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HaBO: CEO Hero is Named Charles; Top Quality Snark

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This HaBO request comes to us from Georgie, who hopes to find a Mills & Boon she read in the nineties:

About 20 years ago (September 1997) I was standing in a supermarket making cooing noises at my toddler in the trolley, whilst simultaneously skimming through a Mills & Boon in the Books section, and trying to decide if I wanted to take a chance on buying it. The toddler started acting up (and, if I’m honest, hasn’t actually stopped since), and I never got to buy the book, though it looked really good.

It was a M&B contemporary romance, set in New York, with Charles as CEO of a business (a newspaper?), but his cousin (family member) Barbara had been left some stake in the the company as well (to his annoyance). She proved really good at the job. They didn’t get on at all – there was lots of top-quality snark – but seemed to be heading for an affair and possibly a fake engagement to stop their respective parents worrying about them.

Sorry, when I write it down like that, it all sounds very generic, but the writing really stood out because it was very witty! Hope there’s someone out there who can help!

Though the plot details seem vague, we have the hero and heroine’s names!

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  1. Katrina says:

    Yay! This is Hos Girl Monday to Friday by Linda Miles. The snark is awesome, the characters great. She wrote a small number of ourstanding M&B novels in the 1990s and then disappeared.

  2. Katrina says:

    *His Girl! So excited to share the book I couldn’t spell straight!

  3. Olivia says:

    I doubt this is it, but I came across “Bargain Wife” by Mary Burchell
    http://www.paperbackswap.com/Bargain-Wife-Harlequin-Mary-Burchell/book/0373022905/
    Unfortunately, when I search using “Barbara” I only get author names.

  4. FD says:

    Dittoing Katrina – both confirming the book, and the rec – periodically I still search to see if Linda Miles or pseudonym has written anything else!

  5. Anne says:

    Sorry, still bewildered and frightened that 20 years ago was 1997. But that sounds like a good read, going to check it out for sure!

  6. Georgie Wickham says:

    I am so in awe of people who can remember titles from 20 years ago – respect! Thanks so much for IDing this – off on a Linda Miles hunt.

  7. Sace says:

    That sounds good! Many thanks to Katrina for remembering the title.

  8. I Am Kate says:

    If you google Linda Miles, you also turn up a book entitled “The New Marriage: Transcending the Happily-Ever-After Myth” by Linda Miles PhD and her husband.

    That’s interesting if it is the same person. 😉

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