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If He Only Knew...
Mills & Boon Blaze series promises scorching hot reads...She like the perfect lady!
As far as New York City attorney Cody Shea could see, Sara Wells was a model temp. She had brains and beauty in fact, if he hadn't been her boss, there were a few highly improper things he would have asked the very proper Southern belle to do....
Living in Manhattan under an assumed name for a year was Sara's brief flirtation with freedom. Now back in her natural habitat, she's prepared to marry a gentleman whose pedigree and fortune match her own. She's even accepted that she'll probably spend a lifetime fantasizing about the exquisite pleasure of being a tigress in her boss's bed. Imagine if he only knew!
Well, Cody is about to find out. His trip to Atlanta to seduce her causes bedlam as Sara tries to keep her faux identity and her lustful feelings intact.... And fails!
As far as New York City attorney Cody Shea could see, Sara Wells was a model temp. She had brains and beauty in fact, if he hadn't been her boss, there were a few highly improper things he would have asked the very proper Southern belle to do....
Living in Manhattan under an assumed name for a year was Sara's brief flirtation with freedom. Now back in her natural habitat, she's prepared to marry a gentleman whose pedigree and fortune match her own. She's even accepted that she'll probably spend a lifetime fantasizing about the exquisite pleasure of being a tigress in her boss's bed. Imagine if he only knew!
Well, Cody is about to find out. His trip to Atlanta to seduce her causes bedlam as Sara tries to keep her faux identity and her lustful feelings intact.... And fails!
257 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2007
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Debbi Rawlins
265 books65 followersDebbi Rawlins currently lives with her husband in Las Vegas, Nevada. A native of Hawaii, she married on Maui and has since lived in Cincinnati, Chicago, Tulsa, Houston, Detroit, and Durham, North Carolina during the past twenty years.
Now that she's had enough of the gypsy life, it'll take a crane, a bulldozer, and a forklift to get her out of her new home. Not that her friends would let her leave Las Vegas even if she wanted to. Debbi's home has become a retreat for writers from both coasts and her guest rooms are rarely empty.
Now that she's had enough of the gypsy life, it'll take a crane, a bulldozer, and a forklift to get her out of her new home. Not that her friends would let her leave Las Vegas even if she wanted to. Debbi's home has become a retreat for writers from both coasts and her guest rooms are rarely empty.
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March 16, 2018
Creepy chick on cover doesn't seem v. into it.
Because I totally relate to a poor little rich trust fund baby and her almost gratuitous law degree from Yale...
The book starts out at her going away party. Not the going away party you assume; the going away party for her alter ego who has decided she can't take living on a legal secretary's salary and doing without her favorite booze and high class dining one more day. She's going home.
Chapter one is several weeks later when the former boss she had a crush on calls her out of the blue and wants to meet for dinner or something. The next 2/3 of the book is her hiding her identity from him while sleeping with him. I sort of wondered if she would ever have told him. Her sister, not realizing the poor guy was completely in the dark, arranged a double date and clued him in.
Near the end, she reluctantly invited him to a reception of some sort her parents were hosting. His client showed up drunk and said things to her in his (the H) hearing, prompting him to decide they were mostly just tolerating him, so he started to leave but changed his mind.
Epilogue has them back in NY (she was from Atlanta) so I guess they worked things out.
Because I totally relate to a poor little rich trust fund baby and her almost gratuitous law degree from Yale...
The book starts out at her going away party. Not the going away party you assume; the going away party for her alter ego who has decided she can't take living on a legal secretary's salary and doing without her favorite booze and high class dining one more day. She's going home.
Chapter one is several weeks later when the former boss she had a crush on calls her out of the blue and wants to meet for dinner or something. The next 2/3 of the book is her hiding her identity from him while sleeping with him. I sort of wondered if she would ever have told him. Her sister, not realizing the poor guy was completely in the dark, arranged a double date and clued him in.
Near the end, she reluctantly invited him to a reception of some sort her parents were hosting. His client showed up drunk and said things to her in his (the H) hearing, prompting him to decide they were mostly just tolerating him, so he started to leave but changed his mind.
Epilogue has them back in NY (she was from Atlanta) so I guess they worked things out.
April 28, 2021
I did not like it, I really liked the heroine and really hated the hero. The hero never planned to continue to see heroine after the week together and thought she was beneath him and was not interested in even trying, but then he learned she was leagues above him. He had thoughts of him not being good enough for her but yet it was a given that he would be with her now that she was good enough for him. I really liked heroine and wanted a nice guy for her that wasn't a snob. Np.
August 23, 2020
Excellent! I love this story!
June 20, 2023
Great book, First time reading her books.
March 16, 2012
Maybe 33% of the way through and I just don't care about either character, so I see no reason to continue. There's just no... "umph" here, ya know?
Edit: I couldn't find anything better within 10min of shelving this as DNF, so I tried it again.
Okay, I know what the problem is... why I couldn't get into it before. It's a lot of telling, not showing. I don't see why Sara feels the need to escape her parents, I'm just told that she does. The mother, who Sara has built up to something of a cross between Godzilla and a Stepford Wife, blinks a few times and might have two lines of dialogue total. It was a bit of a letdown. But we all know my big complaint is always about the female lead and I try not to disappoint.
Shall we commence?
Sara is a freaking coward. She runs away from Atlanta to "experience a real life" in New York. But she doesn't branch out and experience life, she stays in her apartment or goes to work. You're in mother fucking NEW YORK CITY, woman! SOCIALIZE! She hides her real identity. She stays in her friend's apartment so Cody won't see her penthouse and hides him from people she may see in public. She invites him to her parent's party and then avoids him most of the time, only to let him walk out when he overhears a nasty conversation about him. Biggest freaking coward ever!
What saved this book from being given up on a second time or being rated 1 star is this:
1. When Sara's lies were revealed to Cody, he got rightfully angry and wanted to leave. But Sara asked him to let her explain, he did, she did, then they made up and got it on. That seems a bit more realistic than the other extreme that we usually see: somebody storming out and both people suffering the loss for however long before swallowing their pride and grovelling. I liked that they were both reasonable about the situation, even though Cody had a few trust issues afterward.
2. When Cody overheard the nasty conversation about him, he walked out of the party and Sara let him leave. She pretended everything was hunky dory, while he stewed in the limo and eventually decided to return to the party and tell Sara how he feels. I was glad that he didn't head back to New York and instead chose to risk putting his feelings out there with a public declaration, but I wish Sara had stopped him from leaving in the first place. But it's not my story. =)
Those two reasonable reactions kept me from DNFing it a second time. I wasn't fond of how some things were handled, the characters weren't really fleshed out, and the story wasn't what I usually go for, but it was a decent read. I give big kudos to Debbi Rawlins for writing realistic responses and I can think of at least a dozen books I would have finished if only the author had written something like what Ms. Rawlins did.
I probably wouldn't recommend this book, but I would recommend that you don't base your decision on whether or not to read it solely on this shitty review.
Edit: I couldn't find anything better within 10min of shelving this as DNF, so I tried it again.
Okay, I know what the problem is... why I couldn't get into it before. It's a lot of telling, not showing. I don't see why Sara feels the need to escape her parents, I'm just told that she does. The mother, who Sara has built up to something of a cross between Godzilla and a Stepford Wife, blinks a few times and might have two lines of dialogue total. It was a bit of a letdown. But we all know my big complaint is always about the female lead and I try not to disappoint.
Shall we commence?
Sara is a freaking coward. She runs away from Atlanta to "experience a real life" in New York. But she doesn't branch out and experience life, she stays in her apartment or goes to work. You're in mother fucking NEW YORK CITY, woman! SOCIALIZE! She hides her real identity. She stays in her friend's apartment so Cody won't see her penthouse and hides him from people she may see in public. She invites him to her parent's party and then avoids him most of the time, only to let him walk out when he overhears a nasty conversation about him. Biggest freaking coward ever!
What saved this book from being given up on a second time or being rated 1 star is this:
1. When Sara's lies were revealed to Cody, he got rightfully angry and wanted to leave. But Sara asked him to let her explain, he did, she did, then they made up and got it on. That seems a bit more realistic than the other extreme that we usually see: somebody storming out and both people suffering the loss for however long before swallowing their pride and grovelling. I liked that they were both reasonable about the situation, even though Cody had a few trust issues afterward.
2. When Cody overheard the nasty conversation about him, he walked out of the party and Sara let him leave. She pretended everything was hunky dory, while he stewed in the limo and eventually decided to return to the party and tell Sara how he feels. I was glad that he didn't head back to New York and instead chose to risk putting his feelings out there with a public declaration, but I wish Sara had stopped him from leaving in the first place. But it's not my story. =)
Those two reasonable reactions kept me from DNFing it a second time. I wasn't fond of how some things were handled, the characters weren't really fleshed out, and the story wasn't what I usually go for, but it was a decent read. I give big kudos to Debbi Rawlins for writing realistic responses and I can think of at least a dozen books I would have finished if only the author had written something like what Ms. Rawlins did.
I probably wouldn't recommend this book, but I would recommend that you don't base your decision on whether or not to read it solely on this shitty review.
December 23, 2010
Contemporary romance about a mega-rich recent law graduate who wants to know how the other half lives. After a few months in a New York law firm as a legal secretary, she only knows she wants to do the boss (who ethically refuses to hit on her) and quit being poor. But when the boss pursues her to her hometown, her efforts to hide her rich-girl identity go splat. Turns out she has a twin, too, which is only played for minor misunderstandings, but could have been more fun. This book is more enjoyable if you like reaching about modern rich people stuff which I just discovered I don't.
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September 15, 2013I really liked this book it came in a 2 in 1, a lot of people see mills and boon and go eh! (Me too :() But, this story funny, romantic and angsty. I was gonna give this book away when I was done reading but now, I think I'll keep it. :)
January 4, 2014
Fairly good. Learned a new word illusive.
Massively wealthy smart heroine considers ACLU a worthwhile cause & marriage NOT held in high esteem as they lived together in NYC for two years before wedding came up :(
3.5 racy
Massively wealthy smart heroine considers ACLU a worthwhile cause & marriage NOT held in high esteem as they lived together in NYC for two years before wedding came up :(
3.5 racy
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July 27, 2011Great book but I felt like the epilogue was a little unnecessary.
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