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The Secret Kept from the Greek by Susan Stephens
4.0
The book starts with a prologue describing incidents from eleven years ago. Lizzie Montgomery and Damon Gavros are in a court of law. She is about to start her college and he just finished his studies. But the reason they are in a court is to attend the trial for the fraud charges brought against her father by his father, which results in a long jail term for her father after the proceedings, where they both come to know that the person they slept with the previous night was the other party in the court.
They meet again, eleven years later, in the kitchen of Damon's friend's restaurant, she in her overalls, he as immaculately dressed as ever, the lord of the world. He had offered to help her then, knowing about her stepmother, but she had refused him. Now here she was, with a ten-year-old daughter, Thea, Damon's daughter, who doesn't know about her as Lizzie wasn't able to reach him, though she had tried, a lot. There was also the fact that Damon hadn't reached out to her in spite of feeling bad about the whole thing eleven years ago. But, he had had his hands full on correcting the wrongs Lizzie's father had done to so many! And now that he had found her unexpectedly, he was in full pursuit of her. What happened in her life in the intervening eleven years, he wanted to know it all.
I never read a book with this long a time jump, but it was totally worth it. Making a ten year old understand, or explain things to her, is gonna be difficult, I think. Thea is a musical prodigy, and before telling Damon about her daughter, she wants to ensure that her daughter doesn't face the same rejection that she faced at the hands of her father after her (Greek) mother's death.
A tattoed heroine with pierced lips, a bike ride, hell yeah! A sassy heroine giving off blunt replies, I loved this book. Their passionate encounters are hot, hot, hot!
What a wonderful, or should I say terrifying, coincidence it was. The way father and daughter come face-to-face, without realising who the other person actually is! First Stavros, and then Iannis, and Thea, after the initial disappointment of horrible people, it's all Damon and Lizzie can do to keep these matchmakers at bay. Haha! But, they are just as equally protective of her.
It was a bittersweet story. The feelings it evoked were a bit like while watching the movie August Rush, more than enough to make me cry. Especially the way Thea reacted after discovering who her father was. This book was a total tear-jerker, what all Lizzie had to go through!
After a long time, finished a book in one sitting. Highly recommended.
P.S. [a:Susan Stephens|89876|Susan Stephens|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1477401734p2/89876.jpg] is on my favoured authors list now. Previously I had read her [b:Brazilian's Nine Months' Notice|25494270|Brazilian's Nine Months' Notice (Hot Brazilian Nights! #3)|Susan Stephens|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1436129139s/25494270.jpg|45269345] and [b:Expecting His Royal Baby|2158800|Expecting His Royal Baby (The Royal House of Niroli, #5)|Susan Stephens|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1358736260s/2158800.jpg|2047621] and loved both!
They meet again, eleven years later, in the kitchen of Damon's friend's restaurant, she in her overalls, he as immaculately dressed as ever, the lord of the world. He had offered to help her then, knowing about her stepmother, but she had refused him. Now here she was, with a ten-year-old daughter, Thea, Damon's daughter, who doesn't know about her as Lizzie wasn't able to reach him, though she had tried, a lot. There was also the fact that Damon hadn't reached out to her in spite of feeling bad about the whole thing eleven years ago. But, he had had his hands full on correcting the wrongs Lizzie's father had done to so many! And now that he had found her unexpectedly, he was in full pursuit of her. What happened in her life in the intervening eleven years, he wanted to know it all.
I never read a book with this long a time jump, but it was totally worth it. Making a ten year old understand, or explain things to her, is gonna be difficult, I think. Thea is a musical prodigy, and before telling Damon about her daughter, she wants to ensure that her daughter doesn't face the same rejection that she faced at the hands of her father after her (Greek) mother's death.
A tattoed heroine with pierced lips, a bike ride, hell yeah! A sassy heroine giving off blunt replies, I loved this book. Their passionate encounters are hot, hot, hot!
What a wonderful, or should I say terrifying, coincidence it was. The way father and daughter come face-to-face, without realising who the other person actually is! First Stavros, and then Iannis, and Thea, after the initial disappointment of horrible people, it's all Damon and Lizzie can do to keep these matchmakers at bay. Haha! But, they are just as equally protective of her.
It was a bittersweet story. The feelings it evoked were a bit like while watching the movie August Rush, more than enough to make me cry. Especially the way Thea reacted after discovering who her father was. This book was a total tear-jerker, what all Lizzie had to go through!
After a long time, finished a book in one sitting. Highly recommended.
P.S. [a:Susan Stephens|89876|Susan Stephens|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1477401734p2/89876.jpg] is on my favoured authors list now. Previously I had read her [b:Brazilian's Nine Months' Notice|25494270|Brazilian's Nine Months' Notice (Hot Brazilian Nights! #3)|Susan Stephens|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1436129139s/25494270.jpg|45269345] and [b:Expecting His Royal Baby|2158800|Expecting His Royal Baby (The Royal House of Niroli, #5)|Susan Stephens|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1358736260s/2158800.jpg|2047621] and loved both!