THE ITALIAN'S SUITABLE WIFE

Lucy Monroe

Harlequin Presents #2425

ISBN 0373124252

October 2004

Category Romance

Gianna Lakewood has loved and dreamed of Enrico DiRinaldo since she was fifteen years old. Now eight years later, Rico's engaged to a gorgeous model, and Gianna's dreams have come to nothing. She rushes to Rico's side when he's struck by a car while saving a pedestrian, and stays with him night and day since his fiancee prefers not to be around him while he recovers. When Rico awakes from a coma, he's paralyzed, though the doctors assure him it's only temporary. Besides not being able to walk, he's also impotent. After breaking with his faithless fiancee, he proposes marriage to Gianna. Though temporarily impotent, he wants to have children right away and suggests that Gianna conceive through artificial insemination. Though she desperately wants marriage and a family with him, more than anything else, Gianna wants Rico to love her. But once he's healed and whole again, will Rico still want her, his second choice for a bride?

THE ITALIAN'S SUITABLE WIFE is pure classic Harlequin Presents with all the elements long-time Presents readers adore: unrequited love, an insufferably sexy Italian alpha hero you'd love to whack upside the head then knock him onto the bed and have your way with him, a young unsure heroine, an exotic location, and a heartless bitch of a former fiancee you just love to hiss at. There were a couple of times I wanted to shake Gianna for misunderstanding and misreading Rico, but Ms. Monroe makes us realize how young and inexperienced and very much in love she is. Lucy Monroe's trademark, deliciously sensual scenes--and especially those with an impotent Rico--will take your breath away! The ITALIAN'S SUITABLE WIFE is highly recommended!