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Nate Jackson finds it almost too easy to seduce his enemy's daughter. And after their white-hot weekend, he issues an ultimatum—Nicole Wilson will work for him or her family will learn of their affair.
Nicole has little choice. Yet even as she bows to her lover's demands, she sees the hope for redemption in Nate's eyes. Can his reasons be justified? And does she dare trust a man planning to destroy all she holds dear?
- Sales Rank: #2937321 in Books
- Published on: 2012-03-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.62" h x .70" w x 4.21" l, .25 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 256 pages
About the Author
New Zealand born, to Dutch immigrant parents, Yvonne Lindsay became an avid romance reader at the age of 13. Now, married to her ‘blind date’ and with two children, she remains a firm believer in the power of romance. Yvonne feels privileged to bring to her readers the stories of her heart. In her spare time, when not writing, she can be found reading a book, reliving the power of love in all walks of life. She can be contacted via her website www.yvonnelindsay.com
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Nicole's hands shook uncontrollably as she tried to fit her key into the ignition. Damn, she dropped it again. She swiped the key ring up off the floor of her classic Benz, and gave up driving as a bad joke. If she couldn't even get the key in the ignition, how on earth did she expect to drive?
She got out of the car, slammed the door hard and swiped her cell phone from her bag. Thank goodness she'd had the presence of mind to grab the designer leather pouch from the hall table after her grand exit from the family dinner to end all family dinners.
Her high heels clipped a staccato beat as she marched down the well-lit driveway of her family home to the street, calling a taxi service as she went. Fine tremors shook her body as she waited for the car to arrive. The chill air of the autumn night made her glad she hadn't had a chance to change out of her tailored wool suit when she'd arrived home from work earlier.
Her father had requested that she dress up for dinner in honor of a special announcement he'd planned to make, but by the time she'd gotten home, there just hadn't been enough time. She hadn't thought her father would mind that she'd chosen to put in the extra time at the office instead of rushing home to get ready. After all, if anyone should understand her drive to devote her time and energy to Wilson Wines then surely it would be Charles Wilson, founder and CEO. Her father had invested most of his life into the business he had built, and she'd always intended to follow in his footsteps.
Until tonight.
Another rush of anger infused her. How dare her father belittle her like that, and in front of a virtual stranger, as well? Who cared if that stranger was her long-lost brother, Judd. Two and a half decades after their parents' bitter divorce had split their family in half, what right did he have to come back and lay claim to the responsibilities that were supposed to be hers? She clenched her jaw tight and bit back the scream of frustration that threatened to claw its way out of her throat. She couldn't lose it now. Not when she had just discovered that she was the only person she had left to rely on.
Even her best friend, colleague and life-long confidante, Anna, had shown her true colors when she'd arrived home in New Zealand from Adelaide, Australia, late last week with Judd in tow. Sure, she'd tried to convince Nicole that she'd only been following Charles's orders to find Judd and bring about a reconciliation, but Nicole knew where Anna's loyalties lay, and they certainly weren't with her. If they were, Anna wouldn't have kept the truth from her about what Charles planned to use as Judd's incentive.
A painful twist in her chest reminded her to draw in a breath but despite the fact she obeyed her body's demand to refill her lungs, the pain of betrayal by her best friend—the woman she loved like a sister—still lingered. How could Anna have known what was going to happen and not given her prior warning?
In her bag, her phone began to chirp insistently. Thinking it might be the taxi company calling back to confirm her details, she lifted it to her ear and answered it.
"Nicole, where are you? Are you okay?"
Anna. Who else? It certainly wouldn't be her father calling to see if she was all right.
"I'm fine," Nicole answered, her voice clipped.
"You're not fine, you're upset. I can hear it in your voice. Look, I'm sorry about tonight—"
"Just tonight, Anna? What about your trip to Adelaide? What about bringing my brother home for the first time in twenty-five years, so he could take everything that was ever mine away from me?" Even Anna's gasp of pain at Nicole's accusations didn't stop Nicole's tirade or do anything to lessen the hurt of betrayal that rocketed through her veins right now. "I thought we were friends, sisters by choice, remember?"
"I couldn't tell you what Charles had planned, Nicole. Please believe me. Your dad swore me to secrecy and I owe him so very much. Without his support of me and my mum…you know what he was like…even when she was dying—"
"His support, huh?" Nicole shut her eyes tight and squeezed back the fresh round of tears that fought to escape. "What about your support of me?"
"You always have that, Nic, you know that."
"Really? Then why didn't you give me a heads-up? Why didn't you tell me that he was going to bribe Judd to stay by giving him my home as well as the business?"
"Only half the business," Anna's voice came quietly over the line.
"A controlling share, Anna. That's the whole business as far as I'm concerned."
The shock of her father's announcement had been bad enough. Worse was the way he'd justified the decision to give everything to Judd instead of her. Just you wait, he had said, you 'll find some young man who 'll sweep you off your feet and before I know it you will be married and raising a family. Wilson Wines will just be a hobby for you. Years of hard work, of dedication and commitment to the business and to further her father's plans and dreams dismissed as just a phase, a passing fad. The thought of it made her blood boil.
"Dad made it quite clear where I stand in all this, and by aligning yourself with him, you've made it quite clear where you stand, too."
Nicole paced back and forth on the pavement at the end of the driveway, filled with a nervous energy that desperately needed an outlet. Anna's voice remained steady in her ear; the sound of her friend's voice was usually a calming influence but tonight it was anything but.
"He put me in an impossible position, Nic. I begged him to talk to you about this, to at least tell you that Judd would be coming home."
"Obviously you didn't beg hard enough. Or, here's something to consider, maybe you could have just told me, anyway. You could have picked up a phone or fired me an email in warning. It's not that hard to do. You had to know what this would mean to me, how much it would hurt me. And still you did nothing?"
"I'm so sorry, Nic. If I could do it over I'd do it differently, you have to know that."
"I don't know anything anymore, Anna. That's the trouble. Everything I've worked for, everything I've lived for, has just been handed to a man I don't even know. I don't even know if I have a roof over my head now that Dad's given the deed of the family house to Judd. How would that make you feel? Have you asked yourself that?"
A sweep of lights coming down the road heralded the taxi she'd summoned, and not a moment too soon. She had enough dander up right now to march back on up the driveway and give her father a piece of her mind all over again—for whatever good it would do.
"Look," she continued, "I've got to go. I need some space right now to think things over."
"Nicole, come back. Let's talk this out face-to-face."
"No," Nicole answered as the cab pulled up alongside the curb. "I'm done talking. Please don't call me again."
She disconnected the call and switched off her phone for good measure before throwing it into the bottom of her bag.
"Viaduct Basin," she instructed as she got into the taxi and settled in the darkened interior with her equally dark thoughts.
Hopefully the vibrant atmosphere at the array of bars and clubs in downtown Auckland would provide her with the distraction she needed. Nicole repaired her tear-stained makeup as well as she could with the limited cosmetics in her bag. It annoyed the heck out of her that anger, for her, usually resulted in tears, as well. It was an awkward combination that plagued her on the rare occasions she actually lost her temper, and it made it hard for her to be taken seriously.
She willed her hand to be steady as she applied a rich red lip gloss and gave herself a final check in her compact mirror.
Satisfied she'd done her best with her makeup, she sat back against the soft upholstery of the luxury taxi and tried to ignore the echo of her father's words, the faintly smug paternal tone that seemed to say that she'd soon get over her temper tantrum and realize he was right all along.
"Over my dead body," she muttered.
"Pardon, miss, what was that you said?" the neatly suited taxi driver asked over his shoulder.
"Nothing, sorry, just talking to myself."
She shook her head and blinked hard at the fresh tears that pricked in her eyes. In doing what her father had done he'd permanently damaged his relationship with her, fractured the trust between her and Anna, and virtually destroyed any chance of her and Judd building a sibling bond together. She had no family she could rely on anymore—not her father, her brother, her sister and certainly not her mother. Nicole had not seen or heard from her mother since Cynthia Masters-Wilson had taken Judd back to her native Australia when he was six and Nicole only one year old.
Nicole had long since convinced herself she'd never wanted to know her mother growing up. Her father had been everything and everyone she'd ever needed. But even as a child, she'd always been able to tell that she wasn't enough to make up for the wife and son that her father still missed. It had driven Nicole to work harder, to be a top student and to learn everything she could about the family business, in the hopes of winning her father's approval, making him proud. Goodness only knew running Wilson Wines was all she'd ever wanted to do from the moment she'd understood just what held the balance of her father's attention every day.
Now that Judd was back, it was as if she didn't exist anymore. As if she never had.
Nicole reached up to remove the hair tie that had held her hair in its no-nonsense, businesslike pony-t...
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
I was expecting better from the author than this
By Viper Reader
In the Wayward Son we learned that Charles Wilson and his wife split up in a "brutal" divorce with Charles keeping his daughter Nicole and his ex-wife took their son Judd to Adelaide, Australia, because his wife told and perpetuated a lie that she had an affair with his business partner Thomas Jackson and that Judd wasn't Charles's biological son. Many years later, after the death of his ex-business partner and I letter sent to Charles still proclaiming his innocence in all the matters. Charles sends his daughter's best friend to find his long lost son and to bring him back to New Zealand and have his DNA tested and upon finding out Judd is his biological son, Charles turns over the family house and business over to him. Feeling belittled, betrayed, unappreciated for her years of hard work and dedication by her father Nicole storms out of the family house and ends up spending a weekend with a tall, dark, and handsome guy that she met in a club while she was venting out her pain, anger ,and frustration. Just to find out that he's the son of her family's arch enemy Thomas Jackson. So he blackmails her into working for his company and against her family's company unless he'll disclose to her family about their affair.
Now,I know this is a book of fiction and fantasy, but I had a hard time sympathizing for Nicole. She walked into a relationship with a guy that she didn't even know, goes to his home way out in the outskirts, confides in him secrets about her and her family, video tapes their tryst together and thought that she was just going to walk out and not take the tape with her, and not have a plan B as to how she's going to get home. The things that she did with him that initial weekend questioned her frame of thought. Then, when she starts working for Jackson Wines and he gives her a new company cell phone and laptop to work with, after destroying her old cell phone and not allowing her to collect her things from her home. What would make her think that Nate didn't have the cell and laptop bugged. After all, she was an unwilling participant. With all the money that she had, she couldn't have slipped out and bought a burner phone, like she did in the end. And, why she chose to continue the relationship with Nate and live with him is way beyond me. After all, she knew he was only using her to get back at her family and their business for the way they treated his father. For such an hard working, intelligent, loyal family oriented person I had a hard time continuing reading this to the end.
In the Wayward Son we got to know about all the family secrets of the Wilson family down to the reason why Judd and Nicole mother chose to lie, the repercussions that followed, Judd Wilson and Anna Garick's relationship struggles were made evident, and how Anna became to be living in the Wilson family home and Nicole's best friend. However, this book simply didn't do a rounded job in giving enough back story information to help the reader be informed with the dynamics of all the important characters. At least find some type of redemption and further explanation concerning their mother's actions. Yet, there were none. She simply was brought in and then exited just as smoothly as she entered, unaffected and without consequences for her part in all the deception.
Even though this was not her best work, in my opinion, I'm still going to continuing reading her books for the rest of the series.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent; The Master Vintner's "tangled vines, tangled lives"
By Marilyn Shoemaker
I have so enjoyed Yvonne Lindsay's The Master Vintner's series. It's not only about "tangled vines, it's also about tangled lives and a ton of secrets.
In the Wayward Son we learned that Charles Wilson and his wife split up in a "brutal" divorce with Charles keeping his daughter Nicole and his ex-wife took their son to New Zealand because he believed she had an affair with his business partner. He also sent his daughter's best friend to find his long lost son.
In a Forbidden Affair, this is Nichole Wilson's story and one I was so looking forward to because, Charles Wilson gave his business to his son hurting his daughter who had given her life to her company. We also learned in the Wayward Son that Charles Wilson's business partner died a broken man, accused falsely. Now the man and rival of Wilson Wines is a Nate Jackson and actually the son of Charles old business partner.
All I could think of was Nicole Wilson was so upset, would she end up Nate Jackson and working at Jackson Importers, working against her brother and father? Go got it! Right! Because Nicole Wilson decided to have a night out on the town, ended hooking up with Nate, not knowing who he was, ended up at his home and then shortly thereafter, accepting a position at Jackson Importers.
Let the games begin, let feathers fly, let the families try to extract revenge as only the talented Ms. Lindsay, pen. I loved all of the passion, the family drama and how Nicole and Nate got their HEA.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
very moving, painful, wonderful read
By choosyfloosy
this is the companion story to the wayward son. they are both excellently written, plotted well, striking character development. this book has many of the horrifyingly repulsive characters depicted in the wayward son. this stars the totally s--t upon daughter of charles the heartless, blind deaf and dumb scumbag father who is a major character in both and the betraying supposed friend who makes no attempt to do right by the daughter whatsoever. the father gives his company and his home to the gone from early childhood son instead of the daughter who worked herself to the exclusion of anything else in life for him and the company thinking it would be hers --- NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dear old dad reassures her by saying she will find a husband soon!!!!!!!!!! OMG lets all scream UNFAIR HEARTLESS UNGRATEFUL D--KBRAIN SCUMMY FATHER. hope you die alone with tigers trying to chew you up while buzzards circle above!!!!. and then he has the nerve to resent her marriage to his enemy when he had all but tossed her onto the street while ignoring all her blood, sweat and lotsa tears for him and his company!!!. so if you are looking for books that will make you feel something -- these are the books for you. if you do not want to feel like ripping up and pounding on your kindle -- find something else!! they are both super books you will love to hate which i will probably reread several times..
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