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Logan-Campbell #2
Return To Me
Union spy and Civil War hero Jackson Logan returns home to Baltimore to be reunited with his beloved wife Cameron, but she, against his wishes, decides to return to her childhood home in Mississippi, forcing Jackson, while embarking on one last mission for his country, to fight for her love.
480 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2003
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Rosemary Rogers
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Rosemary Jansz Navaratnam Rogers Kadison
Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in Panadura, British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara "Allan" and Cyril Jansz. Her father was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants, no work, summers at European spas, a chaperone everywhere she went. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.
At 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where she studied three years. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London.
In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman." After getting a divorce from her first husband, she married Rogers in his home town, St. Louis, Missouri. They moved with her family to California, where she had two sons. Six years later, when that marriage broke up, Rosemary was left with four children to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist for the Solano County Parks Department. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only ?100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield.
Every night for a year, Rogers worked to perfect a manuscript that she had written as a child, rewriting it 24 times. When she was satisfied with her work, she sent the manuscript to Avon, which quickly purchased the novel. That novel, ''Sweet Savage Love'', skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists, and became one of the most popular historical romances of all time. Her second novel, ''Dark Fires'', sold two million copies in its first three months of release. Her first three novels sold a combined 10 million copies. The fourth, ''Wicked Loving Lies'' sold 3 million copies in its first month of publication. Rosemary Rogers became one of the legendaries "Avon Queens of Historical Romance". The difference between she and most of others romance writers is not the violence of her stories, it is the intensity. She says: "My heroines are me", and certainly her life could be one of her novels.
In September of 1984, Rosemary married a third time with Christopher Kadison, but it was a very brief marriage and they soon began to live apart. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit and sex all rolled up together."
Today single, Rosemary lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her four children are now away from home and she continues to write.
Rosemary passed away at the age of 87 on November 12, 2019 in Carmel, California where she called home since the early 1970s.
Rosemary Jansz Navaratnam Rogers Kadison
Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in Panadura, British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara "Allan" and Cyril Jansz. Her father was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants, no work, summers at European spas, a chaperone everywhere she went. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.
At 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where she studied three years. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London.
In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman." After getting a divorce from her first husband, she married Rogers in his home town, St. Louis, Missouri. They moved with her family to California, where she had two sons. Six years later, when that marriage broke up, Rosemary was left with four children to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist for the Solano County Parks Department. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only ?100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield.
Every night for a year, Rogers worked to perfect a manuscript that she had written as a child, rewriting it 24 times. When she was satisfied with her work, she sent the manuscript to Avon, which quickly purchased the novel. That novel, ''Sweet Savage Love'', skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists, and became one of the most popular historical romances of all time. Her second novel, ''Dark Fires'', sold two million copies in its first three months of release. Her first three novels sold a combined 10 million copies. The fourth, ''Wicked Loving Lies'' sold 3 million copies in its first month of publication. Rosemary Rogers became one of the legendaries "Avon Queens of Historical Romance". The difference between she and most of others romance writers is not the violence of her stories, it is the intensity. She says: "My heroines are me", and certainly her life could be one of her novels.
In September of 1984, Rosemary married a third time with Christopher Kadison, but it was a very brief marriage and they soon began to live apart. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit and sex all rolled up together."
Today single, Rosemary lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her four children are now away from home and she continues to write.
Rosemary passed away at the age of 87 on November 12, 2019 in Carmel, California where she called home since the early 1970s.
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May 29, 2016
Cheating hero.
November 30, 2015
J'ai été un peu déçue globalement par ce second tome.
C'est vraiment dommage car je trouvais qu'il y avait un bon point de départ et plusieurs thèmes d'intérêt (comment le couple Cameron-Jackson va-t-il réussir à vivre ensemble après avoir été longtemps séparé pendant la guerre? Quel avenir pour la relation Thomas-Thaye? la jalousie malsaine d'Effia, la période de reconstruction d'après guerre civile et le Sud dévasté...), mais j'ai trouvé qu'ils étaient traités en surface (.
C'est comme si l'auteur avait voulu conclure rapidement son livre (peut-être avait elle un nombre de pages maximum imposé?), sans faire cas du rythme de l'histoire et des intrigues.
C'est vraiment dommage car je trouvais qu'il y avait un bon point de départ et plusieurs thèmes d'intérêt (comment le couple Cameron-Jackson va-t-il réussir à vivre ensemble après avoir été longtemps séparé pendant la guerre? Quel avenir pour la relation Thomas-Thaye? la jalousie malsaine d'Effia, la période de reconstruction d'après guerre civile et le Sud dévasté...), mais j'ai trouvé qu'ils étaient traités en surface (.
C'est comme si l'auteur avait voulu conclure rapidement son livre (peut-être avait elle un nombre de pages maximum imposé?), sans faire cas du rythme de l'histoire et des intrigues.
February 23, 2017
Je dois dire que j'ai été un peu déçu par ce second tome. J'avais beaucoup apprécié le premier tome et du coup j'étais curieuse de découvrir la suite des aventures de Cameron et de Jackson.
Dans le premier tome l'histoire avait beau être une "romance historique", elle ne manquait pas de sel et restait crédible malgré qu'elle soit un peu hors du commun ...
La dimension historique avec l'approche de la guerre dans le premier tome m'avait beaucoup plu mais je n'ai pas retrouvé cet esprit dans le second tome.
C'est comme si l'auteur avait basé la trame du second livre sur quelque chose de beaucoup plus frivole et moins prenant à lire. J'ai trouvé que Cameron et Jackson se prenaient la tête pour tout et n'importe quoi !
Certes J'ai beaucoup apprécié de retrouver Cameron et Jackson qui me plaisent beaucoup avec leurs caractères hauts en couleurs mais je crois que j'aurais préféré que l'auteur face ce du point de vue de Taye, la petite sœur de Cameron !
Je conseille ce livre à ceux qui ont lu et apprécié le premier tome !
Dans le premier tome l'histoire avait beau être une "romance historique", elle ne manquait pas de sel et restait crédible malgré qu'elle soit un peu hors du commun ...
La dimension historique avec l'approche de la guerre dans le premier tome m'avait beaucoup plu mais je n'ai pas retrouvé cet esprit dans le second tome.
C'est comme si l'auteur avait basé la trame du second livre sur quelque chose de beaucoup plus frivole et moins prenant à lire. J'ai trouvé que Cameron et Jackson se prenaient la tête pour tout et n'importe quoi !
Certes J'ai beaucoup apprécié de retrouver Cameron et Jackson qui me plaisent beaucoup avec leurs caractères hauts en couleurs mais je crois que j'aurais préféré que l'auteur face ce du point de vue de Taye, la petite sœur de Cameron !
Je conseille ce livre à ceux qui ont lu et apprécié le premier tome !
July 28, 2017
4.5/5 stars. I loved this book. It was slow at certain parts but the last hundred pages had me reading till the end of the book. The ending felt satisfying, all the loose ends were tied up neatly. I liked how rocky the marriage between Cameron and Jackson was. How, just because they were married, that doesn't mean that everything is all rainbows and sunshine, how there always could be a storm on the horizon. The verbal fights felt real and could happen in real life (Jackson's cheating (?), the miscarriage, ect). The only downside to this book is the mission that Jackson was on. For hundreds of pages in this book, Jackson's last mission was to find a man named Thompson, the guy was raiding farms and killing innocent people and animals. Despite all the fight scenes and traveling that occurs, in ONE scene, Jackson not only finds Thompson but there's no real climax payoff for the reader; no fight scene, no real bloodshed, Thompson gives up without a fight. ARE YOU KIDDING ME! The one man that killed people just gives up because, well, there's no real reason explained, he just does. This guy was suppose to be a threat to country, not just wimp out. This scene right here is the definition of the word anticlimactic. After all the hype built up to this guy, we the readers, don't get a pay off! I am still fuming as I write this. I understand the author wanted to give more time for Jackson's and Cameron's relationship but still, at least a sword fight, give us something! Okay, moving on, the scene where Cameron gets kidnapped by Clyde was eventful, although the book never stated if he died. The writing was good, as always. Overall, a great book but with one main bad part, I would reread this again, recommend this book and I will be picking up more books by this author in the future.
August 26, 2020
What a fantastic ride. Suspense, anticipation, love, lust, romance, heartbreak, twists and some great maneuvering. The sequel to An honorable man and it was great.
This takes place mainly at the end of the Civil War, 4 years from where the last book left off.
I still love these characters. Cameron, stubborn, determined, open hearted and strong willed. Jackson, still honorable, caring, tough and trying to balance duty to his country and loyalty to his wife.
Taye, sweet as always, stuck in a relationship that she no longer knows if it is truly love or just the childhood infatuation/crush she had for Thomas when she was younger. The past comes back to haunt her and here lies the impasse she faces.
So many obstacles still get in the way of Cameron and Jackson's love and peace. Both very stubborn and neither willing to give in to the other. But they are both willing to work together for the ones they love.
Overall, I really enjoyed this read. It picks up from the previous book without missing a beat. The characters from book 1 all come together again in book 2, so it was great to see where all of their paths lead them.
Also an eye opener to the times of the Civil War and after the war ended, what life was like for those slaves and how they tried to survive and how the Southerners were reacting to losing the war.
A must read 2 book series.
This takes place mainly at the end of the Civil War, 4 years from where the last book left off.
I still love these characters. Cameron, stubborn, determined, open hearted and strong willed. Jackson, still honorable, caring, tough and trying to balance duty to his country and loyalty to his wife.
Taye, sweet as always, stuck in a relationship that she no longer knows if it is truly love or just the childhood infatuation/crush she had for Thomas when she was younger. The past comes back to haunt her and here lies the impasse she faces.
So many obstacles still get in the way of Cameron and Jackson's love and peace. Both very stubborn and neither willing to give in to the other. But they are both willing to work together for the ones they love.
Overall, I really enjoyed this read. It picks up from the previous book without missing a beat. The characters from book 1 all come together again in book 2, so it was great to see where all of their paths lead them.
Also an eye opener to the times of the Civil War and after the war ended, what life was like for those slaves and how they tried to survive and how the Southerners were reacting to losing the war.
A must read 2 book series.
January 27, 2025
finnished.
this was an investing book. the hero and heroine do have a lot of passion for each other but at the begining they did fight way too much. the hero did cheat on the heroine. i did enjoy the 2nd romance going on between the hero friend and the heroine sister.
it was alright but won't read again
this was an investing book. the hero and heroine do have a lot of passion for each other but at the begining they did fight way too much. the hero did cheat on the heroine. i did enjoy the 2nd romance going on between the hero friend and the heroine sister.
it was alright but won't read again
June 24, 2017
I can't find any thing good to read, bring me steve and ginny.
January 2, 2018
great story about the old south.This book has everything in it love,spies and action.I just love this author.
July 14, 2023
Thoroughly enjoyed this sequel and the turmoil of the southern states after the Civil war was portrayed quite vividly .
January 2, 2025
Cameron a rien à envier à Scarlett car il n'est pas possible à la lecture de cette duologie de ne pas faire le lien. Même époque, même amour compliqué, même épreuves mais avec un petit peu plus de sexe et surtout d'interaction sociale.
Ce second tome donne régulièrement envie de baffer notre héroïne et j'adore !!!, à qui parfois il manque quelques neurones et préfèrent agir avant de réfléchir.
Cameron va donc se mettre dans des situations graves et difficiles mais je ne peux que lui pardonner ces caprices tellement son cœur est gros et son amour pour les siens indéfectible.
L'autrice nous propose encore une fois une histoire rythmée, avec plusieurs surprises de taille qui donne envie de connaitre rapidement la suite. Une lecture sans prise de tête, où les images du films Autant en emporte le vent s'impose mais sans sentir véritablement le réchauffé ce qui est assez plaisant.
Bon, oui, il y a de nombreuses facilités scénaristiques, des je t'aime, je te déteste, des méchants très méchants, des gentils qui en perdent la vie, mais peu importe, c'est ce que j'aime lire de temps en tant et qui apporte toujours beaucoup de réconfort.
Ce second tome donne régulièrement envie de baffer notre héroïne et j'adore !!!, à qui parfois il manque quelques neurones et préfèrent agir avant de réfléchir.
Cameron va donc se mettre dans des situations graves et difficiles mais je ne peux que lui pardonner ces caprices tellement son cœur est gros et son amour pour les siens indéfectible.
L'autrice nous propose encore une fois une histoire rythmée, avec plusieurs surprises de taille qui donne envie de connaitre rapidement la suite. Une lecture sans prise de tête, où les images du films Autant en emporte le vent s'impose mais sans sentir véritablement le réchauffé ce qui est assez plaisant.
Bon, oui, il y a de nombreuses facilités scénaristiques, des je t'aime, je te déteste, des méchants très méchants, des gentils qui en perdent la vie, mais peu importe, c'est ce que j'aime lire de temps en tant et qui apporte toujours beaucoup de réconfort.
March 30, 2016
I loved this book especially the characters. Its so obvious they're in love yet they can never manage to agree on anything or even get along at time and it leads to some problems that make for an interesting story. A must read for any romance lover.
February 21, 2012
One of the better historical romance books I have read. More of a dysfunctional marriage type of book, but has some steamy romance. I did like the character interaction, they very much liked to fight and then make up. The near ending was a bit to sappy for me but all in all I enjoyed it.
November 22, 2011
Even though the overall rating is less than stellar, this was the first romance book I ever read and I loved it! I have since been sucked into the wonderful world of historical romance and will never look back.
July 24, 2013
J'avais moyennement aimé le tome 1 mais il m'avait intrigué suffisamment pour lire le 2 et là juste pas possible je ne peux pas dire pourquoi sans faire de spoilers mais c'est juste pour moi le rédhibitoire de la romance donc non merci ... Je passe mon tour ici !
December 28, 2016
Lovely story by a great writer
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