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Man with two faces
230 pages
A classic vintage romance that thrives on the crackling tension of a stern boss and an earnest heroine caught in his orbit.
What it feels like
This vintage category romance delivers a brisk, emotionally turbulent reading experience built entirely around the magnetic friction between its leads. The atmosphere is thick with the specific, breathless anxiety of a classic workplace romance, where every dictation session and stolen glance carries the weight of unspoken attraction. The prose is straightforward and earnest, heavily focused on the heroine's internal emotional whiplash as she tries to decode the enigmatic, dual-natured man she works for. It is a story of power imbalances and hidden vulnerabilities, moving swiftly from professional frustration to dizzying romantic surrender. Readers who delight in the melodramatic tension, stern alpha heroes, and innocent but determined heroines of old-school Mills & Boon or Harlequin novels will find this a perfectly satisfying, nostalgic escape.
- Mood
- emotionally turbulent
- anxious
- swoony
- Tone
- earnest
- melodramatic
- tense
- wry
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- workplace power dynamics · hidden depths · duality of attraction · vulnerability and guardedness
- The writing
- Straightforward and dialogue-heavy, leaning into the breathless internal monologues characteristic of vintage category romance.
- The arc
- Moves from frustrated professional friction to a dizzying, emotionally charged romantic surrender.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave classic, vintage boss-secretary romances with stern, enigmatic heroes and earnest heroines.
Content notes
- workplace power imbalance
- dated gender dynamics
- mild emotional manipulation
About the book
As an act of kindness, to help out her friend Barbara, Rebecca had agreed to work part-time in Barbara's secretarial bureau. But unfortunately for Rebecca, it was a gesture that misfired, since it led to her meeting with the maddening Janus Leon. He was a stern, not to say unreasonable, taskmaster, for a start. But, like the Roman god after who he was named, Janus had two faces -- and the other was that of a heartless playboy. Would he turn that face to Rebecca -- and could she survive if he did? (goodreads.com)
Description from Open Library.
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