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A Fiery Encounter by Margaret Mayo released on Nov 24, 1992 is available now for purchase.
158 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 8, 1991
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Margaret Mayo
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For Children's writer see Margaret Mayo
Jessica R. Mayo was born on February 7, 1936 in Staffordshire, England, and has remained within the county all of her life. It was never her ambition to become a writer, although she always loved reading, even to the extent of reading comics out loud to her twin brother when she was eight years old. In fact her only writing experience was in letters to various pen pals around the world. She unfortunately lost touch with them now and often wonders whether any of them have ever discovered that her chatty letters were the forerunner to her writing career.
She left school to become a secretary, taking a break to have her two children, Adrian and Tina. Once they were at school she started back to work and planned to further her career by becoming a bi-lingual secretary. Unfortunately she couldn't speak any languages other than her native English, so she began evening classes. It was at this time that she got the idea for a romantic short story - to this day she doesn't know where the idea came from or why, but she thanks her lucky stars because it kick-started her career. Margaret, and her mother before her, had always read Mills & Boon romances, and to actually be writing one excited her beyond measure.
'My life began at forty' is another one of her favourite sayings - because that is when her first book was published - two and a half years after she first set pen to paper (that first book was written long before she felt confident enough to send it off).Having those books accepted was the happiest and most exciting day of her life. She waltzed her husband around the room and their two children thought they'd gone mad, until they were told the good news.
Her first two submitted novels were accepted simultaneously, and now she has over sixty-five to her credit. When she looks at them lined up on her bookshelf she wonders how she has managed to write all those millions of words. She is a hopeless romantic who loves writing. She falls in love with every one of her heroes and likes to boast about how many 'love affairs' she's had.
Margaret gets so immersed in her writing that one day - before she made writing her full-time career and did most of her writing at the office (!!) - her daughter phoned to ask whether she could come and meet her out of work. Margaret told her not to be silly because it was foggy. Her daughter said 'But it's sunny here.' And when Margaret looked out of the window the sun was shining. Her hero and heroine were lost out in a sea of fog!
Before she became a successful author Margaret was extremely shy and found it difficult to talk to strangers. For research purposes she forced herself to speak to people from all walks of life and now says her shyness has gone forever - to a certain degree. She is still happier pouring her thoughts out on paper.
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For Children's writer see Margaret Mayo
Jessica R. Mayo was born on February 7, 1936 in Staffordshire, England, and has remained within the county all of her life. It was never her ambition to become a writer, although she always loved reading, even to the extent of reading comics out loud to her twin brother when she was eight years old. In fact her only writing experience was in letters to various pen pals around the world. She unfortunately lost touch with them now and often wonders whether any of them have ever discovered that her chatty letters were the forerunner to her writing career.
She left school to become a secretary, taking a break to have her two children, Adrian and Tina. Once they were at school she started back to work and planned to further her career by becoming a bi-lingual secretary. Unfortunately she couldn't speak any languages other than her native English, so she began evening classes. It was at this time that she got the idea for a romantic short story - to this day she doesn't know where the idea came from or why, but she thanks her lucky stars because it kick-started her career. Margaret, and her mother before her, had always read Mills & Boon romances, and to actually be writing one excited her beyond measure.
'My life began at forty' is another one of her favourite sayings - because that is when her first book was published - two and a half years after she first set pen to paper (that first book was written long before she felt confident enough to send it off).Having those books accepted was the happiest and most exciting day of her life. She waltzed her husband around the room and their two children thought they'd gone mad, until they were told the good news.
Her first two submitted novels were accepted simultaneously, and now she has over sixty-five to her credit. When she looks at them lined up on her bookshelf she wonders how she has managed to write all those millions of words. She is a hopeless romantic who loves writing. She falls in love with every one of her heroes and likes to boast about how many 'love affairs' she's had.
Margaret gets so immersed in her writing that one day - before she made writing her full-time career and did most of her writing at the office (!!) - her daughter phoned to ask whether she could come and meet her out of work. Margaret told her not to be silly because it was foggy. Her daughter said 'But it's sunny here.' And when Margaret looked out of the window the sun was shining. Her hero and heroine were lost out in a sea of fog!
Before she became a successful author Margaret was extremely shy and found it difficult to talk to strangers. For research purposes she forced herself to speak to people from all walks of life and now says her shyness has gone forever - to a certain degree. She is still happier pouring her thoughts out on paper.
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December 7, 2017
Re A Fiery Encounter - Margaret Mayo kicks off her 1993 HP contributions with a wrongly accused h and an overbearing, kidnapping, forced seductioning bully of an H.
This one starts with the h meeting the H at his company party. The h's friend works for the H, who is a dark haired Tycoon dreamboat in looks, but she claims to hate him because he did not want to take up on her offer for late hours office dictations. This H make it clear that he prefers to pick his own dictation companions tho, and the h's friend did not have the necessary qualifications.
The h takes one look at the H and it is all systems go, there is eyeballing and tarty looks and when they have a few moments of conversation, it is clear the h is more than willing to offer herself up as the H's private penthouse popsie. It is also clear that her measurements are clearly qualifying enough for the H to put her on his reserve pool list.
The H and h go out a few times, but the h has also been dating a young man more her age as well and tho he tries to give her expensive gifts and lurve her up some, she is actually trying to nicely let him down.
Then her brother comes to town and takes his baby sister out to dinner. She see's the H at the restaurant with another woman and figures the H just wasn't interested enough to pursue the mutual attraction.
A few days later she gets accused by the H of causing his nephew to embezzle thousands of dollars from one of the H's companies. The h is confused, cause she did not even know that the H had a nephew. It turns out that her other man, the one she was trying to fade off, is the H's nephew. The H sees the gold bracelet and chain the OM gave her and calls the h a gold digging tart and vows revenge. It is clear he thinks the h is out to defraud sweet young men and lead them to a life of crime in twisted little pay to play scenario.
The h is an interior designer, so the H's revenge is to force her boss via financial pressure to assign the h to redo a big manor house type hotel the H has just bought in Scotland. She will have to live in a rustic cottage, work to the H's exacting specification and endure his rough attempts at forced seduction and compete for the H's attention with his secretary as well.
The h wastes no time in protesting that she is innocent, participating in his forced seduction roofie kisses cause her body betrays her and loudly proclaiming the H to be a jerk multiple times a day. She bluntly informs the H that she speaks her mind no matter what and then berates him for spoiling his nephew so that the young man had no clue about how to support himself. We find out the H has banished his nephew to Texas, he has to work for his other uncle there and the h protests that too.
So the two of them bicker and bicker and bicker and the H gets the h released from her old job, via a sneaky deal with the h's old boss. For some reason the h, who has been protesting the H's abuse all this time, doesn't dump the H and the job and head for home - as you would expect with an h who protests this much. Instead she stays, because she supposedly wants to finish the job.
But since the H is all kinds of nastiness, I think she just wanted to torment the H with her new OM - the architect for the hotel rebuild- in a childish attempt to make the H jealous and so she can have a handsome man to vent about the H on and someone to take her out and about.
(This h was supposed to be feisty, but it came off as dangerously close to OW evil behavior instead. She used people and she was definitely a no-means-yes kinda girl. MM was trying to modernize here, but she went too close to cheap tart instead of coy flirt with this h. However since this H is a throwback to the Beat His Manly Chest Alpha of the 70's, with all it's attendant male chauvinism, the two are actually a good match for each other. )
So we develop two love triangles, the h/H/OM and the H/h/OW - who is the H's secretary. The middle of the book is the two of them fighting, kissing and battling about and the H almost running the h over with his car and getting his head smashed, with the reasons for the h not leaving changing every chapter. First it was that the H threatened to bankrupt her old boss. Then it was that she wanted to finish the hotel, then it was not to disappoint her old boss, then it was for some vague feeling the h should stay.
Eventually the H drags his nephew back and the nephew confirms that the h wasn't the girl he bought really pricey things for with the embezzled money. The h still doesn't leave and go home now that she has been vindicated and the H's behavior gets more extreme. He claims that he hates women cause a year prior to the story, he was engaged to one of his employees and SHE embezzled a ton of money from a company she was hired to rebuild. So the H blames his prior bad behavior on him being burned by a beautiful woman.
But that doesn't explain why he forces the h to leave the cottage she has been staying in and move in with him and his secretary. Then the H sets about playing the two women off each other. The h is heaped with domestic duties, as well as interior designing and the h vacillates between lust and hate so much, I got whiplash. The h almost drowns herself in the local loch when she takes a faulty row boat out, and in the aftermath, she gets a bad case of flu. The H has to take care of her and soon he has a little plan to strand him and the h out on a yacht all night and there he finally implements his massive seduction.
He succeeds brilliantly and the lurve club mojo is in full purple passion effect. The next day the h realizes that she is just another notch on the H's totem pole, as he turns his attentions back to his cuddlesome secretary and the h is back to hating him again. A few more threats and arguments later and the h is preggers, but she doesn't let on to anyone. She tells the H that if she can't get her old job back, she will just set up on her own and she makes arrangements to leave.
The H tries to delay her, but nothing with stop her and on the way to the airport, the H confesses that he knows she hates him, but he can't live without her and he wants to be in her life even tho she won't work for him anymore. The h is delirious with joy, cause she loves him back and after the H proposes marriage, she lets him in on the baby news and the OW is vanished like she never existed for another HP HEA.
This one was okay, the h had some great moments in her fight to oppose the oppression of the Tyrant H, but the pacing was odd and the plot points that jumped all over the place concerning the h's reactions to her situation were distinctly nonsensical. MM probably needed more page count, but ran out of space, so the ending is decidedly bland and indifferent after all the fireworks that had gone before.
I wasn't sure that these two loved each other, but I could easily see them as that continually bickering old couple whose attempts to one-up each other keep them alive and vital for years. MM is not one of my favorite HP authors, but this one is readable for a little HP jaunt if you run into it.
This one starts with the h meeting the H at his company party. The h's friend works for the H, who is a dark haired Tycoon dreamboat in looks, but she claims to hate him because he did not want to take up on her offer for late hours office dictations. This H make it clear that he prefers to pick his own dictation companions tho, and the h's friend did not have the necessary qualifications.
The h takes one look at the H and it is all systems go, there is eyeballing and tarty looks and when they have a few moments of conversation, it is clear the h is more than willing to offer herself up as the H's private penthouse popsie. It is also clear that her measurements are clearly qualifying enough for the H to put her on his reserve pool list.
The H and h go out a few times, but the h has also been dating a young man more her age as well and tho he tries to give her expensive gifts and lurve her up some, she is actually trying to nicely let him down.
Then her brother comes to town and takes his baby sister out to dinner. She see's the H at the restaurant with another woman and figures the H just wasn't interested enough to pursue the mutual attraction.
A few days later she gets accused by the H of causing his nephew to embezzle thousands of dollars from one of the H's companies. The h is confused, cause she did not even know that the H had a nephew. It turns out that her other man, the one she was trying to fade off, is the H's nephew. The H sees the gold bracelet and chain the OM gave her and calls the h a gold digging tart and vows revenge. It is clear he thinks the h is out to defraud sweet young men and lead them to a life of crime in twisted little pay to play scenario.
The h is an interior designer, so the H's revenge is to force her boss via financial pressure to assign the h to redo a big manor house type hotel the H has just bought in Scotland. She will have to live in a rustic cottage, work to the H's exacting specification and endure his rough attempts at forced seduction and compete for the H's attention with his secretary as well.
The h wastes no time in protesting that she is innocent, participating in his forced seduction roofie kisses cause her body betrays her and loudly proclaiming the H to be a jerk multiple times a day. She bluntly informs the H that she speaks her mind no matter what and then berates him for spoiling his nephew so that the young man had no clue about how to support himself. We find out the H has banished his nephew to Texas, he has to work for his other uncle there and the h protests that too.
So the two of them bicker and bicker and bicker and the H gets the h released from her old job, via a sneaky deal with the h's old boss. For some reason the h, who has been protesting the H's abuse all this time, doesn't dump the H and the job and head for home - as you would expect with an h who protests this much. Instead she stays, because she supposedly wants to finish the job.
But since the H is all kinds of nastiness, I think she just wanted to torment the H with her new OM - the architect for the hotel rebuild- in a childish attempt to make the H jealous and so she can have a handsome man to vent about the H on and someone to take her out and about.
(This h was supposed to be feisty, but it came off as dangerously close to OW evil behavior instead. She used people and she was definitely a no-means-yes kinda girl. MM was trying to modernize here, but she went too close to cheap tart instead of coy flirt with this h. However since this H is a throwback to the Beat His Manly Chest Alpha of the 70's, with all it's attendant male chauvinism, the two are actually a good match for each other. )
So we develop two love triangles, the h/H/OM and the H/h/OW - who is the H's secretary. The middle of the book is the two of them fighting, kissing and battling about and the H almost running the h over with his car and getting his head smashed, with the reasons for the h not leaving changing every chapter. First it was that the H threatened to bankrupt her old boss. Then it was that she wanted to finish the hotel, then it was not to disappoint her old boss, then it was for some vague feeling the h should stay.
Eventually the H drags his nephew back and the nephew confirms that the h wasn't the girl he bought really pricey things for with the embezzled money. The h still doesn't leave and go home now that she has been vindicated and the H's behavior gets more extreme. He claims that he hates women cause a year prior to the story, he was engaged to one of his employees and SHE embezzled a ton of money from a company she was hired to rebuild. So the H blames his prior bad behavior on him being burned by a beautiful woman.
But that doesn't explain why he forces the h to leave the cottage she has been staying in and move in with him and his secretary. Then the H sets about playing the two women off each other. The h is heaped with domestic duties, as well as interior designing and the h vacillates between lust and hate so much, I got whiplash. The h almost drowns herself in the local loch when she takes a faulty row boat out, and in the aftermath, she gets a bad case of flu. The H has to take care of her and soon he has a little plan to strand him and the h out on a yacht all night and there he finally implements his massive seduction.
He succeeds brilliantly and the lurve club mojo is in full purple passion effect. The next day the h realizes that she is just another notch on the H's totem pole, as he turns his attentions back to his cuddlesome secretary and the h is back to hating him again. A few more threats and arguments later and the h is preggers, but she doesn't let on to anyone. She tells the H that if she can't get her old job back, she will just set up on her own and she makes arrangements to leave.
The H tries to delay her, but nothing with stop her and on the way to the airport, the H confesses that he knows she hates him, but he can't live without her and he wants to be in her life even tho she won't work for him anymore. The h is delirious with joy, cause she loves him back and after the H proposes marriage, she lets him in on the baby news and the OW is vanished like she never existed for another HP HEA.
This one was okay, the h had some great moments in her fight to oppose the oppression of the Tyrant H, but the pacing was odd and the plot points that jumped all over the place concerning the h's reactions to her situation were distinctly nonsensical. MM probably needed more page count, but ran out of space, so the ending is decidedly bland and indifferent after all the fireworks that had gone before.
I wasn't sure that these two loved each other, but I could easily see them as that continually bickering old couple whose attempts to one-up each other keep them alive and vital for years. MM is not one of my favorite HP authors, but this one is readable for a little HP jaunt if you run into it.
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July 15, 2018
I hate this book. The lady has no self respect.. Even though the male protagonist treats her like shit she still wants to be with him. Well I did not expect them to end up together.
March 12, 2020
3.5
So many problems with this book. It was definitely a roller coaster. It was a good read but the macho assholeness of the main character was almost too hard to read.
So many problems with this book. It was definitely a roller coaster. It was a good read but the macho assholeness of the main character was almost too hard to read.
August 27, 2021
It's a good book and I love it
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February 8, 2021He wanted his pound of flesh ... — Despite the desire generated the instant they met, Leon Alexander believed Georgina Gregory was a gold digger who'd used and discarded his nephew after accepting lavish gifts bought with company money. — Determined to collect his due, Leon twisted her boss's arm and whisked Georgina off to Scotland on an interior designer's dream job -- except Leon seemed bent on making it a nightmare.
They clearly disliked and mistrusted each other and yet his possessive caresses threatened Georgina's resolve not to break. And Leon's tormented kisses suggested he was finding his declared enemy hard to resist!
They clearly disliked and mistrusted each other and yet his possessive caresses threatened Georgina's resolve not to break. And Leon's tormented kisses suggested he was finding his declared enemy hard to resist!
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