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Sleeping Fire
"He's here! They say he's a terror. "Lee's secretary warned her of the arrival of Adam Broome, new owner of the publishing company for which they worked.Adam, known as the "new Broome," had left a chaos of reorganization in his wake at the other company magazine offices. The staff of Lively Lady was justifiably nervous.From that first wary meeting with the compellingly powerful Adam Broome, Lee knew her life would be changed. Though she tried to be open-minded, she wasn't sure she would like the change....
192 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1979
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Daphne Clair
122 books64 followersDahpne Clair is one of many pseudonyms of Daphne de Jong, a New Zealand writer who also uses the names Laurie Bright, Claire Lorel and Clarissa Garland. She is the winner of the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award and has been a finalist for the Romance Writers of America Rita Award more than once.
Daphne Clair de Jong decided to be a writer when she was eight years old and won her first literary prize for a school essay. Her first short story was published when she was sixteen and she's been writing and publishing ever since. Nowadays she earns her living from writing, something her well-meaning teachers and guidance counsellors warned her she would never achieve in New Zealand. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and a collection of them was presented in Crossing the Bar, published by David Ling, where they garnered wide praise.
In 1976, Daphne's first full-length romantic novel was published by Mills & Boon as Return to Love. Since then she has produced a steady output of romance set in New Zealand, occasionally Australia or on imaginary Pacific islands. As Laurey Bright she also writes for Silhouette Books. Her romances often appear on American stores' romance best-seller lists and she has been a Rita contest finalist, as well as winning and being placed in several other romance writing contests. Her other writing includes non-fiction, poetry and long historical fiction, She also is an active defender of the ideology of Feminists for Life, and she has written articles about it.
Since then she has won other literary prizes both in her native New Zealand and other countries. These include the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, with Dying Light, a story about Alzheimer's Disease, which was filmed by Robyn Murphy Productions and shown at film festivals in several countries. (Starring Sara McLeod, Sam's wife in Lord of the Rings).
Daphne is often asked to tutor courses in creative writing, and with Robyn Donald she teachs romance writing weekend courses in her home in the "winterless north" of in New Zealand. Daphne lives with her Netherlands-born husband in a farmlet, grazing livestock, growing their own fruit and vegetables and making their large home available to other writers as a centre for writers' workshops and retreats. Their five children, one of them an orphan from Hong Kong, have left home but drift back at irregular intervals. She enjoys cooking special meals but her cake-making is limited to three never-fail recipes. Her children maintain they have no memory of her baking for them except on birthdays, when she would produce, on request, cakes shaped into trains, clowns, fairytale houses and, once, even a windmill, in deference to their Dutch heritage from their father.
Daphne frequently makes and breaks resolutions to indulge in some hearty outdoor activity, and loves to sniff strong black coffee but never drinks it. After a day at her desk she will happily watch re-runs of favourite TV shows. Usually she goes to bed early with a book which may be anything from a paperback romance or suspense novel to history, sociology or literary theory.
Daphne Clair de Jong decided to be a writer when she was eight years old and won her first literary prize for a school essay. Her first short story was published when she was sixteen and she's been writing and publishing ever since. Nowadays she earns her living from writing, something her well-meaning teachers and guidance counsellors warned her she would never achieve in New Zealand. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and a collection of them was presented in Crossing the Bar, published by David Ling, where they garnered wide praise.
In 1976, Daphne's first full-length romantic novel was published by Mills & Boon as Return to Love. Since then she has produced a steady output of romance set in New Zealand, occasionally Australia or on imaginary Pacific islands. As Laurey Bright she also writes for Silhouette Books. Her romances often appear on American stores' romance best-seller lists and she has been a Rita contest finalist, as well as winning and being placed in several other romance writing contests. Her other writing includes non-fiction, poetry and long historical fiction, She also is an active defender of the ideology of Feminists for Life, and she has written articles about it.
Since then she has won other literary prizes both in her native New Zealand and other countries. These include the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, with Dying Light, a story about Alzheimer's Disease, which was filmed by Robyn Murphy Productions and shown at film festivals in several countries. (Starring Sara McLeod, Sam's wife in Lord of the Rings).
Daphne is often asked to tutor courses in creative writing, and with Robyn Donald she teachs romance writing weekend courses in her home in the "winterless north" of in New Zealand. Daphne lives with her Netherlands-born husband in a farmlet, grazing livestock, growing their own fruit and vegetables and making their large home available to other writers as a centre for writers' workshops and retreats. Their five children, one of them an orphan from Hong Kong, have left home but drift back at irregular intervals. She enjoys cooking special meals but her cake-making is limited to three never-fail recipes. Her children maintain they have no memory of her baking for them except on birthdays, when she would produce, on request, cakes shaped into trains, clowns, fairytale houses and, once, even a windmill, in deference to their Dutch heritage from their father.
Daphne frequently makes and breaks resolutions to indulge in some hearty outdoor activity, and loves to sniff strong black coffee but never drinks it. After a day at her desk she will happily watch re-runs of favourite TV shows. Usually she goes to bed early with a book which may be anything from a paperback romance or suspense novel to history, sociology or literary theory.
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April 7, 2024
HAIKU BOOK REVIEW: The Sleeping Fire, by Daphne Clair
More qui pro quos than
Jack, Janet, and Chrissy, were
ever embroiled in.
More qui pro quos than
Jack, Janet, and Chrissy, were
ever embroiled in.
June 12, 2021
Only in HQN land would these two ever survive.
October 9, 2018
I was with it despite the asshole dude because I knew he secretly loved the lady. And then, he literally rips the dress off of her (not as a prelude to a sexual assault) because he didn't like what she was wearing for a t.v. interview. I kept going because Harlequin Presents, but I couldn't get past that.
February 14, 2024
Forgettable
May 27, 2023
"Η άσβεστη φλόγα της αγάπης" - Δάφνη Κλαίρ, Συλλογή 363, έτος έκδοσης: 1979.
Η φήμη του καινούριου αφεντικού, του Άνταμ Μπρούκ, τρέχει πριν απ' αυτόν, τρομοκρατώντας το προσωπικό της εκδοτικής εταιρίας που αγόρασε. Η Λη όμως ανταποκρίνεται με άνεση στις απαιτήσεις του νέου ιδιοκτήτη και η ενεργητικότητά της, την οδηγεί σύντομα στη θέση της αρχισυντάκτριας της "Σύγχρονης Γυναίκας". Η ζωή φαίνεται να χαμογελάει στη Λη κι όλοι την μακαρίζουν για την επιτυχία της. Κανείς, όμως , δεν υποψιάζεται τη θύελλα που έχει ξεσπάσει στη ψυχή της, από τη μέρα που εμφανίστηκε μπροστά της ο Άνταμ. Ποια είναι τα αισθήματά της γι' αυτόν; Αγάπη, μίσος ή πόθος;
Η φήμη του καινούριου αφεντικού, του Άνταμ Μπρούκ, τρέχει πριν απ' αυτόν, τρομοκρατώντας το προσωπικό της εκδοτικής εταιρίας που αγόρασε. Η Λη όμως ανταποκρίνεται με άνεση στις απαιτήσεις του νέου ιδιοκτήτη και η ενεργητικότητά της, την οδηγεί σύντομα στη θέση της αρχισυντάκτριας της "Σύγχρονης Γυναίκας". Η ζωή φαίνεται να χαμογελάει στη Λη κι όλοι την μακαρίζουν για την επιτυχία της. Κανείς, όμως , δεν υποψιάζεται τη θύελλα που έχει ξεσπάσει στη ψυχή της, από τη μέρα που εμφανίστηκε μπροστά της ο Άνταμ. Ποια είναι τα αισθήματά της γι' αυτόν; Αγάπη, μίσος ή πόθος;
September 29, 2021
She kisses and dates other men next to the H. And then she gets upset when she sees the H kiss another woman on the cheek.
I don’t like it when the H or h keeps dating and kissing other people after they have kissed each other. In this case it’s the h who does that.
He is very much in lust and love with the h.
I don’t like it when the H or h keeps dating and kissing other people after they have kissed each other. In this case it’s the h who does that.
He is very much in lust and love with the h.
February 20, 2022
Office romance. The H was semi besotted and it is made very obvious. I mean, he ran down twelve flights of stairs , breathless and flushed, into her office - when she told him over the phone that she didn't want to see him anymore lol. Otherwise he was not beta. The h did try a bit to not get with him, including an experimental date involving kisses and petting with an old on/off dinner partner. HEA in the end.
September 13, 2023
Glad it's finally over.
i have noticed Daphne clair seems to love having her h slap her H's atcleast once in the novel.
Hated the TSTL h in this, she was presumptuous, not at all likeable and though the author wants us to believe she was innocent girl but didn't like the way she kept dangling OM's around, sorry nor was she a good editor.
H was arrogant but ok, though did a bit of manhandling which was not great.
i have noticed Daphne clair seems to love having her h slap her H's atcleast once in the novel.
Hated the TSTL h in this, she was presumptuous, not at all likeable and though the author wants us to believe she was innocent girl but didn't like the way she kept dangling OM's around, sorry nor was she a good editor.
H was arrogant but ok, though did a bit of manhandling which was not great.
February 1, 2024
It's a 3.5 for me, 4 starred in case I want to find it again. Nice older HP office romance where he, Adam, is the new managing editor of a magazine group and she, Lee, is promoted to editor of the women's title. I guess I mainly liked the pacing of the heat and their chemistry. It's misunderstanding based, unfortunately, but that aside I liked the writing.
December 14, 2023
This book had absolutely no story . It was just about the lust between the leads. The hero was pouncing on heroine all the time, and she pretended to avoid him but all the time waiting for his kiss and touch. Utterly boring book
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November 28, 2019nice but dragged a bit
November 20, 2014
Entertaining and filled with misunderstandings between H and h.
I always like an office setting in vintage Harlequins. Unusually, the h was high up on the food chain.
I always like an office setting in vintage Harlequins. Unusually, the h was high up on the food chain.
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