Roxy and the Rich Man

The Family McCormick #1

by Elizabeth Bevarly

HE WAS CAVIAR AND CHAMPAGNE...
Adoptee Spencer Melburne may have been raised with every conceivable luxury, but he'd been denied at least one part of his birthright -- his twin. He needed someone to find him, quietly -- and who better than Roxy Matheny, P.I.? The sexy gumshoe might be short on cash, but she had other virtues aplenty. Too bad she didn't trust rich guys....

SHE WAS BEER AND PRETZELS
Roxy needed all the work she could get, but one look at Spencer and she knew she was in over her head. Oh, she could give him what he needed, professionally speaking -- but why was she so tempted to offer him more PERSONALIZED services?

THE FAMILY McCORMICK
Three separated siblings find each other -- and love along the way!

Genres: Harlequin, Romance

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 25, 1996

About the author

Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.

She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yet another Mills and Boon book given to me by a friend many many years ago. I had not realised this is a series, and discovered the other two books in the same box of goodies.

I know it is dated but it did feel contemporary enough to enjoy. I did not like, however, the never ending drawn out sex scenes. I did find the ending a little too wrapped up, and it would have been nicer to find a cliff hanger instead of the usual happy ending.

However, it was written well, with good descriptive of the characters habits and thoughts.
Now reading the second book, which I vaguely recall having read another time, or perhaps the story is too like so many other Mills and Boons plots I am now confused.

[Nina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a short quick read, I love this her books!

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

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