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REVIEW: The Frenchman’s Marriage Demand by Chantelle Shaw

Dear Ms. Shaw:

2a46a24c-72e8-413f-aab2-175b986de0f7img100.jpgThis was the second bestselling Harlequin Presents at eharlequin.com. I read it after The Virgin’s Wedding Night and while the two books had similar emotional character arcs, my response to them was extremely different. While Craven’s book interested me enough to buy others, The Frenchman’s Marriage Demand made me wish I had a paper copy so that I could throw it against the wall.

Zacharie Deverell set Freya Addison up as his mistress for a few months in Monaco. She claimed that she was pregnant after one of her bodyguards reported that she was cheating on Zac. Zac kicked her out. Freya returns to London where she struggles to raise her daughter with help from Freya’s bitter grandmother. When Freya is injured in a motor vehicle accident, she begs her grandmother for help. Instead, her grandmother finds out that Zac is in London and takes baby Aimee to Zac. Zac has his reasons for not believing that Aimee is his and goes to the hospital to drop Aimee off and confront Freya again.

The whole sordid backstory is told in a “Did …