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Bedded at the Billionaire's Convenience
Mills & Boon Sexy series delivers what you love in contemporary romance - glamour and scandal in exotic locations…Bedded At The Billionaire's Convenience
Cathy Williams
Billionaire Pierre Newman needs a fiancee-and fast! Frumpy, innocent Georgie is the complete opposite of the high-society women he usually has at his beck and call, but she will have to do.
Their engagement charade must look convincing, so Pierre commands that Georgie shares his room-and his bed. If he has to do this, he fully intends to enjoy the more pleasurable benefits too... Soon Pierre finds pleasure indeed with Georgie, beyond anything he ever imagined.
216 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2008
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Cathy Williams
1,307 books200 followersCathy Williams, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is a British author who has written romance novels for Mills & Boon since 1990. She lives in Chiswick, London, with her three daughters and continues to craft engaging, heartfelt love stories.
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December 15, 2009
The word 'mistress' needs to be struck from the vocabulary of the editors and the writers for this series of romance novels. It is so nineteenth century. And just a heads up here, a woman is not a man's mistress if he does not support her and she is not his beck and call, sexually or otherwise. Thus, this term does not apply to Georgie, whatsoever. I guess the person who writes the blurbs thought that us Harlequin Presents readers were so unenlightened, that we wouldn't buy this book unless the blurb included 'mistress' in the description. Here's a lesson to you: I hate the mistress concept. When I get a Harlequin Presents in the mail or pick one up in the store, seeing this outdated, sexist term is a turnoff to me. I will read the book if I like the author and the story sounds interesting otherwise. But I would prefer never to read another book where the heroine is the hero's mistress. It offends my 21st century sexual egalitarianism principles. Okay, you might ask why I read these books. Because they are good, and entertaining, and a nice way to spend a few hours, allowing me to recharge, relax, and let off some steam. Because they are fun to read, I am prepared to overlook some of the way un-PC aspects, most of the time.
PSA over. Review begins: Georgie approaches Pierre at his elite gym in London to explain that she more or less said they were engaged because his mom has been really depressed since her stroke, with little to take interest in, and she thought knowing that her son was engaged would help. Of course, Pierre is livid. He doesn't even like Georgie. She's too disorganized, too down-to-earth, too scatter-brained for his tastes. He likes his women cold-blooded, into making money, intellectual, and willing to get horizontal without feelings involved. This is about 180 degrees opposite to Georgie's personality.
Georgie heartily disproves of Pierre's life style. The fact that he barely ever comes home to see his mom, that he is way too fixated on making money and city living, and his colorless, snooty, boring girlfriends. She thinks that he's forgotten the important things in life. But she's good friends with his mom, and she wants for Didi to get better. So she takes a chance and says they are engaged.
Pierre goes along with the charade, because Georgie answering his phone at 10:30pm when he offers to let her stay in London, really gives the impression that they are 'together.' Also out of concern for his mother whose hippish, country lifestyle with his deceased father was something he never agreed with, although he does love her.
This odd couple spends more time together, and develop a liking and attraction for each other. Georgie is very wary of Pierre, knowing he's not the home and hearth type. She doesn't like his materialistic values, and she feels that he looks down on her simple living. Although Pierre feels that Georgie is way too 'messy' in her life for him, and he doesn't care for her 'flower-child-like' dress sense, Pierre comes to realize that Georgie is very sexy in a way that none of his other girlfriends were, and why not make their association real for the time being?
I enjoyed this book. I liked the back and forth between Pierre and Georgie. I liked that Georgie wasn't beholden to Pierre or under his thumb. She had her own career and her own home, and was perfectly happy with her life in the country. Pierre was the one who had some issues he needed to work out. He resented his family for their organic farming ventures, and the fact that they squandered their money on schemes destined to fail. He focused on making and keeping his money, and became more and more cold-hearted in a sense. Georgie brings a part of him to life, and he realizes how much he loves his mom, and enjoys being around her. Georgie and Pierre have good chemistry (although the love scenes are not fully described. Part of them would be shown, and part wouldn't. Which I thought was weird, but oh well.)
I was actually okay with Pierre to a certain extent, although I wished he hadn't kept his family at a distance, but I can't judge him for that. He might be rich, but he didn't have much quality of life. I think spending time with Georgie and his mom helped him to realize what he was missing out on, but eventually that scared him. He made me mad in the scene where he sees a tender smile on Georgie's face and decides it's time to cut and run. I thought that was very cowardly of him, and low down. But he ends up realizing what he almost let slip through his fingers when he goes back to town, and his mom tells him that Georgie has a new boyfriend after three months pass by. Of course, he goes running because he doesn't want any other man to have her. (Rolling eyes.) Men!
This was a fun book. I stayed up way too late reading it, and I'm paying for it today. Definitely recommended, if you don't mind the incomplete love scenes.
PSA over. Review begins: Georgie approaches Pierre at his elite gym in London to explain that she more or less said they were engaged because his mom has been really depressed since her stroke, with little to take interest in, and she thought knowing that her son was engaged would help. Of course, Pierre is livid. He doesn't even like Georgie. She's too disorganized, too down-to-earth, too scatter-brained for his tastes. He likes his women cold-blooded, into making money, intellectual, and willing to get horizontal without feelings involved. This is about 180 degrees opposite to Georgie's personality.
Georgie heartily disproves of Pierre's life style. The fact that he barely ever comes home to see his mom, that he is way too fixated on making money and city living, and his colorless, snooty, boring girlfriends. She thinks that he's forgotten the important things in life. But she's good friends with his mom, and she wants for Didi to get better. So she takes a chance and says they are engaged.
Pierre goes along with the charade, because Georgie answering his phone at 10:30pm when he offers to let her stay in London, really gives the impression that they are 'together.' Also out of concern for his mother whose hippish, country lifestyle with his deceased father was something he never agreed with, although he does love her.
This odd couple spends more time together, and develop a liking and attraction for each other. Georgie is very wary of Pierre, knowing he's not the home and hearth type. She doesn't like his materialistic values, and she feels that he looks down on her simple living. Although Pierre feels that Georgie is way too 'messy' in her life for him, and he doesn't care for her 'flower-child-like' dress sense, Pierre comes to realize that Georgie is very sexy in a way that none of his other girlfriends were, and why not make their association real for the time being?
I enjoyed this book. I liked the back and forth between Pierre and Georgie. I liked that Georgie wasn't beholden to Pierre or under his thumb. She had her own career and her own home, and was perfectly happy with her life in the country. Pierre was the one who had some issues he needed to work out. He resented his family for their organic farming ventures, and the fact that they squandered their money on schemes destined to fail. He focused on making and keeping his money, and became more and more cold-hearted in a sense. Georgie brings a part of him to life, and he realizes how much he loves his mom, and enjoys being around her. Georgie and Pierre have good chemistry (although the love scenes are not fully described. Part of them would be shown, and part wouldn't. Which I thought was weird, but oh well.)
I was actually okay with Pierre to a certain extent, although I wished he hadn't kept his family at a distance, but I can't judge him for that. He might be rich, but he didn't have much quality of life. I think spending time with Georgie and his mom helped him to realize what he was missing out on, but eventually that scared him. He made me mad in the scene where he sees a tender smile on Georgie's face and decides it's time to cut and run. I thought that was very cowardly of him, and low down. But he ends up realizing what he almost let slip through his fingers when he goes back to town, and his mom tells him that Georgie has a new boyfriend after three months pass by. Of course, he goes running because he doesn't want any other man to have her. (Rolling eyes.) Men!
This was a fun book. I stayed up way too late reading it, and I'm paying for it today. Definitely recommended, if you don't mind the incomplete love scenes.
April 27, 2011
Foolish foolish book! The beginning of this story was soooo boring! All the leads talked about was the hero’s mother for about 30% of the book, and when finally the book picked up in the middle and started to get better, all the author did was tease you with the hero and heroine getting together for the first time. This book had love scenes, but you were not privy to their first time together even though it happened in the present- and yet you are given a glimpse into other love scenes, (just a glimpse). All the love scenes were very peculiar. I had no idea what the heck was going on. What was the author playing at?! It was so annoying!! Also the end of this book felt very rushed and I didn’t buy that the hero loved the heroine one bit! At 90% of the book, the hero breaks up with the hippy heroine because he saw that she wanted more out of the relationship and he wasn’t willing to give more. At 95%, his mother told him that she started seeing someone else and all of a sudden he loves her more than life itself and wants to marry her! Yeah right!!
April 19, 2025
Had to skip about 30 pages as it bogged down. Started boring, went to ponderous.
October 10, 2012
4 Stars ~ Living in the country, the Newmans preferred to live their lives attuned to nature, running one of the very first organic farms. In family tradition, they sent their son Pierre to boarding schools which gave him a taste for a more disciplined lifestyle than the bohemian one of his parents. And while he was busy in London proving his talents in the financial world, his parents took in their neighbours teenage daughter, Georgie, who was suddenly orphaned. Georgie went on to become an elementary teacher and bought a small cottage near the Newmans, and when Pierre made his rare visits to the farm they disapproved of each other. Georgie kept four chicken in her backyard; Pierre had a burning ambition to amass a staggering wealth. And now three years after the death of his father, Georgie impulsively told a whopper of a fairytale to his mother, Didi, to pull her out of her depression. Pierre's furious; Georgie, in answer to Didi's concern that Pierre dates all the wrong women, has told her that for the last eight months they've been seriously involved. Didi's ecstatic and making great plans for the upcoming Christmas holidays. In fact, she's demanded that Pierre come up to the country for a long weekend and to help her do some holiday shopping. The last thing Pierre wants is to mislead his mother, but hearing the excitement in her voice, a joy he hasn't heard in a long time, he realizes that he needs to play the boyfriend for awhile. And when the weekend turns out to be surprisingly fun for Pierre, while exceedingly uncomfortable for Georgie, he decides to extend his stay another week. Pierre doesn't see why they can't make their affair real and when the fun ends, break off just as they'd planned to do.
This was a fun quick read, just the right light fluff I was in the mood for. Pierre and Georgie have great chemistry, and I really enjoyed the way they baited each other. Pierre loved the way Georgie lit up when he pushed the right buttons, and was surprised at how sexy he found her. Georgie had to admit that Pierre was hardly the stuffed shirt she thought he was. Indeed, he was a very exciting man who hadn't totally forgotten his country roots. Ms. Williams has a lovely sense of humour that made Pierre and Georgie's story a lot of fun to read.
I do have a beef though ... the book cover blurb only vaguely resembles this story. Pierre was the one who was forced into a fake relationship by Georgie, not the other way around. Once forced, he did, however, want to have fun and make the bedroom part of their relationship very real.
This was a fun quick read, just the right light fluff I was in the mood for. Pierre and Georgie have great chemistry, and I really enjoyed the way they baited each other. Pierre loved the way Georgie lit up when he pushed the right buttons, and was surprised at how sexy he found her. Georgie had to admit that Pierre was hardly the stuffed shirt she thought he was. Indeed, he was a very exciting man who hadn't totally forgotten his country roots. Ms. Williams has a lovely sense of humour that made Pierre and Georgie's story a lot of fun to read.
I do have a beef though ... the book cover blurb only vaguely resembles this story. Pierre was the one who was forced into a fake relationship by Georgie, not the other way around. Once forced, he did, however, want to have fun and make the bedroom part of their relationship very real.
February 7, 2011
I'm repeating myself I know, but there are times I need and crave a quick, short romance. I'm looking for something that can be read in a few hours where the writing flows and I like the characters, the story, and even the location. I like sizzle and I get excited if a good dose of humor is thrown in. In summary, just a quick, good romance with some sizzle.
This book fit the bill for me. While not perfect, it was very good and I liked it! It had sizzle and some humor. Loved the hot hero Pierre, and liked the heroine, Georgie. A feel good love story.
This book fit the bill for me. While not perfect, it was very good and I liked it! It had sizzle and some humor. Loved the hot hero Pierre, and liked the heroine, Georgie. A feel good love story.
January 31, 2010
This book bothered me, and I'm not sure why. I think part of the problem was that the blurb on the back of the book was nothing like the actual storyline. The title while a catchy Harlequin Presents one, really wasn't what the story was about. Why do publishers do this? It's almost as if they needed another book for the Snow, Satin and Seduction series and threw this one in.
Georgie and Pierre have known each other their whole lives, but haven't really spent much time together because they both disagree with the others lifestyle. When Georgie's parents died, Pierre's parents kind of adopted Georgie into their family. When Pierre's mother Didi's health declines, Georgie tells her a little white lie: that she and Pierre have been dating for the last year or so.
In order to make Didi feel better, Georgie goes to London and tells Pierre about the white lie she told, and why she told it. After being convinced this would be best for his mothers health, Pierre goes along with the story. Only one thing happened that the other didn't expect-they start to have actual feelings for one another.
This was a fast read, and the writing was good enough to hold my attention, I just felt like I couldn't relate to either character much. This is one of those books you read when you're in the mood for a light read.
Georgie and Pierre have known each other their whole lives, but haven't really spent much time together because they both disagree with the others lifestyle. When Georgie's parents died, Pierre's parents kind of adopted Georgie into their family. When Pierre's mother Didi's health declines, Georgie tells her a little white lie: that she and Pierre have been dating for the last year or so.
In order to make Didi feel better, Georgie goes to London and tells Pierre about the white lie she told, and why she told it. After being convinced this would be best for his mothers health, Pierre goes along with the story. Only one thing happened that the other didn't expect-they start to have actual feelings for one another.
This was a fast read, and the writing was good enough to hold my attention, I just felt like I couldn't relate to either character much. This is one of those books you read when you're in the mood for a light read.
December 10, 2017
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458 ـ صباح الجراح:
كاتي وليامز
لم تجرؤ جورجي على النظر إلى بيير .أدارها بيير حول نفسها حتى توجهه فيما بدى وجهه متحجرا كالغرانيت . تكلم بصوت حريري ناعم لكنه لاسع كالسوط قائلا : هل بدأت تجدين عواقب تصرفاتك مزعجة فلم يعجبك الأمر!وجهت جورجي إليه نظرة متمردة فوجدت نفسها تشرد في تينك العينين المدهشتين . رمشت بعينيها وأجبرت نفسها على أن تعود إلى الواقع لتجد أن بيير يقبض على كتفيها ويحملق فيها . لا تفكري حتى بأن تصعدي إلى سيارتك الشبيهة بآلة الخياطة لتحاولي قيادتها عائدة إلى منزلك في هذا الطقس .ردت جورجي متجهمةلو أنك رجل نبيل لعرضت علي أن تقلني بسيارتك . سيارتك يمكنها تحمل الرحلة بسهولة .أجابها من دون أن يرف له جفن لكنني لست رجلا نبيلا!
458 ـ صباح الجراح:
كاتي وليامز
لم تجرؤ جورجي على النظر إلى بيير .أدارها بيير حول نفسها حتى توجهه فيما بدى وجهه متحجرا كالغرانيت . تكلم بصوت حريري ناعم لكنه لاسع كالسوط قائلا : هل بدأت تجدين عواقب تصرفاتك مزعجة فلم يعجبك الأمر!وجهت جورجي إليه نظرة متمردة فوجدت نفسها تشرد في تينك العينين المدهشتين . رمشت بعينيها وأجبرت نفسها على أن تعود إلى الواقع لتجد أن بيير يقبض على كتفيها ويحملق فيها . لا تفكري حتى بأن تصعدي إلى سيارتك الشبيهة بآلة الخياطة لتحاولي قيادتها عائدة إلى منزلك في هذا الطقس .ردت جورجي متجهمةلو أنك رجل نبيل لعرضت علي أن تقلني بسيارتك . سيارتك يمكنها تحمل الرحلة بسهولة .أجابها من دون أن يرف له جفن لكنني لست رجلا نبيلا!
December 23, 2019
DNF. This story appears to be an earlier version of Marriage Bargain with His Innocent. As that version was only meh, I'm not seeing the point of reading this earlier version. It's not any better & so far as I've read 31% through, so I'm not going to keep trying.
May 25, 2024
Better than the last couple I’ve read by this author. The characters were better developed, and I liked the pace. Quirky Georgie is less quirky when not teaching, though which I didn’t understand, but she was a likable and interesting heroine.
I also found the relationship development much more understandable in this story.
I rated lower at 3 stars because, again, there were long stretches of too much telling - all of which was unnecessary.
I also found the relationship development much more understandable in this story.
I rated lower at 3 stars because, again, there were long stretches of too much telling - all of which was unnecessary.
January 2, 2022
Did not like it, I did not like the hero at all. He was so cold and uptight that I have no idea why the heroine would want to be with him. When he broke up with her near the end of book and his reasonings for it, I did not want them to get back together. He didn't appear to accept her for her until he thought she moved on. P.
November 8, 2019
Creo que la sintesis de la novela no tiene mucho qué ver con el contenido.
Me gustó, y me resultó divertida por el estilo de la protagonista (creo que no es spoiler, o si?) la leí en un 2 x 3 y me hubiera gustado que fuese más larga.
Me gustó, y me resultó divertida por el estilo de la protagonista (creo que no es spoiler, o si?) la leí en un 2 x 3 y me hubiera gustado que fuese más larga.
January 29, 2022
No se porque sigo leyendo esta clase de libros, tal vez soy o muy romántica o muy ilusa pensando que alguno de estos libros va a estar bien, misma historia mismos problemas mismos personajes, no hay nada sobresaliente en el libro, tristemente decepcionante para mi modo de ver.
December 27, 2020
Pleasant Christmas read
February 20, 2021
This is one of the most fun HP I've ever read since... I don't know. But I enjoyed everything in this book. The story, the banters, the complicated-almost-an-ass hero, the take-no-gruff heroine, the whole love/hate thing between H/h – it was at times funny, sad, frustrating, but there was never a dull moment. The plot is straightforward, and you might say predictable, but it was well written, with witty dialogue and very likable characters.
October 9, 2013
Pierre certainly wasn't very likeable at the beginning, but then again Georgie kind of got on my nerves at first too. I did enjoy the build-up of attraction in their false pretenses, and found the chemistry believable. But it all wrapped up sort of oddly for me...just kind of abrupt. Though loved Didi's interference there.
April 8, 2016
0.5 stars. I would give it 0 stars if I could.
Definitely the most boring book I have read this year. The whole thing is ridiculous from the Heroines scheme to their eventual affair to their eventual love. I slept off more than once while reading this.
Definitely the most boring book I have read this year. The whole thing is ridiculous from the Heroines scheme to their eventual affair to their eventual love. I slept off more than once while reading this.
November 28, 2010
Great read for iphone
April 3, 2011
The ending was very sweet and that's what save it cuz I was really hating the beginning...
July 11, 2013
This book was so hard to finish, the characters were stupid the writing was boring and nothing really happened. Also the ending was stupid.
October 4, 2014
I just don't care. at chapter 3 and can't drag myself through this. H/h are hostile at ch 1 and in a way that can't possibly develop into a loving relationship.
August 8, 2015
Rating: 2 stars (February 17, 2011)
Updated rating: 1 star. (August 8, 2015)
Updated rating: 1 star. (August 8, 2015)
November 17, 2018
....uh that synopsis is a total lie! Is he a billionaire? He seemed just successful, his uber wealth didn’t come into it. The couple should have had a bit of a past or growing up together, he’d left her behind, something! These characters all all eh, okay crazy lies on top of crazier things. The hero seemed like a normal dude which is why the plot of lying seemed like a huge stretch. Even the heroine didn’t seem committed. Not a lot of attraction really from either of the leads, I think the mother is probably fine and was just on the wrong meds. But wrapped up in an unbelievable bow at the end making it pretty lame. More Christmas please.
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