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Clemenger Sisters #3
A Virgin for the Taking
Das Feuer funkelnder Diamanten fasziniert sie, aber die Glut der Liebe kennt Schmuckdesignerin Ruby nicht. Bis sie Zane begegnet. Seine Küsse versprechen pure Leidenschaft! Doch kaum hat er sie an sich gezogen, stößt er sie wieder fort. Warum kann er ihr nicht vertrauen?
192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2006
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About the author
Trish Morey
507 books219 followersTrish Morey always fancied herself a writer, but was sternly advised that she better better think about getting a real job instead. Which Trish figures must be why she spent her university years washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant by night and picking gherkins for an Adelaide Hills primary producer by day. (Enough to put you off "real jobs" for life).
It was another twelve years, an accounting career and two babies on that Trish once again turned her mind to writing. it was a further eleven years (and two more babies:)) before Trish sold her first book to Harlequin Presents, and her dream of being a published author came true.
Some forty books later, Trish is now an award winning and USA Today Bestselling Author of some 40+ books. Trish still loves writing romance but these days combines it with all the fun, drama and sisterhood of women, family and girlfriends.
When she’s not out traveling the world in search of inspiration for her stories, Trish lives with her husband, Daisy their over enthusiastic Cavoodle pup, Daisy, and Leo, their very old and totally unenthusiastic cat, down on the glorious South Coast of South Australia where the waves crash over the granite rocks and splash upon the golden sands.
It was another twelve years, an accounting career and two babies on that Trish once again turned her mind to writing. it was a further eleven years (and two more babies:)) before Trish sold her first book to Harlequin Presents, and her dream of being a published author came true.
Some forty books later, Trish is now an award winning and USA Today Bestselling Author of some 40+ books. Trish still loves writing romance but these days combines it with all the fun, drama and sisterhood of women, family and girlfriends.
When she’s not out traveling the world in search of inspiration for her stories, Trish lives with her husband, Daisy their over enthusiastic Cavoodle pup, Daisy, and Leo, their very old and totally unenthusiastic cat, down on the glorious South Coast of South Australia where the waves crash over the granite rocks and splash upon the golden sands.
Trish reckons she has the best job in the world.
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March 24, 2023
Reread
This wasn't as good the second time around, but worth a four star rating.
Hero had Dad and Mom issues. His perception of the past was not what it seemed, he assumed.
Heroine worked for the father of the hero and was very close with him, but of course the hero thought it was a sexual relationship.
They have to work through their misconceptions and anger. Wished they just communicated, would have solved a lot of their problems.
But great chemistry and sexual tension between the two.
This wasn't as good the second time around, but worth a four star rating.
Hero had Dad and Mom issues. His perception of the past was not what it seemed, he assumed.
Heroine worked for the father of the hero and was very close with him, but of course the hero thought it was a sexual relationship.
They have to work through their misconceptions and anger. Wished they just communicated, would have solved a lot of their problems.
But great chemistry and sexual tension between the two.
April 18, 2021
I really enjoyed this story of an H/h who inherit a Australian Pearl empire after the patriarch dies. The heroine has been the top jewelry designer for the firm and best friend to the hero’s father since she graduated from university. The hero has been estranged from his father for nine years. He moved to London and made a boat load of money in the financial markets.
Once in Broome, the hero is still angry at his dead father and is convinced heroine was his mistress. He is also angry that he is wildly attracted to the heroine and that the heroine is going to benefit from her gold-digging ways.
The heroine just wants to continue designing jewelry, but the will states the H/h have to run the company together for a year. With all that sexual tension and misunderstandings, there is plenty of drama.
Thankfully, it’s the hero who is wrong and he doesn’t clue in to misjudging the heroine until the bitter end. (Lots of angst)
So spoilers:
It is a mystery why the hero moved to London from Australia right after a car accident that killed his mother and his aunt. When he finally reads his father’s letter:
Heroine is not a golddigger She loved the hero’s father so much because .
Just good ol’ Harlequin fun depicting characters that have problems I will never have.
Once in Broome, the hero is still angry at his dead father and is convinced heroine was his mistress. He is also angry that he is wildly attracted to the heroine and that the heroine is going to benefit from her gold-digging ways.
The heroine just wants to continue designing jewelry, but the will states the H/h have to run the company together for a year. With all that sexual tension and misunderstandings, there is plenty of drama.
Thankfully, it’s the hero who is wrong and he doesn’t clue in to misjudging the heroine until the bitter end. (Lots of angst)
So spoilers:
It is a mystery why the hero moved to London from Australia right after a car accident that killed his mother and his aunt. When he finally reads his father’s letter:
Heroine is not a golddigger She loved the hero’s father so much because .
Just good ol’ Harlequin fun depicting characters that have problems I will never have.
February 16, 2017
Sorry, I don't even remember the book. This did nothing for me.
April 25, 2021
Meh, not impressed.
February 26, 2013
This is the first Trish Morey romance I have read that I thought was fantastic! Ruby Clemenger's mentor and friend dies and Ruby inherits half of his Corporation. Zane Bastiani, the pearl master's son inherits the other half. Zane and his father had a huge fall out many years before, the hero left, moved to London and never looked bad. Now that his father is dead he is forced to return back home and fulfill his destiny. He thinks Ruby is his father's mistress so he instantly dislikes her.
What impressed me is that the heroine is on the wrong here, she is constantly comparing Zane to his father and while the hero begs her to come clean with him many times she never does so and lets him believe the worst. The hero was a man tortured by past demons, the death of his mother and his father's cruelty. He is bitter and that clouds his views of relationships and love. I so fell for the hero he was so reluctant to open his heart until Ruby came along and helped him to love. He is a really well developed hero that his journey towards healing and redemption made my all teary.
A passionate, hot, intense read with a wonderful epilogue! *warm fuzzies*
What impressed me is that the heroine is on the wrong here, she is constantly comparing Zane to his father and while the hero begs her to come clean with him many times she never does so and lets him believe the worst. The hero was a man tortured by past demons, the death of his mother and his father's cruelty. He is bitter and that clouds his views of relationships and love. I so fell for the hero he was so reluctant to open his heart until Ruby came along and helped him to love. He is a really well developed hero that his journey towards healing and redemption made my all teary.
A passionate, hot, intense read with a wonderful epilogue! *warm fuzzies*
August 5, 2014
The story is of a young woman and jewellery designer, who along with the son of a pearl farmer inherits the pearl jewellery business in northwest Australia. The son resents the employee's half share.
I would like less emphasis on whether a woman is a virgin or not. The only reason it was important in the context of this story was because the young woman, who must never have ridden a horse, a motorbike or done tree or cliff climbing, was sufficiently intact that when she has a rather loveless coupling it proves to the hero that she was not the mistress of his father as he had previously thought.
The location descriptions were reasonable but I would have liked someone with an Aussie accent - they still say G'day over there - and more of the society around these people. The story was written in 2011 but they make no plans whatsoever for the world recession affecting their business, and jet around the world as though they've never heard of damaging the earth's atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
All in all this was a rather old-fashioned look at life from two narrow viewpoints. I thought the book was an okay read with some good detail and would try another by this author.
I would like less emphasis on whether a woman is a virgin or not. The only reason it was important in the context of this story was because the young woman, who must never have ridden a horse, a motorbike or done tree or cliff climbing, was sufficiently intact that when she has a rather loveless coupling it proves to the hero that she was not the mistress of his father as he had previously thought.
The location descriptions were reasonable but I would have liked someone with an Aussie accent - they still say G'day over there - and more of the society around these people. The story was written in 2011 but they make no plans whatsoever for the world recession affecting their business, and jet around the world as though they've never heard of damaging the earth's atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
All in all this was a rather old-fashioned look at life from two narrow viewpoints. I thought the book was an okay read with some good detail and would try another by this author.
June 4, 2021
When Ruby Clemenger inherits half of the Bastiani Pearl Corporation, she knows that her life is about to get complicated. Zane Bastiani, the pearl master's son, wants rid of Ruby--he thinks she was his father's mistress and can be easily bought. But Ruby's price is high. Unable to pay her off with cash, Zane decides to seduce Ruby into submission. He has nothing to lose--until he discovers Ruby is innocent... in every way.
She leaves to conclude her tour. She arrives back a day early and finds crazy ex at his house and assumes worse and leaves. He wants to go find her but the Japanese butler collapses before. They reunite in hospital and finally talk and look at old letters together and he finds out the truth of his parents and real mothers past and everything is cleared up. HEA. This one has the lovers pendant
She leaves to conclude her tour. She arrives back a day early and finds crazy ex at his house and assumes worse and leaves. He wants to go find her but the Japanese butler collapses before. They reunite in hospital and finally talk and look at old letters together and he finds out the truth of his parents and real mothers past and everything is cleared up. HEA. This one has the lovers pendant
April 10, 2024
If you can get past the comical title (God only knows why these older books are entitled so juvenilely!) it is a really good story! The misunderstandings of both the hero and heroine, the setting of the pearl industry, a little bit of a mystery, kept the ball rolling and drew you in. It was written quite well and the MCs were people you wanted to root for!
October 17, 2017
Got a bit sick of the word Whore. He was a nasty person and I cannot understand how she could put up with his attitude.
March 16, 2021
Ένα πολύτιμο δώρο - Trish Morey, Χρυσά, 1324
March 4, 2017
Easily the best of the three in this series for me. Ruby, a jeweler, has had a very close friendship with her boss Laurence Bastiani. When he dies, she's devastated, but he makes her promise to look after his estranged son Zane. He doesn't want to be looked after by the woman he believes was his father's mistress and he's disgusted by his own desires to take her to bed. When his father's will reveals they've both inherited half the company, he's even more certain she's a gold-digging whore. But he still wants her, much to his disgust. They learn to work together, but Zane still looks down on her. When he discovers exactly how innocent she is, he realizes he wants Ruby to stay and be his wife.
First off, some of the premises in this story are sort of ridiculous, so that takes some getting used to. I bothered me that Zane found it absolutely disgusting that Ruby was his father's mistress - a single, unattached woman living with a single, unattached man. I see nothing wrong with it if she had been, so Zane's disdain (that rhymes!) felt hypocritical, given he had a mistress, and a lot like slut-shaming. He called her a whore for supposedly sleeping with his father. But a lot of that was mixed with a kind of ick-factor on his part for being so attracted to his father's mistress...that incestuous, all-in-the family sort of stuff. And then of course as soon as he figures out she's a virgin he's like, "Whoa! Let's get married now that you're worthy and all that." What I absolutely loved and appreciated though was Zane's willingness to apologize when he realized he'd been an ass. And he didn't it twice. There was an honest-to-goodness, look her in the eye and sincerely apologize for what he'd done moment on two occasions! And the second time he hadn't even really done anything wrong (maybe some lack of communication). I wouldn't call it groveling, but its close for such a short book. So that's a refreshing bit in this book.
Now the whole issue with Zane's parents and his aunt Bonnie was just baffling. . I'm assuming that Zane was born in the 1980's, perhaps even the 1970's. Did they not have artificial insemination? Did his father really have to do it naturally? That seems so F***ed up. And his mother should be shot for asking the husband who loved her to do something like that when there were other options possibly available. Probably more likely to work too than just the one time. It seemed like such a convoluted situation.
First off, some of the premises in this story are sort of ridiculous, so that takes some getting used to. I bothered me that Zane found it absolutely disgusting that Ruby was his father's mistress - a single, unattached woman living with a single, unattached man. I see nothing wrong with it if she had been, so Zane's disdain (that rhymes!) felt hypocritical, given he had a mistress, and a lot like slut-shaming. He called her a whore for supposedly sleeping with his father. But a lot of that was mixed with a kind of ick-factor on his part for being so attracted to his father's mistress...that incestuous, all-in-the family sort of stuff. And then of course as soon as he figures out she's a virgin he's like, "Whoa! Let's get married now that you're worthy and all that." What I absolutely loved and appreciated though was Zane's willingness to apologize when he realized he'd been an ass. And he didn't it twice. There was an honest-to-goodness, look her in the eye and sincerely apologize for what he'd done moment on two occasions! And the second time he hadn't even really done anything wrong (maybe some lack of communication). I wouldn't call it groveling, but its close for such a short book. So that's a refreshing bit in this book.
Now the whole issue with Zane's parents and his aunt Bonnie was just baffling. . I'm assuming that Zane was born in the 1980's, perhaps even the 1970's. Did they not have artificial insemination? Did his father really have to do it naturally? That seems so F***ed up. And his mother should be shot for asking the husband who loved her to do something like that when there were other options possibly available. Probably more likely to work too than just the one time. It seemed like such a convoluted situation.
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August 26, 2012
This one deserves at least 3.5 stars. It's not as good as the second book but I loved how vengeful the hero was and then how repentant he was when he learned the truth. Talk about kissing ass. The heroine I felt badly for because she didn't deserve it in the least. Oh well, at least they got their happy ending!
January 9, 2015
It was okay ... I liked the 2nd book best and the first one was good too but this one didn't do much for me... the jewellery was good and all I thought about while reading this one... It called to the inner designer in me :P
I'll always remember it for the pearls and the designs :)
I'll always remember it for the pearls and the designs :)
February 20, 2021
Too many twists and turns, but overall it's an enjoyable read!
August 8, 2015
Rating: 4 stars.
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