Lynne Graham (1) (1956–)
Author of The Italian's Inexperienced Mistress
For other authors named Lynne Graham, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Author Lynne Graham was born on July 30, 1956 and has lived in Northern Ireland her entire life. She attended Edinburgh University and published her first book in 1987. She has one biological child and four adopted children. (Bowker Author Biography)
Series
Works by Lynne Graham
Marrying the Millionaire: The Disobedient Mistress / The Heiress Bride (The Sister Brides Book 2 & 3) 29 copies, 29 reviews
Da Rocha's Convenient Heir: A Billionaire Baby Romance (Vows for Billionaires) (2018) 20 copies, 1 review
Christmas Promises (The Christmas Eve Bride / A Marriage Proposal for Christmas / A Bride for Christmas) (2012) — Contributor — 19 copies
Escapade (Shattered Vows / Loverboy / The Keeper / The Veranchetti Marriage) (1998) — Author — 11 copies
Virgin Brides (Married by Arrangement / Mistress Bought and Paid For / The Cozakis Bride) (2009) 5 copies
Mothers-to-Be (Prisoner of Passion/ Last Grand Passion/ Safe in My Heart) (1999) — Contributor — 4 copies
Magnates: Desert Prince, Bride of Innocence / Ruthless Magnate, Convenient Wife / Greek Tycoon, Inexperienced Mistress (1600) 3 copies
Married For Revenge: Roccanti's Marriage Revenge / A Deal at the Altar / A Vow of Obligation (Special Releases) (2015) 3 copies
His Wife, His Revenge (The Vengeful Husband / The Greek Tycoons Ultimatum / The Forced Marriage) (2009) 3 copies
Desert Heat (Desert Bride/ Whirlpool of Passion/ Hostage of the Hawk) (1999) — Contributor — 3 copies
His Irish Bride (Greek Tycoon's Bride/ Brazilian Billionaire's Bride/ One-Night Bride) (2009) 2 copies
A Wish at Christmas: The Greek's Christmas Bride / Unwrapping His Convenient Fiancée / Christmas in the Billionaire's Bed / Maid Under the Mistletoe (2019) — Author — 2 copies
Billion-Dollar Babies: Baby Worth Billions (The Diamond Club) / Pregnant Princess Bride (The Diamond Club) (2024) 2 copies
Gorgeous Greeks: Her Greek Proposition: A Deal at the Altar (Marriage by Command) / Married for the Greek's Convenience / A Deal with Demakis (2020) 2 copies
Billionaires at the Altar/the Greek Claims His Shock Heir/the Italian Demands His Heirs/the Sheikh Crowns His Virgin (2022) 2 copies
The Boss's Christmas Seduction: Unlocking her Innocence / Million Dollar Christmas Proposal / Not Just the Boss's Plaything (Special Releases) (2015) 2 copies
Millionaire's Mistress (The Sicilian's Mistress / The Rich Man's Mistress / Marriage at His Convenience) (2006) 2 copies
Latin Loving (An Affair With the Boss / An End to a Paperless Marriage / A Secret Son) (2007) 2 copies
His Queen by Desert Decree [and] An Heir Made in the Marriage Bed — Author — 1 copy
Modern Romance September 2015 Books 1-4: The Greek Commands His Mistress / A Pawn in the Playboy's Game / Bound to the Warrior King / Her Nine Month Confession — Author — 1 copy
Mediterranean Men: Irresistible Italians (The Italian's Wife / The Italian's Passionate Proposal) (2007) 1 copy
Mediterranean Weddings (A Mediterranean Marriage / The Greek's Virgin Bride / Italian Prince's Proposal) (2007) 1 copy
Marrying the Millionaire (An Arabian Marriage / The Disobedient Mistress / The Heiress Bride) (2006) 1 copy
Prisonnière d'un roi 1 copy
The Petrakos Bride [and] Expecting His Love-Child — Contributor — 1 copy
The Italian's Ruthless Marriage Command [and] The Greek Tycoon's Blackmailed Mistress — Author — 1 copy
Julia Collection Band 21: Geliehenes Glück / Schöner als jeder Traum / Liebessommer in Frankreich / (2010) 1 copy
Royally Ever After: Zarif's Convenient Queen / To Dance with a Prince (In Her Shoes…) / Loving the Princess (2021) 1 copy
Märchen aus 1001 Nacht / Ein Kuss sagt mehr als 1000 Worte / Flucht in der Hochzeitsnacht / (2009) 1 copy
JULIA WEIHNACHTSBAND Band 22: DREI WORTE NUR ZUM FEST DER LIEBE / HOCHZEIT UNTER DEM MISTELZWEIG / EIN BABY ZU WEIHNACHTEN / (2009) 1 copy
Christmas Blockbuster 2022: Christmas Babies for the Italian / Hot Holiday Rancher / A Family Made at Christmas / A Snowbound Cowboy Christmas (2022) — Author; Author — 1 copy
The Cozakis Bride (L. Graham) | The Tycoon's Secret Affair (M. Banks) / Mistress by Contract (H. Bianchin) (2015) 1 copy
Passion: The Desert Sheikh's Captive Wife / The Greek Tycoon's Defiant Bride / The Italian Billionaire's Pregnant Bride (2011) 1 copy
Associated Works
Latin Lovers (A Spanish Christmas/ Christmas Eve Bride/ Christmas in Venice) (2001) — Contributor — 34 copies
An Insatiable Passion — Original Text — 4 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Graham, Lynne Marion
- Birthdate
- 1956-07-30
- Gender
- female
- Education
- University of Edinburgh
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Northern Ireland, UK
- Places of residence
- Northern Ireland
- Associated Place (for map)
- Northern Ireland, UK
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Reviews
I want to stab this book with knives! Then I want to rip out the last 50 pages and burn them and when they are nothing but ash, stomp them into oozing black mud.
There are going to be spoilers and I'm not going to black them out so don't come crying to me if you read further.
I was really liking this book. It wasn't one of those where they've already broken up and the author goes back to tell their story or tells of them getting back together. It starts at the beginning of their relationship show more and tells the whole thing. About half way through, they break up when the hero, Atreus, tells her, Lindy, that “I don't want a child with you.” Oh burn. And then he tells her she is his mistress and she isn't good enough for him to marry. Double, triple burn. He goes on and on with the whole with the whole cold sneering condescending thing.
He decides he doesn't want to see her anymore so he tells his estate manager that he'd like her to move then denies having anything to do with it when she gets evicted.
When he finds out she's pregnant, he tries to get her to sign a paper saying the child isn't his. When he finally decides to believe her, he withholds sex in order to get her to marry him. That's not cool especially when he smirked about it.
At their wedding, he sees no reason that the woman he hooked up with while they were apart shouldn't be there and why he shouldn't dance with her twice. On their wedding night, he admits that he has brought the other woman to this same island house and doesn't feel the need to tell the heroine that it was years ago when they were teenagers attending a party then he wonders why Lindy won't sleep with him. Then he decides she owes him an apology and keeps refusing to sleep with her. When she finally apologizes, for which total weakass lameness I will not forgive her, Atreus tells Lindy that he never slept with the other woman. I'm thinking at least that's good. But no, he didn't sleep with the other woman not because he couldn't bring himself to be with anyone but Lindy but rather because he knew if he did, the other woman would "get her hopes up". Full of yourself much?
He does finally admit that it had been a mistake to let her go and that he had missed her. Too damn little. Too damn late. And to top it off, Lindy tells him it was her own fault for pressuring him. OMG fire coming out of my ears!
I could have accepted all this asshatery if only the hero had realized he was the worst dick in romance land and grovelled until he had road rash on his chin. show less
There are going to be spoilers and I'm not going to black them out so don't come crying to me if you read further.
I was really liking this book. It wasn't one of those where they've already broken up and the author goes back to tell their story or tells of them getting back together. It starts at the beginning of their relationship show more and tells the whole thing. About half way through, they break up when the hero, Atreus, tells her, Lindy, that “I don't want a child with you.” Oh burn. And then he tells her she is his mistress and she isn't good enough for him to marry. Double, triple burn. He goes on and on with the whole with the whole cold sneering condescending thing.
He decides he doesn't want to see her anymore so he tells his estate manager that he'd like her to move then denies having anything to do with it when she gets evicted.
When he finds out she's pregnant, he tries to get her to sign a paper saying the child isn't his. When he finally decides to believe her, he withholds sex in order to get her to marry him. That's not cool especially when he smirked about it.
At their wedding, he sees no reason that the woman he hooked up with while they were apart shouldn't be there and why he shouldn't dance with her twice. On their wedding night, he admits that he has brought the other woman to this same island house and doesn't feel the need to tell the heroine that it was years ago when they were teenagers attending a party then he wonders why Lindy won't sleep with him. Then he decides she owes him an apology and keeps refusing to sleep with her. When she finally apologizes, for which total weakass lameness I will not forgive her, Atreus tells Lindy that he never slept with the other woman. I'm thinking at least that's good. But no, he didn't sleep with the other woman not because he couldn't bring himself to be with anyone but Lindy but rather because he knew if he did, the other woman would "get her hopes up". Full of yourself much?
He does finally admit that it had been a mistake to let her go and that he had missed her. Too damn little. Too damn late. And to top it off, Lindy tells him it was her own fault for pressuring him. OMG fire coming out of my ears!
I could have accepted all this asshatery if only the hero had realized he was the worst dick in romance land and grovelled until he had road rash on his chin. show less
Seems like the reviews are all over the place with this one. I really loved it. I loved the super spunky heroine who never ever rolled over and just took what the hero was dishing out. She had enough backbone for any 3 HP heroines. From their first meeting the hero, Ash and the heroine, Tabby, strike sparks off each other.
You could tell that they were immediately attracted to each other. You could also see that she basically had his head spinning since no one had ever treated him like she did. He wasn't used to a woman who wasn't sucking up to him. You could tell that she amused him. He was not verbally abusive. He never treated her badly, in fact he went out of his way to treat her well. Sure he used marriage to her to inherit but it was fairly clear that he was lying to himself about why he did it. He was rich and arrogant but I just got that "aww shucks, the poor guy just don't know no better" feeling.
I loved how awkward he was with the baby but how he fell for the little girl even though he'd always thought children were a nuisance.
The sex scenes were imaginative and different enough to be interesting without being vulgar. It was great to see a heroine who after she looses her virginity to the hero and he gets out of bed without a word to head to the bathroom, doesn't lie there quaking in misery but instead follows him into the john and grades his performance.
He did not intimidate her at all and every time he tried to come over all high handed with her, she just stood right up to him. The best part is that during these little fights she won more often that she lost. That was so refreshing. Usually in HP land the hero is so overwhelming that he wins every argument and the heroine is left with her jaw hanging and her pride beat up.
Without being one of those charming laughing heroes, Ash doesn't take himself too seriously He wasn't a wimp, wasn't at all beta. But he seemed really real.
These two didn't fight for fighting's sake. I thought the dialog was very realistic and not oddly crazy and oddly overdramatic as HPs often are. The two of them just seemed so real. The scene at the end was an example.He was having to fess up to a previous one night stand. Way before he met the heroine in case you were worried. He was embarrassed but a bad one nighter gave the book a refreshing modern feel. And made him seem flesh and blood. show less
"If you two are going to keep on chatting in a foreign language and acting like I'm not here..."show more
"If only you were not," Ash murmured silkily.
Tabby's hands balled into
fists.
"I bet quite a few women have thumped you in your time!"
Shimmering eyes dark as sloes challenged her, his lean strong face slashing into a sudden smile of raw amusement. "Not a one..."
You could tell that they were immediately attracted to each other. You could also see that she basically had his head spinning since no one had ever treated him like she did. He wasn't used to a woman who wasn't sucking up to him. You could tell that she amused him. He was not verbally abusive. He never treated her badly, in fact he went out of his way to treat her well. Sure he used marriage to her to inherit but it was fairly clear that he was lying to himself about why he did it. He was rich and arrogant but I just got that "aww shucks, the poor guy just don't know no better" feeling.
I loved how awkward he was with the baby but how he fell for the little girl even though he'd always thought children were a nuisance.
The sex scenes were imaginative and different enough to be interesting without being vulgar. It was great to see a heroine who after she looses her virginity to the hero and he gets out of bed without a word to head to the bathroom, doesn't lie there quaking in misery but instead follows him into the john and grades his performance.
"A-star for the sex, F for failure for the follow up," Tabby pronounced.
He did not intimidate her at all and every time he tried to come over all high handed with her, she just stood right up to him. The best part is that during these little fights she won more often that she lost. That was so refreshing. Usually in HP land the hero is so overwhelming that he wins every argument and the heroine is left with her jaw hanging and her pride beat up.
Without being one of those charming laughing heroes, Ash doesn't take himself too seriously He wasn't a wimp, wasn't at all beta. But he seemed really real.
"You're not a very flexible personality are you?"
"You'd roll me out like a pastry if I was," Tabby quipped. "I'm still mad at you Acheron. You took advantage of my ignorance."
"I'm an alpha male, programmed at birth to take advantage," Acheron pointed out with unapologetic cool. "But you called me on it, which I wasn't expecting."
These two didn't fight for fighting's sake. I thought the dialog was very realistic and not oddly crazy and oddly overdramatic as HPs often are. The two of them just seemed so real. The scene at the end was an example.
This was a very well written book. The story was tight and the plot was well developed and made total sense. There was drama but no drama for drama's sake. The hero, Alex, loves his secretary Sara, and the minute she breaks her engagement to another man he swoops in and hustles her into marriage. He had some real asshatty moments but what was cool was that eventually the heroine figured out that he had a pattern and she called him on it. That was one of the examples of why the book was so show more well written. You could look back and see along with the heroine that his asshat moments were always of the same type and they were something that totally made sense that a man would feel and his reaction was very realistic.
The heroine was not at all a spineless wimp as is often the case with LG. Sure she was unable to deny him sexually but she stood up for herself on all other counts and really had him dancing to her tune most of the time. She made her share of mistakes in the relationship too but they were well written mistakes and made sense.
Even though the book was written totally in her POV you could easily tell what was going on with the hero. You knew all along that he loved her.
The ending surprised me in a good way. I thought huh? really? I totally didn't expect something that happened there. The ending was not rushed and every emotion was played out and discussed. Loved it and highly recommend it. show less
The heroine was not at all a spineless wimp as is often the case with LG. Sure she was unable to deny him sexually but she stood up for herself on all other counts and really had him dancing to her tune most of the time. She made her share of mistakes in the relationship too but they were well written mistakes and made sense.
Even though the book was written totally in her POV you could easily tell what was going on with the hero. You knew all along that he loved her.
The ending surprised me in a good way. I thought huh? really? I totally didn't expect something that happened there. The ending was not rushed and every emotion was played out and discussed. Loved it and highly recommend it. show less
Best Lynne Graham so far. So I'm a Lynne Graham fan. Some of her books I like really well. Some have been stinkers. This one is my favorite of all that I've read from her so far.
Heroine - Betsy. She had a job she liked. She had ambition and future plans. She was the farthest thing from a doormat. She found him attractive. When he called her on it, as those ass hat heroes do, she just said words to the effect 'surely you can't be surprised. You must be used to it but I can admire a painting show more without wanting to buy it.' She punched holes in his super ego throughout the book and never let him get away with any crap. After sleeping with him the first time when he did that HP hero thing of saying condescendingly 'now don't go falling in love with the awesomeness that is me,' she told him 'oh don't worry, I'm in love with someone else.' He practically went apesh*t. She basically had him reeling throughout the book. Strongest LG heroine I've read and one of the strongest of any HP I've read.
The hero, Cristos, was super rich and super hot and super conceited. He didn't know how to handle her and couldn't believe how she treated him. But once he decided he wanted her nothing stood in his way. You could tell he loved her and was trying to do his best for her. He never got over the conceited thing but he was never mean or nasty to her.
One of the best aspects of the book was that they talked to each other. Whenever something came up, she would call him on it instead of getting her feelings hurt and running away. There were some misunderstandings between them but they seem realistic ones.
Writing as always with LG is well done, plotting is tight, etc.
Can't recommend highly enough to HP readers. show less
Heroine - Betsy. She had a job she liked. She had ambition and future plans. She was the farthest thing from a doormat. She found him attractive. When he called her on it, as those ass hat heroes do, she just said words to the effect 'surely you can't be surprised. You must be used to it but I can admire a painting show more without wanting to buy it.' She punched holes in his super ego throughout the book and never let him get away with any crap. After sleeping with him the first time when he did that HP hero thing of saying condescendingly 'now don't go falling in love with the awesomeness that is me,' she told him 'oh don't worry, I'm in love with someone else.' He practically went apesh*t. She basically had him reeling throughout the book. Strongest LG heroine I've read and one of the strongest of any HP I've read.
The hero, Cristos, was super rich and super hot and super conceited. He didn't know how to handle her and couldn't believe how she treated him. But once he decided he wanted her nothing stood in his way. You could tell he loved her and was trying to do his best for her. He never got over the conceited thing but he was never mean or nasty to her.
One of the best aspects of the book was that they talked to each other. Whenever something came up, she would call him on it instead of getting her feelings hurt and running away. There were some misunderstandings between them but they seem realistic ones.
Writing as always with LG is well done, plotting is tight, etc.
Can't recommend highly enough to HP readers. show less
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