The Purchased Wife

By Michelle Reid

Xander Pascalis can buy anything...including a wife! At millions of dollars, Helen is lavishly expensive. But Xander thinks he knows a good deal when he sees one...

However, when Helen refuses to share his bed, Xander is forced to take his headstrong wife to his private Greek island to tame her into keeping her marriage vows. He wants value for money: she will give him the wedding night that, so far, she's denied him...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Harlequin Presents
• Release date: Apr 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781426859021

Michelle Reid

Michelle Reid grew up on the southern edges of Manchester, the youngest in a family of five lively children. Now she lives in the beautiful county of Cheshire, with her busy executive husband and two grown-up daughters. She loves reading, the ballet, and playing tennis when she gets the chance. She hates cooking, cleaning, and despises ironing! Sleep she can do without and produces some of her best written work during the early hours of the morning.

Reviews for The Purchased Wife

[Alisa · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I didn’t expect to like this book given all the negative reviews but I really enjoyed it. Loved the passion, fire and uncertainty of the male protagonist. It’s a romance novel for heaven sake!! If it mimicked real life, it would be frightfully dreary. He was as possessive and pigheaded as he was supposed to be and she was as consumed as she needed to be. Thoroughly enjoyed and fully recommend.

[Pompi chunhkrang · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I really like the story but the way of explanation is very poor , it really very confusing , I can't understand what's going on in the story.

[Akem Sandra · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The romance in the book is amazing, I especially like when Helen decided to take back Wat was her's and that was her husband, also how she say whatever she wasn't comfortable with to cancer was really cool. Couples should always communicate abt their problems, to help keep a healthy relationship or marriages.

[anne · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

If I could give this no stars I would. The male protagonist repeatedly threatens to murder the female protagonist while being a lying cuntwaffle. Ugh! Yuck.

[malunks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is really a 4 star for me but I want to give it a boost since every one else hates it, haha. Great angsty read!

[melaquarius · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

bad very bad
the guy a dick head
the girl a spinless piss of s....
and the mother a big tim b and the father a w....
very bad
typicall of this writer

[kaetrin_1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This was a true DNF. It would have been a wallbanger except it was electronic. I picked it up after reading raves about this author's work on Dear Author - Jane is a big fan. Maybe I picked the wrong book to start (I have 2 others on my reader which I haven't been brave enough to read so far) but this "alpha hero" took a wrong turn RIGHT AT THE START OF THE BOOK into asshatville and I couldn't see him redeeming himself. Apparently there is world class grovel at the end of the book but I didn't want to read it. The heroine is in hospital after a car accident and our hero comes in and leans over her and threatens her ("I'll hurt you") with physical violence if she doesn't do (something which I now can't recall and don't care enough to look up quite frankly). That was the last of a number of straws and I shut it down. Not sexy or heroic. Just yuk. Not my kind of hero. Others have disagreed though, so YMMV.