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Seducing Nell
Male bait!
Nell Vandermeer has never been in love, never been married, never... But coming to Canada forces her to reexamine her life. First she falls in love with the country, then she meets Kyle Marshall and falls...in lust with the man.
Kyle Marshall is tall, dark and gorgeous. And, despite her mother's insistent warnings, Nell is working on becoming an ex-virgin!
Kyle is more than happy to help. Only, now, Nell has to live with the consequences of her seduction....
Nell Vandermeer has never been in love, never been married, never... But coming to Canada forces her to reexamine her life. First she falls in love with the country, then she meets Kyle Marshall and falls...in lust with the man.
Kyle Marshall is tall, dark and gorgeous. And, despite her mother's insistent warnings, Nell is working on becoming an ex-virgin!
Kyle is more than happy to help. Only, now, Nell has to live with the consequences of her seduction....
184 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 6, 1997
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About the author
Sandra Field
212 books35 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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August 17, 2008
Nell Vandermeer pergi ke Kanada untuk mencari kakeknya. Ya, dua bulan yang lalu dia menemukan buku harian neneknya, dan dari sanalah ia tahu bahwa kakeknya orang Kanada. Menyadari dia tak memiliki seorang saudarapun juga, dia bertekad untuk menemukan kakeknya.
Di sana ia berkenalan dengan Kyle Marshall yang sangat tertutup. Setelah mencari tau tentang rumah kakeknya, ia juga mengetahui bahwa Kyle ternyata sangat akrab dengan Conrad Gillis -kakeknya dan Elsie -istri Conrad.
Nell pun berpura pura tenggelam saat berenang di danau, agar bisa diselamatkan Kyle dan dibawa ke rumah Conrad, sehingga Nell ada alasan untuk berkenalan dengan Conrad. Tak disangka, saat mengetahui dirinya dari Belanda, Conrad langsung bersikap dingin dan berkesan marah terhadapnya. Berbeda dengan perlakuan Elsie. Wanita tua ini sangat sabar dan malah mengundangnya untuk acara makan malam dan pesta dansa.
Nell bertekad akan pulang ke Belanda, apalagi karena ternyata Elsie begitu baik padanya. Dia semakin merasa bersalah pada wanita ini. Tapi, entah kenapa, Nell tak bisa pulang. Ada Kyle. Pria ini menarik hatinya, membuatnya bergairah, padahal ia tak pernah merasa seperti ini terhadap teman kencannya dulu di Belanda.
Saat terpaksa mengakui siapa dirinya, Nell malah terkejut bahwa Elsie sudah tau siapa Nell sebenarnya. Malah Elsie berhasil memaksa Conrad untuk bisa menerima Elsie. Dimulailah usaha Conrad dan Nell untuk meminta kewarganegaraan Kanada untuk Nell. Berbagai jalan ditempuh, tapi tak berhasil.
Satu-satunya cara adalah menikah dengan orang setempat dan inilah yang diutarakan Nell -untuk menikahi Kyle. Kyle malah marah dan tidak setuju, karena menurut Kyle, pernikahan adalah untuk 2 orang yang saling mencintai, padahal Nell tak mencintai Kyle.
Setelah memikirkan kata "cinta", sadarlah Nell bahwa dirinya mencintai Kyle. Hanya saja, karena ibunya selalu menanamkan pada Nell bahwa seks itu jahat, dosa etc, Nell menutup diri dari pria dan seks itu sendiri. Di sinilah Kyle membuka pengetahuan baru bagi Nell bahwa seks, bukanlah seks semata, tapi juga cinta... Nell dan Kyle pun menikah setelah Nell dan Kyle menyadari saling mencintai.
Di sana ia berkenalan dengan Kyle Marshall yang sangat tertutup. Setelah mencari tau tentang rumah kakeknya, ia juga mengetahui bahwa Kyle ternyata sangat akrab dengan Conrad Gillis -kakeknya dan Elsie -istri Conrad.
Nell pun berpura pura tenggelam saat berenang di danau, agar bisa diselamatkan Kyle dan dibawa ke rumah Conrad, sehingga Nell ada alasan untuk berkenalan dengan Conrad. Tak disangka, saat mengetahui dirinya dari Belanda, Conrad langsung bersikap dingin dan berkesan marah terhadapnya. Berbeda dengan perlakuan Elsie. Wanita tua ini sangat sabar dan malah mengundangnya untuk acara makan malam dan pesta dansa.
Nell bertekad akan pulang ke Belanda, apalagi karena ternyata Elsie begitu baik padanya. Dia semakin merasa bersalah pada wanita ini. Tapi, entah kenapa, Nell tak bisa pulang. Ada Kyle. Pria ini menarik hatinya, membuatnya bergairah, padahal ia tak pernah merasa seperti ini terhadap teman kencannya dulu di Belanda.
Saat terpaksa mengakui siapa dirinya, Nell malah terkejut bahwa Elsie sudah tau siapa Nell sebenarnya. Malah Elsie berhasil memaksa Conrad untuk bisa menerima Elsie. Dimulailah usaha Conrad dan Nell untuk meminta kewarganegaraan Kanada untuk Nell. Berbagai jalan ditempuh, tapi tak berhasil.
Satu-satunya cara adalah menikah dengan orang setempat dan inilah yang diutarakan Nell -untuk menikahi Kyle. Kyle malah marah dan tidak setuju, karena menurut Kyle, pernikahan adalah untuk 2 orang yang saling mencintai, padahal Nell tak mencintai Kyle.
Setelah memikirkan kata "cinta", sadarlah Nell bahwa dirinya mencintai Kyle. Hanya saja, karena ibunya selalu menanamkan pada Nell bahwa seks itu jahat, dosa etc, Nell menutup diri dari pria dan seks itu sendiri. Di sinilah Kyle membuka pengetahuan baru bagi Nell bahwa seks, bukanlah seks semata, tapi juga cinta... Nell dan Kyle pun menikah setelah Nell dan Kyle menyadari saling mencintai.
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September 12, 2011berdasarkan fakta yg dia temukan dibuku harian nenekny...nell berangkat utk mencari kakekny yg mash hidp...si nenek neh Ml ma suami org,uda Ml hamil pula,jd deh lahir ibuny nell...masa kecl yg kelam lahir sbg anak haram membuat ibu nell menjadi pribadi yg kaku.mendidik nell dgn keras n menanamkan betapa Ml tuh ga bgs...
pertemuan nell dgn kyle pas liat binatang pa y.....udah ada rasa ketertarikan diantara keduanya,namun tetap aja diingkari..
masing-masing punya rahasia dan punya masa lalu yg menyedihkan..
aku kurang suka ma alur cerita ini..
sikakekny blgny cinta mati ma bininy tp kok bs2ny y ML ma orglain..
pertemuan nell dgn kyle pas liat binatang pa y.....udah ada rasa ketertarikan diantara keduanya,namun tetap aja diingkari..
masing-masing punya rahasia dan punya masa lalu yg menyedihkan..
aku kurang suka ma alur cerita ini..
sikakekny blgny cinta mati ma bininy tp kok bs2ny y ML ma orglain..
November 22, 2007
as usual as 'Harlequin'
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