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In the Rich Man's World
In the Rich Man's World by Carol Marinelli released on Jul 26, 2005 is available now for purchase.
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 3, 2005
About the author
Carol Marinelli
1,475 books457 followersCarol Marinelli was born in England to Scottish parents, then emigrated to Australia, where there are loads of Scottish and English people who did exactly the same, so she’s very at home there.
She lives in the outer suburbs of Melbourne—pretty much in her car, driving her three children to their various commitments.
Carol writes for the Harlequin Presents and Medical lines and she also writes contemporary women's fiction (with a dark twist).
When she's not writing she's reading, when she's not reading she's writing.
She lives in the outer suburbs of Melbourne—pretty much in her car, driving her three children to their various commitments.
Carol writes for the Harlequin Presents and Medical lines and she also writes contemporary women's fiction (with a dark twist).
When she's not writing she's reading, when she's not reading she's writing.
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February 8, 2017
A lovely little read.
What a horrible funny way to meet! Like an old B&W romantic comedy from the 1930's-40's (Think "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert) just a joy to read. After such a bad start you'd think they would never want to see each other again.....but they are both intrigued by what they sense under the surfaces.
Vaughan is much more than the cold ruthless businessman he portrays to the world and Amelia wants to understand him so much.....almost as much as she wants to kiss him all over! Vaughan has always enjoyed reading her newspaper articles so he is almost disappointed she doesn't live up to the imginary picture built in his head. But he wants to dig deeper so he offers her a week with him going to business meetings and seeing behind the scenes. Excited by this....she accepts. Soon sexual tension abounds and their passion breaks free but there is a rude awakening call headed their way.
I like how Amelia really tries to be both ethical and fair in her job and to Vaughan. Believing her newspaper wouldn't use her, she doesn't tell him but then she really doesn't know what the paper has on him. Maybe she should have warned him.....but then again she had nothing concrete to go on. She also thinks Vaughan is just amazing and there can't be anything really bad in his past......right!
A highly entertaining well written read. Fast paced and downright enjoyable!
What a horrible funny way to meet! Like an old B&W romantic comedy from the 1930's-40's (Think "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert) just a joy to read. After such a bad start you'd think they would never want to see each other again.....but they are both intrigued by what they sense under the surfaces.
Vaughan is much more than the cold ruthless businessman he portrays to the world and Amelia wants to understand him so much.....almost as much as she wants to kiss him all over! Vaughan has always enjoyed reading her newspaper articles so he is almost disappointed she doesn't live up to the imginary picture built in his head. But he wants to dig deeper so he offers her a week with him going to business meetings and seeing behind the scenes. Excited by this....she accepts. Soon sexual tension abounds and their passion breaks free but there is a rude awakening call headed their way.
I like how Amelia really tries to be both ethical and fair in her job and to Vaughan. Believing her newspaper wouldn't use her, she doesn't tell him but then she really doesn't know what the paper has on him. Maybe she should have warned him.....but then again she had nothing concrete to go on. She also thinks Vaughan is just amazing and there can't be anything really bad in his past......right!
A highly entertaining well written read. Fast paced and downright enjoyable!
January 19, 2015
I didn’t realise until I sat down to write this review that the hero’s name is Vaughan and not Vaughn. I’d read his name without the a for the whole book and I’m glad of it. If I’d seen the a while reading I would have been so distracted with the question of whether his name rhymed with lawn, or if I was somehow supposed to pronounce that second syllable. Spell-checker thinks its absolutely fine, and I’m aware how ignorant of my own language this makes me seem, but I cannot help it. I’d have spent the entire book telling myself not to make such a big deal of it, but unable to resist doing so each time I saw it. Reading can be so fraught sometimes.
Amelia writes articles about frivolous famous people, and this book is set in Australia. We do so have frivolous famous people who live here! We didn’t send them all to America. There are quite enough of them that someone could make a living writing in-depth pieces on them for the weekly magazine edition of a national newspaper.
Amelia is good at her job. Even before they meet, the hero has read and enjoyed her articles, and felt kinship for people he has seen reading her articles on planes. I love that he’s nosy. I always try to catch a glimpse of what my seat mates are reading, but I try to be surreptitious about it. Although that probably makes me look even more dodgy than if I’d been openly nosy, which: how embarrassing.
Amelia really wants to be a serious journalist writing about serious people, but she’s got this job while someone’s off on mat leave, so she’ll just make the most of it. Incidentally, the woman off on mat leave is Maria, and I think I’ve detected a trend. In ‘Taken for his Pleasure’ the cop who kept telling the heroine how unattractive she was, but allegedly not in a mean way, was Maria. On the basis of two books in which a very minor character has been a bit of an obstacle, I have decided that I have uncovered Carol Marinelli’s secret anti-Maria vendetta. What a scoop!
So one day, Amelia is going through her post-article finalisation ritual of taking a bath and then hitting send on the email, when her computer blows up sort of. With her wet hair dripping down her back she throws on jeans and a t-shirt, and heads out into the sultry Sydney afternoon. She is not wearing a bra. I’m going to pass over free boobs in order to be sceptical about how her hair is still wet from racing to the office to deliver her article in person, and then sitting through a conversation about how she has to go immediately and interview Vaughan, who is big business famous rather than frivolous famous, and then it’s still wet when she gets to Vaughan’s office.
Vaughan doesn’t like the press, and likes damp press even less. He does like free boobs though, so while she’s disastrous about journalism and she gets back to the office and thinks her career is probably over, he invites her to dinner. Then he invites her to go to Melbourne so that she can reside in the hotel room with the connecting door to his, and follow him around as he talks business and then accompany him to a swanky party. Her boss orders her to go because there is an as yet undisclosed devastating conflict to be revealed to which Amelia can innocently contribute.
I love-hate this conflict. Once you’ve gone to bed with a guy (and they do get it on in Melbourne) it might be worth warning him that your paper has something on him and you don’t know what it is … but at the same time, are you really going to come off your glow for long enough to think that maybe this is a good idea?
Both Amelia and Vaughan respect each other professionally and I have no problems understanding that they have plenty in common to talk about. They are also both attractive and scrub up very nicely, so it’s convincingly clear that they’re perfect for each other. Amelia is no more convincingly good at being a journalist than Vaughan is at being a reticent rich man with uber business skills. That’s fine, there’s plenty of distractions, like what is Vaughan’s secret that Amelia’s paper is going to reveal, and who is that well-dressed beauty stepping out of Vaughan’s room when Amelia heads back after her spa day, and what happened between Amelia and sexy pop star Taylor Dean? I also liked that Amelia is not Amy, because it gave me a Doctor Who moment.
Amelia writes articles about frivolous famous people, and this book is set in Australia. We do so have frivolous famous people who live here! We didn’t send them all to America. There are quite enough of them that someone could make a living writing in-depth pieces on them for the weekly magazine edition of a national newspaper.
Amelia is good at her job. Even before they meet, the hero has read and enjoyed her articles, and felt kinship for people he has seen reading her articles on planes. I love that he’s nosy. I always try to catch a glimpse of what my seat mates are reading, but I try to be surreptitious about it. Although that probably makes me look even more dodgy than if I’d been openly nosy, which: how embarrassing.
Amelia really wants to be a serious journalist writing about serious people, but she’s got this job while someone’s off on mat leave, so she’ll just make the most of it. Incidentally, the woman off on mat leave is Maria, and I think I’ve detected a trend. In ‘Taken for his Pleasure’ the cop who kept telling the heroine how unattractive she was, but allegedly not in a mean way, was Maria. On the basis of two books in which a very minor character has been a bit of an obstacle, I have decided that I have uncovered Carol Marinelli’s secret anti-Maria vendetta. What a scoop!
So one day, Amelia is going through her post-article finalisation ritual of taking a bath and then hitting send on the email, when her computer blows up sort of. With her wet hair dripping down her back she throws on jeans and a t-shirt, and heads out into the sultry Sydney afternoon. She is not wearing a bra. I’m going to pass over free boobs in order to be sceptical about how her hair is still wet from racing to the office to deliver her article in person, and then sitting through a conversation about how she has to go immediately and interview Vaughan, who is big business famous rather than frivolous famous, and then it’s still wet when she gets to Vaughan’s office.
Vaughan doesn’t like the press, and likes damp press even less. He does like free boobs though, so while she’s disastrous about journalism and she gets back to the office and thinks her career is probably over, he invites her to dinner. Then he invites her to go to Melbourne so that she can reside in the hotel room with the connecting door to his, and follow him around as he talks business and then accompany him to a swanky party. Her boss orders her to go because there is an as yet undisclosed devastating conflict to be revealed to which Amelia can innocently contribute.
I love-hate this conflict. Once you’ve gone to bed with a guy (and they do get it on in Melbourne) it might be worth warning him that your paper has something on him and you don’t know what it is … but at the same time, are you really going to come off your glow for long enough to think that maybe this is a good idea?
Both Amelia and Vaughan respect each other professionally and I have no problems understanding that they have plenty in common to talk about. They are also both attractive and scrub up very nicely, so it’s convincingly clear that they’re perfect for each other. Amelia is no more convincingly good at being a journalist than Vaughan is at being a reticent rich man with uber business skills. That’s fine, there’s plenty of distractions, like what is Vaughan’s secret that Amelia’s paper is going to reveal, and who is that well-dressed beauty stepping out of Vaughan’s room when Amelia heads back after her spa day, and what happened between Amelia and sexy pop star Taylor Dean? I also liked that Amelia is not Amy, because it gave me a Doctor Who moment.
September 14, 2012
3 1/2 Stars ~ Amelia Jacobs is an aspiring journalist stuck in the celebrity beat trenches. Her weekly articles are actually building a following, and she's hoping they'll earn her the way up to the business beat. When another reporter is called away, Amelia's handed a interview that could make her career with Vaughan Mason, business genius and notorious playboy. She's thrilled for the opportunity only she has to meet him in 20 minutes and she's just out of her bath. Vaughan's exhausted after a grueling 36 hour non-stop series of meetings from Japan to Singapore and then back to Sydney office. The last thing he wants is to be interviewed, but his advisers have encouraged him to open up more to the press. The meeting starts off with both irritating the other, and Vaughan, in his exhaustion, slipping out an important lead. Amelia is aware of the gravity of his mistake, and agrees that the slip is off the record; there are too many jobs at risk should the story leak and the deal fall through. Keeping this promise is what earns her a week with Vaughan in Melbourne; attending meetings and just hanging out. Vaughan makes it crystal clear that his family is totally off limits in every way. And during the time together, Vaughan lets her in, continuing to believe her when she agrees on what information is off the record. Amelia knows that her paper is running something huge that will correspond to her personal piece on Vaughan; but her editor refuses to tell her what that is. The more time she spends with Vaughan, the stronger their attraction, and she's finding it hard to keep her personal feelings detached. She's seeing a vulnerable side to this man who is renowned for his ruthless business tactics and shrewd mind. Keeping her feelings in check and his hands off is impossible. When her story goes to print and the byline has another reporter's name added beside her own, and her story has been altered to include some very personal information about Vaughan's family, she knows Vaughan will never believe she hadn't betrayed him.
I enjoyed the way Ms. Marinelli slowly allowed Amelia insights into the man hidden within the brilliant tycoon. Acting on their attraction is one thing, but trusting the other with their hearts and secrets is another. The black moment was inevitable but I was surprised with who made the first move to overcome it. A lovely romance.
I enjoyed the way Ms. Marinelli slowly allowed Amelia insights into the man hidden within the brilliant tycoon. Acting on their attraction is one thing, but trusting the other with their hearts and secrets is another. The black moment was inevitable but I was surprised with who made the first move to overcome it. A lovely romance.
December 16, 2024
This was another 50c charity stall buy but better than Wanted: Mistress and Mother, even though it was published the year before. At least I finished it.
The story is told mainly from the FMC Amelia's POV. She's the daughter of a famous political journalist whose approval she seeks. She aspires to become a business reporter but is stuck doing celebrity interviews while the regular writer is on maternity leave. Amelia had previously been in a relationship with an interview subject. His infidelity has left her wounded & wary of womanisers. Her age isn't stated but presumably she's in her early to mid 20s. Due to computer problems, she has to race to the office with her copy in order to meet a deadline. She has large breasts but only has time to put on a sheer ruched top, no bra! Her short, spiky blonde hair is wet from the bath. Two taxi rides & a meeting with her boss later, her hair is still wet & her body still damp. Sydney has humid summers but that's ridiculous.
Vaughan Mason, 35, is the typical brilliant, rich, enigmatic businessman of category romance. He grew up on a sheep station in the Blue Mountains, a little to the west of Sydney, where his parents run a flock of 30,000. I don't know if Carol Marinelli has visited the Blue Mountains but it's mostly forested & any farms are small. At, say 5 sheep per hectare, they would need 6,000 ha (around 15,000 acres). Vaughan is involved in business negotiations with a Japanese businessman, Mr Cheng, which is a Chinese name.
Amelia is sent by her boss to interview Vaughan. Turns out, he's admired her columns. Although they irk each other, there's also instalust but, after her past experience, she's determined not to get involved, particularly as Vaughan has a 'love em and leave em' reputation. He invites her to accompany him on a business trip to Melbourne so she can write a more informed article.
The prose is overwrought in the scenes where Amelia & Vaughan are confronting their attraction & feelings towards each other. She sees a woman leaving his room, jumps to the wrong conclusion & bitter words are spoken. When her editor alters her story, revealing information about Vaughan's family, he believes she has betrayed him. However, he loves her so much (after knowing her for a week!) that he's willing to forgive her perceived sins, even before hearing her side of the story.
The epilogue is unconvincing. Vaughan is a doting husband & father & Amelia, who had been so ambitious, is now a stay at home mum, talking about adopting a child & writing occasional free-lance articles.
The story is told mainly from the FMC Amelia's POV. She's the daughter of a famous political journalist whose approval she seeks. She aspires to become a business reporter but is stuck doing celebrity interviews while the regular writer is on maternity leave. Amelia had previously been in a relationship with an interview subject. His infidelity has left her wounded & wary of womanisers. Her age isn't stated but presumably she's in her early to mid 20s. Due to computer problems, she has to race to the office with her copy in order to meet a deadline. She has large breasts but only has time to put on a sheer ruched top, no bra! Her short, spiky blonde hair is wet from the bath. Two taxi rides & a meeting with her boss later, her hair is still wet & her body still damp. Sydney has humid summers but that's ridiculous.
Vaughan Mason, 35, is the typical brilliant, rich, enigmatic businessman of category romance. He grew up on a sheep station in the Blue Mountains, a little to the west of Sydney, where his parents run a flock of 30,000. I don't know if Carol Marinelli has visited the Blue Mountains but it's mostly forested & any farms are small. At, say 5 sheep per hectare, they would need 6,000 ha (around 15,000 acres). Vaughan is involved in business negotiations with a Japanese businessman, Mr Cheng, which is a Chinese name.
Amelia is sent by her boss to interview Vaughan. Turns out, he's admired her columns. Although they irk each other, there's also instalust but, after her past experience, she's determined not to get involved, particularly as Vaughan has a 'love em and leave em' reputation. He invites her to accompany him on a business trip to Melbourne so she can write a more informed article.
The prose is overwrought in the scenes where Amelia & Vaughan are confronting their attraction & feelings towards each other. She sees a woman leaving his room, jumps to the wrong conclusion & bitter words are spoken. When her editor alters her story, revealing information about Vaughan's family, he believes she has betrayed him. However, he loves her so much (after knowing her for a week!) that he's willing to forgive her perceived sins, even before hearing her side of the story.
The epilogue is unconvincing. Vaughan is a doting husband & father & Amelia, who had been so ambitious, is now a stay at home mum, talking about adopting a child & writing occasional free-lance articles.
December 5, 2020
More like 3.5 stars actually. The one refreshing thing about this story is that the girl has a decent job to do. She is a weekly column writer, and actually does a lot of work in the story. I am tired of girls being nannies, housekeepers, nurses and so on...
The hero is one of her column subjects. She is forced to rush into the assignment at very short notice. And forgets to wear a bra in a hurry !@?!@@#@#@ Really !!!
Whether the hero wants to do the interview with her or not, he does remember that braless look till the last page in the story. So now you know how effective that was ;))))
After a jerky start, they decide to do the story. He tags her along to his meetings and stuff. And she gets fascinated by his tycoon talk and business acumen. She is also secretly impressed with his stud boy image among women. They do get opportunities to engage in casual sex, but the girl is strict on professional ethics. Good for you, girl !!!
The conflict in the story is quite straightforward. As a rich man with a bad past experience with the media, he naturally distrusts her. But reluctantly agrees that he needs the publicity.
She is wary of his love them and leave them attitude. So doesn't want to get messed up in a casual affair, especially because of one bad experience in the past.
The mutual attraction does get the better of them one day. But after DOING IT, he starts acting all pricey and aloof. So she gets wild, and walks out.
In the meantime, her newspaper goes behind her back and prints some crappy scandal about the guy. So all hell breaks loose.
Finally turns out, the guy is not a scum bag as she thinks. He is wary of passing on some mysterious family illness to an unplanned child. So he got jittery after sex!!!
They kiss, tell and make up.
And there is a whole lot of fancy fairy tale in the epilogue. About a healthy child after marriage. And also about adopting another one from a beleaguered third world country !!
I get it , I get it. The author wants to say - the reformed rake has finally settled down. But does she have to be so damn cliched about it ;))
The hero is one of her column subjects. She is forced to rush into the assignment at very short notice. And forgets to wear a bra in a hurry !@?!@@#@#@ Really !!!
Whether the hero wants to do the interview with her or not, he does remember that braless look till the last page in the story. So now you know how effective that was ;))))
After a jerky start, they decide to do the story. He tags her along to his meetings and stuff. And she gets fascinated by his tycoon talk and business acumen. She is also secretly impressed with his stud boy image among women. They do get opportunities to engage in casual sex, but the girl is strict on professional ethics. Good for you, girl !!!
The conflict in the story is quite straightforward. As a rich man with a bad past experience with the media, he naturally distrusts her. But reluctantly agrees that he needs the publicity.
She is wary of his love them and leave them attitude. So doesn't want to get messed up in a casual affair, especially because of one bad experience in the past.
The mutual attraction does get the better of them one day. But after DOING IT, he starts acting all pricey and aloof. So she gets wild, and walks out.
In the meantime, her newspaper goes behind her back and prints some crappy scandal about the guy. So all hell breaks loose.
Finally turns out, the guy is not a scum bag as she thinks. He is wary of passing on some mysterious family illness to an unplanned child. So he got jittery after sex!!!
They kiss, tell and make up.
And there is a whole lot of fancy fairy tale in the epilogue. About a healthy child after marriage. And also about adopting another one from a beleaguered third world country !!
I get it , I get it. The author wants to say - the reformed rake has finally settled down. But does she have to be so damn cliched about it ;))
July 8, 2018
just ok.
the plot involves a journalist doing a story on a rich tycoon. They have chemistry but Amelia has been hurt before and is wary of players. I didn't find Vaughan particularly well drawn and he was more of a stereotypical 'amazing' 'enigma' type but with a 'secret'.
Amelia was also problematic in that she appears to have a habit of sleeping with her interviewees and also is having an existential crisis about what type of journalism she wants to do. The epilogue where she has become a stay at home mum doing only occasional articles did not really fit with the character described.
Anyway there was the standard misunderstanding followed by a reconciliation that happened so quickly you wondered why the author bothered with the break up at all.
Not a keeper.
the plot involves a journalist doing a story on a rich tycoon. They have chemistry but Amelia has been hurt before and is wary of players. I didn't find Vaughan particularly well drawn and he was more of a stereotypical 'amazing' 'enigma' type but with a 'secret'.
Amelia was also problematic in that she appears to have a habit of sleeping with her interviewees and also is having an existential crisis about what type of journalism she wants to do. The epilogue where she has become a stay at home mum doing only occasional articles did not really fit with the character described.
Anyway there was the standard misunderstanding followed by a reconciliation that happened so quickly you wondered why the author bothered with the break up at all.
Not a keeper.
May 9, 2018
I kind of expected the paper to play Amelia out! Glad Vaughan came to his senses, trusted his instincts that Amelia couldn't have betrayed him and came back to find her.
She's better off going independent and their HEA was so lovely!
Wish we could see Amelia meeting his family, preferably at the sheep farm!
Singapore got a couple of mentions, and he even bought orchids from Changi Airport haha!
PS. As a woman, knowing a well-endowed girl/woman is not wearing bra makes me feel uncomfortable! All that lack of support LOL
She's better off going independent and their HEA was so lovely!
Wish we could see Amelia meeting his family, preferably at the sheep farm!
Singapore got a couple of mentions, and he even bought orchids from Changi Airport haha!
PS. As a woman, knowing a well-endowed girl/woman is not wearing bra makes me feel uncomfortable! All that lack of support LOL
January 28, 2019
I would like to give this story three stars but it was a bit of a yawn to me. The story redeemed itself at the end but the rest of it was rather dull. There was not a lot of chemistry between the couple. Love the cover but I suppose you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. Not a favourite book nor a book for the re-read pile.
July 24, 2018
Well written as usual from this author. A nice romance and story, but it didn't grip me as well as it could have. I'll be reading more from this author for certain. 3.25
November 30, 2013
So, I liked this story...this SHORT story. Like, I need more. More of Vaughn making Amelia his and more of Amelia not being able to resit Vaughn no matter how badly she tries! The ending was PERFECT for the two of them-just wish I could have gotten more before the perfect ending. It's not often that the woman has to walk on eggshells and bend over backwards to earn the trust of her man, but that's exactly what Amelia had to do given her career. But Vaughn knowing that the real Amelia was the one woman he need and wanted...he was willing to take her flaws with all of her good. That's love. But Amelia would never betray Vaughn, even when it was expected-which explains her love for him. I loved the two of them.
January 24, 2014
This novella was included with the book The Bride by Maya Banks. Loved it! Amelia Jacobs is a reporter stuck writing fluff pieces. She wants to be a real journalist! Amelia has sworn off love because she was betrayed by a pop-star she once interviewed. Now she has to interview Vaughn Mason, an arrogant millionaire womanizer. Amelia tries to keep the relationship on a professional level, but Peter, her sneaky editor, has other ideas. Will Amelia find herself broken-hearted and betrayed again by the men she is supposed to trust? Great story!
May 10, 2014
Meh.
Predictable stuff. Attempts to make female MC seem strong by making her a journalist but really she's a bit of a twit. She's in a rush so she can't stop to put on a bra despite having, and I quote, over-sized boobs? Oh please! Additionally I'm not a great fan of the "fall in love in a week and know in your gut that you will never feel like this again" storyline.
Predictable stuff. Attempts to make female MC seem strong by making her a journalist but really she's a bit of a twit. She's in a rush so she can't stop to put on a bra despite having, and I quote, over-sized boobs? Oh please! Additionally I'm not a great fan of the "fall in love in a week and know in your gut that you will never feel like this again" storyline.
December 3, 2013
~ 2.5 Stars ~
December 7, 2013
I never want to see this book again.
September 2, 2016
This was a bonus novel to one of Maya Banks' books. Very predictable.
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