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Barbary Wharf #1
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Ze mag níét verliefd worden op de vijand!Het krantenimperium van de oude Sir George Tyrell verkeert in zwaar weer, en voor zijn efficiënte PA, Hazel Forbes, vormen de onvoorspelbare ontwikkelingen op het werk een bron van ergernis. Ze houdt zich voor dat ze dáárom zo fel reageert op Peter van Leyden, een van de zakenmannen die het bedrijf willen overnemen. Oké, en misschien ook omdat hij onuitstaanbaar knap is...Dit verhaal is ook verkrijgbaar in een 2-in-1 bundel.
183 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published October 1, 1992
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Charlotte Lamb
262 books316 followersSheila Ann Mary Coates Holland
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
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December 18, 2016
Well, that was a first! A Charlotte Lamb book that ends in a cliff-hanger. Also, the book does not focus on the romance but on the corporate battle between an old, established, London firm headed by an old-timer, gruff, English grampa and his widowed granddaughter-in-law versus the shady, ruthless, young corporate raider of murky origin and background trying to gobble it up into his international empire.
Symbols of the battle between the past and the future abound. The company is moving headquarters from the old, ramshackle building on Fleet Street that has housed it for generations into a modern monstrosity being built at Barbary Wharf. Efficient women are now typing away on computers, a sharp contrast to those Dickensian, stiff-collared, male clerks who scribbled away on giant, dusty, leather-bound ledgers during the founding years of the company.
Charlotte Lamb certainly knows how to create setting and conflict, and she is firmly on the side of nostalgia. All those medieval dresses and Victorian jewels she drapes her sympathetic (though not too bright) female protagonist in certainly illustrate her point of view.
Other than the courtship between the company's young heiress and Mr. Corporate Raider, there are two other romantic couples fighting and kissing their way through the book, giving it rather a feel of those 80s primetime soaps where you had to keep track of many storylines.
All in all, while it was an interesting story, I am not sure I am interested enough in the cliffhanger to continue with the series.
Symbols of the battle between the past and the future abound. The company is moving headquarters from the old, ramshackle building on Fleet Street that has housed it for generations into a modern monstrosity being built at Barbary Wharf. Efficient women are now typing away on computers, a sharp contrast to those Dickensian, stiff-collared, male clerks who scribbled away on giant, dusty, leather-bound ledgers during the founding years of the company.
Charlotte Lamb certainly knows how to create setting and conflict, and she is firmly on the side of nostalgia. All those medieval dresses and Victorian jewels she drapes her sympathetic (though not too bright) female protagonist in certainly illustrate her point of view.
Other than the courtship between the company's young heiress and Mr. Corporate Raider, there are two other romantic couples fighting and kissing their way through the book, giving it rather a feel of those 80s primetime soaps where you had to keep track of many storylines.
All in all, while it was an interesting story, I am not sure I am interested enough in the cliffhanger to continue with the series.
November 15, 2017
Re Besieged - book 1 of Charlotte Lamb's Barbary Wharf mini series - this is not the first mini-series in the HQN empire. That distinction goes to the Twin Torture duo Twin Torment and Ghost of the Past by Sally Wentworth. Which as whacktastic as that duology is, is the very first bona fide to market mini-serialization of a M&B romance.
Sure, Violet Winspear wrote the first interconnected books with friends and siblings as secondary characters in the first book showing up as main characters in later books and Robyn Donald's small HP version of New Zealand has everybody knowing and dating everybody - mainly cause they all have the same social circle and as RD always says, NZ is sorta a small place geographically speaking.
Even Charlotte Lamb has tried her hand at interconnecting characters with her Dark Dominion and A Secret Intimacy, but never before has an entire six months worth of books been interconnected with the main couple's over arching romance playing out amidst five other couples in over 1200 pages.
It is an ambitious endeavor, but Sally Wentworth's success with the Terrible Twins convinced the HPlandia editors that it was worth a go.
I personally was not a fan of this series, even tho it is my beloved CL. I found it really hard to keep things in order and I felt that some of the characters got shortchanged because there was so much jostling between the main characters of Gina and Nick and all the immense background of the daily to and fro of a large newspaper, which CL describes really well - then again she should, her hubby was a Fleet Street journalist for years.
Plus, while CL has an interesting range of female characters in her other books, aside from one or two of them, here they are all rather distressingly similar. Nick is the epitome of classic CL Alpha Bully H and the rest of the men tend to follow his shadow in their own actions but don't really stand out in the main. Gina is the nice, beautiful but rather distant and dim CL h that can be so depressingly doormattish that even when they are trying to assert themselves, you just want to offer cookies and tea and feel sad that whatever they do, they are destined to lose in the end.
However, CL probably does a better job than most of the HP author list at this time in pulling a diverse array of stories together into a fairly cohesive story line. So without further ado, we will start on the saga of Barbary Wharf - which just automatically gives the feeling that we are about to embark on a journey with a bunch of pirates and some helpless wenches...
First off the Cast of Characters for the first book (we helpfully get a list at beginning of each book, making it much easier to keep track of them all.)
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK
SIR GEORGE TYRRELL: The elderly owner of the Sentinel, one of the UK's most prestigious newspaper groups.
GINA TYRRELL: The young widow of Sir George's beloved grandson, James, and also personal assistant to Sir George Tyrrell at the Sentinel.
NICK CASPIAN: International media tycoon. He is a ruthless and dangerous predator who has set his eyes on owning the Sentinel and on destroying anyone who gets in his way.
PIET VAN LEYDEN: Chief architect of Nick Caspian's newspaper group, and the designer who takes over the Barbary Wharf project. Though Dutch, he travels extensively around the world and is fluent in several languages.
HAZEL FORBES: Gina's loyal colleague at the Sentinel. Extremely efficient, she is dedicated to her work and has no time for outside interests.
ROZ AMERY: Foreign affairs reporter. She is fiercely ambitious and sees her future as being tied firmly to the Sentinel and to Gina Tyrrell in person.
DANIEL BRUNEILLE: Chief foreign affairs editor. Rules the department with an iron fist. Fiery and temperamental, he is not the easiest of men to get on with.
So a little backstory here, this book is set in a daily newspaper, the Sentinel, that is owned by Sir George. He is moving from his dilapidated Fleet Street building into an ultra-modern glass and concrete building down by the Thames River - the place is called, well you can probably guess that it is Ye Newe BW.
The book opens with Gina and Sir George checking out the new unfinished building. We find out that Gina is an orphan now and her only remaining family is Sir George, who was her foolish and wild young husband's doting Grandpa. Gina was pressured into marriage by Sir George when her dead hubby James, insisted they marry when Gina was only 18 or so.
She was a widow by twenty, as James was a hellion on the wild side and Sir George pretty much bullied Gina into staying around and caring for him for the last five years. She basically acts as his personal assistant and when necessary, his nurse. Gina loved her dead hubby, but realized a long time ago that they should have waited to get married, since then Gina has been on ice as the devoted companion of Sir George. Now with Nick on the scene, that may well be changing.
SG isn't well and the stress of the move coupled with some big financial problems aren't helping his health any. SG overextended to buy the new complex with it's fancy new printing presses, so there is the worry that Nick, the antagonistic predatory news mogul from Europe, may be making a deal with Sir George's financiers to force SG into partnership with Nick.
We first get a bit of byplay between Nick, lady buffet grazer extraordinaire and Gina. Nick wants to take Gina to dinner. He hints that he has inside information on how precarious Sir George's financial grasp of the paper really is. Gina, after many personal questions from Nick that make it clear he has no problems using her to get to Sir George and wouldn't mind doing so in bed, hesitantly agrees to meet Nick with the understanding that he will put her more fully in the picture on how badly the newspaper might fare if there is no new cash flow and won't let Sir George know that she is sneaking out to meet Nick.
Nick is a smooth operator and Gina is a concussed duckling when it comes to the financial side of things. Sir George is a total misogynist, so Gina has absolutely no clue about any of the paper's assets or lack of them. Gina does have a sense of self preservation tho and she is pretty good at spotting an operator when she sees one, so after some remarks about the various staff employed at the paper, Gina susses out that she is on the target list to be used and tells Nick off. He seems absolutely stunned when Gina ends the dinner, dismisses him for flirting with every woman in a two mile radius but especially one the paper's female share holders and then tells him she absolutely detests him.
We also meet the other two ladies in this one, Roz, who wants to be a foreign correspondent and has an ongoing war with the Foreign News Chief, Daniel and Hazel, who is Sir George's office secretary who soon starts a relationship with Nick's architect Piet. Piet initially makes a play for Gina, then realizes that he is totally eclipsed by Nick in Gina's eyes, thus Hazel gets to be second choice for a little Piet/Hazel instaluv.
There is a TON of women being witchy to each other as Roz is irked at everyone, Hazel is jealous of the attention Piet pays to Gina and she has a major meltdown when she falls face first into white paint in front of Piet and he has to carry her to get washed up and Gina is caught between her devotion to Sir George and the menacing but strangely bodily inflaming presence of Nick.
Sir George finally agrees to partner with Nick in a sad little scene where SG admits defeat, and Nick is soon trying to force an affair on Gina - which she absolutely doesn't want tho her body is feeling the lurve mojo-and so Gina uses Piet for a dating shield for a page or twenty. Finally it all culminates when Nick asks Gina to marry him, as he can't get her any other way and Gina, suspecting something devious, refuses - tho Nick makes her body burn.
Right after an infuriated Nick storms off, there is a big night out for the staff of the Sentinel and all the major players are there. Sir Gerard thinks his fifty/fifty partnership with Nick is safe, but he warns Gina that Nick will never be happy unless he has full control of the paper and it is their duty to hold him off. Sir George sends Gina off to dance with Nick while Piet and Hazel decide they are massively in love and share a tender dance.
Then Sir George finds out that Nick managed to buy another shareholder's stock in the paper and that Nick now has over fifty percent control, making Sir George an ineffective partner. This surprise news sends Sir George into a fatal heart attack in the midst of the big party.
Tho Nick swears he was only doing it for Gina, she adamantly rejects that statement, as she knows Nick just wants to marry her to get all the paper's shares. The book ends with the death of Sir George and Gina calling Nick a murderer and vowing vengeance, as we all wait for the next exciting chapter of Barbary Wharf - where Roz and Daniel finally battle it all out and Gina and Nick square off for war.
Sure, Violet Winspear wrote the first interconnected books with friends and siblings as secondary characters in the first book showing up as main characters in later books and Robyn Donald's small HP version of New Zealand has everybody knowing and dating everybody - mainly cause they all have the same social circle and as RD always says, NZ is sorta a small place geographically speaking.
Even Charlotte Lamb has tried her hand at interconnecting characters with her Dark Dominion and A Secret Intimacy, but never before has an entire six months worth of books been interconnected with the main couple's over arching romance playing out amidst five other couples in over 1200 pages.
It is an ambitious endeavor, but Sally Wentworth's success with the Terrible Twins convinced the HPlandia editors that it was worth a go.
I personally was not a fan of this series, even tho it is my beloved CL. I found it really hard to keep things in order and I felt that some of the characters got shortchanged because there was so much jostling between the main characters of Gina and Nick and all the immense background of the daily to and fro of a large newspaper, which CL describes really well - then again she should, her hubby was a Fleet Street journalist for years.
Plus, while CL has an interesting range of female characters in her other books, aside from one or two of them, here they are all rather distressingly similar. Nick is the epitome of classic CL Alpha Bully H and the rest of the men tend to follow his shadow in their own actions but don't really stand out in the main. Gina is the nice, beautiful but rather distant and dim CL h that can be so depressingly doormattish that even when they are trying to assert themselves, you just want to offer cookies and tea and feel sad that whatever they do, they are destined to lose in the end.
However, CL probably does a better job than most of the HP author list at this time in pulling a diverse array of stories together into a fairly cohesive story line. So without further ado, we will start on the saga of Barbary Wharf - which just automatically gives the feeling that we are about to embark on a journey with a bunch of pirates and some helpless wenches...
First off the Cast of Characters for the first book (we helpfully get a list at beginning of each book, making it much easier to keep track of them all.)
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK
SIR GEORGE TYRRELL: The elderly owner of the Sentinel, one of the UK's most prestigious newspaper groups.
GINA TYRRELL: The young widow of Sir George's beloved grandson, James, and also personal assistant to Sir George Tyrrell at the Sentinel.
NICK CASPIAN: International media tycoon. He is a ruthless and dangerous predator who has set his eyes on owning the Sentinel and on destroying anyone who gets in his way.
PIET VAN LEYDEN: Chief architect of Nick Caspian's newspaper group, and the designer who takes over the Barbary Wharf project. Though Dutch, he travels extensively around the world and is fluent in several languages.
HAZEL FORBES: Gina's loyal colleague at the Sentinel. Extremely efficient, she is dedicated to her work and has no time for outside interests.
ROZ AMERY: Foreign affairs reporter. She is fiercely ambitious and sees her future as being tied firmly to the Sentinel and to Gina Tyrrell in person.
DANIEL BRUNEILLE: Chief foreign affairs editor. Rules the department with an iron fist. Fiery and temperamental, he is not the easiest of men to get on with.
So a little backstory here, this book is set in a daily newspaper, the Sentinel, that is owned by Sir George. He is moving from his dilapidated Fleet Street building into an ultra-modern glass and concrete building down by the Thames River - the place is called, well you can probably guess that it is Ye Newe BW.
The book opens with Gina and Sir George checking out the new unfinished building. We find out that Gina is an orphan now and her only remaining family is Sir George, who was her foolish and wild young husband's doting Grandpa. Gina was pressured into marriage by Sir George when her dead hubby James, insisted they marry when Gina was only 18 or so.
She was a widow by twenty, as James was a hellion on the wild side and Sir George pretty much bullied Gina into staying around and caring for him for the last five years. She basically acts as his personal assistant and when necessary, his nurse. Gina loved her dead hubby, but realized a long time ago that they should have waited to get married, since then Gina has been on ice as the devoted companion of Sir George. Now with Nick on the scene, that may well be changing.
SG isn't well and the stress of the move coupled with some big financial problems aren't helping his health any. SG overextended to buy the new complex with it's fancy new printing presses, so there is the worry that Nick, the antagonistic predatory news mogul from Europe, may be making a deal with Sir George's financiers to force SG into partnership with Nick.
We first get a bit of byplay between Nick, lady buffet grazer extraordinaire and Gina. Nick wants to take Gina to dinner. He hints that he has inside information on how precarious Sir George's financial grasp of the paper really is. Gina, after many personal questions from Nick that make it clear he has no problems using her to get to Sir George and wouldn't mind doing so in bed, hesitantly agrees to meet Nick with the understanding that he will put her more fully in the picture on how badly the newspaper might fare if there is no new cash flow and won't let Sir George know that she is sneaking out to meet Nick.
Nick is a smooth operator and Gina is a concussed duckling when it comes to the financial side of things. Sir George is a total misogynist, so Gina has absolutely no clue about any of the paper's assets or lack of them. Gina does have a sense of self preservation tho and she is pretty good at spotting an operator when she sees one, so after some remarks about the various staff employed at the paper, Gina susses out that she is on the target list to be used and tells Nick off. He seems absolutely stunned when Gina ends the dinner, dismisses him for flirting with every woman in a two mile radius but especially one the paper's female share holders and then tells him she absolutely detests him.
We also meet the other two ladies in this one, Roz, who wants to be a foreign correspondent and has an ongoing war with the Foreign News Chief, Daniel and Hazel, who is Sir George's office secretary who soon starts a relationship with Nick's architect Piet. Piet initially makes a play for Gina, then realizes that he is totally eclipsed by Nick in Gina's eyes, thus Hazel gets to be second choice for a little Piet/Hazel instaluv.
There is a TON of women being witchy to each other as Roz is irked at everyone, Hazel is jealous of the attention Piet pays to Gina and she has a major meltdown when she falls face first into white paint in front of Piet and he has to carry her to get washed up and Gina is caught between her devotion to Sir George and the menacing but strangely bodily inflaming presence of Nick.
Sir George finally agrees to partner with Nick in a sad little scene where SG admits defeat, and Nick is soon trying to force an affair on Gina - which she absolutely doesn't want tho her body is feeling the lurve mojo-and so Gina uses Piet for a dating shield for a page or twenty. Finally it all culminates when Nick asks Gina to marry him, as he can't get her any other way and Gina, suspecting something devious, refuses - tho Nick makes her body burn.
Right after an infuriated Nick storms off, there is a big night out for the staff of the Sentinel and all the major players are there. Sir Gerard thinks his fifty/fifty partnership with Nick is safe, but he warns Gina that Nick will never be happy unless he has full control of the paper and it is their duty to hold him off. Sir George sends Gina off to dance with Nick while Piet and Hazel decide they are massively in love and share a tender dance.
Then Sir George finds out that Nick managed to buy another shareholder's stock in the paper and that Nick now has over fifty percent control, making Sir George an ineffective partner. This surprise news sends Sir George into a fatal heart attack in the midst of the big party.
Tho Nick swears he was only doing it for Gina, she adamantly rejects that statement, as she knows Nick just wants to marry her to get all the paper's shares. The book ends with the death of Sir George and Gina calling Nick a murderer and vowing vengeance, as we all wait for the next exciting chapter of Barbary Wharf - where Roz and Daniel finally battle it all out and Gina and Nick square off for war.
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March 1, 2024
DNF pg. 134
I meant to finish but lost interest. Too much business stuff and side characters. Like, the leads for having lengthy discussions about them. I think this was one of the first Charlotte Lamb books I acquired after Nenia recommended her (she also BRed this with me, yay!), and although I hope to read more of her books, I wouldn't pick up more in this series.
I meant to finish but lost interest. Too much business stuff and side characters. Like, the leads for having lengthy discussions about them. I think this was one of the first Charlotte Lamb books I acquired after Nenia recommended her (she also BRed this with me, yay!), and although I hope to read more of her books, I wouldn't pick up more in this series.
September 8, 2012
completely luved this serise of 6 books by charlotte lamb around 12 yrs ago.............wanna own them if i get a chance again
July 20, 2012
Somewhat like this review, nothing happens in this book.
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March 13, 2013AWSOME
June 29, 2017
Well, I had read Part 6, the concluding part of this series first. And realized that the Nick and Gina have a ton of history behind them.
This time, I managed to lay my hands on Part 1, that's BESIEGED. Got to see how the leads met , hit it off, and then turned into sworn enemies.
Good writing, fantastic premise. Engaging world created by the author - the newspaper empire, journalists, board members, corporate battles, power struggles. Brilliant !
There is also the added spice of parallel romance tracks. The track in this book was good.
So now I know how they met (in Book 1), and then how they married (in Book 6).
Vital missing link - when did they DO IT, in which book ??? Somebody please tell me that :)
This time, I managed to lay my hands on Part 1, that's BESIEGED. Got to see how the leads met , hit it off, and then turned into sworn enemies.
Good writing, fantastic premise. Engaging world created by the author - the newspaper empire, journalists, board members, corporate battles, power struggles. Brilliant !
There is also the added spice of parallel romance tracks. The track in this book was good.
So now I know how they met (in Book 1), and then how they married (in Book 6).
Vital missing link - when did they DO IT, in which book ??? Somebody please tell me that :)
April 25, 2020
So boring that I actually fell asleep.
October 16, 2016
One Of the best books written by Lamb.
This is a series with 6 books; it was amazing!
I loved it too much!
Charlotte lamb knows how to create wars between the man and woman and the woman does not give up easily. This series is a living proof on that!
This is a series with 6 books; it was amazing!
I loved it too much!
Charlotte lamb knows how to create wars between the man and woman and the woman does not give up easily. This series is a living proof on that!
August 10, 2012
I fondly remember this book, even if it's been 20 years since I read it.
June 8, 2014
I am glad there are 6 books in the series because there is going to have to be a lot of change in the main male character. The side story was nice.
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June 18, 2018Gina Tyrell knew media tycoon Nick Caspian was trouble the moment she met him. Despite his awe-inspiring looks, he was a ruthless and dangerous man, a man she knew what he wanted.
What he wanted was Barbary Wharf -- home to London's most prestigious daily newspaper. He wanted the Sentinel. And he wanted Gina, a woman whose loyalty to Sir George Tyrell and his paper meant she stood in Nick's way.
Piet van Leyden, Nick's trusted associate, thought he could change Gina's mind. The paper was dying; it needed Nick's intervention. But Piet hadn't counted on meeting Hazel Forbes, Sir George's assistant, or on falling in love.
What he wanted was Barbary Wharf -- home to London's most prestigious daily newspaper. He wanted the Sentinel. And he wanted Gina, a woman whose loyalty to Sir George Tyrell and his paper meant she stood in Nick's way.
Piet van Leyden, Nick's trusted associate, thought he could change Gina's mind. The paper was dying; it needed Nick's intervention. But Piet hadn't counted on meeting Hazel Forbes, Sir George's assistant, or on falling in love.
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