Her Holiday Secret

by Jennifer Greene

Her Holiday Secret by Jennifer Greene released on Sep 24, 1998 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Romance

Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1998

About the author

Winner of over 15 national awards, including the RWA Hall of Fame and the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, Jennifer Greene weaves real issues, warm characters common-life humor, and page-turning romance and suspense into her stories.

Jennifer sold her first book in 1980, and since then has sold over 85 books in the contemporary romance genre. She won her first professional writing award from RWA, a “Silver Medallion” in 1984, followed by over 20 nominations and awards —including achieving RWA’s HALL OF FAME status, and the most coveted Nora Roberts LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.

Jennifer has regularly been on a variety of bestseller lists, and has written for Harlequin, Avon, Berkley and Dell. Her books have sold all over the world in over 20 languages. She also accumulated a number of pseudonyms—most recognizably JENNIFER GREENE, but also JEANNE GRANT and JESSICA MASSEY.

She was born in Michigan, started writing stories in 7th grade, and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English and Psychology. The University honored her with their “Lantern Night Award”, a tradition developed to honor fifty outstanding women graduates each year. Exploring issues and concerns for women today is what first motivated her to write, and she has long been an enthusiastic and active supporter of women’s fiction, which she believes is an unbeatable way to reach out and support other women.

Jennifer lives in Michigan, just a short distance from Lake Michigan, with her husband Lar.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
(1)romance

aka Jeanne Grant

Reviews

[F.]

"But he was going to have to tactfully help her. She was a proud and self-satisfied woman, so he would have
to be careful, in addition to having all the patience in the world because Maggie was a woman after all, and even a bad marriage could teach anyone a thing or two. Shopping with a woman was like trying to communicate with an unknown species. They needed time. They needed to compare. They needed room for indecision. They needed forty years to decide on something. "

I never read so many stupid things together !! Is there a writer who is not violently macho and / or who doesn't believe that a violently macho guy is a worthy "hero" for any female main character !?

"... I couldn't believe there was only one
a woman capable of making a decision with the speed of a bugle, much less keeping it. "

What a pleasant prejudice many always had with stylists!


"... she conquered him with the typical little act ..."
Terrible stupid in any case!

"(...) As I had understood, it takes two to dance a tango."

"—He's someone I can count on, Maggie. It's not need, it's trust.
Find someone who will always be by your side, even when things go wrong... I don't consider that weakness or dependence. For me it is the golden part of loving someone. "

Does it apply to his marriage? I mean ... According to him and the others the only responsible for all was his wife because she "needed" him... It must be so gratifying just to have a husband of title... You can't plan anything because he never is.

Let's see the marriages, except Mormons and Muslims, they are in pairs. If a marriage fails, it will be necessary to see in what way each one collaborated for such a disaster... Unless there is betrayal on one part of course. There is no valid excuse there.
On the other hand, if he is 34 and divorced four years ago. The marriage lasted five years, that is, he was 25 when he married ... Did someone force him to marry with her? Was he so immature and inexperienced that he didn't realize that "she was lying to him"? Or was it that she got married and then got in the way? What a silly argument in this story!


"—But he left it soon. He started dating. Linda says he must have gone out with all the women within a ten-kilometer radius."

It must be very nice living in a small town and that your partner "project" has had sex with half the female population ...


"- (...) It may be allergic to engagement after his first marriage.
-Maybe I would be too after an experience like that. (...) "

Hahahahahahahaha !! Maggie, the least thought of feminist (?). Sorry, the expression is a joke in Argentina.


Dreamy, fragile and emotional... Are they flaws?

Fascinating! Maggie realizes how her sister's husband somehow contributed to her situation, but not how Andy's attitude could contribute to the disaster that ended their marriage.


"—And Joanna has been so deep in her own pain that... It's not that she doesn't love to their children; on the contrary, she loves them more than her own life, but even the smallest problems throw her off balance. "

It's the same pain that their children feel, only that mothers have no right to suffer ... I prefer a fragile and emotional Joanna, than a stone without feelings like Maggie who sits judging others without an iota of pity. And what she's doing it's not helping her sister at all.


"Andy picked up the plates and silverware and washed them in the snow."

I vomit, doesn't he know how many people and animals walk on that snow? But if they even have to urinate there ... Yuck!


"—Sometimes you have to give people a reason to make their own
responsibilities” -he said carefully.
"But she's never been responsible for ..."

Neither of them is married, has two children, and lost their love. Neither one nor the other have any idea about this ... As if to give advice, criticize and / or anything similar. And on top of that, he doesn't even know her, he's not a friend or family member, and he's speaking from Maggie's perspective, which couldn't be more biased and unfair.


"—In my work, you have to
knowing how to judge people well if you want to survive ... "

Hahahahahahahaha !! It seems that Andy in his spare time is a comedian ...


"She had provoked him. (...)"

Hahahahahahahaha, it sounds like husbands when they are discovered with their lovers!!


"... her desire for independence ..."
"That was precisely one of the reasons, her strength and her independence ..."


"... on one occasion, when a snowstorm caught me in the mountains and I was about to break my head ..."
"I was taking excessive risks, like that to cross the Appalachians alone. (...) "

Hmmm ...!


"...loyalty..."? I don't think that talking to a stranger about the problems of others and especially your family makes you loyal. She could calmly say that she is a little worried about her older sister and nephew and now... It seems inconsiderate and even offensive to me. Oh well...


"That was precisely one of the reasons, her strength and her independence, why it was logical that Maggie didn't need to have a man in her life."

Look, a Neanderthal man ...


"... he had never felt the need for a couple. Until that moment, of course. The need to love had never mastered him until he met her."

Thank you for confirming what I believed. If his marriage was a fiasco, it was because of him too, no one did any typical little number on him, much less, he got married because he wanted it and everything went to the hell for the aforementioned. My question is: Has he ever had a real interest in getting married? In marriage and what it entails?


"A shot in the air caught people's attention ..." What police school did they go to?


I see Andy attribute to Maggie qualities that she sees in her sister as obvious flaws and I laugh inside ... That meme ... It's on my mind. Sorry


"(...) From a female bear with PMS."

Seriously?


One thing is THIS 👇🏿
"(...) For example: today it seemed dangerous to me
to get on the roof. If you expected me to shut up, not to get involved if I believe
that you're doing something dangerous, it's something that isn't going to happen. I believe that the fact
That I care about you gives me the right to speak. "

And a VERY different one is THIS 👇

"—Colin, you and I are going to have a little talk... Starting with when one shouldn't listen to a woman. "
"-What do you think, Colin? She does one of the biggest crap in history and finally it is my attitude and I who are to blame. Do you think a man would reason with that logic? "
"- (...) Colin, don't even think about paying attention to this mindless one again ..."
"... he continued with the sermon on how to handle women ..."
"... they were both laughing at some horrible jokes about silly blondes." 👈👆


"Except for a few teachers,
Colin hadn't been exposed to the influence of a grown man since his father's death."
It would have been better to continue like this ... By adult you mean Andy? If so, I hold my idea ... 😒

"—You have been wonderful with Colin."
It seems to tease us ... 🤦🏻‍♀️


"Maggie was too strong to leave control to someone else, and the sex was much easier if it was reduced to an itch that had to be quenched. But he was driven by love and not just sex, and he wanted to gain her trust, something that couldn't be achieved quickly. He had to make her want more, WAKE FRUSTRATION IN HER, and perhaps thereby open the door to trust. "

"—No. I think we both know what's going to happen, but the last thing I want
to do is PRESS YOU, Maggie. (...) "
"—What I wouldn't like is to have the feeling that I am PRESSING you ..."

All this is called: M A N I P U L A T I O N!!


"(...) During the time I was married, I suffered an overdose of need. My job is important to me, and I can't have a relationship with a woman if she is going to rip her clothes off every time I get called in the middle of the night. "
"(...) They had spent only forty-eight hours apart, but it seemed like an eternity.
(...) One couldn't die because his girl was away forty-eight hours, right?
Suffer, yes; die, no. "


She suffered temporary amnesia, that generated
her bad nights of rest and acute anxiety attacks ... Every moment that she tried to do him aware of what was happening to her, he ridiculed her and he didn't give it importance; then he accused her of using her problems to not be intimate with him ... A guy who not only manipulated her every moment with ulterior motives and inclusive confessed that 90% of the times he thought about her, he did so thinking about sex. When she finally regains her memory and tells you everything, he yells at her? How many kinds of violence did the guy exert on the woman? And after all that he does a typical little act and proposes to her?



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[Mem · Rating 4 out of 5]

D1178 Nov98 Maggie Fletcher was in a head on car accident and has no memories of the previous 24hrs.Sheriff Andy Gautier teases her about things she's hiding from him. Maggie is very independent and her older sister has become needy since her husband's death. Andy goes with her when she picks out a new car which was funny.

[amy · Rating 1 out of 5]

another honeymoon read, and a terrible one at that. the "secret" was ridiculous.