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Seductive Stranger
Would she ever find out the truth?From the minute Prue met Josh Killane, she resented his manner—he acted just like a feudal overlord. Didn't he know what century this was?Prue was determined to avoid him. After all, his mother was responsible for her parents' divorce and her own painful estrangement from her father.She'd returned to England to discover for herself whether her mother's allegations about her father were right. But with Josh so attractive and so threatening, perhaps she shouldn't have come!
283 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1989
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Charlotte Lamb
261 books304 followersSheila Ann Mary Coates Holland
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
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September 23, 2018
It starts with a car wreck. Not quite as on point if it had been a trainwreck, but absolutely a good harbinger of things to come.
Heroine is returning to Yorkshire to reunite with her father, whom she hasn't seen in ten years. Her insanely jealous mother was convinced he was having an affair with the lady of the manor (hero's mother) and moved to Australia so she could hate her ex full time. Now mommy dearest is dead and heroine and her fiance (OM) are going on a European tour - first stop - Northern England.
The car accident lands the OM in the hospital and he's out of sight and out of mind for the heroine as the lord of the manor hero kisses and manhandles and yells at the heroine in his peacock display of lust.
Heroine yells and throws scalding tea and hits him in return in the vain attempt to stop falling in love. Note: they are both horrible and deserved each other. Heroine is a bitch to everyone and hero
manhandles and belittles the heroine at every turn. When you find out that the hero forced a kiss on the heroine when she was 13 and he was in his twenties and she blocked it from her memory because it was so traumatic, you just know you're in CL whackadoddle territory and no one should partner with either one of them - ever.
So, I didn't care about how the heroine and OM each cheated on the other. Like finds like and these two crazy, unpleasant characters found each other. Let's hope they don't have children brought into that war zone.
Heroine is returning to Yorkshire to reunite with her father, whom she hasn't seen in ten years. Her insanely jealous mother was convinced he was having an affair with the lady of the manor (hero's mother) and moved to Australia so she could hate her ex full time. Now mommy dearest is dead and heroine and her fiance (OM) are going on a European tour - first stop - Northern England.
The car accident lands the OM in the hospital and he's out of sight and out of mind for the heroine as the lord of the manor hero kisses and manhandles and yells at the heroine in his peacock display of lust.
Heroine yells and throws scalding tea and hits him in return in the vain attempt to stop falling in love. Note: they are both horrible and deserved each other. Heroine is a bitch to everyone and hero
manhandles and belittles the heroine at every turn. When you find out that the hero forced a kiss on the heroine when she was 13 and he was in his twenties and she blocked it from her memory because it was so traumatic, you just know you're in CL whackadoddle territory and no one should partner with either one of them - ever.
So, I didn't care about how the heroine and OM each cheated on the other. Like finds like and these two crazy, unpleasant characters found each other. Let's hope they don't have children brought into that war zone.
February 26, 2017
RE Seductive Stranger - CL is back, just to prove that forced roofie kisses never go out of style in HPlandia and if you can't seduce your way to an HEA, well abduction works just as well. (Warning, there is a very inappropriate kiss in this story between the 13 yr old h and the 25 yr old H, it isn't graphic and it is told in a back flash, but it is there and may not be everyone's cuppa.)
The story starts with the 23 yr old h, recently arrived from Australia, driving towards Yorkshire with her Australian fiance that she has grown up with since she was 13 and been engaged to for a year. The h has been out of England for 10 years and hasn't spoken to her father for all this time so she is a bit apprehensive.
Her dad is a Yorkshire farmer, a tenant of the local Squire H and the h mother and father parted when the mother decided that the father was having an affair with the H's mother. The h was yanked to Australia by her mother and since the woman was entirely neurotic, the h had to spend a lot of time consoling the demanding, bitter, clinging and overly possessive woman.
It wasn't until her mother remarried to a nice Australian man, that the h felt she was able to build her own life. The h's mother has been dead for several months when the h and her fiance decide to do Europe before they marry. The h wants to look up her father, she has missed him, but her mother forbade all contact. The h wants to judge the father's supposed affair with the local landholder's wife with her own eyes. She has more than a passing suspicion that her mother was neurotically whacked.
The h and her fiance are in a near collision and the fiance manages to drive the car into a wall, he is seriously injured and the man who they nearly collided with pulls the h out of the car and calls for help. The man seems familiar to the h, but she is pretty shaky and would swear she had never met him before. We all go to hospital and the fiance is whisked into surgery while the h is put to bed overnight for shock. Her father comes to see her and the h realizes the man they almost hit is the father's landlord and also the son of the woman her father was supposed to be involved with.
The H shows up to take the h to her father's the next day and the h is concerned about her fiance, but the staff won't let her in to see him. We find out later he punctured a lung, so there was some cause for concern. The H seems intent on baiting the h and in the usual CL style, the air is full of enough tension to bounce several coins. The h doesn't like the H at all, and he is doing his best CL arrogant Alpha flirty moves, which includes arbitrary ordering around of the h and threatening roofie punishing kisses.
The h and her father are reunited and we also meet the H's 18 yr old spoiled rotten sister, who randomly shows up at the h's father's house for no discernible reason. The h is planning to stay a few days while her fiance recovers and then continue on to Paris. The h and her father reconnect, but neither one discuss the past.
The H next appears in the h's room when she is sleeping, he claims to be looking for the h's dad, but the h is highly suspicious. The h settles into the farm's routine, and since the h's father will be running his sheep, the h is taken to see her fiance by the H and his sister. They are visiting another elderly tenant in the hospital and yet the H's sister decides to give the h's fiance some flowers. The h and her fiance wind up arguing over calling his parents, it is pretty obvious to the reader that the fiance is a petulant brat, but the h just thinks he is out of sorts from the surgery.
The h and her father are invited by the H's mother to the big estate for dinner, the h goes and in her estimation there is definitely some feeling between the H's mother and her father. The h isn't sure what, but it is obvious that the h's father loves the OW, so maybe her mother's idears weren't so neurotic after all.
The h continues to hang at her dad's house with the H randomly dropping in and roofie kissing the h at will. They argue every time they are together and the h is reluctant to take up the H's mother's invitation to tea, because she thinks it likely that her father's feelings for the woman did break up her parent's marriage. CL hints that the marriage was rocky anyways, the h's mother did not like the isolated Yorkshire farm life, but the h's dad was pretty stubborn in not wanting to leave and even if an affair wasn't happening, what woman can tolerate her husband being in love with someone else? When the H's sister pops up at the h's dad's house again, this time while the H is roofie kissing the h and she is fighting him off, the H blackmails the h into attending tea with his mother in exchange for telling his sister to keep her mouth shut about the kissing part.
The h goes to tea, the H supposedly talks to his sister and then the fiance and the sister elope together. The h is livid and the H is torn between anger and triumph, cause now he gets the h all to himself.
Except the h is furious and hurt. She tells the H off for being a womanizing user, who can't help but try to take whatever he wants and doesn't care who he hurts in the process, just like his spoiled witch sister and they are both like their selfish and conniving mother. The H's mother shows up for some reason, ostensibly to apologize and she tries to blame the h's mother for everything, claiming that the h's mother was ill.
Which the h admits is a valid point, but the h also sees that her father is totally in love with the H's mother, who may or may not be interested as she tries to shift some blame to the h herself, by insinuating that her mother was jealous of her and that a pretty woman can mistakenly give "the wrong impression." (So what the H's mother was saying is that a woman who is pretty is sending the message that men should fall in love or roofie kiss her, so even tho care should be taken not to give the wrong impression, things happen and pretty women can't be held responsible.)
The h isn't willing to argue the point, she knows a lost cause when she sees it and besides, her mother is dead. The h just wants to leave and she and the H get into another bitter argument. The H claims that they know each other well and the h firmly disputes that, but the H is determined that the h admit she did not love her fiance. The h refuses and tells the H she is going back to Australia. The h packs her things and leaves.
The H chases her down and almost causes her to wreck, he drags her back to his house and inflicts his mother on her some more. The h is pretty gracious about it and her father is there too, drooling over the H's mother. The h's car is stuck and needs to be hauled back, so the h helps her father for a few days with his paperwork. The h remembers a party from the summer before she left for Australia. It was at the H's house and they were playing a game when someone hauled her into a wardrobe and kissed her. It disturbs the h, cause she barely remembers the incident and it really bothered her cause she connects it vaguely with the H, but doesn't understand why.
The H gets a letter that the fiance and his sister have married and left for Australia. He starts kissing the h again and he decides they are in love. The H explains that he has been obsessed with the h ever since he kissed her at 13 in the wardrobe. The h claims she barely remembers and the H assures her that it was that memory of that kiss that kept him looking for her all this time and why he wouldn't marry anyone else. The h decides that her subconscious memory of the kiss and it's replay in her dreams means she must really love the H and they decide to lurve it up for the HEA.
This one was okay, the tension between the H and h was well done. The triangle between the mother, the father and the H's mother was well done too. CL doesn't go the easy route and make the h's mother completely insane, instead she shows there was something going on, even if it wasn't an affair. The h's father did have feelings for the H's mother but the h doesn't speculate too long on which came first, her father's feelings or her mother's jealousy, the h seems to be okay with a compromise between the two. The H's mother is also pretty suspect, she says nothing happened, but then why make that speech about how a pretty woman can be misunderstood?
The sub-currents and underlying motivations between the h and H's parents are what make this story interesting, the romance is pretty standard CL and the HEA is marginally believable. Read this one if you want an entertaining look at how innuendo and hidden motivations can pull you into a story, then you too can speculate on the nature of hidden passions in the CL commonwealth of HPlandia.
The story starts with the 23 yr old h, recently arrived from Australia, driving towards Yorkshire with her Australian fiance that she has grown up with since she was 13 and been engaged to for a year. The h has been out of England for 10 years and hasn't spoken to her father for all this time so she is a bit apprehensive.
Her dad is a Yorkshire farmer, a tenant of the local Squire H and the h mother and father parted when the mother decided that the father was having an affair with the H's mother. The h was yanked to Australia by her mother and since the woman was entirely neurotic, the h had to spend a lot of time consoling the demanding, bitter, clinging and overly possessive woman.
It wasn't until her mother remarried to a nice Australian man, that the h felt she was able to build her own life. The h's mother has been dead for several months when the h and her fiance decide to do Europe before they marry. The h wants to look up her father, she has missed him, but her mother forbade all contact. The h wants to judge the father's supposed affair with the local landholder's wife with her own eyes. She has more than a passing suspicion that her mother was neurotically whacked.
The h and her fiance are in a near collision and the fiance manages to drive the car into a wall, he is seriously injured and the man who they nearly collided with pulls the h out of the car and calls for help. The man seems familiar to the h, but she is pretty shaky and would swear she had never met him before. We all go to hospital and the fiance is whisked into surgery while the h is put to bed overnight for shock. Her father comes to see her and the h realizes the man they almost hit is the father's landlord and also the son of the woman her father was supposed to be involved with.
The H shows up to take the h to her father's the next day and the h is concerned about her fiance, but the staff won't let her in to see him. We find out later he punctured a lung, so there was some cause for concern. The H seems intent on baiting the h and in the usual CL style, the air is full of enough tension to bounce several coins. The h doesn't like the H at all, and he is doing his best CL arrogant Alpha flirty moves, which includes arbitrary ordering around of the h and threatening roofie punishing kisses.
The h and her father are reunited and we also meet the H's 18 yr old spoiled rotten sister, who randomly shows up at the h's father's house for no discernible reason. The h is planning to stay a few days while her fiance recovers and then continue on to Paris. The h and her father reconnect, but neither one discuss the past.
The H next appears in the h's room when she is sleeping, he claims to be looking for the h's dad, but the h is highly suspicious. The h settles into the farm's routine, and since the h's father will be running his sheep, the h is taken to see her fiance by the H and his sister. They are visiting another elderly tenant in the hospital and yet the H's sister decides to give the h's fiance some flowers. The h and her fiance wind up arguing over calling his parents, it is pretty obvious to the reader that the fiance is a petulant brat, but the h just thinks he is out of sorts from the surgery.
The h and her father are invited by the H's mother to the big estate for dinner, the h goes and in her estimation there is definitely some feeling between the H's mother and her father. The h isn't sure what, but it is obvious that the h's father loves the OW, so maybe her mother's idears weren't so neurotic after all.
The h continues to hang at her dad's house with the H randomly dropping in and roofie kissing the h at will. They argue every time they are together and the h is reluctant to take up the H's mother's invitation to tea, because she thinks it likely that her father's feelings for the woman did break up her parent's marriage. CL hints that the marriage was rocky anyways, the h's mother did not like the isolated Yorkshire farm life, but the h's dad was pretty stubborn in not wanting to leave and even if an affair wasn't happening, what woman can tolerate her husband being in love with someone else? When the H's sister pops up at the h's dad's house again, this time while the H is roofie kissing the h and she is fighting him off, the H blackmails the h into attending tea with his mother in exchange for telling his sister to keep her mouth shut about the kissing part.
The h goes to tea, the H supposedly talks to his sister and then the fiance and the sister elope together. The h is livid and the H is torn between anger and triumph, cause now he gets the h all to himself.
Except the h is furious and hurt. She tells the H off for being a womanizing user, who can't help but try to take whatever he wants and doesn't care who he hurts in the process, just like his spoiled witch sister and they are both like their selfish and conniving mother. The H's mother shows up for some reason, ostensibly to apologize and she tries to blame the h's mother for everything, claiming that the h's mother was ill.
Which the h admits is a valid point, but the h also sees that her father is totally in love with the H's mother, who may or may not be interested as she tries to shift some blame to the h herself, by insinuating that her mother was jealous of her and that a pretty woman can mistakenly give "the wrong impression." (So what the H's mother was saying is that a woman who is pretty is sending the message that men should fall in love or roofie kiss her, so even tho care should be taken not to give the wrong impression, things happen and pretty women can't be held responsible.)
The h isn't willing to argue the point, she knows a lost cause when she sees it and besides, her mother is dead. The h just wants to leave and she and the H get into another bitter argument. The H claims that they know each other well and the h firmly disputes that, but the H is determined that the h admit she did not love her fiance. The h refuses and tells the H she is going back to Australia. The h packs her things and leaves.
The H chases her down and almost causes her to wreck, he drags her back to his house and inflicts his mother on her some more. The h is pretty gracious about it and her father is there too, drooling over the H's mother. The h's car is stuck and needs to be hauled back, so the h helps her father for a few days with his paperwork. The h remembers a party from the summer before she left for Australia. It was at the H's house and they were playing a game when someone hauled her into a wardrobe and kissed her. It disturbs the h, cause she barely remembers the incident and it really bothered her cause she connects it vaguely with the H, but doesn't understand why.
The H gets a letter that the fiance and his sister have married and left for Australia. He starts kissing the h again and he decides they are in love. The H explains that he has been obsessed with the h ever since he kissed her at 13 in the wardrobe. The h claims she barely remembers and the H assures her that it was that memory of that kiss that kept him looking for her all this time and why he wouldn't marry anyone else. The h decides that her subconscious memory of the kiss and it's replay in her dreams means she must really love the H and they decide to lurve it up for the HEA.
This one was okay, the tension between the H and h was well done. The triangle between the mother, the father and the H's mother was well done too. CL doesn't go the easy route and make the h's mother completely insane, instead she shows there was something going on, even if it wasn't an affair. The h's father did have feelings for the H's mother but the h doesn't speculate too long on which came first, her father's feelings or her mother's jealousy, the h seems to be okay with a compromise between the two. The H's mother is also pretty suspect, she says nothing happened, but then why make that speech about how a pretty woman can be misunderstood?
The sub-currents and underlying motivations between the h and H's parents are what make this story interesting, the romance is pretty standard CL and the HEA is marginally believable. Read this one if you want an entertaining look at how innuendo and hidden motivations can pull you into a story, then you too can speculate on the nature of hidden passions in the CL commonwealth of HPlandia.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 26, 2024
Bickerfest the ENTIRE book until an out of the blue, mutual "I love you" declaration on the last page.
H forced a kiss on the h inside a dark closet when she was THIRTEEN and he was in his TWENTIES because he had been drinking cider and suddenly, the little girl he had known and seen growing up looked like a budding woman who was going to grow gorgeous one day. B to the A to the R to the F.
Thank god h ended up moving to the other side of the world shortly after that creepy incident or who knows how much farther the H would have gone in his little Lolita fantasy, aided by copious amounts of cider. Yuck!
The slime-swilling, big fat cheaters of the story, h's unfaithful fiance and H's bitchy sister, run off together happily to Australia with absolutely no consequences or comeuppance. Looking forward to the future family reunions.
Both H and his vile sis are morally bankrupt parasites who don't hesitate to aggressively go after otherwise engaged people and cause general mayhem and dismay, as long as they get what they want. h has the whole arrogant feudal family figured out and takes them down epically so not really sure why she caved. I don't foresee a happy future for her at all. Her husband and in-laws are absolutely vile and will have no compunction betraying her again when something someone more interesting comes along that they wanna go after.
Love CL but hated this book. It made no sense and went nowhere.
H forced a kiss on the h inside a dark closet when she was THIRTEEN and he was in his TWENTIES because he had been drinking cider and suddenly, the little girl he had known and seen growing up looked like a budding woman who was going to grow gorgeous one day. B to the A to the R to the F.
Thank god h ended up moving to the other side of the world shortly after that creepy incident or who knows how much farther the H would have gone in his little Lolita fantasy, aided by copious amounts of cider. Yuck!
The slime-swilling, big fat cheaters of the story, h's unfaithful fiance and H's bitchy sister, run off together happily to Australia with absolutely no consequences or comeuppance. Looking forward to the future family reunions.
Both H and his vile sis are morally bankrupt parasites who don't hesitate to aggressively go after otherwise engaged people and cause general mayhem and dismay, as long as they get what they want. h has the whole arrogant feudal family figured out and takes them down epically so not really sure why she caved. I don't foresee a happy future for her at all. Her husband and in-laws are absolutely vile and will have no compunction betraying her again when something someone more interesting comes along that they wanna go after.
Love CL but hated this book. It made no sense and went nowhere.
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December 26, 2016
Ahhhhh, what a sweet read!
The hero, was a little OTT but basically a nice guy. He really wanted to clear the air and show her how he felt for her. That ex-fiancé of her and his sister Lyndsey were such selfish jerks that it was easy to see them going off together.
Also, I was so relieved that she had NOT slept with her ex-fiancé.
He was an ass.
Although, I would have liked an epilogue for this one that included his mother and her father. He never admitted to her that he did have feeling for her. However, it ended the the hero and heroine admitting their love so I guess that's all that matters.
Loved it worth a read and a reread for me.
The hero, was a little OTT but basically a nice guy. He really wanted to clear the air and show her how he felt for her. That ex-fiancé of her and his sister Lyndsey were such selfish jerks that it was easy to see them going off together.
Also, I was so relieved that she had NOT slept with her ex-fiancé.
He was an ass.
Although, I would have liked an epilogue for this one that included his mother and her father. He never admitted to her that he did have feeling for her. However, it ended the the hero and heroine admitting their love so I guess that's all that matters.
Loved it worth a read and a reread for me.
January 17, 2022
I am totally going to give this 4 Lamb stars. As Lamb fans know, it's not a good read unless you have something really disturbing or twisted in the story. Slaps, forced seduction (who are we kidding, rape), name calling, possessive and/or cruel behavior...
Here, we have an h traveling with her fiance whom I believe she did love but I feel suffered a bit from Peter Pan syndrome (so we know he's not going to be the last man standing in this drama). The h, Prue (short for Prunella!!! which if you ask me supports the general consensus in the story that her mother was mentally off her rocker), is traveling from Australia where her mother took her at the age of 13. Originally from England, her mother had flipped out believing that her husband had been having an affair with the local feudal lord's wife. Well, a modern day feudal lord in that the family owns all of the land and has tenant farmers (though they mostly raise sheep). Her father's family had been tenant farmers for generations. The owners are the Killanes: Josh, sister Linsey and mom Lucy (the one Prue's mom accused her dad of having an affair with).
Now with her mom having passed away, she is going on a European tour with her fiance and stopping to reunite with her father along the way (she hasn't had contact with him for 10 years). The father tried over the years to reach out to her but her mother kept most of the correspondence from Prue and also watched her with an eagle eye to make sure she didn't reach out to him either, mostly through emotional blackmail.
The story proceeds along Lamb lines with a forceful Josh, a flakey fiance, a hostile Prue and a bitchy sister Linsey. There's the typical push and pull, the fiance taking off with the sister Linsey and Josh and Prue coming together.
So far typical Lamb fare. So what was the major disturbing Lamb note? This. The H makes a comment to the h early on that they had already kissed which surprises her as she says they never even shook hands. He mentions that he's known her since she was born until she left at 13.
So at one point in the story Prue has a dream about a party that she attended when she was younger:
She must have drifted off to sleep soon afterwards, because she dreamt of being at a party, a children's party at Killane House. Prue was wandering through the maze of passages and rooms, frightened by the boom of the wind in the chimneys, wondering where everyone else had vanished. They were playing some childish game; hide and seek maybe. She heard a sound in a cupboard and opened it; it was dark inside but somebody moved in the darkness, somebody's hand reached out and grabbed her, dragged her into the cupboard, slamming the door behind her before she could escape again.
"Got you," somebody whispered, and Prue screamed, high and shrill, but before she could scream again somebody kissed her.
She had never been kissed like that before; his mouth was warm and moist, it tasted of cider, which some of the older boys at the party had been drinking. Prue was too startled to kiss him back or to fight him off, she just stood there, wide-eyed and breathless.
"Who...?" she whispered, unable to see his face in the dark little space.
"Who? Twit twoo..." he mocked, and then suddenly pushed her out of the cupboard again just as a little crowd of her friends ran past.
Hmm you think. That's not too disturbing right? Obviously it was a young Prue and Josh. I even thought that maybe he made a mistake and grabbed the wrong girl. But then we get THIS:
"We kissed," he said, the sardonic glimmer stronger.
She frowned. "You said that before, but I don't remember ever kissing you!"
He laughed. "We had a Christmas party up at Killane House, for Lynsey, not me - all the children living on the estate, all our tenants' children, and friends of Lynsey's from school. We gave them tea and organised the usual games kids love: murder in the dark, charades."
Prue was very still, remembering her strange dream. "I was there, wasn't I?"
His dark eyes mocked. "Oh, you were there, sweetheart. You were wearing a very pretty dress, I remember - very simple white organdie in the Regency style, high-waisted, with a long, straight skirt and a little round neckline, a green velvet sash round your waist. You looked charming, with that red hair of yours hanging down in ringlets. You suddenly didn't look like a little girl, anymore. It was obvious you were going to be a beautiful woman before too long."
He continues...
"One of the games we all played was hide and seek," he said, eyes narrowed, and Prue took a sharp breath. "Yes," asked Josh, but she shook her head. "I didn't say anything."
"I thought you were going to - never mind," he said. "I hid in a cupboard up in the attic and after a while the door opened and..."
"Oh," Prue broke out, trembling, and he put a hand to her face, stroking her cheek, his index finger softly following the line of her mouth.
"Yes, you were there, and I pulled you into the cupboard and kissed you."
No, stay with me here...he goes on a bit more
Josh grimaced. "Then a whole lot of other people came past and you ran after them, and I stayed in the cupboard feeling pretty stupid. I was almost twice your age, you were just a kid, a little girl of thirteen - and I was in my twenties!
Let me clarify, she was 13, he was 25...
I didn't know what had come over me, except that you looked so different that night, you were lovely, and I'd been staring at you all through the party, thinking how you were growing up, and how gorgeous you were going to be."
Did I mention she was 13 and he was 25?
So yeah, that bit of crazy bumped this up to a 4. If you are a Lamb fan, you know what I'm talking about. You have to give bonus points for the disturbing.
Here, we have an h traveling with her fiance whom I believe she did love but I feel suffered a bit from Peter Pan syndrome (so we know he's not going to be the last man standing in this drama). The h, Prue (short for Prunella!!! which if you ask me supports the general consensus in the story that her mother was mentally off her rocker), is traveling from Australia where her mother took her at the age of 13. Originally from England, her mother had flipped out believing that her husband had been having an affair with the local feudal lord's wife. Well, a modern day feudal lord in that the family owns all of the land and has tenant farmers (though they mostly raise sheep). Her father's family had been tenant farmers for generations. The owners are the Killanes: Josh, sister Linsey and mom Lucy (the one Prue's mom accused her dad of having an affair with).
Now with her mom having passed away, she is going on a European tour with her fiance and stopping to reunite with her father along the way (she hasn't had contact with him for 10 years). The father tried over the years to reach out to her but her mother kept most of the correspondence from Prue and also watched her with an eagle eye to make sure she didn't reach out to him either, mostly through emotional blackmail.
The story proceeds along Lamb lines with a forceful Josh, a flakey fiance, a hostile Prue and a bitchy sister Linsey. There's the typical push and pull, the fiance taking off with the sister Linsey and Josh and Prue coming together.
So far typical Lamb fare. So what was the major disturbing Lamb note? This. The H makes a comment to the h early on that they had already kissed which surprises her as she says they never even shook hands. He mentions that he's known her since she was born until she left at 13.
So at one point in the story Prue has a dream about a party that she attended when she was younger:
She must have drifted off to sleep soon afterwards, because she dreamt of being at a party, a children's party at Killane House. Prue was wandering through the maze of passages and rooms, frightened by the boom of the wind in the chimneys, wondering where everyone else had vanished. They were playing some childish game; hide and seek maybe. She heard a sound in a cupboard and opened it; it was dark inside but somebody moved in the darkness, somebody's hand reached out and grabbed her, dragged her into the cupboard, slamming the door behind her before she could escape again.
"Got you," somebody whispered, and Prue screamed, high and shrill, but before she could scream again somebody kissed her.
She had never been kissed like that before; his mouth was warm and moist, it tasted of cider, which some of the older boys at the party had been drinking. Prue was too startled to kiss him back or to fight him off, she just stood there, wide-eyed and breathless.
"Who...?" she whispered, unable to see his face in the dark little space.
"Who? Twit twoo..." he mocked, and then suddenly pushed her out of the cupboard again just as a little crowd of her friends ran past.
Hmm you think. That's not too disturbing right? Obviously it was a young Prue and Josh. I even thought that maybe he made a mistake and grabbed the wrong girl. But then we get THIS:
"We kissed," he said, the sardonic glimmer stronger.
She frowned. "You said that before, but I don't remember ever kissing you!"
He laughed. "We had a Christmas party up at Killane House, for Lynsey, not me - all the children living on the estate, all our tenants' children, and friends of Lynsey's from school. We gave them tea and organised the usual games kids love: murder in the dark, charades."
Prue was very still, remembering her strange dream. "I was there, wasn't I?"
His dark eyes mocked. "Oh, you were there, sweetheart. You were wearing a very pretty dress, I remember - very simple white organdie in the Regency style, high-waisted, with a long, straight skirt and a little round neckline, a green velvet sash round your waist. You looked charming, with that red hair of yours hanging down in ringlets. You suddenly didn't look like a little girl, anymore. It was obvious you were going to be a beautiful woman before too long."
He continues...
"One of the games we all played was hide and seek," he said, eyes narrowed, and Prue took a sharp breath. "Yes," asked Josh, but she shook her head. "I didn't say anything."
"I thought you were going to - never mind," he said. "I hid in a cupboard up in the attic and after a while the door opened and..."
"Oh," Prue broke out, trembling, and he put a hand to her face, stroking her cheek, his index finger softly following the line of her mouth.
"Yes, you were there, and I pulled you into the cupboard and kissed you."
No, stay with me here...he goes on a bit more
Josh grimaced. "Then a whole lot of other people came past and you ran after them, and I stayed in the cupboard feeling pretty stupid. I was almost twice your age, you were just a kid, a little girl of thirteen - and I was in my twenties!
Let me clarify, she was 13, he was 25...
I didn't know what had come over me, except that you looked so different that night, you were lovely, and I'd been staring at you all through the party, thinking how you were growing up, and how gorgeous you were going to be."
Did I mention she was 13 and he was 25?
So yeah, that bit of crazy bumped this up to a 4. If you are a Lamb fan, you know what I'm talking about. You have to give bonus points for the disturbing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 5, 2017
I like most of Charlotte Lamb books even though sometimes she over do psychological analysis.
Food descriptions are great though. They make me hungry.
Food descriptions are great though. They make me hungry.
August 23, 2018
Oh meh, it was just too ridiculous. The couple were arguing the whole time, plus all the shaking and slapping signifying love?! Please... not for me.
August 17, 2024
Oh, Charlotte Lamb, how I miss HP writers like you. This is a classic CL with a besotted H and a virgin h who puts up a fight. Punishing kisses all over the place, lots of bickering and a H who can’t stay away from the h. There is something in the book that pearl clutchers could find disturbing, but CL’s books should not be reasoned, but should be felt.
May 18, 2016
It was alright, but yes, could be creepy this day and age, November 15, 2011
My thoughts: I'll be honest, I got this book because of the previous review. I found her review kind of funny and I was curious. I was curious how the writer would "go there" as previous reviewer put it, LOL. And everything she said was true. It was a good Charlotte Lamb book, had the hero the way I like them also, a somewhat feisty heroine and pretty good moving plot. But yes, it was truly weird to read that hero kissed heroine at 13. That is a little too extreme.I'm a mother myself now with two boys thankfully (LOL) and if I thought about it having a daughter and something like that happened I would call the cops. And the hero saying that she looked different that night, that she was going to grow into something beautiful, etc. uhhhh......... But anyhoo, if I forgot that "little" issue the story was just ok. It didn't drag or anything. My minor grievances (aside from the 13 year old thing) was that I'm somewhat annoyed with hero's sister and heroine's fiancee hooking up. I thought it was pretty cold of them to do that. And since the hero and heroine are now hooked up, what a fun holiday get togethers they will have, right? The sister was annoying and was a brat. Yeah, getting married so quickly like that, sure. I also thought it was pretty fast and convenient for the heroine to finally accept that she was wrong in believing her mother and her lies. I was waiting and waiting for that "revelation" and when it did come it seemed a little fizzled out and not really super exciting climax. I think I'm ok with reading it once or twice but I'm not sure I'll be re-reading it again and again.
My thoughts: I'll be honest, I got this book because of the previous review. I found her review kind of funny and I was curious. I was curious how the writer would "go there" as previous reviewer put it, LOL. And everything she said was true. It was a good Charlotte Lamb book, had the hero the way I like them also, a somewhat feisty heroine and pretty good moving plot. But yes, it was truly weird to read that hero kissed heroine at 13. That is a little too extreme.I'm a mother myself now with two boys thankfully (LOL) and if I thought about it having a daughter and something like that happened I would call the cops. And the hero saying that she looked different that night, that she was going to grow into something beautiful, etc. uhhhh......... But anyhoo, if I forgot that "little" issue the story was just ok. It didn't drag or anything. My minor grievances (aside from the 13 year old thing) was that I'm somewhat annoyed with hero's sister and heroine's fiancee hooking up. I thought it was pretty cold of them to do that. And since the hero and heroine are now hooked up, what a fun holiday get togethers they will have, right? The sister was annoying and was a brat. Yeah, getting married so quickly like that, sure. I also thought it was pretty fast and convenient for the heroine to finally accept that she was wrong in believing her mother and her lies. I was waiting and waiting for that "revelation" and when it did come it seemed a little fizzled out and not really super exciting climax. I think I'm ok with reading it once or twice but I'm not sure I'll be re-reading it again and again.
November 22, 2024
Omg, Seductive Stranger kept me up on my toes to the end. We have the lovely heroine Prue travelling to England with her fiancée and happens to have a car accident with the fiery and stubborn hero Josh Killiane, and Josh never miss a opportunity to infuriate and seduce our horrified heroine. These two argued to the very end and the scene where she hurled the hot tea cup to his face was crazyyyy damn!!But damn was the chemistry fire!!🔥
June 8, 2021
Would she ever find out the truth?
From the minute Prue met Josh Killane, she resented his manner—he acted just like a feudal overlord. Didn't he know what century this was?
Prue was determined to avoid him. After all, his mother was responsible for her parents' divorce and her own painful estrangement from her father.
She'd returned to England to discover for herself whether her mother's allegations about her father were right. But with Josh so attractive and so threatening, perhaps she shouldn't have come!
From the minute Prue met Josh Killane, she resented his manner—he acted just like a feudal overlord. Didn't he know what century this was?
Prue was determined to avoid him. After all, his mother was responsible for her parents' divorce and her own painful estrangement from her father.
She'd returned to England to discover for herself whether her mother's allegations about her father were right. But with Josh so attractive and so threatening, perhaps she shouldn't have come!
July 3, 2015
Very ordinary read.
She hates him till the last page, but he doesn't mind. He simply goes on making passes and she accepts. But Lo! and behold, she discovers 2 pages before curtains that all that hate is actually love! Really ?!?!?!?
Her fiance runs off with his sister, how convenient.
Disappointing read, grated on my nerves actually. Wonder why I still give it 2 stars, probably 1 will do...
She hates him till the last page, but he doesn't mind. He simply goes on making passes and she accepts. But Lo! and behold, she discovers 2 pages before curtains that all that hate is actually love! Really ?!?!?!?
Her fiance runs off with his sister, how convenient.
Disappointing read, grated on my nerves actually. Wonder why I still give it 2 stars, probably 1 will do...
March 15, 2023
Oh wow I used to have this book in paperback and what I remember from back then when I was but a wee babe reading Harlies is so different from what I read this time. This story is on Wuthering Heights level of drama on the high moors. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Charlotte Lamb should have just really gone for it and pushed the envelope all the way like she clearly wanted to, instead of hedging her bets, because honestly it would have made the story that extra bit salacious and kuhrazy.
There are tons of other reviews that do a great job going into what all happened, so I'm going to sum it up non-chronologically. What we have here is a feudal landowning family, the Killanes, and what I think Charlotte Lamb tried to do was she wanted to do that mini family saga soap opera a la Dynasty (but obviously British).
The living Killanes are three: the older still beautiful mother with die-away airs so that you don't know if she's a good person or just the worst thing to happen to feminism; Josh, the son and male lead; and Lynsey, sulky 19yo.
Although the story is from the female lead's pov, this story really would have worked so much better if it had been a huge saga, complete with darkness, infidelity, underage grooming (???), and insanity. Alas, Charlotte Lamb must have signed one hell of a contract with Harlequin, because she never ventured out beyond the 200 pages format despite the fact her world building really could have done so.
There are three separate storylines with regards to this crazed feudal family, and each family member essentially wreaks havoc on Prue's family over time, but this was sadly glossed over (although our heroine tried to hold out and she yells about it plenty of times).
First, there's her father with a crazed jealous wife, and how his marriage falls apart when he falls for the lady of the manor with her die-away airs and her "oh, you know how it is when men misunderstand—it's not the woman's fault if her smiles get misconstrued."
Then, there's Josh, who's seriously troubled, because he had eyes for Prue when she was 13 to his 25. That's troubling on its own, but then he hides in a cupboard during a party hide and seek, and when she opens the cupboard, he leap out like a freaking bogeyman, grabs her and proceeds to kiss her silly... and alas, it's still a Harlequin of its age, so forced kisses and light slaps are all that's on the table.
Finally there's the sulky barely legal younger sister who eyes Prue's Australian fiancé as he's lying in hospital fresh out of lung-puncturing car accident surgery, and manage to entice him so that he agrees to run off with her just as he's coming off bedrest and painkillers. Nary a spoken word does he say to childhood sweetheart, Prue, and he's gone away for good.
So yeah I could kind of see why Prue hated this family. She was filled with anger from day one and nobody blamed the dad in all of this, but I'm going to go on a limb and say that this was all his fault for staying in this mess of a place when clearly his wife was becoming paranoid and his daughter was on the verge of being groomed and raped.
THAT ASIDE, it is a salacious tale that could honestly have been even better if Charlotte Lamb had just gone Flowers in the Attic with it. For a while I suspected that Lynsey was actually the love-child of the dad and the lady of the manor. There were a couple of things that I felt could have improved the book one way or another—the underage grooming could have been tweaked to make the story more wholesome or more envelope-pushing.
As it is, it feels like a half completed tale. As always with these train wreck Harlequins, it's more like an outline than a fully fleshed out tale. Prue's about-face from spitting anger to "I suddenly love you too!!!" is unbelievable and gappy. I would have loved some more segue there, but alas, not every tale is going to be perfect when word count constraints are in the way.
Three solid stars for being possibly more titillating than what I remembered (like Prue, I had totally blocked out the grooming? Much like underage girls do, I guess?? Kekeke but not in rl ofc. Only fictional grooming is allowed OK).
There are tons of other reviews that do a great job going into what all happened, so I'm going to sum it up non-chronologically. What we have here is a feudal landowning family, the Killanes, and what I think Charlotte Lamb tried to do was she wanted to do that mini family saga soap opera a la Dynasty (but obviously British).
The living Killanes are three: the older still beautiful mother with die-away airs so that you don't know if she's a good person or just the worst thing to happen to feminism; Josh, the son and male lead; and Lynsey, sulky 19yo.
Although the story is from the female lead's pov, this story really would have worked so much better if it had been a huge saga, complete with darkness, infidelity, underage grooming (???), and insanity. Alas, Charlotte Lamb must have signed one hell of a contract with Harlequin, because she never ventured out beyond the 200 pages format despite the fact her world building really could have done so.
There are three separate storylines with regards to this crazed feudal family, and each family member essentially wreaks havoc on Prue's family over time, but this was sadly glossed over (although our heroine tried to hold out and she yells about it plenty of times).
First, there's her father with a crazed jealous wife, and how his marriage falls apart when he falls for the lady of the manor with her die-away airs and her "oh, you know how it is when men misunderstand—it's not the woman's fault if her smiles get misconstrued."
Then, there's Josh, who's seriously troubled, because he had eyes for Prue when she was 13 to his 25. That's troubling on its own, but then he hides in a cupboard during a party hide and seek, and when she opens the cupboard, he leap out like a freaking bogeyman, grabs her and proceeds to kiss her silly... and alas, it's still a Harlequin of its age, so forced kisses and light slaps are all that's on the table.
Finally there's the sulky barely legal younger sister who eyes Prue's Australian fiancé as he's lying in hospital fresh out of lung-puncturing car accident surgery, and manage to entice him so that he agrees to run off with her just as he's coming off bedrest and painkillers. Nary a spoken word does he say to childhood sweetheart, Prue, and he's gone away for good.
So yeah I could kind of see why Prue hated this family. She was filled with anger from day one and nobody blamed the dad in all of this, but I'm going to go on a limb and say that this was all his fault for staying in this mess of a place when clearly his wife was becoming paranoid and his daughter was on the verge of being groomed and raped.
THAT ASIDE, it is a salacious tale that could honestly have been even better if Charlotte Lamb had just gone Flowers in the Attic with it. For a while I suspected that Lynsey was actually the love-child of the dad and the lady of the manor. There were a couple of things that I felt could have improved the book one way or another—the underage grooming could have been tweaked to make the story more wholesome or more envelope-pushing.
As it is, it feels like a half completed tale. As always with these train wreck Harlequins, it's more like an outline than a fully fleshed out tale. Prue's about-face from spitting anger to "I suddenly love you too!!!" is unbelievable and gappy. I would have loved some more segue there, but alas, not every tale is going to be perfect when word count constraints are in the way.
Three solid stars for being possibly more titillating than what I remembered (like Prue, I had totally blocked out the grooming? Much like underage girls do, I guess?? Kekeke but not in rl ofc. Only fictional grooming is allowed OK).
November 28, 2022
"Seductive Stranger" is the story of Prue and Josh.
In this Charlotte Lamb classic, haughty heroine returns to England to meet her estranged father. She takes her fun loving fiancé with her, but crashes into her father's boss on the way. Thus her fiancé ends up in the hospital, and she ends up at loggerheads with the boss.
Ofcourse we have many scenes of them bantering and then making out, the heroine throwing wild accusations at everyone, her fiancé totally ditching her for OW, and a super creepy confession from the obviously smitten hero
Weirdness galore.
SWE
2.5/5
In this Charlotte Lamb classic, haughty heroine returns to England to meet her estranged father. She takes her fun loving fiancé with her, but crashes into her father's boss on the way. Thus her fiancé ends up in the hospital, and she ends up at loggerheads with the boss.
Ofcourse we have many scenes of them bantering and then making out, the heroine throwing wild accusations at everyone, her fiancé totally ditching her for OW, and a super creepy confession from the obviously smitten hero
Weirdness galore.
SWE
2.5/5
August 30, 2017
God. What an unlikeable heroine. Someone should have told her to 'shut the fuck up'. Both her and Josh's sister seem to be cut from the same petulant cloth. She didn't have any redeeming qualities. Every word and accusation that came out of her mouth caused an excruciating throb in my ear. Like nails cutting against glass. David made his getaway but I feel sorry for Josh. Authors call it being 'feisty' but I would call the woman a harpy. I would have given it more stars because the Hero, second hand characters and the plot were enjoyable but the heroine killed it.
September 21, 2022
It’s Charlotte Lamb so it’s almost guaranteed to be good. Good in the sense of an enjoyable read. Characters are typical people with plenty of warts and flaws.
OM, the h’s fiancé, is a weak baby; even h admits he doesn’t want to work, just wants fun and the easiest way through. OW, H’s sister is spoiled and grabby and elopes with OM. Two weak people.
H is typical CL H and h alternates between helping her dad, reconnecting with dad and Yorkshire, and screaming like a harpy. Dad and H’s mom are foils for all the intense drama queens.
OM, the h’s fiancé, is a weak baby; even h admits he doesn’t want to work, just wants fun and the easiest way through. OW, H’s sister is spoiled and grabby and elopes with OM. Two weak people.
H is typical CL H and h alternates between helping her dad, reconnecting with dad and Yorkshire, and screaming like a harpy. Dad and H’s mom are foils for all the intense drama queens.
August 31, 2021
Too messy. Everyone is swapping partners, its hard to keep straight. And the dad did like the hero's mom! Why they lying?! Skip.
January 6, 2024
disappointing
dnf
October 4, 2024Dnf 40%
The book was so boring. I didn’t feel any chemistry. Also the story was uninteresting.
The book was so boring. I didn’t feel any chemistry. Also the story was uninteresting.
May 20, 2025
All the stubbornness and misunderstanding you could possibly want.
June 24, 2014
2.5 actually
I was wrong - having the protagonists closer to the same age does NOT improve the book. Or maybe it's just the era it was written in. On the bright side, I did not buy this book. Rather, it was one of the many I brought home when cleaning out a deceased relative's house.
Considering the relative's age, I'd imagine the H/h wore on her nerves too.
It's hard really to like a book when... the h is engaged to someone else. The someone else conveniently elopes with the H's kid sister, thus setting up the pairing. Of course, were it me, the chances of pairing would have come to an abrupt ending in chapter 2 when the h was awakened from her nap in a dark, empty house by the doorknob turning. 'Twas the H "checking on her". Bet he'd regret that after a shotgun blast. No - not v. tolerant of sleep being interrupted by strangers sneaking into my bedroom. >:(
Beyond that, he was an ass, an overbearing ass at that, and I fight dirty so he'd have been rolling on the floor cupping something for attempting to manhandle me.
'Nuff about the "H". The h was irritating in her own way. Mostly by actually vocalizing her arguments with him. Oh, she managed to incite fury pretty easily, but she wasn't v. good with the putdowns; just the aggravation.
I was wrong - having the protagonists closer to the same age does NOT improve the book. Or maybe it's just the era it was written in. On the bright side, I did not buy this book. Rather, it was one of the many I brought home when cleaning out a deceased relative's house.
Considering the relative's age, I'd imagine the H/h wore on her nerves too.
It's hard really to like a book when... the h is engaged to someone else. The someone else conveniently elopes with the H's kid sister, thus setting up the pairing. Of course, were it me, the chances of pairing would have come to an abrupt ending in chapter 2 when the h was awakened from her nap in a dark, empty house by the doorknob turning. 'Twas the H "checking on her". Bet he'd regret that after a shotgun blast. No - not v. tolerant of sleep being interrupted by strangers sneaking into my bedroom. >:(
Beyond that, he was an ass, an overbearing ass at that, and I fight dirty so he'd have been rolling on the floor cupping something for attempting to manhandle me.
'Nuff about the "H". The h was irritating in her own way. Mostly by actually vocalizing her arguments with him. Oh, she managed to incite fury pretty easily, but she wasn't v. good with the putdowns; just the aggravation.
December 8, 2015
Would she ever find out the truth?
From the minute Prue met Josh Killane, she resented his manner - he acted just like a feudal overlord. Didn't he know what century this was?
Prue was determined to avoid him. After all, his mother was responsible for her parent's divorce and her own painful estrangement from her father.
She'd returned to England to discover for herself whether her mother's allegations about her father were right. But with Josh so attractive and so threatening, perhaps she shouldn't have come!
From the minute Prue met Josh Killane, she resented his manner - he acted just like a feudal overlord. Didn't he know what century this was?
Prue was determined to avoid him. After all, his mother was responsible for her parent's divorce and her own painful estrangement from her father.
She'd returned to England to discover for herself whether her mother's allegations about her father were right. But with Josh so attractive and so threatening, perhaps she shouldn't have come!
July 31, 2014
It was worth 3.5 stars. I had mixed feelings regarding hero's attraction towards heroine. He had first kissed her when she was just 13 and he was in his 20s. Usually an Ewee.. moment for me. But because it was written so plainly in the end and so matter of fact that my usual feeling didn't have much to go on for. He came out OK.
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