Dear Enemy

by Alison York

A Knight in Tarnished Armor

The first time Alex Leeward had seen him, he'd appeared with the sunrise, astride a white horse. But reality had hit—hard—when she'd discovered that he was Marcus Wakeford, the man who'd dumped her sister and affected her father's health.

But having had her money and return ticket to England stolen, Alex's only way of getting home was to work back her passage—helping Marcus transport his horses. Her only safe way home was to make certain that neither the magic of France nor the magnetism of Marcus would seduce her into forgetting that this man she could so easily love was the enemy.

Genres: Romance, Harlequin Romance

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 11, 1994

About the author

Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.

On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.

As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.

He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.

Reviews

[Rahaf Potrosh · Rating 4 out of 5]

What I liked most about these novels and their likes is the huge amount of controversy That turns the oldest enemies into most beautiful lovers.
I like their fights, hypocritical answers, fabricated lies to hide the power of impulses and the madness of emotion.
Feelings written in the name of one of them only and not ready to give it to anyone else, no matter how beautiful the recipes, and no matter how bad our torturer has.
The heart has one accuracy, the first and the last, which is certainly not our choice.
A novel with a lovely romantic flavor that I needed in my current circumstances.

[Naksed · Rating 3 out of 5]

H and h fight and argue and grope and kiss throughout most of this story due to a Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstanding engendered by h's flighty sister, who just happens to be H's ex.

The barb wire dialogue between these two was very entertaining. The setting in France's magical region of the Camargue was wonderfully rendered. (The only other Harlequin I have read that is set there is Patricia Wilson's The Gathering Darkness).

I just couldn't help getting icked out by the fact that H used to date h'sis. I also wish the ending had a little more wow factor. Resolving the Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstanding via a 3-way telephone conference with H, h and her sister (who confirmed that H did NOT in fact callously dump the sis nor did he ruin her life, she was the dumper and she moved on very smoothly after him to find a husband to her liking) was not exactly a dramatic high point :)

But if the sister to sister trope doesn't bother you, this is a pretty entertaining book with a lovely French travelogue, some wonderful secondary characters including the two feisty horses that H and h transport back to England on an eventful roadtrip, and a suitably obsessed and jealous hero.

[Daisy Daisy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The H seemed to be a pretty decent guy. He was basically dumped by the h's sister and she implied to her family he dumped her when he found our her name. apparently there is a family feud that necessitates these 2 families avoiding each other.
Sis is now married and living in USA ans h is on holiday in France and robbed. she therefore decided to work for the H to earn her way home not realising till she meets him that he is her sisters ex.
I am never a fan of keeping it in the family so to even contemplate dating my sisters cast offs just grosses me out but added to that he seems a fairly decent if arrogant, know it all type of guy whereas she is just a judgemental prig tbh.
It takes a plot moppet to get them together in the end for a fairly unbelievable HEA

[Annarose · Rating 3 out of 5]

I honestly read it in a different language and loved it a lot. The heroine has mixed feeling towards the hero. In one hand she is loyal to her sister and loathes the pain caused by the hero's to her, and on the other hand has a great admiration to the hero and his realistic way of dealing with his responsibilities and life. she tried to keep away, but circumstances wouldn't let her. A lovely read.

[Hadeel Fouad · Rating 4 out of 5]

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