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Between Mist and Midnight
Home is where the heart breaks
For Eleanor Wilding, home was Wildingsher family's antebellum estate in Mississippi. Wildings . . . where she'd foolishly fallen in love with her handsome stepbrother, Edan Bond. And where Edan had rejected that love.
And it was to Wildings that Eleanor returned after a five-year, self-imposed exile. She'd come back to visit her ailing grandmother, but also to confront Edan. Because, like the legendary family ghost, memories of Edan haunted her, and it was time to exorcise the past.
However, once she'd seen Edan again, it was impossible to forget what he'd meant to her . . . since those feelings were still all too real.
For Eleanor Wilding, home was Wildingsher family's antebellum estate in Mississippi. Wildings . . . where she'd foolishly fallen in love with her handsome stepbrother, Edan Bond. And where Edan had rejected that love.
And it was to Wildings that Eleanor returned after a five-year, self-imposed exile. She'd come back to visit her ailing grandmother, but also to confront Edan. Because, like the legendary family ghost, memories of Edan haunted her, and it was time to exorcise the past.
However, once she'd seen Edan again, it was impossible to forget what he'd meant to her . . . since those feelings were still all too real.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1992
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Kathleen O'Brien
144 books91 followersSince the day Harlequin bought her first novel, Kathleen has published more than 30 titles with them- everything from hot, sexy contemporaries to dark, brooding suspense. Read in more than 30 countries and 29 languages, she's a five-time finalist for the prestigious RWA RITA Award, a winner of the Maggie Award, and a three-time finalist for Romantic Times' Reviewer's Choice.
Kathleen comes from a family of writers, poets, and journalists- though she may be the one shameless romantic in the bunch. A true Cancer, she values home and family above everything and wouldn't dream of ditching a single friend, memory, gift, or love letter. Consequently, her office is a mess, full of books, colored cut glass, photo albums, Madame Alexander dolls, and a cockatiel who whistles the theme from "The X Files." She is addicted to Mozart and Elvis, Dancing With the Stars, Dorothy Dunnett novels, and sugar-free Popsicles.
Kathleen comes from a family of writers, poets, and journalists- though she may be the one shameless romantic in the bunch. A true Cancer, she values home and family above everything and wouldn't dream of ditching a single friend, memory, gift, or love letter. Consequently, her office is a mess, full of books, colored cut glass, photo albums, Madame Alexander dolls, and a cockatiel who whistles the theme from "The X Files." She is addicted to Mozart and Elvis, Dancing With the Stars, Dorothy Dunnett novels, and sugar-free Popsicles.
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November 28, 2017
Between Mist and Midnight - Kathleen O'Brien proves she can write the trainwreck wrapped in a typhoon and dumped in an avalanche with the best of them in this one. I believe she was going for
Southern Gothic in comparison to Anne Mather's previous Hawaiian Gothic, but I am not sure this qualifies for anything but a gigantic angst-fest wreck.
The h is around 25 or so and has returned to the paternal family home after years away. Her parents divorced when she was ten and both parents remarried. Neither really wanted the h and both had new spouses with kids that apparently the h's parents liked better. Especially the h's father, who latched on to his new stepson like he was the second coming.
The h acted out in the teen-aged usual ways to get her father's attention, but he wasn't interested in the h and her "troubles" - neither was anyone else in the family, including the h's grandmother who seems to be a kindly old and loving lady, but really is just an old blood slurping spider. The old biddy consistently berates the h for having no loyalty to her blood kin, but in reality she forsake her blood granddaughter in favor of the usurping non related H years earlier.
Not that the h didn't contribute to her own downfall. When she was 15 and the H was 20, she faked a note from his voluptuous girl friend and lured the H to the summer house. Hot passion times ensued and the h was definitely getting her groove on, until they got interrupted by the h's father.
As these things go, the h was sent away in shame and the H was told he was a poor thing who was taken advantage of and no one blamed him for the h's wanton and Jezebel behavior. The h took off on her own when she was 18, she became a counselor who helps troubled teens and when her father died when she was 20, no one even bothered to call to let her know he was ill. The h resents that, because she would have liked at least the opportunity to make parental amends and the first she found out about it was when the H called her for the funeral.
At the will reading the H got control of everything, tho the h gets some of the profits from the big hotel conglomerate that the H turned her father's property broker business into, the h was pretty much outcast and she knows it. Now there is a big family reunion and the grandmother wants to leave her huge Antebellum estate to the H. But the old biddy is uneasy about betraying her blood kin, so she tells the h that who ever finds the Ghost Confederate Captain's treasure that he left for his lost love will be left the house and estate.
(What the old Biddy actually wants is to marry her direct blood in the shape of the h to the H, cause apparently the little Jezebel hasn't suffered for her sins enough and deserves an eternity in torment with an utter coprophagic slime swiller gold digger to really pay for her crime of being born into the wrong family.)
So the stage is set for lots and lots of childish bickering from the h and lots and lots of verbal abuse from the H. The h finds out that the house has been rezoned so it can be turned into a hotel and the h, whose few happy memories are of spending time at the estate, is sure the H is trying some con on her grandmother.
(For some reason the h sees the old biddy as benevolent, but I wasn't buying that for a minute, this woman was evil - not overtly but just indifferent to the pain that her and the rest of the family's actions were to the h via their hypocrisy- they consistently tell the h that she isn't loyal or worthy and that her 'troubles' were all because she refused act as a proper family member - but they consistently put people they would normally consider outsiders over the h and she was deliberately excluded from participating in the "family."
So it really wasn't the h's 'troubles', it was their's and their acceptance of what should have been an intolerable situation for a child to live in. I found myself praying for a Navy Seal and the proper application of plastique explosive at several points in this book, just to eliminate the family and their 'trouble' permanently.)
As the endless bickering and taunts is supposedly hiding an unbearable attraction between the H and h, it ends up with the usual piking lust moment. There is a big reunion dance where the H goes off with the prerequisite OW and the h finds out about the house rezoning. She wants to talk to the H about it after the evening is over, but she hears the H and the OW going at it like cats in heat next door to her and she is a might offended that he is so blatantly sampling the lady buffet and probably rather impressed that he can pull both her and the OW in one day.
The h had also been helping one of the young cousin's whose childhood was showing some similarity to her own and half-heartedly looking for the Ghostly Confederate Captain's treasure. Early the next morning after hearing the H and the OW, the h follows a ghostly figure (which is really the H,) and finds the GCC's treasure.
She is excited even tho it is a stash of confederate cash, until she finds out that the H found it a long time ago and that her grandmother knows about the zoning and really does want the house to go to the H, he is the only one who can afford it. The H makes a token protest in favor of the h, but the old biddy wants them to marry and the H claims it will never happen.
The h believes she loves the H by now, so she martyrs herself and stays to take care of the old biddy, who has had a stroke. The h does call the H to come when it looks like the old biddy might be really dying and after we find out that all is well and the biddy will sadly live, the H confesses that she was more of a decent person than he was and he admits that he worked really hard to alienate the h from her father cause he wanted a father figure just for him.
The h instantly forgives him and the H claims he was only holding the OW's head as she threw up and that he loves the h and has always loved her since she was kid - which seems more than a little perverted given the whole books' tone. Since the h has to love him back cause this is a romance, the two make a mutual declaration and decide to marry for the HEA complete with the Ghostly Confederate Captain's treasure wedding ring.
I was just squicked out for this entire book. I suspect the H was interested more in the money that h was getting as her share of the father's business and I suspect that the H was afraid the old biddy might change her mind and leave the house to the h. I don't buy the "I was holding the OW's head as she threw up" claim, cause to my knowledge getting a grove on doesn't sound like vomiting unless some seriously kinky happenings are taking place. Needless to say, I wasn't believing the HEA on this HP outing.
So because I really despised this book and almost every person in it. I rewrote the ending to suit my own little tastes. In my version, after the h finds the treasure and realizes that the H and old biddy were in cahoots, she kindly explains in her best therapist voice that they all need to move on and that she really sees no point in continuing a relationship where the parties have nothing positive to offer each other. So she is ending the association and she wishes everyone the best of luck in their future endeavors.
The h packs her bags and goes home to California, where she meets a retired Navy Seal and they fall in love, marry, and buy a house on the beach with two cats. The h donates her share of the family fortune to help troubled teens and baby sea otters.
When the old biddy finally dies, it is found that the h's family estate is termite riddled and falling apart, as it happens the retired Navy Seal runs a demolition company and gets the contract to blow the rotting homestead up. He and the h have a picnic in the shade of the magnolias as the house is completely destroyed, along with the h's pain from the past.
The two of them return to California for the birth of their first baby and are still happy and lurving it up for many, many years into the future when even death doesn't finally part them as they both go off to the big blue yonder together and their kids and multiple grand kids are very sad.
The Gold Digger H married the OW who turned out to be a bigger spender than even he could provide for, and so he goes bankrupt after finding out that none of the two kids he had with the OW are actually biologically his and they hate him.
He is accidentally blown up in the family estate explosion when he got drunk the night before and passed out in the stables, full of mopey misery at seeing the h so happy with someone else. So all his scheming came to naught as the family firm is asset stripped and sold and the h's family and it's name is eradicated forever for a better HEA that should have been written but wasn't.
Southern Gothic in comparison to Anne Mather's previous Hawaiian Gothic, but I am not sure this qualifies for anything but a gigantic angst-fest wreck.
The h is around 25 or so and has returned to the paternal family home after years away. Her parents divorced when she was ten and both parents remarried. Neither really wanted the h and both had new spouses with kids that apparently the h's parents liked better. Especially the h's father, who latched on to his new stepson like he was the second coming.
The h acted out in the teen-aged usual ways to get her father's attention, but he wasn't interested in the h and her "troubles" - neither was anyone else in the family, including the h's grandmother who seems to be a kindly old and loving lady, but really is just an old blood slurping spider. The old biddy consistently berates the h for having no loyalty to her blood kin, but in reality she forsake her blood granddaughter in favor of the usurping non related H years earlier.
Not that the h didn't contribute to her own downfall. When she was 15 and the H was 20, she faked a note from his voluptuous girl friend and lured the H to the summer house. Hot passion times ensued and the h was definitely getting her groove on, until they got interrupted by the h's father.
As these things go, the h was sent away in shame and the H was told he was a poor thing who was taken advantage of and no one blamed him for the h's wanton and Jezebel behavior. The h took off on her own when she was 18, she became a counselor who helps troubled teens and when her father died when she was 20, no one even bothered to call to let her know he was ill. The h resents that, because she would have liked at least the opportunity to make parental amends and the first she found out about it was when the H called her for the funeral.
At the will reading the H got control of everything, tho the h gets some of the profits from the big hotel conglomerate that the H turned her father's property broker business into, the h was pretty much outcast and she knows it. Now there is a big family reunion and the grandmother wants to leave her huge Antebellum estate to the H. But the old biddy is uneasy about betraying her blood kin, so she tells the h that who ever finds the Ghost Confederate Captain's treasure that he left for his lost love will be left the house and estate.
(What the old Biddy actually wants is to marry her direct blood in the shape of the h to the H, cause apparently the little Jezebel hasn't suffered for her sins enough and deserves an eternity in torment with an utter coprophagic slime swiller gold digger to really pay for her crime of being born into the wrong family.)
So the stage is set for lots and lots of childish bickering from the h and lots and lots of verbal abuse from the H. The h finds out that the house has been rezoned so it can be turned into a hotel and the h, whose few happy memories are of spending time at the estate, is sure the H is trying some con on her grandmother.
(For some reason the h sees the old biddy as benevolent, but I wasn't buying that for a minute, this woman was evil - not overtly but just indifferent to the pain that her and the rest of the family's actions were to the h via their hypocrisy- they consistently tell the h that she isn't loyal or worthy and that her 'troubles' were all because she refused act as a proper family member - but they consistently put people they would normally consider outsiders over the h and she was deliberately excluded from participating in the "family."
So it really wasn't the h's 'troubles', it was their's and their acceptance of what should have been an intolerable situation for a child to live in. I found myself praying for a Navy Seal and the proper application of plastique explosive at several points in this book, just to eliminate the family and their 'trouble' permanently.)
As the endless bickering and taunts is supposedly hiding an unbearable attraction between the H and h, it ends up with the usual piking lust moment. There is a big reunion dance where the H goes off with the prerequisite OW and the h finds out about the house rezoning. She wants to talk to the H about it after the evening is over, but she hears the H and the OW going at it like cats in heat next door to her and she is a might offended that he is so blatantly sampling the lady buffet and probably rather impressed that he can pull both her and the OW in one day.
The h had also been helping one of the young cousin's whose childhood was showing some similarity to her own and half-heartedly looking for the Ghostly Confederate Captain's treasure. Early the next morning after hearing the H and the OW, the h follows a ghostly figure (which is really the H,) and finds the GCC's treasure.
She is excited even tho it is a stash of confederate cash, until she finds out that the H found it a long time ago and that her grandmother knows about the zoning and really does want the house to go to the H, he is the only one who can afford it. The H makes a token protest in favor of the h, but the old biddy wants them to marry and the H claims it will never happen.
The h believes she loves the H by now, so she martyrs herself and stays to take care of the old biddy, who has had a stroke. The h does call the H to come when it looks like the old biddy might be really dying and after we find out that all is well and the biddy will sadly live, the H confesses that she was more of a decent person than he was and he admits that he worked really hard to alienate the h from her father cause he wanted a father figure just for him.
The h instantly forgives him and the H claims he was only holding the OW's head as she threw up and that he loves the h and has always loved her since she was kid - which seems more than a little perverted given the whole books' tone. Since the h has to love him back cause this is a romance, the two make a mutual declaration and decide to marry for the HEA complete with the Ghostly Confederate Captain's treasure wedding ring.
I was just squicked out for this entire book. I suspect the H was interested more in the money that h was getting as her share of the father's business and I suspect that the H was afraid the old biddy might change her mind and leave the house to the h. I don't buy the "I was holding the OW's head as she threw up" claim, cause to my knowledge getting a grove on doesn't sound like vomiting unless some seriously kinky happenings are taking place. Needless to say, I wasn't believing the HEA on this HP outing.
So because I really despised this book and almost every person in it. I rewrote the ending to suit my own little tastes. In my version, after the h finds the treasure and realizes that the H and old biddy were in cahoots, she kindly explains in her best therapist voice that they all need to move on and that she really sees no point in continuing a relationship where the parties have nothing positive to offer each other. So she is ending the association and she wishes everyone the best of luck in their future endeavors.
The h packs her bags and goes home to California, where she meets a retired Navy Seal and they fall in love, marry, and buy a house on the beach with two cats. The h donates her share of the family fortune to help troubled teens and baby sea otters.
When the old biddy finally dies, it is found that the h's family estate is termite riddled and falling apart, as it happens the retired Navy Seal runs a demolition company and gets the contract to blow the rotting homestead up. He and the h have a picnic in the shade of the magnolias as the house is completely destroyed, along with the h's pain from the past.
The two of them return to California for the birth of their first baby and are still happy and lurving it up for many, many years into the future when even death doesn't finally part them as they both go off to the big blue yonder together and their kids and multiple grand kids are very sad.
The Gold Digger H married the OW who turned out to be a bigger spender than even he could provide for, and so he goes bankrupt after finding out that none of the two kids he had with the OW are actually biologically his and they hate him.
He is accidentally blown up in the family estate explosion when he got drunk the night before and passed out in the stables, full of mopey misery at seeing the h so happy with someone else. So all his scheming came to naught as the family firm is asset stripped and sold and the h's family and it's name is eradicated forever for a better HEA that should have been written but wasn't.
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May 12, 2016
This was an amazingly great read especially since I neither liked the H or the h much! My first book by this author and I’m certainly reading more by her. The real ‘hero’ was the beautiful descriptive writing, the setting (the wisteria laden Wildings), a resident ghost and the smoldering gut wrenching angst (courtesy her memories), which totally ensnared me. The H, her stepbrother, imo was a hateful jerk- unsympathetic, supercilious and jeering. I so wanted to punch him in the nose throughout the book (a la the h) and his ‘turnabout into a hero’ at the end was hardly gratifying!
In the present the h goes back home for a family reunion when she's 25. Now the trouble with this grown up h is that in spite of having ‘grown up’ and getting a degree in psychology she still not really grown up or matured and her persistent childish one-upmanship with the H and getting into ‘games of chicken’ were tiresome to say the least. And the H is constantly baiting her and at the same time shaking his head and counting all her faults for her. Also when n where did this love develop I am at a loss to understand.The only closeness n ‘harmony’ they ever had was in that one act in the gazebo all those years ago…
But still this book is 4/5 stars worth! :)
In the present the h goes back home for a family reunion when she's 25. Now the trouble with this grown up h is that in spite of having ‘grown up’ and getting a degree in psychology she still not really grown up or matured and her persistent childish one-upmanship with the H and getting into ‘games of chicken’ were tiresome to say the least. And the H is constantly baiting her and at the same time shaking his head and counting all her faults for her. Also when n where did this love develop I am at a loss to understand.The only closeness n ‘harmony’ they ever had was in that one act in the gazebo all those years ago…
But still this book is 4/5 stars worth! :)
December 26, 2011
I really liked this one! Lots of emotional angst, steamy (though not super detailed) love scenes, and I always like a reunion story where the hero has been in love since the heroine was 16. The ending was a slight letdown for some reason, but still a good read.
May 18, 2016
4 1/2 stars - Splendid!, August 28, 2008
WARNING: SPOILERS GALORE!
Okay, I warned you! What can I say, whew, the hero and heroine definitely had issues they needed to resolve! Eleanor's parents divorced when she was 15. Her father married Edan's mother. Edan's 20, Eleanor 15. Eleanor has issues because she doesn't feel like her parents cared about her and was hurt and jealous when her father immediate took in Edan wholeheartedly. She felt as though her father loved Edan more than Eleanor. So Eleanor was always trying to compete against Edan. Eleanor also felt some sort of attraction to her stepbrother. Edan himself had his own issues when his parents divorced when he was six but of course he hid it well so Eleanor just thinks Edan is just this arrogant son of a gun who "stole" her father from her, etc. Little does Eleanor know that Edan actually held a "shameful" attraction to his younger stepsister. But of course Edan hid it very well and promised himself never to act on it until unfortunately (or fortunately??) Eleanor mistakenly pushes him to the edge of no return. Yep, Eleanor and Edan did the deed, her being 16 and Eleanor 20/21. Yikes! Because Eleanor has this love/hate relationship with Edan and because she was a young immature kid, she and her school friends had decided to play a prank with Edan. Edan had a big bosom girlfriend named Nancy so Eleanor decided to put a love letter on Edan's pillow to come meet him at the gazebo for a tryst. Of course Edan comes, and doesn't realize its Eleanor. Edan touches Eleanor's body but doesn't do anything else and says its too cold outside and they should just go back in the house. Unfortunately (or fortunately? =P) Edan's touch arouses unexplained desire in Eleanor and she wants more! -_- Eleanor wants to Edan to know its her, Eleanor. She tells him and Edan is shocked/aghast. He is furious and says what the heck are you doing. This is crazy and was going to leave her. But Eleanor doesn't let him. Eleanor pushes him and totally hahaha, arouses him with her innocent prodding/hands and against his better judgement Edan goes for it, since he fell in love with her since she was 15 - albeit the deed was done in a semi violent/hurtful way. Yikes! Edan of course absolutely hates himself for what he did. And then, Eleanor's father busts in on them. YIKES!!!
Ok, I shouldn't really go into the whole book, hahaha... So fast forward to five years later that's one of the issues they have to resolve. But sigh.... It was really heart wrenching for them throughout the book. I was like when are they gonna clear things up! But I thought it was extremely sweet that Edan was so into Eleanor. I know, Eleanor was a minor but hey, these things happen! And throughout the book you can see that Edan really loves Eleanor, sigh... They both had major issues but the author really did well in writing this story. It just touched my cynical heart =P I'd give it a five stars but I took half a star out cause gosh darn it, I wish it was longer!! The ending felt a little rushed to me and after all that heartache/unresolved conflict/misunderstanding, I wanted them a super long making up sweetness thingie and even for all her other relatives to see that they were in love and gonna marry each other etc. I want an epilogue!! Anyway, great book, and I'm glad the previous reviewers were right. I actually bought this book from Amazon based on their reviews. Yeeeaah!
WARNING: SPOILERS GALORE!
Okay, I warned you! What can I say, whew, the hero and heroine definitely had issues they needed to resolve! Eleanor's parents divorced when she was 15. Her father married Edan's mother. Edan's 20, Eleanor 15. Eleanor has issues because she doesn't feel like her parents cared about her and was hurt and jealous when her father immediate took in Edan wholeheartedly. She felt as though her father loved Edan more than Eleanor. So Eleanor was always trying to compete against Edan. Eleanor also felt some sort of attraction to her stepbrother. Edan himself had his own issues when his parents divorced when he was six but of course he hid it well so Eleanor just thinks Edan is just this arrogant son of a gun who "stole" her father from her, etc. Little does Eleanor know that Edan actually held a "shameful" attraction to his younger stepsister. But of course Edan hid it very well and promised himself never to act on it until unfortunately (or fortunately??) Eleanor mistakenly pushes him to the edge of no return. Yep, Eleanor and Edan did the deed, her being 16 and Eleanor 20/21. Yikes! Because Eleanor has this love/hate relationship with Edan and because she was a young immature kid, she and her school friends had decided to play a prank with Edan. Edan had a big bosom girlfriend named Nancy so Eleanor decided to put a love letter on Edan's pillow to come meet him at the gazebo for a tryst. Of course Edan comes, and doesn't realize its Eleanor. Edan touches Eleanor's body but doesn't do anything else and says its too cold outside and they should just go back in the house. Unfortunately (or fortunately? =P) Edan's touch arouses unexplained desire in Eleanor and she wants more! -_- Eleanor wants to Edan to know its her, Eleanor. She tells him and Edan is shocked/aghast. He is furious and says what the heck are you doing. This is crazy and was going to leave her. But Eleanor doesn't let him. Eleanor pushes him and totally hahaha, arouses him with her innocent prodding/hands and against his better judgement Edan goes for it, since he fell in love with her since she was 15 - albeit the deed was done in a semi violent/hurtful way. Yikes! Edan of course absolutely hates himself for what he did. And then, Eleanor's father busts in on them. YIKES!!!
Ok, I shouldn't really go into the whole book, hahaha... So fast forward to five years later that's one of the issues they have to resolve. But sigh.... It was really heart wrenching for them throughout the book. I was like when are they gonna clear things up! But I thought it was extremely sweet that Edan was so into Eleanor. I know, Eleanor was a minor but hey, these things happen! And throughout the book you can see that Edan really loves Eleanor, sigh... They both had major issues but the author really did well in writing this story. It just touched my cynical heart =P I'd give it a five stars but I took half a star out cause gosh darn it, I wish it was longer!! The ending felt a little rushed to me and after all that heartache/unresolved conflict/misunderstanding, I wanted them a super long making up sweetness thingie and even for all her other relatives to see that they were in love and gonna marry each other etc. I want an epilogue!! Anyway, great book, and I'm glad the previous reviewers were right. I actually bought this book from Amazon based on their reviews. Yeeeaah!
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May 10, 2021Home is where the heart breaks
For Eleanor Wilding, home was Wildingsher family's antebellum estate in Mississippi. Wildings . . . where she'd foolishly fallen in love with her handsome stepbrother, Edan Bond. And where Edan had rejected that love.
And it was to Wildings that Eleanor returned after a five-year, self-imposed exile. She'd come back to visit her ailing grandmother, but also to confront Edan. Because, like the legendary family ghost, memories of Edan haunted her, and it was time to exorcise the past.
However, once she'd seen Edan again, it was impossible to forget what he'd meant to her . . . since those feelings were still all too real.
For Eleanor Wilding, home was Wildingsher family's antebellum estate in Mississippi. Wildings . . . where she'd foolishly fallen in love with her handsome stepbrother, Edan Bond. And where Edan had rejected that love.
And it was to Wildings that Eleanor returned after a five-year, self-imposed exile. She'd come back to visit her ailing grandmother, but also to confront Edan. Because, like the legendary family ghost, memories of Edan haunted her, and it was time to exorcise the past.
However, once she'd seen Edan again, it was impossible to forget what he'd meant to her . . . since those feelings were still all too real.
January 8, 2025
This is a first and second chance romance rolled into one. Unrequited love can be painful, when it’s for a step sibling it can be brutal.
The cast of characters is both interesting and comical as they all celebrate a family reunion that turns out to be the final journey for the main characters to their HEA.
The cast of characters is both interesting and comical as they all celebrate a family reunion that turns out to be the final journey for the main characters to their HEA.
October 10, 2018
Awwww, nostalgia. This was one of my first stepbrother romances way back when and it holds a special place in my heart because of that. Still have my paperback copy in pretty good condition for being (gasp) 26 years old.
December 19, 2011
Ummmm....ummm. There are so many things wrong with this book that it makes me a little sick that I actually enjoyed it...
February 23, 2021
I'm just a sucker for the the male model playing the H on the cover.
July 3, 2023
"Between Mist and Midnight" is the story of Eleanor and Edan.
This is one of those bittersweet poetic romances, where childhood sweethearts and teenager lovers meet years later. He is the distant cousin who has inherited her legacy, she is the prodigal daughter.
Her sick grandmother brings her back to the home she loved, and she is soon haunted by not just real ghosts, as well as resentments from the past, and a love that never died.
Lots of passion, some angst with hints of romance in this one. Just leaves you with a smile.
Safeish
3.5/5
This is one of those bittersweet poetic romances, where childhood sweethearts and teenager lovers meet years later. He is the distant cousin who has inherited her legacy, she is the prodigal daughter.
Her sick grandmother brings her back to the home she loved, and she is soon haunted by not just real ghosts, as well as resentments from the past, and a love that never died.
Lots of passion, some angst with hints of romance in this one. Just leaves you with a smile.
Safeish
3.5/5
June 8, 2025
Premise was interesting, but then both main characters were dull. Felt like a bunch of kids playing around, playing ball and climbing trees? Huh? What was the plot again? Also, I fail to feel the chemistry and tension afterwards. The gazebo flashback very much ruined it for me…Dnf
March 1, 2020
This hero is such a turd. Just so lame and so mean to the heroine. How was she suppose to know he loved her when he yelled and was angry with her always. 'You knew how I felt'...I didn't sir, I really didn't. Our heroine is just getting pulled in different directions, California, but home and hotels. Ugh just a lot of filler for the hero to open his ears and shut his mouth. The heroine tried to explain and apologize the dude wasn't interested in it. He was only interested in himself and his stepdad, who treated the heroine like shit! And made her have no place to call home, he doesn't take much responsibility for that. She gets sent away and he is pissed off that she never comes home! Ugh one of us got to stay and got everything left to him even after he caught stepson sleeping with his daughter! Soooooo not to invested in what goes on here. Skip.
February 16, 2022
The book was OK read but also a bit disappointing.. The writing was good. But I would like more mystery in the MCs drawing. It was obvious to me that they both cared. In parts of the book they seemed immature and self centered even after all those years. It didn’t endear the heroine to me . She engaged in self pity too long without trying to reevaluate some of the past. But I could understand some of her resentment.
The other part of her family also was to blame. They could try to to reach her and include her rather then alienate her. The H should come over himself. He blew hot and cold.
I’m sorry but I didn’t buy the “ vomiting 🤮scene “ with the OW. It was weak .
The other part of her family also was to blame. They could try to to reach her and include her rather then alienate her. The H should come over himself. He blew hot and cold.
I’m sorry but I didn’t buy the “ vomiting 🤮scene “ with the OW. It was weak .
April 5, 2014
Full length novel.
April 26, 2014
This is the first book of Kathleen's I read and I was instantly hooked. :)
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