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Rescue operation
Chelsea had been innocent, naive enough to believe her love was so pure itwould last forever. But Darren had lied to her, and when she found out healready had a wife, Chelsea turned her back on romance. Now her own niecewas about to make the same mistake she had made -- with a man infinitelymore desirable and sophisticated than Chelsea's first love had been. Therewas nothing she could do to shield the young girl from anguish. Except,perhaps, to steal the man away herself...
188 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
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Penny Jordan
820 books660 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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October 25, 2019
The Tycoon's Forbidden Temptation
Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan,
previously published as Rescue Operation in 1983
After suffering the ultimate betrayal, Chelsea Evans has learnt the hard way to steer
clear of heart-breakers. So when she sees her innocent niece in danger of losing her head
over notorious playboy Slade Ashford, she's determined to come to her rescue!
Only the alluring tycoon is infinitely more sophisticated and desirable than Chelsea ever
imagined. And before long, it's clear that Chelsea is the woman Slade really wants—if
only she dare surrender herself to this tycoon's forbidden temptation! (l
Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan,
previously published as Rescue Operation in 1983
After suffering the ultimate betrayal, Chelsea Evans has learnt the hard way to steer
clear of heart-breakers. So when she sees her innocent niece in danger of losing her head
over notorious playboy Slade Ashford, she's determined to come to her rescue!
Only the alluring tycoon is infinitely more sophisticated and desirable than Chelsea ever
imagined. And before long, it's clear that Chelsea is the woman Slade really wants—if
only she dare surrender herself to this tycoon's forbidden temptation! (l
April 14, 2017
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September 4, 2012
Overall it wasn't a bad book. Morally I disagree with some of the things that went on. The description is pretty apt except the relationship between hero and the heroine niece wasn't exactly so.
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September 2, 2021The Tycoon’s Forbidden Temptation was about Chelsea Evans and Slade Ashford.
Chelsea had been betrayed at the age of 16 when the man she thought she loved informed her he only wanted her virtue and would never leave his wife for her. Flash forward ten years to when Chelsea's sister, Ann, talks her into acting the femme fatale in order to prevent Kirsty, Ann's daughter, and Chelsea's 17-year-old niece, that she should not be getting involved with Slade, a man old enough to be her father.
At Ann and her husband, Ralph's anniversary party, Chelsea unwillingly did what her sister asked. However, Slade took her to seriously be a hooker that he tried to rape her after taking her to his home rather than to hers when she told him NO to his sexual advances, saying no one would believe her if she said anything, and that "I don’t know what your game is—However, this time you aren’t getting away with it. I’m no pigeon for the plucking, and perhaps it’s time that someone made you come up with the goods you’re so good at offering—and then withdrawing." Her salvation came through the ringing of the phone, at which time she managed to escape with her virtue intact.
Flash forward another month and the two of them ended up accidentally meeting again when Chelsea was doing restoration work to some tapestries and it ended up being at Slade's home. Slade kept making advances towards Chelsea, even though she kept telling him No. Long story short, no one told Slade the truth until Kirsty and her boyfriend showed up at Slade's home and over breakfast, Kirsty revealed the entire truth, even the fact that it had not been Chelsea's idea and that she had fought against doing it.
The angst and drama were way over the top, there was no humor, and the fact that Slade caused Chelsea so much fear with his unwanted advances spoke volumes.
While there certainly was a good deal of attraction, there wasn't any real chemistry between the two main characters. It was more sexual tension than romance. Slade insulted Chelsea at every turn, being a bully at its worst. Chelsea was a weak character. She let her sister push her into doing something she didn't really want to do, but then she also never told Slade the truth about what had happened.
How they came up with a HEA is beyond me. Who honestly wants a relationship with someone who believes the worst about them and then tries on multiple occasions to rape them or force them to yield to unwanted sexual advances?
No, this book doesn't get even one star...and it definitely will never be added to the Keeper for the Shelves collection. This book was the epitome of everything wrong with romance novels.
Chelsea had been betrayed at the age of 16 when the man she thought she loved informed her he only wanted her virtue and would never leave his wife for her. Flash forward ten years to when Chelsea's sister, Ann, talks her into acting the femme fatale in order to prevent Kirsty, Ann's daughter, and Chelsea's 17-year-old niece, that she should not be getting involved with Slade, a man old enough to be her father.
At Ann and her husband, Ralph's anniversary party, Chelsea unwillingly did what her sister asked. However, Slade took her to seriously be a hooker that he tried to rape her after taking her to his home rather than to hers when she told him NO to his sexual advances, saying no one would believe her if she said anything, and that "I don’t know what your game is—However, this time you aren’t getting away with it. I’m no pigeon for the plucking, and perhaps it’s time that someone made you come up with the goods you’re so good at offering—and then withdrawing." Her salvation came through the ringing of the phone, at which time she managed to escape with her virtue intact.
Flash forward another month and the two of them ended up accidentally meeting again when Chelsea was doing restoration work to some tapestries and it ended up being at Slade's home. Slade kept making advances towards Chelsea, even though she kept telling him No. Long story short, no one told Slade the truth until Kirsty and her boyfriend showed up at Slade's home and over breakfast, Kirsty revealed the entire truth, even the fact that it had not been Chelsea's idea and that she had fought against doing it.
The angst and drama were way over the top, there was no humor, and the fact that Slade caused Chelsea so much fear with his unwanted advances spoke volumes.
While there certainly was a good deal of attraction, there wasn't any real chemistry between the two main characters. It was more sexual tension than romance. Slade insulted Chelsea at every turn, being a bully at its worst. Chelsea was a weak character. She let her sister push her into doing something she didn't really want to do, but then she also never told Slade the truth about what had happened.
How they came up with a HEA is beyond me. Who honestly wants a relationship with someone who believes the worst about them and then tries on multiple occasions to rape them or force them to yield to unwanted sexual advances?
No, this book doesn't get even one star...and it definitely will never be added to the Keeper for the Shelves collection. This book was the epitome of everything wrong with romance novels.
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April 30, 2024
This wasn't bad, but there were flaws that got on my nerves, like the h dwelling way too much on an "affair" she had nine years ago, when she was a 17-year-old drama student and thought herself in love with a married man! She may have been young, but that's no excuse to be so TSTL! She kept her virtue intact, but still felt cheap and used when she realized he had no intention of leaving his wife, and no interest in her besides wanting to take her V card. A real jerk, yet she remains so obsessed by what happened, that she lets it interfere with having any relationship with a man beyond casual dates, and when the H comes along, and appears to have the same interest in her 17-year-old niece that Jerk had with her, she and her sister come up with a scheme that backfires, when it gives the H an even worse impression of her than she has of him.
It was all so unnecessary, because it led to too much time wasted with the two of them trading insults, thinking the worst of each other, and having more than one lovemaking scene interrupted and leaving them both frustrated, and making nasty, snarky comments to each other.
There's also the OM, who the h likes as a friend, but who clearly has a romantic interest in her, which she encourages a bit to take her mind off the H, which wasn't fair of her. And boy, did the H put an end to that! (I'll skip any more details, just add that the h has a rival, but not in the way she thinks! There's also a sort of OM wannabee, as well as an OW wannabee, but I guess the author decided to nip that in the bud, before things got too complicated.)
Actually, my favorite part of this book is the historical info, and the Medieval tapestry the h is repairing for the national Trust, in property owned by the H's family. The story of the blonde girl in the tapestry was really sad; I'd have liked that to have been a separate, historical romance with a better ending.
Another book that's not bad but could have been better. (There's a sequel to this, but I suggest you skip it, unless you're really into Shakespeare.)
It was all so unnecessary, because it led to too much time wasted with the two of them trading insults, thinking the worst of each other, and having more than one lovemaking scene interrupted and leaving them both frustrated, and making nasty, snarky comments to each other.
There's also the OM, who the h likes as a friend, but who clearly has a romantic interest in her, which she encourages a bit to take her mind off the H, which wasn't fair of her. And boy, did the H put an end to that! (I'll skip any more details, just add that the h has a rival, but not in the way she thinks! There's also a sort of OM wannabee, as well as an OW wannabee, but I guess the author decided to nip that in the bud, before things got too complicated.)
Actually, my favorite part of this book is the historical info, and the Medieval tapestry the h is repairing for the national Trust, in property owned by the H's family. The story of the blonde girl in the tapestry was really sad; I'd have liked that to have been a separate, historical romance with a better ending.
Another book that's not bad but could have been better. (There's a sequel to this, but I suggest you skip it, unless you're really into Shakespeare.)
May 11, 2024
Chelsa's sister asked her to seduce Slade Ashford in her anniversary party to disillusion her teenaged daughter about his lack of morals were women were concerned!! Slide Ashford was her brother-in-law's boss and dared to seduce her niece, so Chelsa wanted to help her sister in this fix especially when Chelsa herself was in a similar situation before when she was a teenager and was deeply hurt by Darren. Chelsa's mission was completed succesfully after the party even though she suffered a great embarrassment when Slade took her to his apartment and tried to seduce her! After a month, she honestly thought she was unlikely to meet him. Unfortunatelly, that was not the case and when she met him, he was so determined to carry on what they stopped doing in her appartment!
This book is meaningless, eventless and illogical not to mention full of bland characters. In other words, it fails flat to impress and interest. (sigh) I would not recommend it to anyone.
This book is meaningless, eventless and illogical not to mention full of bland characters. In other words, it fails flat to impress and interest. (sigh) I would not recommend it to anyone.
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June 22, 2020
Years ago I read many romance novels and it was books like Rescue Operation that turned me away from the genre. This is all about sex and misunderstandings and a big bossy guy.
November 18, 2020
I read it more like a cautionary tale than a romance
May 20, 2021
I like the story and Penny Jordan’s vintage books are generally speaking one of the best.
The woman is passive and boring. And she gives so many mixed signals that it makes my head spin.
But the man is hot and his sexual attraction to her is too.
This HP isn’t one of Jordan’s best, but still an enjoyable read.
The woman is passive and boring. And she gives so many mixed signals that it makes my head spin.
But the man is hot and his sexual attraction to her is too.
This HP isn’t one of Jordan’s best, but still an enjoyable read.
February 27, 2012
This one bored me a bit...decent enough, but nothing very exciting.
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