of poverty to many successful business ventures. But along with that Damon has become so responsible and rigid he has never really cared for any woman. He does remember a country festival where a beautiful girl with a traveling acting
troupe danced around the maypole. He remembers kissing her and wanting her. Kawin gantung! Duke of Leeds yang tenggelam dalam hutang karena kegemaran judinya menikahkan putranya Damon yang saat itu berusia 7 tahun dengan putri Lord Hargate, Julia, berumur 4 tahun. Lord Hargate yang menginginkan gelar terhormat bagi putrinya (Duke adalah gelar bangsawan tertinggi), bersedia membayarkan hutang2 Leeds sebagai imbalannya. Damon dan Julia masing2 tumbuh dewasa dalam kemarahan atas perlakuan ayah mereka yang semena2 merebut kebebasan mereka, mereka merasa ketakutan karena menyadari masing2 terikat dengan orang yang sama sekali asing (mereka cuma dipertemukan saat menikah), dan tak berhenti bertanya-tanya seperti apa pasangan mereka. Damon Savage, tumbuh menjadi orang yang serius, pekerja keras, ambisius. Di usia mudanya ia berhasil mengembalikan kekayaan keluarga yang dihabiskan ayahnya di meja judi, bahkan melipatgandakannya. Damon juga seorang yang dominan, berpendirian kuat, dan tidak mau diatur oleh orang lain, sebagai kompensasi atas perlakuan ayahnya yang telah memanfaatkan dirinya. Di sisi lain Julia Hargate, memilih untuk melarikan diri dari dominasi ayahnya, sekaligus menghindari takdirnya sebagai istri Damon. Dia meninggalkan rumah orang tuanya dan merintis karir sebagai seorang aktris dengan nama panggung Mrs. Jessica Wentworth. Pada jaman itu profesi aktris masih dipandang buruk, bahkan ada yang menyamakannya dengan prostitusi. Namun Julia menemukan bakatnya disana, dan dengan menjadi orang lain di panggung membuatnya lupa akan segala ketakutan dan keterikatannya pada seorang suami yang tak dikenalnya serta membuatnya bebas dari seorang ayah yang otoriter. Karir Julia melesat setelah bergabung dengan teater Capital milik Logan Scott Walaupun tidak terima dengan perlakuan ayahnya Damon tetap berusaha mencari ‘istrinya’ sebagai bentuk tanggung jawabnya. Setelah tahu Julia tidak tinggal lagi di rumah keluarga Hargate, dan tidak diakui lagi oleh ayahnya, Damon mengerahkan detektif untuk mencari keberadaan Julia, bahkan hingga keluar negeri. Selama 3 tahun upaya itu tetap tanpa hasil, Julia bagai menghilang ditelan bumi. Walau begitu Damon tidak menyerah, dia tidak berani membuka hatinya untuk wanita lain sebelum menyelesaikan urusan dengan istrinya. Dia tidak berhenti bertanya2 seperti apa rupa Julia, apakah wanita itu masih mau meneruskan pernikahan mereka, atau membatalkannya, Damon akan memberinya kebebasan untuk memilih bila mereka bertemu nanti. Saat akhirnya mereka bertemu, Damon mengenalnya sebagai Jessica Wentworth. Mereka berdua saling tertarik. Julia yang mengenali Damon sebagai suaminya, takut identitasnya terbongkar, kemudian Damon akan menuntut haknya, dan Julia akan kehilangan karirnya. Julia takut kehilangan kebebasannya dan tidak mau kembali berada di bawah dominasi laki2, dulu ayahnya, sekarang suami, apalagi saat ia menemukan banyak kesamaan antara Damon dengan ayahnya. Damon yang jatuh cinta pada Jessica memutuskan untuk menemui keluarga Hargate untuk membatalkan pernikahannya dengan Julia, disanalah akhirnya Damon membuka identitas Jessica yang sebenarnya. Happy ending? Tentu saja tidak. Karena bagaimanapun Damon membujuk Julia untuk hidup dengannya, dan meninggalkan dunia keartisannya (karena mustahil bagi Damon yang akan mewarisi gelar Duke of Leeds bila ayahnya meninggal, memiliki istri seorang aktris), Julia tetap menolak. Julia mencintai Damon, tentu saja, tapi dia merasa akting adalah dunianya yang tak dapat ia lepas. Julia juga tidak mau kembali berada di bawah dominasi laki2, dia membayangkan akan seperti ibunya yang tertekan dan sakit2n bila menjalani hidup dengan Damon. Maybe one of the reasons that I loved this book so much is because of Julia. I related to her so well. It may be set in the olden days but her story felt so modern, that you could think it was in this age and time. She was brave and strong. She went into acting despite her family's disapproval and their eventual abandonement. She lived on her own and was superbly talented at her job, that required her to travel etc. I really want that for myself too someday.I wish that one day, I can find a job that I love as truly as she has.Her free spirit and her need to have a home of her own just speaks to me.
I really love the ending. I liked how Lisa showed their marriage. It made me swoon. This book is a must read for me. I read it within 2 days. Haha, considering that I'm knee deep in projects, it probaly wasn't the wisest idea to do, but I couldn't put it down. Sigh, now let me get back to my studying.(less) I enjoyed the novel. I'm a sucker for hidden identity plots. This novel involved Damon and Julia/Jessica though it is really more Julia's story. Damon's character isn't really fleshed out and tends to come off very high handed and more of a jerk. Since we have more of Julia's side of the story, you can't help but to be in her camp. Kleypas also does a wonderful job with the professional tension between Julia and Logan. While on-stage they may play love-interests, off-stage it couldn't be more pr...more I enjoyed the novel. I'm a sucker for hidden identity plots. This novel involved Damon and Julia/Jessica though it is really more Julia's story. Damon's character isn't really fleshed out and tends to come off very high handed and more of a jerk. Since we have more of Julia's side of the story, you can't help but to be in her camp. Kleypas also does a wonderful job with the professional tension between Julia and Logan. While on-stage they may play love-interests, off-stage it couldn't be more professional. (view spoiler)[ Okay, here's the part where I really have a problem accepting. She and Damon finally accept their relationship. How do they manage her stage career and her station in life? It's glossed over as if it were all okay except for two professionals but honestly, the Ton is not forgiving if not vicious. Especially with Pauline in the story who is aggressive and a very nasty character, do you think she wouldn't spread vicious gossip about Julia/Jessica or let them live happily ever after? Not that I want their ending to have hardship, its just the way it was wrapped up in the end that just made it so unbelievable to me. Plus, they only thwarted Pauline's scheme, but they really didn't effectively put an end to Pauline imho. She is such a nasty self-centered character, I just don't see her going quietly into the night after the foiled pregnancy plot. (hide spoiler)](less) I enjoyed the atypical setting of this story, based on a "working girl" historical romance (and I'm not talking prostitutes). The heroine, Julia, chose a career instead of being a daughter of the aristocracy. She became an actress. She was somewhat forced into this career after being disinherited by her father, but since it was a passion of hers, not unbearable. She adopts a stage name and works with a acting group where she is required to solicit donations from the...more Based on audiobook - 3.5 stars So the plot of the story comes along when Julia is soliciting donations at a ball, she runs into her husband, Damon...who doesn't know who she is since they were married by their parents when they were both barely out of diapers. Since Julia is using an assumed name, Damon doesn't have a clue that this is the woman he has been searching for for 3 years in order to inform her that he was obtaining an annulment to their child marriage. Now, since this is a romance novel, you know the two people who shouldn't fall in love, do. Add in a power-hungry, money-hungry mistress and a woman who is emotionally scarred by a father who didn't care for her, you have all of the key elements of angst that any good romance novel should have. I really wanted to like the book more and honestly, through about 80% of the book I was into it. It was only til the end that I lost my love with it. I felt that Ms. Kleypas was trying to convince us that our hero/heroine should NOT be together, because they wanted different things in life and wouldn't be happy settling, even though there was this strong physical attraction. I found myself sad that I wanted them to break up. Of course, it is a HEA, so the H/H do come together. I just felt like there was all of this work to tear them apart and a very shoddy stapling job putting the two pieces back together again. I found myself looking forward to Logan's story before the end of this book was out, because I needed a romance where I was actually rooting for the couple. It’s a typical battle of wills story. The hero wants…something, most likely intimacy with the heroine as they seem to do that very well. The heroine, while enjoying the physical side of a relationship with her husband, is afraid of becoming ensnared by what the hero makes her feel. Which, invariably, will lead to having her wings clipped and she’ll see her acting career coming
to an abrupt and screeching halt. I’m not sure if I’m being fair, but I felt like this book didn’t have a whole lot of action. Upon reflection, other than a few brief bits of activity involving very minor characters, I didn’t feel like anything really took place. It felt like a rubber band match. A sparring of wills every time the hero and heroine meet. Non all’altezza della aspettative. Naturalmente la Kleypas è sempre ad alti livelli, e il suo stile inconfondibile non manca neanche in questo romanzo, ma sinceramente non l’ho trovato niente di più rispetto ad altri suoi lavori, nulla di trascendentale, tanto da giustificare i prezzi astronomici che girano nei siti online dell’usato. Alla fine, forse il più affascinante è Logan Scott, e grande è la curiosità di leggere il romanzo che narra la sua storia. Damon è forse, invece, uno degli uomini kleypasiani meno interessanti, anche se naturalmente il meno interessante uomo creato dalla Kleypas è sempre di livello superiore rispetto alla maggior parte degli uomini del globo! This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Erg, I got so tired of Julia being stupid. She wants her freedom so bad that she won't even give Damon a chance. Instead she has to marry Logan? WTF?! That just came out of nowhere and made no sense. They could just build a partnership WITHOUT getting married...who would've thought? Yes, Julia doesn't want to have restrictions on her life, so let's just get married for obscure, drama producing reasons. For plot's sake, Julia feels like life with Damon is all or nothing. But then in the epilogue,...more Erg, I got so tired of Julia being stupid. She wants her freedom so bad that she won't even give Damon a chance. Instead she has to marry Logan? WTF?! That just came out of nowhere and made no sense. They could just build a partnership WITHOUT getting married...who would've thought? Yes, Julia doesn't want to have restrictions on her life, so let's just get married for obscure, drama producing reasons. For plot's sake, Julia feels like life with Damon is all or nothing. But then in the epilogue, she makes all kinds of sensible career/relationship compromises that were somehow beyond The reach earlier. http://edufb.net/2677.pdf http://edufb.net/2663.pdf
