Rivals (Rutshire Chronicles #2)
Jilly Cooper
Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport.
Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon.
As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.
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- contemporary 7
- actor hero 5
- sports 2
- funny 2
- age gap 2
- parent's best friend 1
- 20th century 1
- m-f romance 1
- enemies to lovers 1
- forbidden love 1
- slow burn 1
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- tall heroine 1
- aristo/royal heroine 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- bad boys 1
- alpha male 1
- cruel hero/bully 1
- possessive hero 1
- single father 1
- athlete hero 1
- politician hero 1
- third person pov 1
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- geography
- british isles 1
- united kingdom 1
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- animal death 1
- third party sexual assault 1
- substance abuse 1
- alcoholism 1
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The 'Rutshire Chronicles' series
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