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A Rogue and a Pirate

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Everything in Caitlin's life was running calmly and smoothly. She had a happy home, a supportive family and a loving fiancé. On Saturday she would marry Graham and live happily ever after. That was the plan.
But five days before the wedding Rogan McCord exploded into Caitlin's life. 'You're making a mistake, a big mistake,' Rogan told her when she tried to resist the attraction which flared between them. But wouldn't it be an even bigger mistake to lose her heart to a man who was entirely cynical about love?

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

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Carole Mortimer

1,311 books914 followers
I have written almost 250 romance novels in contemporary and Regency.

I am a USA Today Bestselling Author and recipient of the 2015 RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 I received a Pioneer of Romance Award from Romantic Times in the US and in 2012 I was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for my 'outstanding service to literature'.

I am very happily married to Peter with six sons, and live on the Isle of Man

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Profile Image for Raffaella.
1,981 reviews323 followers
March 23, 2023
I rate 3 because this is my first hp reading in the 80s.
And because the cover really shows a scene of the book.
The heroine is really a redhead with long hair and she also has a similar blue dress on.
The hero is an American businessman and he meets the heroine at a bar.
He tries to hook her up, and helps her when her car has a failure.
They make out in his car and the day after he comes to her engagement party and finds out she’s going to be married in a couple of weeks.
He’s angry and tries to change her mind and even goes to her bedroom and kisses her senseless.
His intention are of course to have some fun with her, after all he’s a playboy and doesn’t go for marriage, being divorced himself.
The day after he kidnaps the heroine and takes her to the Isle of Man, where they have fun and he finds out he can’t seduce her because she expect marriage.
So she goes back home, but what the hero doesn’t know if that she had already jilted her fiancé, and so when he finds out he thinks she has deceived him and leaves.
Some weeks go by and he’s back, of course with his tail between his legs, and asks the heroine to marry him.
The heroine was somehow spineless and too ready to trap the poor man, after all they had met only two days before and she was already thinking how she could make him love her and marry her.
A bit early imo.
The hero was a playboy and a womanizer, he was only in for some happy and carefree sex with the heroine and I’m not fond of people who tells you what you have to do, what you have to like or not.
He pushed her repeatedly. Even if she was attracted to him she didn’t want to have an affair with him and he would have accepted it.
The book would be two stars imo, I added one more for the nostalgic factor.
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1,997 reviews907 followers
July 11, 2016
Re A Rogue and Pirate - This one is unusual and kinda tacky, CM brings us an h who acts more like an H and an H who winds up running away in the best HP h tradition. It makes for an interesting story at least.


The h is getting ready for her upcoming wedding in five days when she gets stood up by a female acquaintance in a London hotel bar. The H wanders in and decides he wants her and so tries to get her to agree to a tryst. She says no way and walks out.

Then she has car trouble and the H offers her a ride home. She lives a bit out of London and so much fun is had by the h making him take her the long way home - which kinda serves him right, his proposition was a bit rude to say the least.

In retaliation, the H forces a big passionate punishing kissing session on the h before he lets her out of the car. This disturbs the h greatly, cause she doesn't feel all that passion the H inspired in her for her fiance.

The next day the h discovers that the H will be staying on at her parent's house, as he is doing business with her dad. The h isn't happy about it at all, cause the H is getting relentless about his pursuit - even though he knows she is marrying in four days.

The H goes so far as to show up in the h's room after everyone else in the house is supposed to be in bed, in an attempt to get her to break her engagement and shag him up. Plus he is very clear on the shag only scenario - and then tries to shame the h for not going for it when she is obviously a such a tart based on her response towards him. (She is, of course, a virgin.)

CM does handle the tart-shaming pretty adroitly tho, she has the h closely question the H on how many women he has been involved with - because as the h puts it - the H is a quite a rake. When the H denies any such thing, the h calculates out that at a minimum the H has slept with at least 240 women and at maximum close to 550 - just based on his answers. So obviously, she isn't the one who should be shamed. (I have to say tho, those kinda numbers put me off the H - like a lot, cause that is just like jumping into a cesspool with no hazmat suite or 500 gallon barrel of bleach.)

So the h is resisting and the H is persisting and the h decides that she shouldn't marry her fiance if she feels the way she does about another man. She breaks it off and ends the engagement, but the fiance convinces her to sleep on the decision. (Cause it really will be an almost at the altar jilt if they call it off, the wedding is in three days.) On her way to the fiance's the next morning, the H kidnaps the h and we are off to the Isle of Mann - the H expects his lurve club mojo will win the day, but the h avoids any actual attempts to slide the club home and a knee injury puts her off limits.

Since everyone back home thinks the h is a runaway bride and explanations need to be made and arrangements unpicked, the H agrees to take her home the next day. We also find out that the H is an abandoned child made good with a gold-digger ex wife in his past, so he ONLY does the grab and shag, not any real relationships. The h wants marriage, and she is determined to get her man,. but the H is ready to run 10,000 miles in the opposite direction. They arrive home and the big news is that the fiance is getting married to the woman he really loved but apparently did not realize he did until the h broke up with him.

This bit of news sets the H off, he accuses the h of using him as a backup for the altar trip and after a bit of fighting, he takes off. (The H conveniently forgets that he has been the one chasing the h all this time AND that he is the one that kidnapped her - so it would hardly be surprising if her fiance had dumped her- but he refuses to believe her when she says she broke it off because of how she felt for him. )

The h makes one more attempt to get the H to see they are both in love and she chases him to London - the h initially agrees to the shag fest the H wants, but gets cold feet at the last minute and runs off leaving a note. The H runs off the other way and the h figures she better figure out how to get along without him - he was pretty much a hopeless case in believing in true love.

The h devotes herself to helping her ex-fiance and his new fiancee get their wedding sorted in less than a month. The h is actually pretty happy that her fiance is getting someone he really loves, and isn't just friends with like she was.

On the way to the ex-fiance's house to help the with the wedding day preparations, the H runs the h off road in her car and kidnaps her again. He decided that he loved her after all and after her brother and father hinted that the h's wedding to the ex was back on, the H rushed to stop her from going through with the wedding.

The h and H wind up in a hotel suite with the lurve club mojo working strong and a post-club proposal of marriage cause they just love each other too much to be apart and that is the big HEA .

This one was fluffy, tho the H was pretty shop-worn and kinda used second hand goods. The h was still determined to get her man, so it made a different plot twist.

It wasn't the best HP ever, but it wasn't terrible either- although the H sampling the HP lady buffet numbers probably would have been better off excluded, cause that was pretty ick just to read about, let alone having to contemplate any kind of intimacy with the guy.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for *CJ*.
5,274 reviews655 followers
January 6, 2020
"A Rogue and a Pirate" is the story of Caitlin and Rogan.

Well, this insanity has an engaged h who goes out for a drink, meets our tomcat H who instantly hits on her and propositions her and she thwarts him. Turns out, he is her father's new business associate, and super horny for her. He relentlessly pursues her until he can kidnap her, and tries to keep coercing her to break off with her fiance so she can sleep with him. She continually resists and they have many *almost* moments of sex. Loads of drama and cynical denial later, they have passionate coitus and ends in a HEA.

The H was kinda crazy..He wanted her enough to whisk her away, yet ran away when c of commitment was mentioned. He got jealous of OM but very OK with shaming and taunting the h into go back to him. Make up your mind dude! h was OK.

Safe
2/5
Profile Image for Azet.
1,097 reviews289 followers
November 17, 2017
I absolutely love the cover and the title!It made My imagination of the hero Rogan and the heroine Caitlin highly alive and their irresistible romance that started as fresh from the start.

I just love Rogan and Caitlin.Rogan is sexy as a pirate with his darkness,arrogance and devilish glint in the eye,and you could see through his jealousy and need for Caitlin that he truly loved her without him realizing it,and Caitlin for being honest about her love and fighting for it.

I love how they bicker all the time,Rogan starting her anger with amusing teasing,and Catlin who always fight back with sharpness.
And the scene where he abducts her,haha that was so fun.Their love was truly there all the time without them realizing it and it was so sweet and beautiful,i absolutely adore every scene with them together!
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1,395 reviews26 followers
January 25, 2022
Although she is at first engaged to another man, it’s a pretty straight forward, uncomplicated romance because she breaks off her engagement to the OM the day after she met the H.

It was all nice. She is nice, he is nice, her family is nice, the OM is nice, the story is nice. Even her abduction by him was nice.

No big drama, no angst, no tension, no cruelty.

What I didn’t like, was that after her abduction she was pursuing him. She was the one saying ‘I love you’ first. She was going to his house to chase him when she thought she wouldn’t see him again. She was the one capitulating that she didn’t need a marriage and that just an affair would be okay too. I like it better when the H does the pursuing.
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1,549 reviews53 followers
December 27, 2016
I love the title of this book and wanted the story to be just as great. It turned out to be ok. Not fabulous.

The Caity meets Rogan a week before her wedding to Graham. 2 days later, she's calling off her wedding because she's in love with Rogan. Rogan is much older than Caity and has been through one bad marriage and isn't looking for love. He wants Caity, doesn't want her to marry Graham, but doesn't want her as a wife.

It was an ok story but I didn't love the characters. They are both spoiled and selfish. I was mildly entertained.
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263 reviews22 followers
May 18, 2016
3 stars - entertaining, although semi annoying hero and plot was a little semi unbelievable, June 11, 2011

My thoughts: Heroine: she was different than what I was used to in other novels I read. She was no confused, afraid, fearful heroine but instead she was a gal that acted when need to be in that there was no dilly dallying with her. When she knew that she couldn't go through with the marriage she told the other guy so, etc. She was attracted to the hero so boom, she went along with him. She had spunk. The hero on the other hand, I found a tiny bit annoying. First he was all over the heroine, and then when she goes along with everything, his own insecurities come into play. I'm like sheesh, why'd you pursue her in the first place if you can't follow through. The hero was alright, don't mean to rag on him, but other than that little pet peeve, he was ok. I guess the hero did have a somewhat sad experience. Anyhow the story itself was entertaining and I'm glad I read it. Although I thought certain parts were pretty convenient when the heroine's exfiance ends up with his brother's wife and I'm like, oh yeah, really? And it's not THAT big of a deal? I thought it was somewhat cute that heroine's family made hero jealous and he came after her.
212 reviews9 followers
July 26, 2021
Well...

We start in a bar with 21 year old Caitlin waiting for a friend who never shows but worry not, she won't be lonely because she is being... accosted by this man who won't go away who makes very plain he wants to have sex with her RIGHT NOW. Shenanigans later (including an inexplicably broken down car) and we realise he's her dad's prospective business partner. SCANDAL! SHOCK! And we find out she's engaged to another guy. It then just gets progressively weirder. If your idea of romance is being driven off the road so the hero can kidnap you to the Isle of Man where he will force you to play multiple games of Trivial Pursuit while simply screaming MEAT as you attempt to buy salad and you scream SALAD when he attempts to buy any hot food for the cold weather... might be the book for you. Some of the banter was actually fun and I did enjoy his alpha-male posturing failing due to banging his head every time he entered a room, not knowing how to live without modern conveniences and being inordinately proud of heating up some soup.

However, if you're not a lover of the insta-love, kidnapping, young virgin meets experienced man who's uniformly an asshole but somehow she's the one who has to understand and accommodate, you might not love it.
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1,518 reviews12 followers
August 29, 2025
First off, it was a DUMB title, even though it was meant as a joke (I think). This H was hardly either. "A Boring Imitation" would have been more apt.

I couldn't get into this one. The h played too many games, the H acted like a whiny kid (or a complaining old man) rather than the gorgeous sexy playboy he was purported to be ("I get seasick", "The cabin's so COLD", "The pilot's listening to our conversation", yadda yadda YADDA), the "witty repartee" dialog (the kind I usually like) just fell flat, and the whole "she wants love and commitment, he wants sex and freedom" trope just got boring. Even the "kidnapping" was boring.

In fact, the whole book was boring, which is why it was a DNF for me.
Profile Image for Gail.
479 reviews19 followers
August 3, 2017
Completely Old School in the best way. 21-year old virgin heroine, much older American hero who stomps around snorting and beating the ground. She gives as good as she gets from him, and they both keep up with each other - she's no doormat.

A bit of the Big Mis - well, a Medium Mis actually - once it's resolved they get back together again. Very nearly gave this one 4 stars but settled on 3. GR really needs 1/2-star increments. This would have been 3-1/2 stars.
Profile Image for أجمل زهرة.
694 reviews28 followers
December 27, 2017
رجل من ورق
من روايات عبير الجديدة

كل شيء في حياة كاثلين كان يسير على مايرام لديها منزل جميل , عائلة متفهمة , خطيب رائع.
نهار السبت ستتزوج غراهام وتعيش سعيدة معه للأبد, هذا ماكان مخطط له, ولكن خمسة ايام قبل الزفاف دخل لوغان ماكورد حياة كاثلين.
"انت تقترفين خطأ... خطأ كبيراً" قال لها لوغان حين حاولت ان تقاوم الانجذاب الذي اشتعل بينهما , ولكن الن يعتبر خطأ اكبر ان تخسر قلبها لرجل يسخر من الحب؟
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Author 27 books52 followers
August 28, 2021
I think it was a fairly good book. I have to take it mind that it was written over 2o years ago and things back then was a bit different from things in 2021
Profile Image for Lindsay.
543 reviews16 followers
September 17, 2024
I enjoyed this. Lots of drama and H was staddling the line between charming and aggressive but the h seemed like she could handle it and enjoyed their banter. H was unnecessarily cruel to h towards the end but it made the make up that much more satisfying, especially since he seemed to visibly be suffering from their 3rd act breakup.
Profile Image for RomLibrary.
5,789 reviews
June 8, 2021
Caitlin couldn't believe what she had done!
She'd met a complete stranger in a bar. He'd flirted outrageously and, angered and insulted, she'd left. But her car had refused to start, and she'd had to accept the stranger's offer of a lift home. And then it happened.
They kissed, and Caitlin found herself swirled into a vortex of desire, very nearly allowing this man to make love to her! She'd pulled away and run into her house, horrified at her wantonness. For in her room hung a lovely white dress. A wedding dress. Her wedding dress..
Profile Image for Roub.
1,112 reviews63 followers
January 9, 2014
fun one n very much happening but not my cup of tea ! they argued like 2 restless teenagers. rogan wanted what he cud not have while caity was in la la land, full of romantic dreams!! she was in love wid the idea of a fairytale, of meeting a pirate etc etc. rogan was not getting sex wid her without marriage, so he proposed. this is a book 4 teenagers, i'm sure 10 years back i wud have liked it very much but not now:-S
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3,102 reviews
November 7, 2025
Caitlin and Rogan McCord see each other in a bar; the attraction is instantaneous. But there is less than a week to go before her wedding to another man.
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