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Was being rescued worth the price?
Giles Randolph wasn't exactly Eliza's idea of a knight in shining armor. But he had saved her from a very awkward situation. And considering what had happened the last time they'd met, when she'd completely humiliated him, his help was the last thing she would have expected.
Unfortunately he wasn't above making her pay for his assistance. And since he wasn't about to forget their past or their present, she was forced to agree to his price....
Giles Randolph wasn't exactly Eliza's idea of a knight in shining armor. But he had saved her from a very awkward situation. And considering what had happened the last time they'd met, when she'd completely humiliated him, his help was the last thing she would have expected.
Unfortunately he wasn't above making her pay for his assistance. And since he wasn't about to forget their past or their present, she was forced to agree to his price....
- GenresHarlequin RomanceRomance
Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1993
About the author
Catherine George
445 books73 followersDeirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
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January 10, 2025
Everyone was pretty much horrible in this one. Yet, you can feast your eyes on fantastic eighties fashion like the wine-red jacket combined with white trousers and black silk cravat tucked into an aquamarine shirt (OM); a yellow and white striped shirt underneath a cobalt blue sweater (hero); or a sequined, chiffon, pink evening gown with a lot of decolletage (heroine).
Heroine is the “good” twin sister to a vapid, insensitive, lying twit, “evil” twin sister. Some years ago, heroine had a crush on their older brother’s best friend. The evil twin tried to seduce him just to hurt her sister. He rejected her advances so she revenged herself by pretending that Hero had attempted to rape her. The whole story is about how, years later, the hero and heroine try to untangle the mess the evil twin has created.
It would have been fine if hero and heroine were more likable or if the evil twin got her comeuppance but sadly, that didn't happen. Instead, we get a long bickerfest, and multiple attempted rapes that, according to Harlequin logic, the heroine is responsible for because she dresses so provocatively, yes, even when she is wearing a paint splattered jumpsuit with a suggestive zipper down the front. *face palm*
Heroine is the “good” twin sister to a vapid, insensitive, lying twit, “evil” twin sister. Some years ago, heroine had a crush on their older brother’s best friend. The evil twin tried to seduce him just to hurt her sister. He rejected her advances so she revenged herself by pretending that Hero had attempted to rape her. The whole story is about how, years later, the hero and heroine try to untangle the mess the evil twin has created.
It would have been fine if hero and heroine were more likable or if the evil twin got her comeuppance but sadly, that didn't happen. Instead, we get a long bickerfest, and multiple attempted rapes that, according to Harlequin logic, the heroine is responsible for because she dresses so provocatively, yes, even when she is wearing a paint splattered jumpsuit with a suggestive zipper down the front. *face palm*
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August 28, 2022Was being rescued worth the price?
Giles Randolph wasn't exactly Eliza's idea of a knight in shining armor. But he had saved her from a very awkward situation. And considering what had happened the last time they'd met, when she'd completely humiliated him, his help was the last thing she would have expected.
Unfortunately he wasn't above making her pay for his assistance. And since he wasn't about to forget their past or their present, she was forced to agree to his price.
Giles Randolph wasn't exactly Eliza's idea of a knight in shining armor. But he had saved her from a very awkward situation. And considering what had happened the last time they'd met, when she'd completely humiliated him, his help was the last thing she would have expected.
Unfortunately he wasn't above making her pay for his assistance. And since he wasn't about to forget their past or their present, she was forced to agree to his price.
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