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Tempting Lucas
Resisting sin with Dr. Flynn
Lucas Flynn was still a dish, as tempting as he had been eleven years before when Emily had placed her naive teenage self in his bed and let him seduce her.
Those years hadn't made Lucas any more kindly disposed toward Emily--who longed to tell him about the consequences of their one-night stand, and that she'd never stopped wanting him. But this time she wasn't going to offer herself to him on a plate. If Lucas ever made love to Emily again, it would be because he had come to her!
Lucas Flynn was still a dish, as tempting as he had been eleven years before when Emily had placed her naive teenage self in his bed and let him seduce her.
Those years hadn't made Lucas any more kindly disposed toward Emily--who longed to tell him about the consequences of their one-night stand, and that she'd never stopped wanting him. But this time she wasn't going to offer herself to him on a plate. If Lucas ever made love to Emily again, it would be because he had come to her!
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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Catherine Spencer
282 books60 followers In the past, Catherine Spencer has been an English teacher which was the springboard for her writing career. Heathcliff, Rochester, Romeo and Rhett were all responsible for her love of brooding heroes! Catherine has had the lucky honour of being a Romance Writers of America RITA finalist and has been a guest speaker at both international and local conferences and was the only Canadian chosen to appear on the television special, Harlequin goes Prime Time.
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March 8, 2019
Re Tempting Lucas - Catherine Spencer brings us a Typhoon of Tackiness with an h would could definitely be considered sloppy seconds to everything else in the H's life.
This one starts with our event planner and caterer h returning to her grandmother's home after an absence of ten years. When the h was 19 she took a risk and crawled into bed with the boy next door.
The two of them had grown up together and the H initiated things with a kiss when she was 15. The h went into paroxysms of love, as teen girls tend to do, and when the H returned home after becoming a doctor, the h and H had one night of love where unicorn grooming licenses were revoked for her. (Or just some sex, as the H dismisses it as.)
The H chucks her out of his bed as soon as realizes who the h is, then he introduces her to his Dr. fiancee a day or so later. The h had no clue he was engaged and is heartbroken and hurt, especially when she learns his fiancee was in the house on the night of her big seduction move. The H marries his ice queen Dr. fiancee and they go off to Africa.
Tho the H is haunted by the memories of his night of excessive passion with the h, cause his Ice Queen Dr. Wife thought lurve club events are too messy, the H regards the h as an immature tart with no morals whose siren-like boudoir moves have ruined him for 'his type' of woman.
Back with the h, she became pregnant and miscarried at 9 weeks and then married a rebound guy that ended when he left her for another woman. Now the rest of the h's family have guilted her into moving to California from Boston to care for her grandma and the H, whose Ice Queen Dr. Wife died during a plague in Africa has returned next door to devote his life to research and live with his grandma.
After a house fire at the h's grandmother's house forces them to move into the H's grandmother's house, the h finds herself falling in love with the broody slime pustule nematode all over again. Since the h has told the H about her pregnancy and her marriage breakup in the interim, the H makes it clear that the h is now shopworn tatty goods because of course it is all about him.
Basically he says the h never loved him and she was wrong not to tell him she was preggers, even tho he callously and harshly told her off and then married his fiance. Then he berates the h for getting divorced, berates her for running an event planning business and starting another one locally and flaunts another 'perfect' socialite OW in the h's face.
The same OW that has hired the h to do an event for her. The H and h have another night because this h is just TSTL to figure out that he just isn't that into her, while at the same time he won't say no to a pump and dump.
Tho CS tries hard to make us believe that the H's insults and tart and everything else shamming is the result of deeply buried positive feelings for the h, it doesn't really play out well when the H grabs her away from another guy she is thinking about being interested in and calls her a tart, again, but this time he accuses her of being a drunken tart too.
The h isn't drunk, she is seriously ill with hanta virus and if this weren't HPlandia and an attempt at romance, she would have been dead by the time the H got around to diagnosing it.
Anyhows, the h's near death experience supposedly rips the blinders off the H's eyes and he realizes that he loves the h and always has.
(It is debatable, this great love the H suddenly discovers. Mainly because this H DESPISES the h, he isn't angry with her, he literally believes she is pond scum because he is convinced that she is a Jezebel Delilah Harlot out to ruin him and he freely admits that his time in Africa has emotionally damaged him, probably beyond repair.)
Whatever, the H's sudden realization that he loves the h spurs his research to figure out what disease she has and CS does a pretty decent scene where the unshaven and crying H calls the h back from death while clutching her hand at her bedside - while she is on a ventilator.
The h miraculously is cured, accepts the H's marriage proposal right then and there and we can be happy the h is happy, cause she and the H marry and have a baby for the HEA.
I wasn't feelin' the love on this one, mainly because the H wasn't able to feel any. I think it finally kicked into his judgmental, contemptuous brain that his big passion is research and he did get his own research wing at the local hospital.
More importantly, I think he had a great time in bed with the h, could ignore her the rest of the time and his socialite OW would have demanded a lot more from him in terms of attention and time, so the h was the better option for long term neglect and for him to have some progeny.
The h was definitely willing to settle and the H had very little to give, so since CS chose to make all but the last few pages a bonanza of H repudiating the h moments and being tatty about it, this HEA is seriously suspect.
If you like to cringe every other page over a nematode scum gulper's beratement and repudiation of a nice but incredibly blind h, this is an HP Voyage worth a look at. HP reader's without cast iron stomachs for the huge Captain Consult needed to get through this might want to look elsewhere.
This one starts with our event planner and caterer h returning to her grandmother's home after an absence of ten years. When the h was 19 she took a risk and crawled into bed with the boy next door.
The two of them had grown up together and the H initiated things with a kiss when she was 15. The h went into paroxysms of love, as teen girls tend to do, and when the H returned home after becoming a doctor, the h and H had one night of love where unicorn grooming licenses were revoked for her. (Or just some sex, as the H dismisses it as.)
The H chucks her out of his bed as soon as realizes who the h is, then he introduces her to his Dr. fiancee a day or so later. The h had no clue he was engaged and is heartbroken and hurt, especially when she learns his fiancee was in the house on the night of her big seduction move. The H marries his ice queen Dr. fiancee and they go off to Africa.
Tho the H is haunted by the memories of his night of excessive passion with the h, cause his Ice Queen Dr. Wife thought lurve club events are too messy, the H regards the h as an immature tart with no morals whose siren-like boudoir moves have ruined him for 'his type' of woman.
Back with the h, she became pregnant and miscarried at 9 weeks and then married a rebound guy that ended when he left her for another woman. Now the rest of the h's family have guilted her into moving to California from Boston to care for her grandma and the H, whose Ice Queen Dr. Wife died during a plague in Africa has returned next door to devote his life to research and live with his grandma.
After a house fire at the h's grandmother's house forces them to move into the H's grandmother's house, the h finds herself falling in love with the broody slime pustule nematode all over again. Since the h has told the H about her pregnancy and her marriage breakup in the interim, the H makes it clear that the h is now shopworn tatty goods because of course it is all about him.
Basically he says the h never loved him and she was wrong not to tell him she was preggers, even tho he callously and harshly told her off and then married his fiance. Then he berates the h for getting divorced, berates her for running an event planning business and starting another one locally and flaunts another 'perfect' socialite OW in the h's face.
The same OW that has hired the h to do an event for her. The H and h have another night because this h is just TSTL to figure out that he just isn't that into her, while at the same time he won't say no to a pump and dump.
Tho CS tries hard to make us believe that the H's insults and tart and everything else shamming is the result of deeply buried positive feelings for the h, it doesn't really play out well when the H grabs her away from another guy she is thinking about being interested in and calls her a tart, again, but this time he accuses her of being a drunken tart too.
The h isn't drunk, she is seriously ill with hanta virus and if this weren't HPlandia and an attempt at romance, she would have been dead by the time the H got around to diagnosing it.
Anyhows, the h's near death experience supposedly rips the blinders off the H's eyes and he realizes that he loves the h and always has.
(It is debatable, this great love the H suddenly discovers. Mainly because this H DESPISES the h, he isn't angry with her, he literally believes she is pond scum because he is convinced that she is a Jezebel Delilah Harlot out to ruin him and he freely admits that his time in Africa has emotionally damaged him, probably beyond repair.)
Whatever, the H's sudden realization that he loves the h spurs his research to figure out what disease she has and CS does a pretty decent scene where the unshaven and crying H calls the h back from death while clutching her hand at her bedside - while she is on a ventilator.
The h miraculously is cured, accepts the H's marriage proposal right then and there and we can be happy the h is happy, cause she and the H marry and have a baby for the HEA.
I wasn't feelin' the love on this one, mainly because the H wasn't able to feel any. I think it finally kicked into his judgmental, contemptuous brain that his big passion is research and he did get his own research wing at the local hospital.
More importantly, I think he had a great time in bed with the h, could ignore her the rest of the time and his socialite OW would have demanded a lot more from him in terms of attention and time, so the h was the better option for long term neglect and for him to have some progeny.
The h was definitely willing to settle and the H had very little to give, so since CS chose to make all but the last few pages a bonanza of H repudiating the h moments and being tatty about it, this HEA is seriously suspect.
If you like to cringe every other page over a nematode scum gulper's beratement and repudiation of a nice but incredibly blind h, this is an HP Voyage worth a look at. HP reader's without cast iron stomachs for the huge Captain Consult needed to get through this might want to look elsewhere.
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January 28, 2015
This one is hard to rate. Overall it was well written and emotional. There were parts that brought tears to my eyes. However, I just can't bring myself to rate it higher because I found the Hero Lucas to be so unlikable!
At 26 he was a conceited ass who sees himself as superior because his "life mission" is to heal the sick and make a difference. He sees the heroine as unsuitable as a life partner, and worse than that he looks down on her as a "party girl" and "shallow". So he tosses her aside to marry someone smarter and never(seriously, never!) even entertains that there could be a future between them. Cut to 11 years later and you find our hero a cynical conceited ass who still sees the heroine as a bit beneath him. He still acts superior and puts the heroine down because her job isnt up to his standards of importance.
I just wanted to slap him. And the ending
At 26 he was a conceited ass who sees himself as superior because his "life mission" is to heal the sick and make a difference. He sees the heroine as unsuitable as a life partner, and worse than that he looks down on her as a "party girl" and "shallow". So he tosses her aside to marry someone smarter and never(seriously, never!) even entertains that there could be a future between them. Cut to 11 years later and you find our hero a cynical conceited ass who still sees the heroine as a bit beneath him. He still acts superior and puts the heroine down because her job isnt up to his standards of importance.
I just wanted to slap him. And the ending
November 23, 2011
Wonderful Intense Emotional Friends To Lovers story,liked the grandmothers and their banters especially Monique she is adorable hard as coconut from outside but a softie inside, the only thing that disappointed me was Lucas in denial throughout the story only when Emily fall sick did he realise his love for her,for me it ended soon would have loved to see how during recovery Lucas convinces Emily of his love,Emily gave in too easily.The inner thoughts of Lucas were funny.
Overall a good read
Recommend it
Overall a good read
Recommend it
March 11, 2014
He was so not worth it.
to-avoid
January 6, 2016Other shelves: hero-is-a-doctor, hero-was-her-first-lover, heroine-married-other-man, heroine-is-divorced, besotted-heroine, hero-married-other-woman, 11-years-of-separation
December 20, 2011
This one was decent. I didn't like that it was so one-sided, and I almost always prefer stories where the hero knows he's in love and is just hiding it. I felt like the heroine had to swallow her pride a lot w/out getting much in return. And although I often like seeing a hero's reaction when a heroine gets injured/almost dies, etc., I didn't like here that it was the reason the hero realized he was in love with her -- kind of cheap. Still, there was some good emotion to it, so 3 stars.
December 24, 2012
I don't know what it was about this novel but I totally loved it. It was an older type harlequin which made me like it a lot more. There was definitely a strong story behind it unlike the newer pregnancy ones. I have to admit I enjoyed the characters and the emotions involved. For me it was totally beautiful.
July 1, 2015
he's soo not worth it. but then again, the girl is the one that's been crazily want him. blagh..
not my kind of story, I dont need a guy who realize that he loves me when im almost dead. if it's take my life just for him to realize that he loves me, i rather give my love to someone else and nurtured it together.
not my kind of story, I dont need a guy who realize that he loves me when im almost dead. if it's take my life just for him to realize that he loves me, i rather give my love to someone else and nurtured it together.
February 21, 2023
Tempting Lucas
This book was about second chances. She has lived him since she was seventeen. But he didn't realize it. She seduced him and after a one night stand he left her to marry someone else. Now many years later they are both back in town. She is there to help her grandmother after her stroke. He lives next door helping his own grandmother. But he is not the man she once knew. Many things have changed in him. Will she be able to help him recognise that he is not alone? What happens when he has to regroup and have an awakening due to a tragic event? Will she still be around?
This book was about second chances. She has lived him since she was seventeen. But he didn't realize it. She seduced him and after a one night stand he left her to marry someone else. Now many years later they are both back in town. She is there to help her grandmother after her stroke. He lives next door helping his own grandmother. But he is not the man she once knew. Many things have changed in him. Will she be able to help him recognise that he is not alone? What happens when he has to regroup and have an awakening due to a tragic event? Will she still be around?
April 5, 2011
Great novel!! I saluted Emily for fighting so hard for Lucas. As for Lucas... well, the bitterness of his marriage to Sydney has made him someone who did not believe in love, laughter and even life itself. I think that was because the condition in Africa and tough life both of them spent during their humanity jobs as doctors.
I just a bit regretted that Lucas realized how he felt for Emily Jane at the very last minute, when Emily's life is in danger. Why is it so hard for people to realized that their love and soul mate is in front of them?
I just a bit regretted that Lucas realized how he felt for Emily Jane at the very last minute, when Emily's life is in danger. Why is it so hard for people to realized that their love and soul mate is in front of them?
August 20, 2020
Good story
I would like to see more groveling on Hero’s part. He was lucky the heroine was so forgiving. I would like him to work more to earn her love. I understand that he was afraid of losing her and he realized his feelings at last but it felt a bit underwhelmed after all his previous behavior .
I would like to see more groveling on Hero’s part. He was lucky the heroine was so forgiving. I would like him to work more to earn her love. I understand that he was afraid of losing her and he realized his feelings at last but it felt a bit underwhelmed after all his previous behavior .
June 25, 2023
Another heroine that the author hate, the BIG FAT JERK CHEATER cheated on his fiancée, started to seduce the heroine when she was 15 years old, took her virginity at 19 years, slut shame her, dump her and went to marry the OW.
Years later he used the heroine again while courting another OW, slut shame the heroine again, like she is a queen of whore and what he is.
And we are supposed to believe that he loved her all along and the blinders fell off his eyes after she almost died? If she didn't almost died he still will use and dump her forever for the OWs.
What a gross H, like all the authors Hs. I will never pay to buy any of the authors books.
See Boogenhagen review.
Years later he used the heroine again while courting another OW, slut shame the heroine again, like she is a queen of whore and what he is.
And we are supposed to believe that he loved her all along and the blinders fell off his eyes after she almost died? If she didn't almost died he still will use and dump her forever for the OWs.
What a gross H, like all the authors Hs. I will never pay to buy any of the authors books.
See Boogenhagen review.
December 31, 2019
Second chance at love
A love that survived two wrong marriages, too many secrets, family misunderstanding, disaster, and misdiagnosed illnesses to come to a beautiful ending . I encourage you to read this, you will not be disappointed.
A love that survived two wrong marriages, too many secrets, family misunderstanding, disaster, and misdiagnosed illnesses to come to a beautiful ending . I encourage you to read this, you will not be disappointed.
December 12, 2018
This could have been much better if only h didn't have to beg for affection from H so much.
February 19, 2025
What for? Lucas is such a dumbfuck
July 10, 2023
Didn't like the H and the h is truly the dumbest woman alive as she continues to pine over a guy who did nothing but insult her, berate her complete with name calling! After having sex with her he gets engaged to the woman who later becomes his wife. When he is a widower the h comes back and they have sex and he goes back to yet another woman who he is dating. The h keeps putting up with his infidelity and literally proves to be TSTL and ends up dying. The H realizes she is dying and almost 6 days in ICU thinking she isn’t going to recover he confesses his love and that one declaration from him actually brings her back to life!!
For all that I don’t think this marriage will last long as there is no real respect or love just misguided lust and a h who is willfully blind and dumb.
For all that I don’t think this marriage will last long as there is no real respect or love just misguided lust and a h who is willfully blind and dumb.
September 13, 2013
I love this book. While reading it, I experienced conflicting emotions, it made me laugh, cry and sigh. I felt a deep regret to flip the last page because I hate to see it ends. I do not in anyway resent the author's portrayals of the different characters of the story because she did it very convincingly. Catherine Spencer exhibited her great talent as a writer by exploring and exploiting human's uniqueness an individuality through her characters and she mastered the arts of words and used them to the fullest. I just love this book.
September 21, 2018
This one could have gotten another star if the hero wasn’t a snobby, bossy, assy, douche! Lordy he sucked! The heroine was pretty terrible too, mopey and just throwing herself at the hero, get some self respect girlfriend you are embarrassing! But yeah the major plot issue is the hero. Minus him I think it would have been a nice book about women of all ages bonding, but no! We have this loser in the middle sucking the life out of all these female characters! I bet this book doesn’t even pass the Bechdel Test because he is the only think these women think/care/talk about! The question is why?!!! He’s a boring, fridged jerk! He repeatedly disregards her heroine’s feelings/wants/HEALTH!/profession and anything remotely important to her. It’s all just silly or shallow or meaningless. Being a doctor does not make a character interesting, fyi. The heroine did all the chasing from the start and the hero only seems to give a rat’s ass about her when she falls ill(and he’s a doctor so he can relate and connect now...cause he’s a doctor). The heroine should have walked far away way earlier in the book. Anyone else feel that NONE of the story would have happened, no reunion of this couple ever, if they didn’t have to live together? I do. Skip skip skip to my Lou.
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