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Audrey felt she was a failure with men. So, when handsome, dashing Elliot Knight rescued her from yet another disaster, she wasn't surprised that he didn't want to pursue their relationship.
But circumstances brought Elliot back into Audrey's life to help her out of a sticky situation once again, and suddenly their attraction seemed mutual - only now Audrey was experiencing new doubts about Elliot's past and what he wanted from her. After all, Audrey stood to inherit a fortune, and Elliot already had one marriage to a rich, older woman behind him...
But circumstances brought Elliot back into Audrey's life to help her out of a sticky situation once again, and suddenly their attraction seemed mutual - only now Audrey was experiencing new doubts about Elliot's past and what he wanted from her. After all, Audrey stood to inherit a fortune, and Elliot already had one marriage to a rich, older woman behind him...
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Miranda Lee
816 books237 followersMaureen Mary was born on 1945 at Port Macquarie, a popular seaside town on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and is the youngest of four children. Her sister was the novelist Wendy Brennan (Emma Darcy). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. When Miranda was ten, her father was transferred to Gosford, another coastal town in the countryside, much closer to Sydney. After leaving her convent school, she briefly studied the cello before moving to Sydney, where she embraced the emerging world of computers. Her career as a programmer ended after she married, had three daughters and bought a small acreage in a semi-rural community. Following this, she attempted greyhound training, as well as horse and goat breeding, but was left dissatisfied.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
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June 7, 2018
Re Knight to the Rescue - Miranda Lee gives us a play on words with the title, the H's last name is Knight and he comes to rescue of the repressed h in this ugly duckling turned swan story.
The h is almost 21 when the story starts. She is an upper society ugly duckling who lives with her father. Her father married her mother for her money and then when the h's mum found out about it and rightly rejected his slime pustule self, the h's father had an affair with the hot totty tart woman he later married and made the h's stepmother.
(The h and her mother were in a bad car wreck where the h was badly injured and then tupped off to boarding school and the h's mum died.)
The h mistakenly believes that the stepmother and her father actually care about her, but she is soon to get her eyes opened wide. The book opens with the h dumping her cheating, gold digger boyfriend in a cafe.
He gets really nasty, especially about her performance in bed, so the H steps in and acts like she and he are thing and the h is breaking it to the ex gently. There are implications that the h's ex lover, (cause she let him pressure into sex,) has also slept with the h's stepmother, at the stepmother's instigation.
The h is clueless, but the widowed H is very nice and he gives the h his card and tells her to think of him as a Knight in shinning armour. The h, after suddenly realizing that her father has no problem marrying her to a fortune hunter, he just wants her married and that her stepmother's clothing and hairstyle choices are all designed to make her look horrible, tells the dastardly duo that she dumped her ex cause she has met a new man.
Thru some pressure, the h is forced to ask the H to attend her 21st birthday dinner party. The H agrees to come and bail her out of the hole she dug and he gives her really good advice on what to wear and how to do her makeup and hair.
The stepmother takes one look at the wealthy, playboy H and decides she wants him, but he remembers his part and blows her advances off while making the h feel hot and bothered and beautiful to boot.
The h's big present is a fancy sports car, which the h doesn't really want as it brings back memories of the crash that killed her mother, but the H offers to teach her how to drive, so the h pretends it is the greatest gift ever.
That leads to more time spent with the H and lots of roofie kisses and frustrated longing as the H wants the h, she wants him back and he is trying to be an nice guy and not cradle rob. The h gets herself a makeover as a blonde and the H is hooked. He takes her to the races to watch the racehorse he inherited try and and win a race.
The H also introduces the h to all his dead wife's friends and we learn that the H was in fosterage as a teen, he became a top corporate lawyer and world champion skier and he had lots of affairs with older women because his first relationship was ruined after he found the girl in bed with two men after dumping him for being in foster care.
His wife was a famous children's author who was older than he was and had MS. She was also wildly in love with the H and he liked her, but did not love her. They had a friendship based MOC, (tho the H did not cheat on her,) because she was worried about her relatives not handling her money and estate as she wanted after her imminent demise.
So she left it all to the H and he supports the charities his dead wife was concerned about. He also feels a little guilt that when his wife died, he was off on a business trip and did not get back in time to get her to a doctor right away.
So the h is wondering if he is like her father, looking to marry a rich woman. She doesn't question too much tho, cause her Treacherous Body Syndrome reacts strongly to the H's Manly Lurve Force Mojo and the two are so lust crazed they spend a whole weekend Purple Lurvin' it Up. The H asks the h to move in with him and she agrees. She pretends she is only in it for the sex, but really she wants marriage, as she has fallen in love.
In pursuit of her goal, after she tells her father she is moving in with the H and he confirms that the H is richer than she is, she pretends to have a headache and sleeps in the guest room. The H knows the h is lying, but he lets her get away with it.
The h goes to work the next morning, she works at her mother's company that her father now runs, and then she feels bad about lying to the H so she goes back to his house to apologize. Her cheatin' ex waylays her in the parking lot and hints that the H will find her bed performance lacking compared to her stepmother's too.
When the h gets to the H's house, she finds the H barely dressed and her stepmother smiling malevolently in the background. The h takes off in her new car after telling the H he is a jerk and gets into a very bad car accident and ends up in hospital.
The H was pretty startled by the h's appearance and had gone chasing after her, but only caught up to in time to see the crash. He does cry over the h after she wrecks.
Now both the H and the stepmother are supposedly sorry, the h's father argues that it was all the h's mothers fault for rejecting his gold digging, sewer scarfing self that made him flaunt his mistress and then make her the h's stepmother and that the h should just get over it, cause really what else besides sex and cash does she have to offer?
The h eventually agrees that the H is innocent, and to be fair he probably was, the H was at home with a migraine when the stepmother waylaid him. The stepmother on the other hand, is angry cause the h's father loved the h's mother (or her money,) more than her and she hates the h cause she is his daughter and the h's father won't let the woman have any children.
(Supposedly the stepmother is really contrite over her actions and her mean behavior is over her childlessness, but really it was because she has no claim on the h's mother's money without a child and besides the woman was a cheating skank with everyone, including the h's boyfriends, which was what the h's father deserved after his pathetic existence.)
So the H comes back and declares he loves the h in a sincere sounding declaration. The h loves him and the H is breaking his no marriage rule for her, mainly cause the h fuels his lust for now and he is a great lawyer, so wresting the h's mother's company away from her father and tart stepmother should be no problem.
The stepmother is allowed to get pregnant as the father figures the H will have enough money that his daughter's rightful inheritance won't matter and they all go off for the big wedding HEA.
This book was utterly disgusting in terms of a Typhoon of Tackiness for gold digging, slime swilling, nematode sewage slurping people. The h essentially became her stepmother in marrying a man who only wanted her for sex with the side bonus of extra income, just as the H married his first wife for her money and exactly as the h's father married the h's mother. History likes to repeat itself even in HPlandia and probably with the same eventual outcome.
I felt a little bad for the h, but she knew what she was getting into and did it anyway, so I can't say that this was a great day at the HP office.
The h is almost 21 when the story starts. She is an upper society ugly duckling who lives with her father. Her father married her mother for her money and then when the h's mum found out about it and rightly rejected his slime pustule self, the h's father had an affair with the hot totty tart woman he later married and made the h's stepmother.
(The h and her mother were in a bad car wreck where the h was badly injured and then tupped off to boarding school and the h's mum died.)
The h mistakenly believes that the stepmother and her father actually care about her, but she is soon to get her eyes opened wide. The book opens with the h dumping her cheating, gold digger boyfriend in a cafe.
He gets really nasty, especially about her performance in bed, so the H steps in and acts like she and he are thing and the h is breaking it to the ex gently. There are implications that the h's ex lover, (cause she let him pressure into sex,) has also slept with the h's stepmother, at the stepmother's instigation.
The h is clueless, but the widowed H is very nice and he gives the h his card and tells her to think of him as a Knight in shinning armour. The h, after suddenly realizing that her father has no problem marrying her to a fortune hunter, he just wants her married and that her stepmother's clothing and hairstyle choices are all designed to make her look horrible, tells the dastardly duo that she dumped her ex cause she has met a new man.
Thru some pressure, the h is forced to ask the H to attend her 21st birthday dinner party. The H agrees to come and bail her out of the hole she dug and he gives her really good advice on what to wear and how to do her makeup and hair.
The stepmother takes one look at the wealthy, playboy H and decides she wants him, but he remembers his part and blows her advances off while making the h feel hot and bothered and beautiful to boot.
The h's big present is a fancy sports car, which the h doesn't really want as it brings back memories of the crash that killed her mother, but the H offers to teach her how to drive, so the h pretends it is the greatest gift ever.
That leads to more time spent with the H and lots of roofie kisses and frustrated longing as the H wants the h, she wants him back and he is trying to be an nice guy and not cradle rob. The h gets herself a makeover as a blonde and the H is hooked. He takes her to the races to watch the racehorse he inherited try and and win a race.
The H also introduces the h to all his dead wife's friends and we learn that the H was in fosterage as a teen, he became a top corporate lawyer and world champion skier and he had lots of affairs with older women because his first relationship was ruined after he found the girl in bed with two men after dumping him for being in foster care.
His wife was a famous children's author who was older than he was and had MS. She was also wildly in love with the H and he liked her, but did not love her. They had a friendship based MOC, (tho the H did not cheat on her,) because she was worried about her relatives not handling her money and estate as she wanted after her imminent demise.
So she left it all to the H and he supports the charities his dead wife was concerned about. He also feels a little guilt that when his wife died, he was off on a business trip and did not get back in time to get her to a doctor right away.
So the h is wondering if he is like her father, looking to marry a rich woman. She doesn't question too much tho, cause her Treacherous Body Syndrome reacts strongly to the H's Manly Lurve Force Mojo and the two are so lust crazed they spend a whole weekend Purple Lurvin' it Up. The H asks the h to move in with him and she agrees. She pretends she is only in it for the sex, but really she wants marriage, as she has fallen in love.
In pursuit of her goal, after she tells her father she is moving in with the H and he confirms that the H is richer than she is, she pretends to have a headache and sleeps in the guest room. The H knows the h is lying, but he lets her get away with it.
The h goes to work the next morning, she works at her mother's company that her father now runs, and then she feels bad about lying to the H so she goes back to his house to apologize. Her cheatin' ex waylays her in the parking lot and hints that the H will find her bed performance lacking compared to her stepmother's too.
When the h gets to the H's house, she finds the H barely dressed and her stepmother smiling malevolently in the background. The h takes off in her new car after telling the H he is a jerk and gets into a very bad car accident and ends up in hospital.
The H was pretty startled by the h's appearance and had gone chasing after her, but only caught up to in time to see the crash. He does cry over the h after she wrecks.
Now both the H and the stepmother are supposedly sorry, the h's father argues that it was all the h's mothers fault for rejecting his gold digging, sewer scarfing self that made him flaunt his mistress and then make her the h's stepmother and that the h should just get over it, cause really what else besides sex and cash does she have to offer?
The h eventually agrees that the H is innocent, and to be fair he probably was, the H was at home with a migraine when the stepmother waylaid him. The stepmother on the other hand, is angry cause the h's father loved the h's mother (or her money,) more than her and she hates the h cause she is his daughter and the h's father won't let the woman have any children.
(Supposedly the stepmother is really contrite over her actions and her mean behavior is over her childlessness, but really it was because she has no claim on the h's mother's money without a child and besides the woman was a cheating skank with everyone, including the h's boyfriends, which was what the h's father deserved after his pathetic existence.)
So the H comes back and declares he loves the h in a sincere sounding declaration. The h loves him and the H is breaking his no marriage rule for her, mainly cause the h fuels his lust for now and he is a great lawyer, so wresting the h's mother's company away from her father and tart stepmother should be no problem.
The stepmother is allowed to get pregnant as the father figures the H will have enough money that his daughter's rightful inheritance won't matter and they all go off for the big wedding HEA.
This book was utterly disgusting in terms of a Typhoon of Tackiness for gold digging, slime swilling, nematode sewage slurping people. The h essentially became her stepmother in marrying a man who only wanted her for sex with the side bonus of extra income, just as the H married his first wife for her money and exactly as the h's father married the h's mother. History likes to repeat itself even in HPlandia and probably with the same eventual outcome.
I felt a little bad for the h, but she knew what she was getting into and did it anyway, so I can't say that this was a great day at the HP office.
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December 17, 2015
MINI-REVIEW:
"Knight to the Rescue" is an enjoyable romance about a stranger, Elliot Knight, who comes to mousy, young Audrey's aid when her boyfriend cruelly informs he's cheating because she's no good in bed.
Audrey has a makeover, and Elliot proves to her that her boyfriend was very, very WRONG!
It's a typical sexy Miranda Lee book, with a hero who claims he's a not-so nice guy, but actually is. Elliot was amazing.
4 stars/ B-
"Knight to the Rescue" is an enjoyable romance about a stranger, Elliot Knight, who comes to mousy, young Audrey's aid when her boyfriend cruelly informs he's cheating because she's no good in bed.
Audrey has a makeover, and Elliot proves to her that her boyfriend was very, very WRONG!
It's a typical sexy Miranda Lee book, with a hero who claims he's a not-so nice guy, but actually is. Elliot was amazing.
4 stars/ B-
July 17, 2012
Audrey is confronts her no-account-playboy-boyfriend about his cheating ways when Elliot Knight swoops in to save her. He seems to come to her rescue several times over the course of this story. Audrey soon finds herself enamored w/ this handsome lawyer, but he tries to dissuade her as much as he possibly can. It doesn’t help matters that her manipulative lousy stepmom wants to have her way w/ Mr. Knight, figuring there is NO way he could pass her up for her ugly step daughter!
It was a sweet romance where the only bad person was the stepmother, but then she has to be slightly redeemed in the end. However, I wasn’t buying it and thought it would be better if she were handled differently. Of course, it wasn’t as though her father was all wonderful either. He didn’t exactly prove to be a knight w/ Audrey’s mother and he seemed to blame her for something that he had done in the beginning of their r/s. Elliot was honest w/ Audrey and told her that he would be friends w/ her, but that she shouldn’t fall in love w/ him and complicate matters. Soon their r/s changes, as you knew it would, however, Audrey still suffers from doubts and the old ex-boyfriend just compounds them w/ his little tidbit. When she goes to see Elliot it doesn’t look good for him, but soon Elliot’s deeper feelings are revealed. Still think the little stepmom should have met the curb though. :)
It was a sweet romance where the only bad person was the stepmother, but then she has to be slightly redeemed in the end. However, I wasn’t buying it and thought it would be better if she were handled differently. Of course, it wasn’t as though her father was all wonderful either. He didn’t exactly prove to be a knight w/ Audrey’s mother and he seemed to blame her for something that he had done in the beginning of their r/s. Elliot was honest w/ Audrey and told her that he would be friends w/ her, but that she shouldn’t fall in love w/ him and complicate matters. Soon their r/s changes, as you knew it would, however, Audrey still suffers from doubts and the old ex-boyfriend just compounds them w/ his little tidbit. When she goes to see Elliot it doesn’t look good for him, but soon Elliot’s deeper feelings are revealed. Still think the little stepmom should have met the curb though. :)
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October 29, 2025
Estaba ordenado el desván de la casa y me encontré con las cajas olvidadas de mis libros románticos de mi juventud. Me puse a verlos y me dieron muchas ganas de volver a leerlos. Algunos me traen muy bellos recuerdos... no exactamente de qué trata la historia, pero si de haberlo disfrutado mucho y haberlo leído varias veces. Este libro es uno de esos.
Me entretuve mucho volviéndolo a leer. Me sentí de 15 años de nuevo.
Cosas como que ella lo busca en la guía telefónica o que el único teléfono de la casa estaba ocupado y por ello no pudo avisar que llegaba tarde ¡un teléfono fijo! me hicieron sentir una nostalgia de lindas épocas sin whatsapp o teléfono celular... buscar en la guía el chico que te gustaba ¡qué bellos recuerdos! Ante estos detalles busqué la fecha de edición: 1992 ¡33 años pasaron desde su primera edición!
La cuestión... y a lo que yo vine!
Audrey se siente un patito feo, muy feo. Salió con un muchacho solo porque le gustó que alguien por fin se fijara en ella pero resultó un bueno para nada que sólo la buscó por su plata. Estaban en un bar cuando él empezó a ningunearla y allí apareció... el hombre más bello del mundo diciéndolo a Audrey que ya era hora de irse. Acá empieza la más bella historia de amor que todas las Audrey soñamos. Pasar del patito feo al cisne y que nuestro salvador termine enamoradísimo de la heroína.
Muy bella historia y muy muy identificada (excepto que nunca me llegó mi Elliot pero eso no es a lo que vine).
HEA para ambos!
-Leído de carne y hueso-
Me entretuve mucho volviéndolo a leer. Me sentí de 15 años de nuevo.
Cosas como que ella lo busca en la guía telefónica o que el único teléfono de la casa estaba ocupado y por ello no pudo avisar que llegaba tarde ¡un teléfono fijo! me hicieron sentir una nostalgia de lindas épocas sin whatsapp o teléfono celular... buscar en la guía el chico que te gustaba ¡qué bellos recuerdos! Ante estos detalles busqué la fecha de edición: 1992 ¡33 años pasaron desde su primera edición!
La cuestión... y a lo que yo vine!
Audrey se siente un patito feo, muy feo. Salió con un muchacho solo porque le gustó que alguien por fin se fijara en ella pero resultó un bueno para nada que sólo la buscó por su plata. Estaban en un bar cuando él empezó a ningunearla y allí apareció... el hombre más bello del mundo diciéndolo a Audrey que ya era hora de irse. Acá empieza la más bella historia de amor que todas las Audrey soñamos. Pasar del patito feo al cisne y que nuestro salvador termine enamoradísimo de la heroína.
Muy bella historia y muy muy identificada (excepto que nunca me llegó mi Elliot pero eso no es a lo que vine).
HEA para ambos!
-Leído de carne y hueso-
February 1, 2022
This one had a good start but kinda stalled out with the hero being kinda bland. “I’ve got a dark past and I’ll never love you but let’s bang!”…k. The heroine was so desperate for affection she clinged like crazy. I did like her waking up to the evil stepmother after hanging with the hero a bit. “Hey wait this chick is mean and jealous and spiteful.” She needed to get DROPPED at the end of the book, but nope she apologized for YEARS of abuse and cheating on the heroine’s father with the heroine’s boyfriend and tried to seduce the hero too. Classy. A better ending would be the heroine going off alone to find her own life. She is just kinda surrounded by pillows, so nothing can hurt her but also she can’t decide for herself. She needs a little time to stretch her legs and wings a bit without relaying on anyone for once. Overall, meh. Skip.
December 25, 2017
فارس النجدة ..... روايات عبير من دار النحاس.
August 22, 2012
If this novel happened in real life, I'd definitely say it was fate. Simply because the hero is always popping up in these great, dramatic moments and saving the heroine. In many ways the novel was hilarious but it could be very serious at times as well. I did get bored half way through it *sorry* but other than that, it was a decent read.
February 5, 2014
This book is really bad, from writing, characters, dialogues...
I couldn't finish it...
I couldn't finish it...
August 4, 2016
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