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Ransacked Heart
The past...
Six years ago, Maria had been devastated by the brutal way in which she had been sacked from her first job -- and all because of Luke Scott.
The present...
Now Luke was back in her life...and this time his demands were far greater -- he wanted her!
The future...
Maria was determined to fight the powerful attraction that existed between them -- but Luke was so tempting, it seemed he would get what he wanted in the very near future....
Six years ago, Maria had been devastated by the brutal way in which she had been sacked from her first job -- and all because of Luke Scott.
The present...
Now Luke was back in her life...and this time his demands were far greater -- he wanted her!
The future...
Maria was determined to fight the powerful attraction that existed between them -- but Luke was so tempting, it seemed he would get what he wanted in the very near future....
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Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Jayne Bauling
58 books71 followersJayne was born in England but grew up in South Africa. After many years in Johannesburg and 17 women's fiction novels published in the UK, a move to White River, Mbombela in Mpumalanga, coincided with an exploration of new writing directions - youth fiction, short stories and poetry. Her YA novel E Eights won the 2009 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, Stepping Solo was awarded the 2011 Maskew Miller Longman literature award for novels in English, and Dreaming of Light won the 2012 Gold Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature and was chosen for the 2014 IBBY Honour List. Her youth short story Dineo 658 MP won the 2009 MML silver medal, while This Ubuntu Thing was shortlisted for the inaugural Golden Baobab award and The Saturday Dress was shortlisted for the same award in 2014. In 2011 she also won the inaugural African Writing flash fiction prize for Settling. She has twice been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Another youth novel Our Side of the Wall was shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize. Her adult short stories have appeared in The Bed Book of Short Stories (Modjaji Books), The Edge of Things (Dye Hard Press), African Pens 2011 (Jacana), Feast, Famine & Potluck (Short Story Day Africa), the e-anthology Behind the Shadows, and (the stories An Inappropriate Woman and Witch and Bitch)in the People Opposing Women Abuse Breaking the Silence annual anthologies (Jacana). Rage and Misfortune, her retelling of the OT Samson story was published online by Ludic Press. Poetry: Symbiosis won SAFM's Express Yourself prize, Fist was placed 3rd in the 2008 POWA Women's Writing Project and published in Murmurs of the Girl in Me, while Unschooled was published in POWA's 2010 anthology Stories of the Othere(ed) Woman and The Ladies Take Tea in POWA's 2012 anthology Sisterhood. More poetry in ouroboros review, Markings, poetandgeek, Ons Klyntji, Litnet and the Lowvelder.
Her latest novel is Soccer Secrets (Cover2Cover Books).
Visit her Facebook page Jayne Bauling Writer or follow her on Twitter @JayneBauling
Her latest novel is Soccer Secrets (Cover2Cover Books).
Visit her Facebook page Jayne Bauling Writer or follow her on Twitter @JayneBauling
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September 29, 2021
If you like jealousy, slut-shaming and misunderstandings, this one is for you.
Hero is a media executive. Heroine is 19 when she first meets him. He thinks she is having an affair with a married disc jockey and pushes for her to be fired from her first job at a radio station in South Africa. Heroine has to move far away from her parents for a new job and is unable to be with her father when he dies.
The H/h meet again in Taiwan six years later. The married dj is now working there and has hired the heroine to work with him. Hero thinks heroine is still having an affair and goes out of his way to make her life miserable.
They eventually work it out by having a no-strings affair they keep secret from everyone. It’s just bad behavior all around until hero wakes up to his feelings. The travelogue of Taiwan was interesting, but the romance was not convincing.
Hero is a media executive. Heroine is 19 when she first meets him. He thinks she is having an affair with a married disc jockey and pushes for her to be fired from her first job at a radio station in South Africa. Heroine has to move far away from her parents for a new job and is unable to be with her father when he dies.
The H/h meet again in Taiwan six years later. The married dj is now working there and has hired the heroine to work with him. Hero thinks heroine is still having an affair and goes out of his way to make her life miserable.
They eventually work it out by having a no-strings affair they keep secret from everyone. It’s just bad behavior all around until hero wakes up to his feelings. The travelogue of Taiwan was interesting, but the romance was not convincing.
January 10, 2022
The hero was the heroine’s boss when she was 19 and he fired her because he thought she had an affair with a married colleague.
Years later he’s back and still thinks she has an affair with said married man.
Even if she assures him they’re only ever been friends he’s immovable in his beliefs and it’s all a slut-shaming for 95 percent of the book.
Oh, it’s not enough.
He wants her as his mistress- his secret mistress since he’s ashamed to be seen with a slut like her.
And the heroine of course kicks his sorry a** and tells him where he can go.
Does she really?
No! Of course not!
She gives up and becomes his mistress, sex only.
No cuddles, no kisses, only shabby sex in the weekend. Oh sex and verbal abuses, many of them.
Until she can’t stand the situation any longer and dumps him.
But then her friend, her supposed lover of a lifetime, accidentally tells the hero he’s so happy she’s with a man because she is his best friend, a sister he never had, a woman he never found attractive in his life.
Nice guy.
So now the hero believes her, and confess that he always loved her and he thought of her when he screw ow, and he blurts out excuses and what is the worst grovel in hp history.
Because it’s all about him, his past, his beliefs, his feelings.
Not once he’s worried for her or he cares for her feelings. Not once.
But she’s so happy to be treated as a worthless slut that all I could do was think oh, well you deserved it all.
Yes, no pride, no dignity, no self preservation whatsoever.
What a poor excuse of a woman.
What a disgusting waste of space the hero was.
I didn’t really enjoyed this book, it was too much abuses and zero love, from both.
And in the end he believes a man he barely knew but he never believed her.
Cute.
Years later he’s back and still thinks she has an affair with said married man.
Even if she assures him they’re only ever been friends he’s immovable in his beliefs and it’s all a slut-shaming for 95 percent of the book.
Oh, it’s not enough.
He wants her as his mistress- his secret mistress since he’s ashamed to be seen with a slut like her.
And the heroine of course kicks his sorry a** and tells him where he can go.
Does she really?
No! Of course not!
She gives up and becomes his mistress, sex only.
No cuddles, no kisses, only shabby sex in the weekend. Oh sex and verbal abuses, many of them.
Until she can’t stand the situation any longer and dumps him.
But then her friend, her supposed lover of a lifetime, accidentally tells the hero he’s so happy she’s with a man because she is his best friend, a sister he never had, a woman he never found attractive in his life.
Nice guy.
So now the hero believes her, and confess that he always loved her and he thought of her when he screw ow, and he blurts out excuses and what is the worst grovel in hp history.
Because it’s all about him, his past, his beliefs, his feelings.
Not once he’s worried for her or he cares for her feelings. Not once.
But she’s so happy to be treated as a worthless slut that all I could do was think oh, well you deserved it all.
Yes, no pride, no dignity, no self preservation whatsoever.
What a poor excuse of a woman.
What a disgusting waste of space the hero was.
I didn’t really enjoyed this book, it was too much abuses and zero love, from both.
And in the end he believes a man he barely knew but he never believed her.
Cute.
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September 4, 2015Hmmm how should i write this review? Oh well i picked it up because of its angsty nature. You know, guy hated the girl and the girl hated the guy. H wants to avenge himself and the h wants nothing to do with him and so the chase would go on. And it did.
When i was reading reviews, i always read comments like "I'm frustrated with the heroine" or "the hero's such a douchebag"... And now i finally understand. I felt really frustrated with the heroine, i swear. It took her a long time to have the courage to end it. And when the end came, she was still the first one to say ILY to the hero who in reality had nothing for her but lust.
Im sorry I'm not even gonna rate this book.
When i was reading reviews, i always read comments like "I'm frustrated with the heroine" or "the hero's such a douchebag"... And now i finally understand. I felt really frustrated with the heroine, i swear. It took her a long time to have the courage to end it. And when the end came, she was still the first one to say ILY to the hero who in reality had nothing for her but lust.
Im sorry I'm not even gonna rate this book.
September 6, 2022
"4.5/5"
"Συνάντηση στη Ταϊβάν", Jayne Bauling, Συλλογή 1457
Δυνατή ιστορία, ανάμεσα στο αβυσσαλέο μίσος και την παράφορη αγάπη! Οι δύο ήρωες περπατούν σε "τεντωμένο σχοινί¨ βιώνοντας ισχυρά συναισθήματα: απέχθεια, περιφρόνηση από τη μια μεριά και από την άλλη μια εκρηκτική σεξουαλική έλξη πέρα των δυνάμεών τους! Αν δεν υπήρχαν οι εμμονές του ήρωα σχετικά με το παρελθόν της ηρωίδας θα ήταν για 5. Μου άρεσε πολύ!!!
"Συνάντηση στη Ταϊβάν", Jayne Bauling, Συλλογή 1457
Δυνατή ιστορία, ανάμεσα στο αβυσσαλέο μίσος και την παράφορη αγάπη! Οι δύο ήρωες περπατούν σε "τεντωμένο σχοινί¨ βιώνοντας ισχυρά συναισθήματα: απέχθεια, περιφρόνηση από τη μια μεριά και από την άλλη μια εκρηκτική σεξουαλική έλξη πέρα των δυνάμεών τους! Αν δεν υπήρχαν οι εμμονές του ήρωα σχετικά με το παρελθόν της ηρωίδας θα ήταν για 5. Μου άρεσε πολύ!!!
October 2, 2021
Ghastly, with cruel, vicious man who “knows “ all about her and refuses to consider he might be wrong. Of course he won’t believe her but believes the supposed OM, whom he despises, and even when he realizes the truth he only is concerned with the damage to himself not her. I stopped after 40 pages, jumped to end.
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September 24, 2022The past…
Six years ago, Maria had been devastated by the brutal way in which she had been sacked from her first job—and all beacuse of Luke Scott.
The present…
Now Luke was back in her life…and this time his demands were far greater—he wanted her!
The future…
Maria was determined to fight the powerful attraction that existed between them—but Luke was so tempting, it seemed he would get what he wanted in the very near future
Six years ago, Maria had been devastated by the brutal way in which she had been sacked from her first job—and all beacuse of Luke Scott.
The present…
Now Luke was back in her life…and this time his demands were far greater—he wanted her!
The future…
Maria was determined to fight the powerful attraction that existed between them—but Luke was so tempting, it seemed he would get what he wanted in the very near future
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