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The Boss's Virgin
The boss is back!
Randal Harding... Though Pippa refused to get involved with him when she worked for him as his secretary, she's never quite been able to forget her ex-boss.
Now Randal is back and is turning Pippa's neatly arranged life upside down; he wants her! But Pippa can't let her barriers drop. She tells herself that all the things that were against them then still hold true now. However, Randal is determined to prove at least one thing -- that Pippa wants him, too!
Randal Harding... Though Pippa refused to get involved with him when she worked for him as his secretary, she's never quite been able to forget her ex-boss.
Now Randal is back and is turning Pippa's neatly arranged life upside down; he wants her! But Pippa can't let her barriers drop. She tells herself that all the things that were against them then still hold true now. However, Randal is determined to prove at least one thing -- that Pippa wants him, too!
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 2001
About the author
Charlotte Lamb
262 books316 followersSheila Ann Mary Coates Holland
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
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July 13, 2025
If Chernobyl was a romance novel.
Above her she felt the ragged beating of his heart, his skin on hers.
Confusion flooded her mind—how could she feel his skin on hers? Opening her eyes, she looked down and realised he had undressed her somehow; she was naked, her slip, her bra and panties all gone. While she had been preoccupied with touching him he had been stripping her.
‘Pippa,’ he moaned, burying his head between her breasts, kissing the deep cleft.
He was naked, too, she realised in shock. He must have taken off his own clothes as well as hers—how had he done that without her knowing what was happening?
Possible explanation: brain death.
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Pippa enjoyed his company; he was a good-looking man, and when he kissed her or touched her she wasn’t repulsed. If they had not slept together it was because Tom had never insisted.
There’s a love story for the ages.
‘You know, what I can’t understand is why on earth you let yourself come so close to marrying him. Surely your common sense warned you it would be the biggest mistake of your life if you went ahead with it?’
Defiantly, she retorted, ‘We could have been very happy! What do you know?’
My mistake. I only thought you weren’t repulsed by him.
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He kept saying he wanted her. He hadn’t said he loved her. If he loved her he wouldn’t have pursued her ruthlessly when he knew she was getting married in a few days.
And a better time would be…?
Etc.
Above her she felt the ragged beating of his heart, his skin on hers.
Confusion flooded her mind—how could she feel his skin on hers? Opening her eyes, she looked down and realised he had undressed her somehow; she was naked, her slip, her bra and panties all gone. While she had been preoccupied with touching him he had been stripping her.
‘Pippa,’ he moaned, burying his head between her breasts, kissing the deep cleft.
He was naked, too, she realised in shock. He must have taken off his own clothes as well as hers—how had he done that without her knowing what was happening?
Possible explanation: brain death.
____________________
Pippa enjoyed his company; he was a good-looking man, and when he kissed her or touched her she wasn’t repulsed. If they had not slept together it was because Tom had never insisted.
There’s a love story for the ages.
‘You know, what I can’t understand is why on earth you let yourself come so close to marrying him. Surely your common sense warned you it would be the biggest mistake of your life if you went ahead with it?’
Defiantly, she retorted, ‘We could have been very happy! What do you know?’
My mistake. I only thought you weren’t repulsed by him.
____________________
He kept saying he wanted her. He hadn’t said he loved her. If he loved her he wouldn’t have pursued her ruthlessly when he knew she was getting married in a few days.
And a better time would be…?
Etc.
November 12, 2019
The story is gripping and entertaining. But I had severe problems with the hero. Mainly even though his marriage was on rock he didn’t divorce his wife for the heroine. I understand his son needed him, but his wife was a very bad mother so I think their son was better off without her. Most of the time the wife was off with her new conquest and still he didn’t divorce her. Atlast when he divorced her it was only because she asked for it.
And he was married when he kissed the heroine. I respect her for resisting him and running off and resigning her precious job even though she was in love with him. I felt they were more in lust than love. But I have to give the hero points for his persistence and stubbornness. There was no OW or teeth grinding situation except for annoying ex wife. And the heroine continued running off which I found hilarious. I also liked her ex fiancé. He was very matured about the situation no slut shaming and all.
Recommended.
And he was married when he kissed the heroine. I respect her for resisting him and running off and resigning her precious job even though she was in love with him. I felt they were more in lust than love. But I have to give the hero points for his persistence and stubbornness. There was no OW or teeth grinding situation except for annoying ex wife. And the heroine continued running off which I found hilarious. I also liked her ex fiancé. He was very matured about the situation no slut shaming and all.
Recommended.
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December 15, 2025
An apology to my friend, Gloria:
I'm so sorry you had to read this.
I've read elements of emotional infidelity with CL before, but this sort of never ending, dual OM/OW infidelity? First time.
And the absolutely inane dialogues?? The MCs have this pages long conversation about horse riding and it's basically this
I'm so sorry you had to read this.
I've read elements of emotional infidelity with CL before, but this sort of never ending, dual OM/OW infidelity? First time.
And the absolutely inane dialogues?? The MCs have this pages long conversation about horse riding and it's basically this
♂️ 🤡: Do you ride horses?
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January 23, 2015
Pippa’s about to marry her boss at the insurance company where they both work, and they’re planning to move into her nice little cottage after the wedding. Pippa has sort of told her fiancé that she’s not in love with him, and they’ve not had any sex, so I don’t know what’s going on with this relationship, other than it quickly has a car accident and is over.
Not in the tragic death sense, it’s just that on the way home Pippa’s fiancé runs into a shiny sports car, and while Pippa tries to avoid letting the driver get a good look at her, he does. And it turns out they knew each other years ago and almost had sex.
Backstory: Pippa got a job working for Randal’s company. Randal’s office manager and Pippa’s boss was a bullying nightmare, jealous of any woman in the office who caught Randal’s eye. Randal is definitely caught by Pippa, who is efficient at her job and possessed of a nubile young body barely concealed by her ill fitting ugly poor people clothes. But Randal is married to a gorgeous model and has a son, so Pippa is circumspectly trying to keep her nubile young body out of his way.
Randal’s seduction technique is to get Pippa into his office to do early dictation, and to set her the secret mission of buying his son a present for his fifth birthday. When the bullying nightmare makes Pippa cry and work late, Randal swoops in to suggest an affair. Pippa says no and takes herself off to another, better job and a new life.
So all these years later, a few days before Pippa is due to get married, Randal is all ‘happy days, I found you, I’m divorced, come meet my son and we’ll get married!’ Pippa manages to break off her engagement, stutter on about how she’s not into Randal, and run away.
She does a lot of running away. That’s basically the book: Randal coming on too strong, Pippa running, Randal tracking her down. Neither Randal or Pippa come off as particularly likeable in their management of their relationship.
Randal is no prize. He stayed with his cheating wife for his son, until she found a golf pro and insisted on a divorce so she could marry him. She’s a terrible mother. Randal doesn’t win any awards either: there’s the above bit of not bothering to buy his own kid a birthday present, there’s the fact that the kid’s been in boarding school ever since he was six or seven. The icing for me was when, only a couple of hours after introducing them, Randal left Pippa in charge of looking after the kid, and then got angry with her for taking too long at it and leaving him alone with his ex-wife and the golf pro husband.
Because I liked Pippa marginally more than I liked Randal, I entertained fantasies of Pippa and the golf pro ditching Randal and the ex wife and going off to have a gloriously mad passionate romance. Unfortunately, golf pro was into the wife. Her awfulness suggests she must compensate by being phenomenal in bed.
Pippa certainly isn’t phenomenal in bed. There is one sex scene in this book: it’s painful, it’s got unexpected hymen, and it’s somewhat arguable that Pippa actually wanted it to happen at all. She had a lonely post-coitus cry in the shower, and then had to sit down to dinner with the other couple and no chance of a partner swap, and behave like she hadn’t just had really bad sex. No wonder she kept running away.
The only thing that I appreciated about this book were the glories of some insane sounding retro food. When Pippa and the fiancé are at a party at the beginning of the book, they are served cheese cubes and pineapple on sticks, and dates wrapped in bacon. I found this a little strange, because I thought it was supposed to be prunes, not dates, but the real eye opener was the starter Pippa and Randal ‘enjoy’ twice. I’ve only seen it in pictures, but it’s basically a half a melon with fancy jagged edges and the middle scooped out and filled with fruit. And then the whole thing is drenched in kirsch. If there had been more descriptions of barely edible sounding retro food, I’d have given this book a higher rating.
Not in the tragic death sense, it’s just that on the way home Pippa’s fiancé runs into a shiny sports car, and while Pippa tries to avoid letting the driver get a good look at her, he does. And it turns out they knew each other years ago and almost had sex.
Backstory: Pippa got a job working for Randal’s company. Randal’s office manager and Pippa’s boss was a bullying nightmare, jealous of any woman in the office who caught Randal’s eye. Randal is definitely caught by Pippa, who is efficient at her job and possessed of a nubile young body barely concealed by her ill fitting ugly poor people clothes. But Randal is married to a gorgeous model and has a son, so Pippa is circumspectly trying to keep her nubile young body out of his way.
Randal’s seduction technique is to get Pippa into his office to do early dictation, and to set her the secret mission of buying his son a present for his fifth birthday. When the bullying nightmare makes Pippa cry and work late, Randal swoops in to suggest an affair. Pippa says no and takes herself off to another, better job and a new life.
So all these years later, a few days before Pippa is due to get married, Randal is all ‘happy days, I found you, I’m divorced, come meet my son and we’ll get married!’ Pippa manages to break off her engagement, stutter on about how she’s not into Randal, and run away.
She does a lot of running away. That’s basically the book: Randal coming on too strong, Pippa running, Randal tracking her down. Neither Randal or Pippa come off as particularly likeable in their management of their relationship.
Randal is no prize. He stayed with his cheating wife for his son, until she found a golf pro and insisted on a divorce so she could marry him. She’s a terrible mother. Randal doesn’t win any awards either: there’s the above bit of not bothering to buy his own kid a birthday present, there’s the fact that the kid’s been in boarding school ever since he was six or seven. The icing for me was when, only a couple of hours after introducing them, Randal left Pippa in charge of looking after the kid, and then got angry with her for taking too long at it and leaving him alone with his ex-wife and the golf pro husband.
Because I liked Pippa marginally more than I liked Randal, I entertained fantasies of Pippa and the golf pro ditching Randal and the ex wife and going off to have a gloriously mad passionate romance. Unfortunately, golf pro was into the wife. Her awfulness suggests she must compensate by being phenomenal in bed.
Pippa certainly isn’t phenomenal in bed. There is one sex scene in this book: it’s painful, it’s got unexpected hymen, and it’s somewhat arguable that Pippa actually wanted it to happen at all. She had a lonely post-coitus cry in the shower, and then had to sit down to dinner with the other couple and no chance of a partner swap, and behave like she hadn’t just had really bad sex. No wonder she kept running away.
The only thing that I appreciated about this book were the glories of some insane sounding retro food. When Pippa and the fiancé are at a party at the beginning of the book, they are served cheese cubes and pineapple on sticks, and dates wrapped in bacon. I found this a little strange, because I thought it was supposed to be prunes, not dates, but the real eye opener was the starter Pippa and Randal ‘enjoy’ twice. I’ve only seen it in pictures, but it’s basically a half a melon with fancy jagged edges and the middle scooped out and filled with fruit. And then the whole thing is drenched in kirsch. If there had been more descriptions of barely edible sounding retro food, I’d have given this book a higher rating.
October 25, 2020
I didn't understand heroine's logic and that's totally my fault cause I was reading a HP. 🙈
September 6, 2021
Oh, Randal. What an unfortunate name. It doesn’t do our H justice. He reminded me of some of my more current favorite Heros. Actually, so much so, it made me want to ask a certain author (starts with “Sam” and ends with “Mariano”) if she is also a Charlotte Lamb fan. 😏
Randal is one of those infuriatingly manipulative (ie: amazing) heros that bulldozes. He completely disregards what the h is saying, smiling indulgently, and doing whatever the eff he wants. Boyfriend? No problem, he’ll make short work of him by stripping the h naked and making sure the boyfriend walks in and gets the hint. Don’t want a relationship? No worries, he’ll just trick the h into a family vacation. I mean. He’s basically perfect. 🤡
And the h? She has Body Betrayal Syndrome. She has all kinds of excuses for why she doesn’t want to be with the H and she resists like mad. And by the middle of the book I was very annoyed that she wasn’t giving into our sociopath. Why is she not being charmed by his brand of crazy??! Her reasoning behind her resistance made very little sense to me.
Anywho… this is a fun read. I would have rated it higher if he’d been just a smidge more aggressive and she had been just a smidge less resistant. 3.5 stars
⚠️FOR THE SAFETY SQUAD⚠️
- no cheating or sharing (between the h and H)
- there is some kissing/petting/nakedness between the H and h when one of them is still in a relationship with others.
- OW/OM drama - ex wife and ex fiancé play a role, but neither the h or the H want the other OP
- I didn’t love that the H seemed just a little more attracted to his ex than would make me comfortable, but maybe that was to demonstrate his choice of the h. 🤷🏼♀️
- dubcon-lite
Randal is one of those infuriatingly manipulative (ie: amazing) heros that bulldozes. He completely disregards what the h is saying, smiling indulgently, and doing whatever the eff he wants. Boyfriend? No problem, he’ll make short work of him by stripping the h naked and making sure the boyfriend walks in and gets the hint. Don’t want a relationship? No worries, he’ll just trick the h into a family vacation. I mean. He’s basically perfect. 🤡
And the h? She has Body Betrayal Syndrome. She has all kinds of excuses for why she doesn’t want to be with the H and she resists like mad. And by the middle of the book I was very annoyed that she wasn’t giving into our sociopath. Why is she not being charmed by his brand of crazy??! Her reasoning behind her resistance made very little sense to me.
Anywho… this is a fun read. I would have rated it higher if he’d been just a smidge more aggressive and she had been just a smidge less resistant. 3.5 stars
⚠️FOR THE SAFETY SQUAD⚠️
- no cheating or sharing (between the h and H)
- there is some kissing/petting/nakedness between the H and h when one of them is still in a relationship with others.
- OW/OM drama - ex wife and ex fiancé play a role, but neither the h or the H want the other OP
- I didn’t love that the H seemed just a little more attracted to his ex than would make me comfortable, but maybe that was to demonstrate his choice of the h. 🤷🏼♀️
- dubcon-lite
February 4, 2017
very enjoyable though the story was not dat gud. nothing much happened in the past. so i dunt understand how Pippa was so badly hurt dat she could not contemplate giving Randal's another chance. the end was too abrupt too and not really conclusive.
October 5, 2020
It’s a typical vintage Harlequin novel where the h protests all the time, but still gives in and makes out with the H all the time.
She keeps running away and he keeps following her. And she keeps giving in.
I’ve read another review here who calls the sexual encounters ‘rape’. In my opinion there’s no rape in this book. It’s just the usual h’s ‘Oh no, get away from me’ while loving and lusting him and letting him undress her and kiss her breasts. She kisses him back, she puts her arms around him, she unbuttons his shirt and that is not what women usually do who are being raped.
The storyline: the h worked for the H when they first met and the H was married. He has a son with his wife and he says his son is the reason he can’t divorce. So the h flees.
About 4 years later they meet again. The h is engaged to be married to another man. She has never had sex with her fiancé. She meets the H again when she is in a car accident sitting next to her fiancé and with the H in the other car.
The H finds out where she lives and he keeps pursuing her.
What I like, is that the H is stubborn and outspoken. And I like his intensity, his passion and that he can’t keep his hands and mouth off her, that he finds her irresistible. He is not acting casual to her. He tells her he loves her. He tells her she is his and he is hers. He tells her he wants to marry her.
Anyway, the fiance finds the H and h all naked on the bed about to have intercourse. So he breaks off the engagement of course. The fiance deserves an award for staying to nice and calm after walking in on the h naked with another man.
It is not clear why the h keeps running away, even after the H tells her that he is divorced and that he loves her. I like a H who admits his feelings for the h in an early stage of the book, not just in the last pages of the book.
But it’s good that she keeps him on his toes with running away all the time. He doesn’t want to leave her out of his sight because he fears she will leave again.
I think the deflowering scene may be one of the most detailed have ever read in a classic Harlequin, lol.
Good read. Not one of the best, but good enough to re-read somewhere in the future. I take one star off because I don’t like it when the H and/or h already has a child with someone else.
The H’s persistence, determination and his frankness about his feelings in the early stages of the book for her makes it worthwhile. I’ll keep this book.
She keeps running away and he keeps following her. And she keeps giving in.
I’ve read another review here who calls the sexual encounters ‘rape’. In my opinion there’s no rape in this book. It’s just the usual h’s ‘Oh no, get away from me’ while loving and lusting him and letting him undress her and kiss her breasts. She kisses him back, she puts her arms around him, she unbuttons his shirt and that is not what women usually do who are being raped.
The storyline: the h worked for the H when they first met and the H was married. He has a son with his wife and he says his son is the reason he can’t divorce. So the h flees.
About 4 years later they meet again. The h is engaged to be married to another man. She has never had sex with her fiancé. She meets the H again when she is in a car accident sitting next to her fiancé and with the H in the other car.
The H finds out where she lives and he keeps pursuing her.
What I like, is that the H is stubborn and outspoken. And I like his intensity, his passion and that he can’t keep his hands and mouth off her, that he finds her irresistible. He is not acting casual to her. He tells her he loves her. He tells her she is his and he is hers. He tells her he wants to marry her.
Anyway, the fiance finds the H and h all naked on the bed about to have intercourse. So he breaks off the engagement of course. The fiance deserves an award for staying to nice and calm after walking in on the h naked with another man.
It is not clear why the h keeps running away, even after the H tells her that he is divorced and that he loves her. I like a H who admits his feelings for the h in an early stage of the book, not just in the last pages of the book.
But it’s good that she keeps him on his toes with running away all the time. He doesn’t want to leave her out of his sight because he fears she will leave again.
I think the deflowering scene may be one of the most detailed have ever read in a classic Harlequin, lol.
Good read. Not one of the best, but good enough to re-read somewhere in the future. I take one star off because I don’t like it when the H and/or h already has a child with someone else.
The H’s persistence, determination and his frankness about his feelings in the early stages of the book for her makes it worthwhile. I’ll keep this book.
May 31, 2014
Sooo, they fall in love, but he's married so she runs away. Years later he finds her, says he still loves her, he's gotten a divorce, how about it? This is the beginning of the book, she spends the rest of it going "Ooh, I can't resist your kisses" *runs away* for NO REASON. Silly book.
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January 19, 2022
Has all the Lamb landmarks: possessive jerk H, h who tries to fight her attraction, beta fiancé and some offbeat highlights. My personal fave:
Afraid of losing control, she gasped out, “You’re hurting me!” and grabbed a fistful of his black hair, yanking it violently. “Stop it!”
His lips lifted and he grimaced down at her. “No, you’re hurting me! Let go of my hair before you pull half of it out!”
With Lamb, you take your happiness where you can find it…
BTW, the h is a total nutcase. Her later reasons for not being with the H?
He didn't love her enough. He loved his child more, and although she admired him for his fidelity to the little boy it still hurt her feelings.
His son is like 7 or so years old. He has no mom (since the H got divorced a couple years earlier and the ex-wife has nothing to do with the son). The dad is all he has and even then his dad has packed him off to boarding school. And this chick resents that he puts the son first. WTF?
Afraid of losing control, she gasped out, “You’re hurting me!” and grabbed a fistful of his black hair, yanking it violently. “Stop it!”
His lips lifted and he grimaced down at her. “No, you’re hurting me! Let go of my hair before you pull half of it out!”
With Lamb, you take your happiness where you can find it…
BTW, the h is a total nutcase. Her later reasons for not being with the H?
He didn't love her enough. He loved his child more, and although she admired him for his fidelity to the little boy it still hurt her feelings.
His son is like 7 or so years old. He has no mom (since the H got divorced a couple years earlier and the ex-wife has nothing to do with the son). The dad is all he has and even then his dad has packed him off to boarding school. And this chick resents that he puts the son first. WTF?
August 14, 2016
And that was 45 minutes that I will NEVER EVER EVER get back...
July 26, 2021
Omfg. So this was one of two old paperbacks I picked up at a church bizarre in the middle of Iowa during a cross country road trip for a whooping total of twenty five cents. This is basically 185 page rape scene. But she really didn’t mean no. When she said no 600 times. But she meant yes. And then after all the rapey shit they lived happily ever after I guess. What the hell did I just read
June 14, 2012
I just wasted 1 hr of my life reading this crappy bk.
April 21, 2015
Charlotte Lamb was one of the first Harlequin authors I read and this was get final book. I think my tastes have changed, because I found this awful.
June 20, 2023
I think Randal was a master manipulator and a bastard regarding Pipa, why did he not used his ruthless towards his ex-wife?
He used his son as an excuse to not divorce his nasty wife that was a bad mother, and I bet he was faithful to the bovine until he met the heroine and tried to seduce a virgin. If he truly cared for her he would not try to get her to become his mistress instead of become a wife, he want her to be his side piece. Why the SOB of the Hs always stays loyal and faithful to the evil OWs and never to the heroines? If the OW were the heroine he would have divorced a long time ago and took the son away from her, but seeing it was the OW they will worshipped them until the very end. The only reason that he divorced later it is because the bovine cow asked for the divorce. What a wimp, maybe he is not a wimp because he still wanted the OW and cared much more for her than the poor heroine.
And Pipa was a stupid to accept his lame excuses and love, but I'm glad that she try to run away for a few times from the bastard. She wasn't good enough to be his wife before but now that she was almost marrying the OM, the bastard H wanted her now? If the cow didn't divorce him, he would still married to her, they deserve each other.
He used his son as an excuse to not divorce his nasty wife that was a bad mother, and I bet he was faithful to the bovine until he met the heroine and tried to seduce a virgin. If he truly cared for her he would not try to get her to become his mistress instead of become a wife, he want her to be his side piece. Why the SOB of the Hs always stays loyal and faithful to the evil OWs and never to the heroines? If the OW were the heroine he would have divorced a long time ago and took the son away from her, but seeing it was the OW they will worshipped them until the very end. The only reason that he divorced later it is because the bovine cow asked for the divorce. What a wimp, maybe he is not a wimp because he still wanted the OW and cared much more for her than the poor heroine.
And Pipa was a stupid to accept his lame excuses and love, but I'm glad that she try to run away for a few times from the bastard. She wasn't good enough to be his wife before but now that she was almost marrying the OM, the bastard H wanted her now? If the cow didn't divorce him, he would still married to her, they deserve each other.
March 9, 2018
The affair of the leads begins when the guy is still married, of course unhappily. They work together.
However, the author doesn't take liberties with the sanctity of marriage. The girl realises she is getting into the deep end with the guy and promptly leaves town and her job.
Then by a streak of coincidence they meet again post his divorce. But this time, she is taken, engaged to be married in a week.
No points for guessing what happens to the wedding. But the poor OM dint need to find the girl in bed with the hero, that's rather cruel of the author !
Even after that, the girl spends half the book dodging the hero when he openly declares his love and proposes marriage. Beats me, why ?!?!?
At the same time, she befriends the guy's kid from his failed marriage. Finally, for no particular reason, she stops running away from him and says yes.
However, the author doesn't take liberties with the sanctity of marriage. The girl realises she is getting into the deep end with the guy and promptly leaves town and her job.
Then by a streak of coincidence they meet again post his divorce. But this time, she is taken, engaged to be married in a week.
No points for guessing what happens to the wedding. But the poor OM dint need to find the girl in bed with the hero, that's rather cruel of the author !
Even after that, the girl spends half the book dodging the hero when he openly declares his love and proposes marriage. Beats me, why ?!?!?
At the same time, she befriends the guy's kid from his failed marriage. Finally, for no particular reason, she stops running away from him and says yes.
June 26, 2024
I vaguely remember this as the story of a ninny who ran away from her boss because they were catching feelings for each other and she knew he was married and would never leave his wife. Years later, they meet by accident (literally a car accident where her fiance collides with hero's car). Hero stalks her until one day, as she is trying on her wedding dress, she sees him staring at her from outside the boutique's window and she faints ROFL Drama much? I just didn't like this story at all, it was very underwhelming, especially coming from the Grande Dame of Harlequins, Charlotte Lamb, who has give us so many juicy morsels over the years. This was no melon and prosciutto appetizer followed by a dover sole entree, more like cafeteria sloppy joe's.
December 29, 2022
There is no plot to this book. It was exciting during the first half, but after the wedding was canceled, it went flat. The ending is so disappointing, there was no grand finale, no climax, no nothing. She just suddenly changed her mind and that was that. And what does the author have against epilogues? I'm getting tired, Lamb either writes awesome books or not really good ones.
February 27, 2021
Well this is some hot garbage.
The heroine is absolutely psychotic, but that’s okay, because the main dude is a bone fide stalker. Honestly the only character who actually seems like a decent human being is the ex-wife’s new husband, who frankly should just take the kid and run.
The heroine is absolutely psychotic, but that’s okay, because the main dude is a bone fide stalker. Honestly the only character who actually seems like a decent human being is the ex-wife’s new husband, who frankly should just take the kid and run.
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January 10, 2021HORRIBLE! DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS BOOK!
June 30, 2021
Awful hero, stupid heroine.
May 17, 2022
The h makes no sense. The H is obviously in love with her and she with him, her motives for continuously running away are not enough to sustain a full length novel.
February 14, 2024
I didn't know what was wrong with the heroine the whole story .. I didn't like her attitude toward the hero I didn't like the fact that she is a coward
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August 20, 2024
2.5 just awful lol
September 9, 2024
I’d read this and had completely forgotten about the whole thing.
March 23, 2024
Sexual desire is not love. I admired the heroine for leaving before she got swept into an affair but lost almost all that admiration when she blamed Randal for putting his son first; it's not "first" or "second" but different. Immature.
Kept thinking I hadn’t finished this earlier but I did. Reread and it’s still a poor 2 star. Oh well now I can enter my Glose rating.
Kept thinking I hadn’t finished this earlier but I did. Reread and it’s still a poor 2 star. Oh well now I can enter my Glose rating.
October 23, 2024
I didn’t much like the hero or the heroine. If she couldn’t stand him, why was she sleeping with him. That didn’t become clear either. As a review said. The hero gave seriously stalkerish vibes.
I liked the guy she rejected in fact and in all probability he would have made her happier.
The descriptions of the English country side are pure love though.
I liked the guy she rejected in fact and in all probability he would have made her happier.
The descriptions of the English country side are pure love though.
January 10, 2017
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September 22, 2019
Pretty well-done rape fantasy story. I'm not used to them being both this directly obvious while at the same time actually doing a good job of balancing the interest vs reluctance of the woman.
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November 29, 2016Used - Very Good (Light shelf wear)
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