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Practise to Deceive
Donna Mackenzie was a powerful television journalist who'd built a career exposing the saints and sinners of the world. Off camera, however, no one would recognize Kenzie Heydon, the woman behind the image.
Sexy Alaric Rogan met and charmed the real woman, not her savvy, sophisticated alter ego. And Kenzie fell deeply in love.
But it was a cold, calculated setup--a plan of revenge against Donna Mackenzie for the suffering one of her "interviews" had inflicted upon his family. And now Alaric had Kenzie exactly where he wanted her....(less)
Sexy Alaric Rogan met and charmed the real woman, not her savvy, sophisticated alter ego. And Kenzie fell deeply in love.
But it was a cold, calculated setup--a plan of revenge against Donna Mackenzie for the suffering one of her "interviews" had inflicted upon his family. And now Alaric had Kenzie exactly where he wanted her....(less)
192 pages, Paperback
First published November 5, 1993
About the author
Sally Wentworth
108 books95 followersDoreen was born on 1936 or 1937 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She married Donald Alfred Hornsblow, with whom she has a son Keith, in 1968. The family lived in Braughing, England.
Doreen began her publishing career at a Fleet Street newspaper in London, where she thrived in the hectic atmosphere. She started writing after attending an evening class and sold her first novel to Mills & Boon in 1977, she published her novels under the pseudonym Sally Wentworth. Her novels were principally set in Great Britain or in exotic places like Canary Islands or Greece. Her first works are stand-alone novels, but in 1990s, she decided to create her first series. In 1991, she wrote a book in two parts about the Barclay twins and their great love, and in 1995, she wrote the Ties of Passion Trilogy about the Brodey family, that have money, looks, style, everything... except love.
Doreen was an accounts clerk at Associated Newspapers Ltd. in London, England, and accounts clerk at Consumers' Association in Hertford, England. In 1985, she was the founding chair of the Hertford Association of National Trust Members, and named its life president. She also collected knife rests and she was member of The Knife Rest Collectors Club.
Doreen Hornsblow died from cancer on 30 August 2001, at 64 years of age.
Doreen began her publishing career at a Fleet Street newspaper in London, where she thrived in the hectic atmosphere. She started writing after attending an evening class and sold her first novel to Mills & Boon in 1977, she published her novels under the pseudonym Sally Wentworth. Her novels were principally set in Great Britain or in exotic places like Canary Islands or Greece. Her first works are stand-alone novels, but in 1990s, she decided to create her first series. In 1991, she wrote a book in two parts about the Barclay twins and their great love, and in 1995, she wrote the Ties of Passion Trilogy about the Brodey family, that have money, looks, style, everything... except love.
Doreen was an accounts clerk at Associated Newspapers Ltd. in London, England, and accounts clerk at Consumers' Association in Hertford, England. In 1985, she was the founding chair of the Hertford Association of National Trust Members, and named its life president. She also collected knife rests and she was member of The Knife Rest Collectors Club.
Doreen Hornsblow died from cancer on 30 August 2001, at 64 years of age.
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July 15, 2018
Re Practice to Deceive - Sally Wentworth has another go at the revenge trope in this one. The grand plan o'vengeance is on behalf of the H this time. The H has the worst H name ever, Al, (which brings up horrible images of Al Bundy from Married with Children,) short for Alaric.
The h is an exposé type presenter of a show that is called "Saints and Sinners". She does interviews with people and either lauds them for their charitable works or exposes them for dubious past dealings that they have lied about. We see an interesting interview at the beginning where the h exposes a school headmaster child abuser and the h is getting tired of the job.
She used to be an actress and then got this television program after she was having a hard time getting acting roles and took a radio job where she blew up at a lying, using nematode and got rave reviews.
The h also had a relationship with another actor that she lived with, but his jealousy over her success and her getting tired of supporting him while he claimed she "prostituted" herself by journalistic type non-acting jobs led her to finally kick him out.
She is still acting in her own mind, she uses a complete disguise with red haired wig and accouterments to hide her real identity. Her job has made the inevitable threats from exposed wrongdoers a real danger, she has a bodyguard and goes out of her way to keep her TV persona and her private life separate.
The h also does a lot of volunteer work for a phone-in help line and has anonymously lent her villa in Portugal out to needy people who need a little boost in a stress filled life. She also quietly arranges for a little assistance for other people who call in with various problems and is basically an undercover pay it forward kinda lady with a very sparky personality.
The h is getting tired of the subterfuge and her TV show, she is considering writing as a full time career and is dearly looking forward to two months off the grueling grind of her TV show while she vacations at her villa in Portugal.
The h goes to Portugal, but not before getting some urgent messages from a man who claims that she wrongly exposed a man on the show as a sinner and not a saint. The h is in a rush to leave and when she tries to return the man's call, the line is busy and things get intense in her rush to make her flight, so she decides it can wait until she returns.
(The h has a whole team of researches on the sinner aspects of her job, she is a good journalist in that she triple verifies her facts and doesn't expose anyone who doesn't have clearly provable misdeeds that affect their current occupations and she can prove they lied about them.)
While in Portugal, we get a little travelogue and some topless h sunbathing. On one of her forays into town, she spies a handsome man who seems to be looking for someone, but the h disregards the man until he deliberately slams his door into the h as she is riding her bike past his car a little while later.
The door slam knocks her off her bike and into traffic. The man picks her up and apologizes profusely. The h allows him to take her home and he introduces himself as a banker on holiday and soon he has charmed his way into the h's life. She doesn't tell him about her other TV persona and we learn that the h is an orphan while the H has a fragile mother and stepfather.
Eventually the H manages to seduce the h and they make plans to meet up in England. When the h gets back and gets back to her life, the H drops his big bombshell. He took pictures and a video of the h while they were involved in the Lurve Passion Mojo events and he will expose her to the press if she doesn't acknowledge that she lied about his stepfather on her program.
The H claims that one of her sinners, whose shoddy building practices and long con games caused the collapse of an elderly care home, was not responsible for the building collapse. The H wants a public on-air apology and to humble the h.
The h has a spine of steel and doesn't back down, she puts herself and her researchers on the review of the stepfather and while he only has a deathbed confession from another man that claims he was responsible, the h has a long, long list of backup documents that prove the H's stepfather is a lying cheat.
The H harasses her and follows her around while he imposes himself upon her until she finally agrees to go with him to see the stepfather, who is now threatening suicide with a loaded shotgun.
The h and H find the stepfather, who finally admits that the h was correct and then tries to shoot her. A big lightening storm develops and the stepfather is drunk, the h valiantly goes back to help the H drag the stepfather to safety after lightning almost strikes them all.
(This is a big deal, because the h's parents died when they were struck by lightning under a tree and she has hated it ever since.)
The h takes herself back to her life and refuses contact with the H. She decides to discontinue the TV show and in an act of passive aggressive nematode slime swilling coprophagic revenge, the H somehow convinces the h's producers to exposé her private life as a philanthropist as the last "Saint" on the show - including her real name and what she looks like, so I can only wonder how many other "Sinners" are going to come gunning for her now that her private life is totally exposed.
The h, whose brain must have been addled by the lightning close call, accepts this sewer filled move as a true grovel and happily agrees to stay with the H for the big HEA, even after he claims he is keeping those intimate photos of their night of love in his possession forever.
Not in a million gadzillion years do I buy the HEA on this book. Kudos to SW for making revenge porn a thing before it was a cultural phenomena, but honestly this book would NEVER be published today with the H being the hero. He would have been justly drop kicked into prison by the real H if this book was written today.
The only thing that makes book even marginally readable is that the h has a backbone of titanium and uses it, until she is forced to drink the HP koolaid at the end. All the grovels in all the worlds was needed to redeem this H and his passive aggressive, if-I-can't-get-revenge-one-way-I-will-destroy-your-life-another-way exposé move at the end just shows what an utter piece of garbage he is.
I don't buy the HEA, I hate this H and I am not sorry for saying I hope he died the paragraph after this book ended. This was not a happy day in HPlandia for me and I hope to never revisit it again.
The h is an exposé type presenter of a show that is called "Saints and Sinners". She does interviews with people and either lauds them for their charitable works or exposes them for dubious past dealings that they have lied about. We see an interesting interview at the beginning where the h exposes a school headmaster child abuser and the h is getting tired of the job.
She used to be an actress and then got this television program after she was having a hard time getting acting roles and took a radio job where she blew up at a lying, using nematode and got rave reviews.
The h also had a relationship with another actor that she lived with, but his jealousy over her success and her getting tired of supporting him while he claimed she "prostituted" herself by journalistic type non-acting jobs led her to finally kick him out.
She is still acting in her own mind, she uses a complete disguise with red haired wig and accouterments to hide her real identity. Her job has made the inevitable threats from exposed wrongdoers a real danger, she has a bodyguard and goes out of her way to keep her TV persona and her private life separate.
The h also does a lot of volunteer work for a phone-in help line and has anonymously lent her villa in Portugal out to needy people who need a little boost in a stress filled life. She also quietly arranges for a little assistance for other people who call in with various problems and is basically an undercover pay it forward kinda lady with a very sparky personality.
The h is getting tired of the subterfuge and her TV show, she is considering writing as a full time career and is dearly looking forward to two months off the grueling grind of her TV show while she vacations at her villa in Portugal.
The h goes to Portugal, but not before getting some urgent messages from a man who claims that she wrongly exposed a man on the show as a sinner and not a saint. The h is in a rush to leave and when she tries to return the man's call, the line is busy and things get intense in her rush to make her flight, so she decides it can wait until she returns.
(The h has a whole team of researches on the sinner aspects of her job, she is a good journalist in that she triple verifies her facts and doesn't expose anyone who doesn't have clearly provable misdeeds that affect their current occupations and she can prove they lied about them.)
While in Portugal, we get a little travelogue and some topless h sunbathing. On one of her forays into town, she spies a handsome man who seems to be looking for someone, but the h disregards the man until he deliberately slams his door into the h as she is riding her bike past his car a little while later.
The door slam knocks her off her bike and into traffic. The man picks her up and apologizes profusely. The h allows him to take her home and he introduces himself as a banker on holiday and soon he has charmed his way into the h's life. She doesn't tell him about her other TV persona and we learn that the h is an orphan while the H has a fragile mother and stepfather.
Eventually the H manages to seduce the h and they make plans to meet up in England. When the h gets back and gets back to her life, the H drops his big bombshell. He took pictures and a video of the h while they were involved in the Lurve Passion Mojo events and he will expose her to the press if she doesn't acknowledge that she lied about his stepfather on her program.
The H claims that one of her sinners, whose shoddy building practices and long con games caused the collapse of an elderly care home, was not responsible for the building collapse. The H wants a public on-air apology and to humble the h.
The h has a spine of steel and doesn't back down, she puts herself and her researchers on the review of the stepfather and while he only has a deathbed confession from another man that claims he was responsible, the h has a long, long list of backup documents that prove the H's stepfather is a lying cheat.
The H harasses her and follows her around while he imposes himself upon her until she finally agrees to go with him to see the stepfather, who is now threatening suicide with a loaded shotgun.
The h and H find the stepfather, who finally admits that the h was correct and then tries to shoot her. A big lightening storm develops and the stepfather is drunk, the h valiantly goes back to help the H drag the stepfather to safety after lightning almost strikes them all.
(This is a big deal, because the h's parents died when they were struck by lightning under a tree and she has hated it ever since.)
The h takes herself back to her life and refuses contact with the H. She decides to discontinue the TV show and in an act of passive aggressive nematode slime swilling coprophagic revenge, the H somehow convinces the h's producers to exposé her private life as a philanthropist as the last "Saint" on the show - including her real name and what she looks like, so I can only wonder how many other "Sinners" are going to come gunning for her now that her private life is totally exposed.
The h, whose brain must have been addled by the lightning close call, accepts this sewer filled move as a true grovel and happily agrees to stay with the H for the big HEA, even after he claims he is keeping those intimate photos of their night of love in his possession forever.
Not in a million gadzillion years do I buy the HEA on this book. Kudos to SW for making revenge porn a thing before it was a cultural phenomena, but honestly this book would NEVER be published today with the H being the hero. He would have been justly drop kicked into prison by the real H if this book was written today.
The only thing that makes book even marginally readable is that the h has a backbone of titanium and uses it, until she is forced to drink the HP koolaid at the end. All the grovels in all the worlds was needed to redeem this H and his passive aggressive, if-I-can't-get-revenge-one-way-I-will-destroy-your-life-another-way exposé move at the end just shows what an utter piece of garbage he is.
I don't buy the HEA, I hate this H and I am not sorry for saying I hope he died the paragraph after this book ended. This was not a happy day in HPlandia for me and I hope to never revisit it again.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 16, 2015
This book made me SOOOOO angry. But, I gave it 3 stars because I liked the heroine and sometimes I enjoy being angry :)
The heroine was a smart, successful woman. A bit different from your typical HP heroine of this era. She was in her later 20s so she had some life experience, including a failed love affair. So, not your typical 21-year-old virgin with no life skills. That's a time honored trope that I'm not knocking, but sometimes it's nice to mix it up a bit.
Anyway. The heroine is an ex actress who is doing an expose type of show. Sort of reminds me of 'Dateline' here in the states. But, it was a bit different in that they profiled 'Sinners and Saints'. So, it was not always negative. Sometimes it profiled people who did lots of good works. Plus, even though it was an undercover type investigative show, the sinners had to agree to come on the program and be interviewed before the show would occur and the results of the very thorough investigation revealed. Unlike Dateline, they didn't chase people down and put microphones in their face. The people being profiled had to willingly agree to appear or there was no show. I won't go into it too deeply, but it was a highly unlikely scenario. It depended on the 'sinner' being deluded enough to assume they were being brought on as a 'saint' to be celebrated rather than have their shady dealings exposed.
The point was - however unlikely the premise - this setup made the heroine appear like less of a vicious mud slinger and more of a responsible journalist.
One of the sinners profiled happened to be the H's step-father. He was a shady character who built an old folks home with shoddy materials and caused a collapse that killed someone. He'd buried that part of his past and bribed someone to take the fall. When he's exposed he supposedly tries to kill himself and the H's mother has a nervous breakdown. The H and his mom believe that the step-dad is the innocent victim he claims to be. So, the H goes on a campaign to have the h retract her investigation and publicly apologize to his step dad. This is where it get's crazy...
The heroine was a smart, successful woman. A bit different from your typical HP heroine of this era. She was in her later 20s so she had some life experience, including a failed love affair. So, not your typical 21-year-old virgin with no life skills. That's a time honored trope that I'm not knocking, but sometimes it's nice to mix it up a bit.
Anyway. The heroine is an ex actress who is doing an expose type of show. Sort of reminds me of 'Dateline' here in the states. But, it was a bit different in that they profiled 'Sinners and Saints'. So, it was not always negative. Sometimes it profiled people who did lots of good works. Plus, even though it was an undercover type investigative show, the sinners had to agree to come on the program and be interviewed before the show would occur and the results of the very thorough investigation revealed. Unlike Dateline, they didn't chase people down and put microphones in their face. The people being profiled had to willingly agree to appear or there was no show. I won't go into it too deeply, but it was a highly unlikely scenario. It depended on the 'sinner' being deluded enough to assume they were being brought on as a 'saint' to be celebrated rather than have their shady dealings exposed.
The point was - however unlikely the premise - this setup made the heroine appear like less of a vicious mud slinger and more of a responsible journalist.
One of the sinners profiled happened to be the H's step-father. He was a shady character who built an old folks home with shoddy materials and caused a collapse that killed someone. He'd buried that part of his past and bribed someone to take the fall. When he's exposed he supposedly tries to kill himself and the H's mother has a nervous breakdown. The H and his mom believe that the step-dad is the innocent victim he claims to be. So, the H goes on a campaign to have the h retract her investigation and publicly apologize to his step dad. This is where it get's crazy...
October 25, 2022
Wow.
It makes me laugh when I think of all those books struggling to give us sociopath and cruel heroes that are only pathetic caricatures threatening the heroine's life and her wellbeing while awfully smirking.
This hero doesn't promise or threatens, he delivers.
He's one of the worst heroes ever.
The heroine is a journalist who has a tv show where people are labeled as "sinners" or "saints" according to what the show finds out about them.
The hero's stepfather, who willingly submitted to the show, is actually a sinner, but the hero is so dumb that he can't understand he's guilty.
He plans his revenge and his blackmail.
He pretends to be attracted to the heroine and follows her in her holiday home, they have sex and he record and takes pictures of them together, to blackmail her and to force her to publicly apologize for what she did to his stepdad.
The moment where he shows her the video of their copulation is a moment of real angst.
The heroine doesn't give in.
She decides to further investigate on his stepdad and actually it seems he's even worse than what they previously thought.
The hero is awful and I hated him for most of the book.
His final redemption is unbelievable and he never really apologizes nor grovels.
Nope.
Not at all.
The heroine isn't a simpering maid, thank god, but she should have made him grovel to the end of times.
But the angst is worth 3 stars, and even if it was written before the internet, it deals with a very hard theme: revenge porn, where someone post video with sexual content to get revenge or slut-shame someone.
Different times (and means) but same thing.
I wouldn't have done anything and would have reported him to the police.
No mercy for this kind of men.
Sadly I couldn't buy the HEA and the hero's love for the heroine. He coldly programmed all the seduction and then also blackmailed her.
Nope.
It makes me laugh when I think of all those books struggling to give us sociopath and cruel heroes that are only pathetic caricatures threatening the heroine's life and her wellbeing while awfully smirking.
This hero doesn't promise or threatens, he delivers.
He's one of the worst heroes ever.
The heroine is a journalist who has a tv show where people are labeled as "sinners" or "saints" according to what the show finds out about them.
The hero's stepfather, who willingly submitted to the show, is actually a sinner, but the hero is so dumb that he can't understand he's guilty.
He plans his revenge and his blackmail.
He pretends to be attracted to the heroine and follows her in her holiday home, they have sex and he record and takes pictures of them together, to blackmail her and to force her to publicly apologize for what she did to his stepdad.
The moment where he shows her the video of their copulation is a moment of real angst.
The heroine doesn't give in.
She decides to further investigate on his stepdad and actually it seems he's even worse than what they previously thought.
The hero is awful and I hated him for most of the book.
His final redemption is unbelievable and he never really apologizes nor grovels.
Nope.
Not at all.
The heroine isn't a simpering maid, thank god, but she should have made him grovel to the end of times.
But the angst is worth 3 stars, and even if it was written before the internet, it deals with a very hard theme: revenge porn, where someone post video with sexual content to get revenge or slut-shame someone.
Different times (and means) but same thing.
I wouldn't have done anything and would have reported him to the police.
No mercy for this kind of men.
Sadly I couldn't buy the HEA and the hero's love for the heroine. He coldly programmed all the seduction and then also blackmailed her.
Nope.
April 29, 2017
A revenge romance that delivered the revenge in spades. The angst was lovely because the heroine was strong enough to take it. However, the balance was off at the end. The hero did not suffer on page. I wanted to see his pale face, the weight of regret on his shoulders, the look of despair in his eyes that he just threw away his only chance at happiness. Instead - we get a surprise party for the heroine on her TV show with the hero and others saying nice things about her. What? The heroine (and I, the reader) didn't care about the *public's* view of the heroine, since the hero never went public with his blackmail. His revenge on her was private and his regret and grovel should have been private, too. Especially since privacy and intimacy and secrets were such a huge theme in the story.
Oh, I probably should explain just what this story was about. The heroine is a crusading journalist for a show called "Saints and Sinners." Each week she does an expose of a person that may or may not have a skeleton in the closet. She did a program on the H's stepfather, who turned out to be a "sinner" that caused the deaths of senior citizens because of his shoddy building practices. When he was exposed, the H's mother had a nervous breakdown.
So the H hunts down the heroine who is on vacation in Portugal, courts her for two months, then films them having sex without her knowledge. When they are back in London, he shows the heroine the tapes and says he'll send them to the media if she doesn't apologize on air to his stepfather.
Heroine refuses to back down, but she does re-open the file to see if she or her team made a mistake. The hero is an absolute jerk to her during this time - even when it's becoming painfully obvious that heroine is right and he is wrong.
This story had so much going for it until the disappointing ending. The setting in Portugal was magical, the sense of doom hanging over their holiday romance added to the angst. I appreciated the fact that the heroine had a whole team of people she could call on to support her case - this was no downtrodden Lynne Graham heroine. This was a woman with a spine of steel. The big gesture by the hero at the end was glib and flashy and in no way constituted a grovel for me.
Oh, I probably should explain just what this story was about. The heroine is a crusading journalist for a show called "Saints and Sinners." Each week she does an expose of a person that may or may not have a skeleton in the closet. She did a program on the H's stepfather, who turned out to be a "sinner" that caused the deaths of senior citizens because of his shoddy building practices. When he was exposed, the H's mother had a nervous breakdown.
So the H hunts down the heroine who is on vacation in Portugal, courts her for two months, then films them having sex without her knowledge. When they are back in London, he shows the heroine the tapes and says he'll send them to the media if she doesn't apologize on air to his stepfather.
Heroine refuses to back down, but she does re-open the file to see if she or her team made a mistake. The hero is an absolute jerk to her during this time - even when it's becoming painfully obvious that heroine is right and he is wrong.
This story had so much going for it until the disappointing ending. The setting in Portugal was magical, the sense of doom hanging over their holiday romance added to the angst. I appreciated the fact that the heroine had a whole team of people she could call on to support her case - this was no downtrodden Lynne Graham heroine. This was a woman with a spine of steel. The big gesture by the hero at the end was glib and flashy and in no way constituted a grovel for me.
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August 7, 2022
Well, this was different.
I hated the H. What he did to her, was so terribly wrong. He was forgiven too easily, too quickly, by the h. She should have made him suffer for at least a year.
It was a really engaging read, but the end of the book leaves a bit of a sour taste that he gets away with all he had done just like that. She wasn’t a virgin and he was a jerk.
I hated the H. What he did to her, was so terribly wrong. He was forgiven too easily, too quickly, by the h. She should have made him suffer for at least a year.
It was a really engaging read, but the end of the book leaves a bit of a sour taste that he gets away with all he had done just like that. She wasn’t a virgin and he was a jerk.
June 30, 2013
Normally, I have no problem with ASShole heroes (the main reason I read HPs) but this one is the King of them. He has sex with the heroine only to film her and make pictures which he uses for blackmailing her. The heroine was a bit to angelic for my taste. I would have wished for another ending of this book. Like her going on a rampage and cutting off his d@ck.
October 15, 2013
3.5 stars. Wow, I really wanted to love this one. The angsty revenge plot was quite good for a while there. But the hero got off WAAAAYYYY too easily, and I'm not one to demand all that much groveling from terrible heroes. The speed with which she forgave him was astonishing and ruined what was otherwise a good angsty romance.
April 28, 2016
I gotta be honest. I read the mid part of the book where she was about to find out his betrayal and it was really good for me. itwas a page turner. heatwrenching i should say. but what really disappoint me the most--hence the two star rating-- was the ending of this book. i mean, despite the dramatic way the H did to show the audience that the h was a saint, the grovelling part was so not enough. i mean that kind of meaness wont get you off that easily. but sad to say the H did.
March 26, 2020
Donna Mackenzie was a powerful television journalist who'd built a career exposing the saints and sinners of the world. Off camera, however, no one would recognize Kenzie Heydon, the woman behind the image.
Sexy Alaric Rogan met and charmed the real woman, not her savvy, sophisticated alter ego. And Kenzie fell deeply in love.
But it was a cold, calculated setup--a plan of revenge against Donna Mackenzie for the suffering one of her "interviews" had inflicted upon his family. And now Alaric had Kenzie exactly where he wanted her....
Sexy Alaric Rogan met and charmed the real woman, not her savvy, sophisticated alter ego. And Kenzie fell deeply in love.
But it was a cold, calculated setup--a plan of revenge against Donna Mackenzie for the suffering one of her "interviews" had inflicted upon his family. And now Alaric had Kenzie exactly where he wanted her....
March 23, 2018
2.5
The hero Al got away without proper grovelling lost star for that.
The hero Al got away without proper grovelling lost star for that.
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October 30, 2012An OK romantic read. Very dry. The author took a serious subject very lightly.
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February 3, 2024Jeez what have I just read. Revenge porn by the H and all is forgotten and forgiven. Hell no. I get that it must be challenging to keep coming up with fresh plots for these category romances but this one was so ice cold and icky I felt uneasy reading it. I did finish it because Sally Wentworth can write a compelling story. But. Neither the h, TV host Kenzie, nor the H, Hong Kong banker Alaric were appealing. The only saving grace was the nice Portuguese villa. I'd avoid this.
April 23, 2019
So many intriguing comments from other readers finally made me read this one.
Surprise! I enjoyed it despite that it has a plot I would usually dislike.
As many others said, H could suffer more.
Surprise! I enjoyed it despite that it has a plot I would usually dislike.
As many others said, H could suffer more.
August 3, 2011
From back cover:
Alter ego
Donna Mackenzie was a powerful television journalist who'd built a career exposing the saints and sinners of the world. Off camera, however, no one would recognize Kenzie Heydon, the woman behind the image.
Sexy Alaric Rogan met and charmed the real woman, not her savvy, sophisticated alter ego. And Kenzie fell deeply in love.
But it was a cold, calculated setup--a plan of revenge against Donna Mackenzie for the suffering one of her "interviews" had inflicted upon his family. And now Alaric had Kenzie exactly where he wanted her....
Alter ego
Donna Mackenzie was a powerful television journalist who'd built a career exposing the saints and sinners of the world. Off camera, however, no one would recognize Kenzie Heydon, the woman behind the image.
Sexy Alaric Rogan met and charmed the real woman, not her savvy, sophisticated alter ego. And Kenzie fell deeply in love.
But it was a cold, calculated setup--a plan of revenge against Donna Mackenzie for the suffering one of her "interviews" had inflicted upon his family. And now Alaric had Kenzie exactly where he wanted her....
March 6, 2024
Look I usually adore a cruel hero because of the inevitable grovel. Ms Wentworth has given us some of the best cruel heroes in classic HPs such as Betrayal in Bali and Shattered Dreams but this was really an unsatisfying read from one of my favourite authors. Revenge porn is irredeemable and it’s disappointing she forgave him without any real acceptance of wrongdoing on his part.
November 24, 2018
This author is very inventive and creative with her stories. But the ending could be better in my opinion, with H suffering a little more on what he has done to h.
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