Passionate Deceiver

by Barbara Andrews

For anyone else it would have been a dream come true. Cal Bishop was the designer of the decade. His estate was too luxurious to be real. Being singled out to model his luscious new line of sportswear then being miraculously swept into his arms -- what more could any woman want?But too much of a good thing put GerryBillings way between a rock and a hard place. She was an impostor in paradise -- not a model but a reporter assigned to infiltrate Bishop's camp and get inside information on a rumored merger. Her editor wanted a front-page story. Her conscience demanded caution. How could she spy on the man she loved--or open her heart to the man she'd been sent to betray?

187 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Barbara Andrews wanted a career she could combine with motherhood and four children. She made her first sale to Highlights for Children, when her children were in kindergarten. Barbara Andrews is the author of 20 romance novels under her own name. Her daughter Pam grew up within earshot of her mother's manual typewriter. Pam majored in journalism in college and later worked as a reporter. Pam married with with Mr. Hanson, a college-professor, and they created a family. Barbara teamed up with her daughter after the birth of Pam's first child, Erik. They published their books under the pseudonyms Jennifer Drew and Pam Rock. For several years their partnership was long-distance, fueled by high phone bills! They make writing a lot easier these days. So does the fact that mom and daughter share digs in West Virginia, along with Pam Hanson's husband and their two sons, Erik and Andrew. Barbara is the mother of four and the grandmother of seven.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 1 out of 5]

Heroine is an undercover journalist posing as a model in order to get a “scoop” on an elusive tycoon. Our short, curvy investigator h is somehow hand-picked by the tycoon, along with a bunch of real models, to shoot an ad campaign in his mansion. She has to don elegant items from the hero’s luxury sportswear collection such as skintight pink pantsuits and bathing suits with pockets in them. In her free time, she listens in at doors, questions staff, dates the hero (who thinks the models he employs are his convenient dating pool) and crashes secret poker parties in search of her scoop. Didn’t Sandra Bullock star in this movie?

Alas, our sleuthing heroine fails miserably at her detectiving because of the fierce hunger pains brought on by her model’s diet (she even hides ham and cheese rolls under her bed pillow). She has even fiercer sexual hunger pains for the hero. I mean, who wouldn’t salivate over a man who wears a brown silk shirt open to the navel and who keeps sticking his tongue inside your ear drum like he is trying to suck out your brain fluid?

The hero eventually finds out heroine's Seekret Identity and he is so butthurt that she has been using him for a story that he gives her a false scoop, hoping it will get her fired: the Amazing, Juicy, Scandalous, Headline-Making Story of the Century that.................he is selling his company. Wow. Stop the presses. Hero’s revenge plan backfires because heroine is so in luuuurve with him that she refuses to betray him.

The tackiest part of this was not the silk brown shirt open to the navel, or even the questionable luxury sportswear designs, but the fact that one of the models had claimed she had been sexually assaulted by one of hero’s lecherous business associates and heroine stepped in to intimidate and threaten the accuser until she dropped her claim. What a sisterhood!

[Floqueta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nobody has written a review of this book, so I am going to try my best at it, as I liked it.
The h (Gerry) knows her assignment isn’t going to be an easy one. She is going to pretend to be a model to get information on first hand for her newspaper about the merger the famous designer Cal Bishop is said to be planning. If she succeds, it will mean a lot in her career as a reporter. And the best of all is that Gerry has been personally selected by Bishop himself to do the modelling of a new line of sportswear. But while doing her job as a model, Gerry feels incompetent and ill-at-ease. Perhaps her chance will come with the fact that Cal is visibly attracted to her, but Cal shows no interest whatsoever to make any comments on business matters. And when finally they have sex together, Gerry feels mixed up because she realizes she is in love with Cal and giving confidential information about him may mean the end of all her hopes for a lasting relationship. But has Cal any interest in a steady relationship?
And if she confesses her true identity to him? But she doesn’t seem to find the right moment to make her confession. So there is a little intrigue in the story that gives a mild tension. It all ends in HEA, but I won’t disclose how it comes about because if you want to read the book, it is better you find for yourself.