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Models & Millionaires #3
Εφήμερο Πάθος - Άρλεκιν Συλλογή #2361
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Δυο μέρες έντονου, απροσδόκητου πάθους με τον πανέμορφο Λυκ Ντικρουά ήταν αρκετές για ν' αρχίσει η Μιράντα να ονειρεύεται κιόλας τα παιδιά που θα έκαναν και τα ονόματα που θα τους έδιναν! Όμως, όπως αποδείχθηκε, για τον Λυκ δεν ήταν παρά μια ασήμαντη περιπετειούλα και η Μιράντα έπρεπε να επιστρέψει σπίτι ... μόνη.
Ύστερα ο Λυκ ήρθε να τη βρει και να της προτείνει ν' αναλάβει τη διακόσμηση του σπιτιού του. Ήταν η δουλειά των ονείρων της! Πως όμως θα μπορούσε να συνεργαστεί τόσο στενά με τον γοητευτικό εκατομμυριούχο που την είχε αντιμετωπίσει σαν μια τυχαία, εφήμερη ερωμένη; Δέχτηκε, λοιπόν, την πρότασή του με έναν όρο. Η σχέση τους θα ήταν καθαρά επαγγελματική! Θα τα κατάφερνε, όμως, να τηρήσει και η ίδια αυτή τη συμφωνία ως το τέλος;
Δυο μέρες έντονου, απροσδόκητου πάθους με τον πανέμορφο Λυκ Ντικρουά ήταν αρκετές για ν' αρχίσει η Μιράντα να ονειρεύεται κιόλας τα παιδιά που θα έκαναν και τα ονόματα που θα τους έδιναν! Όμως, όπως αποδείχθηκε, για τον Λυκ δεν ήταν παρά μια ασήμαντη περιπετειούλα και η Μιράντα έπρεπε να επιστρέψει σπίτι ... μόνη.
Ύστερα ο Λυκ ήρθε να τη βρει και να της προτείνει ν' αναλάβει τη διακόσμηση του σπιτιού του. Ήταν η δουλειά των ονείρων της! Πως όμως θα μπορούσε να συνεργαστεί τόσο στενά με τον γοητευτικό εκατομμυριούχο που την είχε αντιμετωπίσει σαν μια τυχαία, εφήμερη ερωμένη; Δέχτηκε, λοιπόν, την πρότασή του με έναν όρο. Η σχέση τους θα ήταν καθαρά επαγγελματική! Θα τα κατάφερνε, όμως, να τηρήσει και η ίδια αυτή τη συμφωνία ως το τέλος;
160 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2002
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Cathy Williams
1,307 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 21, 2017
Really, since when does a sprained ankle make it difficult to undress yourself? walk, yes, but undress???? Grrrrrr......and I'm only on page 10
DNF. Could not read this tripe
DNF. Could not read this tripe
July 4, 2019
I didn’t like the protagonists.
February 22, 2011
The ending of this book gave me like the biggest warm fuzzy I've had in a long time after reading a book. It took some teeth grinding to get there 'cause this hero and his way of getting the heroine out of his system-IN FRONT OF HER!!!!!!-made me snarl on more than one occasion.
Another GREAT reason to read this book is the chapter just before the Epilogue-it's all there: accusation, redemption, passion, surrender, acceptance, regret, and love. She let him have it, and he accepted her scorn and turned it into the sweetest declaration of love.
I was close to tears the third time I re-read the scene. Of course, I am a big old softie; so, read it yourself and tell me what YOU think.
Another GREAT reason to read this book is the chapter just before the Epilogue-it's all there: accusation, redemption, passion, surrender, acceptance, regret, and love. She let him have it, and he accepted her scorn and turned it into the sweetest declaration of love.
I was close to tears the third time I re-read the scene. Of course, I am a big old softie; so, read it yourself and tell me what YOU think.
May 2, 2013
2.5 stars. I loved the first part of this book when they were snow bound in the cabin. I enjoyed watching them getting to know each other better and liking what they saw after a bad start when the heroine first showed up there. The transformation from snow bound cabin to real life was not as good as I was expecting though. I didn't feel the chemistry after that and the story lost me. I usually like not having the hero's POV in your face because it keeps you guessing, but in this case I think the author needed the hero's POV to keep up the intensity between him and the heroine, but he didn't have a POV. Luckily, I could tell from Kept by the Spanish Billionaire and the first part of this book that Cathy Williams has a lot of potential and I am still looking forward to reading more by her.
March 20, 2015
Lets just say I facepalmed alot...
June 24, 2015
While skiing, Miranda sprains an ankle and ends up snowbound in the cabin of Luke Decroix. After a few passionate days with who she thinks is the caretaker, Miranda goes back to London - and is shocked when her one-weekend-stand turns out to be a millionaire, and shows up and offers her a job!
It took me nearly a week to read this book, which says a lot, considering that I can easily go through a couple of these books in a day. I was hoping that I'd enjoy it a lot, because I really like snowbound-type stories, but I found both hero and heroine impossible to stand. Miranda was a spoilt, self-absorbed, entitled brat, and Luke was arrogant, brutal, unbending and cruel. I really can't say much more about the book - it took me so long to read, I've forgotten most of what thin plot there was. In any case, it was a slog to get through, and by the end I didn't care whether hero and heroine got their happy ending - although I thought they probably deserved each other. This one's definitely going in the to-donate pile. 1 - 1.5 stars.
It took me nearly a week to read this book, which says a lot, considering that I can easily go through a couple of these books in a day. I was hoping that I'd enjoy it a lot, because I really like snowbound-type stories, but I found both hero and heroine impossible to stand. Miranda was a spoilt, self-absorbed, entitled brat, and Luke was arrogant, brutal, unbending and cruel. I really can't say much more about the book - it took me so long to read, I've forgotten most of what thin plot there was. In any case, it was a slog to get through, and by the end I didn't care whether hero and heroine got their happy ending - although I thought they probably deserved each other. This one's definitely going in the to-donate pile. 1 - 1.5 stars.
July 6, 2022
In the beginning of the book the H pretends that he is a poor man and that he doesn’t know her dad. In reality he is rich and he is her dad’s business partner.
What I like the most, is that he had to work hard for her forgiveness. He had to pursue her.
The h in this book is different from many other h’s. Because she didn’t lie, she wasn’t a doormat, she wasn’t annoying, she didn’t get oopsie-pregnant and she didn’t immediately forgive him. She’s cool.
The steamy scenes are good and he is a wonderful, determined, smitten H. The h is not a virgin by the way.
I have kept this book. This book is one of my favourite HP’s.
What I like the most, is that he had to work hard for her forgiveness. He had to pursue her.
The h in this book is different from many other h’s. Because she didn’t lie, she wasn’t a doormat, she wasn’t annoying, she didn’t get oopsie-pregnant and she didn’t immediately forgive him. She’s cool.
The steamy scenes are good and he is a wonderful, determined, smitten H. The h is not a virgin by the way.
I have kept this book. This book is one of my favourite HP’s.
December 11, 2012
Oh my... this book totally enters in the "pwp" category. Awful.
January 31, 2025
My first complaint is the title. How is this in anyway about a mistress. A rich girl has a fling with a guy she doesn't even know is rich for one day and then spends the rest of the book being his interior designer...
spoiled rich girls skis away from her lodge in a huff (she actually has a good reason so I don't judge her for this) get's injured when she tries to escape and avelance and ends up tripping on something in the snow during the blizzard that blew up. Again all not her fault and she does her best. But when she stumbles on a cabin and drags her self to the door, things start to go downhill. He entitlement comes out in spades as she is outraged by his every word and action, she also automatically assumes he must be just an itinerate caretaker who wanders around to various short term-odd jobs because he wearing worn out clothes.
She's quite snippy with him in most of the conversations we read between them and he's pretty disparaging of her, mostly with reason considering to save herself the embarrassment of admitting certain things about herself she leans into the playgirl heiress persona, even more than usual. I don't see how he can actually be very interested in her since she acts so childishly. She even recognizes that she is but is still offered when he responds to that as he should.
When they meet again in London she behaves very badly toward him making all kinds of crazy assumtions as to why he's there, and when she understands he's actually a very successful businessman he behaves even more childishly extremely outrages that he lied to her and so on.
Mostly he behaves with a lot of restraint but near the end he does some pretty boorish things as well. They both could have done a lot better if they'd just talked to each other rather than making crazy assumptions about the other's motivations. Not one I would have picked it was part o a 3-book bundle that I'd picked up so read it too but it was touch and go for a DNF
spoiled rich girls skis away from her lodge in a huff (she actually has a good reason so I don't judge her for this) get's injured when she tries to escape and avelance and ends up tripping on something in the snow during the blizzard that blew up. Again all not her fault and she does her best. But when she stumbles on a cabin and drags her self to the door, things start to go downhill. He entitlement comes out in spades as she is outraged by his every word and action, she also automatically assumes he must be just an itinerate caretaker who wanders around to various short term-odd jobs because he wearing worn out clothes.
She's quite snippy with him in most of the conversations we read between them and he's pretty disparaging of her, mostly with reason considering to save herself the embarrassment of admitting certain things about herself she leans into the playgirl heiress persona, even more than usual. I don't see how he can actually be very interested in her since she acts so childishly. She even recognizes that she is but is still offered when he responds to that as he should.
When they meet again in London she behaves very badly toward him making all kinds of crazy assumtions as to why he's there, and when she understands he's actually a very successful businessman he behaves even more childishly extremely outrages that he lied to her and so on.
Mostly he behaves with a lot of restraint but near the end he does some pretty boorish things as well. They both could have done a lot better if they'd just talked to each other rather than making crazy assumptions about the other's motivations. Not one I would have picked it was part o a 3-book bundle that I'd picked up so read it too but it was touch and go for a DNF
December 10, 2017
روايات احلام
287 -كذبة العاشق:
كاتي ويليامز
تعرفت ميرندا إلى لوك في يوم عاصف حيث دفعت بها الثلوج إلى كوخه بسبب إصابة في ساقها .
وفي بيته واجهت عاصفة أشد.
ـ إذا كنت تظنين أنك ستلعبين دور الأميرة خلال الأيام القادمة فأنت مخطئة ... لأنني لن احتمل تضييع الوقت على نوبات غضب فتاة صغيرة مدلله!
ـ لماذا أنت عدائي هكذا ؟ مجرد عدم امتلاكك المال لا يجعلني أنا مخطئةلكن عدائيته لم تعد هي المشكلة بل مشاعرها. فمع مرور الوقت أخذ قلبها يزداد جموحا نحوه فهل تقبل أن تضيع مشاعرها وهي تعرف أنها حين ستترك هذا المكان سيكون قد خرج من حياتها إلى الأبد ولن يبقى سوى الذكريات والألم ؟
287 -كذبة العاشق:
كاتي ويليامز
تعرفت ميرندا إلى لوك في يوم عاصف حيث دفعت بها الثلوج إلى كوخه بسبب إصابة في ساقها .
وفي بيته واجهت عاصفة أشد.
ـ إذا كنت تظنين أنك ستلعبين دور الأميرة خلال الأيام القادمة فأنت مخطئة ... لأنني لن احتمل تضييع الوقت على نوبات غضب فتاة صغيرة مدلله!
ـ لماذا أنت عدائي هكذا ؟ مجرد عدم امتلاكك المال لا يجعلني أنا مخطئةلكن عدائيته لم تعد هي المشكلة بل مشاعرها. فمع مرور الوقت أخذ قلبها يزداد جموحا نحوه فهل تقبل أن تضيع مشاعرها وهي تعرف أنها حين ستترك هذا المكان سيكون قد خرج من حياتها إلى الأبد ولن يبقى سوى الذكريات والألم ؟
July 24, 2017
Very good. Even produced a few tears :-)
February 16, 2025
Paradijs in de sneeuw
December 22, 2016
Éstos dos, son un caso serio
April 18, 2015
Miranda's a spoilt rich girl and this makes it so challenging to read, but makes her so real at the same time. Despite her coming to some sort of realisation that she doesn't want to continue wasting money with her 'friends' born into wealth like she was, she is reluctant to shoulder the responsibility of hard work for fear of rejection, and that her self-worth would have to be based on something else other than her looks and money. A tedious read, both main characters are hard to identify with in general.
August 2, 2013
2.5 stars
March 18, 2015
I would have liked this more if Miranda had not been as spoiled and bitchy. Luke had more patience for her behavior than I would have thought for someone his age.
February 19, 2019
البطل رجل سيء الخلق و غير مهذب مع النساء و من النوع الذي يطلق احكام على الاخرين من اللقاء الاول
و البطلة فتاة حمقاء مدللة و كسولة بالاضافة لكونها ضعيفة الشخصية
و البطلة فتاة حمقاء مدللة و كسولة بالاضافة لكونها ضعيفة الشخصية
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