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Pride's Master
Gerry's pride was almost her downfall
Gerry Barton, determined to earn a living for herself, her widowed sister and her twin baby nieces, had taken on an impossible task. Stubbornly, she refused to admit it.
When she finally collapsed, her wealthy young boss, Crawford Arrowsmith, insisted on helping her. Gerry's pride wouldn't let her accept his kindness--especially since she knew that she'd fallen in love with him.
Crawford was the answer to all her dreams, but she didn't want his charity--she wanted his love!
Gerry Barton, determined to earn a living for herself, her widowed sister and her twin baby nieces, had taken on an impossible task. Stubbornly, she refused to admit it.
When she finally collapsed, her wealthy young boss, Crawford Arrowsmith, insisted on helping her. Gerry's pride wouldn't let her accept his kindness--especially since she knew that she'd fallen in love with him.
Crawford was the answer to all her dreams, but she didn't want his charity--she wanted his love!
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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Jessica Steele
339 books113 followersJessica Steele was born on May 9, 1933 in the elegant Warwickshire town of Royal Leamington Spa. She has two super brothers, Colin and George, and a lovely sister, Elizabeth. She was a delicate child and missed a lot of school. In fact, she left school at aged 14, when she was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. At 16, she started work as a junior clerk. In 1967, Jessica married with her husband, Peter and within a very short space of time they had moved from her hometown to the lovely area where they now live. Their house is built into the side of a hill, and has beautiful views over more hills and valleys. Her brothers and her sister are very close and she has plenty of nephews and nieces to make up for the fact that she and her husband have no children of their own. Both she and her husband are more than a little dog-oriented, and their current dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier named Florence. Florence is gorgeous. She loves everybody but, since she is 40 pounds of dynamite and would hurl her boisterous self at everyone she meets - given half a chance - she has to be restrained (as much as possible). She is fun.
Her husband spurred Jessica on to her writing career, giving her every support while she did what she considers her five-year apprenticeship (the rejection years) while learning how to write. She published her first books in 1979. Jessica has tried using a typewriter, but it just doesn't work for her. She is much happier writing in longhand, and in actual fact has a dozen or so fountain pens filled and ready to go at the start of any one session. A friend has a secretarial agency and, after deciphering Jessica's writing, returns an immaculately typed manuscript. To gain authentic background for her books, she has travelled and researched in Greece, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
Her husband spurred Jessica on to her writing career, giving her every support while she did what she considers her five-year apprenticeship (the rejection years) while learning how to write. She published her first books in 1979. Jessica has tried using a typewriter, but it just doesn't work for her. She is much happier writing in longhand, and in actual fact has a dozen or so fountain pens filled and ready to go at the start of any one session. A friend has a secretarial agency and, after deciphering Jessica's writing, returns an immaculately typed manuscript. To gain authentic background for her books, she has travelled and researched in Greece, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
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January 26, 2021
Jessica Steele's one of my favourites vintage Harlequin authors and even though I'm not too fond of a handful of her books, I never thought the day would come when I'd be giving her a 1 star rating. But I have to agree with Naksed on this one.
Usually, even at her worst, Jessica Steele still manages to entertain me. But this specific novel, was absolutely infuriating.
The sole reason for this is the heroine. She's the worst combination of martyr and pathological altruist, who slaves after her awful, narcissistic, parasitic, useless and selfish widowed sister.
The sister, Teddy, is widowed with 2 small daughters and she spends all her time wallowing in her victimhood. There are points in the story where she seems to enjoy having the heroine slave after her and she loves playing the useless, fragile female around men.
Gerry, the heroine, has no extra money because she has to pay her sister's bills. What's worse is the fact that Gerry has to literally do all the housework and babysitting, when she's done with her own day job, because the parasitic sister is too selfish to help out during the daytime.
And if this isn't eye-rollingly infuriating enough, there's the big cherry on top of this sickly sundae: the heroine is too much of a proud, selfless martyr to realize that her sister is a leeching mooch of a bitch.
The nice, long suffering H, has noticed that the heroine ( his employee ) is always tired and looks like she's about to have a nervous breakdown, and wants to help:
"You little fool — you absolute idiot!"
Crawford's voice rose in anger as he continued.
"Why the hell couldn't you tell me what things were like at home? Are you so pigheaded, so full of pride, that you'd rather kill yourself than let anyone give you a helping hand?"
The heroine's pitiful, self righteous and sanctimonious, lame-brained response:
"Teddy and I can manage quite well without your interference," Gerry flashed back, her temper getting out of hand.
In vintage Harleyland, it's hard to find a good, besotted H who's nice, from the beginning of the story and this silly heroine does everything in her power to drive him away.
This is the H, Crawford, and the heroine Gerry:
Pride's not a negative trait, by itself. In many instances, it's nice to have some pride. But there are instances where Pride becomes an almost deadly sin and that's the case with this ludicrous heroine. She took Pride to the extremest, negative level.
Recently, I've been binge watching all 692 episodes ( for the 3rd or 4th time ) of an old 80's Australian TV series, I discovered a few years ago. It's titled Prisoner, Cell Block H.
Anyway, there's a point to my digression.
In this TV series, there's a prisoner named Noeline Burke who keeps ending up in jail because she refuses to go on the Dole and accept social welfare. She's too proud. The entire Burke family, of thieves, is too proud. Noeline says that it's shameful to accept welfare because that's charity and Burke's have too much pride to accept charity.
Sooooo, since jobs are hard to get during the recession, Noeline thinks it's better to steal...
Noeline Burke from Prisoner, Cell Block H:
I didn't think that anyone would allow Pride to make them behave in such a nonsensically stupid manner as Noeline Burke, until I remembered this heroine, Gerry.
She's so blind to her sister's machinations, that she doesn't even know that the latter's been milking money from the H, while she herself was bedridden with exhaustion and illness !
‘It’s all right for you,’ Teddy came back, aggressive in defence. ‘You don’t mind how you look—but I wanted to look nice for Paul. I’m fed up with wearing rag-bag dresses. I’m fed up with never having any money for extras. When Crawford said I could have the money ...’
‘You didn’t ask him for it?’ Gerry’s eyes flew to her sister.
‘Of course I didn’t,’ Teddy snapped, her tears forgotten. ‘We chatted often while you were ill, and I told him we were always broke, how we never had anything new.’
Only idiots will fall for this leeching bitch's play-acting and I'm convinced that both MC's are morons because they can't see her for what she is.
This is the heroine's parasitic-narcissist sister, Teddy:
I could've have given this novel a higher rating but the parasitic narcissist over-powered the storyline, got zero comeuppance and managed to get herself a brand new husband to mooch off too. However, I suppose that might not be so bad because she'd have continued to mooch off the MC's for the rest of her life.
There are a couple of positive points, like:
1. A besotted H who's jealous when he thinks that *Teddy* is the heroine's lover, instead of her sister.
2. A caring, protective and supportive H.
But even he wasn't enough to salvage this wreck from the ravages of the heroine and her soul destroying egotistical sister.
In all fairness, though, I think this is Jessica Steele's 5th novel, so she can be forgiven for not getting it right during her early period. I'd have been happy to give this 5 stars if Teddy had gone out camping at Camp Crystal Lake and waltzed in the moonlight with Jason Voorhees...or stayed in the UK and sleepwalked in front of a speeding bus...or died from pneumonia. *Sigh*
It's also interesting that this heroine, is the opposite of modern day HPlandia martyrs, because the current type tend to snap up any and all ( usually quid pro quo ) offers of help from billionaire heroes.
Safety: No sex and no cheating.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 29, 2017
A pretty great hero but I couldn't stomach the martyr, prideful, TSTL heroine. The book lacked a very needed confrontation between the heroine and her abusive, user, leech, amoral, nightmare of a sister, and go back in time also to resolve the lingering issues of their father's cruel favoritism of one sibling over another, and brainwashing of the heroine like a Manchurian candidate to become her sister's lifelong keeper.
Instead, the author resolved the dilemma by having the parasitic sister leech on to another host, her soon-to-be second husband, without owning up to any of her toxic personality traits that would undoubtedly wreck her life a few years down the line, only to end up at square one, on the heroine's doorstep.
The hero, instead of pushing the heroine to better herself, stop being such a doormat, and set healthy boundaries with her parasite, became just another enabler, promising the heroine a lifetime of financial and emotional support not for her but for the parasite!!!...if the heroine would agree to marry him.
I did not feel true love between two mature, emotionally healthy people, when their HE A is conditioned upon the feeding of a cancerous, parasitic tumor in the person of the heroine's sister, for the entirety of their lives. And it wouldn't surprise me that the heroine would keep putting her sister and niece's needs ahead of herself, her husband and their very own, future children, spelling doom for her marriage and family.
This one made me MAD!!!
Instead, the author resolved the dilemma by having the parasitic sister leech on to another host, her soon-to-be second husband, without owning up to any of her toxic personality traits that would undoubtedly wreck her life a few years down the line, only to end up at square one, on the heroine's doorstep.
The hero, instead of pushing the heroine to better herself, stop being such a doormat, and set healthy boundaries with her parasite, became just another enabler, promising the heroine a lifetime of financial and emotional support not for her but for the parasite!!!...if the heroine would agree to marry him.
I did not feel true love between two mature, emotionally healthy people, when their HE A is conditioned upon the feeding of a cancerous, parasitic tumor in the person of the heroine's sister, for the entirety of their lives. And it wouldn't surprise me that the heroine would keep putting her sister and niece's needs ahead of herself, her husband and their very own, future children, spelling doom for her marriage and family.
This one made me MAD!!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 6, 2015
3.5 stars
Enjoyable quick read. The heroine was a sweetie, but the sister tended to get on my nerves. I love these older Jessica Steele books. They're a bit formulaic, but they work. She has a way of building great chemistry between H/h.
If you like vintage Harlequins, this one should work.
Enjoyable quick read. The heroine was a sweetie, but the sister tended to get on my nerves. I love these older Jessica Steele books. They're a bit formulaic, but they work. She has a way of building great chemistry between H/h.
If you like vintage Harlequins, this one should work.
December 2, 2012
I rarely read Harlequin Romance, but Jessica Steele is on auto buy for me. This author can create sexual tension! She creates British heroes that remind me of Cary Grant. They are alpha yet sophisticated and debonaire. Always shrewd, fairly cynical, possessive, protective, and passionate. But first, they put the gal through the wringer, because they suspect them of some misdeed. When they realize how wrong they were, it's no holds barred to get the girl, often by sweating it out and groveling. Even better, they fall in love even thinking the worst about her.
Jessica Steele writes Harlequin Romances and some Hqn Presents. She is now about 80 years old, sad to say. Steele is one of the worst writers, in terms of syntax, grammar, etc. Her sentence construction is ... unusual. But IMO, she is among the best at Hqn in terms of storytelling and sexual tension. Her heroines are virgins, and the wanting drives the heroes nuts.
Jessica Steele writes Harlequin Romances and some Hqn Presents. She is now about 80 years old, sad to say. Steele is one of the worst writers, in terms of syntax, grammar, etc. Her sentence construction is ... unusual. But IMO, she is among the best at Hqn in terms of storytelling and sexual tension. Her heroines are virgins, and the wanting drives the heroes nuts.
January 3, 2016
This is an OK read. I generally like office romances in vintage setting but somehow I found the H really rude and overbearing sometimes. His whole attitude of not accepting back the money from h by shaking her, grabbing her hard or calling her a bitch was idiotic.
There is a near rape scene in this as well which leaves the h shaken but within 15 mins of this she accepts his marriage proposal.
This is not one of Jessica Steele's best.
There is a near rape scene in this as well which leaves the h shaken but within 15 mins of this she accepts his marriage proposal.
This is not one of Jessica Steele's best.
August 25, 2023
cw: threat of poverty, poor diet, overworking, poor health, Harlequin Presents typical chauvinism
The heroine really needed to get a grip and run the hero his money’s worth. Like ma’am, pls eat the rich. They’re delicious! It was still good though. That scene where she comes inside the hero’s office to do her secretarial duties, sees that he’s on the phone so she attempts to just leave the documents on his desk, but he stops her when she crosses him by holding on to her arm…and he never even stops his conversation or even looks at her while he does had me giggling and kicking my feet. It’s truly the minuscule things that I go feral over.
The heroine really needed to get a grip and run the hero his money’s worth. Like ma’am, pls eat the rich. They’re delicious! It was still good though. That scene where she comes inside the hero’s office to do her secretarial duties, sees that he’s on the phone so she attempts to just leave the documents on his desk, but he stops her when she crosses him by holding on to her arm…and he never even stops his conversation or even looks at her while he does had me giggling and kicking my feet. It’s truly the minuscule things that I go feral over.
October 31, 2021
An early Steele, and it shows. Both in the elements she'll handle far more deftly as her writing strengthens and in where this one super duper clunks.
Not good. Not even really a Lesser Steele. I think this is the least of hers I've ever read. I waited for it to hit its stride or at least tie its shoes and quit tripping everywhere, but, no good on that. My attention kept straying, and I wondered if that was because I've read so many JSs in a row, but hm no. It's because this one is bad.
JS often relied on family members to hinder the heroine somehow. As entanglements, burdens, or figures to shade her negatively in the hero's eyes. But once her family meets that purpose, they're generally either given enough redemption you can move on, or they're satisfactorily dealt with by the ruthless protective anger of the hero.
In this book, the hindrance of a family member--the heroine's twin sister--gets almost as happy an ending as the heroine... and why? There's no earning it, no reason for it, no insight I can offer for why the temporary GP wants to date/marry her other than it "takes her off the worrying heroine's hands" plot device. Which, eeeeh. For a while I was working to accept she was being rehabilitated but nope, she's whiny and toxic and sly to the very last, and I guess we're supposed to simply forgive or forget that.
The hindrance takes up so much space there's almost none left for the heroine--or the long-suffering and desperate to help hero. So, so much room in fact that there's not even a Final Chapter Grovel! Even with the hindrance as the -reason- for the Grovel to be set into motion. Unacceptable! [lol, but also, unacceptable.] Perhaps we can attribute this to being early days yet and JS hadn't hit on that as her writing raison d'etre -- but I'm gonna blame the heroine-and-plot-sucking leech twin sister.
We're even supposed to take the hero being willing to accept the burden of the hindrance as showing how much more worthy he was than anyone else and, bleh. One, it didn't work with the elements we're given, not like this is a meddling widowed mom who gets shipped off to a nice cottage somewhere or a grandma who needs assisted living; two, wow lucky days continue for the hindrance; and three, it mostly just underscored he had money and desperation enough to clear it away from between him and the heroine.
The hero's motivations aren't as nuanced and 'known' as JS figures out how to convey in later books either, something that makes reading JS worth the doing and her books all the richer. [In a review I wrote earlier this week I called it JS' "hero rosetta stone" and now I'm disappointed in myself for not -immediately- thinking to call it the Stela.]
We must presume trust that he's wanting to help, rescue, take the heroine away, but it's hardly shown. I mean, *he's* hardly shown. And he's so push-pull / hot-cold when he is, including his urbane unbidden sexual comments with a quick switchback into her welfare, it's fair to accept the heroine is confused by him. Toss in that JS followed the ~pushed so far welp, sexual noncon~ trope of the time, and for all I liked him best in the mess of everything happening, he still wasn't great.
And the heroine just doesn't quite rise to the level of earning rescue. There's moments--glimmers of better JS heroines--but she's too ridiculous to empathize with or really root for. I don't know why the hero wants her, aside being impressed with all she managed to juggle before unraveling completely. (And possibly feeling guilty for adding to it due to early-days jealousy and misapprehensions, not the best foundation, there.)
No one got any wins, victories, challenges overcome. No one much bonded or had the chance to fall in love, or even the no-knowing-why-simply-compulsion-love dynamic that JS used in several books. No one is very different or stronger or made better from how they started by having one another. Something of a tired sigh with a mild eyeroll read.
// I also kept thinking of a book I like sooooooo much more, a Betty Neels (<3! betty), wherein the heroine is similarly run ragged dealing with an absent older sister, temporarily watching the older sister's kids, as well as a terrible rat of a younger sister--meanwhile the hero cuts her down with contempt over various misunderstandings, learns the whole of the situation, and rescues her. Wonderfully.
Not good. Not even really a Lesser Steele. I think this is the least of hers I've ever read. I waited for it to hit its stride or at least tie its shoes and quit tripping everywhere, but, no good on that. My attention kept straying, and I wondered if that was because I've read so many JSs in a row, but hm no. It's because this one is bad.
JS often relied on family members to hinder the heroine somehow. As entanglements, burdens, or figures to shade her negatively in the hero's eyes. But once her family meets that purpose, they're generally either given enough redemption you can move on, or they're satisfactorily dealt with by the ruthless protective anger of the hero.
In this book, the hindrance of a family member--the heroine's twin sister--gets almost as happy an ending as the heroine... and why? There's no earning it, no reason for it, no insight I can offer for why the temporary GP wants to date/marry her other than it "takes her off the worrying heroine's hands" plot device. Which, eeeeh. For a while I was working to accept she was being rehabilitated but nope, she's whiny and toxic and sly to the very last, and I guess we're supposed to simply forgive or forget that.
The hindrance takes up so much space there's almost none left for the heroine--or the long-suffering and desperate to help hero. So, so much room in fact that there's not even a Final Chapter Grovel! Even with the hindrance as the -reason- for the Grovel to be set into motion. Unacceptable! [lol, but also, unacceptable.] Perhaps we can attribute this to being early days yet and JS hadn't hit on that as her writing raison d'etre -- but I'm gonna blame the heroine-and-plot-sucking leech twin sister.
We're even supposed to take the hero being willing to accept the burden of the hindrance as showing how much more worthy he was than anyone else and, bleh. One, it didn't work with the elements we're given, not like this is a meddling widowed mom who gets shipped off to a nice cottage somewhere or a grandma who needs assisted living; two, wow lucky days continue for the hindrance; and three, it mostly just underscored he had money and desperation enough to clear it away from between him and the heroine.
The hero's motivations aren't as nuanced and 'known' as JS figures out how to convey in later books either, something that makes reading JS worth the doing and her books all the richer. [In a review I wrote earlier this week I called it JS' "hero rosetta stone" and now I'm disappointed in myself for not -immediately- thinking to call it the Stela.]
We must presume trust that he's wanting to help, rescue, take the heroine away, but it's hardly shown. I mean, *he's* hardly shown. And he's so push-pull / hot-cold when he is, including his urbane unbidden sexual comments with a quick switchback into her welfare, it's fair to accept the heroine is confused by him. Toss in that JS followed the ~pushed so far welp, sexual noncon~ trope of the time, and for all I liked him best in the mess of everything happening, he still wasn't great.
And the heroine just doesn't quite rise to the level of earning rescue. There's moments--glimmers of better JS heroines--but she's too ridiculous to empathize with or really root for. I don't know why the hero wants her, aside being impressed with all she managed to juggle before unraveling completely. (And possibly feeling guilty for adding to it due to early-days jealousy and misapprehensions, not the best foundation, there.)
No one got any wins, victories, challenges overcome. No one much bonded or had the chance to fall in love, or even the no-knowing-why-simply-compulsion-love dynamic that JS used in several books. No one is very different or stronger or made better from how they started by having one another. Something of a tired sigh with a mild eyeroll read.
// I also kept thinking of a book I like sooooooo much more, a Betty Neels (<3! betty), wherein the heroine is similarly run ragged dealing with an absent older sister, temporarily watching the older sister's kids, as well as a terrible rat of a younger sister--meanwhile the hero cuts her down with contempt over various misunderstandings, learns the whole of the situation, and rescues her. Wonderfully.
May 16, 2024
3.5
The title should be: The Doormat Sister or the Spoilt LEECH Selfish Bitch Sister.
The h had no pride regarding to her sister. Even when she broke down and if she died she still thought the selfish bitch not herself. The h could have an accident the 3 days that she drove to and back from London.
I don't know how she can be angry with the H when he always said the truth and tried to help her instead of getting angry at the bitch. She didn't like it when the H said she was a doormat to some man, even she acknowledge if it is for a man she was a doormat but to her sister NEVER.
The h was always a second best to her parents and to the husband of her sister, the deceased had asked her to marry him first. I'm pretty sure that the bitch sister stole him from her and if not for the doctor, she would had tried to stole the H from her two. She is a selfish two-timing bitch that didn't deserve the h as a sister or maybe the h deserve IT if she is stupid enough to do everything for the bitch. I'm pretty sure she would leave the H for her bitch sister OR WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE THE LEECH OVER THE H. I don't know how the doctor had fallen at first sight at the bitch knowing that who needed help is the heroine.
The bitch wouldn't even care if her sister died of accident or breakdown, she would only care if she would have not more a slave to her.
And the stupid heroine still think the world of the bitch just because after she fainted the bitch had not other option than try to help her and even that I'm pretty she only did that because of the H and the doctor so they cannot see that she was a amoral selfish bitch.
I'm pretty sure even if the doctor found that the bitch used the money that the H gave to her, he would still be in love with her and would have marry her. This kind of useless and selfish cows always gets the better of all. The sister is a total SELFISH LEECH.
The title should be: The Doormat Sister or the Spoilt LEECH Selfish Bitch Sister.
The h had no pride regarding to her sister. Even when she broke down and if she died she still thought the selfish bitch not herself. The h could have an accident the 3 days that she drove to and back from London.
I don't know how she can be angry with the H when he always said the truth and tried to help her instead of getting angry at the bitch. She didn't like it when the H said she was a doormat to some man, even she acknowledge if it is for a man she was a doormat but to her sister NEVER.
The h was always a second best to her parents and to the husband of her sister, the deceased had asked her to marry him first. I'm pretty sure that the bitch sister stole him from her and if not for the doctor, she would had tried to stole the H from her two. She is a selfish two-timing bitch that didn't deserve the h as a sister or maybe the h deserve IT if she is stupid enough to do everything for the bitch. I'm pretty sure she would leave the H for her bitch sister OR WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE THE LEECH OVER THE H. I don't know how the doctor had fallen at first sight at the bitch knowing that who needed help is the heroine.
The bitch wouldn't even care if her sister died of accident or breakdown, she would only care if she would have not more a slave to her.
And the stupid heroine still think the world of the bitch just because after she fainted the bitch had not other option than try to help her and even that I'm pretty she only did that because of the H and the doctor so they cannot see that she was a amoral selfish bitch.
I'm pretty sure even if the doctor found that the bitch used the money that the H gave to her, he would still be in love with her and would have marry her. This kind of useless and selfish cows always gets the better of all. The sister is a total SELFISH LEECH.
March 28, 2025
It's not terrible, just dull - and that is because the heroine is so so so so SO dull. I didn't gel with her at all. That she got sick looking after her sister and nieces and working a job is a real push - lots of people manage it. She just had to give the sister a boot up the backside and get her to catch a grip.
The hero never really tries to engage the heroine. They needed to have some time not in the office, not sick, not talking about how fragile she is/how demanding Teddy is.
But essentially the hero was wasted on a drip of a heroine. I kept hoping the hero had a dog called Pride - it would have been cuter.
2 1/2 stars.
The hero never really tries to engage the heroine. They needed to have some time not in the office, not sick, not talking about how fragile she is/how demanding Teddy is.
But essentially the hero was wasted on a drip of a heroine. I kept hoping the hero had a dog called Pride - it would have been cuter.
2 1/2 stars.
August 4, 2021
Although I love Jessica Steele’s books this one seemed to drag on and I couldn’t stand how frustratingly selfish Teddy was or how dim witted and full of pride the main character Gerry was I also found Crawford to be extremely pushy with his attempts to seduce her into love as well as force her into giving information about herself she didn’t want to give I finished it just to see how these characters end up but I won’t be re-reading this one it simply dated for me.
August 11, 2018
Sometimes i enjoy the older books more than the newer ones.
October 20, 2019
One of the first romance novels I read that I hated it when it ended. Considering how many books I’ve read throughout my life, that’s saying ALOT!
March 11, 2024
Gerry's pride was almost her downfall
Gerry Barton, determined to earn a living for herself, her widowed sister and her twin baby nieces, had taken on an impossible task. Stubbornly, she refused to admit it.
When she finally collapsed, her wealthy young boss, Crawford Arrowsmith, insisted on helping her. Gerry's pride wouldn't let her accept his kindness--especially since she knew that she'd fallen in love with him.
Crawford was the answer to all her dreams, but she didn't want his charity--she wanted his love!
Gerry Barton, determined to earn a living for herself, her widowed sister and her twin baby nieces, had taken on an impossible task. Stubbornly, she refused to admit it.
When she finally collapsed, her wealthy young boss, Crawford Arrowsmith, insisted on helping her. Gerry's pride wouldn't let her accept his kindness--especially since she knew that she'd fallen in love with him.
Crawford was the answer to all her dreams, but she didn't want his charity--she wanted his love!
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July 27, 2011A nice story. Gerry works hard trying to support herself and her twin sister Teddy. Her nieces add to the fray. Crawford is her boss and sees she is wearing herself out, even when she can't. An enjoyable book.
January 3, 2011
I love all Jessica Steele's novels.
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