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Hard to Handle
"You're just a client, Mr. Reid."
Stevie Henderson made the statement bluntly, adding, "You're not my keeper." Not even for the sake of her cherished career would she put up with his blatant interference.
James Reid, however, wasn't a man to be easily put down. Ruggedly handsome, impatient, he had a magnetic energy that could overpower anyone--let alone an inexperienced dreamer like Stevie.
Before she knew it she'd almost forgotten Jordan, the man back home she'd always expected to marry. James captured her heart completely--and then proceeded to break it....
Stevie Henderson made the statement bluntly, adding, "You're not my keeper." Not even for the sake of her cherished career would she put up with his blatant interference.
James Reid, however, wasn't a man to be easily put down. Ruggedly handsome, impatient, he had a magnetic energy that could overpower anyone--let alone an inexperienced dreamer like Stevie.
Before she knew it she'd almost forgotten Jordan, the man back home she'd always expected to marry. James captured her heart completely--and then proceeded to break it....
- GenresHarlequin Romance
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
About the author
Jessica Ayre
7 books1 followeraka Lisa Appignanesi
Elżbieta Borensztejn was born on 4 January 1946 in Łódź, Poland, the daughter of Hena and Aaron Borensztejn with Jewish origin. Following her birth, her parents moved to Paris, France, and in 1951 they emigrating to Canada. She grew up in the province of Quebec - first in a small Laurentian town, subsequently in Montreal.
She graduated from McGill University with a B.A. degree in 1966 and her M.A. the following year. During 1970-71 she was a staff writer for the Centre for Community Research in New York City and is a former University of Essex lecturer in European Studies. She was a founding member and editorial director of the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative. Through the eighties she was a Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK, for whom she also edited the seminal Documents Series and established ICA television and the video Writers in Conversation series.
She produced several made for television films and had written a number of books before devoting herself to writing fulltime in 1990. In recognition of her contribution to literature, Lisa Appignanesi has been honoured with a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government. In 2004, she became Deputy President of English PEN and has run its highly successful 'Free Expression is No Offence Campaign' against the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. In 2008 she became President of English PEN. She writes for The Guardian, The Independent and has made several series for BBC Radio 4, as well as frequently appearing as a cultural commentator.
In 1967, she married Richard Appignanesi, another writer, with whom she had one son in 1975, Josh Appignanesi, a film director. They divorced in 1984. With her life partner John Forrester, she had a daugther, Katrina Forrester, a Research Fellow in the history of modern political thought at St John's College, Cambridge. She lives in London.
Elżbieta Borensztejn was born on 4 January 1946 in Łódź, Poland, the daughter of Hena and Aaron Borensztejn with Jewish origin. Following her birth, her parents moved to Paris, France, and in 1951 they emigrating to Canada. She grew up in the province of Quebec - first in a small Laurentian town, subsequently in Montreal.
She graduated from McGill University with a B.A. degree in 1966 and her M.A. the following year. During 1970-71 she was a staff writer for the Centre for Community Research in New York City and is a former University of Essex lecturer in European Studies. She was a founding member and editorial director of the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative. Through the eighties she was a Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK, for whom she also edited the seminal Documents Series and established ICA television and the video Writers in Conversation series.
She produced several made for television films and had written a number of books before devoting herself to writing fulltime in 1990. In recognition of her contribution to literature, Lisa Appignanesi has been honoured with a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government. In 2004, she became Deputy President of English PEN and has run its highly successful 'Free Expression is No Offence Campaign' against the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. In 2008 she became President of English PEN. She writes for The Guardian, The Independent and has made several series for BBC Radio 4, as well as frequently appearing as a cultural commentator.
In 1967, she married Richard Appignanesi, another writer, with whom she had one son in 1975, Josh Appignanesi, a film director. They divorced in 1984. With her life partner John Forrester, she had a daugther, Katrina Forrester, a Research Fellow in the history of modern political thought at St John's College, Cambridge. She lives in London.
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December 14, 2020
A naive girl who just started working at a photo agency falls in love with a weary war photographer who is so burned out by the death and misery he captured on film throughout the years that he is switching to fashion photography. Cue for all the glamorous models and socialites who flit around him like butterflies while the heroine alternatively weeps, fights or makes out with him.
The two stars are because
1) it was pretty good writing, including the sense of setting, the characterizations and the dialogue, especially the part where he explains about being disgusted with people who have become numb to images of horror and can easily compartmentalize them so that they don't really affect their personal lives. That legit made me sad because it always makes me think of that poor photographer who took his life a few months after getting the Pulitzer prize for his photo of a starving Sudanese child being watched by a vulture. I thought the author did a very good characterization of the hero and his suffering from dark demons. I just wish she hadn't made him such a manwhore or at least that she conveyed that the heroine was different from all the others. But I just didn't get that impression, sadly so on the romance front, I didn't feel that he was a swoony hero.
2) the heroine grew a teeny tiny backbone at the end of the story where, after too many times that he blew hot and cold with her, she actually makes him propose on bended knees and declare out loud and with articulation that he loves her. It was a pretty funny scene :)
Overall though, the bickerfest grew to be tedious, the woman was immature and naive and wept like a colander, and there were just way too many OWs around the hero for me to believe in a happily ever after. Happy for now, yes, and then a divorce down the line after he inevitably cheats on her!
The two stars are because
1) it was pretty good writing, including the sense of setting, the characterizations and the dialogue, especially the part where he explains about being disgusted with people who have become numb to images of horror and can easily compartmentalize them so that they don't really affect their personal lives. That legit made me sad because it always makes me think of that poor photographer who took his life a few months after getting the Pulitzer prize for his photo of a starving Sudanese child being watched by a vulture. I thought the author did a very good characterization of the hero and his suffering from dark demons. I just wish she hadn't made him such a manwhore or at least that she conveyed that the heroine was different from all the others. But I just didn't get that impression, sadly so on the romance front, I didn't feel that he was a swoony hero.
2) the heroine grew a teeny tiny backbone at the end of the story where, after too many times that he blew hot and cold with her, she actually makes him propose on bended knees and declare out loud and with articulation that he loves her. It was a pretty funny scene :)
Overall though, the bickerfest grew to be tedious, the woman was immature and naive and wept like a colander, and there were just way too many OWs around the hero for me to believe in a happily ever after. Happy for now, yes, and then a divorce down the line after he inevitably cheats on her!
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August 3, 2022
Sarebbe un 2.5 ma mi ha fatta sganasciare dalle risate.
January 19, 2021
"Ένας δύστροπος πελάτης" - Τζέσικα Άυρ, Σειρά Συλλογή, νούμερο 478, έτος έκδοσης στην Ελλάδα: 1983
Η Στήβη ήταν ένα μοντέρνο, χειραφετημένο κορίτσι κι εκείνο που την ενδιέφερε πάνω απ' όλα, ήταν η καριέρα της. Έτσι, όταν της ανέθεσαν να συνεργαστεί με το διάσημο φωτογράφο Τζέιμς Ράιντ, είδε αμέσως στη δουλειά αυτή, την ευκαιρία που περίμενε. Γρήγορα διαπίστωσε ότι ο Τζέιμς δεν ήταν μόνο ένας σπουδαίος καλλιτέχνης, μα και ένας ακαταμάχητα ελκυστικός άντρας. Κι ο ίδιος όμως της έδειξε, πως η ομορφιά της δεν τον άφηνε αδιάφορο. Αλλά η Στήβη, δεν ήταν διατεθειμένη να υποκύψει στη γοητεία του. Το τελευταίο πράγμα που επιθυμούσε, ήταν να μπει στο χαρέμι του...
ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΛΟ!!!!
Η Στήβη ήταν ένα μοντέρνο, χειραφετημένο κορίτσι κι εκείνο που την ενδιέφερε πάνω απ' όλα, ήταν η καριέρα της. Έτσι, όταν της ανέθεσαν να συνεργαστεί με το διάσημο φωτογράφο Τζέιμς Ράιντ, είδε αμέσως στη δουλειά αυτή, την ευκαιρία που περίμενε. Γρήγορα διαπίστωσε ότι ο Τζέιμς δεν ήταν μόνο ένας σπουδαίος καλλιτέχνης, μα και ένας ακαταμάχητα ελκυστικός άντρας. Κι ο ίδιος όμως της έδειξε, πως η ομορφιά της δεν τον άφηνε αδιάφορο. Αλλά η Στήβη, δεν ήταν διατεθειμένη να υποκύψει στη γοητεία του. Το τελευταίο πράγμα που επιθυμούσε, ήταν να μπει στο χαρέμι του...
ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΛΟ!!!!
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