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Cat's out of the bag
Public-relations expert Abby Stewart knew the importance of first impressions. And she'd intended to go all out to impress her new client, the head of the elite Coopers' department stores. Unfortunately, Rossiter Hunt first caught sight of Abby when she was parading as a scantily clad hostess in the notorious Kitty Club!
She did have a logical explanation, but it seemed the hardheaded tycoon could only think of her as a fluffy-tailed kitten, not a business colleague. She knew she could handle the job--if she got a chance to explain--but could she handle Rossiter Hunt's newly acquired interest in anything feline?
Public-relations expert Abby Stewart knew the importance of first impressions. And she'd intended to go all out to impress her new client, the head of the elite Coopers' department stores. Unfortunately, Rossiter Hunt first caught sight of Abby when she was parading as a scantily clad hostess in the notorious Kitty Club!
She did have a logical explanation, but it seemed the hardheaded tycoon could only think of her as a fluffy-tailed kitten, not a business colleague. She knew she could handle the job--if she got a chance to explain--but could she handle Rossiter Hunt's newly acquired interest in anything feline?
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Roberta Leigh
113 books66 followersaka Rachel Lindsay, Janey Scott, Rozella Lake
Roberta Leigh was the most frequently used pen name of an author who also published novels as Rachel Lindsay, Rozella Lake, and Janey Scott. Her birth name was Rita Shulman.
Leigh was one of the first romance writers to introduce strong, career-minded heroines who wouldn't be bossed around by the hero.
Leigh had her own film company and wrote and produced 7 TV series for children. She would also "write" the music for her series, although this usually involved her humming or singing the tune into a tape recorder, after which someone else would arrange and write a score.
She studied oil and watercolor painting with Diana Raphael and Michael Chaitow, who her interest in abstract art. Her work has been exhibited at the Podbury Gallery and Finnegan's Gallery in London.
In 1948, she married Michael Lewin and they had a son, Jeremy. Her husband passed away in 1981.
Roberta Leigh was the most frequently used pen name of an author who also published novels as Rachel Lindsay, Rozella Lake, and Janey Scott. Her birth name was Rita Shulman.
Leigh was one of the first romance writers to introduce strong, career-minded heroines who wouldn't be bossed around by the hero.
Leigh had her own film company and wrote and produced 7 TV series for children. She would also "write" the music for her series, although this usually involved her humming or singing the tune into a tape recorder, after which someone else would arrange and write a score.
She studied oil and watercolor painting with Diana Raphael and Michael Chaitow, who her interest in abstract art. Her work has been exhibited at the Podbury Gallery and Finnegan's Gallery in London.
In 1948, she married Michael Lewin and they had a son, Jeremy. Her husband passed away in 1981.
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September 16, 2017
The slimeball OW saved the day and I just want to barf!
Roberta Leigh's Two-Timing Man starts out strong, as in many of her romances, only to conclude with a pitiful whimper.
The heroine, a very convincingly portrayed strong, modern, career woman who gets the pithiest lines of the book, ends up as a jelly-spined mess who lets herself be manipulated by a parasitic cousin and a jealous rival by the end of the story. The hero doesn't come off much better. He is weak, a commitment-phobe, cheating manwhore (well, I was warned by the title, wasn't I?).
Only when the OW decides the hero is too pathetic for her and she finds a great tycoon husband (who will undoubtedly worship the ground she walks on) does she condescend to unravel the Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstanding that she inflicted on these two pitiful nincompoops.
There is also an unintentionally comical hostage caper with a disgruntled ex-employee holding a hand grenade in exchange for a fully paid getaway to Spain, of all places.
I have a headache now.
Roberta Leigh's Two-Timing Man starts out strong, as in many of her romances, only to conclude with a pitiful whimper.
The heroine, a very convincingly portrayed strong, modern, career woman who gets the pithiest lines of the book, ends up as a jelly-spined mess who lets herself be manipulated by a parasitic cousin and a jealous rival by the end of the story. The hero doesn't come off much better. He is weak, a commitment-phobe, cheating manwhore (well, I was warned by the title, wasn't I?).
Only when the OW decides the hero is too pathetic for her and she finds a great tycoon husband (who will undoubtedly worship the ground she walks on) does she condescend to unravel the Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstanding that she inflicted on these two pitiful nincompoops.
There is also an unintentionally comical hostage caper with a disgruntled ex-employee holding a hand grenade in exchange for a fully paid getaway to Spain, of all places.
I have a headache now.
February 23, 2018
Re Two Timing Man - Roberta Leigh brings us her standard lady buffet lurving H and slightly amoral h trope, along with another never ending nasty love triangle set to run and run, again.
This time the h and H first meet when the h, who is a director in the family PR firm, agrees to sub as a cocktail waitress for her cousin in a downmarket gambling club. The h's cousin was married to a slime slurper who took all her money, got her preggers and then ran out. The cousin did not want to ask the h's somewhat judgy and bossy family for help, so she got herself a job that allowed her to be with her baby during the day and worked nights while her landlady watched the baby.
Instead of just telling the cousin that she could have a job at the h's family firm and then paying the cousin the wages she would have made, the h dresses up in a slinky costume and pretends to be the cousin at the club and goes around sneering inwardly at everybody. There is a young man there who likes the h's cousin and wants to date her, but the cousin has been evading him.
Tonight the cousin's wanna be beau shows up with an older guy, who claims the h is a tarty bimbo along with all the other tramps in the place , and makes sneery faces as the h hurriedly explains the switch out with her cousin to the cousin's beau.
The h takes exception to this remark, but she just gets on with the job with a pointed LOOK. Until one of the club managers gets gropey and the H interferes and rescues the h. Then there is more tart shaming remarks because the h returned the H's wallet after he dropped it and he assumed she picked his pocket.
The H's remarks and tarty suggestions lead the h to slap him and eventually everyone goes off to their separate corners. The next day the h has told her cousin to come work for her, she has a new client's chain of department stores to promote and it is a big job.
But the client's firm has merged with another one and the new boss is the H from the night before. There is a lot of back and forth verbal insults as the two battle it out over the situation and the H comes across as a full-on pervy lecher. The h holds her own tho and eventually they get to work on the PR the h is vetting to do.
The h wants to use company employees on TV to promote different areas of the stores and we then meet the OW. She is issuing clear keep off the H warnings, but the h is very attracted to the H and flirts anyway.
There is a lot of publicity promotions combined with the H and h snarking back and forth to each other. We also find out that the cousin's beau is the brother of the OW and the H and OW are very against the cousin her beau becoming a couple.
Then the h decides to cancel her clients and go out with the H when he calls her up, he claims that he and the OW aren't serious and this leads to a big night of lurve clubbing where the h declares she loves the H. The next day the OW tells the h that she and the H will probably be marrying at the end of the year.
Since the H has made no seekrit of how involved he is with the OW, it is reasonable for the h to assume that they have been having an open relationship and are now tying the knot. The h feels betrayed, tho she knew that that there was a lot more to the relationship with the OW than what the H claimed. She avoids the H as much as possible, but she set up an interview for the H on television.
Per the H's request, the h told the interviewer not to ask personal questions of the H or his eligible bachelor status or his love life. To the h's horror, the interviewer starts asking extremely personal questions during the broadcast and the H accuses the h of telling the man to do it for revenge. The TV host was given a letter supposedly from the h, advising him to question the H's personal life.
The h figures out that the letter was forged and she figures the OW was the one who did it, but she has no proof and the H has fired her firm anyways, so the h just gets on with things. We also find out the cousin was set to move into her beau's house, but he put her off and now she is homeless and she was so upset she walked under a car and is in hospital. The h believes the H was behind the cousin's beau's change of heart and it is another reason for her to be angry.
The h has one last publicity event to do at the H's store. After it is over, the husband of a former employee takes the h hostage using a hand grenade, he wants £2000 and a trip to Spain for his wife and kids. The h calls the H as the man demands and eventually the police use a water hose to knock the man down and save the h.
This doesn't kick off a big reconciliation scene or even a conversation between the H and h. Instead the H goes back to his lady buffet sampling, including a lot of time with his OW. The h dates a bit and per the usual RL standard, meets a perfectly nice man that she can't get close to because she isn't over the H.
The cousin's sewer slime husband dies and the cousin and the OW brother decide to marry. The reason the cousin's beau wouldn't let her move in with him was because of the threats the mad hand grenade person was making. He targeted everyone associated with the H, including the OW and her brother, as they all work for the H and both the H and the cousin's beau were distancing themselves from the h and her cousin to keep them safe.
The H, the OW and the h all go to the wedding and the OW is her usual catty self and the h just goes on about her day. Eventually the OW apologizes for the letter and claims that the H loves her and then blames the whole mess on the h for believing the skanky witch when the OW said she and the H were marrying. The OW has found a richer guy to leech off of and is moving to France to marry him.
The H and h finally talk and the H claims he loves her and the h loves him back and we leave the two planning the wedding after more lurve clubbing for the dubious HEA.
This book was great at amoral people being nasty to each other, but really bad on convincing anyone that the H wanted anything more than an extra few nights of really good sex. I wasn't buying the HEA on this one. Mainly cause all the explanations are done by the OW. As we have seen throughout the story, she lies.
Still, the h wasn't saying no when she had serious doubts about the H's veracity and really the h was the OW for most of the story and she chose that herself. So as they say in the real world,"If they will cheat with you, the will cheat on you" and the h will only have herself to blame when this all goes pear shaped 20 pages after the book ends.
The banter between the H and h is good and the first half is pretty well done in terms of the h and H sparking off each other, so if you have the tolerance for an RL standard day at the HP office, this might not be a terrible HPlandia outing.
This time the h and H first meet when the h, who is a director in the family PR firm, agrees to sub as a cocktail waitress for her cousin in a downmarket gambling club. The h's cousin was married to a slime slurper who took all her money, got her preggers and then ran out. The cousin did not want to ask the h's somewhat judgy and bossy family for help, so she got herself a job that allowed her to be with her baby during the day and worked nights while her landlady watched the baby.
Instead of just telling the cousin that she could have a job at the h's family firm and then paying the cousin the wages she would have made, the h dresses up in a slinky costume and pretends to be the cousin at the club and goes around sneering inwardly at everybody. There is a young man there who likes the h's cousin and wants to date her, but the cousin has been evading him.
Tonight the cousin's wanna be beau shows up with an older guy, who claims the h is a tarty bimbo along with all the other tramps in the place , and makes sneery faces as the h hurriedly explains the switch out with her cousin to the cousin's beau.
The h takes exception to this remark, but she just gets on with the job with a pointed LOOK. Until one of the club managers gets gropey and the H interferes and rescues the h. Then there is more tart shaming remarks because the h returned the H's wallet after he dropped it and he assumed she picked his pocket.
The H's remarks and tarty suggestions lead the h to slap him and eventually everyone goes off to their separate corners. The next day the h has told her cousin to come work for her, she has a new client's chain of department stores to promote and it is a big job.
But the client's firm has merged with another one and the new boss is the H from the night before. There is a lot of back and forth verbal insults as the two battle it out over the situation and the H comes across as a full-on pervy lecher. The h holds her own tho and eventually they get to work on the PR the h is vetting to do.
The h wants to use company employees on TV to promote different areas of the stores and we then meet the OW. She is issuing clear keep off the H warnings, but the h is very attracted to the H and flirts anyway.
There is a lot of publicity promotions combined with the H and h snarking back and forth to each other. We also find out that the cousin's beau is the brother of the OW and the H and OW are very against the cousin her beau becoming a couple.
Then the h decides to cancel her clients and go out with the H when he calls her up, he claims that he and the OW aren't serious and this leads to a big night of lurve clubbing where the h declares she loves the H. The next day the OW tells the h that she and the H will probably be marrying at the end of the year.
Since the H has made no seekrit of how involved he is with the OW, it is reasonable for the h to assume that they have been having an open relationship and are now tying the knot. The h feels betrayed, tho she knew that that there was a lot more to the relationship with the OW than what the H claimed. She avoids the H as much as possible, but she set up an interview for the H on television.
Per the H's request, the h told the interviewer not to ask personal questions of the H or his eligible bachelor status or his love life. To the h's horror, the interviewer starts asking extremely personal questions during the broadcast and the H accuses the h of telling the man to do it for revenge. The TV host was given a letter supposedly from the h, advising him to question the H's personal life.
The h figures out that the letter was forged and she figures the OW was the one who did it, but she has no proof and the H has fired her firm anyways, so the h just gets on with things. We also find out the cousin was set to move into her beau's house, but he put her off and now she is homeless and she was so upset she walked under a car and is in hospital. The h believes the H was behind the cousin's beau's change of heart and it is another reason for her to be angry.
The h has one last publicity event to do at the H's store. After it is over, the husband of a former employee takes the h hostage using a hand grenade, he wants £2000 and a trip to Spain for his wife and kids. The h calls the H as the man demands and eventually the police use a water hose to knock the man down and save the h.
This doesn't kick off a big reconciliation scene or even a conversation between the H and h. Instead the H goes back to his lady buffet sampling, including a lot of time with his OW. The h dates a bit and per the usual RL standard, meets a perfectly nice man that she can't get close to because she isn't over the H.
The cousin's sewer slime husband dies and the cousin and the OW brother decide to marry. The reason the cousin's beau wouldn't let her move in with him was because of the threats the mad hand grenade person was making. He targeted everyone associated with the H, including the OW and her brother, as they all work for the H and both the H and the cousin's beau were distancing themselves from the h and her cousin to keep them safe.
The H, the OW and the h all go to the wedding and the OW is her usual catty self and the h just goes on about her day. Eventually the OW apologizes for the letter and claims that the H loves her and then blames the whole mess on the h for believing the skanky witch when the OW said she and the H were marrying. The OW has found a richer guy to leech off of and is moving to France to marry him.
The H and h finally talk and the H claims he loves her and the h loves him back and we leave the two planning the wedding after more lurve clubbing for the dubious HEA.
This book was great at amoral people being nasty to each other, but really bad on convincing anyone that the H wanted anything more than an extra few nights of really good sex. I wasn't buying the HEA on this one. Mainly cause all the explanations are done by the OW. As we have seen throughout the story, she lies.
Still, the h wasn't saying no when she had serious doubts about the H's veracity and really the h was the OW for most of the story and she chose that herself. So as they say in the real world,"If they will cheat with you, the will cheat on you" and the h will only have herself to blame when this all goes pear shaped 20 pages after the book ends.
The banter between the H and h is good and the first half is pretty well done in terms of the h and H sparking off each other, so if you have the tolerance for an RL standard day at the HP office, this might not be a terrible HPlandia outing.
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March 4, 2023
I’m surprised since this writer usually has cheating heroes and idiot doormat heroine while this one is quite different.
- the heroine is not a doormat and she’s also a working woman with a career. A far cry since the usual sad typist.
- the heroine is quite modern in her attitude. Yes she believes in marriage but she also is ready to have an affair with the commitment phobic hero without making a fuss.
- the hero is a previous manho but since he meets the hero is completely smitten and unable to sleep with other women.
- they are separated for months and he dates ow without anything more than wine and dine, while the heroine dates a nice and pleasant man and also makes out with him. Wow I’m amazed.
- he’s the one who tries to win her back and is afraid she will reject him.
- in the beginning he tries to seduce her , and eventually he succeeds, then he ghosts her for months but not because he was afraid of committing to her, but because there was a madman who threatened him and those near him. He only wanted to protect her, but when he saw that she was indifferent to him he thought she didn’t love him like he did.
- imo in this book it’s the hero the one who’s more in love and the heroine is stronger and more powerful.
- so despite some double standard and obvious chauvinism and despite the hero is not my favorite kind of man, since he was a womanizer without a care in the world, I enjoyed the story and both characters, I think the heroine has a spine of steel and the hero will do whatever she wants.
- the heroine is not a doormat and she’s also a working woman with a career. A far cry since the usual sad typist.
- the heroine is quite modern in her attitude. Yes she believes in marriage but she also is ready to have an affair with the commitment phobic hero without making a fuss.
- the hero is a previous manho but since he meets the hero is completely smitten and unable to sleep with other women.
- they are separated for months and he dates ow without anything more than wine and dine, while the heroine dates a nice and pleasant man and also makes out with him. Wow I’m amazed.
- he’s the one who tries to win her back and is afraid she will reject him.
- in the beginning he tries to seduce her , and eventually he succeeds, then he ghosts her for months but not because he was afraid of committing to her, but because there was a madman who threatened him and those near him. He only wanted to protect her, but when he saw that she was indifferent to him he thought she didn’t love him like he did.
- imo in this book it’s the hero the one who’s more in love and the heroine is stronger and more powerful.
- so despite some double standard and obvious chauvinism and despite the hero is not my favorite kind of man, since he was a womanizer without a care in the world, I enjoyed the story and both characters, I think the heroine has a spine of steel and the hero will do whatever she wants.
March 6, 2012
This author began her writing career with Harlequin as Roberta Leigh, but also published using the name Rachel Lindsay and Roumelia Lane. I have several of her books under each name in my TBR. No matter the name, Ms. Lindsay writes with wit and charm. Abby is a young woman whose intelligence and beauty combined have made her a force to be reckoned with in the public relations game. Ross is a charismatic man who often underestimates Abby's abilities. These two love to challenge each other verbally, which makes for a fun and quick read. Lovely characters, sizzling chemistry. I enjoyed this book very much.
July 20, 2012
Rating 3.5 stars
Kind of predictable but still enjoyable. I liked how the heroine was feisty, smart and successful. I also liked how she didn't pine for the hero when he pushed her away(we learn later it was for her own safety). Of course there is an ex-OW on the scene who makes her claim quite clear though in the end she does come clean. All in all not a bad read.
Kind of predictable but still enjoyable. I liked how the heroine was feisty, smart and successful. I also liked how she didn't pine for the hero when he pushed her away(we learn later it was for her own safety). Of course there is an ex-OW on the scene who makes her claim quite clear though in the end she does come clean. All in all not a bad read.
September 26, 2014
so boring ! i felt no connection between abby and rory and the sex seemed forced. no chemistry as well ! they were more like two frustrated cats, bickering all the way, yet hot for each other!
June 18, 2016
I did not care for this book. I felt something was missing. In the beginning I loved the heroine. The story line was good. Until the Heroine sleeps with the jerk. She changed a little. I did not like how she immediately said she loved him. The hero I could not stand he carried on with too many women, especially the one who caused the heroine grief. He strung the other woman along knowing she loved him while he.chased the heroine ick. This time I should have paid attention to title. I do not like cheating men even if he did not sleep with them he still took them out and made them feel like he would. I just never believed her really would be faithful at the end so I was terribly disappointed.
April 3, 2012
Basic, decent story. Too much plot v. romantic action, but that's pretty common for the age of it. Both the main characters were likable and it was a light, easy story.
July 31, 2015
I loved their banter. Abby was very funny, quick and witty.
February 16, 2022
Uh, I think more editing would have helped this story out. Our heroine is pretty flat as a character, and out hero is just kinda a huge jerk, reminded me of Mr. Big but NOT in a good way. And so much drama! Side cousins dating, an evil ex husband, a intrusive other woman, normal family, then a hostage situation. Just ALOT going on that needed to be trimmed. I know the hero and heroine talked alot but they only spent like one day together. Then after the hero(mistakenly) fires the hero his is trotting out other chicks like it's fashion week. Less is more would have given this book more stars. Skip it.
September 21, 2020
There's nothing wrong with this story but it doesn't quite come together for me. I feel as though I'm reading about someone, not experiencing it along with them. There isn't much emotional connection. I've read several Roberta Leigh Harlequin romances and they are all like this. They have somewhat explicit sex scenes that don't quite cross over into love scenes.
April 13, 2024
Have to say I'm fully with Boogenhagen's review on this one.
January 8, 2011
Cat's out of the bag
Public-relations expert Abby Stewart knew the importance of first impressions. And she'd intended to go all out to impress her new client, the head of the elite Coopers' department stores. Unfortunately, Rossiter Hunt first caught sight of Abby when she was parading as a scantily clad hostess in the notorious Kitty Club!
She did have a logical explanation, but it seemed the hardheaded tycoon could only think of her as a fluffy-tailed kitten, not a business colleague. She knew she could handle the job--if she got a chance to explain--but could she handle Rossiter Hunt's newly acquired interest in anything feline?
Public-relations expert Abby Stewart knew the importance of first impressions. And she'd intended to go all out to impress her new client, the head of the elite Coopers' department stores. Unfortunately, Rossiter Hunt first caught sight of Abby when she was parading as a scantily clad hostess in the notorious Kitty Club!
She did have a logical explanation, but it seemed the hardheaded tycoon could only think of her as a fluffy-tailed kitten, not a business colleague. She knew she could handle the job--if she got a chance to explain--but could she handle Rossiter Hunt's newly acquired interest in anything feline?
January 18, 2011
Abby works in Marketing for her father's company. When her cousin needs her help one evening to fill in for her as a waitress. Abby didn't know it was a waitress at a night club with her wearing a skimpy kitten outfit. There she meets mean Ross who saves her from getting fired before she hits a patron at the night club. The next week when she is awarded a new account for a larger corporation she finds out that the owner is Ross. The story continues from there.
November 12, 2014
" سأجعله يدرك ان لديه الكثير ليتعلمه وانني انا من سيعلمه ."
كان روستر هانت الرجل الذي يجب على آبي ان تتعامل معه ..
كانت تريد الاحتفاظ بعقدها مع مجموعة من مخازن شركات كوبرز
ولكن لقائهما الاول كان مشؤوماً ...
كيف ستقنع شخصاً عنيداً مثله بانها رصينة في العمل ,
اذا كان قد تعرف عليها كمضيفة في مطعم كيتي السئ السمعه ؟
كما ان الاعجاب الذي ساد بينهما فجأة برهن كم
كان روستر هانت الرجل الذي يجب على آبي ان تتعامل معه ..
كانت تريد الاحتفاظ بعقدها مع مجموعة من مخازن شركات كوبرز
ولكن لقائهما الاول كان مشؤوماً ...
كيف ستقنع شخصاً عنيداً مثله بانها رصينة في العمل ,
اذا كان قد تعرف عليها كمضيفة في مطعم كيتي السئ السمعه ؟
كما ان الاعجاب الذي ساد بينهما فجأة برهن كم
October 11, 2010
Even though you could see through the plot like water, it was still a good read!
Want to read
April 3, 2012This sounds like the exact plot (and names) of Two-Timing Man -- maybe it was updated or something?
November 20, 2014
This was an interesting office-type romance, with a little humor and suspense thrown in.
November 3, 2020
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سيرة أكاديمية وسياسية للبروفسور / عماد عمر بقادي
سيرة أكاديمية وسياسية للبروفسور / عماد عمر بقادي
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December 4, 2015Interesting and fun, until the misunderstandings took place then the story became boring.
December 7, 2016
Star Rating: ★★½☆☆
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