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The Argentinian's Demand
What the bad boy of the business world wants…
When billionaire Leandro Perez's indispensable and alluring assistant Emily Edison resigns and lets him know what she really thinks of him, he's furious. He won't let her off easily. If she wants to go, she'll pay the price—two weeks in paradise at his beck and call!
…he gets!
Trapped by Leandro, Emily's fragile plan to marry a suitable man to bring security to her family is threatened. And as their attraction gives way to a craving that's impossible to deny Emily will have to make the ultimate choice—duty…or desire?
When billionaire Leandro Perez's indispensable and alluring assistant Emily Edison resigns and lets him know what she really thinks of him, he's furious. He won't let her off easily. If she wants to go, she'll pay the price—two weeks in paradise at his beck and call!
…he gets!
Trapped by Leandro, Emily's fragile plan to marry a suitable man to bring security to her family is threatened. And as their attraction gives way to a craving that's impossible to deny Emily will have to make the ultimate choice—duty…or desire?
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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Cathy Williams
1,312 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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November 9, 2017
Re Caribbean Desire - continuing the Standard Day at the HP office theme, Cathy Williams' tropy of the tropiest second HP outing is an average classic.
The orphaned h lands in Trinidad as the book opens, she is there to do a biography of one of the world's wealthiest men who is in his seventies. She is met at the airport by a surly, but handsome bad tempered Alpha and we soon learn that this overwhelming vat of bullying misogyny is the business partner of the man the h is writing the biography on.
On the way to her new job, the bad tempered business partner pulls over and threatens the h with death incurring from grievous bodily harm if she tries to use her obvious flaming gold digger wiles on her biography subject.
As per standard HP policy, this Alpha Bully is our H and he is bang on cue with the gold digger tart accusations against a woman he met approximately 30 minutes earlier in page time. He is also engaged to the HP Standard EVIL OW - except she gets to be the H's MOC fiancee and the h will soon find her sweet unicorn grooming self in the HP Standard Martyred HP OW Virgin role.
But the h has seekrit - she is the adult version seekrit baby of the elderly businessman's estranged daughter - in short the biography job is a great way for the h to sneak around and meet her grandpa. The h gets the added fillip of trying to escape OW martyrdom as she badly fights off the H AND her non-calcium supplemented bodily lurve mojo desperation for the H's patented and widely shared Lurve Club Mojo technique, (which is Standard HP Patent Pending.)
Verbal battles are frequent, OW-but-not-really cutting remarks and pot stirring is rampant and the h is just barely managing to keep the door closed on the little fire burning in her oven. Eventually in a suitably HP approved dramatic fashion, the truth of the h's grandkiddness is finally revealed. Cue up the Standard HP fake engagement ruse when the h's grandpa has a bout of illness and grampa's physician solemnly warns that he had no idear how much time grampy might have left.
So naturally the H and h are faking the engaging as best they can and the H had to dump his OW who was really The Woman but got a bad knock and is kinda mad about it. So she trash talks the h into believing that the H only wants the h to get his hands on grampy's money. The h is now sad and mopey cause A) she is lying to grampy and that is showing poor character and she feels guilty, B) she slept with the H on his yacht cause his Patent Pending Lurve Mojo is too hard to keep resisting and C) she thinks she is a tart cause she is really into going to bed with the H for the lurve thrill and she knows that fidelity and continuity are not the H's style.
(Given CW's extended and detailed love mojo moments, I am kinda tempted to think the h might have put the pop in the pop tart too. She must have read a lot of Cosmo.)
So she confesses to grampy about her terrible fake engagement ploy and fights with the H about his supposedly mercenary plans to marry her for grampy's money. The H totally mocks the h for believing his ex-fiancee and completely disregards the fact that he had her hung up on the rack of gold -digging tarthood for the first five chapters. The h thinks she should leave Trinidad and fly back to the island after the H has left, but she can't get a plane for a few days and grampy claims the H will be going back to Europe to run the businesses soon anyways.
So the h ends up staying and having even more Standard HP mopey moments about how pathetic, disloyal and foolish she was to believe the ex Fiancee OW about the H motivations. Eventually after the h manages to mope all day in bed, the H shows up and claims he loves her and we get a real marriage promise and a huge lurve mojo session for the big HEA and we find out that grampy was never seriously ill after all - he only had indigestion and doing a little pot stirring of his own.
So mainly this isn't bad, it is a very typical tropy HPlandia outing. Which means it isn't really memorable either. Overall tho, CW did a decent job on her second HP adventure and that means you don't have to run and grab a flamethrower if you run into it.
The orphaned h lands in Trinidad as the book opens, she is there to do a biography of one of the world's wealthiest men who is in his seventies. She is met at the airport by a surly, but handsome bad tempered Alpha and we soon learn that this overwhelming vat of bullying misogyny is the business partner of the man the h is writing the biography on.
On the way to her new job, the bad tempered business partner pulls over and threatens the h with death incurring from grievous bodily harm if she tries to use her obvious flaming gold digger wiles on her biography subject.
As per standard HP policy, this Alpha Bully is our H and he is bang on cue with the gold digger tart accusations against a woman he met approximately 30 minutes earlier in page time. He is also engaged to the HP Standard EVIL OW - except she gets to be the H's MOC fiancee and the h will soon find her sweet unicorn grooming self in the HP Standard Martyred HP OW Virgin role.
But the h has seekrit - she is the adult version seekrit baby of the elderly businessman's estranged daughter - in short the biography job is a great way for the h to sneak around and meet her grandpa. The h gets the added fillip of trying to escape OW martyrdom as she badly fights off the H AND her non-calcium supplemented bodily lurve mojo desperation for the H's patented and widely shared Lurve Club Mojo technique, (which is Standard HP Patent Pending.)
Verbal battles are frequent, OW-but-not-really cutting remarks and pot stirring is rampant and the h is just barely managing to keep the door closed on the little fire burning in her oven. Eventually in a suitably HP approved dramatic fashion, the truth of the h's grandkiddness is finally revealed. Cue up the Standard HP fake engagement ruse when the h's grandpa has a bout of illness and grampa's physician solemnly warns that he had no idear how much time grampy might have left.
So naturally the H and h are faking the engaging as best they can and the H had to dump his OW who was really The Woman but got a bad knock and is kinda mad about it. So she trash talks the h into believing that the H only wants the h to get his hands on grampy's money. The h is now sad and mopey cause A) she is lying to grampy and that is showing poor character and she feels guilty, B) she slept with the H on his yacht cause his Patent Pending Lurve Mojo is too hard to keep resisting and C) she thinks she is a tart cause she is really into going to bed with the H for the lurve thrill and she knows that fidelity and continuity are not the H's style.
(Given CW's extended and detailed love mojo moments, I am kinda tempted to think the h might have put the pop in the pop tart too. She must have read a lot of Cosmo.)
So she confesses to grampy about her terrible fake engagement ploy and fights with the H about his supposedly mercenary plans to marry her for grampy's money. The H totally mocks the h for believing his ex-fiancee and completely disregards the fact that he had her hung up on the rack of gold -digging tarthood for the first five chapters. The h thinks she should leave Trinidad and fly back to the island after the H has left, but she can't get a plane for a few days and grampy claims the H will be going back to Europe to run the businesses soon anyways.
So the h ends up staying and having even more Standard HP mopey moments about how pathetic, disloyal and foolish she was to believe the ex Fiancee OW about the H motivations. Eventually after the h manages to mope all day in bed, the H shows up and claims he loves her and we get a real marriage promise and a huge lurve mojo session for the big HEA and we find out that grampy was never seriously ill after all - he only had indigestion and doing a little pot stirring of his own.
So mainly this isn't bad, it is a very typical tropy HPlandia outing. Which means it isn't really memorable either. Overall tho, CW did a decent job on her second HP adventure and that means you don't have to run and grab a flamethrower if you run into it.
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April 12, 2015
Non virginal heroine, boring hero, boring plot = zero stars!
April 11, 2024
It was bleh
July 17, 2011
An alpha male who isn't a jerk again! I think I'm starting to miss the jerks, though. Ok. He's a bit of a jerk just not like some I've read. It was a very quick read that had the elements of your typical HP (secret baby, other woman, rich womanizer, etc., etc.) but it was all so nondescript. What am I trying to say???
I just couldn't muster up enough emotion to really CARE what happened to these characters. Yes, that's it. It was well-written but I just could care less what happened in the end. It was, at best, mildly entertaining.
I think those darn cheatin' books are bad for my reading pleasure. Just kidding. Ah, just checked the copyright date...1991. Perhaps, during the 90s they were trying a little too hard to get away from the jerky males of the 80s?
More research needed, I think.
I just couldn't muster up enough emotion to really CARE what happened to these characters. Yes, that's it. It was well-written but I just could care less what happened in the end. It was, at best, mildly entertaining.
I think those darn cheatin' books are bad for my reading pleasure. Just kidding. Ah, just checked the copyright date...1991. Perhaps, during the 90s they were trying a little too hard to get away from the jerky males of the 80s?
More research needed, I think.
September 20, 2014
I’ve enjoyed some of this author’s books but this is another that just didn’t do it for me.
The hero was beyond boring, the heroine….a bit of a “drip”
I felt no chemistry of anything at all between the two.
The plot was very uninteresting and this was a real “drag” read for me.
The hero was beyond boring, the heroine….a bit of a “drip”
I felt no chemistry of anything at all between the two.
The plot was very uninteresting and this was a real “drag” read for me.
July 19, 2021
It was ok. Took awhile to get interested in it.
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September 4, 2018What the bad boy of the business world wants…
When billionaire Leandro Perez's indispensable and alluring assistant Emily Edison resigns and lets him know what she really thinks of him, he's furious. He won't let her off easily. If she wants to go, she'll pay the price—two weeks in paradise at his beck and call!
…he gets!
Trapped by Leandro, Emily's fragile plan to marry a suitable man to bring security to her family is threatened. And as their attraction gives way to a craving that's impossible to deny Emily will have to make the ultimate choice—duty…or desire? (l
When billionaire Leandro Perez's indispensable and alluring assistant Emily Edison resigns and lets him know what she really thinks of him, he's furious. He won't let her off easily. If she wants to go, she'll pay the price—two weeks in paradise at his beck and call!
…he gets!
Trapped by Leandro, Emily's fragile plan to marry a suitable man to bring security to her family is threatened. And as their attraction gives way to a craving that's impossible to deny Emily will have to make the ultimate choice—duty…or desire? (l
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June 9, 2021
It was cold in the tropics....
And it seemed to get colder every time Conrad DeVere looked Emma Belle's way. The feeling was mutual. Emma thought Conrad was the most unlikable man she'd ever met.
Conrad viewed Emma as a scheming gold digger--a woman who intended to use her position as researcher to Alistair Jackson to part the elderly millionaire from his money.
Emma was prepared to live with Conrad's freezing contempt--he must never know the real reason she'd come to Tobago. But she wasn't prepared for the rush of jealousy that struck her when she learned of Conrad's engagement!
And it seemed to get colder every time Conrad DeVere looked Emma Belle's way. The feeling was mutual. Emma thought Conrad was the most unlikable man she'd ever met.
Conrad viewed Emma as a scheming gold digger--a woman who intended to use her position as researcher to Alistair Jackson to part the elderly millionaire from his money.
Emma was prepared to live with Conrad's freezing contempt--he must never know the real reason she'd come to Tobago. But she wasn't prepared for the rush of jealousy that struck her when she learned of Conrad's engagement!
February 17, 2015
I usually enjoy Cathy Williams' books, but I could not get into this one. I just didn't find the connection between Leandro and Emily. Their relationship felt forced. Similar to the way I felt in finishing the book. And the love scenes...ouch! Painfully dull. Nope. Not one of my faves. I demand the next book be better!
December 16, 2016
Emma travels to a Caribbean island to help write her the memoirs of her estranged grandfather and falls in love with Conrad, the local badboy. When her grandfather becomes seriously ill Emma and Conrad pretend to get engaged and that they will marry to please her grandfather. Is it love, or just a charade to help her grandfather recover?
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January 12, 2016"This office romance is fun and sexy. The laid-back tone and pace on the island is ideal, the utopian exotic locale is the perfect fit and the intimacies — both physical and emotional — feel authentic" (RT Book Reviews). 4 stars
July 20, 2014
Not the best I've read but it was good for a quick read on a slow day.
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January 12, 2016received 4 stars @ RT Book Reviews
November 25, 2014
this is a miss for me
September 17, 2014
I enjoyed it!
September 28, 2014
chapters 1 to 6 felt draggy, but then I enjoyed the story.
November 28, 2015
Predictable
August 7, 2019
The resolution felt a little rushed, but this was decent
September 11, 2019
Protagonistas: Leandro & Emily
Profesiones: Empresario & Secretaria
Paises: Londres & País Inventado
Profesiones: Empresario & Secretaria
Paises: Londres & País Inventado
September 4, 2014
Good story line, fast moving, great characters.
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