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Moondrift
You never forget your first love.
Ten years ago, Jordan Lucas fell innocently in love with a musician visiting her Caribbean island home. She experienced the soaring flight of first love and the bitter crash of betrayal.
She needed no reminder of how she'd been used. It was bad enough that she would never forget her humiliation when his wife had shown up with a young child in tow. Now Rhys Williams was back...and he'd brought his teenage daughter with him.
Jordan was tempted to ignore Rhys's presence — but she realized that would be impossible.
Ten years ago, Jordan Lucas fell innocently in love with a musician visiting her Caribbean island home. She experienced the soaring flight of first love and the bitter crash of betrayal.
She needed no reminder of how she'd been used. It was bad enough that she would never forget her humiliation when his wife had shown up with a young child in tow. Now Rhys Williams was back...and he'd brought his teenage daughter with him.
Jordan was tempted to ignore Rhys's presence — but she realized that would be impossible.
191 pages, Paperback
First published July 15, 1984
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Anne Mather
799 books360 followersAnne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
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September 25, 2015
This is an AM classic and it follows the Cardinal Rule of HPlandia
- NO MATTER HOW BADLY THE H BEHAVES IT IS ALWAYS THE h'S FAULT.
But in this one AM does do a fairly decent job of the HEA so you just have to close your eyes and drink the KoolAid on this one.
The story is the h lives on a little island in the Caribbean running a hotel, H is a big rock star that shows up and buy's h's dad's old home. h is pretty young, 18ish or so and has passionate affair with the H. Until his wife and child show up that is. The h quite naturally freaks and rejects his lyin' rear. The H storms off, the h's father dies and the h takes over the hotel management and life goes on for 10 years.
Then the H comes back bringing his now 16 year old daughter, the mum had died before the divorce was final. Of course the h has been on ice for the last decade and the H has made Gene Simmon's womanizing look like a leisurely vacation in the interim. They fight and bicker and passionately rip each other's clothes off on beaches during a party but the h still feels betrayed and the H takes off -- again.
The h is bullied into going after the H- he is in NYC - and so she gets there and finds out the H is devastated because his daughter was hit by a car and may not make it. She goes to the hospital, they finally confess true love and the H explains that his daughter is not his bio child. He adopted her when her mum died because he grew up in foster care and did not want her to have that. Turns out the wife was a very youthful marriage that never got dissolved and he hadn't seen (supposedly) the wife for years as she dumped him before he became famous.
So the h apologizes all over the place and promises extreme sexual favors to atone for her lack of trust - cause in HPlandia just because a man is married to another woman who has a child that looks like him--and he has never bothered to mention it in the months of your affair -- and then he blithely goes off with aforementioned wife-- that is no reason not to trust the man and blindly stick by his side no matter what--
(and no matter who is calling you a homewrecker or how shocked/devastated your dad would be by your lack of judgement for sleeping with a married man) --
that is a Cardinal h Sin in HPlandia and thus must be punished by ten years of abstinence, hard work, bad clothes and sexual harassment by the H once he returns from his multi-women world tour, and then atoned for by the h promising to faithfully stand by H no matter how many naked women he is in bed with at the time with the previously promised extreme sexual favors thrown into that bed as well.
Actually this isn't a bad book really, it is just a very HPlandia book - AM writes well as always, there was no icky mum/H/h threesomes to deal with and the HEA is pretty sweet. This virginal h on an island meets the H's wife with a big separation then reunion trope is also used again about 700 books from now in Anne McAllister's Island Interlude - and it is a good book too. I recommend reading them both sequentially and then you can get a good idear of the progress of time in HPlandia - what tropes get adjusted over the years and what will probably always stay the same.
I am not an AM fan, so I may be a bit more sarcastic than what the book actually warrants, pick up a copy if you run across it and then see what you think.
- NO MATTER HOW BADLY THE H BEHAVES IT IS ALWAYS THE h'S FAULT.
But in this one AM does do a fairly decent job of the HEA so you just have to close your eyes and drink the KoolAid on this one.
The story is the h lives on a little island in the Caribbean running a hotel, H is a big rock star that shows up and buy's h's dad's old home. h is pretty young, 18ish or so and has passionate affair with the H. Until his wife and child show up that is. The h quite naturally freaks and rejects his lyin' rear. The H storms off, the h's father dies and the h takes over the hotel management and life goes on for 10 years.
Then the H comes back bringing his now 16 year old daughter, the mum had died before the divorce was final. Of course the h has been on ice for the last decade and the H has made Gene Simmon's womanizing look like a leisurely vacation in the interim. They fight and bicker and passionately rip each other's clothes off on beaches during a party but the h still feels betrayed and the H takes off -- again.
The h is bullied into going after the H- he is in NYC - and so she gets there and finds out the H is devastated because his daughter was hit by a car and may not make it. She goes to the hospital, they finally confess true love and the H explains that his daughter is not his bio child. He adopted her when her mum died because he grew up in foster care and did not want her to have that. Turns out the wife was a very youthful marriage that never got dissolved and he hadn't seen (supposedly) the wife for years as she dumped him before he became famous.
So the h apologizes all over the place and promises extreme sexual favors to atone for her lack of trust - cause in HPlandia just because a man is married to another woman who has a child that looks like him--and he has never bothered to mention it in the months of your affair -- and then he blithely goes off with aforementioned wife-- that is no reason not to trust the man and blindly stick by his side no matter what--
(and no matter who is calling you a homewrecker or how shocked/devastated your dad would be by your lack of judgement for sleeping with a married man) --
that is a Cardinal h Sin in HPlandia and thus must be punished by ten years of abstinence, hard work, bad clothes and sexual harassment by the H once he returns from his multi-women world tour, and then atoned for by the h promising to faithfully stand by H no matter how many naked women he is in bed with at the time with the previously promised extreme sexual favors thrown into that bed as well.
Actually this isn't a bad book really, it is just a very HPlandia book - AM writes well as always, there was no icky mum/H/h threesomes to deal with and the HEA is pretty sweet. This virginal h on an island meets the H's wife with a big separation then reunion trope is also used again about 700 books from now in Anne McAllister's Island Interlude - and it is a good book too. I recommend reading them both sequentially and then you can get a good idear of the progress of time in HPlandia - what tropes get adjusted over the years and what will probably always stay the same.
I am not an AM fan, so I may be a bit more sarcastic than what the book actually warrants, pick up a copy if you run across it and then see what you think.
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May 18, 2013
This is a fairly typical Mather story. Very young woman falls in love with an older man and it all goes wrong. A wife and child turn up to break up the idyll and now it's ten years later. Rhys is back on the island with his daughter Lucy and Jordan finds that the past hasn't really been left behind.
Rhys has been busy forgetting Jordan in the last ten years with a parade of women but Jordan is changed, cool and afraid to commit. This does tend to annoy me a little. The man who is so passionately in love but still manages to sleep around like a champion when he thinks his true love has betrayed him. This may be typical male behaviour but it isn't HEROIC.
The story is well written and we find out that all is not as it seems. Jordan's youth made her vulnerable and she found it easy to believe the worst. Rhys of course blamed her for not listening, without taking into account her youth and insecurity.
Events compound to keep them thinking the worst of each other so it takes a leap of faith on Jordan's part to bring them back together once again.
Rhys has been busy forgetting Jordan in the last ten years with a parade of women but Jordan is changed, cool and afraid to commit. This does tend to annoy me a little. The man who is so passionately in love but still manages to sleep around like a champion when he thinks his true love has betrayed him. This may be typical male behaviour but it isn't HEROIC.
The story is well written and we find out that all is not as it seems. Jordan's youth made her vulnerable and she found it easy to believe the worst. Rhys of course blamed her for not listening, without taking into account her youth and insecurity.
Events compound to keep them thinking the worst of each other so it takes a leap of faith on Jordan's part to bring them back together once again.
August 15, 2012
This novel made me really sad at the start. The heroine was treated abominably and lied to, in return for being so open hearted and free with love, she was left broken.
When she runs into him again, those same emotions with all the bitterness stir her. I don't think I could of been as forgiving as the heroine was. I would of cut off the heroes balls.
When she runs into him again, those same emotions with all the bitterness stir her. I don't think I could of been as forgiving as the heroine was. I would of cut off the heroes balls.
November 26, 2015
A nice read.
Meeting and falling in love with Rhys was like a fairytale romance to Jordan.......then it all comes crashing down when his wife and daughter show up.
Young and in love Jordan is left heartbroken but that love has not faded over time. Rhys appears on the island dreading and hoping to run into Jordan. He is mad at her for not letting him explain and she is mad he never said anything.
Once I again I wonder how can anyone forgets they are married????? The wife comes back for money and to bask in his fame, leaving a mess in her wake.
Hard talking and love will conquer all.
Nice read: vivid locations, pain, suffering, and love....it has it all.
Meeting and falling in love with Rhys was like a fairytale romance to Jordan.......then it all comes crashing down when his wife and daughter show up.
Young and in love Jordan is left heartbroken but that love has not faded over time. Rhys appears on the island dreading and hoping to run into Jordan. He is mad at her for not letting him explain and she is mad he never said anything.
Once I again I wonder how can anyone forgets they are married????? The wife comes back for money and to bask in his fame, leaving a mess in her wake.
Hard talking and love will conquer all.
Nice read: vivid locations, pain, suffering, and love....it has it all.
July 1, 2021
Older , pop star celebrity hero visits a remote Caribbean island. Falls for the young local lass. Passionate romance turns sour. Why ? The hero is married. Now that's Anne Mather's favourite conflict in her stories.
In most other stories, she employs this conflict to rather uninspiring or even disastrous effect. In this story, its not so bad.
The hero's ex wife is a bitchy gold digger. Leaves behind her own daughter with the hero. Knowing its not his kid, he still feels compassion for the little one and brings up the kid.
When the young heroine discovers the bare bones truth about the hero - that he is a married man with a kid - she naturally blows her fuse and creates a ruckus.
The hero flees in ignominy and returns 10 years later. This time the daughter is a 16 year old. And the heroine is a twenty something hotelier. Old sparks start flying as soon as he returns.
But this time, the heroine manages to unearth his messy past. And realizes what a noble soul he has been , especially with the kid. The kid turned teenager acts as match maker. All conflicts resolved. HEA.
Ok read. Not the lingering type. Just the read and move on type.
In most other stories, she employs this conflict to rather uninspiring or even disastrous effect. In this story, its not so bad.
The hero's ex wife is a bitchy gold digger. Leaves behind her own daughter with the hero. Knowing its not his kid, he still feels compassion for the little one and brings up the kid.
When the young heroine discovers the bare bones truth about the hero - that he is a married man with a kid - she naturally blows her fuse and creates a ruckus.
The hero flees in ignominy and returns 10 years later. This time the daughter is a 16 year old. And the heroine is a twenty something hotelier. Old sparks start flying as soon as he returns.
But this time, the heroine manages to unearth his messy past. And realizes what a noble soul he has been , especially with the kid. The kid turned teenager acts as match maker. All conflicts resolved. HEA.
Ok read. Not the lingering type. Just the read and move on type.
July 2, 2025
If this book were published today, I'd give it a 1-star because of the heroine's age (17) when her romance with a pop star started. I'm giving it two because of time context.
10 years after her brief romance, Jordan's ex Rhys returns to the tropical island where they fell in love. Jordan's heart was broken when she discovered Rhys was married and had a daughter, but she's never gotten over him. Her lukewarm romance with island resident Neil hasn't made her forget Rhys, and their chemistry is as explosive as ever. They'll have to clear up the misunderstandings of the past if there's any chance of a future together.
Very typical Harlequin of its time--strong Alpha hero, submissive heroine. The physical attraction is clear, but Rhys doesn't have much else to recommend him.
10 years after her brief romance, Jordan's ex Rhys returns to the tropical island where they fell in love. Jordan's heart was broken when she discovered Rhys was married and had a daughter, but she's never gotten over him. Her lukewarm romance with island resident Neil hasn't made her forget Rhys, and their chemistry is as explosive as ever. They'll have to clear up the misunderstandings of the past if there's any chance of a future together.
Very typical Harlequin of its time--strong Alpha hero, submissive heroine. The physical attraction is clear, but Rhys doesn't have much else to recommend him.
September 17, 2022
Leitura gostosa, mocinho mais velho, encontros e desencontros. Um erro que durou dez anos para ser corrigido. Bons personagens, herói e heroína, mesmo apaixonados não tem uma conversa franca que poderia tê-los aproximados bem antes. Muita química boa e um pouco avançada para a época. Reencontro, paixão e discórdia e um bom final, coerente até o fim...
October 29, 2024
Not a fan of super young girl falling in love with an older man trope.
February 18, 2023
Moondrift
They had met and fell in love ten years ago. He was just starting out in music industry. But when his wife shows up with a child she refuses to listen to him. Now he is back and maybe, just maybe, they will get closure and answers about that time.
They had met and fell in love ten years ago. He was just starting out in music industry. But when his wife shows up with a child she refuses to listen to him. Now he is back and maybe, just maybe, they will get closure and answers about that time.
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December 24, 2017Ten years ago, Jordan Lucas fell innocently in love with a musician visiting her Caribbean island home. She experienced the soaring flight of first love and the bitter crash of betrayal.
She needed no reminder of how she'd been used. It was bad enough that she would never forget her humiliation when his wife had shown up with a young child in tow. Now Rhys Williams was back...and he'd brought his teenage daughter with him.
Jordan was tempted to ignore Rhys's presence - but she realized that would be impossible.
She needed no reminder of how she'd been used. It was bad enough that she would never forget her humiliation when his wife had shown up with a young child in tow. Now Rhys Williams was back...and he'd brought his teenage daughter with him.
Jordan was tempted to ignore Rhys's presence - but she realized that would be impossible.
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