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Being secretary to her aunt Bianca Layton, the famous and temperamental film actress, wasn't all glamour by any means - but Alix realised that things were going to be difficult when they all went off to Italy to discuss Bianca's new film, and it soon became clear that things were not going to go her way! And it became even more complicated when Alix found hereself falling in love with Liam Brant, who had told her, 'You're not my type.' How could whe be, Alix thought ruefully, when it was painfully obvious that Liam had set his sights on Bianca!
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Sara Craven
493 books267 followersAnne Bushell was born on October 1938 in South Devon, England, just before World War II and grew up in a house crammed with books. She was always a voracious reader, some of her all-time favorites books are: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "Middlemarch" by George Eliot, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell and "The Code of the Woosters" by P. G. Wodehouse.
She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Divorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.
She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Divorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.
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April 18, 2018
I have another author I may have to part ways with. I've always had a problem with Sara Craven and the level of angst, but this is it. I had had this as a "nope", but after Kiki's impassioned review, I had to wade in to check this out. I'm not going to comment on the romance, but the disservice and completely fucked up twisted element that SC brought to adoption need to be addressed.
April 16, 2018
The sister was hostile for no apparent reason.
Heroine’s “parents” who claimed to have loved her just like their own did virtually nothing to their own daughter ripping heroine into pieces.
If I was the sister’s fiancé I’d have dumped her then and there. I don’t see why you’d want to marry someone so vicious or vengeance WITHOUT any motivation.
She wasn’t neglected as a child. Heroine was a loving sister. She was vicious because heroine existed and shouldn’t have. What? People don’t adopt kids? And that somehow takes away your share of love?
She was claiming she was shortchanged of the parents’ love because of heroine. What difference does it make if she was biologically her parents’ or not?
And her parents just stood there and protested mildly.
And I can’t believe her fiancé would still want to marry a poisonous woman like her.
Where’s the fucking comeuppance?
Heroine’s “parents” who claimed to have loved her just like their own did virtually nothing to their own daughter ripping heroine into pieces.
If I was the sister’s fiancé I’d have dumped her then and there. I don’t see why you’d want to marry someone so vicious or vengeance WITHOUT any motivation.
She wasn’t neglected as a child. Heroine was a loving sister. She was vicious because heroine existed and shouldn’t have. What? People don’t adopt kids? And that somehow takes away your share of love?
She was claiming she was shortchanged of the parents’ love because of heroine. What difference does it make if she was biologically her parents’ or not?
And her parents just stood there and protested mildly.
And I can’t believe her fiancé would still want to marry a poisonous woman like her.
Where’s the fucking comeuppance?
April 4, 2017
Heroine vies with her aging actress aunt for the hero’s attention.
After reading Twist of Fate that has a similar premise, this story pales in the intensity stakes. But it was still an interesting story and one worth reading.
The hero is under contract to write the actress’s biography. The heroine is the actress’s niece and personal assistant. The actress gave the heroine the job when she was of age and has proven herself to be a demanding, capricious employer. Heroine’s mother is not thrilled heroine opted to work with her glamorous younger sister. Heroine realizes she is starting to become estranged from her family and that the actress treats her like dirt – making her wear shapeless dresses and an unbecoming hairstyle.
The actress is concerned the H is going to make her look bad, so the heroine is hostile to him. He is one step ahead and manages to send the heroine to a play she wanted to see so that he can charm the actress alone.
The actress is charmed and makes the heroine think there is something sexual going on with the H. The heroine is jealous and tries to resign, but the actress coaxes her to travel along to Italy where she will sign a contract for a starring role in a movie.
They travel to the director’s villa where the h discovers that the actress will be offered the older woman role and not the sexpot role. Heroine knows the actress will be devastated and it’s even worse – the actress’s ex husband is the one who is financing the film and is insisting the actress play the older woman. To top it off, the hero is there as a guest of the director and has a front row seat to the actress’s humiliation. But the hero doesn't seem all that interested in the actress, he is watching the heroine like a hawk. The heroine has her “unguarded moment” by the pool when she invites the hero’s caresses and says “love me.’ The hero interprets that as a sexual come on, but the heroine really just wants to be loved.
When the actress realizes she is only going to get the older woman role, she takes it out on the heroine and fires her. The heroine returns to the actress’s London home only to find the hero has followed her. The hero seduces her and they spend a happy two days together. Then the heroine’s mother is in the hospital and the heroine rushes home. Her younger sister is hostile and blurts out that heroine’s real mother is the actress and that she gave her away to her older sister because her career was just taking off and she didn’t want a baby in the way.
The heroine is devastated to hear this since it seems everyone has rejected her. She also realizes the hero knew early on and was just using her to write the biography. She stays with a friend moping, until she sees the actress being interviewed. Now she is graciously taking on the older woman role and is re-marrying her ex and she wants the world to know she has a daughter. Seems the condition for the ex to re-marry her is for her to acknowledge her daughter.
The hero then shows up to explain his part in things. He won’t do a hatchet on the actress and he wants to the marry the heroine. HEA
After reading Twist of Fate that has a similar premise, this story pales in the intensity stakes. But it was still an interesting story and one worth reading.
The hero is under contract to write the actress’s biography. The heroine is the actress’s niece and personal assistant. The actress gave the heroine the job when she was of age and has proven herself to be a demanding, capricious employer. Heroine’s mother is not thrilled heroine opted to work with her glamorous younger sister. Heroine realizes she is starting to become estranged from her family and that the actress treats her like dirt – making her wear shapeless dresses and an unbecoming hairstyle.
The actress is concerned the H is going to make her look bad, so the heroine is hostile to him. He is one step ahead and manages to send the heroine to a play she wanted to see so that he can charm the actress alone.
The actress is charmed and makes the heroine think there is something sexual going on with the H. The heroine is jealous and tries to resign, but the actress coaxes her to travel along to Italy where she will sign a contract for a starring role in a movie.
They travel to the director’s villa where the h discovers that the actress will be offered the older woman role and not the sexpot role. Heroine knows the actress will be devastated and it’s even worse – the actress’s ex husband is the one who is financing the film and is insisting the actress play the older woman. To top it off, the hero is there as a guest of the director and has a front row seat to the actress’s humiliation. But the hero doesn't seem all that interested in the actress, he is watching the heroine like a hawk. The heroine has her “unguarded moment” by the pool when she invites the hero’s caresses and says “love me.’ The hero interprets that as a sexual come on, but the heroine really just wants to be loved.
When the actress realizes she is only going to get the older woman role, she takes it out on the heroine and fires her. The heroine returns to the actress’s London home only to find the hero has followed her. The hero seduces her and they spend a happy two days together. Then the heroine’s mother is in the hospital and the heroine rushes home. Her younger sister is hostile and blurts out that heroine’s real mother is the actress and that she gave her away to her older sister because her career was just taking off and she didn’t want a baby in the way.
The heroine is devastated to hear this since it seems everyone has rejected her. She also realizes the hero knew early on and was just using her to write the biography. She stays with a friend moping, until she sees the actress being interviewed. Now she is graciously taking on the older woman role and is re-marrying her ex and she wants the world to know she has a daughter. Seems the condition for the ex to re-marry her is for her to acknowledge her daughter.
The hero then shows up to explain his part in things. He won’t do a hatchet on the actress and he wants to the marry the heroine. HEA
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June 7, 2020
Very compelling. More 3.5 rounded to 4
But her bio mom / aunt / employer was a bitch from hell who didnt deserve any forgiveness! The heroine doesnt know that she is her mom. She thinks she js her aunt, the sister of her mother.
Bio mom is a famous actress (ala Liz Taylor) who gives up her baby (heroine) to her married sister to raise. Never visits or even treats them like family. When the heroine graduates from secretarial college, she hires her as a secretary PA. And treats her worse than any normal employer would. She never acknowledges any close relationship w the heroine and introduces her as a cousin. She works her all hours of the day and night. Insists that she dress in a frumpy plain manner and fix her hair in a bun. Further she seduces away any potential boyfriends the heroine may have!
This must be the worst mother ever!!! 😤😡 she never reveals the true relationship to the heroine, instead when the heroine goes to visit her “mom” when she is sick. Her younger sister who is jealous of her and found a birth certificate screams at her that she is the bastard of the actress! I just felt so bad for this heroine.
In the end the Hero asks the heroine to forgive the actress, her mother who wants her back 🙄
But her bio mom / aunt / employer was a bitch from hell who didnt deserve any forgiveness! The heroine doesnt know that she is her mom. She thinks she js her aunt, the sister of her mother.
Bio mom is a famous actress (ala Liz Taylor) who gives up her baby (heroine) to her married sister to raise. Never visits or even treats them like family. When the heroine graduates from secretarial college, she hires her as a secretary PA. And treats her worse than any normal employer would. She never acknowledges any close relationship w the heroine and introduces her as a cousin. She works her all hours of the day and night. Insists that she dress in a frumpy plain manner and fix her hair in a bun. Further she seduces away any potential boyfriends the heroine may have!
This must be the worst mother ever!!! 😤😡 she never reveals the true relationship to the heroine, instead when the heroine goes to visit her “mom” when she is sick. Her younger sister who is jealous of her and found a birth certificate screams at her that she is the bastard of the actress! I just felt so bad for this heroine.
In the end the Hero asks the heroine to forgive the actress, her mother who wants her back 🙄
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 10, 2016
Alix is back from a three week holiday in Rhodes, and anxious to get back to work for her aunt, the famous actress Bianca Layton. Bianca bought Alix the holiday because Bianca wanted to seduce Alix’s almost-boyfriend without Alix hanging around looking all disappointed and judgemental.
Alix is sort of ok about it, in the way that you’re sort of ok when you get a virus and it’s really horrible, but at least it didn’t turn into pneumonia. She wasn’t in love with almost-boyfriend Paul, but she knows she could have been, and it probably wouldn’t have made any difference to Bianca.
Bianca is beautiful and selfish and entitled, and another one of those other women that are a million years older than the heroine. Alix will suffer pangs of jealousy over the hero preferring Bianca. Actually, she’ll assume that the hero is doing every woman he looks at, because she’s crazy jealous.
I wonder, before I was a million years older than the heroine, did I really think she deserved to win simply because she was young, downtrodden but shyly sarcastic, and unconsciously beautiful?
Now I’m a bit more critical and prefer it when the heroine bitterly competes against horrible women her own age. Here’s Bianca: incredibly successful in her career and probably about 40? She puts an incredible amount of work into her appearance, which Alix is incredibly sniffy about. I found myself uncharitably hoping that Alix would age badly, since she wasn’t taking time to moisturise or use sunscreen or sleep or eat properly. Unfortunately, the glow of true love will make her beautiful forever.
The hero, Liam Brant, turns up to write Bianca’s biography and dig out all her secrets. Bianca’s had four failed marriages and is incredibly rich and successful. It’s clear she hasn’t got there without making some choices that generally earn women the label of bitch. Her life is an open book …
Liam has written other critically acclaimed star bio’s. He gets off on pointing out how fatuous famous people are. Alix, even with her troubled and resentful relationship with her aunt, doesn’t really want to see her receive the same treatment.
A couple of weeks ago I saw the Amy Schumer skit where she comes across Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette and Julia Louis-Dreyfus celebrating Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s last bangable day, and marvelling that she’d managed to make it to 50 as a sex object. The whole backstory with Bianca is about the same thing – it’s now time for Bianca to retire gracefully into supporting roles.
I found all of this very distracting. Sara Craven has a lot of characters point out that this is the way the world works, but it meant that Alix’s romance, and resolving the conflict with her family over her choice to work for her family couldn’t really compete. There was a lot of conflict: Alix suddenly found that, for inexplicable reasons, her sister and to a lesser extent her mother, were shutting her out of the family. Alix makes an attempt at one stage to quit her job: partly because she’s fallen in love with Liam at first sight and doesn’t want to watch Bianca steal him, but mostly because she wanted to reconnect with her family.
Instead, Bianca drags her off to Italy in that final pursuit of starring role.
It turns out Liam’s a friend of the Italian director who wants to discuss the role in his movie with Bianca, so he’s there when Bianca and Alix arrive.
I couldn’t get past how useless and mean Liam’s job was. He didn’t make a great impression on me.
The ‘unguarded moment’ from the title comes when Alix and Liam are having an impromptu cuddle beside the director’s pool. ‘Love me,’ Alix murmurs, staring deeply into Liam’s chest. ‘Pull yourself together, kid,’ he (sort of) says. ‘We’re about to have company.’
This is not that great an unguarded moment. My favourite so far comes from a Michelle Reid book, where the heroine licks the hero’s neck while they’re dancing. It happens at the dance after the wedding rehearsal dinner for the hero’s upcoming nuptials to the heroine’s best friend. Fortunately, the hero had managed to dance the heroine out onto the terrace so he could be licked in semi-privacy, but it all goes terribly, wonderfully wrong from there.
Alix and Liam’s romance is troubled by Alix’s jealousy and Liam’s inability to say anything nice to her. Given I didn’t think much of either of them, I didn’t much care. They have a few passionate moments, but I think this book needed less of a distracting backstory.
Alix is sort of ok about it, in the way that you’re sort of ok when you get a virus and it’s really horrible, but at least it didn’t turn into pneumonia. She wasn’t in love with almost-boyfriend Paul, but she knows she could have been, and it probably wouldn’t have made any difference to Bianca.
Bianca is beautiful and selfish and entitled, and another one of those other women that are a million years older than the heroine. Alix will suffer pangs of jealousy over the hero preferring Bianca. Actually, she’ll assume that the hero is doing every woman he looks at, because she’s crazy jealous.
I wonder, before I was a million years older than the heroine, did I really think she deserved to win simply because she was young, downtrodden but shyly sarcastic, and unconsciously beautiful?
Now I’m a bit more critical and prefer it when the heroine bitterly competes against horrible women her own age. Here’s Bianca: incredibly successful in her career and probably about 40? She puts an incredible amount of work into her appearance, which Alix is incredibly sniffy about. I found myself uncharitably hoping that Alix would age badly, since she wasn’t taking time to moisturise or use sunscreen or sleep or eat properly. Unfortunately, the glow of true love will make her beautiful forever.
The hero, Liam Brant, turns up to write Bianca’s biography and dig out all her secrets. Bianca’s had four failed marriages and is incredibly rich and successful. It’s clear she hasn’t got there without making some choices that generally earn women the label of bitch. Her life is an open book …
Liam has written other critically acclaimed star bio’s. He gets off on pointing out how fatuous famous people are. Alix, even with her troubled and resentful relationship with her aunt, doesn’t really want to see her receive the same treatment.
A couple of weeks ago I saw the Amy Schumer skit where she comes across Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette and Julia Louis-Dreyfus celebrating Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s last bangable day, and marvelling that she’d managed to make it to 50 as a sex object. The whole backstory with Bianca is about the same thing – it’s now time for Bianca to retire gracefully into supporting roles.
I found all of this very distracting. Sara Craven has a lot of characters point out that this is the way the world works, but it meant that Alix’s romance, and resolving the conflict with her family over her choice to work for her family couldn’t really compete. There was a lot of conflict: Alix suddenly found that, for inexplicable reasons, her sister and to a lesser extent her mother, were shutting her out of the family. Alix makes an attempt at one stage to quit her job: partly because she’s fallen in love with Liam at first sight and doesn’t want to watch Bianca steal him, but mostly because she wanted to reconnect with her family.
Instead, Bianca drags her off to Italy in that final pursuit of starring role.
It turns out Liam’s a friend of the Italian director who wants to discuss the role in his movie with Bianca, so he’s there when Bianca and Alix arrive.
I couldn’t get past how useless and mean Liam’s job was. He didn’t make a great impression on me.
The ‘unguarded moment’ from the title comes when Alix and Liam are having an impromptu cuddle beside the director’s pool. ‘Love me,’ Alix murmurs, staring deeply into Liam’s chest. ‘Pull yourself together, kid,’ he (sort of) says. ‘We’re about to have company.’
This is not that great an unguarded moment. My favourite so far comes from a Michelle Reid book, where the heroine licks the hero’s neck while they’re dancing. It happens at the dance after the wedding rehearsal dinner for the hero’s upcoming nuptials to the heroine’s best friend. Fortunately, the hero had managed to dance the heroine out onto the terrace so he could be licked in semi-privacy, but it all goes terribly, wonderfully wrong from there.
Alix and Liam’s romance is troubled by Alix’s jealousy and Liam’s inability to say anything nice to her. Given I didn’t think much of either of them, I didn’t much care. They have a few passionate moments, but I think this book needed less of a distracting backstory.
July 30, 2022
3.5 but marked 4 for easy reread find. She's PA to her film star aunt, he's commissioned to write aunt's biography and uncover family secrets.
There's the usual housecoat, half slip and hot water bottle mentions which date the setting terribly. The clothing description in these old HPs makes even the youngest h sound like a pensioner. Shirtwaisters and tunics galore. And yet I love that 70s vibe (Not the veal in white sauce that regularly hits the menu though, nor the fox furs sported by the glamorous Bianca). Albeit this was published in 1982.This is my favourite type of SC couple. She's both capable and vulnerable and he's the usual cool alpha. I love the enemies repartee and sexual tension building. Example dialogue:
He put out a finger and flicked at the broderie anglaise collar. 'I see the Puritan age has returned. You really do go from one extreme to the other, don't you, secretary bird?'
'If you say so.' She gave a slight shrug. 'I forgot- you're an expert on women's clothes. I suppose you know exactly how I should be dressed. '
'What interests me far more,' he said, 'is knowing exactly how you should be undressed. In fact, I can hardly wait. '
I know, I know. It's cringe but SC's pacing and feel for language is such that it always comes at a point to raise a tingle! Another enjoyable one.
There's the usual housecoat, half slip and hot water bottle mentions which date the setting terribly. The clothing description in these old HPs makes even the youngest h sound like a pensioner. Shirtwaisters and tunics galore. And yet I love that 70s vibe (Not the veal in white sauce that regularly hits the menu though, nor the fox furs sported by the glamorous Bianca). Albeit this was published in 1982.This is my favourite type of SC couple. She's both capable and vulnerable and he's the usual cool alpha. I love the enemies repartee and sexual tension building. Example dialogue:
He put out a finger and flicked at the broderie anglaise collar. 'I see the Puritan age has returned. You really do go from one extreme to the other, don't you, secretary bird?'
'If you say so.' She gave a slight shrug. 'I forgot- you're an expert on women's clothes. I suppose you know exactly how I should be dressed. '
'What interests me far more,' he said, 'is knowing exactly how you should be undressed. In fact, I can hardly wait. '
I know, I know. It's cringe but SC's pacing and feel for language is such that it always comes at a point to raise a tingle! Another enjoyable one.
August 29, 2012
The hero and heroine met when the hero came to do the heroines aunt personal biography. It turns out the aunt was actually the heroines biological mother. Drama ensues in this novel a lot but eventually everything is worked out.
The ending was cut short and it had loose ends. It wasn't that great of a novel because I kept reading into it.
The ending was cut short and it had loose ends. It wasn't that great of a novel because I kept reading into it.
March 18, 2020
He's a hatchet man," Bianca had warned
Alix was told to get rid of the man who wanted to write her famous aunt's biography.
But Liam Brant was not so easily dismissed. His writer's instinct sensed a mystery surrounding the actress, and he was prepared to use anyone and everyone to unravel it.
Alix, despising herself, succumbed to his attentions. But she knew the love could only be short-lived, for the beautiful Bianca had decided Liam was a prize she wanted. Fine, Alix thought, they suit each o
Alix was told to get rid of the man who wanted to write her famous aunt's biography.
But Liam Brant was not so easily dismissed. His writer's instinct sensed a mystery surrounding the actress, and he was prepared to use anyone and everyone to unravel it.
Alix, despising herself, succumbed to his attentions. But she knew the love could only be short-lived, for the beautiful Bianca had decided Liam was a prize she wanted. Fine, Alix thought, they suit each o
November 9, 2019
Did we need a romance story in this at all? Jeez, it did nothing but waste time. Besides the famous movie star, what the hell was wrong with the sister? Wow, she was nuts, and it was left just a loose end. Our hero didn't seem to be involved with the story, he kinda flitted in and out not really making any difference. I'd say skip because it was a lot of circling drama that the reader, being not dumb, knew before our poor clearly clueless heroine.
October 24, 2020
A good read
I like Sara Craven's books, her stories build well although she does have a standard format the heroine is usually naive and put upon, the hero's often quite brutal at the start. It was relatively easy to work out the big secret, but I just wish the endings weren't so abrupt,
I like Sara Craven's books, her stories build well although she does have a standard format the heroine is usually naive and put upon, the hero's often quite brutal at the start. It was relatively easy to work out the big secret, but I just wish the endings weren't so abrupt,
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April 27, 2021It was hard to respect the heroine who willingly slaved as a PA. Was the glamorous life really worth it? I could understand if she was forced by financial problems or emotional blackmail or other. In the beginning she didn’t know that the actress was her biological mother (to me it was obvious from the start). I neither could sympathize with the “diva” nor the heroine.
July 17, 2020
OK but nothing special. The romance didn't seem real.
January 27, 2021
I hate every single one of the characters. Compared to others hero was good but I hate him when he spoke behalf of Bianca.
February 8, 2024
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July 18, 2013الرجل الفراشه
جوليا عاشت حياتها كا النهر الهادىء لا تعترض على شئ كانت قانعه بما تقدمه لها خالتها بيانكالايتون الممثله المشهوره و تعتبر عملها كسكرتيره لها منتهي طموحها ....و جاء بوب برانت الكاتب الجذاب. فكان بمثابه الحصاه التي تعكر هدوء البحيره الراكده. فهبت رياح عاتيه بين جوليا و بيانكا تغيرت المقايس و انقلبت المعادلات و كان بوب كالذئبق لا تمتلكه امراة .....بينما هو فراشه يطير من زهرة الى اخرى ......و يهوى البحث عن المستحيل و كشف الاسرار ......لذلك كان حجر عثره بين جوليا و خالتها التي خافت على سر حياتها . بيانكا دفنت سرها و اعتقدت بان ماضيها مات . بوب حرك حجر الماضي لذلك كان الصراع بين الممثله و الكاتب على اشده ووقفت جوليا حائره ,ضائعه من تصدق و من تختار و الى اين تهرب و اكتشفت بان سعادتها الماضيه وهم و بان قلبها يقودها الى سعاده اخرى ولكنها كالرمال بين الاصابع
جوليا عاشت حياتها كا النهر الهادىء لا تعترض على شئ كانت قانعه بما تقدمه لها خالتها بيانكالايتون الممثله المشهوره و تعتبر عملها كسكرتيره لها منتهي طموحها ....و جاء بوب برانت الكاتب الجذاب. فكان بمثابه الحصاه التي تعكر هدوء البحيره الراكده. فهبت رياح عاتيه بين جوليا و بيانكا تغيرت المقايس و انقلبت المعادلات و كان بوب كالذئبق لا تمتلكه امراة .....بينما هو فراشه يطير من زهرة الى اخرى ......و يهوى البحث عن المستحيل و كشف الاسرار ......لذلك كان حجر عثره بين جوليا و خالتها التي خافت على سر حياتها . بيانكا دفنت سرها و اعتقدت بان ماضيها مات . بوب حرك حجر الماضي لذلك كان الصراع بين الممثله و الكاتب على اشده ووقفت جوليا حائره ,ضائعه من تصدق و من تختار و الى اين تهرب و اكتشفت بان سعادتها الماضيه وهم و بان قلبها يقودها الى سعاده اخرى ولكنها كالرمال بين الاصابع
August 19, 2011
Alix becames her famous aunt's secretary, never realizing how everything in her world would change. When author Liam Brant comes in to her life, he stirs her passion, and helps her break out of the shell she had been living in.
The secrets from the past can never stay hidden. Liam is there for Alix when hers are revealed. Even though she was not the keeper of the secrets.
The secrets from the past can never stay hidden. Liam is there for Alix when hers are revealed. Even though she was not the keeper of the secrets.
June 28, 2015
this cud have been a great read but i felt no connection bet hero and heroine. i truly did not want them to end up together as the chemistry was just not der! alix was still a silly child while a man of liam's calibre was more suited to bianca!
July 31, 2010
Ahh, melodramtic, romantic fluff, just the way I love it.
August 17, 2011
About the family complications, its sad.
About the love life, very struggling.
About her work with her aunt, its kinda challenging (to face a hot headed aunt)
About the love life, very struggling.
About her work with her aunt, its kinda challenging (to face a hot headed aunt)
February 20, 2013
I actually read this many years ago.. The attraction/tension between Liam and Alix roped me in.
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