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Promise Me Love
She thought she could never love again.
She was just sixteen when she met Neil Banning. Innocent of love and its deception, she was shattered to learn how cruelly her heart could be broken. Eden Thackery, the most desirable young lady among New York's gilded society, was left devastated and dishonored.
Hoping to forget Neil Banning and her shame, Eden married her guardian, a gruff self-made man who loved her more deeply than she at first understood. It wasn't until years later, after Eden found happiness with her husband and her daughter on their Texas ranch, that Eden and Neil met again.
Time had changed him. He too had suffered betrayal. And though it frightened Eden to think she might want him still, their passion was rekindled by a desire not even her hatred could overcome. Yearning and anguish tore at her heart. Yet destiny had decided-and in a brutal tragedy that struck swiftly on the lawless Texas plains, Eden discovered the impossibility of forgetting first love.
She was just sixteen when she met Neil Banning. Innocent of love and its deception, she was shattered to learn how cruelly her heart could be broken. Eden Thackery, the most desirable young lady among New York's gilded society, was left devastated and dishonored.
Hoping to forget Neil Banning and her shame, Eden married her guardian, a gruff self-made man who loved her more deeply than she at first understood. It wasn't until years later, after Eden found happiness with her husband and her daughter on their Texas ranch, that Eden and Neil met again.
Time had changed him. He too had suffered betrayal. And though it frightened Eden to think she might want him still, their passion was rekindled by a desire not even her hatred could overcome. Yearning and anguish tore at her heart. Yet destiny had decided-and in a brutal tragedy that struck swiftly on the lawless Texas plains, Eden discovered the impossibility of forgetting first love.
- GenresRomance
576 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1982
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September 29, 2024
4 stars for Hugh and Eden.
October 16, 2020
I love Lynn Bartlett writing style. She makes her characters so real is impossible to don't get sucked in. The heroine of this book is Eden, a high society pampered young girl, that falls in love with Neil Nanning, a rancher from Mexico, that refuses to marry her (he thinks she is good to his mistress only) and her downfall after finding out the truth. What it follows is the story of her marriage to her guardian Hugh, an older man who loves her. They story is truly beautiful and tender until tragedy struck. This book is hard to get (bought mine on eBay) and I strongly suggest to anyone to buy it. Is worthy. Lynn Bartlett makes most writers pale in comparison. The first book I read from her is Defy the Eagle (another gem) and this the second. Solid five stars
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