Something about this story just didn't 'gel' for me, sadly. The heroine was a bit strange in the sense that we are supposed to believe she is perfect and acted like a teen when she got pregnant, but everything else contradicts this, and the reason she gives for not letting the hero know he was a father just didn't hold the line. I had no trouble with the 'perfect' hero, but the heroine just smarted, and their daughter was also fairly over-the-top in places and this didn't lead to an enjoyable read.

The Greek secret heir
By Rebecca Winters
Pub date 24 dec 2020
This book is a brilliant read you enjoy. This story is about a young woman getting engaged not everyone is happy about the engagement to be. There quite allot of drama twist and plot in this story. The characters had amazing chemistry between them. I love Alexa and Nico Chemistry a true love story. This is a brilliant read you enjoy. The writing is well written. All the characters were easy to connect with.

The Greek’s Heir is written by well known M&B True Love author - Rebecca Winters. Spoiler alert - the heir isn’t a baby but a 19 year old girl!!
Alexa is a 36 year old single Greek mother who has returned to Greece with her 19 year old daughter Dimitra after living in Canada for several years. She coincidentally meets up with Nico, Dimitra’s father at a friend’s house, when the daughter announces she is getting engaged. Nico is shocked that he is a father but wants to be involved with her. After getting over his anger with Alexa that she didn’t tell him about their baby he realises he still loves her. There are lots of arguments, insecurities and secrets that need to be solved. Will there be weddings and babies? All is revealed in the last few chapters.

As with all Rebecca Winters novels there isn’t any graphic sexual imagery, it’s all emotional. I feel sometimes the lack of a layer of this actually detracts from the novel. I found it strange that every time there was a problem Dimitra ran to her fiancé and it got rather tedious. The storyline is a great concept, it just lacked in execution.

I received this book via Netgalley and Mills and Boon in exchange for a honest review. I am a #MillsAndBoonInsider #netgalley

An age old theme...lovers who, through a mix up, break apart and the man does not discover he’s a father. Years later, when the daughter wants to get engaged,, the whole secret comes out. I loved this book. The characters are so believable and well written. An enjoyable story to lose yourself in on a wet weekend!

This was a truly enjoyable read that I could escape in to from the start.
When Alexa's daughter comes home at the age of 19 and announces that she is engaged, a meeting is arranged with to meet her future husbands family. When they arrive, Alexa is speechless when Nico - a family friend of theirs, walks in to the room and joins them for dinner. Nico is the man that Alexa has loved for many years, but he is also the father of her daughter - but he doesn't know it.
This impromptu meeting forces Alexa to come clean, and although Nico is understandably shocked and angry at first, the more time that both Nico and Alexa spend together, old feelings push their way to the surface once more.
A beautiful, romantic story from beginning to end. This is the exact form of escapism I needed right now, and I have no doubt others will feel this way too.

Alexa's daughter is 19 and madly in love, when she comes home and announces she is getting engaged a meeting is set up to meet the family. Alexa is shocked when Nico - a family friend walks in to the dinner. Nico is not only the only man she has loved but he is also her daughter's father and he has no idea. Now Alexa must come clean and tell him about the child he never knew he had.
At first Nico is shocked and angry that she kept this secret from him, but slowly he starts to feel the same things he felt all those years ago and sets out to win Alexa's heart once more.

When Alexa was younger she fell in love with Nico, but events and circumstances seemed to force them apart leading Alexa to make the decision to keep their daughter a secret from him. Years later through a twist of fate Alexa finds herself face to face with Nico and having to tell him and their daughter the truth.

This books stands up as a fairly typical love story, filled with jealousy that drives them apart and insecurities that keeps them apart. It moves at a face pace which means depth of character and story are missing with things covered off in a broad brush approach.

I felt the story was fairly fart fetched and I know with a lot of romance books there is an element of leaving common sense and reason at the door but the twists in circumstances which kept them apart were based on flimsy reasoning at best.

Some of the dialogue felt a bit much, especially with Alexa as she seemed to gush and ruminate a lot and keep going over old ground. I think the story could have been enhanced further with more time spent on developing the characters than restating the history of their relationship.

I also felt that as a character Alexa gave way very easily at the end which seemed at odds with her independent nature up until the point she met Nico again. I also think she did a fairly good job of one upping her daughter which personally didn’t sit well with me.

On the whole this is an easy read, one that you can pick up safe in the knowledge of a happy ending.

This was very cheesy but a lot of fun too. Yes it was all a little too neat and everyone a little too forgiving and understanding for it to be anything like real life, but it was a quick and easy romance read which kept me entertained for an evening.

I read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine


I enjoyed this - I felt the connection between the characters and felt it was well written
For those who don't enjoy graphic descriptions of sex in their romances this would be a good one for them

An enjoyable read with chemistry between the main characters. Great setting with warmth and enjoyable narrative. Thankfully not overly descriptive in the bedroom department - which I don’t enjoy even in romance novels! An enjoyable escapist read.

A deep emotional, love found, love lost, romantic story.

Reconnecting with the love of his life and meeting with the surprise daughter he was unaware of, brings great joy and happiness back into his world.

A secret marriage, while his daughter's wedding is being planned, is then out in the open, followed by their happy news of a new baby to love.

With a happy ever after ending in this romantic story of love, commitment and everlasting happiness.

I received an ARC from Netgalley and Mills and Boon in return for an honest review.

This was an odd one. I really don't like stories about secret children where the truth only emerges when the child is grown up, and if I'd know this before requesting the book, I would not have proceeded. Instead I discovered it at the start of chapter 2.

Alexa has returned to Greece with her (and Nico's) daughter Dimitra, after moving to Canada with her grandfather (Ambassador to Canada no less!) and coincidentally, meets up with Nico who turns out to be the uncle of daughter's boyfreind and of course has no idea he is a father.

There were a number of problems I had with the story.
1. Nico is named on Dimitra's Birth certificate and yet she apparently doesn't know the name of her father other than that he's called 'Dino'. Sorry - it doesn't ring true.
2. All the characters are basically wonderfully nice with the only real villainess occurring off stage as it were. She is responsible for returning all of Nico's letters and ruining their relationship by making Alexa think Nico had been toying with her.. I really wanted a satisfactory comeuppance for her!
3. Alexa is an odd character and I couldn't take to her. She talks and behaves more like a 60-year-old rather than a young woman of 36. Her dialogue when talking to Nico and in particular when she is droning on about Greek Legends is clunky, boring, heavy-handed and beyond sentimental. She rejects Nico's proposal initially because the daughter might resent her 'coming between them' and only relents when said daughter tells her she'd love nothing better than for her parents to be together.
4. Nico is just too good to be true. Perfectly understanding after all of 5 minutes of angst (that's only a slight exaggeration!), forgives, moves on, accepts the daughter instantly, sorts out everyone's problems, gives great sex etc etc. I would have liked a little bit of angst here; a little bit of retaliation to show how much he's hurting. He showed some, but in my view, not enough considering he's been kept in the dark for 19 years.
5. Demetra's response to her mother was totally understandable, but it also demonstrated how ill-prepared she was to marry at 18. He response was all about her. I found the instant love she expressed for Nico rather difficult to accept. But I could probably accept that if the rest of the story had had some tension and bite.

There are some nice passages and it's fairly well written. I guess I enjoyed it in spite of all my criticisms. I've read other books by this author that I've liked much better, but it's an entertaining, fluffy read.