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Wife for Hire
Nicholas Knight was a formidably powerful and attractive man, and he had a very tempting proposal for he wanted to move her into his luxury home, to share his life...and his bed? Rebecca had known and fantasized about Nicholas as a teenager -- so did he recognize her, or was he playing games? All Rebecca knew was that she'd never forget the hot passion he'd once aroused in her. Now she just had to find out if it was really her Nicholas wanted, or just a convenient wife!
287 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1999
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Cathy Williams
1,379 books204 followersCathy Williams, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is a British author who has written romance novels for Mills & Boon since 1990. She lives in Chiswick, London, with her three daughters and continues to craft engaging, heartfelt love stories.
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January 12, 2021
Heading straight to the healing epilogue.
When he forces her to work out her notice and watch him wine and dine a series of much younger women who are her physical opposite, literally making her sit at the table with him, she is hurt but makes it through with her dignity and leaves when the time is up.
She declined to stay in touch with his daughter and explains that unfortunately, when your father is a colossal jackass, the consequences can be that she is going to meet a lot of women who don't stick around. She explains to the daughter that stepping away from them completely is a way a woman shows self-respect. The daughter is sad but seems to have absorbed the message.
The h buys her fixer-upper dream cottage and gets to work on fixing it up. She ends up meeting a very handsome, unsurprisingly brawny contractor who is in charge of her project. They get to know each other and start dating, going on fun dates that are inexpensive at her insistence, since she knows contractors don't earn much money. After two months, the cottage is entirely redone, which makes her wonder why people are always complaining about why home redesign projects always take such a long time, since she had a full team of laborers working around the clock. The night the final work is done, the contractor takes her out for a romantic dinner, where he tells her he has been keeping a secret from her. He is the owner of the construction firm, which is a nationally owned operation that is synonymous with quality and ethics. He had been in the office when she walked in the first time and had fallen in love at first sight, so he pretended to be the site manager of her project. He fell more and more in love with her and was just waiting until he had finished the job to tell her. He also tells her that he surreptitiously upgraded all the building materials for her projects without alerting her.
He then proposes and she accepts with delight. They get married and it makes the society pages because the contractor is extremely wealthy. The media coverage includes before and afters for the cottage, and after the honeymoon, they are deluged with requests to do more home makeovers. They decide to do a tasteful YouTube series of shows where they renovate old cottages for pensioners and other people who are low on disposable income. It is wildly popular, and although they only allow one commercial break per show, the advertising revenues make them even wealthier. The h becomes somewhat of a sex symbol because her work on the show draws attention to her great personality and, inadvertently, to her statuesque figure. Eventually, the h writes a book on how to redecorate small homes that is extremely popular. However, the most important thing in her life remains her marriage and her doting husband, and he feels the same way about her, except more so.
The H, meanwhile, is devastated by this and throws himself into dating tiny bimbos and becoming an alcoholic. He has a heart attack and mild stroke while having sex with one, trapping her underneath him until her screams reach the neighbors. Unfortunately for them, a neighbor records the whole rescue incident and the H becomes synonymous with old men who make fools out of themselves with young women. The H ends up at a rehabilitation home (his daughter has long since left the country) where he is regularly wheeled into the TV room after grueling physical therapy sessions. He ends being forced to watch multiple episodes of the h's show, which agitates him greatly and delays his recovery. He tries to tell the nurses that the h was in love with him, and they laugh indulgently at this, although he later overhears them laughing at his claim.
She never learns anything about this, because she has forgotten him entirely.
When he forces her to work out her notice and watch him wine and dine a series of much younger women who are her physical opposite, literally making her sit at the table with him, she is hurt but makes it through with her dignity and leaves when the time is up.
She declined to stay in touch with his daughter and explains that unfortunately, when your father is a colossal jackass, the consequences can be that she is going to meet a lot of women who don't stick around. She explains to the daughter that stepping away from them completely is a way a woman shows self-respect. The daughter is sad but seems to have absorbed the message.
The h buys her fixer-upper dream cottage and gets to work on fixing it up. She ends up meeting a very handsome, unsurprisingly brawny contractor who is in charge of her project. They get to know each other and start dating, going on fun dates that are inexpensive at her insistence, since she knows contractors don't earn much money. After two months, the cottage is entirely redone, which makes her wonder why people are always complaining about why home redesign projects always take such a long time, since she had a full team of laborers working around the clock. The night the final work is done, the contractor takes her out for a romantic dinner, where he tells her he has been keeping a secret from her. He is the owner of the construction firm, which is a nationally owned operation that is synonymous with quality and ethics. He had been in the office when she walked in the first time and had fallen in love at first sight, so he pretended to be the site manager of her project. He fell more and more in love with her and was just waiting until he had finished the job to tell her. He also tells her that he surreptitiously upgraded all the building materials for her projects without alerting her.
He then proposes and she accepts with delight. They get married and it makes the society pages because the contractor is extremely wealthy. The media coverage includes before and afters for the cottage, and after the honeymoon, they are deluged with requests to do more home makeovers. They decide to do a tasteful YouTube series of shows where they renovate old cottages for pensioners and other people who are low on disposable income. It is wildly popular, and although they only allow one commercial break per show, the advertising revenues make them even wealthier. The h becomes somewhat of a sex symbol because her work on the show draws attention to her great personality and, inadvertently, to her statuesque figure. Eventually, the h writes a book on how to redecorate small homes that is extremely popular. However, the most important thing in her life remains her marriage and her doting husband, and he feels the same way about her, except more so.
The H, meanwhile, is devastated by this and throws himself into dating tiny bimbos and becoming an alcoholic. He has a heart attack and mild stroke while having sex with one, trapping her underneath him until her screams reach the neighbors. Unfortunately for them, a neighbor records the whole rescue incident and the H becomes synonymous with old men who make fools out of themselves with young women. The H ends up at a rehabilitation home (his daughter has long since left the country) where he is regularly wheeled into the TV room after grueling physical therapy sessions. He ends being forced to watch multiple episodes of the h's show, which agitates him greatly and delays his recovery. He tries to tell the nurses that the h was in love with him, and they laugh indulgently at this, although he later overhears them laughing at his claim.
She never learns anything about this, because she has forgotten him entirely.
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May 28, 2019
The title of this book is dumb. He hired her as a tutor for his slightly deviant daughter there was literally no wife hiring going on at any point.
February 21, 2014
t wasn't too bad but it was a slow build to get into the story. After that things were a bit interesting but nothing super great.
March 29, 2014
Okay story. Manipulative hero gets his girl while making no sacrifices and treating heroine like crap.
September 16, 2021
Really, its a 2.5, because I liked it, but not quite.
*warning, spoilers*
LISTEN... I mean, was this book bad? No, I don't think so. It was a very interesting plot and finally, the heroine is not a tall, slim, natural beauty who is super smart and never acknowledged her beauty and then gets the guy who is an amazing father and a very handsome millionaire. That's a very lame trope and luckily, at least the heroine didn't fit that mould. But the same story unfolded, nonetheless.
Was it good? No, certainly not. But, despite the very predictable story line, it still had some novelty to it. And the child, while she played the same old cupidon role in the end, was a pleasant character and likable, in spite of her behavioural issues.
Cathy Williams appears to me, *through just this one book* to be in quite a personal war against conventionally attractive slim women, because every pretty woman mentioned was very dumb, referred to as bimbo and either drunk beyond words, a tool for jealousy or plain boring. No woman-woman uplifting, and that's sad...
Nothing too much more to say, because the book isn't much to begin with.
*warning, spoilers*
LISTEN... I mean, was this book bad? No, I don't think so. It was a very interesting plot and finally, the heroine is not a tall, slim, natural beauty who is super smart and never acknowledged her beauty and then gets the guy who is an amazing father and a very handsome millionaire. That's a very lame trope and luckily, at least the heroine didn't fit that mould. But the same story unfolded, nonetheless.
Was it good? No, certainly not. But, despite the very predictable story line, it still had some novelty to it. And the child, while she played the same old cupidon role in the end, was a pleasant character and likable, in spite of her behavioural issues.
Cathy Williams appears to me, *through just this one book* to be in quite a personal war against conventionally attractive slim women, because every pretty woman mentioned was very dumb, referred to as bimbo and either drunk beyond words, a tool for jealousy or plain boring. No woman-woman uplifting, and that's sad...
Nothing too much more to say, because the book isn't much to begin with.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 5, 2020
The h in this book is a full figured woman: big breasts, big hips. Love that! Finally a h who is not very thin or petite with small breasts or a h with a perfect, breath taking figure. Just a h who looks like a normal human being. She eats cake too. Love, love, love the h.
The book starts a bit slow, but the sex scenes are steamy.
Very good read. And I would like more HP books with a chubby h.
And oh yeah, this h is not blonde. Most h’s are blonde.
Kudos to Cathy Williams for describing a non-blonde woman with big breasts and wide hips.
The book starts a bit slow, but the sex scenes are steamy.
Very good read. And I would like more HP books with a chubby h.
And oh yeah, this h is not blonde. Most h’s are blonde.
Kudos to Cathy Williams for describing a non-blonde woman with big breasts and wide hips.
October 1, 2020
Nothing much happens and the timeline seems odd.
June 25, 2022
Don’t waste your time.
May 6, 2016
I did not like this book all that much. I did not the hero so it made it difficult to read. The story line was alright. The herione was not exciting.
March 29, 2016
is it just me or does the title has nothing to do with the story?!...dint like the heroine or the abrupt ending
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