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The Power of the Legendary Greek
Isobel James, the last single girl (or so it seems!), can't believe she's come to Greece on her own , but she had to escape the wedding fever that's gripped her best friends.
When reclusive tycoon Lukas Andreadis finds Isobel washed up on his private beach, he thinks she's another journalist acting the "damsel in distress." He whisks her to his villa, where interrogation leads to seduction.
Now Isobel's struck down by something much more dangerous than wedding fever—a powerful infatuation with the legendary Greek….
When reclusive tycoon Lukas Andreadis finds Isobel washed up on his private beach, he thinks she's another journalist acting the "damsel in distress." He whisks her to his villa, where interrogation leads to seduction.
Now Isobel's struck down by something much more dangerous than wedding fever—a powerful infatuation with the legendary Greek….
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
About the author
Catherine George
445 books73 followersDeirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
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December 22, 2016
This one really didn't work for me. The story tries to combine elements from Catherine George's previous works and a typical Mills and Boon - unfortunately, it fails to do both. The hero was arrogant, protective and confused as he shuffled between both. He wanted revenge, but he wasn't obsessed with it, he's supposed to be attractive but it doesn't translate into confidence or charm. The heroine...I don't know what to write, she made no impact. She was as distinctive as a weak, blurry cloud. Add in an accident, a kidnapping, an assault, family angst and I still had to force myself through this one. This was a confused, lukewarm romance and I'll be avoiding the contemporary titles in the backlist for some time.
I just realized I forgot their names....Help
I just realized I forgot their names....Help
June 3, 2018
Poor English heroine. Her vacation in Greece, instead of relaxing her, inflicts her with a severe sunburn, a no less severe concussion, a sprained ankle, a kidnap, and copious amounts of insults, including the Greek "hero"'s gut reaction to doubt the paternity of the baby they have conceived on their holiday fling. If this is the power of the legendary Greek, I'd rather do with an ordinary mortal, thank you :~{
April 10, 2018
First of all what a stupid title for a book they really seem to be scraping the barrel these days for book titles.
Our H was nothing we haven't seen before 100 times and so was our h. Grumpy arrogant Greek male - get off my land type and wispy washy I had no idea let me have an accident female type throw in a kidnap plot, accidental pregnancy, it's not my baby argument then a bit of a grovel and its HEA time. Nothing new in here for me sorry
Our H was nothing we haven't seen before 100 times and so was our h. Grumpy arrogant Greek male - get off my land type and wispy washy I had no idea let me have an accident female type throw in a kidnap plot, accidental pregnancy, it's not my baby argument then a bit of a grovel and its HEA time. Nothing new in here for me sorry
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January 21, 2020
Great
I found this a really good book. Isobel is a great character. She wants a quiet holiday after a very stressful few months but what she gets is anything but though she does meet a drop dead gorgeous Greek who saves her life twice.
I found this a really good book. Isobel is a great character. She wants a quiet holiday after a very stressful few months but what she gets is anything but though she does meet a drop dead gorgeous Greek who saves her life twice.
January 7, 2018
An okay read. The romance was only tepid. It was the first book I've read from this author. Although I usually prefer my Greek Heroes written a bit more aggressive, Lukas did have charisma.
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May 27, 2020
Isobel James, the last single girl (or so it seems!), can't believe she's come to Greece on her own, but she had to escape the wedding fever that's gripped her best friends.
When reclusive tycoon Lukas Andreadis finds Isobel washed up on his private beach, he thinks she's another journalist acting the "damsel in distress." He whisks her to his villa, where interrogation leads to seduction.
Now Isobel's struck down by something much more dangerous than wedding fever--a powerful infatuation with the legendary Greek....
When reclusive tycoon Lukas Andreadis finds Isobel washed up on his private beach, he thinks she's another journalist acting the "damsel in distress." He whisks her to his villa, where interrogation leads to seduction.
Now Isobel's struck down by something much more dangerous than wedding fever--a powerful infatuation with the legendary Greek....
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April 5, 2012I love the greek trope even though the romances are rarely good in it. I don't even have a clue as to why on earth there is a greek trope regarding tycoons (name one greek tycoon you know.), and in this economy, it's even more ackward to read some romance involving some rich and handsome greek tycoon.
This one, I won't finish it. By the time I reached 36% of the ebook, I had head/desked 3 time already. Never a good sign.
This one, I won't finish it. By the time I reached 36% of the ebook, I had head/desked 3 time already. Never a good sign.
June 25, 2019
Pretty good right up to the end when the woman randomly insisted the man attempt to make nice with his repulsive grandfather. I can't stand that. Some people don't deserve another chance, and that dude didn't.
September 1, 2013
I love this book
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