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Permata Di Tarika Bay
Di tengah arena Agricultural and Pastoral Show, tatapan mereka bertemu. Morna Vause tak sanggup menahan ketertarikannya pada pria jangkung berkulit kecokelatan itu. Bahasa tubuh pria tampan itu yang kuat dan penuh percaya diri, memicu gejolak di hati Morna. Akan tetapi cinta masa lalu yang menyakitkan menutup hati Morna pada pria mana pun. Ia pun tenggelam dalam kesibukan merancang dan membuat perhiasan.
Hawke Challenger pendatang baru di Tarika Bay, langsung terpikat pada Morna sejak pertemuan pertama. Berdasarkan desas-desus yang didengarnya, ia tahu wanita itu materialistis dan penggoda sejati. Namun Hawke menginginkan semua yang Morna miliki---properti indah di pesisir pantai Selandia Baru serta tubuh wanita itu!
Menyadari maksud Hawke, Morna semakin gencar menghindar. Namun ketertarikan di antara mereka begitu kuat. Akankah ia menyerah pada rayuan pria itu atau membiarkan trauma masa lalu terus menghantui?
Hawke Challenger pendatang baru di Tarika Bay, langsung terpikat pada Morna sejak pertemuan pertama. Berdasarkan desas-desus yang didengarnya, ia tahu wanita itu materialistis dan penggoda sejati. Namun Hawke menginginkan semua yang Morna miliki---properti indah di pesisir pantai Selandia Baru serta tubuh wanita itu!
Menyadari maksud Hawke, Morna semakin gencar menghindar. Namun ketertarikan di antara mereka begitu kuat. Akankah ia menyerah pada rayuan pria itu atau membiarkan trauma masa lalu terus menghantui?
280 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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Robyn Donald
448 books146 followersRobyn Elaine Donald was born on 14 August 1940 in Northland, New Zealand. She was the oldest child in her family, and as a child, she thrilled her four sisters and one brother with bloodcurdling adventure tales, usually very like the latest book she'd borrowed from the library.
Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.
The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.
Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.
The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.
Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
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September 26, 2021
This is the story of the OW from A Ruthless Passion. She is a woman wronged, but her head is held high throughout this ridiculous story.
Heroine was married to her foster brother's mentor. Then her hubby took a fancy to yet another innocent girl and dumped heroine. Foster brother was angry his friend was dumped and that he wanted that sweet innocent for himself. It all worked out for the foster brother and sweet innocent when evil mentor died.
Heroine is traumatized because "people" (hero is the only one) think she exploited her ex-husband to go to design school. What? Take him to the cleaners, girl.
Anyway, heroine is prideful and stupid. She paid the money back to her ex (who didn't need it) and now she's trying to start a high-end jewelry shop on a shoestring.
Our hero - Hawke Challenger - meets the heroine when she moves into a bach that she inherited from a nice old man. Hero wants the land for a hotel development and is convinced heroine got possession of the bach by foul means. He digs up a shirttail relative of the old man that no one knew about so heroine has to move out. Meanwhile an idiot employee doesn't set an alarm so the shop is robbed. Insurance won't pay. Heroine is in deep trouble -but she forgives everyone and generally cuts her nose off to spite her face.
Hero wears her down for a tepid RD romance.
Heroine was married to her foster brother's mentor. Then her hubby took a fancy to yet another innocent girl and dumped heroine. Foster brother was angry his friend was dumped and that he wanted that sweet innocent for himself. It all worked out for the foster brother and sweet innocent when evil mentor died.
Heroine is traumatized because "people" (hero is the only one) think she exploited her ex-husband to go to design school. What? Take him to the cleaners, girl.
Anyway, heroine is prideful and stupid. She paid the money back to her ex (who didn't need it) and now she's trying to start a high-end jewelry shop on a shoestring.
Our hero - Hawke Challenger - meets the heroine when she moves into a bach that she inherited from a nice old man. Hero wants the land for a hotel development and is convinced heroine got possession of the bach by foul means. He digs up a shirttail relative of the old man that no one knew about so heroine has to move out. Meanwhile an idiot employee doesn't set an alarm so the shop is robbed. Insurance won't pay. Heroine is in deep trouble -but she forgives everyone and generally cuts her nose off to spite her face.
Hero wears her down for a tepid RD romance.
May 22, 2023
Another RD reread, due to it coming up on the OL returns shelf just in time for my holidays. Hawke (I know) and Morna have intense hots for each other from their first encounter at an agricultural show. He's the usual RD agri/property baron and she's a jewellery designer who (shock horror) lived as a mistress with another man in her early twenties. Her reputation as a gold digger precedes her (rolls eyes). They jump each other frequently. I do think RD can be strong on sexual tension. I always (well almost) enjoy going along for the ride in a RD romance and this was no exception. "From now on," declares Hawke at the end "I'll always try to make things easier for you". Who among us would not give our eye teeth for that. Lord knows it's been a hard enough few years. I reckon even the men are yearning for a strong, protective sex god to take them away from all this.
August 6, 2021
3.5* 2003
Morna's first and only lover was her foster bro's mentor/boss with whom she lived with for 5 years. She was the trophy mistress but the young and innocent girl wanted a father figure so badly she thought she was head over heels in love. When Cathy an even younger woman arrived on the scene, the despicable Glen threw Morna over and married Cathy as trophy wife.
However to soothe his conscience and reputation, he sponsored Morna for a course in the top jewellery design course. Left with no choice, she took up the offer and became a successful designer. Upon graduation she began paying back the course fee because she didn't want to be bought off. The vindictive Glen gave every cent of this repayment back to her in his will. Morna donated these monthly repayments to a children's charity, living frugally by shopping in charity shops. She only stuck to basic colours like black and white because it's easier to shop in thrift stores and anumal prints meant it was recently fashionable haha! The hero Hawke thought she's just stylish/sophisticated!
And the shocker was the widowed Cathy was married to Nick, Morna's foster bro, Despicable Glen's protégé! Apparently after what happened to Morna Nick gave up his rising career in advertising, switched to the IT industry and became a success. His latest interest was in raising cattle which was where the story began, in rural Northland NZ.
Thus with this back story, we learnt Morna was living in a bach/shack by the beach that Morna had inherited, almost, from an old friend. With her history of being a rich old man's mistress, people assumed her professional success was due to Glen's legacy, and Nick 's financial backing. Now she even inherited valuable beachfront land from an unrelated old man evil gossips had it she had seduced it from an old man.
It was with such bias our hero met Morna. Hawke was the modern day landed gentry though he could be pretty hands on when it came to his farms. Tall, dark and handsome he was, and the sexual attraction he and Morna felt at first sight was electrifying and as sure as winter was to come...
Robyn Donald focused quite a lot on our heroine's inner thoughts and feelings...what the two felt it was primal and uncontrollable. Lots of angst from the part of Morna with the emotional baggage she's had in her whole life.
Thank goodness Hawke had a bit more of an open mind, though the gossips and what facts people knew painted a bad picture of Morna, he really wanted to dig deep and understand her. Maybe he just didn't want to accept he could fall so hard for a gold digger!
I hadn't expected the characters to feel so intensely and it was lots of ups and downs reading this book. Poor Morna went through one shock after another on that fateful day...but her strength and integrity shone through. I really like that Hawke was the one who confessed his love first, so that the once bitten, twice shy Morna dared to admit her love too. The poor girl deserved her HEA!
I really enjoy Robyn Donald's books set in NZ. I remember reading her royal family series from years ago. Will check out the rest of her few ebooks available in my library.
Morna's first and only lover was her foster bro's mentor/boss with whom she lived with for 5 years. She was the trophy mistress but the young and innocent girl wanted a father figure so badly she thought she was head over heels in love. When Cathy an even younger woman arrived on the scene, the despicable Glen threw Morna over and married Cathy as trophy wife.
However to soothe his conscience and reputation, he sponsored Morna for a course in the top jewellery design course. Left with no choice, she took up the offer and became a successful designer. Upon graduation she began paying back the course fee because she didn't want to be bought off. The vindictive Glen gave every cent of this repayment back to her in his will. Morna donated these monthly repayments to a children's charity, living frugally by shopping in charity shops. She only stuck to basic colours like black and white because it's easier to shop in thrift stores and anumal prints meant it was recently fashionable haha! The hero Hawke thought she's just stylish/sophisticated!
And the shocker was the widowed Cathy was married to Nick, Morna's foster bro, Despicable Glen's protégé! Apparently after what happened to Morna Nick gave up his rising career in advertising, switched to the IT industry and became a success. His latest interest was in raising cattle which was where the story began, in rural Northland NZ.
Thus with this back story, we learnt Morna was living in a bach/shack by the beach that Morna had inherited, almost, from an old friend. With her history of being a rich old man's mistress, people assumed her professional success was due to Glen's legacy, and Nick 's financial backing. Now she even inherited valuable beachfront land from an unrelated old man evil gossips had it she had seduced it from an old man.
It was with such bias our hero met Morna. Hawke was the modern day landed gentry though he could be pretty hands on when it came to his farms. Tall, dark and handsome he was, and the sexual attraction he and Morna felt at first sight was electrifying and as sure as winter was to come...
Robyn Donald focused quite a lot on our heroine's inner thoughts and feelings...what the two felt it was primal and uncontrollable. Lots of angst from the part of Morna with the emotional baggage she's had in her whole life.
Thank goodness Hawke had a bit more of an open mind, though the gossips and what facts people knew painted a bad picture of Morna, he really wanted to dig deep and understand her. Maybe he just didn't want to accept he could fall so hard for a gold digger!
I hadn't expected the characters to feel so intensely and it was lots of ups and downs reading this book. Poor Morna went through one shock after another on that fateful day...but her strength and integrity shone through. I really like that Hawke was the one who confessed his love first, so that the once bitten, twice shy Morna dared to admit her love too. The poor girl deserved her HEA!
I really enjoy Robyn Donald's books set in NZ. I remember reading her royal family series from years ago. Will check out the rest of her few ebooks available in my library.
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June 23, 2011
Ceritanya biasa aja. Standar harlequin. Yang bikin saya penasaran malah negara New Zealand nya. Setting novel ini di pulau Utara, dan menjelang musim gugur. So, sekitar bulan Maret or April deh.
Yah pada dasarnya, baik Morna maupun Hawke sudah saling jatuh cinta. Hanya saja, masa lalu Morna bikin cewek ini berhati hati dengan kisah cinta, sementara Hawke juuga sempat berpikir Morna emang cewek matre. Oh iya, satu hal yang saya sebal dari buku ini... Ceweknya lebih tua ketimbang si cowok... Deuh, ilfil deh...
Yah pada dasarnya, baik Morna maupun Hawke sudah saling jatuh cinta. Hanya saja, masa lalu Morna bikin cewek ini berhati hati dengan kisah cinta, sementara Hawke juuga sempat berpikir Morna emang cewek matre. Oh iya, satu hal yang saya sebal dari buku ini... Ceweknya lebih tua ketimbang si cowok... Deuh, ilfil deh...
August 10, 2024
Everyone leave the heroine alone!!! Let her heal! And get her life on track. Most everyone around her treats her poorly. The hero is just acting a fool and not treating her like someone he is fully interested in. Skip. Pretty boring story.
June 28, 2008
Jalan cerita/konflik kurang menarik
May 3, 2015
I read the English version of this book, but couldn't find that one on here.
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February 9, 2019Morna is suspicious of a newcomer to Tarika Bay. Hawke Challenger is handsome, ruthless and rich. He believes she is a gold digger, and he wants everything she owns - her beautiful New Zealand coastal property...and her body!
Settle back and enjoy Robyn Donald's intense, passionate romance. Find out whether Morna can resist Hawke's incredible physical magnetism. If he beds her, she fears he won't wed her. He'll just make her pay...and pay....
Settle back and enjoy Robyn Donald's intense, passionate romance. Find out whether Morna can resist Hawke's incredible physical magnetism. If he beds her, she fears he won't wed her. He'll just make her pay...and pay....
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