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That Dear Perfection
Two years in the heart of Wales--with this man!
When Sophie first learned she'd inherited Country Connection--her uncle's perfume factory--the young model thanked her lucky stars she'd finished business college as a backup.
Because sharing that responsibility with know-it-all Ben Ross, the managing director and cobeneficiary, meant proving to him that he was in partnership with more than a frivolous clotheshorse.
But to think she had innocently thought Ben would merely be frustrated by her intrusion. She hadn't considered the consequences of him being too interested!
When Sophie first learned she'd inherited Country Connection--her uncle's perfume factory--the young model thanked her lucky stars she'd finished business college as a backup.
Because sharing that responsibility with know-it-all Ben Ross, the managing director and cobeneficiary, meant proving to him that he was in partnership with more than a frivolous clotheshorse.
But to think she had innocently thought Ben would merely be frustrated by her intrusion. She hadn't considered the consequences of him being too interested!
- GenresHarlequin Romance
192 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1988
20 people want to read
About the author
Alison York
21 books7 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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July 27, 2019
A London-based fashion model inherits half of a perfume factory in Wales from a distant uncle she has never met but who kept in touch with her over the years through letters.
The other half of the factory is inherited by one of the managing directors of the factory, who is initially very hostile to the idea of letting this airhead floozie from swinging London have any say whatsoever in the future of the traditional, family values company.
The bickerfest that ensues between these two was pretty entertaining, especially as the heroine one-ups hero time and time again very satisfactorily. It was awesome to see this chauvinist pig'snout drop on the floor as our classy, intelligent heroine demonstrates her business acumen at a meeting of the directors. It was even more awesome to see the hero being big enough to admit when he is wrong and to acknowledge and support the heroine's novel ideas for expansion because they are actually beneficial to the company.
The story had some genuinely funny moments: The hero spies the heroine dancing the Charleston while modeling a silly bit of lingerie during a photo shoot. Hero tries to take the heroine in a romantic sailboat ride only to suffer a concussion when the boom hits him in the head. Heroine has to don a black wig and a mask to model the company's latest perfume at the launch party because the real model has broken her ankle the morning of the party.
Through their misadventures, it is clear that hero and heroine, after their initial enmity, fall into a friendship before falling into love, which makes their HEA believable. They work very well as business partners but they positively sizzle as romantic partners. Lots of chemistry between them.
Only a last-minute Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstanding that seemed to have been plucked straight from a telenovela very temporarily threatens what is sure to be a long-lasting HEA.
The other half of the factory is inherited by one of the managing directors of the factory, who is initially very hostile to the idea of letting this airhead floozie from swinging London have any say whatsoever in the future of the traditional, family values company.
The bickerfest that ensues between these two was pretty entertaining, especially as the heroine one-ups hero time and time again very satisfactorily. It was awesome to see this chauvinist pig'snout drop on the floor as our classy, intelligent heroine demonstrates her business acumen at a meeting of the directors. It was even more awesome to see the hero being big enough to admit when he is wrong and to acknowledge and support the heroine's novel ideas for expansion because they are actually beneficial to the company.
The story had some genuinely funny moments: The hero spies the heroine dancing the Charleston while modeling a silly bit of lingerie during a photo shoot. Hero tries to take the heroine in a romantic sailboat ride only to suffer a concussion when the boom hits him in the head. Heroine has to don a black wig and a mask to model the company's latest perfume at the launch party because the real model has broken her ankle the morning of the party.
Through their misadventures, it is clear that hero and heroine, after their initial enmity, fall into a friendship before falling into love, which makes their HEA believable. They work very well as business partners but they positively sizzle as romantic partners. Lots of chemistry between them.
Only a last-minute Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstanding that seemed to have been plucked straight from a telenovela very temporarily threatens what is sure to be a long-lasting HEA.
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October 6, 2023
Excellent story. Naksed has details.
The last minute mega problem added little.
The last minute mega problem added little.
August 22, 2023
Two years in the heart of Wales--with this man!
When Sophie first learned she'd inherited Country Connection--her uncle's perfume factory--the young model thanked her lucky stars she'd finished business college as a backup.
Because sharing that responsibility with know-it-all Ben Ross, the managing director and cobeneficiary, meant proving to him that he was in partnership with more than a frivolous clotheshorse.
But to think she had innocently thought Ben would merely be frustrated by her intrusion. She hadn't considered the consequences of him being too interested!
When Sophie first learned she'd inherited Country Connection--her uncle's perfume factory--the young model thanked her lucky stars she'd finished business college as a backup.
Because sharing that responsibility with know-it-all Ben Ross, the managing director and cobeneficiary, meant proving to him that he was in partnership with more than a frivolous clotheshorse.
But to think she had innocently thought Ben would merely be frustrated by her intrusion. She hadn't considered the consequences of him being too interested!
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