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Australia: in Bed with a Playboy

Hidden Mistress, Public Wife / Secret Mistress / Claiming His Mistress

by Emma Darcy

Published 2014560 pagesISBN 978-0-2632-4604-9

In the arms of a playboy… but for how long? Sydney’s most eligible bachelor, billionaire Jordan Powell, is a favourite of the gossip pages – there’s always a new woman on his arm! So he finds the challenge of seducing farm girl Ivy Thornton a diverting amusement. But Ivy isn’t willing to be the latest in a line of Jordan’s disposable mistresses… Believing Luis Martinez was committed to marrying another woman, Shontelle had ended their affair. Two years on, Luis wasn’t married and he was the only man who would get her brother out of danger…in exchange for one more night with her! W hen business hotshot Carver Dane attends a masked ball, he isn’t expecting a fiery encounter with a woman who ignites the compelling desire he’s known only once before. When the masks come off, Carver is determined to claim Katie…

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.

Who it may suit

A good fit if…

Readers looking for a substantial, immersive commitment with room for a world or argument to unfold.

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ToneBalanced
LuminousDark

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Spoiler-Free Emotional Arc

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Australia: in Bed with a PlayboyEmma Darcy
Powerful4.6/5

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Before you choose

A quick reading snapshot

Edition facts and catalog signals to help you decide whether this book fits what you want to read next.

Reading lengthA longer, immersive read560 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2014
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-2632-4604-9
Language
English
Edition record
OL29188787M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.

Good to know

Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.