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LEFT AT THE ALTAR...
Pregnant and in love, Jillian Anderson had wailed for her groom but had gotten only roses and a farewell note. Now she had a good job and a fine son, and she didn't need any man--least of all Trevor Markus.
But Trevor needed her, as he discovered when he arrived in serene Clayton, California, to establish a residence for teenage addicts. He also discovered that he had a son, giving him the excuse he needed to get to know Jillian again. If only he could allow her to get to know him...
But Trevor had a secret, one that would shatter Jillian's remaining dreams, and no matter what, he would have to keep that secret safe.
Pregnant and in love, Jillian Anderson had wailed for her groom but had gotten only roses and a farewell note. Now she had a good job and a fine son, and she didn't need any man--least of all Trevor Markus.
But Trevor needed her, as he discovered when he arrived in serene Clayton, California, to establish a residence for teenage addicts. He also discovered that he had a son, giving him the excuse he needed to get to know Jillian again. If only he could allow her to get to know him...
But Trevor had a secret, one that would shatter Jillian's remaining dreams, and no matter what, he would have to keep that secret safe.
- GenresContemporaryAddiction
250 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1989
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Paula Detmer Riggs
57 books16 followersPaula Detmer Riggs was born in 1944 and earned a BS from the Miami University in 1965. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and Novelists Inc.. She's worked professionally as a ember of the writing faculty of San Diego State University, Long Beach State University, and Irvine State University. Paula Detmer Riggs has written for Silhouette Desire and Silhouette Intimate Moments.
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May 12, 2018
3.5 stars
I have always enjoyed Paula Detmer Riggs, I think she is a terrific author whose books often tackle heavy subjects like date rape and more. This one was a second chance at love story where the couple in question meet fifteen years earlier having parted in less than ideal circumstances. Heroine met the hero when she was a nurse in the navy and he a pilot who was injured during the Vietnam war. They quickly fell in love and got involved when the hero was still immobilized. Before he shipped out for further treatment he asked her to marry her. They exchanged letters for months but the hero never showed up for their wedding to a heavily pregnant heroine (she wanted to surprise him about the baby) and instead left her a letter. When she tried to find him she couldn't so she did the best she could listing a dead soldier as her son's father. Fifteen years later she is a pharmacist and Mayor of her town inaugurating a drug rehab facility, which is owned by hero's company. She is unpleasant and cold to him even when he tries to apologize for the past and when he discovers he has a son, she is a shrew refusing to let him into their lives. Of course the hero uses tactics to make her see that no matter how things went down between them, that didn't give her the right to deny him to get to know his son.
I think it is heavily implied why the hero left the heroine throughout the book. Normally I am all for a heroine to make a hero suffer but the heroine in this one could be a shrew. The book also depicted how parents can be willfully blind to what their own kids are doing and it sometimes takes an outside party to show them the truth. The author definitely tries to make what happens to the parents happen to the kids like in one of her books the mother is a date-rape survivor and the same happens to her daughter. . This was a total angst-fest and the heroine really got on my nerves sometimes though.
Read as part of the Runaway Brides omnibus.
I have always enjoyed Paula Detmer Riggs, I think she is a terrific author whose books often tackle heavy subjects like date rape and more. This one was a second chance at love story where the couple in question meet fifteen years earlier having parted in less than ideal circumstances. Heroine met the hero when she was a nurse in the navy and he a pilot who was injured during the Vietnam war. They quickly fell in love and got involved when the hero was still immobilized. Before he shipped out for further treatment he asked her to marry her. They exchanged letters for months but the hero never showed up for their wedding to a heavily pregnant heroine (she wanted to surprise him about the baby) and instead left her a letter. When she tried to find him she couldn't so she did the best she could listing a dead soldier as her son's father. Fifteen years later she is a pharmacist and Mayor of her town inaugurating a drug rehab facility, which is owned by hero's company. She is unpleasant and cold to him even when he tries to apologize for the past and when he discovers he has a son, she is a shrew refusing to let him into their lives. Of course the hero uses tactics to make her see that no matter how things went down between them, that didn't give her the right to deny him to get to know his son.
I think it is heavily implied why the hero left the heroine throughout the book. Normally I am all for a heroine to make a hero suffer but the heroine in this one could be a shrew. The book also depicted how parents can be willfully blind to what their own kids are doing and it sometimes takes an outside party to show them the truth. The author definitely tries to make what happens to the parents happen to the kids like in one of her books the mother is a date-rape survivor and the same happens to her daughter. . This was a total angst-fest and the heroine really got on my nerves sometimes though.
Read as part of the Runaway Brides omnibus.
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