Who is Helena Armstrong? How does Theo know her? Oh my…. The trials Theo has undergone over the past few years, poor thing. What do we learn about them? How does the past change the present? What plan does Theo have in his head? Why is this so important to him? What does he learn about Helena? The misconceptions that they each have about one another is so sad. The stubbornness of each side is maddening! Things flip-flop a number of times. Read and see how it ends!

4.5 Stars

This is a book in the Harlequin Presents line over at Harlequin Books. This line of books is slightly more sensual than a normal Harlequin book and tends to have an International flavor to it.

Basic premise: Theo has a plan. He wants revenge on Helena for leaving him at the alter years earlier. But of course, as plan go, this one goes awry almost immediately. Neither have been with another person since their breakup. And now them being together for an unexpected length of time is proving to pull them together closer than ever.

We all know how this is going to end. Theo will succeed at his quest and Helena will be embarrassed and dejected. But what if half way through he decides his quest is over and now he wants to have that happily ever after with Helena? If she ever finds out what he was up to it will be over. And now that he has fallen back in love with her, he never wants her to discover the truth.

This was a little hard to read at time. I could totally see both points of view and how they had come to this moment. It was just hard watching it all unfold knowing what was coming. Great book and I highly recommend it.

I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.

This is Helena and Theo’s story. They had a relationship which broke up because she thought he was controlling like her father. He comes up with a revenge plan. She has to come design the house they were going to live in if she hadn’t broken up with him. They make many discoveries about each other. I couldn’t put the book down.

Three years ago, Helen left Greek billionaire Theo Nikolaidis at the altar. She has since complete her architecture degree and is looking to come on board full time at the architecture firm where she has been doing her apprenticeship. Theo however has been nursing his revenge for three long years and now executes his long held plan holding both Helen and her firm hostage.
Poor Helen finds herself winging to Greece and to the island where she first met and fell in love with Theo and the property that they had once made loving plans to restore. Now however Helen is designing the house for Theo to live in with someone else.
Even though she tries to distance herself from the past and from her love for Theo, chemistry has its way with them. Can they find a way to bridge the old hurts and find a new happy or is to late for them?
I love harlequins because they're a nice escape from day to day reality and can be consumed in one quick bite. This was a fun short read.

This is a wonderful quick read. I thoroughly enjoyed the story of Theo and Helena. It may have been love at first sight for one of them, but the other one may have other ideas. Helena didn't want to be controlled as her father did with her mother. Theo has made a huge mistake! Read the book to find out how this story plays out.

Theo was the sexy handsome Greek billionaire who Helena had dumped the night before her wedding. Nice twist since it’s usually the women who always gets dumped at the altar. It’s a good storyline and I did finish it. I found the characters cold and I never warmed up to either one. Three years Theo plots his revenge and then he just stops, it was just cold and a bit boring. The ending was just okay, nothing great. Really didn’t care much for this book.

Rating 3.25

Theo, was exacting revenge against his ex fiancé, Helena. She left him at the alter and broke his heart three years ago. He devised a scheme to have her design his dream home (more like their dream home when they had talked about building when they were engaged), Helena is a design architect. He will be his charming self, have her fall in love with him and then let her experience what he did years ago. They travel to his island and he then proceed to slowly chip away at wall around her heart. He was charming, sweet and romantic. And of course Helena began to realize how much she missed him and all the feelings he evoked in her.

Helena, couldn't believe Theo was back in her life. She left him at the alter as he reminded her too much of her father. Her father was a domineering male who treated the females in his life, especially her mother, with arrogance and control. She dedicated her self to her career. But Theo was a ghost in her life and now he's back. She has no choice but to help build their, oops his dream home. Her company is suffering financially and this will be a tremendous help.

They than have a tug a war of who's going to win in their mission. Helena plan is to do her job, stay away from Theo and get off the island as soon as possible with her heart intact. Theo was determined to woo Helena, charm her and get her to have some fun. As Theo's mission progress he finds that his heart is now becoming involved again and Helena begins to realize that maybe she saw Theo in the wrong light and was everything she's always wanted. As they spend more time together hearts being to melt and feelings resurface. They begin to see that they misunderstood each other and situations in each other's lives. Theo's scheme is revealed just as Helena realizes she misjudge him and still loves him. She's heartbroken and Theo realizes he loves her and can't do life without her. He does a wonderful job of winning her back and really like the epilogue.

So now the reason for the three star rating. I had a very hard time liking Helena. She seemed almost like a shrew and negative Nancy. Her reasoning for leaving Theo was childish and done in a cruel manner. I didn't warm to her till the last couple chapters at best. Now Theo, I loved him. He was charming, funny, sweet and a tease (in a good way, with all his little winks). He did so much for Helena, he really did adore her. I thought he gave her too much chances to be honest. He almost deserved better. He was the reason the rating made it to three or it would have been a two.

I normally love this authors books but this heroine didn't work for me.