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is passionate love was not meant for her
When Romy Morgan agreed to save her twin sister's house in Fiji by impersonating her, she didn't realize the danger she herself would be in. Tania's neighbor, Aaron Blake, was supposed to be out of the country--but he wasn't.
Romy would never be able to fool one of Tania's ex-lovers, especially since it seemed that Aaron wanted to resume the affair where he'd left off. But as Aaron ignited Romy's own deep passions, she despaired.
Romy knew her twin would be returning to replace her as Aaron's love.
When Romy Morgan agreed to save her twin sister's house in Fiji by impersonating her, she didn't realize the danger she herself would be in. Tania's neighbor, Aaron Blake, was supposed to be out of the country--but he wasn't.
Romy would never be able to fool one of Tania's ex-lovers, especially since it seemed that Aaron wanted to resume the affair where he'd left off. But as Aaron ignited Romy's own deep passions, she despaired.
Romy knew her twin would be returning to replace her as Aaron's love.
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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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September 22, 2016
Re Shadow in the Sun - EP's first HP outing is to Fiji and she throws in a twin switch scheme to boot. The h in this one is an introvert writer who gets coerced by her extrovert TV presenter/reporter twin into taking her place for a month on Fiji.
It seems the h's twin has rented a house out there with the peculiar agreement that the twin will stay in the house for three months of the year or she will lose her lease. The twin has already gotten through two of the months, but the year constraint is closing in and the twin has a chance at a really big month long African assignment. So she bullies the h into masquerading as her to prevent the twin from losing the lease. The h is really reluctant to go, but the twin is pretty manipulative and the h is worn out from caring for her father in his final illness, plus she is still depressed and sad about his death. She eventually agrees to go, but the h really is an introvert and her twin likes to cause a lot of trouble and knows tons of people and is all things party animal.
The h is the furthest thing from a party animal ever and when she gets to Fiji it looks like her twin has been involved in almost public adultery, chasing after the wealthy and available next door neighbor H and partying a lot. It really stresses the h out to try and figure out who all these men and party animals that keep appearing are, and she is continually being thrown into highly social situations that she just is not comfortable in and are fraught with all sorts of complicating undertones.
There also seems to be quite a bit of contention between her twin and the next door neighbor H. The h soon concludes that the last time her twin was on Fiji, she and the H had an affair that ended somewhat explosively when the twin publicly flaunted another affair with a married man while also being involved with the H. It seems the H's family was broken up by just a happening between his parents in his childhood and so he and the twin had a huge fight, as the man she was flaunting has a wife and child and the island gossip mill is exceedingly fine grinding.
That doesn't seem to stop the H from wanting to hop back into bed with the h as her twin tho, in fact the h thinks it may have only enticed him further by igniting his competitive streak. The h is not in the market for any sort of fling, she merely wants to recapture her writing muse and wait her time out in the house and then get back to her life. This idea gets pushed aside when the H decides that he will teach her to swim (the h is a very good swimmer but her twin is not,) and then the H figures out that the h isn't her sister. He threatens to tell the owner of the house the truth and cost the h's twin her lease if the h doesn't continue to appear in public with the H and hang all over him to prove she has no interest in the OM. The h, as tired and worn out as she is, really loves her narcissistic, user sister and so she is very reluctantly coerced into being the H's public play toy and she isn't having fun.
She has even less fun when the constant pressurizing to go to bed with the H winds up in a forced seduction, then the twin comes back and the h finds out the H has owned the house all along. The H lied and manipulated the h because her refusal to go to bed with him stung his little ego and he apparently wanted to score a double for his conquest list. The h's twin walks in on the end of the boudoir incident and then proceeds to have a jealous conniption fit where she accuses the h of stealing her man. The h is by now in lurve with the H for some reason and yet she is appalled at how devastated her twin appears to be, so she quietly takes herself off home thinking that with her out of the way, her sister and the H can repair their relationship.
Once back at home she is able to write again, her publisher (who is close to her in age) makes a move to start a romance that h has to reject cause she is now preggers and she has to clean up the rest of her late father's affairs. She considers telling the H, but then again her sister was pretty adamant that the h was to go away and stay away and the sister is the only family the h now has, so she doesn't want to estrange them forever.
Plus the H knew she had left and it has been over a month and the H never bothered to call or write, so he probably did not really care which sister he had, as long as he had one to amuse him and hold still for his mightly lurve club. The h is finally able to sell her father's house and is ready to start looking for her own little nest for herself and her child when her twin once again makes an appearance. This time she has blown off the H forever (or until she gets bored again,) for a big job in New York and since a place in Australia and a place in NYC is about all she can handle in terms of residences, she has decided to let go of the Fiji lease - the H owns it now anyways, so the whole lease problem is moot.
The twin explains that she and the H were never really serious, she just wanted him at the time and that is why she was so adamant with the h - then she probes to find out if it was serious between the H and h. The h is fairly stunned at this turnabout, but she figures the twin and the H are both just players and she denies any big romance or relationship.
The twin offers the h her flat for a few weeks while the h looks for a little house and the h accepts it. Basically the sister wants the h to be her housesitter and run her errands, which the h does, and one day while she is getting a file for her twin from her old TV office, she runs into the H. He doesn't recognize which twin he is talking to, he calls her by her sister's name, and the h lies and says she does't know where her sister the h is, then she takes her leave. She goes back to her sister's flat, thoroughly demoralized that the H is so callous he can't even figure out which twin he is with and she has a little mopey moment.
The H shows up at the flat and finally figures out that he is talking to the h, ostensibly because he says he never slept with her sister and then we get the big love avowal. The h is all too ready to leap back into the H's arms and the H admits he used the house lease and the OM to force the h into being around him. He avows eternal love, the h swears true love back and makes the big baby announcement that leads to the HEA of boudoir bouncing bliss.
For a first HP, this one isn't bad, it is just tacky. The whole H sleeping with both sisters trope goes on for waaaay too long before EP says he did not. The H is so bullyingly coercive with the h so clearly uncomfortable and unhappy with his very public flaunting of their supposed affair, plus the very dubious forced seduction, that I am still poking thru the story trying to figure out where the romance and falling in love part is.
EP doesn't have the innate writing style elan that a Penny Jordan or an Emma Darcy or even an Anne Mather has to pull of the old "the author said it so therefore it must be true" trope. Plus the twin as the evil OW who has no consequences for her actions and will continually be trying to seduce the H forever more is just adding a heap of tacky to the whole contrivance.
Those niggling details aside, the story itself is pretty engrossing and the internal angst of the h is very entertaining. I just wish I felt happier for her instead of sad that she was just getting another round of mushroom fertilizer in the end and I really wish there was more believability in the HEA.
Not to worry tho, EP does have better books on our list-- but be warned the h insecurity and jealousy will just get worse as they become a defining trait of the EP h. The H pattern EP has of bullying and coercion that is supposed to be his demonstration of love is pretty firmly established as one of her hallmarks too. So while this isn't her best by a long shot, Shadow in the Sun is a very good indicator of what an EP HP will be like in the years to come.
It seems the h's twin has rented a house out there with the peculiar agreement that the twin will stay in the house for three months of the year or she will lose her lease. The twin has already gotten through two of the months, but the year constraint is closing in and the twin has a chance at a really big month long African assignment. So she bullies the h into masquerading as her to prevent the twin from losing the lease. The h is really reluctant to go, but the twin is pretty manipulative and the h is worn out from caring for her father in his final illness, plus she is still depressed and sad about his death. She eventually agrees to go, but the h really is an introvert and her twin likes to cause a lot of trouble and knows tons of people and is all things party animal.
The h is the furthest thing from a party animal ever and when she gets to Fiji it looks like her twin has been involved in almost public adultery, chasing after the wealthy and available next door neighbor H and partying a lot. It really stresses the h out to try and figure out who all these men and party animals that keep appearing are, and she is continually being thrown into highly social situations that she just is not comfortable in and are fraught with all sorts of complicating undertones.
There also seems to be quite a bit of contention between her twin and the next door neighbor H. The h soon concludes that the last time her twin was on Fiji, she and the H had an affair that ended somewhat explosively when the twin publicly flaunted another affair with a married man while also being involved with the H. It seems the H's family was broken up by just a happening between his parents in his childhood and so he and the twin had a huge fight, as the man she was flaunting has a wife and child and the island gossip mill is exceedingly fine grinding.
That doesn't seem to stop the H from wanting to hop back into bed with the h as her twin tho, in fact the h thinks it may have only enticed him further by igniting his competitive streak. The h is not in the market for any sort of fling, she merely wants to recapture her writing muse and wait her time out in the house and then get back to her life. This idea gets pushed aside when the H decides that he will teach her to swim (the h is a very good swimmer but her twin is not,) and then the H figures out that the h isn't her sister. He threatens to tell the owner of the house the truth and cost the h's twin her lease if the h doesn't continue to appear in public with the H and hang all over him to prove she has no interest in the OM. The h, as tired and worn out as she is, really loves her narcissistic, user sister and so she is very reluctantly coerced into being the H's public play toy and she isn't having fun.
She has even less fun when the constant pressurizing to go to bed with the H winds up in a forced seduction, then the twin comes back and the h finds out the H has owned the house all along. The H lied and manipulated the h because her refusal to go to bed with him stung his little ego and he apparently wanted to score a double for his conquest list. The h's twin walks in on the end of the boudoir incident and then proceeds to have a jealous conniption fit where she accuses the h of stealing her man. The h is by now in lurve with the H for some reason and yet she is appalled at how devastated her twin appears to be, so she quietly takes herself off home thinking that with her out of the way, her sister and the H can repair their relationship.
Once back at home she is able to write again, her publisher (who is close to her in age) makes a move to start a romance that h has to reject cause she is now preggers and she has to clean up the rest of her late father's affairs. She considers telling the H, but then again her sister was pretty adamant that the h was to go away and stay away and the sister is the only family the h now has, so she doesn't want to estrange them forever.
Plus the H knew she had left and it has been over a month and the H never bothered to call or write, so he probably did not really care which sister he had, as long as he had one to amuse him and hold still for his mightly lurve club. The h is finally able to sell her father's house and is ready to start looking for her own little nest for herself and her child when her twin once again makes an appearance. This time she has blown off the H forever (or until she gets bored again,) for a big job in New York and since a place in Australia and a place in NYC is about all she can handle in terms of residences, she has decided to let go of the Fiji lease - the H owns it now anyways, so the whole lease problem is moot.
The twin explains that she and the H were never really serious, she just wanted him at the time and that is why she was so adamant with the h - then she probes to find out if it was serious between the H and h. The h is fairly stunned at this turnabout, but she figures the twin and the H are both just players and she denies any big romance or relationship.
The twin offers the h her flat for a few weeks while the h looks for a little house and the h accepts it. Basically the sister wants the h to be her housesitter and run her errands, which the h does, and one day while she is getting a file for her twin from her old TV office, she runs into the H. He doesn't recognize which twin he is talking to, he calls her by her sister's name, and the h lies and says she does't know where her sister the h is, then she takes her leave. She goes back to her sister's flat, thoroughly demoralized that the H is so callous he can't even figure out which twin he is with and she has a little mopey moment.
The H shows up at the flat and finally figures out that he is talking to the h, ostensibly because he says he never slept with her sister and then we get the big love avowal. The h is all too ready to leap back into the H's arms and the H admits he used the house lease and the OM to force the h into being around him. He avows eternal love, the h swears true love back and makes the big baby announcement that leads to the HEA of boudoir bouncing bliss.
For a first HP, this one isn't bad, it is just tacky. The whole H sleeping with both sisters trope goes on for waaaay too long before EP says he did not. The H is so bullyingly coercive with the h so clearly uncomfortable and unhappy with his very public flaunting of their supposed affair, plus the very dubious forced seduction, that I am still poking thru the story trying to figure out where the romance and falling in love part is.
EP doesn't have the innate writing style elan that a Penny Jordan or an Emma Darcy or even an Anne Mather has to pull of the old "the author said it so therefore it must be true" trope. Plus the twin as the evil OW who has no consequences for her actions and will continually be trying to seduce the H forever more is just adding a heap of tacky to the whole contrivance.
Those niggling details aside, the story itself is pretty engrossing and the internal angst of the h is very entertaining. I just wish I felt happier for her instead of sad that she was just getting another round of mushroom fertilizer in the end and I really wish there was more believability in the HEA.
Not to worry tho, EP does have better books on our list-- but be warned the h insecurity and jealousy will just get worse as they become a defining trait of the EP h. The H pattern EP has of bullying and coercion that is supposed to be his demonstration of love is pretty firmly established as one of her hallmarks too. So while this isn't her best by a long shot, Shadow in the Sun is a very good indicator of what an EP HP will be like in the years to come.
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September 30, 2016
dnf. Heroine lied about identity and hero was too dumb to catch on in 1st chapter.
I couldnt get past the two issues and as a result didn't care what happened.
I couldnt get past the two issues and as a result didn't care what happened.
January 14, 2022
Din avion, Romy Morgan privea spre Viti Levu, una dintre insulele arhipelagului Fiji, care părea o pată de culoare în imensitatea de safir a Pacificului. în prima parte a călătoriei, croşetase, dormise puţin şi citise, dar acum, când era aproape de destinaţie, era încântată şi nerăbdătoare, aşa că încerca să descifreze prin hubloul avionului cât mai multe despre aceste insule minunate.
Oare a fost un gest înţelept să vină aici? Poate că s-a grăbit să fie amestecată într-un asemenea plan.
Pe furiş, scoase oglinda din poşetă şi îşi mai privi o dată faţa.
Nimeni n-avea cum să-şi dea seama că purta lentile de contact. Ochii ei mari şi albaştri erau ascunşi de gene dese. Pleoapele erau machiate cam strident, după părerea ei, iar fardul de obraz şi rujul depăşiseră cu mult nuanţele preferate de ea. Se lăsase tunsă, astfel că părul ei lung căpătase o tunsoare scurtă, ca cea a surorii sale. Nu-i luase mult timp să-i convingă pe cei de la aeroport că ea era fata cu ochelari din paşaport. Aşa că n-avea de ce să se teamă că ceva va merge prost.
— Tania? Tania Morgan?
Romy ridică privirea la auzul unui accent australian. Un tânăr înalt şi blond se apropia de scaunul liber de lângă ea, iar fata simţi că începe să intre în panică. Tania îi spusese că doar câţiva oameni o cunoşteau, aşa că era foarte ciudat că exista o persoană care o recunoscuse chiar înainte să aterizeze.
— Deja m-ai uitat? întrebă bărbatul, în timp ce fata îşi simţea trupul încordându-se. Presupun că trebuie să fiu mai mult decât un ziarist ca să fiu reţinut de o vedetă ca tine.
Tania Morgan era un om de televiziune foarte apreciat şi toată lumea ştia că îşi făcea cunoştinţe doar printre cei care o puteau ajuta. Romy respiră uşurată. Bărbatul acesta nu era un personaj important din viaţa surorii sale, din moment ce insinua că deja fusese dat uitării. Trebuia să susţină şi ea treaba asta, cu toate că nu-i plăcuse sarcasmul din vocea lui.
— îmi cer scuze, eu…
— Oh, nu te scuza, spuse el, aplecându-se spre scaunul ei. Sunt sigur c-o să-ţi aminteşti de mine. Dar, ia spune-mi, ce te aduce din nou în Fiji? Vremea? Sau e altă atracţie?
Romy înghiţi în sec, neştiind ce să răspundă. Ce putea să-i spună? Că Tania închiriase o vilă aici, pe insule, că trebuia să petreacă cel puţin trei luni în ea, lucru pe care nu-l prea făcea? Că proprietarul găsise un cumpărător care-i oferise un preţ extraordinar şi că o ameninţase că va vinde dacă nu va veni la vilă? Ah, şi poate ce era cel mai interesant dintre toate: că Tania îşi trimisese sora geamănă să-i rezolve problema?
Romy nu fusese de acord cu aşa ceva. Avea douăzeci şi trei de ani şi nici o propunere nu i se păruse atât de nebunească precum cea a surorii sale. Şi, oricum, bărbatul n-o să creadă niciodată aşa ceva. Tania nu declarase presei că are o soră geamănă. De la începutul carierei sale, Romy o rugase să nu spună nimănui de existenţa ei, iar sora sa îi respectase dorinţa, deşi niciodată nu înţelesese de ce.
Oare a fost un gest înţelept să vină aici? Poate că s-a grăbit să fie amestecată într-un asemenea plan.
Pe furiş, scoase oglinda din poşetă şi îşi mai privi o dată faţa.
Nimeni n-avea cum să-şi dea seama că purta lentile de contact. Ochii ei mari şi albaştri erau ascunşi de gene dese. Pleoapele erau machiate cam strident, după părerea ei, iar fardul de obraz şi rujul depăşiseră cu mult nuanţele preferate de ea. Se lăsase tunsă, astfel că părul ei lung căpătase o tunsoare scurtă, ca cea a surorii sale. Nu-i luase mult timp să-i convingă pe cei de la aeroport că ea era fata cu ochelari din paşaport. Aşa că n-avea de ce să se teamă că ceva va merge prost.
— Tania? Tania Morgan?
Romy ridică privirea la auzul unui accent australian. Un tânăr înalt şi blond se apropia de scaunul liber de lângă ea, iar fata simţi că începe să intre în panică. Tania îi spusese că doar câţiva oameni o cunoşteau, aşa că era foarte ciudat că exista o persoană care o recunoscuse chiar înainte să aterizeze.
— Deja m-ai uitat? întrebă bărbatul, în timp ce fata îşi simţea trupul încordându-se. Presupun că trebuie să fiu mai mult decât un ziarist ca să fiu reţinut de o vedetă ca tine.
Tania Morgan era un om de televiziune foarte apreciat şi toată lumea ştia că îşi făcea cunoştinţe doar printre cei care o puteau ajuta. Romy respiră uşurată. Bărbatul acesta nu era un personaj important din viaţa surorii sale, din moment ce insinua că deja fusese dat uitării. Trebuia să susţină şi ea treaba asta, cu toate că nu-i plăcuse sarcasmul din vocea lui.
— îmi cer scuze, eu…
— Oh, nu te scuza, spuse el, aplecându-se spre scaunul ei. Sunt sigur c-o să-ţi aminteşti de mine. Dar, ia spune-mi, ce te aduce din nou în Fiji? Vremea? Sau e altă atracţie?
Romy înghiţi în sec, neştiind ce să răspundă. Ce putea să-i spună? Că Tania închiriase o vilă aici, pe insule, că trebuia să petreacă cel puţin trei luni în ea, lucru pe care nu-l prea făcea? Că proprietarul găsise un cumpărător care-i oferise un preţ extraordinar şi că o ameninţase că va vinde dacă nu va veni la vilă? Ah, şi poate ce era cel mai interesant dintre toate: că Tania îşi trimisese sora geamănă să-i rezolve problema?
Romy nu fusese de acord cu aşa ceva. Avea douăzeci şi trei de ani şi nici o propunere nu i se păruse atât de nebunească precum cea a surorii sale. Şi, oricum, bărbatul n-o să creadă niciodată aşa ceva. Tania nu declarase presei că are o soră geamănă. De la începutul carierei sale, Romy o rugase să nu spună nimănui de existenţa ei, iar sora sa îi respectase dorinţa, deşi niciodată nu înţelesese de ce.
May 21, 2024
Nah, very choppy. Not much happening and don't really care if the heroine and hero get together. Skip.
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