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It All Depends On Love
Which of them would compromise?
Tessa had worked hard to get to the responsible position she held. The last thing she'd consider would be giving up surgery for the joys of love and marriage.
Patrick was an obsessive workaholic who'd built an empire and now saw the acquisition of children as a natural step to ensure the succession. And he wanted a full-time mother for his family.
"It would serve you right if you fell madly in love with a successful career woman," Tessa said.
"I'd prefer to be a bachelor forever in that case," Patrick replied.
Their battle of wills was inevitable--but would one of them emerge the winner...?
Tessa had worked hard to get to the responsible position she held. The last thing she'd consider would be giving up surgery for the joys of love and marriage.
Patrick was an obsessive workaholic who'd built an empire and now saw the acquisition of children as a natural step to ensure the succession. And he wanted a full-time mother for his family.
"It would serve you right if you fell madly in love with a successful career woman," Tessa said.
"I'd prefer to be a bachelor forever in that case," Patrick replied.
Their battle of wills was inevitable--but would one of them emerge the winner...?
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 1990
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Roberta Leigh
113 books66 followersaka Rachel Lindsay, Janey Scott, Rozella Lake
Roberta Leigh was the most frequently used pen name of an author who also published novels as Rachel Lindsay, Rozella Lake, and Janey Scott. Her birth name was Rita Shulman.
Leigh was one of the first romance writers to introduce strong, career-minded heroines who wouldn't be bossed around by the hero.
Leigh had her own film company and wrote and produced 7 TV series for children. She would also "write" the music for her series, although this usually involved her humming or singing the tune into a tape recorder, after which someone else would arrange and write a score.
She studied oil and watercolor painting with Diana Raphael and Michael Chaitow, who her interest in abstract art. Her work has been exhibited at the Podbury Gallery and Finnegan's Gallery in London.
In 1948, she married Michael Lewin and they had a son, Jeremy. Her husband passed away in 1981.
Roberta Leigh was the most frequently used pen name of an author who also published novels as Rachel Lindsay, Rozella Lake, and Janey Scott. Her birth name was Rita Shulman.
Leigh was one of the first romance writers to introduce strong, career-minded heroines who wouldn't be bossed around by the hero.
Leigh had her own film company and wrote and produced 7 TV series for children. She would also "write" the music for her series, although this usually involved her humming or singing the tune into a tape recorder, after which someone else would arrange and write a score.
She studied oil and watercolor painting with Diana Raphael and Michael Chaitow, who her interest in abstract art. Her work has been exhibited at the Podbury Gallery and Finnegan's Gallery in London.
In 1948, she married Michael Lewin and they had a son, Jeremy. Her husband passed away in 1981.
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July 3, 2017
Re It All Depends on Love - Roberta Leigh takes on her favorite independent h vs chauvinistic H trope and manages to work in some h pretending to be a maid to put the H in his proper place too.
The h is a 27 yr old surgeon who has worked herself into complete exhaustion over the last five years. She doesn't date or go to social events or even the library, she doesn't really do anything but work. She had a fiance at one point, but he wanted to go to India and expected the h to give up her career to go live in a tiny village and do humanitarian support. It couldn't have been real love tho, as the h is quite fine without him and the ex actually had a replacement waiting in the wings - one who was happy to give up her law career to boot.
The h is put on mandatory leave for three months. (All I can say is I want to be forced to go on vacation for three months. One trend I do wish we could import from HPlandia.) She decides to go to her godfather's estate in the country. Her godfather raised her and even tho he is in New Zealand doing some bird watching, the h knows that his housekeeper and Henry, the adorable sheepdog/something mix will be delighted to have her.
So it is off to the country we go and as expected, the h is warmly welcomed. Except Henry has been visiting next door, the old owner has died and the new owner has turned the estate into a private home/office complex. The owner is a big time computer guru who hasn't quite made billions yet.
Henry's visiting is causing all kinds of rumpus and the h knows that there is a hole in the barrier wall between the two estates, so after a few days rest and recuperation, she goes to check the hole in the wall out and finds out that a tree on the other side is causing the problem. She figures she should do something to stop Henry's little inspections and should mention the tree damage to the owner, tho she can't imagine ANYONE not loving the adorable big bundle of fur that is Henry.
She soon gets hit with reality when she meets the very tall and handsome owner of the next door estate. He thinks the h is a teenager because of her size, she is 5ft 1 and that she has stopped to play with the rioting bandit Henry on her way to apply for a temporary servant job at his estate. The H is quite obnoxious and assuming. He makes nasty remarks about the h's lack of a job and living on the dole, nasty remarks about Henry and how dogs should never be pets - they should only be allowed if they are working dogs and nasty remarks about the insouciance of youth today in general.
The h has pert replies to all of his remarks and thinking fast, decides to let the H believe she is what he thinks she is - a gadabout teen who refuses to take a job or life seriously. Tho it involves swearing her godfather's housekeeper to secrecy, the h decides to take the H's job and whole lot of situations soon develop.
The H has a 26 yr old Scandinavian Goddess assistant, who is the OW and all out to run off the h. There is lots and lots of OW assigned bad jobs and the h takes every opportunity to really make some snarky remarks - particularly about the woman's great age and all. There is Henry's antics at a formal dinner party, where the H's nice housekeeper gives a visiting Henry a bone and Henry likes the H, so he brings his bone into the dinner party to share, much to the consternation of the H and the OW but with the dinner guest's full approval.
The h then gets assigned to look into the unused attics, the H wants to cart off all the rubbish. The h finds a ton of valuable paintings and collectibles, and knowing the H needs a lot of capital he doesn't have to buy into an American computing firm, she has them secretly valued. Since her godfather's bowl was thought to be missing too, the H accuses the h of being a thief and has to eat crow in amongst the roofie kisses when he finds out he was wrong.
The bowl was out for repair and the h lets the antiques expert tell the H about how much his stuff is worth- the attics literally hold a fortune in stowed away objects d' art. There have been plenty of roofie kisses over the course of the story too. Which the H keeps apologizing for, as he thinks she is 18 to his 34 and he is very worried about cradle robbing. The h uses every opportunity to tease him about being a lech, but the h is falling in love with the H at the same time.
Except of course the H refuses to contemplate marriage, he likes to roam - as he puts it. And even if he did have a wife, she would never be a career lady. The H and h have several verbal skirmishes about women, marriage and career as the H keeps trying to get the h to go do a course or schooling to get a decent job until she marries and has a family.
That banter is fairly funny as the H keeps offering different ways for the h to make a living and the h keeps finding gallivanting reasons not to do them. The h even changes her look to a bit more worldly and mature, her time at the estate is coming to an end and she needs to end the deception. The h is all set to confess to the joke, when she sees the OW and the H all wrapped up in each other. This infuriates the h, because she thinks the H is dangling two ladies at the same time and she IS NOT on the buffet for the lady lurve sampler course.
So the h decides she is rested up enough and is ready to go back to London. Before she leaves she has one last conversation with the H and the OW gives the h back her Rolex watch, which she had told the H was a fake and the H assumes that her godfather is her lover and gave it to her. The h loses her temper for real and is about to let him have it, when the OW falls down the stairs and needs emergency surgery or she will die.
The h takes charge of the situation right away, gets the H to take them to hospital in his estate car and successfully operates and saves the OW. (It was all very dramatic really, plus a perfect putdown for the really catty OW. Not only is the h not a teenager, she saves her life too. It was one of the better OW put downs in HPlandia and the h was quite gracious about it. )
The H feels pretty abashed when he realizes that the h was really putting him on, he apologizes for the assumptions he made about the h and she apologizes for misleading him - but really everyone is so glad the OW did not die that no one is too upset and rather think it is a blessing the h was there in disguise. The H and h part with the h pretending she doesn't care deeply for the H, she can't be having a womanizer, even if he makes her chocolate melt.
So the h gets back to her job and is soon immersed in the hospital again. She is having a patented HP h mopey moment, but she does try to date and get out a bit. The OW stops off to see the h on her way back to Sweden, it seems the whole incident with her in the H's arms was because the OW threw herself at the H and then kissed him - the H wasn't into her, tho she tried really hard and they were never lovers.
The OW tells the h that the H loves her, but the h doesn't see how she and the H can make it work, he doesn't want a wife with a career and her's is pretty demanding. Then poor Henry has to get a hip operation and the h promises to look in on him. When Henry recovers (hurray!) and is back to his usual gamboling self, the h decides to take him home to her godfather's and also look in on the H at the same time. Except it is really late when she manages to leave work to get Henry, so they have to spend the night at her flat before going home.
The H is there waiting and he declares his big time love for the h and confirms he never had the OW. The h loves him back but when he tries to set the wedding date, the h refuses cause she can't give up her job. The H has changed his thinking tho, he now sees that a wife and lover who is happy and fulfilled can only add to the marriage, he wants to be with the h no matter what. The h is ecstatic and swears she will travel as much as she can with the H cause it all works out when you love each other. The ending is a bona fide Roberta Leigh purple prose lurve fest with throbbing and gushing (I think I preferred flooding,) and Henry snuggled up in bed with the H and licking his ear for the big HEA.
This one was cute and the deception on the h's part was funny. The h and H were not too bickery and Henry pretty much stole every scene he was in. Give this one a go if you like RL and want some fluff. The OW vs h scenes were pretty funny and the whole story was a pretty decent HPlandia romp.
The h is a 27 yr old surgeon who has worked herself into complete exhaustion over the last five years. She doesn't date or go to social events or even the library, she doesn't really do anything but work. She had a fiance at one point, but he wanted to go to India and expected the h to give up her career to go live in a tiny village and do humanitarian support. It couldn't have been real love tho, as the h is quite fine without him and the ex actually had a replacement waiting in the wings - one who was happy to give up her law career to boot.
The h is put on mandatory leave for three months. (All I can say is I want to be forced to go on vacation for three months. One trend I do wish we could import from HPlandia.) She decides to go to her godfather's estate in the country. Her godfather raised her and even tho he is in New Zealand doing some bird watching, the h knows that his housekeeper and Henry, the adorable sheepdog/something mix will be delighted to have her.
So it is off to the country we go and as expected, the h is warmly welcomed. Except Henry has been visiting next door, the old owner has died and the new owner has turned the estate into a private home/office complex. The owner is a big time computer guru who hasn't quite made billions yet.
Henry's visiting is causing all kinds of rumpus and the h knows that there is a hole in the barrier wall between the two estates, so after a few days rest and recuperation, she goes to check the hole in the wall out and finds out that a tree on the other side is causing the problem. She figures she should do something to stop Henry's little inspections and should mention the tree damage to the owner, tho she can't imagine ANYONE not loving the adorable big bundle of fur that is Henry.
She soon gets hit with reality when she meets the very tall and handsome owner of the next door estate. He thinks the h is a teenager because of her size, she is 5ft 1 and that she has stopped to play with the rioting bandit Henry on her way to apply for a temporary servant job at his estate. The H is quite obnoxious and assuming. He makes nasty remarks about the h's lack of a job and living on the dole, nasty remarks about Henry and how dogs should never be pets - they should only be allowed if they are working dogs and nasty remarks about the insouciance of youth today in general.
The h has pert replies to all of his remarks and thinking fast, decides to let the H believe she is what he thinks she is - a gadabout teen who refuses to take a job or life seriously. Tho it involves swearing her godfather's housekeeper to secrecy, the h decides to take the H's job and whole lot of situations soon develop.
The H has a 26 yr old Scandinavian Goddess assistant, who is the OW and all out to run off the h. There is lots and lots of OW assigned bad jobs and the h takes every opportunity to really make some snarky remarks - particularly about the woman's great age and all. There is Henry's antics at a formal dinner party, where the H's nice housekeeper gives a visiting Henry a bone and Henry likes the H, so he brings his bone into the dinner party to share, much to the consternation of the H and the OW but with the dinner guest's full approval.
The h then gets assigned to look into the unused attics, the H wants to cart off all the rubbish. The h finds a ton of valuable paintings and collectibles, and knowing the H needs a lot of capital he doesn't have to buy into an American computing firm, she has them secretly valued. Since her godfather's bowl was thought to be missing too, the H accuses the h of being a thief and has to eat crow in amongst the roofie kisses when he finds out he was wrong.
The bowl was out for repair and the h lets the antiques expert tell the H about how much his stuff is worth- the attics literally hold a fortune in stowed away objects d' art. There have been plenty of roofie kisses over the course of the story too. Which the H keeps apologizing for, as he thinks she is 18 to his 34 and he is very worried about cradle robbing. The h uses every opportunity to tease him about being a lech, but the h is falling in love with the H at the same time.
Except of course the H refuses to contemplate marriage, he likes to roam - as he puts it. And even if he did have a wife, she would never be a career lady. The H and h have several verbal skirmishes about women, marriage and career as the H keeps trying to get the h to go do a course or schooling to get a decent job until she marries and has a family.
That banter is fairly funny as the H keeps offering different ways for the h to make a living and the h keeps finding gallivanting reasons not to do them. The h even changes her look to a bit more worldly and mature, her time at the estate is coming to an end and she needs to end the deception. The h is all set to confess to the joke, when she sees the OW and the H all wrapped up in each other. This infuriates the h, because she thinks the H is dangling two ladies at the same time and she IS NOT on the buffet for the lady lurve sampler course.
So the h decides she is rested up enough and is ready to go back to London. Before she leaves she has one last conversation with the H and the OW gives the h back her Rolex watch, which she had told the H was a fake and the H assumes that her godfather is her lover and gave it to her. The h loses her temper for real and is about to let him have it, when the OW falls down the stairs and needs emergency surgery or she will die.
The h takes charge of the situation right away, gets the H to take them to hospital in his estate car and successfully operates and saves the OW. (It was all very dramatic really, plus a perfect putdown for the really catty OW. Not only is the h not a teenager, she saves her life too. It was one of the better OW put downs in HPlandia and the h was quite gracious about it. )
The H feels pretty abashed when he realizes that the h was really putting him on, he apologizes for the assumptions he made about the h and she apologizes for misleading him - but really everyone is so glad the OW did not die that no one is too upset and rather think it is a blessing the h was there in disguise. The H and h part with the h pretending she doesn't care deeply for the H, she can't be having a womanizer, even if he makes her chocolate melt.
So the h gets back to her job and is soon immersed in the hospital again. She is having a patented HP h mopey moment, but she does try to date and get out a bit. The OW stops off to see the h on her way back to Sweden, it seems the whole incident with her in the H's arms was because the OW threw herself at the H and then kissed him - the H wasn't into her, tho she tried really hard and they were never lovers.
The OW tells the h that the H loves her, but the h doesn't see how she and the H can make it work, he doesn't want a wife with a career and her's is pretty demanding. Then poor Henry has to get a hip operation and the h promises to look in on him. When Henry recovers (hurray!) and is back to his usual gamboling self, the h decides to take him home to her godfather's and also look in on the H at the same time. Except it is really late when she manages to leave work to get Henry, so they have to spend the night at her flat before going home.
The H is there waiting and he declares his big time love for the h and confirms he never had the OW. The h loves him back but when he tries to set the wedding date, the h refuses cause she can't give up her job. The H has changed his thinking tho, he now sees that a wife and lover who is happy and fulfilled can only add to the marriage, he wants to be with the h no matter what. The h is ecstatic and swears she will travel as much as she can with the H cause it all works out when you love each other. The ending is a bona fide Roberta Leigh purple prose lurve fest with throbbing and gushing (I think I preferred flooding,) and Henry snuggled up in bed with the H and licking his ear for the big HEA.
This one was cute and the deception on the h's part was funny. The h and H were not too bickery and Henry pretty much stole every scene he was in. Give this one a go if you like RL and want some fluff. The OW vs h scenes were pretty funny and the whole story was a pretty decent HPlandia romp.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 13, 2017
Hysterical at first. Have to love the little heroine when her comment when meeting the ice-cold OW is "Snooty bitch". Of course, its inner dialogue, but how much better than the usual I’m going into the garden and eat worms approach most heroines have.
Plot premise:
The heroine is a hot shot surgeon who needs a break from her schedule, a three month break. Right there you know you are not in Calvinistic USA where we have two weeks vacation compared to the saner Europe with its four to six week vacations. The h is tiny and looks much younger than she is so it't not a huge jump when the arrogant H assumes she is an 18 year old with no drive. In order to get his goat, she goes with it and becomes a maid at his house. All is right and fun in this world as the heroine relishes unveiling herself in all her surgeon’s glory at the proper time.
Doesn’t work out that way. The until now brilliant, smart and conniving heroine falls for the caveman Father’s Knows Best hero (WHO DOESN'T LIKE DOGS) with the PA from ice cold nether regions. It falls into too many games, and the heroine really should haveflaunted confessed her scalpel skills much earlier. We still have her putdowns to the evil OW though.
The hero redeems himself a teeny bit by doing a little pining and saying those three little words all women and tiny h's live for…NO, not “I love you”, but more importantly, “I was wrong.”
No way was this written in 1990.
Plot premise:
The heroine is a hot shot surgeon who needs a break from her schedule, a three month break. Right there you know you are not in Calvinistic USA where we have two weeks vacation compared to the saner Europe with its four to six week vacations. The h is tiny and looks much younger than she is so it't not a huge jump when the arrogant H assumes she is an 18 year old with no drive. In order to get his goat, she goes with it and becomes a maid at his house. All is right and fun in this world as the heroine relishes unveiling herself in all her surgeon’s glory at the proper time.
Doesn’t work out that way. The until now brilliant, smart and conniving heroine falls for the caveman Father’s Knows Best hero (WHO DOESN'T LIKE DOGS) with the PA from ice cold nether regions. It falls into too many games, and the heroine really should have
The hero redeems himself a teeny bit by doing a little pining and saying those three little words all women and tiny h's live for…NO, not “I love you”, but more importantly, “I was wrong.”
No way was this written in 1990.
July 12, 2014
The plot was a little silly and far fetched. Tessa is 27 and a surgeon who spends all her time working, to the point of near exhaustion. Her boss forces her to take a three month vacation, so she goes home to her godfather's, where she was raised after her parents died. He is away himself, but the home is currently occupied by his housekeeper and a dog named Henry. On her first day home, she discovers a hole in the wall between her home and the neighbor's, where Henry has been slipping through to make himself a nuisance next door. While examining the hole in hopes of repairing it, Patrick, the new owner of the neighboring home, happens along, and assumes she is there in answer to an ad he's run for a household staff member. He is condescending and arrogant, and wanting to take him down a peg or two, Tessa goes along with his assumption, taking on the persona of an 18 year old drop out, letting him think she is house-sitting next door. When they part company, she thinks how funny it will be when he learns who she really is. But to her surprise, she is later offered the position.
You would think at this point she would decline the employment offer, but no, she decides to accept, and continue with the joke. Naturally they are attracted to each other, with Tessa constantly being insulted by Patrick treating her as a silly teenager (though of course she is masquerading as one), and Patrick fighting the attraction and appearing to feel disgusted with himself every time he breaks down and kisses her, since he of course believes she is a flighty teenager considerably younger than he is. I kept feeling a sense of foreboding and thinking no good could come of this little game.
What saved the story for me was Tessa's personality. She's smart and sassy and funny. Since her job is just a lark to her, she isn't under the normal constraints a household staffer should be and has no problem smarting off or talking back to her boss, Patrick, or his snooty assistant who is also her boss. Until her enforced vacation she had immersed herself in work after a bad breakup, and hasn't really been interested in another relationship, but now she finds herself wanting Patrick. Meanwhile, Patrick tells anyone who will listen his views on marriage – someday he'll marry, but he will expect his wife to put him first and not have a career of her own.
As Tessa gets deeper and deeper into her lies and more involved in Patrick's household, she does begin having qualms about her charade, and she keeps deciding she's going to come clean and reveal her true identity, hoping in the process to wipe a smirk off Patrick's face and show him how wrong he is to judge people. But then she decides for one reason or other the time isn't right, and of course once she realizes she's fallen for him, she wants him to fall for her before he finds out she is a dreaded career woman.
A quick, fun and enjoyable read, despite the silly plot (and slightly creepy cover).
Originally posted on my blog.
You would think at this point she would decline the employment offer, but no, she decides to accept, and continue with the joke. Naturally they are attracted to each other, with Tessa constantly being insulted by Patrick treating her as a silly teenager (though of course she is masquerading as one), and Patrick fighting the attraction and appearing to feel disgusted with himself every time he breaks down and kisses her, since he of course believes she is a flighty teenager considerably younger than he is. I kept feeling a sense of foreboding and thinking no good could come of this little game.
What saved the story for me was Tessa's personality. She's smart and sassy and funny. Since her job is just a lark to her, she isn't under the normal constraints a household staffer should be and has no problem smarting off or talking back to her boss, Patrick, or his snooty assistant who is also her boss. Until her enforced vacation she had immersed herself in work after a bad breakup, and hasn't really been interested in another relationship, but now she finds herself wanting Patrick. Meanwhile, Patrick tells anyone who will listen his views on marriage – someday he'll marry, but he will expect his wife to put him first and not have a career of her own.
As Tessa gets deeper and deeper into her lies and more involved in Patrick's household, she does begin having qualms about her charade, and she keeps deciding she's going to come clean and reveal her true identity, hoping in the process to wipe a smirk off Patrick's face and show him how wrong he is to judge people. But then she decides for one reason or other the time isn't right, and of course once she realizes she's fallen for him, she wants him to fall for her before he finds out she is a dreaded career woman.
A quick, fun and enjoyable read, despite the silly plot (and slightly creepy cover).
Originally posted on my blog.
August 20, 2017
This was just okay. It's an old HP and reads like one. The sex scenes were fade to black, which doesn't bother me but I know some people like them a little more 'detailed'. :} It didn't happen until the 95% of book. His assistant was the OW and he hedged on the question on whether he slept with her or not and then said 'Would you believe me if I said no', she said 'yes I would' and he said 'okay I didn't but I thought about it'. I still say he slept with her because he said something earlier in the book about her that sounded like they were but I am going to play dumb and pretend I believe him like the h. She was a surgeon but she played a trick on him pretending to be an 18 year old lazy opportunist and took a job while she was supposed to be recuperating from an illness. It went on too long and I didn't find it amusing at all. I didn't really like the H that much either. There was a dog Henry and he saved the book for me. There is a scene with a dog bone that is priceless by the way. The charade goes on for six weeks or more too. Just too long. She finds bunches of heirlooms and he gets richer. She saves someone's life (It was the OW and I think I would have let her... Okay I wouldn't have but geez she was nasty) so then he finds out she is a doctor. They go different ways and they are separated for maybe 5 months and then it's the end of the book. Really it was just okay.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 19, 2018
This one was frothy and silly and pretty fun because even though the h was sort of the OW's whipping girl, the h always knew she'd return triumphantly to her normal place in society.
August 10, 2010
I liked the premise of the story, but the actuality fell a bit short. Tessa pretends to be 18 as a joke and then wonders why Patrick, who is in his early 30s, is hesitant to become involved with her. The OW turns out to be quite nice in the end and takes herself out of the picture. Enjoyable, but on the average side.
October 19, 2025
She lied to him that she is 18 years old and she told him other lies about herself, and then this Pinocchio was upset that he didn’t believe her about other things she told him.
I didn’t like her lies - which he didn’t deserve - and I didn’t like that she was the first to say ‘I love you’. He didn’t court her and he didn’t come across as besotted.
I didn’t like her lies - which he didn’t deserve - and I didn’t like that she was the first to say ‘I love you’. He didn’t court her and he didn’t come across as besotted.
September 9, 2013
I enjoyed this one -- the subterfuge of the surgeon-heroine pretending to be a flighty eighteen-year-old was fun. Not a romance you'd take seriously, but an entertaining read nonetheless.
December 14, 2020
I LOVE a plucky, spunky female protagonist who stands up to rich, powerful, chauvinistic dudes.
This is not your typical romance, and it has a lot of hilarious parts in my opinion that I still remember decades later.
Example 1: He assumes she's a young, dumb 18 or 19-year-old and she plays along, wanting to have some fun to alleviate her boredom while on vacation. Keep in mind, she's actually like, 28-years-old and a world-class high-powered doctor and he doesn't know it, so this played out beautifully.
Example 2: She's a doctor, remember? She's slicing meat for a sandwich and he's clowning her about how she's cutting it. He makes an off-hand remark about how she'd never make it as a doctor... just let that sink in and know that you'll enjoy their back and forth.
First of the Harlequins on my re-read list for this winter.
This is not your typical romance, and it has a lot of hilarious parts in my opinion that I still remember decades later.
Example 1: He assumes she's a young, dumb 18 or 19-year-old and she plays along, wanting to have some fun to alleviate her boredom while on vacation. Keep in mind, she's actually like, 28-years-old and a world-class high-powered doctor and he doesn't know it, so this played out beautifully.
Example 2: She's a doctor, remember? She's slicing meat for a sandwich and he's clowning her about how she's cutting it. He makes an off-hand remark about how she'd never make it as a doctor... just let that sink in and know that you'll enjoy their back and forth.
First of the Harlequins on my re-read list for this winter.
September 2, 2018
Es de lectura rápida, me faltó un poco más de preparación en los personajes y la historia en si es bastante pobre al igual que la reconciliación final. Le faltó un poco más de todo para mí gusto.
June 2, 2021
3.5 stars
This was a good fun, no angst read. Loved the fabulous heroine - she was funny, smart, talented at her job, kind, sweet and spirited. What's not to love about her. I laughed my head off at some of her encounters with the OW. The hero was great too.
I would have given it a higher rating if not a couple of ridiculous implausible things - she was a virgin at age 27, and the hidden treasure in the attic. (HP meets Enid Blyton adventures)
Apart from that it was a great ride.
This was a good fun, no angst read. Loved the fabulous heroine - she was funny, smart, talented at her job, kind, sweet and spirited. What's not to love about her. I laughed my head off at some of her encounters with the OW. The hero was great too.
I would have given it a higher rating if not a couple of ridiculous implausible things - she was a virgin at age 27, and the hidden treasure in the attic. (HP meets Enid Blyton adventures)
Apart from that it was a great ride.
March 16, 2014
Almost 4 stars. Book not what the summary lead me to believe.
April 15, 2023
My husband and I enjoy reading romance novels together. I read them aloud, doing all the voices. Because this one took place in England, I had a good seven British voices to do, one Mexican, and one Swedish. This book was so delightful that we actually could not put it down. It surpassed all the romance novels we had read in some time. It was enormously funny. The female protagonist was a strong, independent career woman, a physician. The male protagonist owned a software company, creating software with his own team, and inherited the family manor. This is a story of mistaken identity. When Tessa went to her Godfather's country home for a forced respite, the neighbor mistakening thought she was an applicant to his advert for a maid when he found her in the garden. She was merely inspecting a hole in the stone wall between their two properties. Thinking this neighbor was full of himself, she decided to put one over on him by posing as his maid when he hires her. Both my husband and I thought this book would make an excellent movie. We cannot wait to read other books by this Harlequin Presents author Roberta Leigh (also known as Rachel Lindsay).
March 20, 2024
Daft plot of 27 year old petite, young looking surgeon Tessa and 34 yr old tech hotshot Patrick. She's on sick leave at her God father's country pad next door to Hs estate. Whilst inspecting a hole in the wall which keeps allowing sheepdog/rascal Henry through she encounters the H who mistakes her for a teenage drifter come about a general dogsbody job. She allows his misapprehension to snowball and spends her sick leave skivvying at the hall. Quite. Absolutely crackers. The conflict is supposedly the Hs views on not marrying a career woman vs hs need to be a surgeon, even though she is hiding her true identity. There's a nordic goddess bitch PA OW and our Patrick, despite believing Tessa to be 18, struggles to keep his hands (and his "bulge") off her. Wow the purple love prose in this takes some beating: the H " exploded within her in a gush of fire", "swelled and throbbed against the soft cavern of her womb" culminating with "the liquid of his life gushed into her". Alright then.😶😂
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June 8, 2020Which of them would compromise?
Tessa had worked hard to get to the responsible position she held. The last thing she'd consider would be giving up surgery for the joys of love and marriage.
Patrick was an obsessive workaholic who'd built an empire and now saw the acquisition of children as a natural step to ensure the succession. And he wanted a full-time mother for his family.
"It would serve you right if you fell madly in love with a successful career woman," Tessa said.
"I'd prefer to be a bachelor forever in that case," Patrick replied.
Their battle of wills was inevitable--but would one of them emerge the winner...?
Tessa had worked hard to get to the responsible position she held. The last thing she'd consider would be giving up surgery for the joys of love and marriage.
Patrick was an obsessive workaholic who'd built an empire and now saw the acquisition of children as a natural step to ensure the succession. And he wanted a full-time mother for his family.
"It would serve you right if you fell madly in love with a successful career woman," Tessa said.
"I'd prefer to be a bachelor forever in that case," Patrick replied.
Their battle of wills was inevitable--but would one of them emerge the winner...?
October 29, 2023
The prank premise was dumb, but an honest assessment of the difficulty for women then and now of combining career and family.
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