She is rude, cruel and mean, and even stupid. She hates the hero, who has been working for his father for two years, and acts like a spoiled and awful woman. Her father left her his vineyard if she married the hero and stays married with him for one year. This book deserved a new shelf: worst heroine.īecause the heroine is maybe the worst kind of woman I met in all hp books. Hero was kind of a one note alpha - nothing really stood out about him. She did show maturity about the OW and she does try to get along with the hero even before she realized she was "in love." She was a great character in Echo in the Valley and the seeds are sown here. The heroine was really annoying at first, but she grew on me. Heroine hunts him down and confesses she loves him. Heroine confronts them both and surprises hero in that she doesn't believe the child is his. Hero continues to see OW, so the heroine has her investigated. He rapes/force seduces her since she broke her promise not to tell anyone of the true state of their marriage. Heroine is upset to hear this, but hero makes it worse. Hero punches OM and then reveals that the OM has a lengthy criminal record going after rich heiresses. Hero comes across them and OM taunts him with this knowledge.
Then she lets slip to the OM that she doesn't have a real marriage with the hero. She does however, pull her weight on working on the estate. Hero manhandles her a lot - he ties her hands to bring her back after one particular flounce.
They do marry by the deadline and the heroine is very unhappy. Heroine is very immature and shrewish about the conditions of the will, and continues to go out with an OM in the month leading up to the wedding deadline. Then each will have the property they grew up on. By the dictates of the will, the hero and heroine must marry and live together for one year. Now both properties are combined into an award-winning winery. Then his mother had to sell up to the heroine's father. Hero used to live on the neighboring estate until he was ten years old. This is a forced marriage story between a 20 year-old heroine whose father has just died and the manager of her father's winery. I tracked down this one because this couple is featured in YW's epic revenge-fest, Echo in the Valley.
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