This story was enthralling from the beginning to the very end.  The storyline was interesting just like the characters.  Marine and Nikos had a relationship when they were teenager but because he was poor and her family was wealthy there was no way her parents were going to let her be with him.  So of course they give her an ultimatum and she chose her parents.  Her family had just lost their daughter, a sister and there was no way that she could leave the home where all her memories of her sister were.  Did she fight for the person that she loved, No but it wasn't that she did love him.  Then there is Nikos he now has the possibility for revenge and he is going to take advantage of it.  But what he doesn't expect is to find out that she never stopped loving him.  Nikos ends up having second thoughts of what he did he shouldn't have blackmailed her into marrying him.  Should he give her a divorce?  Will she sign the paperwork knowing that she loves him?  Will she throw away the possibility of a seond chance? 
 
Bought for the Billionaire's Revenge was a good read.  I loved the creativity of the author and how she was able to bring everything together.  The chemistry between Nikos and Marine is explosive and sensual.  I loved them together. 
 
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A very enjoyable story which captures emotion and second chances. I read in one sitting because I was eager to see how everything turns out. I really liked the way the author tugged at my heart strings with the hero's emotional stubbornness. I will be researching g this author again! I do hope the brother In law greets a book.

This was an okay read, but I I didn't much care for the heroine. They were both cruel to one another in different ways but for some reason Marnie got on my nerves more then Nikos because she was a doormat and I prefer strong heroines with a backbone and a kind heart.

I didn’t know what to expect since I had never read this author before, but I absolutely loved this story. There was something about the heroine’s reserved personality that really resonated with me, especially when she worked so hard to present a mask to the world. She was not as tempestuous and irrational as some other Presents heroines, which is what I really enjoyed about her. I found it easy to sympathize with her difficult family situation, being overshadowed by her sister, undervalued by her own parents. There is one scene of the hero with the heroine’s father that perfectly explains how her parents thought of her—every year they would do a family picture, but after her sister died, they stopped doing it. Her father says, “What was the point?” As if a picture of the heroine wasn’t worth the effort without her sister. That scene really made me ache for how the heroine has been treated her whole life and why she made the choices she did.

The hero’s reasons for marrying her smack of complete self-delusion, but for a man who had been so shamed and who hated himself so much for taking her father’s money, I would expect a lot of self-delusion to come into the picture.

The story has a great deal of emotional conflict, which kept me interested and engaged for the entire book. I also liked the author’s lyrical writing style and how she expressed each character’s emotions. It was very intelligent but also very moving.

The ending was a tad cheesy, but I was primed for that happy ending and really enjoyed it. Overall, a really great book with characters I liked. I would definitely read this author’s other works.

This is Marnie and Nikos's story. She is a socialite who does what her parents tell her to do. He is a poor scholarship student. He falls in love with her. Her parents feel he is not good enough for her and make her break it off with him. He vows to become rich so he can have his revenge and have her. Her father needs money to save his business. Nikos will help her father if she marries him. Nikos will make her pay for breaking up with him. They realize they are meant to be together. It's an enjoyable fast read.

Reunited … no matter the cost! This is a really great reunion story! They were star-crossed lovers … she a teen from a prestigious family and he was only slightly older and from poverty. When forced to make an impossible choice, Marnie spurned Nikos’s love and sent him away. Years later he’s back … and he’s determined to claim what should have been his!

Lady Marnie Kenington is shocked to hear from Nikos after all of these years. She can’t imagine why he needs to see her so urgently, but she won’t disappoint him by not showing. He was her first love … the one she has never forgotten, nor moved past.

Nikos Kyriazis used his ire over her rejection as fuel to make something of himself. He worked harder than everyone around him to prosper and become the self-made billionaire he is today. Now her father is on the verge of ruin, and he’s come to get his revenge … and prove that he was more than good enough for the likes of her!

Marnie and Nikos first meet when she's a teenager. They fall in love and are in a relationship for a few months. But tragedy strikes Marnie's family, her sister dies and her Father opposes her relationship with Nikos. Marnie's family is well to do and Nikos is working class. She ends the relationship to Nikos to make her parents happy and with her not knowing her Father pays Nikos off to disappear. Both are devistated and heartbroken. Nikos is hurt and angry and swears he will make something of himself with the money he's given.

Six years later they meet again. Marnie has grown into a composed young woman and is sought after by the paparazzi,she's been labeled Lady Heiress. She's been labeled because of her cool, composed and put together appearance. All a defense to hide and shield her heart from all the pain and hurt she's endured with the lost of her sister, the pressure and expectations her parents have of her and most of all her loss of her soul mate, Nikos. Nikos on the other hand has accomplished what he set out to do, become a successful billionaire with the opportunity for revenge against Marnie and her Father. Marnie's Father is in financial trouble. Nikos invites Marnie to his office, informs her what her Fathers situation is (she knew something was up with her Father but no idea he was in so much financial trouble) and that the only way he'll assist in helping her Father is by her becoming his wife.

Marnie and Nikos find that neither has ever gotten over what they had together. Marnie closed herself off and shut down all feeling and emotions to survive. Nikos determined not to be hurt or made to feel inferior as he had in the past, so he worked hard and closed himself off to emotions as well. But as the two plan their wedding and future life together all those feeling and emotions come back to the surface like a rushing wind. What I appreciated was their unraveling of the past in a honest, open dialogue. I appreciated the gradual development of their relationship as they sorted through their past and future together. Would they stay married and what about children. Would her parents ever play a part and does the truth all come out.

I found I liked both these characters and their multi demential personalities. Their character development throughout the story was layered and grew into two people I liked and wanted to have their HEA. Liked the secondary characters but not Marnie's parents.

Really enjoyable read with characters that communicated and worked through issues adult like.

But I have to say I did have issues with writing. Some of the scenes would stop abruptly and suddenly you find you are thrown into a completely different scene and having to recalibrate. Needs improvement in transition and delivery

Hot, fast, relationship-intense read

The boardroom barter always makes for a strong, Presents’ first impression. What I really liked about this beginning though, is that the relationship conflict is right out in the open between them.

I also liked the Greek setting with its older-Presents' vibe, an impression reinforced by voice and how the romance is very conflict-driven.

This is more the heroine's story than the hero's. Marnie is easy to empathise with. You understand how she made the decision she did as a grieving 17-year-old, even if it takes the hero a while to.

Nikos also reinforces classic Presents when you’re first introduced, but you're waiting, or at least I was, for him to become more 3D.

Fast pace is disorientating at times as you sometimes wonder where you are and whose head you’re in.

Marnie says she’s seen inside Nikos' soul, but I didn’t really feel as though the reader had, and I would have happily sacrificed secondary-character scenes and love-scene intense for more internal insight into Nikos' heart and soul.

3 classic Presents' stars for this easy-to-read page turner that skates the surface of the emotion and the hero

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I don't think I've read any Mills & Boon books by this author before but it did feel like I had read a similar plot before as this is a very unoriginal plot which I have read time and again in a Mills&Boon however, I enjoyed it and would recommend to a M&B fan but don't expect anything original.

At 17, Marnie had ended things with Nikos due to pressure from her parents. I felt a bit confused here as her dead sister is mentioned but the author doesn't take us back to the past much and it wasn't really explained enough. Marnie was unaware that her father also paid Nikos off. He was angry and so he used the money to make something of himself and only six years later, he's a billionaire! He finds out Marnie's father is in trouble financially and sees it as his way to finally get Marnie back.

I liked Nikos. He wasn't ever particularly horrible to Marnie but he does hurt her but I felt the emotion was lacking. Marnie seemed a bit of an insipid character that never really stood up for herself with her parents or Nikos. I felt the author didn't expand on enough...their past, her dead sister, Marnie's job. I would say Nikos was the saving grace of the story.

3.5 stars

Not bad for a debut novel. Lots of angst, lots of groveling at the end by the contrite, arrogant hero. I would read another from her.

I didn't care at all about the characters, the story the same way as a lot of other books.