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The Tycoon's Proposal
With the holiday season fast approaching, Lissa Morgan is in dire straits -- she's stuck without a job, and the roof over her head is definitely temporary! So when a two-week live-in job is offered to her, Lissa snaps it up. What she doesn't realize is that she'll be in close proximity to Kurt Callahan -- the man who broke her heart years before when she discovered he had only dated her for a schoolboy bet!
Kurt's now a sexy businessman, and the attraction between them is sparking. Can Lissa forgive, forget and accept this tycoon's new proposal...?
Kurt's now a sexy businessman, and the attraction between them is sparking. Can Lissa forgive, forget and accept this tycoon's new proposal...?
- GenresHarlequin RomanceRomance
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 2006
About the author
Leigh Michaels
352 books175 followersLeigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (b. July 27 in Iowa, United States), a popular United States writer of over 85 romance novels. She has published with Harlequin, Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Writers Digest Books, and Arcadia Publishing. She teaches romance writing at Gotham Writers' Workshop (www.writingclasses.com) She is the author of On Writing Romance.
When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984.
Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate.
She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.
When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984.
Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate.
She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.
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September 2, 2021
3.75 stars
The story was flowing smoothly. In fact, too smooth that my interesr start to waver about halfway through. They were just bickering and snapping (and kissing) without much progress. I thought that they will just end like that. The H/h realized their love for each other and got their HEA.
The real conflict only began about 85% into the book and this is what saved the story. I think it would be much better is the conflict started earlier so the end won't be rushed in only a few explanations from the H. And I think he have to be taught a few lessons (or even better grovel for his negligence) before forgiveness was given.
The story was flowing smoothly. In fact, too smooth that my interesr start to waver about halfway through. They were just bickering and snapping (and kissing) without much progress. I thought that they will just end like that. The H/h realized their love for each other and got their HEA.
The real conflict only began about 85% into the book and this is what saved the story. I think it would be much better is the conflict started earlier so the end won't be rushed in only a few explanations from the H. And I think he have to be taught a few lessons (or even better grovel for his negligence) before forgiveness was given.
October 2, 2011
Unresolved issues stemming from a one-night stand when they were in college. She was the nerdy math, frumpy freshman and he was the popular senior she was tutoring. They meet again 6 six years later. He’s now a successful business owner of an LLBean/Eddie Bauer chain of stores and she’s finishing up with her college degree.
As expected of any Leigh Michaels’ books, the dialogue is snappy and the heroine is likeable. She can jab as well as the guy. Although there’s an obvious wealth disparity between them, she’s not afraid to poke fun at his math skills, disprove his supercilious contentions, and knock him down a notch or two. She’s not tripping over herself to win him back. What I don’t like however is that, because she’s such a decent girl at heart, she took him back right away.
The guy has three strikes against him already: 1) for that long time ago incident to which he admitted he indiscreetly talked to buddies about wanting to “score” with her. Yeah! he said tried to squash the rumors after the fact, but he couldn't have tried hard enough to defend her reputation if she had to drop out of her class because of all the bad attention she was getting. 2) accusing her now of aborting their child then when he himself didn’t do anything to check on her situation. Hello?? If he cared so much about the possibility of a child from that one-night-encounter, shouldn’t he have tried harder to get in touch with her back then? 3) walking out again because of his anger and disgust of her. Yeaah, he said he got over his anger a month later when he realized that she could have miscarried (which she did) but he didn’t establish contact till after graduation – on the purported reason that he wanted focused now on her studies. Really! If I thought I had gravely wronged someone, I'd immediately make restitution like give her (anonymously) scholarship money so she didn't have to live in the squalid quarters.
What is missing in the story is the critical part of “winning-her-back.” The hero was so good with excuses to exculpate himself. But he was lacking in actions.
There’s this part in the 2nd to the last page of the story when he had asked her to marry him and she replied, “I don’t know, Kurt. I love you, I honestly do – but I’m scared.” He acutely felt the pain then of not listening to her and not believing in her so he begged her to just give him the chance to convince her. The story could have been memorable had this scene happened midway of the plot and the rest of the book showed how he redeemed himself.
I'm on a Leigh Michaels binge so I'll keep on reading till I find another one of her good ones....
As expected of any Leigh Michaels’ books, the dialogue is snappy and the heroine is likeable. She can jab as well as the guy. Although there’s an obvious wealth disparity between them, she’s not afraid to poke fun at his math skills, disprove his supercilious contentions, and knock him down a notch or two. She’s not tripping over herself to win him back. What I don’t like however is that, because she’s such a decent girl at heart, she took him back right away.
The guy has three strikes against him already: 1) for that long time ago incident to which he admitted he indiscreetly talked to buddies about wanting to “score” with her. Yeah! he said tried to squash the rumors after the fact, but he couldn't have tried hard enough to defend her reputation if she had to drop out of her class because of all the bad attention she was getting. 2) accusing her now of aborting their child then when he himself didn’t do anything to check on her situation. Hello?? If he cared so much about the possibility of a child from that one-night-encounter, shouldn’t he have tried harder to get in touch with her back then? 3) walking out again because of his anger and disgust of her. Yeaah, he said he got over his anger a month later when he realized that she could have miscarried (which she did) but he didn’t establish contact till after graduation – on the purported reason that he wanted focused now on her studies. Really! If I thought I had gravely wronged someone, I'd immediately make restitution like give her (anonymously) scholarship money so she didn't have to live in the squalid quarters.
What is missing in the story is the critical part of “winning-her-back.” The hero was so good with excuses to exculpate himself. But he was lacking in actions.
There’s this part in the 2nd to the last page of the story when he had asked her to marry him and she replied, “I don’t know, Kurt. I love you, I honestly do – but I’m scared.” He acutely felt the pain then of not listening to her and not believing in her so he begged her to just give him the chance to convince her. The story could have been memorable had this scene happened midway of the plot and the rest of the book showed how he redeemed himself.
I'm on a Leigh Michaels binge so I'll keep on reading till I find another one of her good ones....
October 4, 2020
The heroes keep getting worse and worse in these, Jesus. The hero and heroine had a hookup in college and lost touch afterwards; the heroine had to drop out of school for a couple reasons at various points and is now struggling to make ends meet. The hero’s grandmother decides to hire her to help clear out the family house. In the meantime, the hero wonders if the heroine had his secret baby; . The earlier misunderstanding - that the hero slept with the heroine on a bet - is never resolved satisfactorily, by the way; the hero admits that He's terrible and she's making some really bad choices giving him the time of day. I hope once she's built up a nest egg she divorces him and takes him to the cleaners.
February 16, 2025
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January 18, 2022
The book is really good enjoyed reading it!!!
March 11, 2016
It was a good read, took me back to my teenage years of reading romance novels . I enjoyed it.
It was a good read, it took me back to my teenage years when I started reading romance novels. I really enjoyed it.
It was a good read, it took me back to my teenage years when I started reading romance novels. I really enjoyed it.
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