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His after-hours mistress

Rich Man's Reluctant Mistress / the Inconvenient Laws of Attraction / Playing His Dangerous Game

by Margaret Mayo, Trish Wylie, Tina Duncan

Published 2015186 pagesISBN 978-0-2632-5232-3

The Rich Man’s Reluctant Mistress After building her interior design business, Lucinda Oliver is shocked when her latest client is former boss Zane Alexander. Lucinda’s determined not to become another notch on his bedpost, but soon she’s battling to resist Zane’s sizzling brand of desire... The Inconvenient Laws of Attraction When Blake Clayton inherits a fortune from his estranged father, the only thing piquing his interest is lawyer Olivia Brannigan. Dating on the job isn’t in Olivia’s ‘Guide to Good Client-Lawyer Relationships’... but aren’t rules made to be broken? Playing His Dangerous Game Shara Atwood is used to playing the celebrity game – but nothing had prepared her for the charms of new bodyguard Royce. Shara knows she should do as Royce tells her – but she can’t help but think she’ll have more fun not obeying his every command...

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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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Urgent pace

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Who it may suit

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LuminousDark

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His after-hours mistressMargaret Mayo, Trish Wylie, Tina Duncan
Powerful4.4/5

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Reading lengthA shorter read186 pages in this edition
Publication eraContemporaryFirst published or edition dated 2015
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-2632-5232-3
Language
English
Edition record
OL28334931M
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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

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.