India Grey
Author of Mistress: Hired for the Billionaire's Pleasure
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Works by India Grey
Loving Our Heroes (Last-Minute Proposal / Mission: Mountain Rescue / Mistress: Hired for the Billionaire's Pleasure) (2011) — Contributor — 5 copies
Champagne Summer (At the Argentinean Billionaire's Bidding / Powerful Italian, Penniless Housekeeper) (2012) 2 copies
Hot Nights With the Spaniard (Bedded for the Spaniard's Pleasure / Spanish Aristocrat Forced Bride / Spanish Magnate Red-Hot Revenge) (2012) 2 copies
One Night in... Milan (The Italian's Future Bride / The Italian's Chosen Wife / The Italian's Captive Virgin) (2011) 2 copies
Amor Na Grécia, Paixão Em Paris — Author — 1 copy
Herdeira Da Inocência & Herdeira Da Sedução — Author — 1 copy
Amor & Poder — Author — 1 copy
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- Other names
- Grey, Iona
- Short biography
- India Grey was born in England, UK. A self-confessed romance junkie, she was just thirteen years old when she first sent away for the Mills & Boon Writers' Guidelines. She can still recall the thrill of getting the large brown envelope with its distinctive logo through the letterbox, and subsequently whiled away many a dull school-day staring out the window and dreaming of the perfect hero. She kept these guidelines with her for the next ten years, tucking them carefully inside the cover of each new diary in January, and beginning every list of New Year's resolutions with the words Start Novel. In the meantime she also gained a degree in English literature and language from Manchester University, and in a stroke of genius on the part of the Gods of romance, met her gorgeous future husband on the very last night of their three years there. The last fifteen years have been spent blissfully buried in domesticity, and heaps of pink washing generated by three small daughters, but she has never really stopped daydreaming about romance. She's just profoundly grateful to have finally got an excuse to do it legitimately! After meeting the bestselling novelist Penny Jordan, she returned to writing romance, and sold her first novel in September 2006. In 2009, her novel Mistress: Hired for the Billionaire's Pleasure won the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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- UK
- Birthplace
- England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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I honestly don't think this book should be classed as a romance. It was one of the most soul-crushing romances I've ever read, outside of Thomas Hardy's oeuvre. You see, the "hero", Tristan, brutally destroys the heroine's life, spirit and will to live, pretty much in that order. At the end of the book, I just felt really badly for the heroine and I was left praying that she could move on from Tristan to find someone who truly loved and appreciated her.
I actually kind of dig alphahole show more heroes, for sure, but there has to be a good grovel at the end of the book. And there was *no* grovel AT ALL in this book, even after the hero basically ripped the heroine's self-esteem and dignity into flimsy, confetti shreds. Like, even as he does worse and worse things to the heroine (because he had a crappy childhood, *eyeroll*), there was barely any acknowledgement from him that he regretted what he was doing. And at the end of the book -- and this is after the hero has been verbally abusive, cold, horrible and left the heroine bleeding and alone in the hospital after a traumatizing miscarriage -- the heroine actually apologizes to him. TO HIM. For not having enough faith in him or something, I DON'T KNOW. At that point, I felt like I needed a shower and if I hadn't been reading the book on my iPhone, I would thrown the whole thing against the wall.
So, yeah. I do have strong feelings about this book, mostly anger. I think India Grey writes wonderfully, but this hero of hers was a little too dark and sociopathic for my taste. show less
I actually kind of dig alphahole show more heroes, for sure, but there has to be a good grovel at the end of the book. And there was *no* grovel AT ALL in this book, even after the hero basically ripped the heroine's self-esteem and dignity into flimsy, confetti shreds. Like, even as he does worse and worse things to the heroine (because he had a crappy childhood, *eyeroll*), there was barely any acknowledgement from him that he regretted what he was doing. And at the end of the book -- and this is after the hero has been verbally abusive, cold, horrible and left the heroine bleeding and alone in the hospital after a traumatizing miscarriage -- the heroine actually apologizes to him. TO HIM. For not having enough faith in him or something, I DON'T KNOW. At that point, I felt like I needed a shower and if I hadn't been reading the book on my iPhone, I would thrown the whole thing against the wall.
So, yeah. I do have strong feelings about this book, mostly anger. I think India Grey writes wonderfully, but this hero of hers was a little too dark and sociopathic for my taste. show less
This book felt much more like a vintage HP than a modern one. The story dealt with family feuds and mysteries and tragic love affairs. The tone of the book was fairly melodramatic.
The heroine was very fragile and had some nervous breakdown type mental issues. The hero while he was trying to get revenge on her family through her, still did some very lovely things for her and really only treated her poorly one time.
The sex scenes were pretty out there for HPs especially the first one. But they show more were well written and fairly hot.
All in all it convinced me that I need to try more by this author. show less
The heroine was very fragile and had some nervous breakdown type mental issues. The hero while he was trying to get revenge on her family through her, still did some very lovely things for her and really only treated her poorly one time.
The sex scenes were pretty out there for HPs especially the first one. But they show more were well written and fairly hot.
All in all it convinced me that I need to try more by this author. show less
I liked this pretty well. I loved the hero. We very rarely see British military men in modern romances. I could visualize him and his stoic mien and stiff upper lip thing. There were enough scenes written in his POV that you could see to the lonely man behind all that. The heroine was lovely and you could tell she was a sweet girl and she was also a lonely soul and they were meant to be together.
Occasional scenes might have been more concrete but I know that just the way I prefer books to be show more and doesn't really reflect on the quality of the book.
I have just discovered that this is the first of a two part story which normally I don't like but I was so pleased with this story that I will definitely read the next one, especially since I felt that a couple of threads were not tied up. Now I know why. show less
Occasional scenes might have been more concrete but I know that just the way I prefer books to be show more and doesn't really reflect on the quality of the book.
I have just discovered that this is the first of a two part story which normally I don't like but I was so pleased with this story that I will definitely read the next one, especially since I felt that a couple of threads were not tied up. Now I know why. show less
Mistress: Hired For The Billionaire's Pleasure (Hired For The Boss's Pleasure, Presents Extra #41) by India Grey
Pianist Rachel Campion runs out of her own wedding to an abusive man that she was being forced into marrying by her domineering mother. She ends up by chance at the estate of Orlando Winterton whom she had previously met once before. He offers her a place to stay while she sorts things out. Orlando is losing his eyesight, which he keeps a secret from everyone. On top of this, his ex-girlfriend surprises him with the news that he is supposedly the father to a baby boy, Felix, who she leaves show more with Orlando when she decides she can’t handle raising him on her own. Rachel stays on for awhile to help Orlando with Felix, and Rachel and Orlando find themselves growing closer together.
The story started off good and seemed interesting at first but the more it went it started to get tiresome. I did like Rachel and little baby Felix, but what brought the book down for me was Orlando. I can understand that losing one’s eyesight would be life-changing, but he acted as though it was life-ending. He thought he couldn’t be a father to his son, and therefore, refused to have anything to do with little Felix. He thought if he told Rachel he was losing his eyesight, she would want nothing to do with him. And on and on it went. The way he kept his failing eyesight a secret from everyone, when it was going to become known anyway, just got tedious after awhile. The more the story went, the more I lost interest. show less
The story started off good and seemed interesting at first but the more it went it started to get tiresome. I did like Rachel and little baby Felix, but what brought the book down for me was Orlando. I can understand that losing one’s eyesight would be life-changing, but he acted as though it was life-ending. He thought he couldn’t be a father to his son, and therefore, refused to have anything to do with little Felix. He thought if he told Rachel he was losing his eyesight, she would want nothing to do with him. And on and on it went. The way he kept his failing eyesight a secret from everyone, when it was going to become known anyway, just got tedious after awhile. The more the story went, the more I lost interest. show less
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