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Pennington #15
Fiance For Christmas
Cassie had good reason to resist Nick Seymour's rakish good looks and matching charm. But that was easier said than done when it seemed that the only way to calm a family crisis at Christmas was for Cassie and Nick to pretend to be engaged!
Well, Nick decided it was, and Cassie knew she must go along with him, for the sake of their two little nieces. If she didn't, Alice and Emily might have their Christmas ruined.
If only Nick wasn't insisting that his mistletoe make-believe with Cassie look as convincing as possible, complete with kisses and a ring. Pretty soon she found herself wishing it was for real after all!
Well, Nick decided it was, and Cassie knew she must go along with him, for the sake of their two little nieces. If she didn't, Alice and Emily might have their Christmas ruined.
If only Nick wasn't insisting that his mistletoe make-believe with Cassie look as convincing as possible, complete with kisses and a ring. Pretty soon she found herself wishing it was for real after all!
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
About the author
Catherine George
445 books73 followersDeirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
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June 6, 2024
This is the story of two couples: couple number 1 are the heroine and the hero; couple number 2 are heroine’s sister and hero’s brother, married to each other but separated, due to his psychotic jealousy issues. He is convinced for some unimaginable reason that his wife was having an affair with his brother and that his brother is the biological father of the baby girl his wife gave birth to. The psycho jealous jerk had a huge tantrum and kicked both his brother and his wife (as well as his own baby daughter who he refused to recognize as his biological child) out of his life.
Hero swears up and down he never did anything untoward with his sister-in-law. He has been trying convince his brother that nothing happened, to no avail. So he and the heroine come up with a plan to pretend they are madly in love and engaged so that hero's brother can stop seeing him as a threat, come to his senses, and finally mend his marriage. It works! The in-laws are reconciled at Christmas and they are all a happy family once again. The conclusion is that hero wants to make their pretend engagement real, to heroine's delight.
I'll remember this one for the hero, dressed like a pirate, coming to whisk away the sexy Cinderella heroine on the stroke of midnight at a New Year's Eve costume party :)
Hero swears up and down he never did anything untoward with his sister-in-law. He has been trying convince his brother that nothing happened, to no avail. So he and the heroine come up with a plan to pretend they are madly in love and engaged so that hero's brother can stop seeing him as a threat, come to his senses, and finally mend his marriage. It works! The in-laws are reconciled at Christmas and they are all a happy family once again. The conclusion is that hero wants to make their pretend engagement real, to heroine's delight.
I'll remember this one for the hero, dressed like a pirate, coming to whisk away the sexy Cinderella heroine on the stroke of midnight at a New Year's Eve costume party :)
April 11, 2020
Just OK.
May 29, 2015
estuvo bien, me gusto
August 16, 2019
It wasn't hideous, but the woman was so. Dim? Shallow? Petty? Stupid? IDK. I did not like her at all.
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