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Stefan Ziakas might be her father's most hated business rival, but he's the only man who has ever made Selene Antaxos feel beautiful. So, needing to make a new life for herself, Selene apprehensively turns to Stefan for help.
Except the dark-hearted tycoon is nothing like the white knight she remembers. Seduced, bedded and betrayed in a matter of days, Selene realizes it's not always better the devil you know. She's sold her soul—and her heart—to the enemy!
- Sales Rank: #304604 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-01
- Released on: 2013-02-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
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'Morgan never disappoints, and this time her powerful narrative and breathtaking setting combine for an exceptionally emotional romance.' 4.5 Stars Top Pick. RT Book Reviews
'..fresh and original...' B+ Dear Author
'..witty dialogue and beautifully crafted rescue scenes...' A Joyfully Recommended Read, joyfullyreviewed.com
'A fun, sexy read.' smexybooks.com
About the Author
USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan writes lively, sexy stories for Harlequin Presents. RT Book Reviews has described her as 'a magician with words' and her books have been nominated for their Reviewer's Choice Awards and their Top Pick slot. In 2012 Sarah won the prestigious RITA® Award from the Romance Writers of America for her book Doukakis's Apprentice. Readers can find out more about Sarah and her books from her website sarahmorgan.com. She can also be found on Facebook and Twitter (@SarahMorgan_)
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'No one will lend you money, Selene. They are all too afraid of your father.'
'Not all.' Selene sat down on the bed and stroked her mother's hair—hair tended regularly by hairdressers in order to keep up the appearance of a perfect life. 'Stop worrying. I'm going to get you away from here.'
Her mother lay still. She said 'from here' but they both knew that what she really meant was 'from him'.
'I should be the one saying that to you. I should have left years ago. When I first met your father he was so charming. Every woman in the room wanted him and he only had eyes for me. Have you any idea how that feels?'
Selene opened her mouth to say How could I, when I've been trapped on this island for most of my life? but realised that would only hurt her mother more. 'I can imagine it must have been very exciting. He was rich and powerful.' She wouldn't make that mistake. She would never let love blind her to the true nature of the man underneath.
'It's stupid to talk of leaving when we both know he'll never let us go. As far as the world is concerned we're the perfect family. He isn't going to let anything ruin that image.' Her mother rolled away, turning her face to the wall.
Selene felt a rush of frustration. It was like watching someone adrift on a raft, making no effort to save themselves. 'We're not going to ask him. It's our decision. Ours. Maybe it's time we told the world this "family" is a lie.'
Her mother's lack of response didn't surprise her. Her father had dictated to them and controlled them for so long she'd forgotten she even had a choice.
Despite the oppressive summer heat and the fact that their fortress home had no air-conditioning, a chill spread across her skin and ran deep into her bones.
How many years did it take, she wondered, before you no longer believed your life was worth fighting for? How many years before hope turned to helplessness, before anger became acceptance and spirit was beaten to a stupor? How many years until she, too, chose to lie on her side facing the wall rather than stand up and face the day?
Beyond the closed shutters that blotted out the only window in the tiny bedroom the sun beamed its approval from a perfect blue sky onto the sparkling Mediterranean, its brightness a cruel contrast to the darkness inside the room.
To many, the Greek Islands were paradise. Perhaps some of them were. Selene didn't know. She only knew this one, and Antaxos was no paradise. Cut off from its neighbours by a stretch of dangerous sea, rocks that threatened ships like the jaws of a monster and by the fearsome reputation of the man who owned it, this island was closer to hell than heaven.
Selene tucked the covers around her mother's thin shoulders. 'Leave everything to me.'
That statement injected her mother with an energy that nothing else could. 'Don't make him angry.'
She'd heard those words more often than she could count.
She'd spent her life tiptoeing around 'angry'.
'You don't have to live like this, watching everything you say and everything you do because of him.' Looking at her mother, Selene felt sad. Once, she'd been a beauty and it had been that blonde, Nordic beauty that had attracted the attention of the rich playboy Stavros Antaxos. Her mother had been dazzled by wealth and power and she'd melted under his charm like candle wax under a hot flame, never seeing the person beneath the smooth sophistication.
One bad choice, Selene thought. Her mother had made one bad choice and then spent years living with it, her heart and spirit crushed by a life spent with a ruthless man.
'Let's not talk about him. I had an e-mail this week from Hot Spa in Athens.' She'd been nursing the news for days, not daring to share it before now. 'Remember I told you about them? It's a really upmarket chain. And they have spa hotels on Crete, Corfu and Santorini. I sent them samples of my candles and my soap and they love them. They used them in their treatment rooms and three of their top clients insisted on taking them home and paid a fortune for the privilege. Now they want to talk to me and put in a large order. It's the break I've been hoping for.' She was buzzing inside and longing to share the excitement so it came as a blow when her mother's only response was to shake her head.
'He'll never let you do it.'
'I don't need his permission to live my life the way I want to live it.'
'And how are you going to live it? You need money to set up your business and he won't give you money that enables us to leave him.'
'I know. Which is why I don't intend to ask him. I have another plan.' She'd learned not to speak without first checking to see who might be listening and instinctively she turned her head to see that the door was closed, even though this was her mother's bedroom and she'd secured the door herself. Even though he wasn't even on the island. 'I'm leaving tonight and I'm telling you this because I won't be able to contact you for a few days and I don't want you to worry about me. As far as everyone is concerned I am at the convent for my usual week of retreat and meditation.'
'How can you leave? Even if you could slip past his security and make it off the island you will be recognised. Someone will call him and he will be furious. You know how obsessed he is about maintaining the image of the perfect family.'
'One of the advantages of being the shy, reclusive daughter of a man feared by everyone is that no one is expecting to see me. But just to cover all eventualities I have a disguise.' And she didn't intend to share the details with anyone. Not even her mother, who was now looking at her with panic in her eyes.
'And if you do manage to make it as far as the mainland, what then? Have you thought that far?'
'Yes, I've thought that far.' And further, much further, to a future that was nothing like the past. 'You don't need to know any of this. All you need to do is trust me and wait for me to return and fetch you. I'd take you now only two of us travelling together are more likely to attract attention. You have to stay here and keep up the perfect family pretence for just a little longer. Once I have the money and somewhere to stay I'm coming back for you.'
Her mother gripped her arm tightly. 'If by any chance you manage to do this, you should not come back. It's too late for me.'
'It drives me mad when you say things like that.' Selene hugged her mother. 'I will come back. And then we're leaving together and he can find someone else to control.'
'I wish I had money to give you.'
So did she. If her mother had maintained her independence then perhaps they wouldn't be in this mess now, but her father's first and cleverest move following his marriage had been to ensure his wife had no income of her own, thus making her dependent on him in every way. Her mother had confessed that at first she'd found it romantic to have a man who wanted to care for her. It had been later, much later, that she'd realised that he hadn't wanted to care for her. He'd wanted to control her. And so her mother's independence had slowly leeched away, stolen not by a swift kill but by a slow, cruel erosion of her confidence.
'I have enough to get me to Athens. Then I'm going to get a loan to start my business.' It was the only option open to her and she knew other people did it all the time. They borrowed money and they paid it back and she would pay it back, too. All of it.
'He has contacts at all the banks. None of them will loan you money, Selene.'
'I know. Which is why I'm not going to a bank.'
Her mother shook her head. 'Name one person who would be prepared to do business with you. Show me a man with the guts to stand up to your father and I'll show you a man who doesn't exist.'
'He exists.' Her heart pumped hard against her chest and she forced herself to breathe slowly. 'There is one man who isn't afraid of anyone or anything. A strong man.'
'Who?'
Selene kept her voice casual. 'I'm going to see Stefanos Ziakas.'
The name alone drained the colour from her mother's face. 'Ziakas is another version of your father. He's a ruthless, self-seeking playboy with no conscience and not one shred of gentleness in him. Don't be fooled by that handsome face and that charismatic smile. He's deadly.'
'No, he isn't. I met him once, years ago, on the yacht on one of the occasions we were forced to play "happy families" in public. He was kind to me.' Selene was annoyed to feel herself blushing.
'If he was kind, it was because he knew it would annoy your father. They hate each other.'
'He didn't know who I was when we started talking.'
'You were the only seventeen-year-old there. It was obvious who you were.' Her mother sounded weary. 'Ask yourself why a sophisticated man like him would spend his time talking to you when he came with the actress Anouk Blaire.'
'He told me she was boring. He said she only cared about how she looked and who wrote about her and that being with him enhanced her career. He said I was much more interesting. We talked all night.' About everything. She'd told him things she'd never told anyone before. Not about her family, of course—she was too well trained to let that particular truth slip—but she'd talked about her dreams and her hopes for the future and been grateful when he hadn't laughed. He'd listened with those sexy eyes fixed on her and when she'd asked him if he thought she might be able to run a business one day he'd spoken words she'd never forgotte...
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
3.5 stars, Takes awhile for the heroine to mature
By Melissa
The heroine in Sarah Morgan's latest novel Sold to the Enemy falls into the annoying category for part of this novel but fortunately she matures and saves this novel from being a two star read.
Selene has grown up on a private Greek Island owned by her fabulously wealthy father her whole life. She has been controlled by him and so has her mother yet they present a happy family to the outside world. Selene has a plan to leave the island and take her mother with her but she needs someone to help her and that's where hero Stefan Ziakas comes into her plans.
Stefan is a wealthy Greek living in Athens and he is her father's bitter enemy. Selene has always had a hero worship of Stefan from the time she was seventeen when he spent hours conversing with her on a yacht. Selene plans to present her business idea of selling candles to exclusive spas to Stefan and she wants to ask him for a business loan to finance her idea.
Stefan is surprised to see Selene and he is even more shocked how beautiful she has become since he saw her five years earlier. The two have a fast romance with Selene finding herself in bed with him and regretting it when she believes he bedded her to exact revenge against her father.
Stefan is a controlled hero, a little arrogant but also a man who is protective and one who has been hurt. Stefan can be domineering but Selene is so obstinate and irrational someone has to help save her from her actions.
Selene is a blame shifter and she tends to lash out at Stefan for her bad decisions. A third of the novel has Selene holding Stefan responsible for way too many events in her life. She even goes as far as comparing Stefan to her obsessive father.
Selene matures and when she does this book takes a turn for the better. Selene gains insight into Stefan's actions and she discovers her own emotional needs. The last third of this story flows much better than the first and middle portions due to the heroine who becomes a woman of substance.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
a refreshing heroine and great read
By A. C.
I really enjoyed this book. I would say that the heroine is naive, not immature. She was brought up in a secluded and oppressive way, and had almost no exposure to the outside world because of her tyrannical and abusive father. When she finally escapes out into the real world she is quite unprepared and very over eager to try all the things that she had never had a chance to do and try, leading to some funny moments between hero/ heroine. I felt it was a realistic way in which to behave when embarking out on your own for the first time in your life. Her new experiences derailed her on her long and careful plan for her and her mom's freedom and that adds to the thrill of the book.
The hero had all the wonderful qualities of a great and memorable hero. He had a conscience and was very protective of her although he struggled throughout the book with his feelings for her, and how those feelings grew and grew for her.
I really like how the heroine always stood up to him (in a cute way) and did not let him steamroll her into doing things his way as do so many of our heroines. In so many of today's books they seem to just pretend to be these ethical and very independent women but in the end they turn wishy washy and self sacrificing, for " the good of the unborn baby" or other typical martyr plot. It's nice to read a different type of take on a plot I've read before which happens I suppose, when you've been reading romance for over 25 years.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A Hero with a Conscience
By CEMommy
I really liked this book. The hero, while thinking himself hard as nails business man really stepped up and didn't make the heroine work for his love. He wasn't your typical jerk throughout the book then all of a sudden he's great because he figures out he loves her. I'm really tired of that plot and thought this book would be the same. I was very pleasantly surprised. I only gave it 4 stars because don't think her father truly got what was coming to him. It left me vaguely unsatisfied. That's not really a spoiler since you figure out his personality in the first chapter of the book. All told, I would definitely recommend this author and book to others.
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