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The Billionaire's Virgin Mistress
Ruthless and rich, Cade Lorimer is assigned a very special task by his adoptive father―find his granddaughter!
Tess Ritchie has always believed she has no family, so it's a shock when Cade shows up, claiming she's an heiress to a fortune! Tess steps reluctantly into his world of glitz and glamour, then willingly into his bed.
But there can be no future for their jet-set affair, for he's a hardened playboy and she is his innocent mistress….
Tess Ritchie has always believed she has no family, so it's a shock when Cade shows up, claiming she's an heiress to a fortune! Tess steps reluctantly into his world of glitz and glamour, then willingly into his bed.
But there can be no future for their jet-set affair, for he's a hardened playboy and she is his innocent mistress….
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 2007
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About the author
Sandra Field
214 books35 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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May 19, 2017
Tess is an innocent who has tried to escape by living alone in a cabin on an island. But Cade Lorimer finds her - he's representing her long-lost grandfather who is trying to get back in touch with her and offer her his millions (and all his holdings). Tess, who has seen greed and corruption refuses. Until she doesn't. Before long she finds herself whisked off to foreign countries to be introduced to her grandfather's businesses while Cade remains at her side. There is an attraction between them and Cade gives a tiny bit of resistance before he's determined to take Tess to bed. Then he learns she's a virgin and backs off, so Tess becomes the seducer. They start their affair, all the while Cade tells her to keep the feelings out of it. But Tess is an ingenue and cannot do that, and even though Cade swears he can, Tess suspects he feels more for her than he'll admit.
This was good, but I didn't enjoy Tess very much. She was all fire and no substance - the woman had no conviction. She's all up in a rage about how she'll never accept her grandfather's money and she'll never become like the rich people and all that... and then she caves and she doesn't even struggle with her decision. Then she's living a jet-setting lifestyle with fancy clothes and she's unfazed. Then she swears to Cade that she can pull off an affair without falling in love, but the heart wants what the heart wants, but I felt like in being hurt and angry and putting that on Cade she was rather unfair to him. Cade, for all his faults, was exceedingly honest about what their affair would be - down right direct about it. Cade didn't want to hurt her and it's not really his fault that he did, but Tess didn't once see it that way. So that was a bit disappointing. Still, the two did have some pretty good chemistry and they did make a good team. I liked that Tess wasn't a naive, unworldly virgin - for all her inexperience, she'd experienced a lot in life. Cade was also an interesting hero, with his hangups about falling in love being fairly believable.
This was good, but I didn't enjoy Tess very much. She was all fire and no substance - the woman had no conviction. She's all up in a rage about how she'll never accept her grandfather's money and she'll never become like the rich people and all that... and then she caves and she doesn't even struggle with her decision. Then she's living a jet-setting lifestyle with fancy clothes and she's unfazed. Then she swears to Cade that she can pull off an affair without falling in love, but the heart wants what the heart wants, but I felt like in being hurt and angry and putting that on Cade she was rather unfair to him. Cade, for all his faults, was exceedingly honest about what their affair would be - down right direct about it. Cade didn't want to hurt her and it's not really his fault that he did, but Tess didn't once see it that way. So that was a bit disappointing. Still, the two did have some pretty good chemistry and they did make a good team. I liked that Tess wasn't a naive, unworldly virgin - for all her inexperience, she'd experienced a lot in life. Cade was also an interesting hero, with his hangups about falling in love being fairly believable.
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September 8, 2008
Meh. I still pick up a Harlequin every once in a while and this month's offering was "The Billionaire's Virgin Mistress" by Sandra Field. I enjoy reading Harlequin's for their lighter fare and short reading time...kinda like cotton candy.
She's the unknowing granddaughter of an extremely wealthy, dying man. He's the ultra-rich (hence the title) adopted son of said dying man. He's sure her move this close to the old man is a ploy to extort more money. She's just happy she found a job and can support herself. He's a cynic, she's a romantic. He's blase, she's naive. But of course, they will fall madly in love. She will have a looks and wardrobe makeover and love the good life. He will realize she's not the nasty, money-grubbing woman he thought she was.
That's enough for you to guess the rest of the plot.
She's the unknowing granddaughter of an extremely wealthy, dying man. He's the ultra-rich (hence the title) adopted son of said dying man. He's sure her move this close to the old man is a ploy to extort more money. She's just happy she found a job and can support herself. He's a cynic, she's a romantic. He's blase, she's naive. But of course, they will fall madly in love. She will have a looks and wardrobe makeover and love the good life. He will realize she's not the nasty, money-grubbing woman he thought she was.
That's enough for you to guess the rest of the plot.
June 15, 2021
Ruthless and rich, Cade Lorimer is assigned a very special task by his adoptive father--find his granddaughter!Tess Ritchie has always believed she has no family, so it's a shock when Cade shows up, claiming she's an heiress to a fortune! Tess steps reluctantly into his world of glitz and glamour, then willingly into his bed.But there can be no future for their jet-set affair, for he's a hardened playboy and she is his innocent mistress
June 24, 2023
DNF. In an anthology from Hoopla, not worth wasting the 2 hours to read.
June 29, 2020
I got this book in a bundle and wanted to review it individually. When you were told as a child you had no grandparents and any other family you tend to believe your parents. Tess finds out at twenty two that she has been living forty miles from her paternal grandfather for over a year. His adopted son Cade has been dispatched to bring her home. But not all is at it seems. She is very leery if not afraid of him and his actions. And he thinks her a money grabbing witch. When all secrets and pasts come to light what is left for either of them?
September 12, 2014
OMG. Can't believe it took me this long to finish this book. Read first half ages ago but just couldn't keep me gripped then ending up putting it down n couldn't get back into it. Cade was giving me whiplash with his emotions towards tess. Tess was very naive and I struggled to keep invested in her. Story was ok. I think she have in to quick at the HEA.
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March 3, 2020both the h and H were pathetic. Perfect pair for each other
January 3, 2024
No me gustó tanto el libro tiene algo como que no me convenció
April 8, 2013
the book would have been a 5 star if not for the start which was slightly slow for me
May 30, 2014
amazing! !!
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