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Love's agony...
"At least with him you won't be limited to only half a man--lumbered with a cripple for a lover!"
Rex Templeton seemed determined to push Sasha into the arms of another man. He didn't realize he was the perfect lover--excitingly handsome, immensely wealthy, broodingly charismatic....
Because Rex was also paralyzed from the waist down. In his own words, he was a cripple and unworthy of love. There seemed nothing Sasha could do to change his mind. The desire between them was like a straw on the wind; it would take everything they had to reach out and grasp it
"At least with him you won't be limited to only half a man--lumbered with a cripple for a lover!"
Rex Templeton seemed determined to push Sasha into the arms of another man. He didn't realize he was the perfect lover--excitingly handsome, immensely wealthy, broodingly charismatic....
Because Rex was also paralyzed from the waist down. In his own words, he was a cripple and unworthy of love. There seemed nothing Sasha could do to change his mind. The desire between them was like a straw on the wind; it would take everything they had to reach out and grasp it
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Elizabeth Power
145 books33 followersFollowing in her father's footsteps, Elizabeth Power wanted to be a writer from a very early age. Once she realised that copying Rupert Bear stories word for word from her albums wasn't really the thing to do, she was on her way!
By the age of fourteen, Elizabeth had produced her first full-length novel—alas! never published—and by the age of fifteen her teenage years meant life was so full that all literary ambitions became somewhat overshadowed.
Married in her early twenties, Elizabeth found that the needs of the home became her priority. Despite the ever present nagging little voice in her conscience that constantly reminded her of those unfulfilled writing ambitions, the creativity had stopped.
A few weeks before her thirtieth birthday, Elizabeth was thinking about what she had done with her first thirty years and realised she had been telling herself that she would "start writing tomorrow" for at least twelve of them! She couldn't help wondering, "whatever happened to that dream?" Within two weeks her "tomorrow" would come when fate took a hand in the form of redundancy!
Writing was now Elizabeth's life. After several attempts, the letter that was to change her life arrived from Mills & Boon. They wanted to publish her book. The novels flowed, and they have continued to publish her books ever since.
Living in England's beautiful West Country, she likes nothing better than taking walks with her husband along the coast or in the adjoining woods, and enjoying all that nature has to offer.
Travelling ranks very highly among Elizabeth's pleasures, and so many places she has visited have been recreated in her books.
Of her writing, emotional intensity is paramount. She says, "Times, places and trends change, but emotion is timeless." A powerful storyline with maximum emotion set in a location in which one can really live and breathe whilst the story unfolds is what she strives for.
By the age of fourteen, Elizabeth had produced her first full-length novel—alas! never published—and by the age of fifteen her teenage years meant life was so full that all literary ambitions became somewhat overshadowed.
Married in her early twenties, Elizabeth found that the needs of the home became her priority. Despite the ever present nagging little voice in her conscience that constantly reminded her of those unfulfilled writing ambitions, the creativity had stopped.
A few weeks before her thirtieth birthday, Elizabeth was thinking about what she had done with her first thirty years and realised she had been telling herself that she would "start writing tomorrow" for at least twelve of them! She couldn't help wondering, "whatever happened to that dream?" Within two weeks her "tomorrow" would come when fate took a hand in the form of redundancy!
Writing was now Elizabeth's life. After several attempts, the letter that was to change her life arrived from Mills & Boon. They wanted to publish her book. The novels flowed, and they have continued to publish her books ever since.
Living in England's beautiful West Country, she likes nothing better than taking walks with her husband along the coast or in the adjoining woods, and enjoying all that nature has to offer.
Travelling ranks very highly among Elizabeth's pleasures, and so many places she has visited have been recreated in her books.
Of her writing, emotional intensity is paramount. She says, "Times, places and trends change, but emotion is timeless." A powerful storyline with maximum emotion set in a location in which one can really live and breathe whilst the story unfolds is what she strives for.
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November 4, 2018
While taking a ride in a balloon Sasha Morgan and her companion Gavin (who is operating the balloon) have to make a crash landing and they end up crashing down in the middle of a marquee. It's a birthday party for Sheila Templeton. Her son (hero Rex Templeton, who is in a wheelchair) insists that Sasha stay at their home for the night since Sasha has some bruises and had fainted earlier. (Sasha refused to go to the hospital.) Sasha reluctantly agrees.
The next day Rex tells Sasha that he and his chauffeur can drive Sasha to her car, which is in the English countryside. (Sasha has been on a holiday and has camped out there). When they reach her car she realizes that it has been broken into and a lot of her possessions are stolen, including her passport and travelers checks. Rex offers to help her out. Knowing that she is an artist (she paints and she's a children's book illustrator) he suggests that if she can paint a fresco by his fireplace she can have free room and board at his home for the remainder of her holiday. Sasha agrees and begins to work on the fresco.
Sasha discovers that Rex has been in a wheelchair since he was in a car accident two years ago. He is very angry and resentful over this and is quite abrupt with Sasha at times. Sasha is also finding herself attracted to Rex, much to her dismay. She really doesn't want to get involved with anyone because she still feels guilty over the death of her fiancé Ben, who died a while ago, but Sasha has fallen in love with Rex. (Ben had a serious heart ailment, but Sasha thinks his death was her fault because she was getting pre-wedding jitters before the wedding and she thinks that caused some stress to Ben, which could have eventually killed him.)
One day, during a romantic dinner, Rex asks Sasha to marry him and she says yes. But later Sasha wonders if Rex just asked her to marry him to get back at his ex-girlfriend (who dumped him after his accident) who is back in town...
I really enjoyed this lovely romance. I liked Rex, especially when he was jealous when Sasha was with Gavin. (I love jealous, smitten heroes!) I also liked Rex's romantic dinner where he proposed to Sasha. Sasha was a likable and nice heroine. I thought her career was interesting. Rex and Sasha had great chemistry.
A good read by Elizabeth Power.
The next day Rex tells Sasha that he and his chauffeur can drive Sasha to her car, which is in the English countryside. (Sasha has been on a holiday and has camped out there). When they reach her car she realizes that it has been broken into and a lot of her possessions are stolen, including her passport and travelers checks. Rex offers to help her out. Knowing that she is an artist (she paints and she's a children's book illustrator) he suggests that if she can paint a fresco by his fireplace she can have free room and board at his home for the remainder of her holiday. Sasha agrees and begins to work on the fresco.
Sasha discovers that Rex has been in a wheelchair since he was in a car accident two years ago. He is very angry and resentful over this and is quite abrupt with Sasha at times. Sasha is also finding herself attracted to Rex, much to her dismay. She really doesn't want to get involved with anyone because she still feels guilty over the death of her fiancé Ben, who died a while ago, but Sasha has fallen in love with Rex. (Ben had a serious heart ailment, but Sasha thinks his death was her fault because she was getting pre-wedding jitters before the wedding and she thinks that caused some stress to Ben, which could have eventually killed him.)
One day, during a romantic dinner, Rex asks Sasha to marry him and she says yes. But later Sasha wonders if Rex just asked her to marry him to get back at his ex-girlfriend (who dumped him after his accident) who is back in town...
I really enjoyed this lovely romance. I liked Rex, especially when he was jealous when Sasha was with Gavin. (I love jealous, smitten heroes!) I also liked Rex's romantic dinner where he proposed to Sasha. Sasha was a likable and nice heroine. I thought her career was interesting. Rex and Sasha had great chemistry.
A good read by Elizabeth Power.
August 12, 2018
Re Straw on the Wind - Elizabeth Power starts things with a crash in this one. The h and H meet when the balloon she is in crashes into his English Estate garden party.
The h is a 24 yr old American illustrator/artist. She has lost her fiance due to a congenital heart ailment about 18 months before the story starts and is currently looking to bury herself in the English countryside and immerse herself in painting to try and recover her artistic mojo.
The h feels her fiance's death is her fault. She had some cold feet before the wedding and she thinks this momentary doubt stressed her fiance out too much, he had his fatal heart attack the next day. So the h is carrying around a boatload of guilt.
The H has his own burden of being in a wheelchair after a car accident and he fiercely resents it. His fiancee at the time dumped him because he could no longer walk and his distant cousin, a young and very assertive girl, seems to think his incapacity has made the H her private property.
The H decides that the h should recuperate at his small manor house, she injured her shoulder when she and the guy she hired crash landed the H's garden party for his mother's birthday and the h doesn't correct him when he assumes the balloon hire guy is her boyfriend.
The h can feel an attraction to the H burbling along her veins, but she is horrified at the thought, she is still supposed to be grieving her dead fiance. When the H takes the h back to her car after her night at his house, the h finds that all of her things have been stolen.
The thieves left her clothes, but took her passport, her money and her traveler's cheques she had stored in the boot of the car. (The h was only supposed to be gone for a few hours, the thieves broke into her car overnight.)
So the H makes the h a deal, she can stay with him for the next four or five weeks - the length of her planned sojourn - and to repay him for her lodging and a small loan, she can paint a fresco in his rooms.
The h agrees and the big back and forth courtship is on. The h and H try to deny the lurve force mojo running rampant between them. The H figures the h wouldn't want a man in a wheelchair and the h is all about her dead fiance and resenting the H's avaricious distant cousin OW - who keeps putting out 'keep off my man' vibes.
After the h gets thrown by the H's very spirited horse, rescues the cousin OW's cat off a crumbling ledge three stories up and then confesses her guilt over her fiance and is consoled by the H while sightseeing, the H lets the wanna be cousin OW know that there is never going to be a romance between them.
The H is madly passionate about the h and her excellent painting skills, so the H proposes to the h in a very nice little picnic on the estate. (The H really liked her fresco she painted for him.)
The h happily accepts, to the dismay of the wanna be OM she keeps hanging out with for some reason, who keeps trying to put a spike in the H and h's relationship by bringing up the cousin OW and also bringing up the H's ex-fiancee who dumped him when he had his accident.
Both the wanna be OM and the wanna be cousin OW tell the h that the ex-fiancee is back in the country and looking to hook up with the H, they do this during the h and H's engagement party and the h falls for the jibes.
In typical EP fashion, the h starts agonizing over the H's ex being back and when she arrives early to meet him for dinner one day, she finds the H and the OW together in his office. The h sneaks out as there is a big roofie kiss between the H and his ex. Since the H had told her not to sell her NYC flat earlier, the h assumes she is about to get dumped.
The h goes off without confronting the H and wanders around in a storm for a while, then she returns to the H's house and promptly has a big fight with the H. There is a dramatic scene with the h implying she had been with the wanna be OM and the H gets up walks over to the h and they have a big Purple Passion moment.
The h isn't a unicorn petter, but she has never before been so cast adrift on the Shores of Golden Transcendent Bliss, so we all know that the H is really her true love and the dead fiancee was not the right man.
We also know that the H must be madly in love with the h too, because just the thought of another man with the h made him angry enough to walk again.
However the h misses the huge billboard telling her that the H loves her, she gets ill for a day or two and then is very distant when the H tries to talk to her. The H thinks she is backing off from him, even tho he can walk now and tells her the engagement can be over as soon as they know she isn't preggers.
The h mopes around and still doesn't say anything about the big kiss between him and his ex. When she finally knows she isn't preggers, she collects her car and prepares to leave, even tho the H asks her to wait until he can take her to Heathrow.
On the way to Heathrow by herself, the h stops to look at the river and have another little mopey moment. She forgets to put the handbrake on the car and it rolls into the river with all of her things inside.
The police come and they call the H and we have another dramatic scene with the H thinking the h shouldn't be allowed out of the house without his personal protection and the h accusing the H of two timing her with his ex.
The H explains that he let the ex kiss him to prove that there was nothing between them and that if the h had stuck around instead of storming off, she would have seen the ex leaving in a big hurry herself because the H is all about being in love with the h.
The h makes no comment on her habit of needing a keeper to leave the house, she only avows her very true love back and we leave them planning the wedding in between roofie kisses for the big HEA.
All in all this is a pretty standard EP HP day at the office. In typical EP fashion the h is wildly jealous, but in atypical EP fashion, there is actually good reason for her to be concerned. The H never tells her he loves her until the end and he is quite enigmatic in what he does feel for her.
Plus this H has a huge chip on his shoulder about being in a wheelchair, so the h wasn't totally beyond understanding when it seemed that the H might take the chance to recreate his former life and he did let the OW kiss him, so that was pretty tacky.
It all works out in the end tho, so we can be happy the h is happy and chalk this one in as a fairly decent HP outing.
The h is a 24 yr old American illustrator/artist. She has lost her fiance due to a congenital heart ailment about 18 months before the story starts and is currently looking to bury herself in the English countryside and immerse herself in painting to try and recover her artistic mojo.
The h feels her fiance's death is her fault. She had some cold feet before the wedding and she thinks this momentary doubt stressed her fiance out too much, he had his fatal heart attack the next day. So the h is carrying around a boatload of guilt.
The H has his own burden of being in a wheelchair after a car accident and he fiercely resents it. His fiancee at the time dumped him because he could no longer walk and his distant cousin, a young and very assertive girl, seems to think his incapacity has made the H her private property.
The H decides that the h should recuperate at his small manor house, she injured her shoulder when she and the guy she hired crash landed the H's garden party for his mother's birthday and the h doesn't correct him when he assumes the balloon hire guy is her boyfriend.
The h can feel an attraction to the H burbling along her veins, but she is horrified at the thought, she is still supposed to be grieving her dead fiance. When the H takes the h back to her car after her night at his house, the h finds that all of her things have been stolen.
The thieves left her clothes, but took her passport, her money and her traveler's cheques she had stored in the boot of the car. (The h was only supposed to be gone for a few hours, the thieves broke into her car overnight.)
So the H makes the h a deal, she can stay with him for the next four or five weeks - the length of her planned sojourn - and to repay him for her lodging and a small loan, she can paint a fresco in his rooms.
The h agrees and the big back and forth courtship is on. The h and H try to deny the lurve force mojo running rampant between them. The H figures the h wouldn't want a man in a wheelchair and the h is all about her dead fiance and resenting the H's avaricious distant cousin OW - who keeps putting out 'keep off my man' vibes.
After the h gets thrown by the H's very spirited horse, rescues the cousin OW's cat off a crumbling ledge three stories up and then confesses her guilt over her fiance and is consoled by the H while sightseeing, the H lets the wanna be cousin OW know that there is never going to be a romance between them.
The H is madly passionate about the h and her excellent painting skills, so the H proposes to the h in a very nice little picnic on the estate. (The H really liked her fresco she painted for him.)
The h happily accepts, to the dismay of the wanna be OM she keeps hanging out with for some reason, who keeps trying to put a spike in the H and h's relationship by bringing up the cousin OW and also bringing up the H's ex-fiancee who dumped him when he had his accident.
Both the wanna be OM and the wanna be cousin OW tell the h that the ex-fiancee is back in the country and looking to hook up with the H, they do this during the h and H's engagement party and the h falls for the jibes.
In typical EP fashion, the h starts agonizing over the H's ex being back and when she arrives early to meet him for dinner one day, she finds the H and the OW together in his office. The h sneaks out as there is a big roofie kiss between the H and his ex. Since the H had told her not to sell her NYC flat earlier, the h assumes she is about to get dumped.
The h goes off without confronting the H and wanders around in a storm for a while, then she returns to the H's house and promptly has a big fight with the H. There is a dramatic scene with the h implying she had been with the wanna be OM and the H gets up walks over to the h and they have a big Purple Passion moment.
The h isn't a unicorn petter, but she has never before been so cast adrift on the Shores of Golden Transcendent Bliss, so we all know that the H is really her true love and the dead fiancee was not the right man.
We also know that the H must be madly in love with the h too, because just the thought of another man with the h made him angry enough to walk again.
However the h misses the huge billboard telling her that the H loves her, she gets ill for a day or two and then is very distant when the H tries to talk to her. The H thinks she is backing off from him, even tho he can walk now and tells her the engagement can be over as soon as they know she isn't preggers.
The h mopes around and still doesn't say anything about the big kiss between him and his ex. When she finally knows she isn't preggers, she collects her car and prepares to leave, even tho the H asks her to wait until he can take her to Heathrow.
On the way to Heathrow by herself, the h stops to look at the river and have another little mopey moment. She forgets to put the handbrake on the car and it rolls into the river with all of her things inside.
The police come and they call the H and we have another dramatic scene with the H thinking the h shouldn't be allowed out of the house without his personal protection and the h accusing the H of two timing her with his ex.
The H explains that he let the ex kiss him to prove that there was nothing between them and that if the h had stuck around instead of storming off, she would have seen the ex leaving in a big hurry herself because the H is all about being in love with the h.
The h makes no comment on her habit of needing a keeper to leave the house, she only avows her very true love back and we leave them planning the wedding in between roofie kisses for the big HEA.
All in all this is a pretty standard EP HP day at the office. In typical EP fashion the h is wildly jealous, but in atypical EP fashion, there is actually good reason for her to be concerned. The H never tells her he loves her until the end and he is quite enigmatic in what he does feel for her.
Plus this H has a huge chip on his shoulder about being in a wheelchair, so the h wasn't totally beyond understanding when it seemed that the H might take the chance to recreate his former life and he did let the OW kiss him, so that was pretty tacky.
It all works out in the end tho, so we can be happy the h is happy and chalk this one in as a fairly decent HP outing.
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July 28, 2018
ليست روايه رومانسيه 100% ولكنها روايه تحدي واراده .
April 25, 2013
I found this story a bit insipid, even with the charismatic and initially paralysed hero. Good writing, anyway
January 14, 2019
Muy cute💖 me atrapó desde el primer capítulo, me hubiera gustado un epílogo pero todo fue muy bonito💖 Rex y Sasha se complementan muy bien, me encantannn💖.
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June 8, 2020Love's agony...
"At least with him you won't be limited to only half a man--lumbered with a cripple for a lover!"
Rex Templeton seemed determined to push Sasha into the arms of another man. He didn't realize he was the perfect lover--excitingly handsome, immensely wealthy, broodingly charismatic....
Because Rex was also paralyzed from the waist down. In his own words, he was a cripple and unworthy of love. There seemed nothing Sasha could do to change his mind. The desire between them was like a straw on the wind; it would take everything they had to reach out and grasp it
"At least with him you won't be limited to only half a man--lumbered with a cripple for a lover!"
Rex Templeton seemed determined to push Sasha into the arms of another man. He didn't realize he was the perfect lover--excitingly handsome, immensely wealthy, broodingly charismatic....
Because Rex was also paralyzed from the waist down. In his own words, he was a cripple and unworthy of love. There seemed nothing Sasha could do to change his mind. The desire between them was like a straw on the wind; it would take everything they had to reach out and grasp it
February 16, 2023
uhhh sure. That was a weird book. The elements and characters are all there but we can't get to know or enjoy anything from it. It's like a bolder rolling down a hill and we are catching glimpses of things but we just have to keep rolling with the plot. I say skip, there have to be better romances involving a special abled person in them.
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December 16, 2015Description: Love's agony...
"At least with him you won't be limited to only half a man--lumbered with a cripple for a lover!"
Rex Templeton seemed determined to push Sasha into the arms of another man. He didn't realize he was the perfect lover--excitingly handsome, immensely wealthy, broodingly charismatic....
Because Rex was also paralyzed from the waist down. In his own words, he was a cripple and unworthy of love. There seemed nothing Sasha could do to change his mind. The desire between them was like a straw on the wind; it would take everything they had to reach out and grasp it!
"At least with him you won't be limited to only half a man--lumbered with a cripple for a lover!"
Rex Templeton seemed determined to push Sasha into the arms of another man. He didn't realize he was the perfect lover--excitingly handsome, immensely wealthy, broodingly charismatic....
Because Rex was also paralyzed from the waist down. In his own words, he was a cripple and unworthy of love. There seemed nothing Sasha could do to change his mind. The desire between them was like a straw on the wind; it would take everything they had to reach out and grasp it!
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August 11, 2012love it :)"Rex & Sasha "a beautiful love story"
October 9, 2014
It was pretty good, bit of a cliche or whatever, but good.
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July 4, 2018"At least with him you won't be limited to only half a man--lumbered with a cripple for a lover!"
Rex Templeton seemed determined to push Sasha into the arms of another man. He didn't realize he was the perfect lover--excitingly handsome, immensely wealthy, broodingly charismatic....
Because Rex was also paralyzed from the waist down. In his own words, he was a cripple and unworthy of love. There seemed nothing Sasha could do to change his mind. The desire between them was like a straw on the wind; it would take everything they had to reach out and grasp it
Rex Templeton seemed determined to push Sasha into the arms of another man. He didn't realize he was the perfect lover--excitingly handsome, immensely wealthy, broodingly charismatic....
Because Rex was also paralyzed from the waist down. In his own words, he was a cripple and unworthy of love. There seemed nothing Sasha could do to change his mind. The desire between them was like a straw on the wind; it would take everything they had to reach out and grasp it
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