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Her Honorable Playboy
Resident Alyssa Ward is not pleased when she wins a date with emergency physician the Honorable Sebastian Radley. She's not looking for a relationship—especially not with a renowned womanizer like Seb. Then again, he is incredibly handsome—and it is only one date.
Seb has never been one for settling down. But one date with Alyssa just isn't enough. And when she gives him some life-changing news, he reassesses who he really wants to every woman's Honorable playboy—or Alyssa's Honorable husband….
Seb has never been one for settling down. But one date with Alyssa just isn't enough. And when she gives him some life-changing news, he reassesses who he really wants to every woman's Honorable playboy—or Alyssa's Honorable husband….
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 2006
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Kate Hardy
934 books263 followersKate Hardy is the award-winning author of more than 100 books for Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Georgina Drake cozy crime series for Storm. Her novel 'Breakfast at Giovanni's' won the RNA Romance Prize in 2008, 'Bound by a Baby' won the RNA RoNA Rose in 2014 and ‘A Will, A Wish, A Wedding’ won the RNA Liberta Books Shorter Fiction award in 2021. She's been shortlisted six more times for the award, as well as for two Romantic Times awards.
She lives in Norwich in the east of England with her husband, two grown-up children, springer spaniels Archie and Dexter, and too many books to count. She's a bit of a nerd who loves cinema, live music, the theatre, ballet, history and cooking, and adores anything Italian. She loves doing research, particularly if it's hands-on and means experimenting with cooking. Reviewers say that her books are full of warmth, heart and charm - and also that you'll learn something new and interesting from them!
Kate also writes bestselling local history books under the name of Pamela Brooks.
She lives in Norwich in the east of England with her husband, two grown-up children, springer spaniels Archie and Dexter, and too many books to count. She's a bit of a nerd who loves cinema, live music, the theatre, ballet, history and cooking, and adores anything Italian. She loves doing research, particularly if it's hands-on and means experimenting with cooking. Reviewers say that her books are full of warmth, heart and charm - and also that you'll learn something new and interesting from them!
Kate also writes bestselling local history books under the name of Pamela Brooks.
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February 1, 2018
3.5 stars
March 17, 2015
I finished this last Friday so I don't remember as much about it as I'd like. It's a psuedo-medical title, though, and I think I liked it right up to the unexpected pregnancy part. Before that, I liked the prickly almost friendship that the hero and heroine were developing. After, it didn't work for me as well.
October 2, 2021
I was looking forward to Seb’s story and I loved getting to know him as we learnt all about his past and realised what had driven his behaviour over the years.
Unfortunately I could not engage with Alyssa as much. She persisted in believing the worst about Seb, almost to the last page. I still enjoyed it because the author is such a good writer.
Unfortunately I could not engage with Alyssa as much. She persisted in believing the worst about Seb, almost to the last page. I still enjoyed it because the author is such a good writer.
June 26, 2019
The medical info learned from this book from the British context was interesting.
April 15, 2025
“I’ve learned that not all women are the same. You've shown me that. When are you going to realise that not all men are the same?'-Sebastian 🩵
September 6, 2023
The Honorable Sebastian Radley, A&E consultant, is the younger brother of Charlie (Her Celebrity Surgeon). He felt emotionally disconnected from his parents. His late father was more interested in Charlie, the heir, and his mother is shallow, self-centred and greedy. Seb thinks all women are gold-diggers. He's a man-whore: dates and sleeps with women only once, then moves on. His younger sister Vicky tells him he's a louse to women and she's right.
Vicki and Dr Alyssa Ward's friend Tracey are organising a charity fund-raiser for the Docklands Memorial Hospital in London and fix the raffle so that Alyssa wins a date with Seb. Alyssa is quiet and serious and has her own reasons to not trust handsome, charming men. When Alyssa refuses to go out with him, it piques Seb's interest. She relents and they go to dinner. Later he asks her to be his +1 at Charlie's wedding, to save him from his match-making mother.
Alyssa drinks more champagne than she intended and she and Seb end up in bed. He uses condoms but she falls pregnant. Such a cliche that, of all the women he's slept with, only Alyssa gets pregnant! She was raised by a single mother and refuses to marry Seb, knowing that she is capable of raising a child on her own. He's always said he's allergic to children. Alyssa thinks he would not cope with fatherhood and would leave her. She's worked out that Seb doesn't let people close because that way they can't reject him.
I found Seb's promiscuity at the start of the book off-putting but he's shaken to the core when he falls in love. He gains insight and grows up. Alyssa is strong and independent but when Seb finally expresses his feelings and tells her how he's changed, she knows that he's sincere.
Love the cover photo (UK edition, the US one is pretty ordinary), although the model has brown eyes, not blue. But then most romance heroes have black hair and blue eyes and in real life that's an uncommon combination.
Vicki and Dr Alyssa Ward's friend Tracey are organising a charity fund-raiser for the Docklands Memorial Hospital in London and fix the raffle so that Alyssa wins a date with Seb. Alyssa is quiet and serious and has her own reasons to not trust handsome, charming men. When Alyssa refuses to go out with him, it piques Seb's interest. She relents and they go to dinner. Later he asks her to be his +1 at Charlie's wedding, to save him from his match-making mother.
Alyssa drinks more champagne than she intended and she and Seb end up in bed. He uses condoms but she falls pregnant. Such a cliche that, of all the women he's slept with, only Alyssa gets pregnant! She was raised by a single mother and refuses to marry Seb, knowing that she is capable of raising a child on her own. He's always said he's allergic to children. Alyssa thinks he would not cope with fatherhood and would leave her. She's worked out that Seb doesn't let people close because that way they can't reject him.
I found Seb's promiscuity at the start of the book off-putting but he's shaken to the core when he falls in love. He gains insight and grows up. Alyssa is strong and independent but when Seb finally expresses his feelings and tells her how he's changed, she knows that he's sincere.
Love the cover photo (UK edition, the US one is pretty ordinary), although the model has brown eyes, not blue. But then most romance heroes have black hair and blue eyes and in real life that's an uncommon combination.
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May 1, 2012i think the book is just fantastic,the romance in it is breath taking.And i truly think there is that that one girl who can turn a play boy's life around.
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December 22, 2016
There is a surprise baby, which I hate.
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