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Confessions of a Millionaire's Mistress
Will their hot passion melt his frozen heart?
When Celeste Prince discovers her beloved family business has been sold to millionaire Benton Scott, she's determined to get it back. But gorgeous Benton sets her pulse racing, and her carefully laid plans lead her to just one place...his bed!
Benton makes it clear right from the start that he can't offer more than a steamy affair. The passion is scorching--but Ben's emotions are still in the deep freeze, and Celeste knows that only a dramatic collision course with his troubled past can thaw them....
When Celeste Prince discovers her beloved family business has been sold to millionaire Benton Scott, she's determined to get it back. But gorgeous Benton sets her pulse racing, and her carefully laid plans lead her to just one place...his bed!
Benton makes it clear right from the start that he can't offer more than a steamy affair. The passion is scorching--but Ben's emotions are still in the deep freeze, and Celeste knows that only a dramatic collision course with his troubled past can thaw them....
186 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2008
About the author
Robyn Grady
336 books77 followersRobyn received a book from her big sister and immediately fell in love with Cinderella. Sprinklings of magic, deepest wishes come true - she was hooked! Picture books with glass slippers later gave way to romance novels. When she was older, she wanted to write one.
However, in junior high, Robyn hit a stumbling block - a disheartening grade of one out of ten for a book review. Confused and hurt, she asked her hundred-and-thirty-year-old English teacher why the low mark? The wizened schoolmarm sniffed, "You obviously had a senior do it for you." Thankfully Robyn's business teacher was a honey.
Following a fifteen-year career behind the scenes in television, Robyn knew the time was right to pursue her dream of becoming a published author. Late in 2004, she received a phone call from a London editor. She'd submitted a manuscript to the Sweet line, which were featuring lighter, sexier stories to be released under the Tango banner. The editor was very interested in her story, but for a brand new line.
Robyn didn't stop smiling for a week, but sometime later learned her revised manuscript hadn't hit the mark. Then she received another call and another request for revisions to a second manuscript! That didn't sell either. On a third manuscript she received a very long, very detail email, asking for, what would turn out to be, a complete rewrite. Having torn out most of her hair, but with 13 contest finals in 2006 (including winning the Golden Pen and Where the Magic Begins), she finished the rewrite then contacted a New York agent. That wonderful agent took her on, and Robyn sold in a matter of weeks, first to Silhouette Desire, then Modern Heat (Sexy Sensation/Presents) with a two book deal! She is currently writing manuscript number fourteen.
Robyn lives with her own modern-day hero on Australia's Sunshine Coast with their three little princesses, as well as two poodles and a cat called Tinkie. She has majors in English literature and psychology, and loves new shoes, worn jeans, visits to the theatre and lunches at picturesque Moffat Beach with her writer friends.
However, in junior high, Robyn hit a stumbling block - a disheartening grade of one out of ten for a book review. Confused and hurt, she asked her hundred-and-thirty-year-old English teacher why the low mark? The wizened schoolmarm sniffed, "You obviously had a senior do it for you." Thankfully Robyn's business teacher was a honey.
Following a fifteen-year career behind the scenes in television, Robyn knew the time was right to pursue her dream of becoming a published author. Late in 2004, she received a phone call from a London editor. She'd submitted a manuscript to the Sweet line, which were featuring lighter, sexier stories to be released under the Tango banner. The editor was very interested in her story, but for a brand new line.
Robyn didn't stop smiling for a week, but sometime later learned her revised manuscript hadn't hit the mark. Then she received another call and another request for revisions to a second manuscript! That didn't sell either. On a third manuscript she received a very long, very detail email, asking for, what would turn out to be, a complete rewrite. Having torn out most of her hair, but with 13 contest finals in 2006 (including winning the Golden Pen and Where the Magic Begins), she finished the rewrite then contacted a New York agent. That wonderful agent took her on, and Robyn sold in a matter of weeks, first to Silhouette Desire, then Modern Heat (Sexy Sensation/Presents) with a two book deal! She is currently writing manuscript number fourteen.
Robyn lives with her own modern-day hero on Australia's Sunshine Coast with their three little princesses, as well as two poodles and a cat called Tinkie. She has majors in English literature and psychology, and loves new shoes, worn jeans, visits to the theatre and lunches at picturesque Moffat Beach with her writer friends.
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April 20, 2017
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December 12, 2014
his type of title just does my head in, because I go in with all these expectations that the only word likely to be true is ‘millionaire’ and again, I’m right. Celeste, the story’s heroine, doesn’t even do me the courtesy of coming close to a bitterly dramatic scene where she calls herself a mistress, in a tones that let me know that she feels soiled and disposable, and there’s nothing remotely confessional or tell-all about the style. I mean, couldn’t you, if you’re going to have ‘confessions’ maybe have an even slightly juicy secret?
Anyway, the story is set in Sydney, so I already have problems because it’s not an exotic location for me, and then, good grief, there’s a scene where the hero and heroine mow the lawn, and I’m not sure that I’m feeling smart enough to see this as meta. More on that later.
Celeste’s dad runs a landscaping franchise business and as the story opens, she thinks she’s the party she’s at is for announcement that she’ll be taking over the company. She has a handbag and shoe store, but she’s really looking forward to taking on the business and adding a high concept florist chain into the mix. Instead, Celeste’s dad is announcing that he’s selling the business to Benton, and by the way Celeste, meet Benton, he’s a bloke and super excited to do blokey outdoor things with powerful cutting tools. Celeste can keep doing her lady handbag thing, and if she’s really good, daddy will give her the money to open another little shop.
Celeste manages to not pull out a knife and yell ‘all men must die!’ and I respect her for that. She makes a deal with Ben for six weeks to prove that she can run the business and he should step away from the deal, and because the pic on the front has a couple kissing on a photocopier, I’m thinking this is where we move into the sexy office romance flirting, with power point presentations to The Board and late night IT help to recover that critical spread sheet. I am totally down for those things. Gotta love a good spread sheet.
Instead, Celeste and Ben explore a shed full of antique mowers, and then take the ride-on out for a spin. It’s at this point that I cannot quite believe what I’m reading. Was there a competition to make the most boring thing sexy? Is this irony? I’m so ambivalent. There are actual descriptions of going over the lawn in a diagonal pattern and I’m thinking, oh good call, there won’t be those stripes if you do that, but seriously, what are they doing? Get to an office and knock up some graphs! Yell at each other! Drink coffee and make notes in your personal planner! Touch bits! Or, I don’t know, go and sit by a pool and drink and ogle each other and snark and kiss like normal romance couples.
I was too stunned to actually stop reading, but I was having all these flash forwards of all sorts of other outdoor things in gardens these two could do next. I came up with erotic topiary, and was so unjustly proud of myself that I kept reading. Just to see whether that would actually be a thing, and if it was, how it all worked out.
Post mowing, there’s some pretty satisfying family betrayal stuff and Celeste’s origin story. Celeste just cops it like a champ and moves on. Celeste is totally used to being underrated by the men in her life, so Benton’s attitude is no surprise. He’s routinely astonished by her competence, especially at boy things. Ben’s got these romantic notions about working outside and wearing shorts. He’s got an akubra! He hasn’t gone quite as far as to trade the sports car in for a ute, but it might be on the cards.
He’s mostly nice to Celeste, and doesn’t have ‘betrayed by the floozy’ going on in his background – no, his angsty origin story is being a foster kid. Apparently foster kids don’t do relationships. The thing about guys who are alpha and are all ‘women don’t do this’ is they at least have some compensating character traits. Ben was real pretty and had lots of money, but he wasn’t horrible enough in the beginning to have this satisfying transformation into the perfect lover. I never really connected with what was going on with him.
Ben felt fairly ordinary, and I think Celeste, who actually gets her global domination florist business started, and is amazingly reasonable and articulate about what she wants, could probably have done better.
Anyway, the story is set in Sydney, so I already have problems because it’s not an exotic location for me, and then, good grief, there’s a scene where the hero and heroine mow the lawn, and I’m not sure that I’m feeling smart enough to see this as meta. More on that later.
Celeste’s dad runs a landscaping franchise business and as the story opens, she thinks she’s the party she’s at is for announcement that she’ll be taking over the company. She has a handbag and shoe store, but she’s really looking forward to taking on the business and adding a high concept florist chain into the mix. Instead, Celeste’s dad is announcing that he’s selling the business to Benton, and by the way Celeste, meet Benton, he’s a bloke and super excited to do blokey outdoor things with powerful cutting tools. Celeste can keep doing her lady handbag thing, and if she’s really good, daddy will give her the money to open another little shop.
Celeste manages to not pull out a knife and yell ‘all men must die!’ and I respect her for that. She makes a deal with Ben for six weeks to prove that she can run the business and he should step away from the deal, and because the pic on the front has a couple kissing on a photocopier, I’m thinking this is where we move into the sexy office romance flirting, with power point presentations to The Board and late night IT help to recover that critical spread sheet. I am totally down for those things. Gotta love a good spread sheet.
Instead, Celeste and Ben explore a shed full of antique mowers, and then take the ride-on out for a spin. It’s at this point that I cannot quite believe what I’m reading. Was there a competition to make the most boring thing sexy? Is this irony? I’m so ambivalent. There are actual descriptions of going over the lawn in a diagonal pattern and I’m thinking, oh good call, there won’t be those stripes if you do that, but seriously, what are they doing? Get to an office and knock up some graphs! Yell at each other! Drink coffee and make notes in your personal planner! Touch bits! Or, I don’t know, go and sit by a pool and drink and ogle each other and snark and kiss like normal romance couples.
I was too stunned to actually stop reading, but I was having all these flash forwards of all sorts of other outdoor things in gardens these two could do next. I came up with erotic topiary, and was so unjustly proud of myself that I kept reading. Just to see whether that would actually be a thing, and if it was, how it all worked out.
Post mowing, there’s some pretty satisfying family betrayal stuff and Celeste’s origin story. Celeste just cops it like a champ and moves on. Celeste is totally used to being underrated by the men in her life, so Benton’s attitude is no surprise. He’s routinely astonished by her competence, especially at boy things. Ben’s got these romantic notions about working outside and wearing shorts. He’s got an akubra! He hasn’t gone quite as far as to trade the sports car in for a ute, but it might be on the cards.
He’s mostly nice to Celeste, and doesn’t have ‘betrayed by the floozy’ going on in his background – no, his angsty origin story is being a foster kid. Apparently foster kids don’t do relationships. The thing about guys who are alpha and are all ‘women don’t do this’ is they at least have some compensating character traits. Ben was real pretty and had lots of money, but he wasn’t horrible enough in the beginning to have this satisfying transformation into the perfect lover. I never really connected with what was going on with him.
Ben felt fairly ordinary, and I think Celeste, who actually gets her global domination florist business started, and is amazingly reasonable and articulate about what she wants, could probably have done better.
January 1, 2019
DNF. All the males in this book are too sexist for me. I stopped reading after the h & H mowed the lawn on a riding lawn mower. Together on one mower. Really? Cause that shows you can run a lawn care business.
October 20, 2021
Didn't like it, I found the book, characters and the relationship quite boring. The family dramas were also boring and not at all interesting. P.
December 15, 2021
A good quick read, not my normal genre. Characters were interesting.
February 27, 2012
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September 23, 2012
at first it was intriguing but then it's boring as hell I couldn't finish
March 10, 2014
ehhhhhh este libro no es malo solo que estoy en la epoca del año en que no tengo tiempo plop
January 24, 2016
I thought that this was an okay book. I liked Celeste's character. And an epilogue doesn't hurt and always makes an ending less abrupt.
October 24, 2019
Not bad.
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July 27, 2011A good story.
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