Bedded at the Billionaire's Convenience

by Cathy Williams

Book Overview

Billionaire Pierre Newman needs a fiancée--and fast! Frumpy, inexperienced Georgie is the complete opposite of the high-society women he usually has at his beck and call, but she will have to do! Their engagement charade must look convincing, so Pierre commands that Georgie share his bedroom. If he has to do this, he fully intends to enjoy the more pleasurable benefits, too...but soon he finds himself wanting to promote her from temporary mistress...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373527446
• ISBN13: 9780373527441
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Harlequin Presents
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

The hero was great.

Sometimes the descriptions are so glaringly off for these books that it makes me laugh and feel sad at the same time. Pierre and Georgie grew up together. Or rather, their parents were friends and though he was older than her and hated living in the country and was pretty much gone, they knew and didn't like each other. Also, when Georgie's parents died, she was taken in by Pierre's. Pierre left home as soon as possible because he hated the country and had no respect for his parents, though his father was now dead. He's met by Georgie who's come to London to tell him that his mother was falling into depression because of him so she told a little lie about how he and Georgie were carrying on a relationship and wouldn't he please go along with it. One thing leads to another and he finds himself stuck in the lie and it does help his mother. Even though he's never really liked Georgie and she has never liked him, suddenly both find themselves attracted to each other. The relationship starts up for real but this just means that when the breakup happens it will be more painful, because Pierre plans on going back to his life after his small holiday is over and Georgie isn't part of that life. In total, I liked the hero more than the heroine in this story. A lot of the book was told from his point of view, which seemed to help that along. Our hero spent his growing years in boarding school and developed a resentment towards his parents and their unfortunate ability to throw good money after bad in some venture or another. Meanwhile his mother found herself questioning if she'd made the right choices and having nothing to say to her son who she was in awe of. Georgie was a slightly ditzy girl who knew she was. She tended to act first and think later. She was also judgmental enough to slightly annoy me. When she wasn't being judgmental she was being almost too understanding. The story itself was good but I really wish that the relationship angle had been more in depth. Instead it seemed more like her fighting attraction to him, and him trying to get her into bed because he wanted her and he wasn't used to women telling him no. For the heroine I really didn't think she had enough personal growth. Half the time she was afraid of breaking away because she was stable and 'safe' where she was. As usual with a Cathy Williams book, the banter between the main characters is good and while the hero is more a real person in terms of character, the heroine was borderline cardboard cutout.