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Trial by Fire
Preparing a defense against tough prosecutor Jefferson T. Langford, streetwise lawyer Linda Redfield is amazed when she is offered a partnership in his firm, and distressed when he starts taking pleasure in overruling her most intimate objections. Reprint.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 28, 1983
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January 22, 2023
Great story
March 17, 2026
Doreen Malek Owens writing as Faye Morgan. The h and H are both lawyers working in the same firm. H is a silver-spooned blue blood Harvard grad who is the firm’s founding partner’s son, and is quasi-engaged to Miss Blonde Wasp of 1988. On the other hand, h is a young widow who had to expand sweat, blood and tears to achieve her career. He is supremely tacky for going after the heroine while he is dating a long-standing girlfriend and she is the biggest idiot in the world to let him use her like that, as a second-rate mistress. So dumb!
The first night they have sex, the next morning, she reads his engagement notice to Miss Wasp in the newspaper. He half-heartedly mutters it’s a “mistake” even though he confesses he and his girlfriend did “discuss” marriage recently. *eyeroll* He continues to squire Miss Wasp around town even as he surreptitiously makes passes at heroine every chance he gets. She finally succumbs, again, the idjeet!
The second time they have a ONS at a hotel during a work trip, he leaves her the next morning for a date with Miss Wasp. This is after he woke her at 1am to go down to the hotel bar then left her at their table to do some dirty dancing with a random teenage slutbag. He is always acting so hurt and clueless when the heroine reacts adversely to his mixed signals. Although the signals weren’t that mixed after all, his treatment of her is how you treat a booty call, not a woman you love and respect!
The ending was totally implausible. He didn’t love his girlfriend and was just waiting for the heroine to tell him she loved him because he didn’t have the nerve to. Then an old biddy called him and told him the heroine had confessed her love for him. So he shows up on her doorstep on Christmas Eve like a busted up Santa Claus and finally tells her ILY and proposes. Are you kidding me? I know the romance genre is steeped in fantasy but this is ludicrous.
The first night they have sex, the next morning, she reads his engagement notice to Miss Wasp in the newspaper. He half-heartedly mutters it’s a “mistake” even though he confesses he and his girlfriend did “discuss” marriage recently. *eyeroll* He continues to squire Miss Wasp around town even as he surreptitiously makes passes at heroine every chance he gets. She finally succumbs, again, the idjeet!
The second time they have a ONS at a hotel during a work trip, he leaves her the next morning for a date with Miss Wasp. This is after he woke her at 1am to go down to the hotel bar then left her at their table to do some dirty dancing with a random teenage slutbag. He is always acting so hurt and clueless when the heroine reacts adversely to his mixed signals. Although the signals weren’t that mixed after all, his treatment of her is how you treat a booty call, not a woman you love and respect!
The ending was totally implausible. He didn’t love his girlfriend and was just waiting for the heroine to tell him she loved him because he didn’t have the nerve to. Then an old biddy called him and told him the heroine had confessed her love for him. So he shows up on her doorstep on Christmas Eve like a busted up Santa Claus and finally tells her ILY and proposes. Are you kidding me? I know the romance genre is steeped in fantasy but this is ludicrous.
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