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The Bachelor Bid
And the winner is The one woman who didn't bid!
Cara Breedon is facing her biggest career challenge to date: to convince impossible, attractive and eminently eligible bachelor Wyatt McCauley to auction himself off for charity. Cara has tried every trick she knows, but Wyatt won't say yes.
Underneath, Wyatt is intrigued by Cara and, little does she know, she's beginning to wear him down. He definitely wants to see more of her. All he has to do is agree to appear in the auction and place an exorbitant bid in her name so that Cara wins the prize a weekend with Wyatt!
Cara Breedon is facing her biggest career challenge to date: to convince impossible, attractive and eminently eligible bachelor Wyatt McCauley to auction himself off for charity. Cara has tried every trick she knows, but Wyatt won't say yes.
Underneath, Wyatt is intrigued by Cara and, little does she know, she's beginning to wear him down. He definitely wants to see more of her. All he has to do is agree to appear in the auction and place an exorbitant bid in her name so that Cara wins the prize a weekend with Wyatt!
184 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1998
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Kate Denton
38 books6 followersKate Denton is a romance author who wrote 1990's novels for Harlequin Romance.
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August 25, 2014
3 Stars ~ Though not her chosen career, Cara is thankful for her job as PA to the owner of a mid-size promotional firm. Her boss, Brooke, is a bit of a slave driver but the pay is good and Cara's needed every penny to support her younger brother and sister through their education. Brooke's insistence that Cara snaps up computer magnate McCauley as the star attraction for the celebrity bachelor auction that Brooke is chairing, proves to be a thankless task. Wyatt has dodged every effort Cara has made to persuade him, so she decides to tackle him face to face and heads over to his office, two dozen yellow roses in hand. Wyatt can't deny that he admires Cara's tenacity. There was something about her that commanded his thoughts, excited him.
Nothing surprised Cara more than Wyatt showing up at her office and tackled by Brooke herself, relented on participating in the auction. What Cara didn't know was that he'd hatched a plan that his own secretary would submit the winning bid but under Cara's name. There's no way Cara can cast a shadow on the legitimacy of the auction so she's forced to go on the weekend away with Wyatt. Determined to treat the trip as a mini-vacation and enjoy herself, Cara lets Wyatt wine, dine and charm her. But all too soon the weekend is over and Cara has to face the music with Brooke who wanted to win Wyatt for herself. Brooke blasts her, not only for taking her man but for deceiving her about her financial situation; obviously Cara wasn't struggling like she claimed, if she could afford to win Wyatt. Out of a job, Cara's first move is to share her joy (not!) with Wyatt, face to face.
This was a light-hearted romance well suited for a lazy afternoon. I really liked Wyatt and Cara's sparring matches. Both come with their own history of a bad relationship, and this holds them back and makes their motives easy to misunderstand. But it soon becomes obvious that Wyatt is well and truly smitten, even though he tends to jump in and want to fix all of Cara's problems. Cara is strong minded and very independent, but she comes to realizes that part of loving someone is allowing them to love you back and take care of you too. I enjoyed this charming love story.
Nothing surprised Cara more than Wyatt showing up at her office and tackled by Brooke herself, relented on participating in the auction. What Cara didn't know was that he'd hatched a plan that his own secretary would submit the winning bid but under Cara's name. There's no way Cara can cast a shadow on the legitimacy of the auction so she's forced to go on the weekend away with Wyatt. Determined to treat the trip as a mini-vacation and enjoy herself, Cara lets Wyatt wine, dine and charm her. But all too soon the weekend is over and Cara has to face the music with Brooke who wanted to win Wyatt for herself. Brooke blasts her, not only for taking her man but for deceiving her about her financial situation; obviously Cara wasn't struggling like she claimed, if she could afford to win Wyatt. Out of a job, Cara's first move is to share her joy (not!) with Wyatt, face to face.
This was a light-hearted romance well suited for a lazy afternoon. I really liked Wyatt and Cara's sparring matches. Both come with their own history of a bad relationship, and this holds them back and makes their motives easy to misunderstand. But it soon becomes obvious that Wyatt is well and truly smitten, even though he tends to jump in and want to fix all of Cara's problems. Cara is strong minded and very independent, but she comes to realizes that part of loving someone is allowing them to love you back and take care of you too. I enjoyed this charming love story.
April 29, 2021
He is witty, he has a very good sense of humour. He is romantic, he is sweet.
But he was a doormat for the h. She kept nagging him, she kept starting arguments with him. I can’t remember her ever being nice to him the way he was nice to her.
So much bickering from her side. She was always angry at him for some reason. She shut him off so many times.
Several times in the book when she was angry again, he kept calling her and she kept hanging up on him after saying something rude to him.
She was treating him like he was less than the dirt on the ground. Poor guy. His life will be hell with her.
It wasn’t passionate. Only a few kisses throughout the book. Just a whole lot of bickering from an angry bird who needs anger management class.
But he was a doormat for the h. She kept nagging him, she kept starting arguments with him. I can’t remember her ever being nice to him the way he was nice to her.
So much bickering from her side. She was always angry at him for some reason. She shut him off so many times.
Several times in the book when she was angry again, he kept calling her and she kept hanging up on him after saying something rude to him.
She was treating him like he was less than the dirt on the ground. Poor guy. His life will be hell with her.
It wasn’t passionate. Only a few kisses throughout the book. Just a whole lot of bickering from an angry bird who needs anger management class.
February 22, 2021
Muy buena historia y divertida! Cara lucha por sacar a sus dos hermanos adelante después de la muerte de sus padres, está acostumbrada a ser independiente y a cuidar de los demás... pero cuando Wyatt, luego de innumerables insistencias de Cara para que participe de una subasta, se siente atraído por ella, comienza una guerra de personalidades...
Es increíble como afecta la manera en la que crecemos cuando las adversidades son grandes, ambos aprenden de sus errores y aceptan el amor y los cuidados del otro sin caer en manejar la vida de los demás.
Es increíble como afecta la manera en la que crecemos cuando las adversidades son grandes, ambos aprenden de sus errores y aceptan el amor y los cuidados del otro sin caer en manejar la vida de los demás.
January 6, 2019
Sweet romance, no surprises but well written.
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