Hostage to Dishonour (Harlequin Romance #2352)

by Jessica Steele

Book Overview

Hostage To Dishonour by Jessica Steele released on Jun 24, 1980 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373023529
• ISBN13: 9780373023523
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Harlequin
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

First Book is the Best

This was the first book I read by Jessica Steele and it is her best in my opinion. I also believe its the first one she wrote, so definitely first is best. There's actually a plot and subplot and the heroine (unlike many of Steele's later wimpy heroines) has a backbone and moral convictions. The plot is this: Tully Vickery lives with her brother Richard in a flat in London. One night her brother comes home from work, and Tully discovers he's stolen from his employer's safe. Richard has always been resentful that their stepfather sqaundered away their family fortune before he died, leaving him and his sister to get jobs (gasp!) and fend for themselves. Shocked that he would steal, Tully gives him an ultimatum - take the money back or she will. Spineless Richard agrees to let HER take it back for him. As she is putting the money back in the safe, dressed all in black, Tully is caught by the security guards and the owner of the company - Yate Meachem. The owner, for reasons of his own, decides to take Tully home with him and not turn her over to the guards or even identify her to them. Hoping to shield her brother, Tully lies through her teeth about the situation, but Yate figures out who she is, although he still believes her to be a thief. He drags her with him to his parent's home where his brother is introducing his new fiancee to the family. To Tully's surprise her role is to pretend to be Yate's girlfriend, and when she finds out the back story between the two brothers and a duplicitous one-time fiancee, she throws herself wholeheartedly into trying to help both brothers from their own overly stubborn selves. She even finds herself falling in love with Yate, but will he ever believe she is not a thief, and if she confesses her innocence what will happen to her beloved brother? If you are a fan of Steele's you should read this one, it is not to be missed.

Hostage to Dishonour Har. Rom. # 2352

Yate Meachem fell for Tallula Vickery the moment he met her, but he saw her stealing from him, and he hated the fact that she could do something like that, even if she was doing it for her brother, Richard.Tully loved her brother, and when she found out he stole money from his employer, she insisted it be returned, Richard was too much of a wuss, to do it himself, so he let Tully not only take the money back, but when she got caught, and she was accused of stealing the money, Richard did nothing to help Tully, if fact, he had planed to steal the money go to Brazil and leave Tully to face the police. Knowing he brother was weak, Tully took harsh treatment from Yate without telling him she is innocent.But Yate isn't the head of a powerful company for nothing, he puts two plus two together ,and comes up with four. Now he wants Tully to tell him the truth, even though she told him she was putting the money back, she didn't tell him Richard took the money in the first place.I really liked this book, and the other people in the book, like Yates brother Bart.I also like Diana Palmer, Susan Fox, the late Essie Summers, the late Betty Neels, Rebecca Winters, and Eva Rutland.