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Deep and Silent Waters
Laura would never have gone to Venice if she'd known Sebastian was for years she's fought her attraction. But when she meets him again she's swept up in his overwhelming magnetism. It's a dangerous infatuation. Death seems to follow him, Laura begins to suspect he's no innocent by-stander.
400 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2002
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Charlotte Lamb
260 books313 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 1, 2016
With undertones of 'Mills & Boon' - no surprise considering the author has written books for them - I did like the way it would go back to the past throughout the book. Not too hard to follow at all.
July 14, 2013
From my experience of choosing books from second hand book stores, I didn't have high hopes for this book. The main reason why I chose it originally was the blurb, it was something different to what I have previously read. Well I picked up the book and started reading, it took a little while to get into it, but the main aspect that caught me by surprise were the flashbacks of Italy in WW2... something that I most definitely did not expect. Once this began I was hooked!
This book was a great surprise read with two different plots (past and present) intertwined into one.
The plots involved war, thrill, betrayal, murder, love, lust and revenge.
The last 100 pages were so thrilling and jaw dropping to the last word.
Now I'm curious if all of Charlotte Lambs' books are as good as this one...
This book was a great surprise read with two different plots (past and present) intertwined into one.
The plots involved war, thrill, betrayal, murder, love, lust and revenge.
The last 100 pages were so thrilling and jaw dropping to the last word.
Now I'm curious if all of Charlotte Lambs' books are as good as this one...
September 20, 2020
I tried to read this but it was so boring to me. I would start, out it down, start again to no avail. I used to love to read Charlotte Lamb’s Harlequin romances as a kid but her later fiction is just meh (bordering on blech). Likely will donate.
February 3, 2025
"Queen of Romantic Suspense"? Not to me, I'd put her in the peasant class. An ambitious, hardworking peasant who aims for the aristocracy but doesn't quite have what it takes to beat the class system.
February 16, 2020
No surprises to the mysteries in this book.
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