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Prelude To A Song
What made her so aware of this man?
Even when they'd been strangers Alana had known there was something tangible between her and Guy. It frightened and fascinated her, and while she was grateful for his help in paving her way in a new city, she dared not let down her defenses.
As a nightclub singer Alana was used to snobbish put-downs. But Guy seemed so sincere. Did he really respect and like her?
Then she discovered Guy's deceiving ways, and she told herself her decision had been the right one. Unfortunately her heart disagreed.
Even when they'd been strangers Alana had known there was something tangible between her and Guy. It frightened and fascinated her, and while she was grateful for his help in paving her way in a new city, she dared not let down her defenses.
As a nightclub singer Alana was used to snobbish put-downs. But Guy seemed so sincere. Did he really respect and like her?
Then she discovered Guy's deceiving ways, and she told herself her decision had been the right one. Unfortunately her heart disagreed.
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 9, 1982
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September 10, 2016
Alana Hurst is travelling by train to London where she is going to look for a job as a singer. While on the train two rude young men start coming on to her and pestering her. Guy Mason shows up and helps her out. After becoming acquainted with each other Guy discovers Alana is looking for a job. Guy, (never really telling Alana his full name or occupation) tells her that the exclusive Hotel Remax in London is always looking for new talent and that they may be interested in a new singer. Alana eventually auditions at the hotel and is offered a job to sing at the hotel's nightclub. She desperately needs the money to send home to her parents who are in debt. She begins to fall for Guy but then they argue when she finds out he's been lying to her and he's actually the owner of the hotel. She gets mad, then he gets mad.
This is where the book started to go downhill for me. I don't mind an angry alpha male, sometimes I enjoy them, but Guy stayed angry and cranky way too long. Too bad because the beginning of the book was really good.
This is where the book started to go downhill for me. I don't mind an angry alpha male, sometimes I enjoy them, but Guy stayed angry and cranky way too long. Too bad because the beginning of the book was really good.
July 24, 2018
The H in this novel started off as too good to be true - for a Margaret Pargeter hero, that is. Lol. He was the proverbial knight in shining armor to the heroine when they met on a train from Manchester to London. I was happy for a while because this guy seemed so charming; totally different from the usual types of heroes that Margaret P wrote about. But then, before I could get accustomed to all this sweetness and light hearted romance, the other shoe dropped and the H soon showed off his incredible Hulk persona. The heroine herself wasn't entirely blameless and all of their isssues could've been avoided if they had just communicated honestly with each other. Then, to make the situation even worse, there were quite a few major nasty misunderstandings that derailed the sweet little romance !
Alana was our 20 yr old heroine whose pimp parents are parasitic spendthrifts with a huge mortgage that they're unable to service. Any half decent parents would get off their lazy asses and sort out their own problems on their own, but these 2 leeches place their financial burden on the shoulders of their young and unskilled ( for most types of employment that will pay a decent salary ) daughter. They send the heroine off to London to look for work as a singer in a nightclub. Alana has no idea where she's gonna stay or where she'll find a job; she doesn't even know how to go about sorting out all of this stuff. She's lucky to meet the H on the train and he saves her from being sexually harassed by a couple of lecherous teenage guys. The H is Guy Renwick, a millionaire hotel owner and entrepreneur but he doesn't disclose any of this information, or even his real surname, to the heroine. Guy's not even supposed to be on the train; he only decided to take the train at the last minute.
It's obvious that he's immediately besotted with Alana, even though he's 37 yrs old. He's charming and flirtatious:
His sensuous mouth curved in a twisted smile.
'When I was younger, and my mother was still alive, I used to say if I ever met a girl with eyes as blue as hers I'd marry her and have the most beautiful blue-eyed children.'
Again Alana's breath caught. Perhaps he was only teasing her a little for the trouble she had caused him, but she sensed suddenly that he might be infinitely more dangerous than the two youths he had just got rid of.
Guy finds her a place to stay with a nice old lady named Mrs. Brice then he gets her a job in the nightclub at his hotel and things might've worked out well for them if the heroine's secrets and hidden agenda hadn't intruded to created huge obstacles. Alana's big mistake was to start borrowing large sums of money from people. She hadn't even been at the hotel for a week when she asked the manager Milo Sachs to loan her 500 pounds. That's not a lot in today's world but during the time this novel was written, it was a large sum for a new 19 yr old employee to borrow. Alana didn't know that Guy knew about it because she hadn't yet discovered that he was the owner of the hotel. The H immediately started to think of her as a gold digging tramp and his opinion worsened when she went on to borrow money from another guy called Fabian ! Alana was TSTL because she knew that Fabian was attracted to her yet she borrowed money from him. She didn't even know that Fabian was engaged to Guy's cousin. Guy became very mean and vicious because he was overcome with jealousy and possessive obsessiveness. His insults were also extremely hurtful to the heroine, especially when he started to get all beastly because he believed she wasn't the young virgin that he'd thought her to be:
'For someone of your profession you seem astonishingly innocent,' he murmured tersely. 'Are you?'
'Am I what?' she floundered, thinking that if she ever heard the word again she would scream.
'Innocent, damn you!' Shocked by his sudden harshness, she was stung to anger.
Then his hatefulness became even more magnified as he sought to punish Alana for being a cheap, man stealing gold digger. He was rude, nasty and kept belittling her at every turn. She was also under the misapprehension that he was engaged to another woman. The most horrible thing he did to her was to move her into a tiny cubbyhole of a room in the worst part of the hotel. It wasn't even properly ventilated, for crying out loud and the martyr heroine kept starving herself because she had to send all her salary to her parasitic parents. Guy's anger and rudeness didn't stop him kissing Alana every chance he got or from engaging in passionate make out sessions. The man acted like a maniac at times because he was eaten up with jealousy over all the men who were supposedly giving money to the heroine. Everything fell apart for Alana when Fabian got so obsessed with her that he broke his engagement to Guy's cousin and proposed to the heroine. Guy's cousin Amy was so depressed at being dumped that she tried to kill herself by crashing her car into a wall. Of course, the H blamed Alana for everything. He didn't stop to consider that Fabian was at fault or that his cousin could've had some emotional or mental instability issues that were triggered by the jilting.
The heroine had to leave the country to escape from Guy's wrath but he knew where she had gone because Milo Sachs had told him. The last quarter of the novel was painful to read. The heroine was in emotional agony because she was in love with the cruel asshole H and thought that he would never return her feelings. Guy didn't even grovel properly when everything was cleared up at the end. His apology wasn't the stuff of romantic dreams:
'I have an apology to add to Fabian's,' he began stiffly, releasing her hand and averting his eyes from her pale but eager face. 'Maybe it wasn't altogether my fault, but I was certainly too quick to jump to the wrong conclusions. About you personally as well as the money you asked for.'
He just let the heroine go back home with her brother Andrew and waited for 6 weeks or so before he turned up for look for her ! Then, only at the very last minute did he finally declare his love:
Then he was reaching for her and she was left in no doubt regarding his intentions. His arms closed about her like a steel trap while his kiss sent white-hot flames shooting along her limbs as he crushed her lips mercilessly. When the necessity to breathe caused him eventually to lift his head, he still kept a tight hold of her.
'Alana!' he muttered hoarsely, putting her a little distance from him. 'Oh, God, how I've missed you! I intended staying away six. months, but six weeks proved my limit. I think I was starting to go mad, quietly but very definitely mad,' he emphasised grimly.
Six whole weeks ! I wished he had grovelled a lot more and she let him off too easy, but then she herself was also culpable because of her own failure to communicate and then there were the errors in judgement she made when she decided to borrow money from all and sundry. There's no cheating but there is mild OW and OM interference, largely to cause a lot of strife and jealousy in the plot. But, Guy's not as horrible as the heroes in The Odds Against and Born Of The Wind. I can see Guy having bad possessive jealousy issues in the future because Alana 17 yrs younger and beautiful.
The H, Guy Renwick:
The heroine, Alana Hurst:
Alana was our 20 yr old heroine whose pimp parents are parasitic spendthrifts with a huge mortgage that they're unable to service. Any half decent parents would get off their lazy asses and sort out their own problems on their own, but these 2 leeches place their financial burden on the shoulders of their young and unskilled ( for most types of employment that will pay a decent salary ) daughter. They send the heroine off to London to look for work as a singer in a nightclub. Alana has no idea where she's gonna stay or where she'll find a job; she doesn't even know how to go about sorting out all of this stuff. She's lucky to meet the H on the train and he saves her from being sexually harassed by a couple of lecherous teenage guys. The H is Guy Renwick, a millionaire hotel owner and entrepreneur but he doesn't disclose any of this information, or even his real surname, to the heroine. Guy's not even supposed to be on the train; he only decided to take the train at the last minute.
It's obvious that he's immediately besotted with Alana, even though he's 37 yrs old. He's charming and flirtatious:
His sensuous mouth curved in a twisted smile.
'When I was younger, and my mother was still alive, I used to say if I ever met a girl with eyes as blue as hers I'd marry her and have the most beautiful blue-eyed children.'
Again Alana's breath caught. Perhaps he was only teasing her a little for the trouble she had caused him, but she sensed suddenly that he might be infinitely more dangerous than the two youths he had just got rid of.
Guy finds her a place to stay with a nice old lady named Mrs. Brice then he gets her a job in the nightclub at his hotel and things might've worked out well for them if the heroine's secrets and hidden agenda hadn't intruded to created huge obstacles. Alana's big mistake was to start borrowing large sums of money from people. She hadn't even been at the hotel for a week when she asked the manager Milo Sachs to loan her 500 pounds. That's not a lot in today's world but during the time this novel was written, it was a large sum for a new 19 yr old employee to borrow. Alana didn't know that Guy knew about it because she hadn't yet discovered that he was the owner of the hotel. The H immediately started to think of her as a gold digging tramp and his opinion worsened when she went on to borrow money from another guy called Fabian ! Alana was TSTL because she knew that Fabian was attracted to her yet she borrowed money from him. She didn't even know that Fabian was engaged to Guy's cousin. Guy became very mean and vicious because he was overcome with jealousy and possessive obsessiveness. His insults were also extremely hurtful to the heroine, especially when he started to get all beastly because he believed she wasn't the young virgin that he'd thought her to be:
'For someone of your profession you seem astonishingly innocent,' he murmured tersely. 'Are you?'
'Am I what?' she floundered, thinking that if she ever heard the word again she would scream.
'Innocent, damn you!' Shocked by his sudden harshness, she was stung to anger.
Then his hatefulness became even more magnified as he sought to punish Alana for being a cheap, man stealing gold digger. He was rude, nasty and kept belittling her at every turn. She was also under the misapprehension that he was engaged to another woman. The most horrible thing he did to her was to move her into a tiny cubbyhole of a room in the worst part of the hotel. It wasn't even properly ventilated, for crying out loud and the martyr heroine kept starving herself because she had to send all her salary to her parasitic parents. Guy's anger and rudeness didn't stop him kissing Alana every chance he got or from engaging in passionate make out sessions. The man acted like a maniac at times because he was eaten up with jealousy over all the men who were supposedly giving money to the heroine. Everything fell apart for Alana when Fabian got so obsessed with her that he broke his engagement to Guy's cousin and proposed to the heroine. Guy's cousin Amy was so depressed at being dumped that she tried to kill herself by crashing her car into a wall. Of course, the H blamed Alana for everything. He didn't stop to consider that Fabian was at fault or that his cousin could've had some emotional or mental instability issues that were triggered by the jilting.
The heroine had to leave the country to escape from Guy's wrath but he knew where she had gone because Milo Sachs had told him. The last quarter of the novel was painful to read. The heroine was in emotional agony because she was in love with the cruel asshole H and thought that he would never return her feelings. Guy didn't even grovel properly when everything was cleared up at the end. His apology wasn't the stuff of romantic dreams:
'I have an apology to add to Fabian's,' he began stiffly, releasing her hand and averting his eyes from her pale but eager face. 'Maybe it wasn't altogether my fault, but I was certainly too quick to jump to the wrong conclusions. About you personally as well as the money you asked for.'
He just let the heroine go back home with her brother Andrew and waited for 6 weeks or so before he turned up for look for her ! Then, only at the very last minute did he finally declare his love:
Then he was reaching for her and she was left in no doubt regarding his intentions. His arms closed about her like a steel trap while his kiss sent white-hot flames shooting along her limbs as he crushed her lips mercilessly. When the necessity to breathe caused him eventually to lift his head, he still kept a tight hold of her.
'Alana!' he muttered hoarsely, putting her a little distance from him. 'Oh, God, how I've missed you! I intended staying away six. months, but six weeks proved my limit. I think I was starting to go mad, quietly but very definitely mad,' he emphasised grimly.
Six whole weeks ! I wished he had grovelled a lot more and she let him off too easy, but then she herself was also culpable because of her own failure to communicate and then there were the errors in judgement she made when she decided to borrow money from all and sundry. There's no cheating but there is mild OW and OM interference, largely to cause a lot of strife and jealousy in the plot. But, Guy's not as horrible as the heroes in The Odds Against and Born Of The Wind. I can see Guy having bad possessive jealousy issues in the future because Alana 17 yrs younger and beautiful.
The H, Guy Renwick:
The heroine, Alana Hurst:
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 30, 2019
Let's just break this down, shall we.
Heroines’s idiocy: Off the charts. She’s an average singer who thinks coming to London, with no money, nowhere to go and no idea where to start is the best plan to help out her broke-ass parents who are in danger of losing their home.
Hero’s asshatedness: Off the charts. Seems to fall in love with her within minutes of meeting on the train and immediately starts a very Svengali type of relationship, managing every aspect of her life
Consent issues: None. Heroines melts at his touch.
Steam level: Not bad for a vintage. But she keeps her V card all the way.
Backstory: “My paw and my maw need some money but I just can’t tell anyone, dammit … I just can’t” She’s English but just think hill-billy level of intelligence and go down one more level.
Violence: Heroine scratches him with her nails and slaps him. I dislike violence, whether H to h or vice versa but some readers may think it is justified. See point 2 about Hero’s asshatedness
Her reason for rejecting him: She finds out he’s not a lower-middle-class average Joe but a millionaire hotelier. Most would have seen this as a solution to their problems, to discover the guy you’re dating and falling in love with, has money to help you but she has integrity, dammit. How dare he let her pay for the crummy sandwich and coffee.
His reason for rejecting her: “How dare you get mad when you discover how rich I am? Get out of the nice suite I gave you and into the crummiest room I can find!”
Trainwreckiness: This chick would ask loans off any nice guy she can find without giving reasons.
H is furious. In a rare moment of intelligence, she points out that this is hardly her fault. Keyword here is rare. She runs away from him to find work elsewhere
Angst level: Punishment ensues. And this chick is still not talking. This one missed her calling in Secret Services.
Grovel level: “You’re not really going to be a singer, right? My fragile ego can’t take it”
HEA believability: Brother came to the island to save her and explain about parents. As long as they’re living close to her brother, I think she may be alright.
Regret level after reading: Pargeter fans, you know the drill. You’ll wonder what’s wrong with you, if you need therapy. Then a few months later, you'll look for another Pargeter again. Non-Pargeter fans, you may want to put reading this as Number 2 on your to-do list. Self-mutilation being the first.
3 stars because I’m a resigned MP fan. It’s too late for me but the rest of you should save yourselves.
If you want a proper review minus all the snark, do check out Ivy's perfect one and perhaps pay heed to my friend, the other Sandra's warnings in her review :)
Heroines’s idiocy: Off the charts. She’s an average singer who thinks coming to London, with no money, nowhere to go and no idea where to start is the best plan to help out her broke-ass parents who are in danger of losing their home.
Hero’s asshatedness: Off the charts. Seems to fall in love with her within minutes of meeting on the train and immediately starts a very Svengali type of relationship, managing every aspect of her life
Consent issues: None. Heroines melts at his touch.
Steam level: Not bad for a vintage. But she keeps her V card all the way.
Backstory: “My paw and my maw need some money but I just can’t tell anyone, dammit … I just can’t” She’s English but just think hill-billy level of intelligence and go down one more level.
Violence: Heroine scratches him with her nails and slaps him. I dislike violence, whether H to h or vice versa but some readers may think it is justified. See point 2 about Hero’s asshatedness
Her reason for rejecting him: She finds out he’s not a lower-middle-class average Joe but a millionaire hotelier. Most would have seen this as a solution to their problems, to discover the guy you’re dating and falling in love with, has money to help you but she has integrity, dammit. How dare he let her pay for the crummy sandwich and coffee.
His reason for rejecting her: “How dare you get mad when you discover how rich I am? Get out of the nice suite I gave you and into the crummiest room I can find!”
Trainwreckiness: This chick would ask loans off any nice guy she can find without giving reasons.
H is furious. In a rare moment of intelligence, she points out that this is hardly her fault. Keyword here is rare. She runs away from him to find work elsewhere
Angst level: Punishment ensues. And this chick is still not talking. This one missed her calling in Secret Services.
Grovel level: “You’re not really going to be a singer, right? My fragile ego can’t take it”
HEA believability: Brother came to the island to save her and explain about parents. As long as they’re living close to her brother, I think she may be alright.
Regret level after reading: Pargeter fans, you know the drill. You’ll wonder what’s wrong with you, if you need therapy. Then a few months later, you'll look for another Pargeter again. Non-Pargeter fans, you may want to put reading this as Number 2 on your to-do list. Self-mutilation being the first.
3 stars because I’m a resigned MP fan. It’s too late for me but the rest of you should save yourselves.
If you want a proper review minus all the snark, do check out Ivy's perfect one and perhaps pay heed to my friend, the other Sandra's warnings in her review :)
July 1, 2020
'It has to be love. What else would you call it? This craving desire for one special girl, night and day. Wanting to be with her in sickness and in health. Even able to envisualise her when she's old and grey and knowing the feeling, the burning love you have for her will never fade.'
"Prelude To A Song" is the story of Alana and Guy.
This was stupid cute. I liked it.
Our heroine is a very young singer, who comes to London to earn a living, forced by her family's financial circumstances. As she is accosted by hooligans on the train, she finds herself rescued by an enigmatic stranger. Soon he not only finds her a job, but takes over her life- finding her a place to live, and growling every time any man looked at her. But he seems to be hiding secrets of his own..
The book is filled with lies, misunderstandings, crazy jealousy, OM/OW drama, bruising kisses and the heroine being whisked from one place to another. Ofcourse, nobody communicates like an adult, instead they yearn for one another while snapping like turtles.
Anyways, after looooads of drama, we have a heartfelt confession and HEA.
Safe..ish.
3.5/5
"Prelude To A Song" is the story of Alana and Guy.
This was stupid cute. I liked it.
Our heroine is a very young singer, who comes to London to earn a living, forced by her family's financial circumstances. As she is accosted by hooligans on the train, she finds herself rescued by an enigmatic stranger. Soon he not only finds her a job, but takes over her life- finding her a place to live, and growling every time any man looked at her. But he seems to be hiding secrets of his own..
The book is filled with lies, misunderstandings, crazy jealousy, OM/OW drama, bruising kisses and the heroine being whisked from one place to another. Ofcourse, nobody communicates like an adult, instead they yearn for one another while snapping like turtles.
Anyways, after looooads of drama, we have a heartfelt confession and HEA.
Safe..ish.
3.5/5
December 18, 2023
Read it if you’re feeling particularly sorry for yourself, like me now moping because I’ve got a flu and ache all over. This will make you forget how hard is life on you.
The heroine is a 19 yo naive country girl going to town to be a nightclub pop singer to help her clueless parents with money.
She meets the hero who’s on the wrong side of 30 and very experienced.
He offers to help her, finds her a decent place to sleep, a good club to sing and dates her a couple of time.
Of course he has a second meaning but not in a nasty way. Of course he owns the hotels, the clubs, the place where she sleeps.
But he doesn’t tell the heroine the truth so she thinks he only is an employee. What does the heroine do first thing she’s hired? She asks for a loan to the night manager. A conspicuous loan, just yo send it to her parents.
The hero of course knows about it from the manager and suspects she’s not the innocent girl she seems.
She refuses to give explanations. Who knows why.
When someone tells her the hero is the owner of all that surveys, she acts like a deranged woman, insulting him, slapping him and accusing him of making fun of her.
The poor chap only wanted to help without her knowing it.
Now she’s scared him away and he has good reasons.
The story changes dramatically.
The heroine seems to attract every male in the nearby and one young manager falls for her charms. She asks him to lend her over money, the idiot girl, because her parents are broken.
The man offers marriage, dumps his gf who’s the hero’s cousin and who has an accident afterwards.
The hero feels revengeful to the heroine and decides he has enough.
Honestly she’s stupid as fugg, lying about the money and all, so he thinks she’s a gold digger looking for the biggest fish.
He kidnaps her and first he takes her to capri where she acts like his pa, flaunting ows in front of her just because.
Then afterwards he takes her to an island where he makes her his cook and slave and where there are a lot of kissing and mauling. The hero slut shamed her and she doesn’t even ven bat a lid.
He thinks she pushed om for marriage so he dumped his fiancé. In the end all is cleared and the hero declares his love for her.
Believable as the Monopoly money. A lot of abuse, verbal, physical with slapping shaking and non con kissing, from both sides.
It was entertaining. Ow are windows dressing and the hero is super obsessed from the first time he sees her.
If only she was a sane girl, but she’s crazy as a bat and dangerous if provoked.
The heroine is a 19 yo naive country girl going to town to be a nightclub pop singer to help her clueless parents with money.
She meets the hero who’s on the wrong side of 30 and very experienced.
He offers to help her, finds her a decent place to sleep, a good club to sing and dates her a couple of time.
Of course he has a second meaning but not in a nasty way. Of course he owns the hotels, the clubs, the place where she sleeps.
But he doesn’t tell the heroine the truth so she thinks he only is an employee. What does the heroine do first thing she’s hired? She asks for a loan to the night manager. A conspicuous loan, just yo send it to her parents.
The hero of course knows about it from the manager and suspects she’s not the innocent girl she seems.
She refuses to give explanations. Who knows why.
When someone tells her the hero is the owner of all that surveys, she acts like a deranged woman, insulting him, slapping him and accusing him of making fun of her.
The poor chap only wanted to help without her knowing it.
Now she’s scared him away and he has good reasons.
The story changes dramatically.
The heroine seems to attract every male in the nearby and one young manager falls for her charms. She asks him to lend her over money, the idiot girl, because her parents are broken.
The man offers marriage, dumps his gf who’s the hero’s cousin and who has an accident afterwards.
The hero feels revengeful to the heroine and decides he has enough.
Honestly she’s stupid as fugg, lying about the money and all, so he thinks she’s a gold digger looking for the biggest fish.
He kidnaps her and first he takes her to capri where she acts like his pa, flaunting ows in front of her just because.
Then afterwards he takes her to an island where he makes her his cook and slave and where there are a lot of kissing and mauling. The hero slut shamed her and she doesn’t even ven bat a lid.
He thinks she pushed om for marriage so he dumped his fiancé. In the end all is cleared and the hero declares his love for her.
Believable as the Monopoly money. A lot of abuse, verbal, physical with slapping shaking and non con kissing, from both sides.
It was entertaining. Ow are windows dressing and the hero is super obsessed from the first time he sees her.
If only she was a sane girl, but she’s crazy as a bat and dangerous if provoked.
July 20, 2022
One of MP's most obsessive H's. Even in MP's universe, I am amazed that all these people aided him in his deranged behavior towards a 20-year-old girl. This guy was extremely unstable. I couldn't help but worry for the h's future with this lunatic.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 27, 2022
HAIKU BOOK REVIEW:Prelude To A Song, by Margaret Pargeter
Heroine managed
to be both a naive twit
and a gold-digger.
Heroine managed
to be both a naive twit
and a gold-digger.
October 31, 2012
I like stories with the heroine being a singer or an artist and this is no exception. We are witness of Alana coming to London to try to further her career as a singer and thanks to her meeting the mysterious Guy in the train, it seems that he will make easier her way to the top. Who is Guy?. It is evident that he is much attracted to h, but it is evident that for him a singer can only mean a passing relationship.
And as we can imagine, Alana is an innocent, but there is something that makes her appear as a cheat. She asks people to borrow her money and that gives a very wrong impression of her. And naturally she has a strong reason to act in this way, altough she cannot explain why she needs those big amounts of money.
What makes some old Harlequins so interesting? Original plots, very well written and entertaining stories that get to our heart.
And as we can imagine, Alana is an innocent, but there is something that makes her appear as a cheat. She asks people to borrow her money and that gives a very wrong impression of her. And naturally she has a strong reason to act in this way, altough she cannot explain why she needs those big amounts of money.
What makes some old Harlequins so interesting? Original plots, very well written and entertaining stories that get to our heart.
May 18, 2020
What made her so aware of this man?
Even when they'd been strangers Alana had known there was something tangible between her and Guy. It frightened and fascinated her, and while she was grateful for his help in paving her way in a new city, she dared not let down her defenses.
As a nightclub singer Alana was used to snobbish put-downs. But Guy seemed so sincere. Did he really respect and like her?
Then she discovered Guy's deceiving ways, and she told herself her decision had been the right one. Unfortunately her heart disagreed.
Even when they'd been strangers Alana had known there was something tangible between her and Guy. It frightened and fascinated her, and while she was grateful for his help in paving her way in a new city, she dared not let down her defenses.
As a nightclub singer Alana was used to snobbish put-downs. But Guy seemed so sincere. Did he really respect and like her?
Then she discovered Guy's deceiving ways, and she told herself her decision had been the right one. Unfortunately her heart disagreed.
December 8, 2015
He's a little obsessive but I really like his high handed way of falling deeply in love with her. I can probable forgive him anything.
May 27, 2023
"Συνάντηση στο τρένο"- Μάργκαρετ Πάρτζετερ, Συλλογή 475, έτος έκδοσης: 1982.
Τα πράγματα είχαν έρθει έτσι ώστε το μόνο που της απόμεινε ήταν να πάει στο Λονδίνο. Χωρίς χρήματα, χωρίς γνωριμίες και με ελάχιστες πιθανότητες να βρει εκεί δουλειά σαν τραγουδίστρια, το μέλλον της στη μεγαλούπολη διαγραφόταν αβέβαιο και σκοτεινό. Να όμως που η τύχη της χαμογελά απρόσμενα με το πρόσωπο του Γκάι Μέισον, ενός γοητευτικού άντρα που γνωρίζει στο τρένο. Μόλις εκείνος μαθαίνει την ιστορία της, της προσφέρει αμέσως δουλειά και ... στέγη! Αλλά το χαμόγελο της τύχης δεν θα κρατήσει για πολύ. Η Ελίνα διαπιστώνει γρήγορα πως πίσω από την ευγενική χειρονομία του Γκάι κρύβονται υστερόβουλες σκέψεις...
ΤΕΛΕΙΟ!!!!
Τα πράγματα είχαν έρθει έτσι ώστε το μόνο που της απόμεινε ήταν να πάει στο Λονδίνο. Χωρίς χρήματα, χωρίς γνωριμίες και με ελάχιστες πιθανότητες να βρει εκεί δουλειά σαν τραγουδίστρια, το μέλλον της στη μεγαλούπολη διαγραφόταν αβέβαιο και σκοτεινό. Να όμως που η τύχη της χαμογελά απρόσμενα με το πρόσωπο του Γκάι Μέισον, ενός γοητευτικού άντρα που γνωρίζει στο τρένο. Μόλις εκείνος μαθαίνει την ιστορία της, της προσφέρει αμέσως δουλειά και ... στέγη! Αλλά το χαμόγελο της τύχης δεν θα κρατήσει για πολύ. Η Ελίνα διαπιστώνει γρήγορα πως πίσω από την ευγενική χειρονομία του Γκάι κρύβονται υστερόβουλες σκέψεις...
ΤΕΛΕΙΟ!!!!
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