A Reckless Seduction

by Jayne Bauling

Opposites attract!The only thing Richard Donvale and Challis Fox could agree on was that they were just too different ever to be compatible. A 32-year-old, rich, sophisticated diamond mine owner, Richard considered himself to be the complete opposite of the wild, unconventional 22-year-old radio host. So why was he so strongly attracted to her? Determined not to succumb to pleasure, Richard tried to stay away from Challis, but soon the temptation to indulge in a reckless seduction was too irresistible to deny ...

Genres: Harlequin

186 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

Jayne was born in England but grew up in South Africa. After many years in Johannesburg and 17 women's fiction novels published in the UK, a move to White River, Mbombela in Mpumalanga, coincided with an exploration of new writing directions - youth fiction, short stories and poetry. Her YA novel E Eights won the 2009 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, Stepping Solo was awarded the 2011 Maskew Miller Longman literature award for novels in English, and Dreaming of Light won the 2012 Gold Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature and was chosen for the 2014 IBBY Honour List. Her youth short story Dineo 658 MP won the 2009 MML silver medal, while This Ubuntu Thing was shortlisted for the inaugural Golden Baobab award and The Saturday Dress was shortlisted for the same award in 2014. In 2011 she also won the inaugural African Writing flash fiction prize for Settling. She has twice been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Another youth novel Our Side of the Wall was shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize. Her adult short stories have appeared in The Bed Book of Short Stories (Modjaji Books), The Edge of Things (Dye Hard Press), African Pens 2011 (Jacana), Feast, Famine & Potluck (Short Story Day Africa), the e-anthology Behind the Shadows, and (the stories An Inappropriate Woman and Witch and Bitch)in the People Opposing Women Abuse Breaking the Silence annual anthologies (Jacana). Rage and Misfortune, her retelling of the OT Samson story was published online by Ludic Press. Poetry: Symbiosis won SAFM's Express Yourself prize, Fist was placed 3rd in the 2008 POWA Women's Writing Project and published in Murmurs of the Girl in Me, while Unschooled was published in POWA's 2010 anthology Stories of the Othere(ed) Woman and The Ladies Take Tea in POWA's 2012 anthology Sisterhood. More poetry in ouroboros review, Markings, poetandgeek, Ons Klyntji, Litnet and the Lowvelder.
Her latest novel is Soccer Secrets (Cover2Cover Books).
Visit her Facebook page Jayne Bauling Writer or follow her on Twitter @JayneBauling

Reviews

[RomLibrary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Opposites attract!

The only thing Richard Donvale and Challis Fox could agree on was that they were just too different ever to be compatible. A 32-year-old, rich, sophisticated diamond mine owner, Richard considered himself to be the complete opposite of the wild, unconventional 22-year-old radio host. So why was he so strongly attracted to her? Determined not to succumb to pleasure, Richard tried to stay away from Challis, but soon the temptation to indulge in a reckless seduction was too irresistible to deny

[sbf20112011 · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars. I don't know if I was just in the mood for this or what, but I really enjoyed this one. I liked the reluctant hero who was obsessively drawn to the heroine against his will -- not just physically, but also for her personality/character. And I always love a scene where a reluctant hero finds himself taking care of a sick heroine. Anyway, I thought this was really well done -- long enough for you to see how their love develops, but not boring.

[Liliana Silva · Rating 3 out of 5]

«O livro ofereceu o que prometeu, uma história leve, fluída, com muito romance e um toque de erotismo. Com o clichê de inimigos a amantes funciona sempre e é sempre muito divertido. Para quem precisar de uma leitura pequena e leve, leia, que certamente vai gostar!»

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[abbra_kadabra · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting plot. i really liked this hero.

spoiler:
its rare for the hero and heroine to engage in a full affair for this long in a hp book