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A Woman Of Passion
To strangers, she appears to be a typical cool English blonde. Only Matthew Aitken guesses that her icy exterior hides a warm and vibrant woman...and he wants her! In the heat of Barbados Helen finds her inhibitions melting, and her feelings towards Matt growing, but at what cost? It's obvious to her that Matt is already involved with another woman. A glamorous, alluring woman...who just happens to be Helen's mother...!
188 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 8, 1995
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Anne Mather
799 books359 followersAnne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
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September 10, 2018
Re Woman of Passion - otherwise entitled Horrible People Who Should Have Been Drowned At Birth.
Another one of Anne Mather's perpetual hot messes of multiple wanna-be OW, wanna-be OM and AM's favorite trope, the most persistent wanna be OW is the h's own mother.
This one features both H and h pov and in a very blackly humored way, it does have some very funny bits. The h is a 23 year old live in nanny on vacation with her employers in Barbados when the story starts.
She is a penniless orphan, her mother ran off with a polo player when she was four and her father spent all of his money and borrowed against unfulfilled prospects and the ancient family estate to have a lifestyle that compensated him for his beloved wife dumping him for a younger and richer man.
The h had no notion of the father's finances until he drowned while out on his yacht and the h was left penniless with no job skills. Her old friends abandoned her, except for one distant school acquaintance who needs a live in slave to mind her children.
Not having any better offers makes the h accept the position, but at least she is able to save enough to eventually get herself some training and support herself, so that is her goal at the start of the book.
The H is a thirty four year old thriller writer who lives reclusively on Barbados in a house called, (with a nod to Violet Winspear,) Dragon's Bay. He has a male assistant who is jealous of his success but hides it, a father who raises world champion polo horses and a dead brother who married a horrible woman who is his sister in law.
The H despises the sister in law, who is a gold digging tart of the first order. Mainly cause she tried to seduce him when her husband was off on business when the H was 22. She wouldn't stop trying either, (or with the H's father,) until the H finally told her to knock it off or he would tell his brother.
But in the H's grief over his elder brother's death, he mistakenly believes that his sister in law's tears over losing her swanky lifestyle are genuine tears of grief for his brother and he invites her to his island retreat.
The H and h meet when the h's snark witch of an employer refuses to either watch her kids or pick her husband up from the airport. The h is forced to take two children, one of whom gets carsick and the other who is a total defiant brat, to pick up their father. The H stops the defiant brat son from running into traffic while the little girl is sick.
Then the H decides to lecture the h, who he believes is the children's mother and when her employer's husband shows up to be collected, he tells the H that the h is his wife. To the h's great annoyance .
However the h is even more shocked when she finds her long gone mother walking up to the H and throwing herself on him. The h assumes that the H is the man that her mother abandoned her and her father for and is suitably horrified. She learns later that the H is her mother's brother in law, but for the moment, the h's mother doesn't appear to recognize her.
There are H and h social encounters when the h's employer and the H's sister in law decide they need to socialize and the H is too much a wuss to say no. The husband of the H's employer gets into the action when he tries to threaten the h with dismissal when he forces her to socialize with them and then tries to force the h into an affair.
The H and h have a few roofie kissing moments on the beach and the Lurve Force Mojo between them is very strong. However the H also drinks a lot and worries that he might succumb to his sister in law's lures to entice him, still he does nothing to kick the woman out.
The H's assistant is interested in the h too, she thinks he is okay, but it the H who is making her heart pound and heat pool in her lower regions. Unfortunately there is the snark witch employer and the gold digging amoral mother to put a spike in the H and h getting together.
The h's mother reverts to classic AM evil mother behavior and makes the h believe that the mother and the H are intimate. The employer OW just berates the h at every opportunity while spreading all kinds of gossip about the h's beloved father and the husband does the usual smarmy lecherous employer moves that are escalating.
The H ponders about his brother and his father a lot while meeting up with the h accidentally on purpose and by hosting another social situation to allow all this drama to play out and his besotted with the h assistant invites the h to attend. The h goes to keep appearances up, but she is really not interested in associating with her mother or her employers.
(For all the doormat behavior the h exhibits to not lose her job, she is actually a decent nanny. I had a really good laugh when the defiant brat son tells the h's mother she is a dragon. So the kids provide some light relief when they aren't being brats.)
The big day of the H's party arrives and the H and h wind up in bed somehow, on the strength of a few meetings and some roofie kisses. Of course they get discovered by the h's mother and the H's assistant and the whole farce hits the fan.
The h's mother makes a huge scene, the H finally kicks her out, but not before the woman tells the h that he is banging her daughter and making the h look bad. The h gets fired and with a sigh of relief, she goes back to England and starts secretarial training.
The h had tried to call the H after the big fiasco, (which we only get told about as a flashback,) but the assistant tells the h that the H wants nothing to do with her. Then the H's father shows up to make the big explanations the H can't, cause he is too busy getting completely drunk and giving himself concussions.
The H's father explains that the H did write to the h, but the jealous assistant must not have posted the letters. The h's mother was supposed to check on the h, but of course she did not and the h's former employer only provided the h's address under duress.
But the H's father explains that the H really loves the h, so the h goes to Barbados and the H and she make up for the big HEA.
This book was a mess of lame plots and sub-tropes. The H was a wimp and had to get his dad to go woo his girl. The h was forced to go back to the H and drink the HP kool-aid when really she would have been better off just going on with secretarial college.
But parts of this were amusing and AM has definitely written worse, so consider this one a standard day at the office HPlandia outing.
Another one of Anne Mather's perpetual hot messes of multiple wanna-be OW, wanna-be OM and AM's favorite trope, the most persistent wanna be OW is the h's own mother.
This one features both H and h pov and in a very blackly humored way, it does have some very funny bits. The h is a 23 year old live in nanny on vacation with her employers in Barbados when the story starts.
She is a penniless orphan, her mother ran off with a polo player when she was four and her father spent all of his money and borrowed against unfulfilled prospects and the ancient family estate to have a lifestyle that compensated him for his beloved wife dumping him for a younger and richer man.
The h had no notion of the father's finances until he drowned while out on his yacht and the h was left penniless with no job skills. Her old friends abandoned her, except for one distant school acquaintance who needs a live in slave to mind her children.
Not having any better offers makes the h accept the position, but at least she is able to save enough to eventually get herself some training and support herself, so that is her goal at the start of the book.
The H is a thirty four year old thriller writer who lives reclusively on Barbados in a house called, (with a nod to Violet Winspear,) Dragon's Bay. He has a male assistant who is jealous of his success but hides it, a father who raises world champion polo horses and a dead brother who married a horrible woman who is his sister in law.
The H despises the sister in law, who is a gold digging tart of the first order. Mainly cause she tried to seduce him when her husband was off on business when the H was 22. She wouldn't stop trying either, (or with the H's father,) until the H finally told her to knock it off or he would tell his brother.
But in the H's grief over his elder brother's death, he mistakenly believes that his sister in law's tears over losing her swanky lifestyle are genuine tears of grief for his brother and he invites her to his island retreat.
The H and h meet when the h's snark witch of an employer refuses to either watch her kids or pick her husband up from the airport. The h is forced to take two children, one of whom gets carsick and the other who is a total defiant brat, to pick up their father. The H stops the defiant brat son from running into traffic while the little girl is sick.
Then the H decides to lecture the h, who he believes is the children's mother and when her employer's husband shows up to be collected, he tells the H that the h is his wife. To the h's great annoyance .
However the h is even more shocked when she finds her long gone mother walking up to the H and throwing herself on him. The h assumes that the H is the man that her mother abandoned her and her father for and is suitably horrified. She learns later that the H is her mother's brother in law, but for the moment, the h's mother doesn't appear to recognize her.
There are H and h social encounters when the h's employer and the H's sister in law decide they need to socialize and the H is too much a wuss to say no. The husband of the H's employer gets into the action when he tries to threaten the h with dismissal when he forces her to socialize with them and then tries to force the h into an affair.
The H and h have a few roofie kissing moments on the beach and the Lurve Force Mojo between them is very strong. However the H also drinks a lot and worries that he might succumb to his sister in law's lures to entice him, still he does nothing to kick the woman out.
The H's assistant is interested in the h too, she thinks he is okay, but it the H who is making her heart pound and heat pool in her lower regions. Unfortunately there is the snark witch employer and the gold digging amoral mother to put a spike in the H and h getting together.
The h's mother reverts to classic AM evil mother behavior and makes the h believe that the mother and the H are intimate. The employer OW just berates the h at every opportunity while spreading all kinds of gossip about the h's beloved father and the husband does the usual smarmy lecherous employer moves that are escalating.
The H ponders about his brother and his father a lot while meeting up with the h accidentally on purpose and by hosting another social situation to allow all this drama to play out and his besotted with the h assistant invites the h to attend. The h goes to keep appearances up, but she is really not interested in associating with her mother or her employers.
(For all the doormat behavior the h exhibits to not lose her job, she is actually a decent nanny. I had a really good laugh when the defiant brat son tells the h's mother she is a dragon. So the kids provide some light relief when they aren't being brats.)
The big day of the H's party arrives and the H and h wind up in bed somehow, on the strength of a few meetings and some roofie kisses. Of course they get discovered by the h's mother and the H's assistant and the whole farce hits the fan.
The h's mother makes a huge scene, the H finally kicks her out, but not before the woman tells the h that he is banging her daughter and making the h look bad. The h gets fired and with a sigh of relief, she goes back to England and starts secretarial training.
The h had tried to call the H after the big fiasco, (which we only get told about as a flashback,) but the assistant tells the h that the H wants nothing to do with her. Then the H's father shows up to make the big explanations the H can't, cause he is too busy getting completely drunk and giving himself concussions.
The H's father explains that the H did write to the h, but the jealous assistant must not have posted the letters. The h's mother was supposed to check on the h, but of course she did not and the h's former employer only provided the h's address under duress.
But the H's father explains that the H really loves the h, so the h goes to Barbados and the H and she make up for the big HEA.
This book was a mess of lame plots and sub-tropes. The H was a wimp and had to get his dad to go woo his girl. The h was forced to go back to the H and drink the HP kool-aid when really she would have been better off just going on with secretarial college.
But parts of this were amusing and AM has definitely written worse, so consider this one a standard day at the office HPlandia outing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 26, 2021
Is Helen Gregory a woman of passion?
To outsiders, Helen appears to be a typical cool English blonde. Only Matthew Aitken guesses that her icy exterior hides a warm and vibrant woman …and he wants her!
In the heat of Barbados Helen finds her inhibitions melting and her feelings toward Matthew growing, but at what cost? It's obvious to her that Matt is already involved with another woman. A glamorous, alluring woman …who just happens to be Helen's mother
To outsiders, Helen appears to be a typical cool English blonde. Only Matthew Aitken guesses that her icy exterior hides a warm and vibrant woman …and he wants her!
In the heat of Barbados Helen finds her inhibitions melting and her feelings toward Matthew growing, but at what cost? It's obvious to her that Matt is already involved with another woman. A glamorous, alluring woman …who just happens to be Helen's mother
February 18, 2022
What the dickens? This poor book is too wild. The hero is kinda a bum. Like he doesn't do much and doesn't go get the heroine. The poor heroine has ALOT going on, wish she coulda just found a nice person who would fight for her. We have a ton of side characters who impacted the story more than our main characters, the creepy boss, the selfish mother(s), the lunatic assistant. Skip, it doesn't all come together like it should.
November 21, 2017
abrupt ending ...
June 27, 2020
Enjoyed this book
January 13, 2015
A wonderful read.
Matt is one sexy alpha male who gets blindsided by an innocent beautiful Helen. The passion between them just simmers until it explodes in a most unexpected time. Poor Matt and Helen have no idea what's happening between them and you can feel their confusion. Helen is also trying to come to terms with some unexpected things from her past. With no one to talk to or trust she keeps making things more confusing. Now Matt is still coming to terms with a painful past memory which effects his judgement of women. Both of them are also dealing with recent family deaths.
So there is a lot of emotions running ramphet through this book....very well written and a joy to read.
Matt is one sexy alpha male who gets blindsided by an innocent beautiful Helen. The passion between them just simmers until it explodes in a most unexpected time. Poor Matt and Helen have no idea what's happening between them and you can feel their confusion. Helen is also trying to come to terms with some unexpected things from her past. With no one to talk to or trust she keeps making things more confusing. Now Matt is still coming to terms with a painful past memory which effects his judgement of women. Both of them are also dealing with recent family deaths.
So there is a lot of emotions running ramphet through this book....very well written and a joy to read.
March 14, 2016
This was recommended as an easy entrée to the romance genre (not that we aren't acquainted, hee hee) and I can definitely see that. It's very sweet. There's not enough "falling in love" in the story for me - the declarations were rather abrupt, for all that they were anticipated. I did love the end though. Not the very last bit but the lead up to it :)"
August 15, 2012
Cute novel but nothing terribly special about it. It didn't have that 'wow' factor I usually look for in books but it wasn't horrible either. I liked the heroine, I thought she was brave and strong. The hero was a selfish ass at times and the heroines mother, well she deserves to be shot.
November 16, 2015
2.5 Stars. Review at http://wp.me/p2F7IH-bhs
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