Her Forbidden Bridegroom (Harlequin Romance, 3717)

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Summary: Her Forbideen Bridegroom
Review: Back cover reads:
From make-believe engagement--
When Lorna Farrell finds herself caught up in a pretend engagement with handsome oil tycoon Mitch Ellery, she knows she's playing with fire. Mitch is they key to Lorna being reunited with her real family. He's also the only man she's ever loved--and the one man she can't have!
to forbidden marriage?
Mitch must never guess Lorna's true feelings, but pretending to be in love leads to complications. If Lorna walks away, she loses everything. But as the attraction between them intensifies, should she take a risk and confess her secrets?

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Summary: Mitch Learns to Trust.
Review: You may need to tie your hands to keep from b--slapping Doris Ellery. She is Lorna Farrell's mother. Doris gave Lorna up a birth. Then she married a man that was very narrow minded and she pretended to never been with a man before.
Doris had a little girl by him, he died. Doris remarried a rich man. And he too died.
When Lorna was 16 she was tricked into seeing Doris. Lorna said she didn't want any thing from her mother.
Doris hit the ceiling and called Lorna a lier, she accused her of trying to black mail her.
Doris had a step son Mitch, he was very protective regarding his step mother and step sister Kendra.
Lorna worked for a man who became engaged to Kendra and she made demands of useing Lorna for shopping trips and lunches.
Soon Lorna ran into Mitch, he demanded she leave her job, he would pay her enough to go away and get another job.
Lorna refused. She told Mitch to have a blood test done to show Doris was her mother.
Doris refused. She asked Mitch to pretend to be interested in Lorna so he could find out what kind of person Lorna really was.
Soon Mitch did, and he started having doubts about his step-mothers motives.
the twist at the end ot this exellent book will make you mad, but hang in there Mitch is a true hero.