Her Secret Bridegroom

Her Secret Bridegroom is a book by British author, Kate Walker, in the Latin Lovers series. Amy Redman goes on holiday to Italy, succumbs to a whirlwind courtship by Vincenzo Ravenelli and is married. After one night of passion, she discovers that Cenzo married her on a bet to regain the Ravenelli ruby from his cousin. Amy runs back to England; he follows but she refuses to see him and keeps her marriage secret (really?? he didn’t try terribly hard…) Four years later she decides to go back to Italy to demand a divorce. Cenzo, the stereotypical Latin lover, refuses, he’s been faithful all that time (yeah, right). Amy, instantly overcome with desire by his masculinity any time he is near, tries to convince him she loves her milquetoast boss, David. A paper-thin plot and cardboard characters, mediocre sex scenes and not a line of humour, this is 187 pages of tiresome, tedious melodrama: save your precious reading time for something better.