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At the Italian's Command
IN THE OFFICE ...
Millionaire businessman Rafael Loro dominates everyone around him. Until plain but determined Sophie Frey is assigned to work with him.
AFTER HOURS ...
Rafael is used to beautiful, well-groomed women who are eager to please him. Sophie's feistiness --- and innocence --- are driving him crazy!
WHO'S IN COMMAND?
Rafael thinks bedding Sophie will end his torture, but soon this simple seduction turns into a real need to possess her --- at any price ...
Millionaire businessman Rafael Loro dominates everyone around him. Until plain but determined Sophie Frey is assigned to work with him.
AFTER HOURS ...
Rafael is used to beautiful, well-groomed women who are eager to please him. Sophie's feistiness --- and innocence --- are driving him crazy!
WHO'S IN COMMAND?
Rafael thinks bedding Sophie will end his torture, but soon this simple seduction turns into a real need to possess her --- at any price ...
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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Cathy Williams
1,303 books200 followersCathy Williams, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is a British author who has written romance novels for Mills & Boon since 1990. She lives in Chiswick, London, with her three daughters and continues to craft engaging, heartfelt love stories.
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April 28, 2020
Nothing extra ordinary!
Their love story felt mediocre at best with an infatuated heroine who already knew the wealthy, arrogant hero from the time they where young as both their mothers were best friends.
When they met again, hero was already in a relationship with ow. Though for the author’s credit neither she did give any importance to the ow nor she made her a villainous shrew. She was just there in the background, sometimes in hero’s head too. That rankled! Especially his reminiscent that 6 months ago he couldn’t get enough of her and now he has lost interest and all that BS.
If anything interesting happened, then it was in second half but that felt a little rushed. No epilogue either.
Their love story felt mediocre at best with an infatuated heroine who already knew the wealthy, arrogant hero from the time they where young as both their mothers were best friends.
When they met again, hero was already in a relationship with ow. Though for the author’s credit neither she did give any importance to the ow nor she made her a villainous shrew. She was just there in the background, sometimes in hero’s head too. That rankled! Especially his reminiscent that 6 months ago he couldn’t get enough of her and now he has lost interest and all that BS.
If anything interesting happened, then it was in second half but that felt a little rushed. No epilogue either.
March 2, 2011
Talk about a race to the finish! Egads, I needed an Epilogue with this one. The declaration of "failed" pregnancy test, declaration of love, proposal, etc. all came in the last few pages of the book.
My head is still spinning.
To get there, however, was a fast and furious, sometimes head thumping ride. I ADORED their meddlesome mothers and the little dinner they planned for them.
Bottom Line: this book was not done for me. I'll check to see if there's a deleted scene or something. Maybe I'll ask Vanessa from the "cheaters board on Amazon" to write me a better ending!
Happy reading.
My head is still spinning.
To get there, however, was a fast and furious, sometimes head thumping ride. I ADORED their meddlesome mothers and the little dinner they planned for them.
Bottom Line: this book was not done for me. I'll check to see if there's a deleted scene or something. Maybe I'll ask Vanessa from the "cheaters board on Amazon" to write me a better ending!
Happy reading.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 26, 2025
Awww 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Old fashioned.
Mobile phone is novelty.
Safer. More comfortable. Happier times.
Covid is unheard of. A bit of flu had by hero is written off as man cold.
The story?
Hero is used to Barbie doll girl friends. They have legs till their armpits and approximately one brain cell.
Heroine and Hero’s mother are good friends.
They send heroine to hero to help write an article. She has to find a tycoon. He is tycoon they all know.
Hero reluctantly agrees.
He finds himself getting interested in the (red haired, freckled) plain heroine who he had earlier never noticed except in passing to tell her to stop staring.
That I didn’t like. That she had the hots for him as a teenager but he thought her drab and bizarrely dressed.
But once he saw her (naked). He was interested. Before that he saw her in a clingy blue dress.
I know. Not perfect.
Yet I still liked it.
It was a comforting story to read. No angst at all.
Old fashioned.
Mobile phone is novelty.
Safer. More comfortable. Happier times.
Covid is unheard of. A bit of flu had by hero is written off as man cold.
The story?
Hero is used to Barbie doll girl friends. They have legs till their armpits and approximately one brain cell.
Heroine and Hero’s mother are good friends.
They send heroine to hero to help write an article. She has to find a tycoon. He is tycoon they all know.
Hero reluctantly agrees.
He finds himself getting interested in the (red haired, freckled) plain heroine who he had earlier never noticed except in passing to tell her to stop staring.
That I didn’t like. That she had the hots for him as a teenager but he thought her drab and bizarrely dressed.
But once he saw her (naked). He was interested. Before that he saw her in a clingy blue dress.
I know. Not perfect.
Yet I still liked it.
It was a comforting story to read. No angst at all.
June 10, 2020
2.5 stars, good banter and family friends to lovers dynamic mixed with a little bit of office romance because sophie writing a piece on rafe for a publication.
January 26, 2021
Ένα αλλιώτικο κορίτσι - Cathy Williams, Σειρά Χρυσά, νούμερο 1290
February 12, 2017
Leído el 06/04/2010
January 5, 2016
Momento favorito!❤
"—¿Estás ahí, Sophie?
—¡Si, ya voy, Claudia|— contestó Sophie indicándole a Rafe que se diera prisa. Rafe había conseguido para entonces ponerse los pantalones y estaba buscando la llave en el bolsillo.
—¡Corre, dame la llave y escóndete en el armario!
—¡No quepo— protestó Rafe
—¡Recurre a tus dotes de contorsionista!
—¿Estás bien?— dijo Claudia desde el otro lado de la puerta.
—¡Sí, sí!— contestó Sophie girándose hacia Rafe de nuevo—.¡La llave!
—La estoy buscando, pero no la encuentro.
Sophie estaba empezando a ponerse nerviosa. ¿Cómo era posible que un hombre tan inteligente como Rafe tardara tanto tiempo en encontrar una llave en un bolsillo.
Exasperada se acercó al montón de ropa que había en el suelo y comenzó a rebuscar.
—¡Aquí esta! —exclamó Rafe triunfal yendo hacia la puerta y abriéndola de par en par."
"—¿Estás ahí, Sophie?
—¡Si, ya voy, Claudia|— contestó Sophie indicándole a Rafe que se diera prisa. Rafe había conseguido para entonces ponerse los pantalones y estaba buscando la llave en el bolsillo.
—¡Corre, dame la llave y escóndete en el armario!
—¡No quepo— protestó Rafe
—¡Recurre a tus dotes de contorsionista!
—¿Estás bien?— dijo Claudia desde el otro lado de la puerta.
—¡Sí, sí!— contestó Sophie girándose hacia Rafe de nuevo—.¡La llave!
—La estoy buscando, pero no la encuentro.
Sophie estaba empezando a ponerse nerviosa. ¿Cómo era posible que un hombre tan inteligente como Rafe tardara tanto tiempo en encontrar una llave en un bolsillo.
Exasperada se acercó al montón de ropa que había en el suelo y comenzó a rebuscar.
—¡Aquí esta! —exclamó Rafe triunfal yendo hacia la puerta y abriéndola de par en par."
October 10, 2014
I think I will read other books by Cathy Williams, but for me the books starts off slow and the ending is always lacking! But I just finish a series from 2006, so maybe this changes as the years go on
August 16, 2008
At The Italian's Command (Harlequin Presents) by Cathy Williams (2006)
January 14, 2011
It was kinda interesting.
March 9, 2013
what the hell was ending????
July 21, 2015
En definitiva, he caído redondita en el tintero de Cathy, sin dudas sus protagonistas masculinos me hacen acordarme de él, con su sentido del humor y en una buena parte por su forma de ser.
January 24, 2012
Definitely what I expected, no substance at all.
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