The Tycoon’s Forbidden Temptation by Penny Jordan
by Penny Jordan
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After suffering the ultimate betrayal, Chelsea Evans has learnt the hard way to steer clear of heart-breakers. So when she sees her innocent niece in danger of losing her head over notorious playboy Slade Ashford, she’s determined to come to her rescue!
Only the alluring tycoon is infinitely more sophisticated and desirable than Chelsea ever imagined. And before long, it’s clear that Chelsea is the woman Slade really wants—if only she dare surrender herself to this tycoon’s forbidden temptation!
- File Name:the-tycoons-forbidden-temptation-by-penny-jordan.epub
- Original Title:The Tycoon's Forbidden Temptation
- Creator:Penny Jordan
- Language:en-US
- Identifier:ISBN:9781488028946
- Publisher:Harlequin
- Date:1983
- File Size:750.594 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Back Cover Text
- 3. Title Page
- 4. Contents
- 5. Chapter One
- 6. Chapter Two
- 7. Chapter Three
- 8. Chapter Four
- 9. Chapter Five
- 10. Chapter Six
- 11. Chapter Seven
- 12. Chapter Eight
- 13. Chapter Nine
- 14. Chapter Ten
- 15. BPA
- 16. Excerpt
- 17. Copyright
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This book sustained my focus till the last 5%. Carole Mortimer, PJ and Roberta Leigh used to be my faves. Now it seems only PJ is still currently holding her own.
Spoiler Alert. The Tycoon’s Forbidden Temptation was about Chelsea Evans and Slade Ashford. Chelsea had been betrayed at the age of 16 when the man she thought she loved informed her he only wanted her virtue and would never leave his wife for her. Flash forward ten years to when Chelsea's sister, Ann, talks her into acting the femme fatale in order to prevent Kirsty, Ann's daughter, and Chelsea's 17-year-old niece, that she should not be getting involved with Slade, a man old enough to be her father. At Ann and her husband, Ralph's anniversary party, Chelsea unwillingly did what her sister asked. However, Slade took her to seriously be a hooker that he tried to rape her after taking her to his home rather than to hers when she told him NO to his sexual advances, saying no one would believe her if she said anything, and that "I don’t know what your game is—However, this time you aren’t getting away with it. I’m no pigeon for the plucking, and perhaps it’s time that someone made you come up with the goods you’re so good at offering—and then withdrawing." Her salvation came through the ringing of the phone, at which time she managed to escape with her virtue intact. Flash forward another month and the two of them ended up accidentally meeting again when Chelsea was doing restoration work to some tapestries and it ended up being at Slade's home. Slade kept making advances towards Chelsea, even though she kept telling him No. Long story short, no one told Slade the truth until Kirsty and her boyfriend showed up at Slade's home and over breakfast, Kirsty revealed the entire truth, even the fact that it had not been Chelsea's idea and that she had fought against doing it. The angst and drama were way over the top, there was no humor, and the fact that Slade caused Chelsea so much fear with his unwanted advances spoke volumes. While there certainly was a good deal of attraction, there wasn't any real chemistry between the two main characters. It was more sexual tension than romance. Slade insulted Chelsea at every turn, being a bully at its worst. Chelsea was a weak character. She let her sister push her into doing something she didn't really want to do, but then she also never told Slade the truth about what had happened. How they came up with a HEA is beyond me. Who honestly wants a relationship with someone who believes the worst about them and then tries on multiple occasions to rape them or force them to yield to unwanted sexual advances? No, this book doesn't get even one star...and it definitely will never be added to the Keeper for the Shelves collection. This book was the epitome of everything wrong with romance novels.