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Power Games
Self-made millionaire Bram Soames is a powerful, charismatic businessman. But he's also a man torn by guilt over the scandalous relationship that produced his son.
Jay Soames has always used his father's guilt to his advantage and has, for years, schemed to keep anyone--particularly any woman--from gaining a place in his father's life. Until Taylor Fielding.
Having had her whole world destroyed by the violent actions of one man, Taylor has struggled to create a new--and safe--life for herself. She is a woman whose past threatens her future. A woman Jay must now destroy at any cost--including exposing her darkest secrets.
But revealing the truth about Taylor's past draws them all into a game they are powerless to control.
Jay Soames has always used his father's guilt to his advantage and has, for years, schemed to keep anyone--particularly any woman--from gaining a place in his father's life. Until Taylor Fielding.
Having had her whole world destroyed by the violent actions of one man, Taylor has struggled to create a new--and safe--life for herself. She is a woman whose past threatens her future. A woman Jay must now destroy at any cost--including exposing her darkest secrets.
But revealing the truth about Taylor's past draws them all into a game they are powerless to control.
440 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Penny Jordan
1,138 books672 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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February 5, 2018
3.75**
July 14, 2022
Tre e mezzo
September 9, 2023
This is the first one of hers I have read. I quite enjoyed it, but I don't think it gives younger women good ideas about how they should conduct themselves in a work environment.
February 6, 2015
Normalerweise verlegt Cora 08/15 Liebesromane, die amüsant aber schnell durchgelesen und nicht allzu anspruchsvoll sind.
Dieses ist ein wenig anders: Eine Liebesgeschichte - aber nicht nur. Die Charaktere sind besser ausgearbeitet als üblich, wenn auch sehr klischeehaft. Die Sprache ist nicht so blumig wie üblich in Liebesromanen. Der Plot geht, wie gesagt, über die Liebesgeschichte hinaus in Richtung Psychothriller.
Leider sind aber Ausdrucks- und Rechtschreibfehler drin, was das Ganze dann ein wenig mühsam zu lesen macht.
Dieses ist ein wenig anders: Eine Liebesgeschichte - aber nicht nur. Die Charaktere sind besser ausgearbeitet als üblich, wenn auch sehr klischeehaft. Die Sprache ist nicht so blumig wie üblich in Liebesromanen. Der Plot geht, wie gesagt, über die Liebesgeschichte hinaus in Richtung Psychothriller.
Leider sind aber Ausdrucks- und Rechtschreibfehler drin, was das Ganze dann ein wenig mühsam zu lesen macht.
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews