ΞΕΧΑΣΜΕΝΟΣ ΕΡΩΤΑΣ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΗ 667

by Elizabeth Graham

She'd neither forgotten nor forgiven him

How dared Benedict Ramsey turn up at Serena's guest house in Bermuda as if his wife's death had finally released him from the ties that bound him?

Did he really expect Serena to fall into his arms, eager to resume their affair?

She hated him with a passion that extended into her very soul. He and his child had no place at Windfair. She would make that clear at the first opportunity!

Genres: Harlequin Romance

Unknown Binding

First published February 1, 1985

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Elizabeth Graham (1):
E. Schattner wrote as Elizabeth Graham and Emma Church.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a second chance at love story. The heroine was fooled by the married hero when she was an innocent, naive, young art student in London. She unfortunately found out about his wife and about her father's death on the same day. So she left in a hurry to go back to her home in Bermuda, bury her father, deal with her grief, and work her fingers to the bones converting her family mansion into a hotel.

Six years later, the heroine has managed to run a very effective business and even get engaged to another hotelier on the island but she is dead inside, never having recovered from the betrayal of her first love. Then, even as the fiance is pressuring her to advance the date of their wedding, who shows up at her hotel but the zero hero, with a traumatized 8 year old daughter in tow. Apparently, his wife committed suicide THE WEEK BEFORE!!! And the hero lost no time to jet to heroine's island hoping to reconcile with her. The heroine is suitably disgusted and resists him as best as she can. Unfortunately for her, the hero manages to eventually wear her down and gaslight her into believing he fell in love with her from Day 1, he hid his marriage because he was trapped with no way out, but that he never had any other affair with anyone else, and pined for her in a celibate marriage for six years. His wife was supposedly paranoid schizophrenic and made his life hell but he couldn't leave her because he had to protect his daughter. Then when she committed suicide, he was finally free to pursue the heroine. The heroine struggles with trusting his tale but chooses ultimately to believe and forgive him. The fiance turns out to have been cheating on her for months so it makes the decision easy for her.

I commend the author for conveying the heroine's emotions, turmoil, sensitivity as well as her compassion and class so succintly. She is the heart of the book and that's why the story was compelling to read despite the turd hero and the turd OM. Poor heroine, always getting cheated on and lied to! She didn't deserve that. I wanted to see her succeed and be happy and if that means marriage to the turd hero, I am just going to be happy that she is happy.

[Lynn Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

Six years ago, Serena had come back to her Bermuda home from England, broken-hearted, to try to rebuild her ruined life. That she had more or less succeeded had been very much due to the help and support of David Storey — and now at last she had put the past behind her and was looking forward to marrying him. But was she doing the right thing? Did she really love David? For love means absolute trust -— and Benedict Ramsey had destroyed that, years ago...

[Francis · Rating 4 out of 5]

En español se llama. No te perdonare. Serena Howard y Benedic Ramsey