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Grey Calderwood was furious to discover that his mother had employed Lucia Graham -- the woman he believed had defrauded him . . . Lucia knew she'd wronged Grey, but she had been desperate to help her father. Thrown together, the atmosphere between her and Grey was explosive -- part antagonism, part burning attraction . . . Could this proud, powerful man ever trust Lucia again, and believe her to be worthy of his love?
- GenresHarlequin Romance
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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Anne Weale
227 books49 followersJay Blakeney
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
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April 7, 2022
Two things, briefly:
1. She takes full responsibility for her art forgery crime and her year in prison, and there isn’t too much angling for sympathy in the reason why she did it. I like that about her.
2. There is an author’s forward noting that this book marks her 45th anniversary with Harlequin, with her first book published in 1955. Pretty remarkable and due some applause, though I do snicker gently at some of the dated, mannered language and behaviors juxtaposed with a clear effort to inject more sex into the book.
1. She takes full responsibility for her art forgery crime and her year in prison, and there isn’t too much angling for sympathy in the reason why she did it. I like that about her.
2. There is an author’s forward noting that this book marks her 45th anniversary with Harlequin, with her first book published in 1955. Pretty remarkable and due some applause, though I do snicker gently at some of the dated, mannered language and behaviors juxtaposed with a clear effort to inject more sex into the book.
September 21, 2023
Hmm. Not read anything by AW before. It wasn't awful, you could tell she was a professional, prolific HP writer, but there were odd didactic elements which were a bit jarring. Not that they didn't sometimes give me food for thought. Anyhow, the h, Lucia, leaves prison after serving time for art fraud and is immediately met by the chauffeur driven car of a wealthy ex-magistrate and whisked to a charming country home. It's no wonder these books are so popular, is it? Absolute fairy tales. (I am not being snide). The benefactress, Mrs Calderwood, has painterly aspirations and wishes Lucia to accompany her on painting tours. Her son, wealthy businessman and art collector, Grey (the man against whom her fraud was committed- she was, ofc, raising funds to treat her sick father, now dead) turns up. A battle commences. It isn't really a battle because she is a sweet innocent HP h and he is knocked sideways. There are a couple of kisses which are nicely done and in the end she does succumb, even though they can never be together for all the usual background incompatibility etc. The H tells her he wants to leave business and become a travelling art collector and start a gallery and how could that be suitable for the security that all women want/need [imagine my look to camera]. She nobly sacrifices her need for security in favour of hot sex in exotic locations with a protective rich man who shares her love of art and speaks several languages. My heart bleeds for her.
Would try other AWs on the strength of this.
Would try other AWs on the strength of this.
April 22, 2016
Not bad. The heroine Lucia is an artist and when her father was sick and needed expensive medicines, in her desperation she agreed to do a forgery. The hero Grey had been the target of this. When Lucia gets released from jail, Grey's mother gives her a job as companion. Naturally there is antipathy between them. All their subsequent meetings are tension filled but it doesn't stop the attraction between them.
April 16, 2021
Grey Calderwood was furious to discover that his mother had employed Lucia Graham -- the woman he believed had defrauded him . . .Lucia knew she'd wronged Grey, but she had been desperate to help her father. Thrown together, the atmosphere between her and Grey was explosive -- part antagonism, part burning attraction . . . Could this proud, powerful man ever trust Lucia again, and believe her to be worthy of his love?
May 9, 2023
Once again, I've read an HP book that the potential to be really good but then fell flat. This one could have had so much going for it, but didn't live up to its promise.
It started off good, with the h, Lucia getting out of prison and ready to start over. She was jailed for art forgery, though she was a sort of unwitting accomplice. She told herself her artistic talent was being used for making copies of famous artwork that would be sold as reproductions, when in fact they were being passed off as the real thing. (Her real concern is the money she's be getting, to pay her dad's medical bills, which were skyrocketing.) It worked for a time, but eventually luck ran out, hence her jail sentence. The H, Grey, was one of the people conned, and the one whose testimony got her convicted.
Upon release, she's offered a job working for an elderly woman who wants to take up her old artistic career (halted because her late husband objected), and guess who her son turns out to be???
The rest of the book got to be a yawn. At first, grey resented Lucia, then changed his mind, then began acting mysteriously, seeming to want a relationship with her and yet hesitating. Was it because of her past? Because he still hadn't forgiven her for making him look foolish by purchasing art he thought was genuine? Because he didn't truly care?
When the real reason is revealed it was just so DUMB!!
There are too many inconsistencies, like why, living in a NHS country, Lucia had to worry about medical bills. Also, it's mentioned that Grey's mother used to be a magistrate. So how come her late husband had no problem with that, but balked at her wanting an artistic career? She was focused on outdoor scenes, land and seascapes, it's not like she intended to paint nude men. So what was the problem?
This book was just plain dull. it would have been better if Lucia had changed her name and looks, maybe dyed her hair, cut it in a new style, worn glasses, whatever, and Grey didn't recognize her. Then, later, she wants to tell him the truth, but before she can he finds out for himself, or something like that. Ms. Weale goofed it with this one.
And another thing: what the heck kind of breakfast is cornflakes, orange slices and cheese????
It started off good, with the h, Lucia getting out of prison and ready to start over. She was jailed for art forgery, though she was a sort of unwitting accomplice. She told herself her artistic talent was being used for making copies of famous artwork that would be sold as reproductions, when in fact they were being passed off as the real thing. (Her real concern is the money she's be getting, to pay her dad's medical bills, which were skyrocketing.) It worked for a time, but eventually luck ran out, hence her jail sentence. The H, Grey, was one of the people conned, and the one whose testimony got her convicted.
Upon release, she's offered a job working for an elderly woman who wants to take up her old artistic career (halted because her late husband objected), and guess who her son turns out to be???
The rest of the book got to be a yawn. At first, grey resented Lucia, then changed his mind, then began acting mysteriously, seeming to want a relationship with her and yet hesitating. Was it because of her past? Because he still hadn't forgiven her for making him look foolish by purchasing art he thought was genuine? Because he didn't truly care?
When the real reason is revealed it was just so DUMB!!
There are too many inconsistencies, like why, living in a NHS country, Lucia had to worry about medical bills. Also, it's mentioned that Grey's mother used to be a magistrate. So how come her late husband had no problem with that, but balked at her wanting an artistic career? She was focused on outdoor scenes, land and seascapes, it's not like she intended to paint nude men. So what was the problem?
This book was just plain dull. it would have been better if Lucia had changed her name and looks, maybe dyed her hair, cut it in a new style, worn glasses, whatever, and Grey didn't recognize her. Then, later, she wants to tell him the truth, but before she can he finds out for himself, or something like that. Ms. Weale goofed it with this one.
And another thing: what the heck kind of breakfast is cornflakes, orange slices and cheese????
July 13, 2021
This is different. Lucia forged a drawing that he bought; she had been suspicious that her drawing would be used for fraud against Grey but closed her eyes to it. She went to prison for a year. Fraud victim's mother didn't think the sentence was fair and upon Lucia's release brought her to her stately home to be her painting companion. Grey was furious but also very attracted to Lucia.
This was readable and reasonably good but the romance never felt real. They fell for each other, physically at first and then for real, but didn't know each other very well.
This was readable and reasonably good but the romance never felt real. They fell for each other, physically at first and then for real, but didn't know each other very well.
May 17, 2013
me encanto, es mi típica historia de amor de odio y amor, donde hay miles de cosas reunidas, a veces quería matar a los protagonistas por tercos pero me encanto, y no fue acartonado el final, si termina juntos pero no de la típica forma me lo leí dos veces porque es hermosa la historia
Claro que el titulo en español fue
UN AMOR INDOMABLE
Claro que el titulo en español fue
UN AMOR INDOMABLE
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