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Lace and Satin Kindle Edition
As a student, Logan Steer had been wildly and romantically attractive to the female population . Now he was devastating! Amelia Higginbottom knew Logan and his effect on women all too well, so she was determined to keep their business relationship just thatstrictly business.
What Melly didn't know was that her cat, Marmalade, had an altogether different view of things, and had made plans accordingly !
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarlequin Treasury Harlequin Presents 90s
- Publication dateJuly 15, 2011
- File size2.5 MB
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- ASIN : B0056HC75S
- Publisher : Harlequin Treasury Harlequin Presents 90s (July 15, 2011)
- Publication date : July 15, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 2.5 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 173 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #861,281 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #188 in Lace & Tatting (Books)
- #4,182 in Family Life Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #15,442 in Family Life Fiction (Books)
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About the author

Rita Bradshaw (born 1950 in Northampton, England) is a British romance novelist, she wrote historical romances as her real name and under the pseudonym Helen Brooks contemporary romances at Mills & Boon since 1992.
Rita Bradshaw born in 1950 in Northampton, England. She met her husband Clive at the age of 16. They have three children: Cara, Faye, and Benjamin.
A former secretary, she began writing in 1990 at the age of 40, and published her first novel in 1992 at Mills & Boon under the pseudonym Helen Brooks. Since 1998, she also sing historical romances as her real name.
She lives in Northampton with her family, and her hobbies include going to the cinema or theater, reading, swimming, and having friends over for dinner.
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 20096 years ago 23 yr-old Logan Steer met 19 yr-old Amelia Higginbottom; she went to talk to him about a friend Lauren Grant, he had split with, the girl told Melly she really loved Logan and he was breaking her heart.
It wasn't true, Lauren was sleeping with two men at the same time, and Logan didn't like that.
But the moment he met Melly he fell in love. She was everything he ever wanted in a woman, only he came on too strong and ended up in bed with her. Had his previous guest had not returned he would have made love to her.
Melly would never forgive Logan for causing her to lower her own standards.
Now Logan is in partnership with the company Melly works for, and she has to not only work with him, but for him.
Logan has never forgotten Melly, or his feelings for her, but he had an affair with a woman called Vanessa, when she ended up pregnant he married her.
They had a little girl Dee(Alexandra), only she wasn't Logan's child, he found out when she needed a kidney and tests were done to see if he was a match, it proved he wasn't related to her at all. But Logan loves Dee and he would give anything to make her better.
Because they were going to France, and they would be gone for 6 weeks, Melly had to find someone to take her cat Marmalade. Logan volunteered Dee to be the pet sitter.
So Marmalade took over the romance, he not only loved little Dee, but he got Dee's cat Tabitha with kittens: after Marmalade vanquished Vanessa he brought Dee, Logan and Melly together.
This is a sweet story, I am always a sucker for books with kids in them, and little Dee was such a darling, although as in most books she only shows up when the story has no choice but to bring her back into the book.
From the back of the book: 'An adult affair. As a student, Logan Steer had been wildly and romantically attractive to female population...Now he was devastating! Melly knew Logan and his effect on women all too well, so she was determined to keep their business relationship just that-strictly business.
What she didn't know was that her cat, Marmalade, had an altogether different view of things, and had made plans accordingly...!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2014Logan & Amelia met in college. She was the younger of the pair & sparks flew whenever they clashed. Logan moved away but never really forgot Amelia. Years later, Amelia is stunned to find that Logan is a major client of the firm she works for. To her further horror, Amelia is assigned to work closely with Logan on his project. That entails moving into his home, along with her ginger cat Marmalade( I LOVED this cat!). Amelia finds Logan has a young daughter from a previous marriage who is disabled. The child & the cat fall instantly in love with each other. Things are going fine until the daughter's mother pops up unannounced. Needless to say, she's a real BITCH & a very un motherly person too. Marmalade the cat takes an instant dislike to the girl's mother & uses every opportunity to take a swipe at her. This is rather a sweet romance of unrequited love. A good book for Helen Brooks fans too!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2012I'm reluctant to be the "first reviewer" of a kindle book.
And I'm learning - if a book that's been out for awhile doesn't inspire reviews, it's perhaps because it doesn't inspire sales. Or passion. Part of my learning curve involves, stupidly, buying books like these - a decades old re-release, or a book that's been out for a couple years, w/ no reviews (or just one, Incredibly Positive, *Almost Unbelievable*!, review).
As an easy mark for books like that, should I leave an accurate mediocre review, or leave well enough alone?
The only guide I can follow is what I wish another reviewer had left for me.
"Lace & Satin" was apparently first released a couple decades ago in print, & a year ago for the kindle. It's a great example of books which don't provoke passion. Or even interest. It revolves around a great premise/boring execution/stupidly immature heroine/incessant introspection/uneven Hero/pitiful platitudes.
Helen Brooks has written some really good books - "A Whirlwind Marriage" is my favorite, "The Mistress Contract" also - the characters from both these novels stay w/ me long after I read them. Ms. Brooks can write people & situations that are very touching & real. What a gift.
This book, unfortunately, does not possess that vibrancy or display her gift :(.
The heroine, Amelia/Melly is one of those transitional doormat-to-strong-woman leads, when apparently Harlequin/the author decided that any female who isn't weak, needy & desperate, has to be strident, bitchy & argumentative. Not to mention cold & uneven. Melly is so unlikeable, and so immature - Seriously, you're still emotionally crippled by a 6ish *hour* romantic interlude that happened to you 8 years ago? Seriously? Get some freakin' therapy, then get a life, girl - that I had absolutely no sympathy/identification/suspended disbelief with her. I didn't want her to end up with the hero, I wanted her to get over her 19 year old self, grow up, and *then* find a hero & HEA. When she was, like, 35 or 40.
The hero - well, this is an observation I typically make about the heroine - Logan has such a weak character that you get whiplash trying to follow him. He's a womanizer, but he's celibate except for impregnating his wife w/ their child. He's cold & mocking, except when he's tender & gentle. He's remote & unapproachable, except when he's bringing your kitty cat to his house for boarding...or, of course, kissing you passionately with Deep Secrets in his eyes. He wants to Start All Over With You, except that his ex-wife is running wild around his house & his person.
Ugh. And I'm not even to the incessant-internal-dialogue critiques. Or the platitudes - crippled child, omniscient cat (though, as a cat owner, I find that ominously realistic), evil ex-wife, loyal housekeeper...Ugh.
It's boring. It's predictable, except that the characters are so uneven. And, as far I've read, none of her books should be Harlequin Presents - they are way too tame. This one certainly falls into that category. It's not sexy, there's no spark or interest between the two leads. There's no reason to read this book, it's so far below her best.