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Romantic Getaways #1
The Billionaire of Coral Bay
Return of the secret billionaire...
For Mila, Coral Bay's coast is more than just paradise, it's a safe haven... Until gorgeous visitor Richard Grundy arrives--sending her senses into overdrive!
Secret billionaire Rich has come to the Bay looking for business opportunities, not romance. This single-minded tycoon prides himself on making decisions with his head, until he's captivated by gentle, exotic Mila! Now he has his toughest job yet...persuading Mila he has good intentions: to make her Coral Bay's newest bride!
For Mila, Coral Bay's coast is more than just paradise, it's a safe haven... Until gorgeous visitor Richard Grundy arrives--sending her senses into overdrive!
Secret billionaire Rich has come to the Bay looking for business opportunities, not romance. This single-minded tycoon prides himself on making decisions with his head, until he's captivated by gentle, exotic Mila! Now he has his toughest job yet...persuading Mila he has good intentions: to make her Coral Bay's newest bride!
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published February 7, 2017
About the author
Nikki Logan
223 books76 followersAustralian, Nikki Logan, lives on the edge of a string of wetlands south of Perth, Western Australia with her partner and a menagerie of animals. She writes captivating, nature-based stories full of romance in descriptive natural environments for Harlequin Enterprises and Entangled Publishing. She believes the danger and richness of wild places perfectly mirror the passion and risk of falling in love.
Nikki wrote her first full-length book in 2007 ('Wild Encounter' a romantic suspense set in the wilds of Zambia amidst the wildlife smuggling industry) when she needed a project to fill six months of accrued annual leave. Well and truly bitten by the writing-bug, she wrote a number of category-length novels after her return to work and hasn’t stopped since. She’s written fifteen books for Harlequin and now Entangled as well.
Nikki’s determined to reveal through her writing what she finds so enriching, courageous and tenacious about wildlife. Writing nature-based romance is the perfect opportunity to blend what she loves reading with what she loves doing and maybe sneak beautiful creatures and their environments into fertile reader imaginations all over the world through beautiful love stories.
Nikki wrote her first full-length book in 2007 ('Wild Encounter' a romantic suspense set in the wilds of Zambia amidst the wildlife smuggling industry) when she needed a project to fill six months of accrued annual leave. Well and truly bitten by the writing-bug, she wrote a number of category-length novels after her return to work and hasn’t stopped since. She’s written fifteen books for Harlequin and now Entangled as well.
Nikki’s determined to reveal through her writing what she finds so enriching, courageous and tenacious about wildlife. Writing nature-based romance is the perfect opportunity to blend what she loves reading with what she loves doing and maybe sneak beautiful creatures and their environments into fertile reader imaginations all over the world through beautiful love stories.
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March 31, 2022
What a very strange and ultimately disappointing book. I read Harlequin/Mills and Boon books for romance, for emotional satisfaction, for escapism and for characters I can identify with. This failed me completely. Worst of all, it was so boring! Nothing like the other books I’ve read by this author and thoroughly enjoyed.
If I want an introduction to the Natural World - I’ll read David Attenborough. If I want an introduction to synesthesia- I’ll read a neurological textbook. If I want a polemic on the environment, or on respecting cultural differences etc etc - well I guess you get the picture! I don’t read Mills and Boon to be lectured to.
This book couldn’t make up its mind as to whether it was an environmental treatise, a wild life text book, an attack on wicked developers, or a lesson on the different ways individuals perceive the world - or a romance. As a result it was neither one or another.
I disliked Mila for being such rude, hostile and judgemental idiot for all of the book. She was ‘right’ and no one else’s viewpoint or motivation could possibly be as good as hers.
As for Rich - he never came to life because he was under-written.
This book was with three others in an anthology. Thankfully the others were much better. I think this would have been much better if the writer had not attempted to cram in so many issues. There really isn’t space in a 50,000 word story to do justice to all the issues without something (in this case the romance), being adversely affected.
If I want an introduction to the Natural World - I’ll read David Attenborough. If I want an introduction to synesthesia- I’ll read a neurological textbook. If I want a polemic on the environment, or on respecting cultural differences etc etc - well I guess you get the picture! I don’t read Mills and Boon to be lectured to.
This book couldn’t make up its mind as to whether it was an environmental treatise, a wild life text book, an attack on wicked developers, or a lesson on the different ways individuals perceive the world - or a romance. As a result it was neither one or another.
I disliked Mila for being such rude, hostile and judgemental idiot for all of the book. She was ‘right’ and no one else’s viewpoint or motivation could possibly be as good as hers.
As for Rich - he never came to life because he was under-written.
This book was with three others in an anthology. Thankfully the others were much better. I think this would have been much better if the writer had not attempted to cram in so many issues. There really isn’t space in a 50,000 word story to do justice to all the issues without something (in this case the romance), being adversely affected.
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June 29, 2018I can't rate this, because I still don't know what to think about this book.
I don't think that I've read anything by Nikki Logan before, but this book was the third novel in a Harlequin anthology that I was reading, and I found it to be uniquely different. There is the male protagonist, Richard Grundy, a worldly Australian billionaire who is scouting out information about Coral Bay so that he can proceed with developing the area. His guide is a ranger, Mila Nakano, who is a bit of an enigma. Her multi-ethnic background and synaesthesia mean that she experiences the world in a different way from the average person. I found parts of the book painful and uncomfortable to read, because the heroine was rather stunted socially, and physically, although, for the latter, not in appearance. It just sounded that it was actually very difficult for her to physically touch people without her synaesthesia getting in the way. For instance, whenever Mila finds something to be distasteful or unpleasant, she associates it with earwax. She associates the smell of oak moss with security. There are references to these sensations and associations throughout the text of the book. The author succeeded in getting Mila's uniqueness across!
As for the romance, the major portion of it takes place over the course of a few days, which is fairly quick. Because of the heroine's sensory issues, there isn't much physical activity between her and the hero, so the novel doesn't get very hot or heavy where physical intimacy is concerned beyond that of kissing. There is some innuendo connected with marine wildlife, and I get the impression that our protagonists are not opposed to having sex if the opportunity should arise. It doesn't, so the book is fairly clean.
This book gives the reader exposure to a fictional account of a person's experience of synaesthesia. Because of the nature of Mila's work as a ranger, there are plenty of descriptions of what research scientists might do in studying coral reefs. If either of those things appeal to you, then this might be a book that you might be interested in checking out.
I don't think that I've read anything by Nikki Logan before, but this book was the third novel in a Harlequin anthology that I was reading, and I found it to be uniquely different. There is the male protagonist, Richard Grundy, a worldly Australian billionaire who is scouting out information about Coral Bay so that he can proceed with developing the area. His guide is a ranger, Mila Nakano, who is a bit of an enigma. Her multi-ethnic background and synaesthesia mean that she experiences the world in a different way from the average person. I found parts of the book painful and uncomfortable to read, because the heroine was rather stunted socially, and physically, although, for the latter, not in appearance. It just sounded that it was actually very difficult for her to physically touch people without her synaesthesia getting in the way. For instance, whenever Mila finds something to be distasteful or unpleasant, she associates it with earwax. She associates the smell of oak moss with security. There are references to these sensations and associations throughout the text of the book. The author succeeded in getting Mila's uniqueness across!
As for the romance, the major portion of it takes place over the course of a few days, which is fairly quick. Because of the heroine's sensory issues, there isn't much physical activity between her and the hero, so the novel doesn't get very hot or heavy where physical intimacy is concerned beyond that of kissing. There is some innuendo connected with marine wildlife, and I get the impression that our protagonists are not opposed to having sex if the opportunity should arise. It doesn't, so the book is fairly clean.
This book gives the reader exposure to a fictional account of a person's experience of synaesthesia. Because of the nature of Mila's work as a ranger, there are plenty of descriptions of what research scientists might do in studying coral reefs. If either of those things appeal to you, then this might be a book that you might be interested in checking out.
February 22, 2020
PG Romance
In this delightful novella, readers are taken on a wonderful tour of the Australian cost and the environmental concerns of the area all while growing with the male protagonist as he reconnects with his roots and searches for a life of meaning and purpose.
For the first time i resonated strongly with the female protagonist. With interesting nuance, the female protagonist has a condition called synesthesia. I had never heard of this condition, but the way the author described her experience of reality mirrored my own experience of reality. A whole new world opened up for me as I researched the condition and found entire communities that experience the world like I do. All these years I suspected I was a little bit crazy, only to find my experience validated by neurology.
The author uses the condition of the character to really bring the narrative and plot to life. She also demonstrates remarkable character growth in both sides for so short a work.
Highly recommend for those who have a multi-sensory experience of the world and would enjoy seeing themselves at the center of a romance.
In this delightful novella, readers are taken on a wonderful tour of the Australian cost and the environmental concerns of the area all while growing with the male protagonist as he reconnects with his roots and searches for a life of meaning and purpose.
For the first time i resonated strongly with the female protagonist. With interesting nuance, the female protagonist has a condition called synesthesia. I had never heard of this condition, but the way the author described her experience of reality mirrored my own experience of reality. A whole new world opened up for me as I researched the condition and found entire communities that experience the world like I do. All these years I suspected I was a little bit crazy, only to find my experience validated by neurology.
The author uses the condition of the character to really bring the narrative and plot to life. She also demonstrates remarkable character growth in both sides for so short a work.
Highly recommend for those who have a multi-sensory experience of the world and would enjoy seeing themselves at the center of a romance.
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