'Marry me, querida. Vasco da Carvalho's proposal came as a dream. Even in her wildest fantasies about the Brazilian rancher, Abigail had not dared to expect this!Until yesterday, this exotic male has been engaged to her cousin.
Well, Abigail could only interpret Vasco's actions as those of a man doing the honorable thing.Because last night Abby had 'Marry me, querida. Vasco da Carvalho's proposal came as a dream. Even in her wildest fantasies about the Brazilian rancher, Abigail had not dared to expect this!Until yesterday, this exotic male has been engaged to her cousin. Well, Abigail could only interpret Vasco's actions as those of a man doing the honorable thing.Because last night Abby had comforted him in his rage. And while she could never regret their unplanned moment of passion, how could she share a lifetime with a man who felt obligated to marry her? A dramatic retelling of Witch's Harvest.London:Heroine: Hi, here's a letter from my cousin giving you an ultimatum to dump your Brazilian cocoa plantation or she'll have sex with another guy.Hero: Thanks.gets drunk.Heroine:.ditches date with other guy. I'm going to take you back to my flat until you sober up.Hero:.waking up.
I'm done being drunk. Let's have sex.Heroine: Okay.Next dayHero: You were a virgin. Let's get married.Heroine: No.OW cousin: Didn't you get my letter?Hero: Yes, that's A dramatic retelling of Witch's Harvest.London:Heroine: Hi, here's a letter from my cousin giving you an ultimatum to dump your Brazilian cocoa plantation or she'll have sex with another guy.Hero: Thanks.gets drunk.Heroine:.ditches date with other guy. I'm going to take you back to my flat until you sober up.Hero:.waking up. I'm done being drunk.
Let's have sex.Heroine: Okay.Next dayHero: You were a virgin. Let's get married.Heroine: No.OW cousin: Didn't you get my letter?Hero: Yes, that's why I'm marrying your cousin.OW: (aside) I'm going to lie and tell the H that the heroine is in love with the OM she just ditched to have sex for the first time ever with the hero. Think he'll buy it?Hero: Sounds legit. I'll make heroine love me by taking her to a foreign country, leaving her to her own devices and telling her to be nice to the Black Widow next door.
Then I'll be crazy jealous about the slimy OM next door who keeps popping up.BrazilHeroine: I'm going to feel sorry for myself and not tell the hero what the OM said about the witches' broom ( an invasive disease that kills cocoa plants) that is a threat to hubby's plantation.Hero: I'm going to go away to leave heroine free to interpret my actions as hooking up with her cousin.Heroine: I'm pregnant. I think I'll go out drinking with the OMHero: I'm jealous my pregnant wife went out drinking with the OM, so I'll forcibly seduce her.Heroine: It's my fault the cocoa plants are diseased. I'll work until I miscarry.Hero: I think it's time to sell up.Heroine: Why didn't you just sell up to begin with if you wanted my cousin?Hero: Wait, what?Heroine: Never mind. I'm leaving.Hero:.Cries into the h's peach nylon nightgown.Heroine: You're crying.Hero: I'm not crying, you're crying.Heroine: I still love you even though we're going to be poor.OW, Black Widow and OM: got away with it, bitches!.high fives. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it,Re Witch's Harvest - in this one there is our sweet little h, there is the H and then there are TWO other women and a parasitic cocoa bean infestation and a talking parrot and a wanna be OM - with all that going on this should have been a much better story.The story starts with the h being bullied by her witch of a cousin to deliver a letter to her fiance by a certain time. The cousin has written an ultimatum that the fiance either changes his plans to take his bride to his remote Brazilian Re Witch's Harvest - in this one there is our sweet little h, there is the H and then there are TWO other women and a parasitic cocoa bean infestation and a talking parrot and a wanna be OM - with all that going on this should have been a much better story.The story starts with the h being bullied by her witch of a cousin to deliver a letter to her fiance by a certain time. The cousin has written an ultimatum that the fiance either changes his plans to take his bride to his remote Brazilian cocoa bean plantation in favor of the fiance joining his wealthy family's business in Rio or be prepared for the worst. If the fiance doesn't change his mind, the bride to be will sleep with a man more than willing to grant her whims in Paris.For some reason the h feels guilty that she is dropping off her cousin's letter, even tho she has no clue what it says. The fiance reads the letter and tells the h that the marriage is off cause his soon to be bride is getting it on with another man.
The h knows the cousin was faking being innocent to catch the H, but she naively believes that they can work things out. Except the H doesn't want to work things out with a mercenary tart that he now considers the cousin to be.The h actually has a date with a boring guy that night, and later at a pub with boring guy she sees the H and he is cataclysmally drunk. The h dumps boring guy and gets the H to go with her in taxi to her little flat. She pops him in her bed and he passes out. Later that night, the H knocks some things over and wakes the h. She has had a massive crush on the H for a while now, it is why she left her aunt and uncle's house for her own little flat, so when the H seduces her she doesn't say no very hard.
She doesn't have a rapturous lurve club experience and the H is shocked and remorseful that she is a virgin.The h makes him leave but he shows up later and determines that they will wed cause he needs to bring home a wife and the h may be preggers. The H tells the h that they will try marriage for 6 months.
The cousin shows up and has a hissy fit, but the H tells her off and we all fly to Brazil after the wedding. The h is miserable cause she feels like she is a sloppy second and there is even more stress when she doesn't speak the language, the H avoids her and the woman next door is making several plays for her husband. The H and h aren't having any boudoir bouncing moments and the h feels very isolated.
The only person that even attempts to help her fit in is the American plantation manager next door and the H is mad she is talking to another male. She is even more isolated when the OW next door throws a birthday party for the H and the h did not even know it was his birthday. The H decides that her present can be a forced seduction which the h winds up crying a bit the next morning so the H resolves to leave her alone some more.Then the H goes off to Manaus and the h finds out he is meeting her cousin (his ex-fiancee), everyone in the district knows the H is cheating on her cause he was at a hotel with the OW. The H had already told the h that her cousin told him all about her and the h assumes that he knows that she had a major crush on him and that he was offering her pity. The h spends the afternoon with the American manager next door after she goes to town and finds out she is preggers. The wanna be OM takes her home after a movie and the H decides that he can force himself on her at will and does to relieve his possessiveness.
The wanna be OM offers to take the h with him when he leaves as the OW next door doesn't want to keep running the plantation and a lot of the crop has the parasitic invasion of witch's broom which has to be cut out and burned, so the plantation is up for sale.Then the infestation is found on the H's crop and the h goes out to help remove it because no one explained to her the danger of it being in the area and she did not warn the H when the wanna be OM told her about it, so she thinks it is her fault. While she is helping remove the parasitic plant, the h has a miscarriage. When she recovers, she tells the H she wants to leave. The H tells her to wait until he goes to Manaus as the pilot won't be available until he returns. When the H gets back he tells her that he will sell the plantation and move to Rio.
The h assumes that the H is doing it to keep her cousin happy and tells him she doesn't care, his affairs are his own.Then she goes to leave but forgets a little tchotcke and goes back to find the H sniffing her discarded nightgown. The h asks him if he really wants her to leave and the H tells her no but the h asks about what happened to the selling off the plantation and hooking up with the cousin.
Strange Adventure By Sara Craven
The h tells the H that everyone knows he was with her and the H gets upset and swears he only saw her one time and that was to send her off and the h wasn't supposed to know the cousin was even in the country.The H claims that he loves the h and was trying to court her, but he was worried she was mercenary like her cousin. (I am still trying to figure that one out, he ignores her, doesn't help her with the language and leaves her isolated for several months and calls that courtship? The tart of a cousin at least got lots of dates and outings and conversation and the h pretty much got dumped in strange country, forcibly seduced and then almost abandoned and when the H does talk to her, it is to berate her. The h never asks for anything and tries to help out with her limited skill set. The cousin got better treatment and she did not even put out.)The H also says that the cousin claimed that the h was massively in love with boring guy form that she dated a few times. The h vehemently denies this and tells the H she only dated him a few times.
The h is now overjoyed cause she has been in love with him since he courted her cousin, (the h had a vicarious romance I guess,) and tells the H she wants to stay on the plantation and have another shot at the fruit of his lance of lust for the big HEA.This one is just sorta there, I was still looking for the actual falling in love and romance for all the book. The H never did anything to actually woo the h, he wasn't horribly mean, he just ignored her most of the time and the boudoir bouncing was not exactly passionately inspiring. His saying he was in love was a huge surprise cause I just wasn't feeling the lurve at all. Read this if you are a big fan of SC and have to complete the backlist but evetyone else can probably skip this and not miss out on any exciting HPlandia adventure. Marry me, querida. Vasco da Carvalho's proposal came as a dream.
Even in her wildest fantasies about the Brazilian rancher, Abigail had not dared to expect this!Until yesterday, this exotic male has been engaged to her cousin. Well, Abigail could only interpret Vasco's actions as those of a man doing the honorable thing.Because last night Abby had comforted him in his rage. And while she could never regret their unplanned moment of passion, how could she share a lifetime Marry me, querida. Vasco da Carvalho's proposal came as a dream.
Even in her wildest fantasies about the Brazilian rancher, Abigail had not dared to expect this!Until yesterday, this exotic male has been engaged to her cousin. Well, Abigail could only interpret Vasco's actions as those of a man doing the honorable thing.Because last night Abby had comforted him in his rage. And while she could never regret their unplanned moment of passion, how could she share a lifetime with a man who felt obligated to marry her? Abby was much too immature n annoying! Instead of making best of a situation, she made it worse n behaved very childishly. I dunt c how vasco fell in love wid her. She was so insecure n cold towards him.
I can understand she did not feel she cud compete wid della but she cud at least have recognised vasco's efforts at making the marriage real n he did make life as comfortable as possible 4 her n did not allow, be it luisa or della, 2 belittle her. But she was too busy wallowing in self-pity 2 abby was much too immature n annoying! Instead of making best of a situation, she made it worse n behaved very childishly. I dunt c how vasco fell in love wid her.
She was so insecure n cold towards him. I can understand she did not feel she cud compete wid della but she cud at least have recognised vasco's efforts at making the marriage real n he did make life as comfortable as possible 4 her n did not allow, be it luisa or della, 2 belittle her. But she was too busy wallowing in self-pity 2 notice.