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Affairs to Remember #2
A Weekend to Remember
I'm terribly sorry, Hannah could hear herself saying, I don't know what came over me. When you lost the last six weeks from your memory - including your whirlwind romance - I thought that might be the end of Felicia. But then a nurse at the hospital said that a fiancee had been mentioned and would I please call her. I pictured Felicia winning you all over again with her looks and her lies, so before I knew it I'd opened my stupid mouth and said I was your fiancee...
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Miranda Lee
816 books236 followersMaureen Mary was born on 1945 at Port Macquarie, a popular seaside town on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and is the youngest of four children. Her sister was the novelist Wendy Brennan (Emma Darcy). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. When Miranda was ten, her father was transferred to Gosford, another coastal town in the countryside, much closer to Sydney. After leaving her convent school, she briefly studied the cello before moving to Sydney, where she embraced the emerging world of computers. Her career as a programmer ended after she married, had three daughters and bought a small acreage in a semi-rural community. Following this, she attempted greyhound training, as well as horse and goat breeding, but was left dissatisfied.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
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November 7, 2018
Re A Weekend to Remember - Miranda Lee's second book in the Affairs to Remember Series is a secretary saving her boss trope.
The book opens with the 30 yr old h diving into the breach to save her amnesiac boss from the unscrupulous cheating gold digger tart OW out to scam the H by pretending to be engaged to the H herself.
The h's divorce has just become final and the h really likes and respects her boss. He gave the emotionally battered housewife h a job as his secretary a year or so earlier, after she spent years being berated and belittled by her cheater plastic surgeon emotionally abusive husband.
She has two teen sons in boarding school too and the h has nothing but kindness in her heart for the H who gave her a chance to regain her financial independence and dignity after she caught her husband In flagrante delicto with one of his repeat 26 yr old patients.
The h herself would never consent to plastic surgery, even when her husband used to stand her on a scale every week and and harangue her if she gained an ounce. The blatant cheating was the final straw for the h and her ex husband put a very nice luxury flat into her name for tax purposes, so the h just moved right into it and wouldn't give it back in the divorce.
The h also has joint custody of her sons, but they really like boarding school as they are into all kinds of manly sports and games and the h knows they are happy there. So the h only has to the H to nurture and fret over and he seems to like it.
The H grew up an orphan and eventually made it big in the house construction business. A few weeks before the book starts, he met a blonde femme fatale type and after a wild boudoir bouncing moment, proposed.
There was a huge party to celebrate, filled with friends of the OW fiancee and also having the OW's current lover present. The OW's lover happens to be another land developer who is trying to cozen the H into a dubious sounding business deal.
The h is trying to quit smoking, but the OW Fiancee's really mean and witchy remarks stress the h out so much that she sneaks off to outside to have one. There she finds the OW fiancee and her lover engaging in hand jobs on the balcony.
The h is shocked, but decides to tell the H what she saw. Before she can do that tho, the H has a tile fall on his head and he loses his memory of the last six weeks.
Terrified that the OW is going to convince the H to do something irrevocable - (like get married)- before the h can explain the OW's perfidy, the h tells the hospital and the H that they are engaged and hauls the H off to her Blue Mountain cabin for the weekend while they wait for the H to get his memory back.
It doesn't take long before the Lurve Force Purple Passion Mojo kicks in and after the h rescues the H from a near fall into an abyss, the usual descriptive ML lurve clubing events are on, pretty much all over the place.
There is also a baby ring tail possum rescue by the H that ends very tragically when the baby was too young to leave it's mum and both the mum and the baby die.
(I did NOT like that! We all know my feelings about killing off animals in HPlandia and this brought the book down a star for sure. Prove manly nurturing feels another way ML, this one sucked big time, so skillets to the head for that.)
Eventually the h's guilt over lying to the H causes her to confess she lied about the engagement and why. The H isn't too concerned about it tho, mainly cause he is really into lurving up the h and he has been trying to approach her for a year, but she was standoffish and he is a nice man.
However, now that he and the h have consummated the relationship, he isn't giving her up and we already know her kids like him from having met him before while there were on holiday.
Then the OW and the h's belittling ex husband show up. The OW gets an EPIC H smackdown when he denounces her as a cheating tarty trampy con artist and then the H scares the color right out of the ex-husband's hair for being a snot licking bully nematode slime slurper to the h.
The ex-husband actually apologizes to the h for being a slime slurper and the h thinks the H has gotten his memory back. He has not really, he just had a flashback about the OW and an argument and between that and what the h told him, he gave the OW enough to hang herself with.
The h and H then make tracks back to the H's office, the work week is about to begin and the h asks the H to keep quiet about their new relationship status because she doesn't want a lot of nasty office gossip about herself.
The H get angry at the h for wanting to hide things and storms off for the day. The h starts feeling really ill and collapses on the H's office couch. When the H gets back to the h, she is burning up with fever and the H carries her up to his penthouse apartment.
The doctor is called and we get genuine SPONGING™ from the H as he tenderly soothes the h's fevered brow. This makes the h finally realize that the H loves her just as much as she loves him. The H explains that he really did dump the OW fiance the night he got hit on the head and that he has been in love with the h since he first hired her.
The h is even more overcome when the H claims that nursing the baby possum changed his stance on not having kids and the two of them have a fervent avowal of True Love Forever with extra SPONGING™ as needed for a pink sparkly rosy glow baby making HEA.
This one was pretty cute and the H was super nice. The h did lie about the H being engaged to her, but the OW was so horrible and the h was so cuddlesome in her little frets, that I pretty much forgave her the deceit.
I especially liked how the OW got a serious H smackdown and then the H made the h's ex feel afraid too. I am not getting started on the baby possum again, but overall this one was a pretty decent HPlandia outing.
The book opens with the 30 yr old h diving into the breach to save her amnesiac boss from the unscrupulous cheating gold digger tart OW out to scam the H by pretending to be engaged to the H herself.
The h's divorce has just become final and the h really likes and respects her boss. He gave the emotionally battered housewife h a job as his secretary a year or so earlier, after she spent years being berated and belittled by her cheater plastic surgeon emotionally abusive husband.
She has two teen sons in boarding school too and the h has nothing but kindness in her heart for the H who gave her a chance to regain her financial independence and dignity after she caught her husband In flagrante delicto with one of his repeat 26 yr old patients.
The h herself would never consent to plastic surgery, even when her husband used to stand her on a scale every week and and harangue her if she gained an ounce. The blatant cheating was the final straw for the h and her ex husband put a very nice luxury flat into her name for tax purposes, so the h just moved right into it and wouldn't give it back in the divorce.
The h also has joint custody of her sons, but they really like boarding school as they are into all kinds of manly sports and games and the h knows they are happy there. So the h only has to the H to nurture and fret over and he seems to like it.
The H grew up an orphan and eventually made it big in the house construction business. A few weeks before the book starts, he met a blonde femme fatale type and after a wild boudoir bouncing moment, proposed.
There was a huge party to celebrate, filled with friends of the OW fiancee and also having the OW's current lover present. The OW's lover happens to be another land developer who is trying to cozen the H into a dubious sounding business deal.
The h is trying to quit smoking, but the OW Fiancee's really mean and witchy remarks stress the h out so much that she sneaks off to outside to have one. There she finds the OW fiancee and her lover engaging in hand jobs on the balcony.
The h is shocked, but decides to tell the H what she saw. Before she can do that tho, the H has a tile fall on his head and he loses his memory of the last six weeks.
Terrified that the OW is going to convince the H to do something irrevocable - (like get married)- before the h can explain the OW's perfidy, the h tells the hospital and the H that they are engaged and hauls the H off to her Blue Mountain cabin for the weekend while they wait for the H to get his memory back.
It doesn't take long before the Lurve Force Purple Passion Mojo kicks in and after the h rescues the H from a near fall into an abyss, the usual descriptive ML lurve clubing events are on, pretty much all over the place.
There is also a baby ring tail possum rescue by the H that ends very tragically when the baby was too young to leave it's mum and both the mum and the baby die.
(I did NOT like that! We all know my feelings about killing off animals in HPlandia and this brought the book down a star for sure. Prove manly nurturing feels another way ML, this one sucked big time, so skillets to the head for that.)
Eventually the h's guilt over lying to the H causes her to confess she lied about the engagement and why. The H isn't too concerned about it tho, mainly cause he is really into lurving up the h and he has been trying to approach her for a year, but she was standoffish and he is a nice man.
However, now that he and the h have consummated the relationship, he isn't giving her up and we already know her kids like him from having met him before while there were on holiday.
Then the OW and the h's belittling ex husband show up. The OW gets an EPIC H smackdown when he denounces her as a cheating tarty trampy con artist and then the H scares the color right out of the ex-husband's hair for being a snot licking bully nematode slime slurper to the h.
The ex-husband actually apologizes to the h for being a slime slurper and the h thinks the H has gotten his memory back. He has not really, he just had a flashback about the OW and an argument and between that and what the h told him, he gave the OW enough to hang herself with.
The h and H then make tracks back to the H's office, the work week is about to begin and the h asks the H to keep quiet about their new relationship status because she doesn't want a lot of nasty office gossip about herself.
The H get angry at the h for wanting to hide things and storms off for the day. The h starts feeling really ill and collapses on the H's office couch. When the H gets back to the h, she is burning up with fever and the H carries her up to his penthouse apartment.
The doctor is called and we get genuine SPONGING™ from the H as he tenderly soothes the h's fevered brow. This makes the h finally realize that the H loves her just as much as she loves him. The H explains that he really did dump the OW fiance the night he got hit on the head and that he has been in love with the h since he first hired her.
The h is even more overcome when the H claims that nursing the baby possum changed his stance on not having kids and the two of them have a fervent avowal of True Love Forever with extra SPONGING™ as needed for a pink sparkly rosy glow baby making HEA.
This one was pretty cute and the H was super nice. The h did lie about the H being engaged to her, but the OW was so horrible and the h was so cuddlesome in her little frets, that I pretty much forgave her the deceit.
I especially liked how the OW got a serious H smackdown and then the H made the h's ex feel afraid too. I am not getting started on the baby possum again, but overall this one was a pretty decent HPlandia outing.
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October 30, 2018
A Weekend to Remember is the second book in Miranda Lee's Affairs to Remember series. The stories in the series feature love affairs with unforgettable twists.
Hannah Althorp, the heroine, just got her final divorce papers in the mail. She was married young to Dwight, a plastic surgeon and had 2 kids with him. Their marriage lasted 16 years and he was a crappy husband. Spoiled, insensitive and very critical which left Hannah feeling insecure and unattractive. Things reached a climax when Hannah caught him with another woman. She moved, started divorce proceedings and got a job as a private secretary for the owner of Marshall Homes, an important construction company.
Jack Marshall is the hero of the novel and Hannah's boss. He grew up in an orphanage and is a self made multi millionaire. At his engagement party, Hannah overhears Felicia, his fiancee, talking to another man who is her lover. They planned to cheat him. Hannah, who admires and likes her boss very much wants to tell him what she heard but Jack has an accident and can't remember the last six weeks of his life. Hannah is afraid Felicia will take advantage of him so she pretends to be his fiancee and whisks him away to her cabin. She wants to tell him the truth in a few days after he regains his memory but things are more complicated and not exactly like she thought.
I've read one or two of this author's books but I'm not a big fan. I wouldn't have read it if it wasn't for a review I've read and that would have been a pity because the book is awesome. I loved how sweet Jack was with Hannah and how well he treated her. Hannah was so cute and I loved how much she grew as a character throughout the book. They were seriously adorable together.
Hannah Althorp, the heroine, just got her final divorce papers in the mail. She was married young to Dwight, a plastic surgeon and had 2 kids with him. Their marriage lasted 16 years and he was a crappy husband. Spoiled, insensitive and very critical which left Hannah feeling insecure and unattractive. Things reached a climax when Hannah caught him with another woman. She moved, started divorce proceedings and got a job as a private secretary for the owner of Marshall Homes, an important construction company.
Jack Marshall is the hero of the novel and Hannah's boss. He grew up in an orphanage and is a self made multi millionaire. At his engagement party, Hannah overhears Felicia, his fiancee, talking to another man who is her lover. They planned to cheat him. Hannah, who admires and likes her boss very much wants to tell him what she heard but Jack has an accident and can't remember the last six weeks of his life. Hannah is afraid Felicia will take advantage of him so she pretends to be his fiancee and whisks him away to her cabin. She wants to tell him the truth in a few days after he regains his memory but things are more complicated and not exactly like she thought.
I've read one or two of this author's books but I'm not a big fan. I wouldn't have read it if it wasn't for a review I've read and that would have been a pity because the book is awesome. I loved how sweet Jack was with Hannah and how well he treated her. Hannah was so cute and I loved how much she grew as a character throughout the book. They were seriously adorable together.
November 12, 2013
One of my favourite Miranda Lee novels. When Hannah's boss loses the last 6 weeks of his memory - which includes a whirlwind romance and engagement to another woman, she finds herself stepping in claiming to be his fiancé. A situation her boss accepts quite readily!
What I really like about this book, is that you can connect with Hannah because she's not the perfect woman you often find yourself reading about in romance novels. I liked her, and I liked her story.
What I really like about this book, is that you can connect with Hannah because she's not the perfect woman you often find yourself reading about in romance novels. I liked her, and I liked her story.
February 16, 2014
This is a book that I've read over and over again. It's a sweet little book that is a good day read. Nothing really wrong with it at all. Love it.
December 6, 2012
Not the most subtle or believable story, but quite endearingly sweet friends to lovers plot.
June 24, 2023
3.5 Stars just for Hannah. I would give 1 or 2 stars for the stupid H. I hate him.
He wanted to MARRY the OW just because he was in lust with her but he needed to love the heroine to marry her? WTF? He is giving easily his freedom because his lust for the OW.
I don't believe that he loved Hannah like he said, if he really loved he would have had pursued her before in all the time they are working together (she was divorcing her lousy husband), instead he was sleeping with many OWs, until he met the Queen Bitch gold-digger, after having explosive sex with the bovine the first time he asked her to marry him? WTF! And on the weekends he had non-stop sex with the bovine cow, staying at the retreat in nude because he can't keep his hands off her? WTF. Am I supposed to believe that he loved the heroine all this time? What hypocrisy and lie. What bastard.
When in the end when the heroine didn't want the other employees to know that they have an affair he was nasty to her. She wasn't feeling well your SOB. And he tought that she was ashamed of him, of course she didn't want people to know that she was his side piece, people from work won't respect her and gossip about it. Then the nasty pustule snapped on her he saying that he needed to give credit to the OW because she make him feel like a king, because the gold-diggers always said what he want to hear. Well if you want a gold-digger saying flattering things just to get your money why don't you go for it your FUCKING BASTARD. The heroine was ill and tired she almost fainted and the BASTARD said all these nasty things.
He deserved the OW, they both deserved each other, they only care for sex and money.
NOTE:
Although I like Miranda Lee’s books, I have three things to pointed out. First, I love that her heroines are strong and not a doormat or a spineless creature, second that I like is that her Hs always backs the hs up against the OW, if the OWs proves to be a bitchy to heroines. Third that I didn’t like and I hate immensely is that many of ML’s H are faithful or celibate after the OWs but they never are faithful or celibate to the heroines. Her H are a highly sexual creatures, but it seems after they separated/lost/divorced or become a widower they lost the appetite, doing it he remained faithful/celibate because his OW until they meet the heroine and their lust come back. But they are incapable of being faithful/celibate after meeting the heroine, even if they are attracted, loved the heroine or even worse married to the heroine, he will cheat the heroine if he cannot have sex with the heroine, he will sleep around. The book Bride in Blue, he cheated the heroine many times after he married her and supposedly stopped after he start to sleep with the heroine. It shows that the power of the OW sexual attraction is more powerful over the H than the heroine, for me simply states that they are more commited to the OW and never the heroine.
He wanted to MARRY the OW just because he was in lust with her but he needed to love the heroine to marry her? WTF? He is giving easily his freedom because his lust for the OW.
I don't believe that he loved Hannah like he said, if he really loved he would have had pursued her before in all the time they are working together (she was divorcing her lousy husband), instead he was sleeping with many OWs, until he met the Queen Bitch gold-digger, after having explosive sex with the bovine the first time he asked her to marry him? WTF! And on the weekends he had non-stop sex with the bovine cow, staying at the retreat in nude because he can't keep his hands off her? WTF. Am I supposed to believe that he loved the heroine all this time? What hypocrisy and lie. What bastard.
When in the end when the heroine didn't want the other employees to know that they have an affair he was nasty to her. She wasn't feeling well your SOB. And he tought that she was ashamed of him, of course she didn't want people to know that she was his side piece, people from work won't respect her and gossip about it. Then the nasty pustule snapped on her he saying that he needed to give credit to the OW because she make him feel like a king, because the gold-diggers always said what he want to hear. Well if you want a gold-digger saying flattering things just to get your money why don't you go for it your FUCKING BASTARD. The heroine was ill and tired she almost fainted and the BASTARD said all these nasty things.
He deserved the OW, they both deserved each other, they only care for sex and money.
NOTE:
Although I like Miranda Lee’s books, I have three things to pointed out. First, I love that her heroines are strong and not a doormat or a spineless creature, second that I like is that her Hs always backs the hs up against the OW, if the OWs proves to be a bitchy to heroines. Third that I didn’t like and I hate immensely is that many of ML’s H are faithful or celibate after the OWs but they never are faithful or celibate to the heroines. Her H are a highly sexual creatures, but it seems after they separated/lost/divorced or become a widower they lost the appetite, doing it he remained faithful/celibate because his OW until they meet the heroine and their lust come back. But they are incapable of being faithful/celibate after meeting the heroine, even if they are attracted, loved the heroine or even worse married to the heroine, he will cheat the heroine if he cannot have sex with the heroine, he will sleep around. The book Bride in Blue, he cheated the heroine many times after he married her and supposedly stopped after he start to sleep with the heroine. It shows that the power of the OW sexual attraction is more powerful over the H than the heroine, for me simply states that they are more commited to the OW and never the heroine.
December 30, 2017
A Weekend To Remember
It starts with a tile to his head. The H forgets. Now his Secretary moves in to keep his fiancee away from him. You think that she was the bad one but no she wants him safe from a conniving female. Now that is where things get interesting. Can she move from the office to his bed and still keep her heart? What about her own secrets?
It starts with a tile to his head. The H forgets. Now his Secretary moves in to keep his fiancee away from him. You think that she was the bad one but no she wants him safe from a conniving female. Now that is where things get interesting. Can she move from the office to his bed and still keep her heart? What about her own secrets?
March 25, 2023
A wonderful series
I liked each book in the series, but especially this one. It had such emotion and not just from the woman. I grew to really like the characters. It kind if reminded me of *While You Were Sleeping ", a favorite of mine. Its simple and sweet, with real love involved.
I liked each book in the series, but especially this one. It had such emotion and not just from the woman. I grew to really like the characters. It kind if reminded me of *While You Were Sleeping ", a favorite of mine. Its simple and sweet, with real love involved.
January 31, 2022
Bought from the op shop to try out Mills and Boons. It was decently written but the story and characters was so unrealistic. I also didn’t like the power dynamic between the couple m. Couldn’t finish the book.
January 19, 2025
The premise had so much potential but it ended up being a bit boring & fizzled out. The H was flaky, proposing to more than one woman within the fortnight!
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September 16, 2015
Da quando nella vita di Jack Marshall, affascinante imprenditore edile, è entrata Felicia, donna superficiale e ambigua, Hanna sta con le orecchie all'erta. I suoi sospetti sembrano trovare conferma durante la festa di fidanzamento tra Jack e Felicia, dove quest'ultima viene sorpresa da Hanna con un uomo. Come può fargli dimenticare quella donna? L'occasione si presenta prima di quanto pensa, quando perde la memoria, dopo aver ricevuto una tegola sulla testa....
Un uomo con un'amnesia, una donna intraprendente, una storia divertente e godibile.
Un uomo con un'amnesia, una donna intraprendente, una storia divertente e godibile.
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