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by Flora Kidd

Για χάρη τής δουλειάς της η Έλεν εγκατέλειψε τον άντρα της, κι έφυγε με το αγοράκι της για τον Καναδά. Όταν μετά από καιρό ξαναγύρισε στη Σκοτία, ανακάλυψε πως μια άλλη γυναίκα είχε μπει στη ζωή τού Ντέρμιντ. Τι να κάνει, τώρα που ξέρει ότι δεν έπαψε ποτέ να τον αγαπά; Να μείνει κοντά του ή να πάρει το παιδί της και να φύγει για πάντα αυτή τη φορά;

Genres: Romance, Harlequin Presents, Harlequin

154 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Flora Mildred Cartwright was born on 1926 in Liverpool, England, UK. The youngest of four children, Flora and her family lived in the same house until she was a teen. In 1949, she graduated from Liverpool University, where she met Robert Kidd, her husband. They moved to her beloved Scotland, where she began teaching, writing, and raised their four children: Richard, Patricia, Peter and David.

Flora Kidd published her first novel, Visit To Rowanbank, in 1966 at Mills & Boon. In 1977, the family moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, where she continued her romance career with Mills & Boon until 1989, when she retired. In 1994, she published the first of the The Marco Polo Project novels, to support a project to build a replica of the 19th century ship Marco Polo.

Flora Kidd passed away on March 19, 2008 at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

Reviews

[Debbie DiFiore · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another old book where the celibacy is unclear. These two blockheads have been separated for three years or four. It says both of those numbers so I don't know what it really was. She wants to go into TV and gets a job in Canada after she had a baby while the H was in Colombia for six months. He comes home and they smex it up and then she says no move here, i have a job and he says no way and okay let's just have a one year separation. She says 'what' but she agrees to it and then three years later she has to go see him about a will. She gets there and the H is frankly a dick but she is pretty annoying herself too. I was like just make up your mind. And they go at it like monkeys and she still is undecided. There are all these stories floating around about his infidelity and they were all wrong it turns out. But he did say something like if I was going to do it I wouldn't do it around here. Which in my jealous, super dirty, twisted mind means he did it elsewhere right? And then he says something about 'dark eyed senoritas' and what did the h do? Nothing. Doesn't ask him if he cheated there or anything. So it's okay to cheat when you are away, just not in your home town. Okay then. She is truly a moron. I don't want him to have cheated. But again I just didn't trust him. I hope he was true to her but I don't think he was because it turns out he didn't love her back then. He just wanted her body but he learned to love her while they were apart. WTH?? Are you kidding me? They kissed, pledged eternal love and it's over. She and the kid (did I mention he hadn't come to see his kid for three years) are moving back to him and there is sunshine and roses and butterflies all around them and it's an HEA. I would definitely check the roses for thorns though. They are sure to be there.

[Debby · Rating 4 out of 5]

The h is crazy. She thinks he cheats on her with a woman at his work, she thinks he cheats on her with the doctor of his aunt, then she thinks he cheats on her with the daughter of the doctor of his aunt.

And so it goes on and on. The minute he explains that he hasn’t cheated on her with the woman she thinks he has been with, she finds another woman to be jealous of.

Somehow it works. Her jealousy, his lust, it was all so well written.

[RomLibrary · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why cling to a dying dream?
Five years before on her first trip to Scotland, young, impressionable Ellen had met and married the dashing Dermid Craig.
But Dermid and Ellen had been separated for almost three years--longer than they'd be together. Now, flying from Canada to Scotland, with their small son to confront Dermid again, Ellen tried to understand what had destroyed the passion and promise of the early years.
Why not concede that it was over? Or was this her last chance to rebuild their marriage?

[Lin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Married for five years, separated for three, living on two continents, careers more important than being together. A young son, who didn't know his father. Both enjoying their freedom, their careers. Then Ellen has to return to Scotland for the reading of a will. She wished she had never come. She wished she had ignored the lawyer's letter which had requested she be present at a reading of the last will and testament of Neil Craig and that she should bring her son Rowan with her. If she had put herself first, she would have stayed in Ottawa and she would have filed a suit for divorce long ago. Separation from Dermid Craig had achieved nothing. He was just as aggravating and tormenting as he had always been. Just as dangerously attractive to her too, she admitted grudgingly, giving him a sideways glance. But he wasn't there he was walking away from her towards the exit and Rowan was with him. They were hand in hand and Rowan occasionally gave a little skip as if he were quite happy to go with a man who, although he was the child's father, was virtually a stranger to him. "Rowan come back, Dermid you can't do this!" "Can't I?" She glared up at his mocking face, searching her mind desperately for some sharp rejoinder. But none came, instead she found herself thinking again how good-looking he was. "Mummy hurry up!"" "I wanna go on a boat, to the castle. Come on!"

[Christine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not sure how to say or where to start…

This is going on my worst book shelf for sure.

Neither main character was likeable in any way and certainly they were and are not mature enough for marriage and children!

There lack of communication, compassion, loyalty between them shows how shallow their relationship.

I finished hoping for redemption but alas it was not to be. This is most certainly an HFN and no way a HEA. His next trip = more infidelity. And the mfc will just wait with open arms.

A sad book for sure.

[ANGELIA · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think this book was more annoying than anything else. The H and h were both so damn self-centered, putting their own (often foolish) feelings before what was best for their son, it's no wonder their four-year-old son was a contender for the Brat of the Year award! (He'd get my vote!)

For an h who wants to be independent, she has no problem letting her mother run her life and influence her against the H. She prefers to live with her mother in Canada instead of with her husband in Scotland, takes a job at a local TV station (she didn't earn it, her mother's friend gave it to her), believes stupid gossip her mom's snarky cousin says about the H and allows their one year trial separation to stretch to three years, without ever taking their son to see him in Scotland, so not only doesn't he know his own father, but his great-grandfather died without getting to see him! It's the reading of the will that finally brings her there, and she sure acts like a nasty brat about it, almost as bad as her son!

We get the usual "of course I don't love him anymore", as well as the "treacherous body" trope, she gives in to passion, hates him, hate herself more, etc. She believes every dumb rumor she hears about his supposed infidelities, even thinking he's having sex with both a mother and daughter, the girl being only 17!!! (YUCK!!!!) This makes her act like a bitch to the H's kindly aunt and the housekeeper, who should both have kicked her snarky behind! She also does the classic cowardly h thing: she runs away when the going gets tough, and takes their son with her, despite his becoming close with his father and wanting to stay with him. (She's also jealous of their closeness, and the fact that the kid listens to him, while he walks all over her. She even hesitates to get a medical opinion on why the kid lisps because the doctor is the woman who she suspects the h is sleeping with! So, her pride comes before her four-year-old son! Real nice!!!)

Not that the H is any better! He has a job where he needs to travel to other countries pretty often and stay for weeks - or sometimes months - at a time, yet expects her to understand and be patient, suck it up and wait for him to come home, with dinner on the table and a smile, ready to get naked! Come on!!! This started almost as soon as they got married and he just shrugged off her concern, after refusing to let her go with him. The first time, she was pregnant (all too soon after they got married), and he was worried, but after that he was still stubborn. Then, he suggested that she stay with her parents in Canada but didn't come back to get her when he was supposed to (kept taking extended business trips), and got annoyed that she wanted a job, insisting she was acting like a man-hating feminist! Then, when she says she wants to stay for a while with her newly widowed mother, he suddenly decides he wants a year's separation to see if they want to stay married!! And all the time they're apart, does he ever once visit his son? NO!!! He uses the excuse that he wasn't welcome by the h and his bitchy mom-in-law, but what the hell! If he really wanted to see his son, he would have done so! Instead, he blames the h for keeping them apart, which was unfair.

The real truth was, he had come to the conclusion (which he kept to himself until the end of the book) that he didn't really love her, just wanted her in his bed and married her only because she was too traditional and romantic to sleep with him without a wedding ring! (I thought she was a man-hating feminist, make up your mind, Dummy!) Suddenly, he realizes that (despite having a small son) he wants to be free, to be a bachelor again! Which most likely translates to he wants to screw other women, and while he was innocent of the charges against him concerning mother and daughter, he drops hints that he didn't exactly keep it in his pants the whole time they were separated.

As for her, when she heard the rumors about his sexcapades, she started dating, but that's as far as it went. If anything happened, it was just a kiss or two, as she found she didn't feel turned on by any man but the H.

Out of sheer stubbornness, their one-year separation stretched to three years, with him refusing to go to Canada, her refusing to go to Scotland, and both not giving a thought to their son, who needed both his parents!

By the end of the novel (big surprise) they suddenly decide that they're madly in love, and - despite doing very well apart the past three years - can't live without each other! Suddenly, the careers they both loved don't mean a damn thing anymore. (HAH!!)

What a couple of jerks!!! I was hoping at the end the kid would take off and be found by a kindly couple without kids who'd care for him like mature adults, unlike his childish parents! No such luck!

If you don't mind a lot of stupidity, then by all means read this.