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Morgana couldn't wish him away
Lyall Pentreath van Guisen was a new and unwanted factor in her life. As the only male heir in the ancient but divided Pentreath family, he had inherited their Cornish home.
Not only was he from the other branch of the family - he was also ruthless, cunning and used to getting his own way.
His taking over their home was bad enough. But Lyall had made it quite clear that he'd like to take her over, as well. Morgana was afraid, but somehow secretly excited....
Lyall Pentreath van Guisen was a new and unwanted factor in her life. As the only male heir in the ancient but divided Pentreath family, he had inherited their Cornish home.
Not only was he from the other branch of the family - he was also ruthless, cunning and used to getting his own way.
His taking over their home was bad enough. But Lyall had made it quite clear that he'd like to take her over, as well. Morgana was afraid, but somehow secretly excited....
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Sara Craven
493 books267 followersAnne Bushell was born on October 1938 in South Devon, England, just before World War II and grew up in a house crammed with books. She was always a voracious reader, some of her all-time favorites books are: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "Middlemarch" by George Eliot, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell and "The Code of the Woosters" by P. G. Wodehouse.
She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Divorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.
She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Divorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.
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January 8, 2016
Morgana is very sad because her father recently died. She and her mother are trying to still run their family house as a hotel, but her dad was no good with money so they’re in huge debt. Plus, there’s an entail, so a distant cousin will soon arrive to turn them out onto the street. So it’s the 1980s, but via the 19th century.
I’ll go along with this whole entail thing, but I’m outraged. There is no way that you couldn’t really easily get this overturned. Morgana is practically a minor, there’s her mum, the property is the family business and their only source of income. Of course I know nothing about legal stuff, so maybe I’m wrong, but still: ridiculous.
Morgana is all miserable about being homeless. And she doesn’t really want to marry her boyfriend Rob, because he his sister is a bitch and his mother a real snob. She goes up to Aslan’s table and casts a spell to make the distant cousin drive his car over a cliff.
Ok, it’s not Aslan’s table and no one’s going to strap a lion to it, but it totally impresses entail benefactor Lyall with Morgana’s witchiness. He calls her his little witch for the rest of the book. And Morgan Le Fay.
Lyall is into Morgana and is immediately about getting intimate in her single bed. She’s intrigued, not falling for it because she has her sort of boyfriend, and she doesn’t trust Lyall. He does some further legal magic to lock her and mother into running the hotel for another 12 months. He does get it all renovated so they now have plumbing and electrics. He is outraged that Morgana doesn’t see that his motives are pure, and gets really snarky about it.
Morgana is a bit of a psychopath. As well as casting her black magic spells, she also flirts her boyfriend into putting Lyall onto a bad horse so that Lyall will fall off and break his neck. She has anger management issues. I kept trying to give her a pass because she’d just lost a parent, but she made it really difficult.
The best thing about ‘Witching Hour’ is Elsa, the tarot-reading cook. She talks like a cross between Adam Lambsbreath and Judith Starkadder from ‘Cold Comfort Farm.’ Every time she appeared in a scene I wondered if she was clettering her dishes with a hawthorn twig or a liddle mop?
Lyall spends most of his time with Rob’s horrible sister Elaine. This is understandable because Morgana is an idiot, and Lyall is trying to buy Elaine and Rob’s parents out of the farm. At least Elaine is good at something. Morgana’s all about how Elaine is a bitch (which she is) and contributing nothing to the horse training business she and Rob runs (which is possibly true). But Elaine does show jumping things, and at least that’s something other than miserably waiting for a man to come along and rescue you from a life of drudgery.
There’s also an old family secret and the plot of history maybe repeating itself, but I wasn’t really feeling this one. It’s basically just ok.
I’ll go along with this whole entail thing, but I’m outraged. There is no way that you couldn’t really easily get this overturned. Morgana is practically a minor, there’s her mum, the property is the family business and their only source of income. Of course I know nothing about legal stuff, so maybe I’m wrong, but still: ridiculous.
Morgana is all miserable about being homeless. And she doesn’t really want to marry her boyfriend Rob, because he his sister is a bitch and his mother a real snob. She goes up to Aslan’s table and casts a spell to make the distant cousin drive his car over a cliff.
Ok, it’s not Aslan’s table and no one’s going to strap a lion to it, but it totally impresses entail benefactor Lyall with Morgana’s witchiness. He calls her his little witch for the rest of the book. And Morgan Le Fay.
Lyall is into Morgana and is immediately about getting intimate in her single bed. She’s intrigued, not falling for it because she has her sort of boyfriend, and she doesn’t trust Lyall. He does some further legal magic to lock her and mother into running the hotel for another 12 months. He does get it all renovated so they now have plumbing and electrics. He is outraged that Morgana doesn’t see that his motives are pure, and gets really snarky about it.
Morgana is a bit of a psychopath. As well as casting her black magic spells, she also flirts her boyfriend into putting Lyall onto a bad horse so that Lyall will fall off and break his neck. She has anger management issues. I kept trying to give her a pass because she’d just lost a parent, but she made it really difficult.
The best thing about ‘Witching Hour’ is Elsa, the tarot-reading cook. She talks like a cross between Adam Lambsbreath and Judith Starkadder from ‘Cold Comfort Farm.’ Every time she appeared in a scene I wondered if she was clettering her dishes with a hawthorn twig or a liddle mop?
Lyall spends most of his time with Rob’s horrible sister Elaine. This is understandable because Morgana is an idiot, and Lyall is trying to buy Elaine and Rob’s parents out of the farm. At least Elaine is good at something. Morgana’s all about how Elaine is a bitch (which she is) and contributing nothing to the horse training business she and Rob runs (which is possibly true). But Elaine does show jumping things, and at least that’s something other than miserably waiting for a man to come along and rescue you from a life of drudgery.
There’s also an old family secret and the plot of history maybe repeating itself, but I wasn’t really feeling this one. It’s basically just ok.
September 10, 2018
I read this for the first time 22 years ago. I was 9. I reread it recently because as you might imagine I didn't understand a lot of what was happening in the book.
What was happening is a grief stricken young woman on the edge of homelessness getting repeatedly assaulted by her cousin until she believes she loves him. She does a 90 degree turn from being scared of him and hating him to being oddly aroused but still vindictive then a another 90 degree turn to complete the 180 is her missing him terribly and being heartbroken until he returns and boom happy ending.
I described it to a friend who commented I was reading the fastest case of Stockholm Syndrome she'd ever heard of.
The male "hero" is well liked by everyone but the heroine who he has been predatory and sexually forward with from the first moment he met her. She literally calls it assault at point and explicitly asked him to stay out of her room which he ignores. He claims to have loved her at first sight but it doesn't excuse him terrorizing this naive girl while he literally holds all the cards.
The heroine isn't innocent either being obstinate and vindictive but is repeated stated throughout the story that her father's death hit her very hard and she's been out of sorts with grief since his death. The book begins a month after his death and concludes only a couple of months after that giving her no real time to mourn.
What was happening is a grief stricken young woman on the edge of homelessness getting repeatedly assaulted by her cousin until she believes she loves him. She does a 90 degree turn from being scared of him and hating him to being oddly aroused but still vindictive then a another 90 degree turn to complete the 180 is her missing him terribly and being heartbroken until he returns and boom happy ending.
I described it to a friend who commented I was reading the fastest case of Stockholm Syndrome she'd ever heard of.
The male "hero" is well liked by everyone but the heroine who he has been predatory and sexually forward with from the first moment he met her. She literally calls it assault at point and explicitly asked him to stay out of her room which he ignores. He claims to have loved her at first sight but it doesn't excuse him terrorizing this naive girl while he literally holds all the cards.
The heroine isn't innocent either being obstinate and vindictive but is repeated stated throughout the story that her father's death hit her very hard and she's been out of sorts with grief since his death. The book begins a month after his death and concludes only a couple of months after that giving her no real time to mourn.
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June 9, 2021
Morgana couldn't wish him away
Lyall Pentreath van Guisen was a new and unwanted factor in her life. As the only male heir in the ancient but divided Pentreath family, he had inherited their Cornish home.
Not only was he from the other branch of the family - he was also ruthless, cunning and used to getting his own way.
His taking over their home was bad enough. But Lyall had made it quite clear that he'd like to take her over, as well. Morgana was afraid, but somehow secretly excited
Lyall Pentreath van Guisen was a new and unwanted factor in her life. As the only male heir in the ancient but divided Pentreath family, he had inherited their Cornish home.
Not only was he from the other branch of the family - he was also ruthless, cunning and used to getting his own way.
His taking over their home was bad enough. But Lyall had made it quite clear that he'd like to take her over, as well. Morgana was afraid, but somehow secretly excited
November 29, 2018
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November 11, 2013
this one was such a load of crap !witching hour indeed ! it seemed morgana had the flare 4 the paranormal or shud i say ridicule !? she really got on my nerves & i thought her too dull/plain 4 lyall. it was more plausible lyall had was in love wid elaine after all the time he spent wid her. neway, lots of superstitions involved & connected 2 fellow ancestors as well. it is the 1st time i've had such a big disappointment from mrs craven.
January 8, 2015
Loved this one! So sweet and more realistic, sentimentally speaking.
Just great.
(Forgive my explicit descriptions. :3)
Just great.
(Forgive my explicit descriptions. :3)
February 13, 2016
I found this novel enjoyable to read and a great pass time even though the heroine is a little immature.
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