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A Grand Illusion (Harlequin Presents # 674)
by Maura McGiveny
Product Group: Book
Publisher: harlequin (1984-02-15)
ISBN: 0373106742
EAN: 9780373106745
Paperback: 190 pages
SKU: 3603
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Very Good.
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Customer Reviews
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Not all that
Rating  (2)
Date: 2004-08-26
The story is that the 'plain' sister decides to raise her 'pretty' sisters baby. The pretty sister is so rotten that its almost too much to be believed. Then the so called hero Royce comes into play. He is the plain sisters boss and is a total degenerate. I realize this book was slightly before the AIDS epidemic but I would not have touched that guy with a full bio-medical suit on. Anyway, as usual once they give the plain sister a hair cut and some makeup she turns out to be a beauty. Royce keeps heeping abuse on her thinking that she slept with his brother (while the entire time he is keeping time with the nasty sister). Meanwhile his family blackmails her into marrying Royce so that his mother can get remarried and she (at the ripe old age of 23) can take care of his five siblings and her sisters baby. Nice huh? She would have been better off finding a nice home for her nephew and kicking her nasty sister to the curb and actually living her life. To me this book was sad.
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She was his paragon of efficiency
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-06-17
From the cover: Jenna was more than Royce Drummond's secretary. She also arranged the intimate dinners with his mistresses and was silent witness to the parade of beautiful women that passed through his office. Royce didn't regard Jenna as female at all. If he thought of her it was only with contempt. He believed her the mother of an illegitimate child; he had no idea that Robbie was her sister's son. And Jenna, stubbornly silent, refused to tell him the truth, or the extent to which he himself was involved. I bought this book in 1984, the year it was published in paperback, and I have kept it and read it again and again over the years. It might not appeal to everyone, but to me it was a very romantic story and kept me on pins and needles til the last minute. Obviously, I thought it was a "keeper," and I think you will find this a most enjoyable book.
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