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Their Scandalous Affair
The beautiful but fiery Avery Crawford wants to keep her affair with handsome millionaire, Jonas Mercer, private. She's survived a scandal in the past and now likes to keep her secrets quiet.
Yet not only does Jonas desire that their relationship go public, he's determined to claim Avery as his bride! What he doesn't bargain for is more scandal….
For when Avery's secrets are revealed, they come at a cost that even Jonas can't afford….
Yet not only does Jonas desire that their relationship go public, he's determined to claim Avery as his bride! What he doesn't bargain for is more scandal….
For when Avery's secrets are revealed, they come at a cost that even Jonas can't afford….
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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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February 3, 2021
Does Catherine George understand the meaning of "scandalous"? Does her editor? Or is it simply an attempt to dress up a ho-hum, small town romance into something salacious? Probably the last one.
The heroine of this story is far, far from being scandalous. A child prodigy who got top marks at school, she became a young, financial whiz handling billions of pounds worth of funds at her high-powered London job. Yet, when her mom got sick, she left it all behind to move back to her small town and nurse her mom on her death bed. She then took over the reins of her mother's quaint little seamstress business for sentimental rather than lucrative reasons.
In the midst of all this, she had to deal with her own personal tragedy of miscarrying her baby and dumping the awful donkey's butt ex-boyfriend who wanted her to abort it in the first place and was rejoicing that nature took care of the problem baby instead!
As a result, she has been deliberately celibate for years, until she meets the hero of the piece, a land and real estate developer who unequivocally falls head over heels for her in a London minute.
The vile OM and his pond scum family, the local hoighty toighty of the small town, who made life for heroine and her single mom hell when heroine was a child, keep up their venomous, malicious tactics to bring the heroine down, and almost succeed in breaking up the heroine and hero.
They never get any comeuppance in the end. At least, the heroine got a few set-downs in that shut their trap for a while, and the hero made a nice gesture of dedicating his latest venture in the name of heroine's mother, but really, this family from hell needed some major public humiliation, social shunning, and being run out of town to satisfy my vengeful fantasies!
The heroine of this story is far, far from being scandalous. A child prodigy who got top marks at school, she became a young, financial whiz handling billions of pounds worth of funds at her high-powered London job. Yet, when her mom got sick, she left it all behind to move back to her small town and nurse her mom on her death bed. She then took over the reins of her mother's quaint little seamstress business for sentimental rather than lucrative reasons.
In the midst of all this, she had to deal with her own personal tragedy of miscarrying her baby and dumping the awful donkey's butt ex-boyfriend who wanted her to abort it in the first place and was rejoicing that nature took care of the problem baby instead!
As a result, she has been deliberately celibate for years, until she meets the hero of the piece, a land and real estate developer who unequivocally falls head over heels for her in a London minute.
The vile OM and his pond scum family, the local hoighty toighty of the small town, who made life for heroine and her single mom hell when heroine was a child, keep up their venomous, malicious tactics to bring the heroine down, and almost succeed in breaking up the heroine and hero.
They never get any comeuppance in the end. At least, the heroine got a few set-downs in that shut their trap for a while, and the hero made a nice gesture of dedicating his latest venture in the name of heroine's mother, but really, this family from hell needed some major public humiliation, social shunning, and being run out of town to satisfy my vengeful fantasies!
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February 17, 2021
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God! This was an unsatisfactory read! What scandal? What affair? What autogrnerating name machine is HP using these days? They should sue for a refund.
And top of that the h was way, WAY too good for everyone in her life. From the hero to her BFF to hero’s pesky annoying nosy friends. Like FFS, fuck off you bish! Stop asking the h to forgive and forget when your friend fucked up! Go to HIM, get him to keep grovelling off he’s not happy. It’s not up to others to discount and accomodate for your grown ass man baby’s temper tantrums and then tell them it’s ok. That’s shit parenting if it was a kid and shit adulting for all of you involved. Tell the guy to assume responsibility for his actions and take ownership of the situation. Not the h.
And on top of that the slimeball ex get away with only couple of good shaking from the H. Yeah. Nah.
Also! Where the fuck is the scandalous affair? Man I feel ripped off.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
God! This was an unsatisfactory read! What scandal? What affair? What autogrnerating name machine is HP using these days? They should sue for a refund.
And top of that the h was way, WAY too good for everyone in her life. From the hero to her BFF to hero’s pesky annoying nosy friends. Like FFS, fuck off you bish! Stop asking the h to forgive and forget when your friend fucked up! Go to HIM, get him to keep grovelling off he’s not happy. It’s not up to others to discount and accomodate for your grown ass man baby’s temper tantrums and then tell them it’s ok. That’s shit parenting if it was a kid and shit adulting for all of you involved. Tell the guy to assume responsibility for his actions and take ownership of the situation. Not the h.
And on top of that the slimeball ex get away with only couple of good shaking from the H. Yeah. Nah.
Also! Where the fuck is the scandalous affair? Man I feel ripped off.
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June 3, 2020
I actually quite liked this one.
I liked that the couple were mature, and it was a modern romance. Nothing scandalous, just two adults who were attracted to each other and started a relationship.
I liked that they talked and laughed together. The author did a good enough job showing that they had a solid basis for a good relationship.
The woman at first wanted to keep the relationship private because she lived in a small town, where gossip and loss of reputation can be real concerns. Even this didn’t last too long.
They have issues due to distance, they live quite far from each other. The woman has issues with conception so she doesn’t want to commit to a more permanent relationship with the Hero who is clearly besotted.
All in all a good solid read.
I liked that the couple were mature, and it was a modern romance. Nothing scandalous, just two adults who were attracted to each other and started a relationship.
I liked that they talked and laughed together. The author did a good enough job showing that they had a solid basis for a good relationship.
The woman at first wanted to keep the relationship private because she lived in a small town, where gossip and loss of reputation can be real concerns. Even this didn’t last too long.
They have issues due to distance, they live quite far from each other. The woman has issues with conception so she doesn’t want to commit to a more permanent relationship with the Hero who is clearly besotted.
All in all a good solid read.
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March 31, 2014
A very hot intense secret affrair: one jilted ex-lover, one jealous lover, and a woman afraid to trust in love. A good easy read, enjoyed it.
February 9, 2018
3.5 stars rounded down. The H/h were delightfully human and modern. The h wasn't a doormat and neither was the H a douche bag like a lot of those so called alpha guys in Harlequin world.
January 30, 2021
This book was unexpectedly so good. I was intrigued with Avery right from the start and absolutely enjoyed their relationship with all the ups and downs.. I felt that Jonas was a very interesting character as well... truly a dynamic couple!
May 20, 2023
The beautiful, but fiery, Avery Crawford wants to keep her affair with handsome millionaire Jonas Mercer private. She's survived a scandal in the past and now likes to keep her secrets quiet.
Yet not only does Jonas desire that their relationship go public, he's determined to claim Avery as his bride! What he doesn't bargain for is more scandal….
For when Avery's secrets are revealed, they come at a cost that even Jonas can't afford….
Yet not only does Jonas desire that their relationship go public, he's determined to claim Avery as his bride! What he doesn't bargain for is more scandal….
For when Avery's secrets are revealed, they come at a cost that even Jonas can't afford….
October 14, 2019
Just could not connect with the characters.
January 31, 2024
2/5
Krótka historia ze skandalem.
Krótka historia ze skandalem.
June 20, 2014
no more catherine george's books for me. heroines are always so stupid and pitiful!
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