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His Trophy Mistress
They were no longer married. But unforgettable Jager Jeffries had returned to claim Paige all the same—this time as his mistress!
Jager had been a boy from the wrong side of the tracks when he'd made teenage heiress Paige his bride. Now, the self-made millionaire was unquestionably his own man. But did he want Paige only as a trophy to show how far he'd come? Or was it possible he had a secret agenda...?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 2001
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Daphne Clair
122 books64 followersDahpne Clair is one of many pseudonyms of Daphne de Jong, a New Zealand writer who also uses the names Laurie Bright, Claire Lorel and Clarissa Garland. She is the winner of the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award and has been a finalist for the Romance Writers of America Rita Award more than once.
Daphne Clair de Jong decided to be a writer when she was eight years old and won her first literary prize for a school essay. Her first short story was published when she was sixteen and she's been writing and publishing ever since. Nowadays she earns her living from writing, something her well-meaning teachers and guidance counsellors warned her she would never achieve in New Zealand. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and a collection of them was presented in Crossing the Bar, published by David Ling, where they garnered wide praise.
In 1976, Daphne's first full-length romantic novel was published by Mills & Boon as Return to Love. Since then she has produced a steady output of romance set in New Zealand, occasionally Australia or on imaginary Pacific islands. As Laurey Bright she also writes for Silhouette Books. Her romances often appear on American stores' romance best-seller lists and she has been a Rita contest finalist, as well as winning and being placed in several other romance writing contests. Her other writing includes non-fiction, poetry and long historical fiction, She also is an active defender of the ideology of Feminists for Life, and she has written articles about it.
Since then she has won other literary prizes both in her native New Zealand and other countries. These include the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, with Dying Light, a story about Alzheimer's Disease, which was filmed by Robyn Murphy Productions and shown at film festivals in several countries. (Starring Sara McLeod, Sam's wife in Lord of the Rings).
Daphne is often asked to tutor courses in creative writing, and with Robyn Donald she teachs romance writing weekend courses in her home in the "winterless north" of in New Zealand. Daphne lives with her Netherlands-born husband in a farmlet, grazing livestock, growing their own fruit and vegetables and making their large home available to other writers as a centre for writers' workshops and retreats. Their five children, one of them an orphan from Hong Kong, have left home but drift back at irregular intervals. She enjoys cooking special meals but her cake-making is limited to three never-fail recipes. Her children maintain they have no memory of her baking for them except on birthdays, when she would produce, on request, cakes shaped into trains, clowns, fairytale houses and, once, even a windmill, in deference to their Dutch heritage from their father.
Daphne frequently makes and breaks resolutions to indulge in some hearty outdoor activity, and loves to sniff strong black coffee but never drinks it. After a day at her desk she will happily watch re-runs of favourite TV shows. Usually she goes to bed early with a book which may be anything from a paperback romance or suspense novel to history, sociology or literary theory.
Daphne Clair de Jong decided to be a writer when she was eight years old and won her first literary prize for a school essay. Her first short story was published when she was sixteen and she's been writing and publishing ever since. Nowadays she earns her living from writing, something her well-meaning teachers and guidance counsellors warned her she would never achieve in New Zealand. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and a collection of them was presented in Crossing the Bar, published by David Ling, where they garnered wide praise.
In 1976, Daphne's first full-length romantic novel was published by Mills & Boon as Return to Love. Since then she has produced a steady output of romance set in New Zealand, occasionally Australia or on imaginary Pacific islands. As Laurey Bright she also writes for Silhouette Books. Her romances often appear on American stores' romance best-seller lists and she has been a Rita contest finalist, as well as winning and being placed in several other romance writing contests. Her other writing includes non-fiction, poetry and long historical fiction, She also is an active defender of the ideology of Feminists for Life, and she has written articles about it.
Since then she has won other literary prizes both in her native New Zealand and other countries. These include the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, with Dying Light, a story about Alzheimer's Disease, which was filmed by Robyn Murphy Productions and shown at film festivals in several countries. (Starring Sara McLeod, Sam's wife in Lord of the Rings).
Daphne is often asked to tutor courses in creative writing, and with Robyn Donald she teachs romance writing weekend courses in her home in the "winterless north" of in New Zealand. Daphne lives with her Netherlands-born husband in a farmlet, grazing livestock, growing their own fruit and vegetables and making their large home available to other writers as a centre for writers' workshops and retreats. Their five children, one of them an orphan from Hong Kong, have left home but drift back at irregular intervals. She enjoys cooking special meals but her cake-making is limited to three never-fail recipes. Her children maintain they have no memory of her baking for them except on birthdays, when she would produce, on request, cakes shaped into trains, clowns, fairytale houses and, once, even a windmill, in deference to their Dutch heritage from their father.
Daphne frequently makes and breaks resolutions to indulge in some hearty outdoor activity, and loves to sniff strong black coffee but never drinks it. After a day at her desk she will happily watch re-runs of favourite TV shows. Usually she goes to bed early with a book which may be anything from a paperback romance or suspense novel to history, sociology or literary theory.
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February 3, 2019
Misnamed second chance story. Note to self: this is the one where the 16 year-old rich girl heroine works in a thrift shop as part of her community service hours for her private school. She meets the impoverished hero while helping him find clothes for a job interview. They fall in love and marry when heroine was 17. Her parents did everything to break them up and poverty and immaturity did the rest.
Heroine married a dry stick in America. She stayed there for six years until dry stick died in a traffic accident. It’s six months later and the heroine is maid of honor at her younger sister’s wedding. And guess who is there?
You got it. It’s the hero – now rich. The computer he bought when he was married to the heroine was his ticket to big bucks. He now owns a technology company and is $$$$$$$$$$$$. Plus, he’s the illegitimate son of a rich man and half brother to the groom. Yup. The H/h are connected by marriage yet again.
He drives her home from the reception and they are hit by a drunk driver. The police take them to the heroine’s parent’s house where they dig the glass out of each other’s hair and have post-trauma sex. Once the hero finds out the heroine is widowed, he begins to pursue her.
His method? Home renovation, wall papering and gardening. Yes, this hero was raised on Penny Jordan novels.
The heroine has bought a beach cottage and the hero and his newly discovered half-brother and the heroine’s sister all spend weekends together renovating. An OM wanders in to help wall paper, but the hero out-alphas him with plumb lines or something.
The H/h are exes with benefits until inertia/page count/hero decides they should marry again for an HEA.
I liked this because the H/h were cute together in flashback and the house decorating was strangely soothing. The heroine’s parents eventually came around, but they were ridiculous snobs. This is a low angst story, if you haven't guessed. :) H/h were too young to marry and their separation did them good.
Heroine married a dry stick in America. She stayed there for six years until dry stick died in a traffic accident. It’s six months later and the heroine is maid of honor at her younger sister’s wedding. And guess who is there?
You got it. It’s the hero – now rich. The computer he bought when he was married to the heroine was his ticket to big bucks. He now owns a technology company and is $$$$$$$$$$$$. Plus, he’s the illegitimate son of a rich man and half brother to the groom. Yup. The H/h are connected by marriage yet again.
He drives her home from the reception and they are hit by a drunk driver. The police take them to the heroine’s parent’s house where they dig the glass out of each other’s hair and have post-trauma sex. Once the hero finds out the heroine is widowed, he begins to pursue her.
His method? Home renovation, wall papering and gardening. Yes, this hero was raised on Penny Jordan novels.
The heroine has bought a beach cottage and the hero and his newly discovered half-brother and the heroine’s sister all spend weekends together renovating. An OM wanders in to help wall paper, but the hero out-alphas him with plumb lines or something.
The H/h are exes with benefits until inertia/page count/hero decides they should marry again for an HEA.
I liked this because the H/h were cute together in flashback and the house decorating was strangely soothing. The heroine’s parents eventually came around, but they were ridiculous snobs. This is a low angst story, if you haven't guessed. :) H/h were too young to marry and their separation did them good.
December 5, 2019
Re His Trophy Mistress - DC brings us a very low key second chance romance.
The h and H meet as teens and the h is wealthy while the H is not. They fall in love and marry, but really these two kids should have lived in sin for a while.
Anyhows, the h succumbs to her snobby snot parents blandishments and the marriage ends - as teen marriages are wont to do in HPlandia,
The h goes off and marries some other guy for a while, but he dies and then she returns and meets her first hubby at his half brother's wedding to her younger sister.
Cottage decorating and refurbishment takes up some significant page time and I am fairly sure the H of this one had Penny Jordan h and H's for seekrit BFF'S and online decorating chat room buddies.
Eventually our lovely couple realizes they still love each other and everyone has grown up*, so they make their big True Love Vow and wedding plans, for a sweet pink sparkly HEA and a nice decorating day in HPlandia.
*Tho I have to add that the h puts up with her parent's snobby snot for waaaay too long in this one.
The h and H meet as teens and the h is wealthy while the H is not. They fall in love and marry, but really these two kids should have lived in sin for a while.
Anyhows, the h succumbs to her snobby snot parents blandishments and the marriage ends - as teen marriages are wont to do in HPlandia,
The h goes off and marries some other guy for a while, but he dies and then she returns and meets her first hubby at his half brother's wedding to her younger sister.
Cottage decorating and refurbishment takes up some significant page time and I am fairly sure the H of this one had Penny Jordan h and H's for seekrit BFF'S and online decorating chat room buddies.
Eventually our lovely couple realizes they still love each other and everyone has grown up*, so they make their big True Love Vow and wedding plans, for a sweet pink sparkly HEA and a nice decorating day in HPlandia.
*Tho I have to add that the h puts up with her parent's snobby snot for waaaay too long in this one.
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July 12, 2011
The h was a 17 year old rich girl and the H a 18 or so year old bad boy when they married. They lied about their ages and married in secret. When her parents were informed they were appalled and less than helpful. The marriage didn't last long, they were both too young and immature and their situation too difficult for their youth to handle. The break-up was painful, bitter and devastating. Maybe more devastating for the H than the h as the H had been abandoned by everyone in his life at one time or another and he saw h leaving as another abandonment.
More than 10 years pass before they meet again. The h had married and had loved her husband but he had died in a car accident 6 months earlier. Theirs had been a good safe and loving relationship with none of the excitement of her relationship with the H. The H had become rich and successful and was confident in himself now. The h had returned from America for her sister's wedding and also with plans to make a new life and get over her grief over husband's death. The H suddenly reappears in her life at her sister's wedding. Turns out that H is half brother of her sister's husband. They had just found each other as the H was illegitimate and had never known his father.
This is the start of a new relationship. Their sexual attraction is as hot as it ever was but the H makes it clear that he will never offer marriage, children or commitment. He intends to treat her as a mistress.
The H/h both have issues to deal with and accept for this HEA to happen.
More than 10 years pass before they meet again. The h had married and had loved her husband but he had died in a car accident 6 months earlier. Theirs had been a good safe and loving relationship with none of the excitement of her relationship with the H. The H had become rich and successful and was confident in himself now. The h had returned from America for her sister's wedding and also with plans to make a new life and get over her grief over husband's death. The H suddenly reappears in her life at her sister's wedding. Turns out that H is half brother of her sister's husband. They had just found each other as the H was illegitimate and had never known his father.
This is the start of a new relationship. Their sexual attraction is as hot as it ever was but the H makes it clear that he will never offer marriage, children or commitment. He intends to treat her as a mistress.
The H/h both have issues to deal with and accept for this HEA to happen.
June 26, 2021
Re read 2021
If you enjoy besotted, pining-away hero, who truly is blind and stupid where it comes to the plain h, then you'll love this.
I'm a sucker for themes like this, so of course I LOVED it! :)
If you enjoy besotted, pining-away hero, who truly is blind and stupid where it comes to the plain h, then you'll love this.
I'm a sucker for themes like this, so of course I LOVED it! :)
September 25, 2020
The man and woman were married when they were young.
I don’t like it that the woman married again. Her husband died 6 months before she and her first husband meet each other again. If she was truly in love with him, she wouldn’t have remarried.
I believe he loves her, but I don’t believe in her love for him. He should find himself a better woman than this.
I don’t like it that the woman married again. Her husband died 6 months before she and her first husband meet each other again. If she was truly in love with him, she wouldn’t have remarried.
I believe he loves her, but I don’t believe in her love for him. He should find himself a better woman than this.
December 7, 2019
This was a nicely done second chance romance. The heroine's wealth was balanced by the fact that she was the "plain sister" and did not believe that a handsome man could truly stay be in love with her.Of course the hero's initial poverty is balanced by his staggering good looks. Surprisingly no OW given his present day handsome, uber rich avatar,but she was married (and widowed) after they broke up and an OM hovers,and helps renovate her cottage, as does every character in the book other than her parents!
April 16, 2021
They were no longer married. But unforgettable Jager Jeffries had returned to claim Paige all the same—this time as his mistress!
Jager had been a boy from the wrong side of the tracks when he'd made teenage heiress Paige his bride. Now, the self-made millionaire was unquestionably his own man. But did he want Paige only as a trophy to show how far he'd come? Or was it possible he had a secret agenda.
Jager had been a boy from the wrong side of the tracks when he'd made teenage heiress Paige his bride. Now, the self-made millionaire was unquestionably his own man. But did he want Paige only as a trophy to show how far he'd come? Or was it possible he had a secret agenda.
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March 6, 2019What a mess. Bleh. We didn’t need the heroine’s second marriage, seriously what did that do? Wish the parents could have come around more, wish the hero could have done something. He did pretty much nothing the entire story. The accident? Like what? That new random guy near the end? Just what a mess. Skip.
March 27, 2022
3.5 stars Back story is sadder than most, but I do appreciate that no one did anything too awful or unforgivable. And his feelings for her are so apparent, even as he’s fighting against them.
February 12, 2018
I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did. I tend to be a sucker for second-chance romances, where the hero and heroine didn't work out the first time, and meet again later, and this time, they actually work through their issues as adults. But this one just didn't do it for me. I don't know what it was.
One of the biggest issues involved the heroine's parents. I realize wanting better for your child is a goal for a parent, but the interference from the parents in this book was infuriating. I don't recommend this book at all.
One of the biggest issues involved the heroine's parents. I realize wanting better for your child is a goal for a parent, but the interference from the parents in this book was infuriating. I don't recommend this book at all.
October 21, 2024
I liked this, author doesn’t spend too much time on the first marriage, although I wonder whether H realizes he had been a touch unfair expecting a 17 year old to provide the family and security he needed so badly.
October 29, 2020
The whole time I read this I shook my head at the title. Definitely them wrong name. The back story was so sad. Think it needed to be fleshed out more. My heart broke for this H.
February 28, 2012
When Paige was sixteen, she met Jagger while working in a thrift shop. He was poor and she helped him buy clothes by paying the extra money into the register by her money. It was a very sweet time for them but also in some ways tragic. When Paige was seventeen, she and Jagger were married. They had fallen on tough times and Paige being immature and scared ran back to her parents, divorcing Jagger and leaving him behind.
Quite a few years later at her sisters wedding Jagger showed up again to see Paige. Paige's second husband had died six months ago and she was still grieving. Her second husband Aidan was killed in a dreadful car accident. So while on the night of her sisters wedding, as Jagger drove her to her parents place, they got into a car accident. It was such a hard time for Paige and she was in shock and needed comfort, so she made love to Jagger.
Eventually Jagger made her his mistress and for six months give or take, she was fine with that. Then one day Paige realized she wasn't happy anymore, their relationship was totally and wholly based on sex, she wanted more. Paige decided it was time to let Jagger go but would Jagger let Paige go?
The novel was damn good. I have to say I was very impressed. I love Paige as a character, you really got to know her and her emotional side. Especially after all the devastation she's been through. Jagger was different, he was harder but underneath very vulnerable. I love how it's love against all odds, this was pretty close to everything a harlequin should be but it ended abruptly in my opinion, I found it lacking. I wanted to read more, have some final moments extending into their future.
Quite a few years later at her sisters wedding Jagger showed up again to see Paige. Paige's second husband had died six months ago and she was still grieving. Her second husband Aidan was killed in a dreadful car accident. So while on the night of her sisters wedding, as Jagger drove her to her parents place, they got into a car accident. It was such a hard time for Paige and she was in shock and needed comfort, so she made love to Jagger.
Eventually Jagger made her his mistress and for six months give or take, she was fine with that. Then one day Paige realized she wasn't happy anymore, their relationship was totally and wholly based on sex, she wanted more. Paige decided it was time to let Jagger go but would Jagger let Paige go?
The novel was damn good. I have to say I was very impressed. I love Paige as a character, you really got to know her and her emotional side. Especially after all the devastation she's been through. Jagger was different, he was harder but underneath very vulnerable. I love how it's love against all odds, this was pretty close to everything a harlequin should be but it ended abruptly in my opinion, I found it lacking. I wanted to read more, have some final moments extending into their future.
May 29, 2016
I am yet to find a Mills & Boon that I really like. This was sexy but not very romantic. I felt the ending was rushed and the middle parts lagged. It was ok. Didn't give me much of the feels but it did give me some. 2.5 stars
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