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The Perfect Crightons #2-4
The Crightons
Three powerful stories of love, scandal, and intrigue in one volume follows the Crighton family and includes The Perfect Seduction, in which Bobbie Miller concocts a clever scheme to get revenge on the Crighton family by seducing Luke Crighton and then exposing their darkest family secrets, but her plan results in some devastating consequences. Original.
576 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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Penny Jordan
1,124 books668 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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December 1, 2019
4,5/5 csillag
Hirtelen, visszavonhatatlanul
A cselekményben nagyon sok szereplő bukkant fel, a Crighton család elég soktagú, és egy idő után már nem tudtam követni, hogy ki kicsoda. A szerelmi szál egy kicsit hirtelen jött elő benne, nem mondom, hogy nem volt érdekes, de egy picit több kémiát elviseltem volna. A vége lett a legjobb, és a nagyi története annyira aranyos volt. :)
4/5
Ez lenne a szerelem?
Egyértelműen ez volt a kedvencem a három történet közül. Érezhető kémia, kedvelhető szereplők (még úgy is, hogy Tullah az elején még eléggé ítélkező volt), izgalmas fordulatok… igazi Penny Jordan! Szívesen olvastam volna hosszabb verzióban is. :) 5/5
Végzetes örökség
A történet úgy kezdődik ugyan, amiben nem szoktam hinni – szerelem első látásra, és ezt értsük szó szerint – , ám utána kezdett érdekes lenni, ahogy jöttek a bonyodalmak, és a végén már le sem bírtam tenni. :)
4,5/5
Hirtelen, visszavonhatatlanul
A cselekményben nagyon sok szereplő bukkant fel, a Crighton család elég soktagú, és egy idő után már nem tudtam követni, hogy ki kicsoda. A szerelmi szál egy kicsit hirtelen jött elő benne, nem mondom, hogy nem volt érdekes, de egy picit több kémiát elviseltem volna. A vége lett a legjobb, és a nagyi története annyira aranyos volt. :)
4/5
Ez lenne a szerelem?
Egyértelműen ez volt a kedvencem a három történet közül. Érezhető kémia, kedvelhető szereplők (még úgy is, hogy Tullah az elején még eléggé ítélkező volt), izgalmas fordulatok… igazi Penny Jordan! Szívesen olvastam volna hosszabb verzióban is. :) 5/5
Végzetes örökség
A történet úgy kezdődik ugyan, amiben nem szoktam hinni – szerelem első látásra, és ezt értsük szó szerint – , ám utána kezdett érdekes lenni, ahogy jöttek a bonyodalmak, és a végén már le sem bírtam tenni. :)
4,5/5
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