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Diamonds Are Forever #1
A Mistletoe Proposal
Solicitor Pippa Jenson is stunning, intelligent and successful -- and she just wants a man who sees beyond her looks! Her new client, brooding, levelheaded stockbroker Roscoe Havering, seems more interested in setting her up with his brother than in trying to charm her himself. Intriguing...
Roscoe is finding it increasingly difficult to fight his feelings for Pippa. She is a woman of contradictions -- flighty yet organized, bubbly but with hidden depths. Roscoe can't decide whether to kiss her senseless or propose a more permanent solution!
Roscoe is finding it increasingly difficult to fight his feelings for Pippa. She is a woman of contradictions -- flighty yet organized, bubbly but with hidden depths. Roscoe can't decide whether to kiss her senseless or propose a more permanent solution!
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Lucy Gordon
692 books90 followersChristine Sparks was born in England, UK. She wanted to be a writer all her life, and began by working on a British women's magazine. As a features writer, she gained a wide variety of experience. She interviewed some of the world's most attractive and interesting men, including Warren Beatty, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Alec Guiness.
Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time. Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian artist, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day. Three months later they were married. Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never last, but they celebrated their 25 anniversary, they are still married, still happy and in love.
After 13 years on the magazine Christine decided that it was now or never if she was ever going to write that novel. So she wrote Legacy of Fire which became a Silhouette Special Edition, followed by another, Enchantment in Venice. Then she did something crazy gave up her job. Since then she has concentrated entirely on writing romances for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette and has written over 75 books. Her settings have been European and her heroes mainly English or Italian. Christine now claims to be an expert on one particular subject. Italian men are the most romantic in the world. They are also the best cooks.
A few years ago she and her husband returned to Venice and lived there for a couple of years. This proved the perfect base for exploring the rest of Italy, and she has given many of her books Italian settings: Venice (of course), Rome, Florence, Milan, Sicily, Tuscany. She has also used the Rhine in Germany for Song of the Lorelei, for which she won her first RITA Award, in 1991. Her second RITA came in 1998, with His Brother's Child, set in Rome.
Eventually Christine Fiorotto and her husband returned to England, where they now live. She write and he paints, they have no children, but have a cat and a dog.
Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time. Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian artist, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day. Three months later they were married. Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never last, but they celebrated their 25 anniversary, they are still married, still happy and in love.
After 13 years on the magazine Christine decided that it was now or never if she was ever going to write that novel. So she wrote Legacy of Fire which became a Silhouette Special Edition, followed by another, Enchantment in Venice. Then she did something crazy gave up her job. Since then she has concentrated entirely on writing romances for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette and has written over 75 books. Her settings have been European and her heroes mainly English or Italian. Christine now claims to be an expert on one particular subject. Italian men are the most romantic in the world. They are also the best cooks.
A few years ago she and her husband returned to Venice and lived there for a couple of years. This proved the perfect base for exploring the rest of Italy, and she has given many of her books Italian settings: Venice (of course), Rome, Florence, Milan, Sicily, Tuscany. She has also used the Rhine in Germany for Song of the Lorelei, for which she won her first RITA Award, in 1991. Her second RITA came in 1998, with His Brother's Child, set in Rome.
Eventually Christine Fiorotto and her husband returned to England, where they now live. She write and he paints, they have no children, but have a cat and a dog.
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January 10, 2025
Stockbroker Roscoe Havering hires lawyer Pippa Jenson for a job. She is very pretty and he thinks she can lead his brother (who is hanging around with a bad crowd and getting into trouble with the law) on a straight path. But along the way, he starts finding it hard to fight his feelings for Pippa.
This was a very enjoyable read. I liked Roscoe, he was a good hero. His younger brother Charlie ended up being a nice guy. I liked how Pippa helped out Roscoe’s mother. The book took place around Christmas. Another fine story by Lucy Gordon.
This was a very enjoyable read. I liked Roscoe, he was a good hero. His younger brother Charlie ended up being a nice guy. I liked how Pippa helped out Roscoe’s mother. The book took place around Christmas. Another fine story by Lucy Gordon.
April 2, 2011
Pippa Jenson is a successful solicitor; she’s smart, beautiful, and knows how to argue a case. When Roscoe Havering, powerful investments businessman, meets her, he decides on the spot that she’s perfect for what he has in mind – to represent his rather careless younger brother in court and to use her feminine wiles (and her honey blonde curls and voluptuous figure) to steer him away from the bad crowd he’s fallen in with. Pippa is both offended and amused by Roscoe’s assessment of her “character,” but she agrees to take the job. Pippa and Roscoe find themselves more attracted to one another as the case progresses, but they manage to hold their emotions in check (on that account, anyway – they have more than their share of disagreements and clashes over other things). As they become closer, however, they are able to reveal their innermost fears about opening their hearts (both have been hurt before), and after several setbacks, they find a way to overcome the pasts that have haunted them.
Pippa Jenson is a mess. She starts out as this vibrant, passionate woman who seems to know what she wants, and then her creator (Lucy Gordon) tears her apart piece by piece until she’s this fragile, cowering thing who can’t face the Christmas season and who uses her beauty and her power to throw up a shield between her heart and the rest of the world. Why does everyone have to be so broken? I liked her better when she was strong and sassy (she’s probably back on her way to being that lovely creature – happier, too, now that she and Roscoe are making a life together). The British setting was nice (unusual), but plot elements and characters were pretty typical for this genre. Ok.
Pippa Jenson is a mess. She starts out as this vibrant, passionate woman who seems to know what she wants, and then her creator (Lucy Gordon) tears her apart piece by piece until she’s this fragile, cowering thing who can’t face the Christmas season and who uses her beauty and her power to throw up a shield between her heart and the rest of the world. Why does everyone have to be so broken? I liked her better when she was strong and sassy (she’s probably back on her way to being that lovely creature – happier, too, now that she and Roscoe are making a life together). The British setting was nice (unusual), but plot elements and characters were pretty typical for this genre. Ok.
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May 27, 2011
I thought it was kinda silly - she is supposed to be this well adjusted high powered woman and she can't get past getting dumped at Christmas.
I thought the book was lame I read it because I was procrastinating about something else, I'm not sure I would have finished if I had something else to read.
Not what I hoped for from Lucy Gordon
I thought the book was lame I read it because I was procrastinating about something else, I'm not sure I would have finished if I had something else to read.
Not what I hoped for from Lucy Gordon
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February 8, 2016This book was horrible and I could not finish it. The heroine behaved like a teenager! Every character was boring, boring, boring! A big fail!
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