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The Rich Man's Bride: A Forced Proximity Contemporary Romance
Ever since gamekeeper's granddaughterAnna Morton was snubbed by Ryder Wyndhamand his upper-class friends, she's stayed awayfrom Ryder, the man she once worshipped.But then Anna is forced to live with Ryder onhis English country estate, and the tensionbetween them turns to temptation. Anna isa career-minded city girl with no plans tosettle down. But Ryder needs a wife, andhe's decided that Anna will become hislady-of-the-manor bride!
254 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2007
About the author
Catherine George
449 books73 followersDeirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
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April 21, 2017
THE RICH MAN'S BRIDE
, by Catherine George: A Play in Three Acts
ACT I
Lord Footinmouth: You Gold-Digging, cradle-robbing Slut, keep your old, varicose-veiny, thirty-three year old hands off my younger brother!
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
ACT II
Lord Footinmouth: Ooops, you were innocent of any of my wild accusations. Can we be friends now?
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
Lord Footinmouth: Are you sure? Cause I think I kinda fancy you...
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
Lord Footinmouth: Wow, I am so glad you changed your mind overnight and went to bed with me. Not only are you sexually compatible with me, but you make a mean beef brisket, you understand country living, and BONUS, you are a chartered accountant.
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
Lord Footinmouth: Ahem...*clears throat*...Given I have never felt like this about anyone but you...and...*gulp*... I don't think I can go on living without you, will you please...*cough*...can you do me the honor of...*pant*...Will you make me the happiest man on earth and become...MY EMPLOYEE?
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
ACT III
Lord Footinmouth: Pregnant, you say?...You Gold-Digging, cradle-robbing, varicose-veiny, thirty-three year old slut! And who is the father, pray tell?
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
Lord Footinmouth: Oh fine, fine, it's my baby. Come on, you can't hold my verbal diarrhea against me, it's just my nature. Let's just get married and get it over with.
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: I love you, husband.
Lord Footinmouth: Oh, yeah? Then, in that case, I love you too. Plus, now that you are my wife, you get to be an unpaid housekeeper, an unpaid child care worker, an unpaid begetter of my heir and my spare AND an unpaid chartered accountant running the business side of things for my country estate. And who said Gold-Digging, cradle-robbing, varicose-veiny, thirty-three year old, Chartered Accountant sluts don't come in handy!
ACT I
Lord Footinmouth: You Gold-Digging, cradle-robbing Slut, keep your old, varicose-veiny, thirty-three year old hands off my younger brother!
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
ACT II
Lord Footinmouth: Ooops, you were innocent of any of my wild accusations. Can we be friends now?
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
Lord Footinmouth: Are you sure? Cause I think I kinda fancy you...
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
Lord Footinmouth: Wow, I am so glad you changed your mind overnight and went to bed with me. Not only are you sexually compatible with me, but you make a mean beef brisket, you understand country living, and BONUS, you are a chartered accountant.
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
Lord Footinmouth: Ahem...*clears throat*...Given I have never felt like this about anyone but you...and...*gulp*... I don't think I can go on living without you, will you please...*cough*...can you do me the honor of...*pant*...Will you make me the happiest man on earth and become...MY EMPLOYEE?
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
ACT III
Lord Footinmouth: Pregnant, you say?...You Gold-Digging, cradle-robbing, varicose-veiny, thirty-three year old slut! And who is the father, pray tell?
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: You are the high and mighty Squire of Wyndham Hall and I am but the lowly gameskeeper's brat and because of this wide class-based gulf, there can never be anything between us.
Lord Footinmouth: Oh fine, fine, it's my baby. Come on, you can't hold my verbal diarrhea against me, it's just my nature. Let's just get married and get it over with.
Ms. Chippunmashoulder: I love you, husband.
Lord Footinmouth: Oh, yeah? Then, in that case, I love you too. Plus, now that you are my wife, you get to be an unpaid housekeeper, an unpaid child care worker, an unpaid begetter of my heir and my spare AND an unpaid chartered accountant running the business side of things for my country estate. And who said Gold-Digging, cradle-robbing, varicose-veiny, thirty-three year old, Chartered Accountant sluts don't come in handy!
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April 22, 2017I guess the best thing about this book has to be Naksed's review.
October 1, 2021
Zawsze mnie zastanawia, dlaczego sięgam po tego typu książki... Sama siebie pod tym względem nie rozumiem. Sięgnęłam, bo dostałam. Ale nie polecam...
December 31, 2024
1.5⭐️’s
’‘𝓞𝓯 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮 𝓘 𝓫𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾. 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓼 𝓸𝓵𝓭.’’
Tropes:
🤍Friends to Lovers
🤍Forced Proximity
🤍Small-town
’‘𝓞𝓯 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮 𝓘 𝓫𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾. 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓼 𝓸𝓵𝓭.’’
Tropes:
🤍Friends to Lovers
🤍Forced Proximity
🤍Small-town
October 9, 2013
Things I disliked -- kind of formal interactions...very polite and not as much laid-back as I usually like. Things sort of tidied up really quick in the end.
Things I liked -- you could really feel the rapport between Anna and Ryder. They were friends first, and you could actually feel that in the writing...you could see how they fell in love. Side characters were likeable too (from Martha to Tom and John to Clare to Dominic).
Things I liked -- you could really feel the rapport between Anna and Ryder. They were friends first, and you could actually feel that in the writing...you could see how they fell in love. Side characters were likeable too (from Martha to Tom and John to Clare to Dominic).
April 4, 2015
This had a lot of good ideas going for it, but it felt like notes for a first draft of a story.
This needed a lot of help as it was beyond choppy, and plot points were introduced at the wrong time.
Not sure how this got published.
This needed a lot of help as it was beyond choppy, and plot points were introduced at the wrong time.
Not sure how this got published.
January 23, 2012
A decent read, though I have to admit that I am biased toward this basic story line -- childhood friends from different social statuses on an English estate.
August 2, 2019
Kind of an odd read. The characters had very flat affects but I believed them as a couple so it all worked out. I liked the childhood friends angle too.
August 5, 2013
I liked the story and characters, but the writing was poor.
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April 27, 2017Leído el 20/01/2011
Argumento:
El señor de la casa había encontrado esposa…
Desde que había sido despreciada por Ryder Wyndham y sus sofisticados amigos, Anna Morton, hija de uno de sus sirvientes, había mantenido las distancias con el hombre al que en otro tiempo había adorado.
Pero entonces se vio obligada a vivir bajo el mismo techo que Ryder en la mansión que él tenía en el campo y muy pronto la tensión se convirtió en tentación… Ahora Anna era una abogada de éxito sin la menor intención de establecerse en ningún sitio, pero Ryder necesitaba una esposa… y había decidido que Anna sería una magnífica señora de la casa.
Argumento:
El señor de la casa había encontrado esposa…
Desde que había sido despreciada por Ryder Wyndham y sus sofisticados amigos, Anna Morton, hija de uno de sus sirvientes, había mantenido las distancias con el hombre al que en otro tiempo había adorado.
Pero entonces se vio obligada a vivir bajo el mismo techo que Ryder en la mansión que él tenía en el campo y muy pronto la tensión se convirtió en tentación… Ahora Anna era una abogada de éxito sin la menor intención de establecerse en ningún sitio, pero Ryder necesitaba una esposa… y había decidido que Anna sería una magnífica señora de la casa.
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