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Don't Ask For Tomorrow
Don't Ask For Tomorr by Susanne McCarthy released on Oct 23, 1987 is available now for purchase.
- GenresHarlequin Presents
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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Susanne McCarthy
92 books68 followersI'm a Londoner, though now I live in Devon, a twenty-minute walk from the sea. I love nothing more than walking my pretty Cavapoo on the beach in the rain (well, OK, I don't object to the sun, but when it's raining we usually have the whole beach to ourselves.)
Back in the day I had 25 novels published by Mills&Boon. After a long gap doing other things I found my love of writing again, and self-published three new novels.
But I knew that to reach more readers I needed an established publisher. Step in Joffe Books. They were top of my list so I was delighted when they accepted the first novel I sent them.
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Back in the day I had 25 novels published by Mills&Boon. After a long gap doing other things I found my love of writing again, and self-published three new novels.
But I knew that to reach more readers I needed an established publisher. Step in Joffe Books. They were top of my list so I was delighted when they accepted the first novel I sent them.
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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August 11, 2016
Re Don't Ask For Tomorrow - SM takes us on a true exotic adventure - we're going to the Caribbean to look for a sunken pirate ship. One small word of warning outside the usual non pc HPness - Shark week won't start with it's first season until seven months (July 1988) from this book's publication date - so nobody really knew anything about them except for watching Jaws. Sadly sharks were harmed in the writing of this book.
Our story opens with the widowed h angrily demanding that the publisher of some obscure marine archaeology journal correct the impression that they gave in an article claiming her deceased husband did not find a sunken pirate ship as he had always said he did. The h manages to convince the journal editor that she can rediscover the ship based on her late husband's log books and prove that it was indeed the semi-famed pirate ship he found. She manages to get herself a little publisher advance based on a future article and pictures and then takes that and her savings and sets off for Nassau.
While going through the late hubby's log books, she runs across the name of the boat and the skipper who was with him when he found the ship. Thinking that the man is still running a charter service, she writes a letter requesting to hire him. When that doesn't work and she arrives on Nassau, she trundles over to the local dive bar where he lives, complete with tarty blonde bar maid and asks him to charter her to the site. The H is a bit of blond pirate himself and at first doesn't want to do it, but eventually he gives in and we are all off on a yacht looking for a pirate vessel that was sunk on the local coral reef maze a few hundred years earlier.
The h knows something is up, the H claims he barely knew her hubby and seems to not have liked him much and the H's older deck hand really doesn't like the h once he finds out she is the dead man's widow. The h is puzzled, cause even though her late hubby has been dead a year, he was the Jacques Cousteau of sunken ships and everybody loved his bonhomie and charm.
She isn't letting it worry her though, cause there is a sunken ship awaiting and she is going to find it. The great coral reef diving begins, with the H making the h feel funny feelings and very self-conscious on board the boat, but completely relaxed and willing to trust him with her life while diving the reefs.
It is a good think the H is so assiduous in guarding the h while diving, cause the h panics a bit when a little Caribbean reef sharks shows up to check them out and the H winds up killing it. (I had a little sad moment here, but tried to think they just did not know any better and did not have Discovery Channel.)
So one saving from a reef shark means passionate kissing back on the boat and the h is angry the H took a bit of advantage. She is still denying the attraction and tells the H he is second best to her late hubby. Being that the H is one hundred percent HPlandia H, this doesn't go over too well-- but he refrains from the forced seduction while in earshot of the crew.
The h and H are diving twice a day and not finding anything. The H declares a weekend off and takes the h to a luxury hotel for dinner. While the h is making earie faces at a friendly blonde who is chatting up the H, she learns from her own potential wanna be OM, a handsome popular Latin singer, that the H isn't a charter skipper at all. He is the owner of the very high priced hotel they are currently dining in and a few others besides.
The H's family has a long history in the Caribbean, first as pirates, then pirate hunters, then as rum runners during prohibition. The h in not impressed at all with the H's money or his family longevity, but she can't help but be furious over that blonde the H is STILL talking to.
Eventually they get back to the yacht and more passionate kissing ensues with the h protesting and the H being cranky, but the h winds up alone in her cabin and pretends she is too hungover to do anything the next day and was too drunk to remember anything that happened the night before. The H wanders off somewhere for the nonce and the h is getting cranky herself, thinking that the H is with the blonde from the night previous. But since she runs into the blonde later and finds out she is a hotel employee who herds tourists around, we know that whatever the H is doing, it isn't the blonde. This makes the h feel better.
The H doesn't return to the boat that night, but he is back bright and early the next day and inveigles the h out on an excursion We meet a friendly dolphin in the style of Flipper and there is a forced seduction that stops short of consummation on the beach. After which the H angrily pushes the h away. Then he takes her to meet his grandfather.
The grandfather is the only person he really cares about, as the H remarks he is the only person who did not pretend to be his friend and then knife him in the back. The h is angry and hurt that the H forced some intimacies on her, then dropped her like a hot potato and won't return her to the yacht. She is also curious about the H's bitterness and senses it is related to her dead hubby. She just can't figure out what tho, cause the H denies even really knowing him that well.
The h meets the H's grandfather at his Caribbean estate and while the grandfather clearly likes her, the housekeeper keeps giving her mean, earie faced looks and the h is even more puzzled. The grandfather tells stories about his family's more notorious activities and while he is resting the h is allowed to look through old family photo albums. She is even more confused when she sees the H and her husband goofing around in a large number of the later shots. Clearly the H has misled her about how well he knew her late hubby.
The H will only say that there was a question of murder and then refuses to answer any more questions. The h is now a bit scared and really bewildered, but after leaving the grandfather's, she and the H continue the ship search. Eventually they find it, but a bad storm is brewing and so the h is in a rush to photograph the wreck and maybe recover some of the objects that went down with the ship.
The h realizes time is running out, she will be leaving soon and the longing for the lurve club mojo of the H is strong. She knows she isn't going to get any more chances and the H has made it clear she can't ask for a tomorrow. She succumbs to the power of the H's mighty tower and then while on the last dive of the journey, winds up almost getting crushed by the collapse of the ship's hull while she was inside it. She injures her ankle and almost runs out of air, but the H saves her and carries her to his dive bar/home.
The h gets one more night of the mojo, and finds out that the blonde bar maid really does only work there and isn't the H's lover. They were kids together and the H gave her a job and pays to put her kids through school when her third husband ran out. The bar maid tells the h the story behind the hostility towards her late husband too.
Twelve years earlier, the dead hubby heard about the wreck from the H. He got adamant about dragging a dive team out to the site and they used the H's equipment and his boat. The hubby took inexperienced divers down to search the site and one of them died cause his air ran out, the other one was saved by the dead hubby and then the dead hubby claimed that the H had filled the tanks improperly, causing serious harm.
The H had to face an inquisition review board and while he was cleared of charges, a lot of people talked about him getting away with murder behind his back. The H knew that the hubby was responsible, because he kept newbie divers down too long and their tanks ran dry cause they did not breathe properly. The hubby essentially lied on the stand, but it tainted the H's reputation and ruined the friendship. The h decides she has to see the H before she leaves, even though he told her to go and he never wanted to see her again.
She finds the H drunk on his yacht, and he asks her who does she believe. The h says she knows how her late hubby forgot about time when he was distracted and that she believes the H. Then we get the big avowals of love and devotion and the H and h resume the power clubbing for the emerald flash HPlandia HEA - just like at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. (Earlier in the story the h and H see a flash of emerald light as an effect of the setting sun, the H's youngest deckhand says that the flash is a good omen for lovers.)
This one was pretty good, forced seduction and shark killing issues aside. Plus we have to disregard the h's intent to force the obscure journal retraction of the failure of the dead hubby's claim and utter lack of authentication that the ship the h is photographing is the actual pirate ship as she fails to bring up anything that indicated exactly what ship it was.
Who cares? Sometimes you just have to sacrifice logic and plot continuity for the sake of a good lurve clubbing and a genuine HEA. The h and H are sailing off into the sunshine and she doesn't have to live over the H's dive bar - we all have to keep the priorities straight when charting the shoals of HPlandia.
Our story opens with the widowed h angrily demanding that the publisher of some obscure marine archaeology journal correct the impression that they gave in an article claiming her deceased husband did not find a sunken pirate ship as he had always said he did. The h manages to convince the journal editor that she can rediscover the ship based on her late husband's log books and prove that it was indeed the semi-famed pirate ship he found. She manages to get herself a little publisher advance based on a future article and pictures and then takes that and her savings and sets off for Nassau.
While going through the late hubby's log books, she runs across the name of the boat and the skipper who was with him when he found the ship. Thinking that the man is still running a charter service, she writes a letter requesting to hire him. When that doesn't work and she arrives on Nassau, she trundles over to the local dive bar where he lives, complete with tarty blonde bar maid and asks him to charter her to the site. The H is a bit of blond pirate himself and at first doesn't want to do it, but eventually he gives in and we are all off on a yacht looking for a pirate vessel that was sunk on the local coral reef maze a few hundred years earlier.
The h knows something is up, the H claims he barely knew her hubby and seems to not have liked him much and the H's older deck hand really doesn't like the h once he finds out she is the dead man's widow. The h is puzzled, cause even though her late hubby has been dead a year, he was the Jacques Cousteau of sunken ships and everybody loved his bonhomie and charm.
She isn't letting it worry her though, cause there is a sunken ship awaiting and she is going to find it. The great coral reef diving begins, with the H making the h feel funny feelings and very self-conscious on board the boat, but completely relaxed and willing to trust him with her life while diving the reefs.
It is a good think the H is so assiduous in guarding the h while diving, cause the h panics a bit when a little Caribbean reef sharks shows up to check them out and the H winds up killing it. (I had a little sad moment here, but tried to think they just did not know any better and did not have Discovery Channel.)
So one saving from a reef shark means passionate kissing back on the boat and the h is angry the H took a bit of advantage. She is still denying the attraction and tells the H he is second best to her late hubby. Being that the H is one hundred percent HPlandia H, this doesn't go over too well-- but he refrains from the forced seduction while in earshot of the crew.
The h and H are diving twice a day and not finding anything. The H declares a weekend off and takes the h to a luxury hotel for dinner. While the h is making earie faces at a friendly blonde who is chatting up the H, she learns from her own potential wanna be OM, a handsome popular Latin singer, that the H isn't a charter skipper at all. He is the owner of the very high priced hotel they are currently dining in and a few others besides.
The H's family has a long history in the Caribbean, first as pirates, then pirate hunters, then as rum runners during prohibition. The h in not impressed at all with the H's money or his family longevity, but she can't help but be furious over that blonde the H is STILL talking to.
Eventually they get back to the yacht and more passionate kissing ensues with the h protesting and the H being cranky, but the h winds up alone in her cabin and pretends she is too hungover to do anything the next day and was too drunk to remember anything that happened the night before. The H wanders off somewhere for the nonce and the h is getting cranky herself, thinking that the H is with the blonde from the night previous. But since she runs into the blonde later and finds out she is a hotel employee who herds tourists around, we know that whatever the H is doing, it isn't the blonde. This makes the h feel better.
The H doesn't return to the boat that night, but he is back bright and early the next day and inveigles the h out on an excursion We meet a friendly dolphin in the style of Flipper and there is a forced seduction that stops short of consummation on the beach. After which the H angrily pushes the h away. Then he takes her to meet his grandfather.
The grandfather is the only person he really cares about, as the H remarks he is the only person who did not pretend to be his friend and then knife him in the back. The h is angry and hurt that the H forced some intimacies on her, then dropped her like a hot potato and won't return her to the yacht. She is also curious about the H's bitterness and senses it is related to her dead hubby. She just can't figure out what tho, cause the H denies even really knowing him that well.
The h meets the H's grandfather at his Caribbean estate and while the grandfather clearly likes her, the housekeeper keeps giving her mean, earie faced looks and the h is even more puzzled. The grandfather tells stories about his family's more notorious activities and while he is resting the h is allowed to look through old family photo albums. She is even more confused when she sees the H and her husband goofing around in a large number of the later shots. Clearly the H has misled her about how well he knew her late hubby.
The H will only say that there was a question of murder and then refuses to answer any more questions. The h is now a bit scared and really bewildered, but after leaving the grandfather's, she and the H continue the ship search. Eventually they find it, but a bad storm is brewing and so the h is in a rush to photograph the wreck and maybe recover some of the objects that went down with the ship.
The h realizes time is running out, she will be leaving soon and the longing for the lurve club mojo of the H is strong. She knows she isn't going to get any more chances and the H has made it clear she can't ask for a tomorrow. She succumbs to the power of the H's mighty tower and then while on the last dive of the journey, winds up almost getting crushed by the collapse of the ship's hull while she was inside it. She injures her ankle and almost runs out of air, but the H saves her and carries her to his dive bar/home.
The h gets one more night of the mojo, and finds out that the blonde bar maid really does only work there and isn't the H's lover. They were kids together and the H gave her a job and pays to put her kids through school when her third husband ran out. The bar maid tells the h the story behind the hostility towards her late husband too.
Twelve years earlier, the dead hubby heard about the wreck from the H. He got adamant about dragging a dive team out to the site and they used the H's equipment and his boat. The hubby took inexperienced divers down to search the site and one of them died cause his air ran out, the other one was saved by the dead hubby and then the dead hubby claimed that the H had filled the tanks improperly, causing serious harm.
The H had to face an inquisition review board and while he was cleared of charges, a lot of people talked about him getting away with murder behind his back. The H knew that the hubby was responsible, because he kept newbie divers down too long and their tanks ran dry cause they did not breathe properly. The hubby essentially lied on the stand, but it tainted the H's reputation and ruined the friendship. The h decides she has to see the H before she leaves, even though he told her to go and he never wanted to see her again.
She finds the H drunk on his yacht, and he asks her who does she believe. The h says she knows how her late hubby forgot about time when he was distracted and that she believes the H. Then we get the big avowals of love and devotion and the H and h resume the power clubbing for the emerald flash HPlandia HEA - just like at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. (Earlier in the story the h and H see a flash of emerald light as an effect of the setting sun, the H's youngest deckhand says that the flash is a good omen for lovers.)
This one was pretty good, forced seduction and shark killing issues aside. Plus we have to disregard the h's intent to force the obscure journal retraction of the failure of the dead hubby's claim and utter lack of authentication that the ship the h is photographing is the actual pirate ship as she fails to bring up anything that indicated exactly what ship it was.
Who cares? Sometimes you just have to sacrifice logic and plot continuity for the sake of a good lurve clubbing and a genuine HEA. The h and H are sailing off into the sunshine and she doesn't have to live over the H's dive bar - we all have to keep the priorities straight when charting the shoals of HPlandia.
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July 4, 2018Was she ready to let go of the past?
Kate's mission to prove her late husband's discovery of the wreck, the Belle Etoile, depended on hiring Sean McGregor. He had worked with her husband and was now the enigmatic skipper of the Barracuda.
Kate knew that in the silent world beneath the waves, she could trust Sean with her life. Yet he was a man of mystery, torn by a secret Kate was sure involved her late husband.
In spite of herself, the fierce ardor of his embraces swept her irrevocably into a whirlpool of passion. But loving Sean meant the betrayal of love's memory..
Kate's mission to prove her late husband's discovery of the wreck, the Belle Etoile, depended on hiring Sean McGregor. He had worked with her husband and was now the enigmatic skipper of the Barracuda.
Kate knew that in the silent world beneath the waves, she could trust Sean with her life. Yet he was a man of mystery, torn by a secret Kate was sure involved her late husband.
In spite of herself, the fierce ardor of his embraces swept her irrevocably into a whirlpool of passion. But loving Sean meant the betrayal of love's memory..
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