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Free to Love
"What are you waiting for? A knight in shining armour?"
Lauren had spent her life indebted to other people - now it was time to take an independent stand, without any help from the likes of Charles Lennox!
A professional troubleshooter, he had obviously decided on Lauren as his latest challlenge. Lauren knew he could have his pick of women - so why was he so interested in her? And would she be able to stop him from taking over her life ... and her heart?
Lauren had spent her life indebted to other people - now it was time to take an independent stand, without any help from the likes of Charles Lennox!
A professional troubleshooter, he had obviously decided on Lauren as his latest challlenge. Lauren knew he could have his pick of women - so why was he so interested in her? And would she be able to stop him from taking over her life ... and her heart?
192 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1995
About the author
Alison York
21 books7 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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June 21, 2023
3.5 Stars for Lauren.
I liked the H from No Sad Song, I don't feel the same for Charles here, he wasn't the worst of the heroes but still.
I like Lauren she was a strong and independent heroine, but she shouldn't be beholden to her selfish cousin. With the way that she was working and doing everything in her present job at her cousin's, shouldn't be difficult if she went to look to another jobs, maybe the lack of references could be a block, but not much, if she had decided to spred her wings ealrier. She stayed because of the home that she shared with her late mother and because she felt that she owned to her selfish relatives. In my opinion she and her mother were treated like a slave non-stop all these years, receiving a pittance.
I didn't like that Charles fell so in love with his fiancée that he asked her to marry him, if she didn't tell him about her pregnancy, he would have married and loved her still, but I think she just told him the truth because it would be difficult to pass another man's baby for his, if she withhold sex with the stupid H. And still he helped her later with money plus what he gave her when they had relationship. But to the hard-working heroine he would not help or give her a job knowing how hard-working and exploited she was. Why are always the OW that gets the rewards? And never the heroines, I don't ask much, she should get a help at least.
Not only he didn't help her he mocked her about her conditions, what a charmer prince. The bastard! He treat her like a floozy, kissed her and later he is suspicious that she wanted to take advantage of him. Really, you bastard? I hate when he knew she was tired working non-stop he said 'If you don't like the heat, you get out of the kitchen. And he was a customer and he always was right.' Jerk.
Later when she decided to leave her cousin's job and got in the H's firm without knowing it was his, the bastard accused her of being manipulative and that she wanted to take advantage, even knowing how was her situation and what kind the life she had. What a Scumbag. And then when she gave her notice to work in another place he got suspicion that she went for a rival firm, after that she found the only job available in a bar, the bastard still throwing accusations that she was working near his firm. What a BIG FAT JERK. He would never accuse his tarts, instead he would pamper and treasure his tarts, when the only thing that the heroine received is accusations and offenses. Sorry I don't believe in his love, he should reserve for his tarts they both deserved. what he did later did not redeemed in my eyes.
The heroine deserved a caring and protecting H, not the unworthy prick H.
I liked the H from No Sad Song, I don't feel the same for Charles here, he wasn't the worst of the heroes but still.
I like Lauren she was a strong and independent heroine, but she shouldn't be beholden to her selfish cousin. With the way that she was working and doing everything in her present job at her cousin's, shouldn't be difficult if she went to look to another jobs, maybe the lack of references could be a block, but not much, if she had decided to spred her wings ealrier. She stayed because of the home that she shared with her late mother and because she felt that she owned to her selfish relatives. In my opinion she and her mother were treated like a slave non-stop all these years, receiving a pittance.
I didn't like that Charles fell so in love with his fiancée that he asked her to marry him, if she didn't tell him about her pregnancy, he would have married and loved her still, but I think she just told him the truth because it would be difficult to pass another man's baby for his, if she withhold sex with the stupid H. And still he helped her later with money plus what he gave her when they had relationship. But to the hard-working heroine he would not help or give her a job knowing how hard-working and exploited she was. Why are always the OW that gets the rewards? And never the heroines, I don't ask much, she should get a help at least.
Not only he didn't help her he mocked her about her conditions, what a charmer prince. The bastard! He treat her like a floozy, kissed her and later he is suspicious that she wanted to take advantage of him. Really, you bastard? I hate when he knew she was tired working non-stop he said 'If you don't like the heat, you get out of the kitchen. And he was a customer and he always was right.' Jerk.
Later when she decided to leave her cousin's job and got in the H's firm without knowing it was his, the bastard accused her of being manipulative and that she wanted to take advantage, even knowing how was her situation and what kind the life she had. What a Scumbag. And then when she gave her notice to work in another place he got suspicion that she went for a rival firm, after that she found the only job available in a bar, the bastard still throwing accusations that she was working near his firm. What a BIG FAT JERK. He would never accuse his tarts, instead he would pamper and treasure his tarts, when the only thing that the heroine received is accusations and offenses. Sorry I don't believe in his love, he should reserve for his tarts they both deserved. what he did later did not redeemed in my eyes.
The heroine deserved a caring and protecting H, not the unworthy prick H.
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