Annie needs a break from being the "nation's angel." Her high-profile charity work means the media spotlight follows her every step. So leaving her aristocratic title behind her, Annie goes undercover...and meets brooding businessman George Saxon. They form an unlikely relationship--until George discovers Annie's been hiding her true self from him all along!
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Reading is, and always has been, the first love of my life. Except writing.
Success came early -- I was twelve when I won an Easter egg in a hymn writing competition at school - but life intervened with my plans to become a hot shot author. The day job. Not that this was dull. I travelled to Zambia at the age of twenty where I worked as a secretary, before following my personal hero to the Middle East, Kenya, Botswana and ambition became buried in the joyful business of raising a family.
I never forgot that I was a "writer", however. I wrote children's stories for Listen With Mother. Magazines articles. Ghost stories. I was at a point where I wanted to move onto something bigger when I read a magazine piece about Charlotte Lamb and Anne Hampson and discovered, rather late in life, romantic fiction. I read everything I could lay my hands on, then, feeling certain I had a grasp of the genre, began writing. I had three rejections - I still have those letters! -- but my fourth submission became An Image of You and was published in 1992.
Since then seven of my books have been shortlisted for RWA's RITA award - two of them, THE BEST MAN & THE BRIDESMAID and THE MARRIAGE MIRACLE winning in 2001 and 2006, respectively. A FAMILY OF HIS OWN always won the RNA's Romance Prize in 2005.
My best-beloved and I are empty-nesters these days, living out in the country where excitement means a visit from the mobile shop, the travelling library, the fish man. But I'm a writer, I invent my own worlds. Once the door to the my cabin in the woods is closed I can be anywhere my imagination takes me; the desert kingdom of Ramal Hamrah, the villages of Upper Haughton, Little Hinton and Longbourne where romance is always just around the corner, or I can jet off to New York, the Mediterranean, even the Himalayas. Come and see where I'm headed next - http://www.lizfielding.com
Success came early -- I was twelve when I won an Easter egg in a hymn writing competition at school - but life intervened with my plans to become a hot shot author. The day job. Not that this was dull. I travelled to Zambia at the age of twenty where I worked as a secretary, before following my personal hero to the Middle East, Kenya, Botswana and ambition became buried in the joyful business of raising a family.
I never forgot that I was a "writer", however. I wrote children's stories for Listen With Mother. Magazines articles. Ghost stories. I was at a point where I wanted to move onto something bigger when I read a magazine piece about Charlotte Lamb and Anne Hampson and discovered, rather late in life, romantic fiction. I read everything I could lay my hands on, then, feeling certain I had a grasp of the genre, began writing. I had three rejections - I still have those letters! -- but my fourth submission became An Image of You and was published in 1992.
Since then seven of my books have been shortlisted for RWA's RITA award - two of them, THE BEST MAN & THE BRIDESMAID and THE MARRIAGE MIRACLE winning in 2001 and 2006, respectively. A FAMILY OF HIS OWN always won the RNA's Romance Prize in 2005.
My best-beloved and I are empty-nesters these days, living out in the country where excitement means a visit from the mobile shop, the travelling library, the fish man. But I'm a writer, I invent my own worlds. Once the door to the my cabin in the woods is closed I can be anywhere my imagination takes me; the desert kingdom of Ramal Hamrah, the villages of Upper Haughton, Little Hinton and Longbourne where romance is always just around the corner, or I can jet off to New York, the Mediterranean, even the Himalayas. Come and see where I'm headed next - http://www.lizfielding.com
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Christmas Romance!,
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This review is from: Christmas Angel for the Billionaire (Harlequin Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
Lady Roseanne Napier lives her life in the public eye as the paragon of virtue. From the moment she held her grandfather's hand at her parents' funeral, Annie has lived in the shadow of her parents' fame. On the tenth anniversary of their murder, at the tender age of 16, she opened a children's hospice in honor of her mother. As Lady Rose, Annie is an icon of perfection. Each and every move is captured by the press. With such a worthy goal behind the publicity, how can she do otherwise? Yet the woman in her wants something richer and more substantial than image. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, Annie seizes the chance to break from her guarded life with an unplanned adventure. Leaving her aristocratic image behind, Annie plans to experience life on her own without plan or protection. When spontaneity leads to a disabled car, circumstances place Annie right in the presence of handsome George Saxon. Drawn together, Annie and George form a relationship. Whether they spar or share the intimacy of a home cooked recipe, Annie experiences life and love within the difficult but delightfully imperfect moments beyond public image. Can their love survive the secret of her true identity? Or his?
In the opening scenes of CHRISTMAS ANGEL FOR THE BILLIONAIRE, Liz Fielding draws the reader in with short news stories of deep cultural icons that reach generations. With just enough details reminiscent of John Kennedy, Jr. or Lady Diana yet enough differences to create a unique character, Liz Fielding creates emotion and empathy for her characters by reaching into those private moments that are also part of a cultural memory. Here and in later moments of the book in something as simple as a cookbook, in precise moments well-placed, Liz Fielding has a unique ability to capture rich images that speak worlds. In these moments, Liz Fielding moves beyond image to substance, summoning a whole emotional depth that resonates within a reader. The romance between Annie and George moves from a fairy tale kind of image to one which reaches into the characters' vulnerabilities, challenging them. In some ways, George is not the ideal hero of romantic fantasy but the tension between them is just the catalyst Annie needs to discover herself and experience a love beyond image. The character growth is not one-dimensional. Annie and her love transform George as well. What a delightful perfect ending with just the perfect media twist! CHRISTMAS ANGEL FOR THE BILLIONAIRE is a wonderful Christmas romance to cheer the heart. CHRISTMAS ANGEL FOR THE BILLIONAIRE turns tragedy into a happy ending through the magic of love. Liz Fielding creates a modern romance rendition of a fairy tale, of royalty shedding the trappings to experience life in this duet later continued in HER DESERT DREAM. Liz Fielding reaches beyond image glitter to create a romance packed full of humor, dynamic emotions, and substance. Here as in other romances, Liz Fielding is an expert in packing whole rich emotional worlds into the format of a category romance. Indeed, the precision with which she uses imagery, plot and emotion often outshines romances of a much longer page count. Liz Fielding turns the short category romance into an art form with the tight precision of her writing. CHRISTMAS ANGEL FOR THE BILLIONAIRE is no exception. Once again, Liz Fielding dazzles with a romance to touch the heart with just the right Christmas story. COURTESY OF BOOK ILLUMINATIONS
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Christmas Angel,
By Alexandra Cenni "Poisoned Rationality" (hamilton, nj USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Christmas Angel for the Billionaire (Harlequin Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
Contemporary romance writer Liz Fielding is one of the few writers I will consistently read category romances from. Once upon a time I read practically anything I could get my hands on done by Harlequin, met my first Regency Romance and decided that contemporaries just weren't romantic enough anymore. Liz Fielding changed my mind and I thank her for it.
This book has been on my interest list for a few months, though I forget how I found out about it. Surfing Amazon I suspect, but at any rate it looked interesting. Then of course it had a look a like, trading places, hiding in plain sight etc etc and it moved up my list of romances to buy. Though almost more than the romance herein, I enjoyed the counterplay between Annie and George. Even before mutual attraction enters the bargain the two of them spark off each other in a wholly wonderful way. George doesn't come off as a guy you want to cuddle with--his first interaction with Annie is fraught with tension, anger and family issues that she stumbled into unwittingly. They both come off on entirely the wrong foot in fact--she seems like a complete dunce, with no common sense or brains to give her life and he is a brute. She doesn't back down. And this is important to note because part of the reason she was escaping her 'Lady Rose' life was because she couldn't find the voice to tell her Grandfather that she wanted her own life. Their time together is considered a whirlwind, at best, but Annie's innate sense of righting wrongs and helping people has her unconsciously trying to 'fix' George's problems with his daughter, his father, his life. George, beyond lust, is suspicious of Annie, but wants to protect her. Learn about her. Save her from whatever she was running from. I liked the fact that Fielding had a definite 'tone' for Annie that was distinctly different from the other characters. Even as she relaxed and became a more 'ordinary' girl, her phraseology and gestures made it abundantly clear that she was born royalty. Born learning to be diplomatic, consoling, confident. After George figures things out she even uses it to her advantage, purposely teasing him. The secondary characters--Hetty (George's mom), Xandra (George's daughter) and George (George's dad) were given less fleshing/embellishing, but weren't just ornaments to the story. Xandra was the teenager from hell, and the relationship between her and George was tidied up a little too nicely, but its Christmas. You get to have tidy bows in Christmas stories. The companion novel, that talks about Annie's double (Lydia)'s adventures in the desert will certainly be interesting to read. Lydia, from the brief time we saw her, was much more down to earth, so it will be interesting to see how exactly she responds to 'royal' life. Plus we'll get to see what happened when she disappeared.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nearly perfect,
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This review is from: Christmas Angel for the Billionaire (Harlequin Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
Lady Rose Napier needs a break. Orphaned at six when her parents, the Marquess and Marchioness of St. Ives, were tragically gunned down on a charity mission, she's lived most of her sheltered life as a media darling. When other teenage girls were dating and hanging out, she was visiting hospitals and posing for photo ops to raise money for charity. Her grandfather the duke has kept tight control over her life, reminding her of her duty whenever she chafed under his wing.
Now 28, worn out by the attention and seeing her grandfather not-so-subtly engineering a marriage to a viscount she feels nothing for, she decides to make a break for it. A few arrangements with a lookalike to play stand-in and she's off to the country! George Saxon is some kind of billionaire expatriate - I don't feel we ever really find out what he does exactly - back in England to visit his father, who's in the hospital after suffering a heart attack. As he's arguing with his rebellious 15 year old daughter in the garage bay of his family's home and auto repair business, a service call comes in, which George reluctantly heeds. When George and Annie - as she prefers to be addressed - meet, the sparks fly. He thinks she's a flighty ditz, and she thinks he's an arrogant grouch. And they're both right. Fielding does a wonderful job with these characters. By the diction alone in the dialog, I could hear Annie's posh accent. She behaves believably for someone raised as she was. Her naivete and privilege shows its head when it comes to details like paying for parking, driving, dealing with a car breakdown or cooking. She's out of her element in these things and her confusion shows. However, she's not stupid, and she figures these things out. Indeed, she enjoys being treated normally and being expected to fend for herself. Watching her bluff George into fixing her car or wing it when asked to make dinner was a treat. Far from farcical, we see Annie's confidence and competence bloom through these tasks. Through his battles with his daughter and father, we see a man quite the opposite of Annie. Here's a man who has battled hard to earn everything he has. After working in the garage as a teenager, learning as much as he could until as skilled as any mechanic out there, he attended university, against his father's wishes, then forged his own path in business. In a way, his path mirrors Annie's. She's lived her life as people expected and is just now beginning to rebel where George has forged his own path but is now so worn down that he's tempted to do what everyone expects him to do. This opposition creates a rich romance between these two. As they fall for each other and George learns her true identity, you see them shoring each other up. Annie quietly encourages him to keep fighting to repair his relationship with his daughter and to not give up on the garage. George helps her make her peace with who she is and the good she can do by just being Lady Rose while staying true to herself. This is very much a whirlwind romance. The courtship takes place over the course of two weeks and ends in a marriage. Their complementary personalities and rather restrained courtship makes the HEA believable though. This is clearly love, not blind lust. Altogether, this is a lovely Christmas romance from Fielding. The characters are fully fleshed, warts and all, the dialog natural and the prose fluid. I'll certainly keep an eye out for her other titles.
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