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Lessons in seduction...
Technically, Finn Marston was Jenessa's new employer and she ought to be nice to him.... But thirty seconds in his company was enough for her to establish that Finn would try the patience of a saint! Trouble was, he was also gorgeous.
Men had never held much fascination for Jenessa Reed, but Finn Marston was certainly a persuasive argument! She wanted him, and he didn't seem averse to being target practice for a twenty-six-year-old virgin! But could Jenessa take into her bed a man she didn't even much like, let alone love?
Technically, Finn Marston was Jenessa's new employer and she ought to be nice to him.... But thirty seconds in his company was enough for her to establish that Finn would try the patience of a saint! Trouble was, he was also gorgeous.
Men had never held much fascination for Jenessa Reed, but Finn Marston was certainly a persuasive argument! She wanted him, and he didn't seem averse to being target practice for a twenty-six-year-old virgin! But could Jenessa take into her bed a man she didn't even much like, let alone love?
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First published January 1, 1995
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About the author
Sandra Field
214 books35 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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January 10, 2019
Re Untouched - Sandra Field phones another one in on this little Newfoundland/Labrador adventure.
The h is a 26 year old unicorn grooming backcountry guide who gets dragooned into guiding a mysterious man into the deep woods of Labrador. The h is very familiar with the area, mainly because she lived there with her widowed father for 13 years.
Then an unscrupulous man, who is now dead, stole the land from her father by providing him with a loan. When the father went to sell some valuable maps to pay off the loan, the old, but wily, nematode arranged to have the maps stolen and then he foreclosed on the loan by seizing the land. The h's father had a heart attack over the loss of his property and died. The h was sent to a mean, semi-abusive aunt until she turned 16 and left to become a guide.
The old nematode also had a daughter, who spent her entire life depressed, even after she had a son. When the son renounced the unscrupulous nematode and refused to fall in with the man's plan for his life and left, the daughter waited four months and then killed herself.
The H is the son who left and has inherited the land - it is the only thing the very wealthy nematode left him when he died. He is also an adrenaline junkie oil well firefighter who owns a company that goes around the world putting out dangerous well fires and he hasn't taken a vacation in over ten years.
He meets the h for the first time when she goes as his guide to pick him up from his flight. The h's mentor, a retired male guide who was her father's best friend and who the h shares a house with, did not tell the H that the h was a woman.
The H is a misogynistic chauvinist who doesn't like, respect or trust women and has only one use for them. When the h shows up, he dismisses her. Until he has to come back to her home later and bully her into guiding him as there are no other guides available.
In a purely nasty move, the H also learns from all the pimp mama and daddy secondary characters, (who are supposedly the h's friends,) that the lady next door to the h is a hairdresser. The H drags the h to the woman to get a haircut - ostensibly because he refuses to be seen with a woman whose hair looks like it was cut with a hacksaw, but really because he doesn't want to have to put a bag over her head when he pumps and dumps her.
Apparently the haircut is some kind of mystical makeover, cause all of the sudden the h is beautiful and all of her friends are eager to pimp her out to the H even more. The h gets the mentor to gather their supplies, where the H wants to go is only reachable by canoe and portage.
The H and h plan to start from a mountain lodge where the h used to work, she ended up quitting when the owner got nasty about them dating. When they get to the lodge the H is furious to think that his handpicked virgin might have slept with the lodge owner.
The h is angry that the H even thinks he has a right to be angry and the few days they are there are spent teaching the H to canoe and the two of them fighting. The lodge owner clues the h into who the H really is the grandson of and threats are made about ruining the h's reputation if she doesn't convince the H to sell the land he inherited to the lodge owner, he wants to expand his hunting range.
The h is irked, she thinks the land should be a protected wilderness area and we all start out. As the days go by we get excellent Labrador travelogue and the H is very clear he is interested in a lurve club event with the h. To help matters along, the pimp daddy mentor only packed one tent the two of them have to share.
The H is very clear that the lurve club events will only be for the duration of the trip, the H is also clear that he has no respect for any woman and treats the h accordingly, but the Treacherous Body Syndrome of the h gets her into bed with him anyways and unicorns will be groomed no more.
Then the H and h reach the area where her father's cabin is and the h is stunned to find it deliberately burned down. The H finds out about the father and the land and he instantly accuses the h of trying to get preggers by him to bargain for the land's return.
There is a TON of tart shaming and nasty name calling and the h, who believes she is in love based on two lurve club events, settles in to have a long mopey moment. They finally get to the remains of the H's grandfather's house and the H seems to be looking for something he can't find.
The h finds an old tin box buried in the roots of a tree and takes it. After the H has a temper tantrum and the h pines over him not loving her, we start the return journey. Along the way the h gives the H the box she found and the H learns from notes in the box that he was adopted by the nematode grandfather and the H's mother was forced to pretend the H was her son.
The woman had been abused and bullied all of her life by the nematode and after the H left for good, she took what she saw as her only way out. The H has a miraculous conversion or something, he claims he no longer blames the woman for not standing up to her father or protecting him - as clearly he was forced upon his mother and she had no love for him.
Then the h cuts herself with her ax and then almost dies going over the rapids in the canoe, the h manages to save herself and the H suddenly declares he loves her. They make it back to civilization and we get a little epilogue.
The H is going to give up fighting oil well fires in the field and just run his company from Newfoundland. He is giving his grandfather's land to the h for a protected conservation area and he plans to get them a house close enough to the wilderness that the h can continue to be a guide until the children come.
The h, now happy that her love is returned, manages to buy some super fashionable clothing and meets the H at the airport for his last business trip, declaring she loves him and can't wait to marry him for the HEA.
This one was pretty meh for most of it. The H was hot and cold and I just wasn't feeling the lurve coming from him. There wasn't a lot of romance cause the H was busy tart shaming and venting a whole lot. SF tries to make the H sympathetic by dragging in a dead colleague the H feels guilty about because he died, but the H was pretty nasty to the h and it was hard to see what there was about him to love.
The h also comes off as pretty clueless. Apparently the H was the only one who made her feel the lurve force mojo, so of course after sleeping with him it must be true love, even as he is calling her a harlot tart and the h doesn't understand why the H doesn't jump all over telling her he loves her - even when he made it quite clear that he was only using her for a bit of exercise.
All of that made the sudden H True Love declaration rather suspect and the ending capped it, with the h going out her way to change herself into the glamorous woman the H originally claimed he wanted to be seen with.
I wasn't feeling the love on this one and mostly these people annoyed me. The travelogue was the best part of the book, but I can read a wilderness guide and get more satisfaction than I got from this mediocre and lackluster HP outing.
The h is a 26 year old unicorn grooming backcountry guide who gets dragooned into guiding a mysterious man into the deep woods of Labrador. The h is very familiar with the area, mainly because she lived there with her widowed father for 13 years.
Then an unscrupulous man, who is now dead, stole the land from her father by providing him with a loan. When the father went to sell some valuable maps to pay off the loan, the old, but wily, nematode arranged to have the maps stolen and then he foreclosed on the loan by seizing the land. The h's father had a heart attack over the loss of his property and died. The h was sent to a mean, semi-abusive aunt until she turned 16 and left to become a guide.
The old nematode also had a daughter, who spent her entire life depressed, even after she had a son. When the son renounced the unscrupulous nematode and refused to fall in with the man's plan for his life and left, the daughter waited four months and then killed herself.
The H is the son who left and has inherited the land - it is the only thing the very wealthy nematode left him when he died. He is also an adrenaline junkie oil well firefighter who owns a company that goes around the world putting out dangerous well fires and he hasn't taken a vacation in over ten years.
He meets the h for the first time when she goes as his guide to pick him up from his flight. The h's mentor, a retired male guide who was her father's best friend and who the h shares a house with, did not tell the H that the h was a woman.
The H is a misogynistic chauvinist who doesn't like, respect or trust women and has only one use for them. When the h shows up, he dismisses her. Until he has to come back to her home later and bully her into guiding him as there are no other guides available.
In a purely nasty move, the H also learns from all the pimp mama and daddy secondary characters, (who are supposedly the h's friends,) that the lady next door to the h is a hairdresser. The H drags the h to the woman to get a haircut - ostensibly because he refuses to be seen with a woman whose hair looks like it was cut with a hacksaw, but really because he doesn't want to have to put a bag over her head when he pumps and dumps her.
Apparently the haircut is some kind of mystical makeover, cause all of the sudden the h is beautiful and all of her friends are eager to pimp her out to the H even more. The h gets the mentor to gather their supplies, where the H wants to go is only reachable by canoe and portage.
The H and h plan to start from a mountain lodge where the h used to work, she ended up quitting when the owner got nasty about them dating. When they get to the lodge the H is furious to think that his handpicked virgin might have slept with the lodge owner.
The h is angry that the H even thinks he has a right to be angry and the few days they are there are spent teaching the H to canoe and the two of them fighting. The lodge owner clues the h into who the H really is the grandson of and threats are made about ruining the h's reputation if she doesn't convince the H to sell the land he inherited to the lodge owner, he wants to expand his hunting range.
The h is irked, she thinks the land should be a protected wilderness area and we all start out. As the days go by we get excellent Labrador travelogue and the H is very clear he is interested in a lurve club event with the h. To help matters along, the pimp daddy mentor only packed one tent the two of them have to share.
The H is very clear that the lurve club events will only be for the duration of the trip, the H is also clear that he has no respect for any woman and treats the h accordingly, but the Treacherous Body Syndrome of the h gets her into bed with him anyways and unicorns will be groomed no more.
Then the H and h reach the area where her father's cabin is and the h is stunned to find it deliberately burned down. The H finds out about the father and the land and he instantly accuses the h of trying to get preggers by him to bargain for the land's return.
There is a TON of tart shaming and nasty name calling and the h, who believes she is in love based on two lurve club events, settles in to have a long mopey moment. They finally get to the remains of the H's grandfather's house and the H seems to be looking for something he can't find.
The h finds an old tin box buried in the roots of a tree and takes it. After the H has a temper tantrum and the h pines over him not loving her, we start the return journey. Along the way the h gives the H the box she found and the H learns from notes in the box that he was adopted by the nematode grandfather and the H's mother was forced to pretend the H was her son.
The woman had been abused and bullied all of her life by the nematode and after the H left for good, she took what she saw as her only way out. The H has a miraculous conversion or something, he claims he no longer blames the woman for not standing up to her father or protecting him - as clearly he was forced upon his mother and she had no love for him.
Then the h cuts herself with her ax and then almost dies going over the rapids in the canoe, the h manages to save herself and the H suddenly declares he loves her. They make it back to civilization and we get a little epilogue.
The H is going to give up fighting oil well fires in the field and just run his company from Newfoundland. He is giving his grandfather's land to the h for a protected conservation area and he plans to get them a house close enough to the wilderness that the h can continue to be a guide until the children come.
The h, now happy that her love is returned, manages to buy some super fashionable clothing and meets the H at the airport for his last business trip, declaring she loves him and can't wait to marry him for the HEA.
This one was pretty meh for most of it. The H was hot and cold and I just wasn't feeling the lurve coming from him. There wasn't a lot of romance cause the H was busy tart shaming and venting a whole lot. SF tries to make the H sympathetic by dragging in a dead colleague the H feels guilty about because he died, but the H was pretty nasty to the h and it was hard to see what there was about him to love.
The h also comes off as pretty clueless. Apparently the H was the only one who made her feel the lurve force mojo, so of course after sleeping with him it must be true love, even as he is calling her a harlot tart and the h doesn't understand why the H doesn't jump all over telling her he loves her - even when he made it quite clear that he was only using her for a bit of exercise.
All of that made the sudden H True Love declaration rather suspect and the ending capped it, with the h going out her way to change herself into the glamorous woman the H originally claimed he wanted to be seen with.
I wasn't feeling the love on this one and mostly these people annoyed me. The travelogue was the best part of the book, but I can read a wilderness guide and get more satisfaction than I got from this mediocre and lackluster HP outing.
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July 11, 2018
Cheesy, romantic, predictable... Exactly what I was looking for.
May 7, 2023
A satisfying quick romance read of discovering love when you least expect it. Both of the main characters were enjoyable to read and well rounded; I appreciated the asexual aspect for Janessa. Finn and Janessa's romance was nice to read but the stuttering transition between moments and consistent swings back and forth between being madly-in-love and mortal-enemies got a bit tiresome and sometimes confusing on where they stood. I was also unsatisfied with how the fate of the land was unsolved after details of Finn's past were revealed. Overall, a fast read but could have used a bit more work to flush out details.
March 19, 2019
3.5 stars
October 17, 2025
I LOVE THIS ONE FOR ITS DEPICTION OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND BUSH (I MEAN THAT IN THE *ENVIRONMENTAL* WAY, JEEZ) BUT MAN DOES FINN TALK TO HER IN REALLY TOXIC WAYS SOMETIMES
March 28, 2013
4 Stars ~ Twenty-six year old Jenessa was as untouched as the Labrador interior she grew up in, and she had earned her reputation as one of the best wilderness guides in the area. Burnt out from hard work and long hours capping oil and gas wells, Finn needed a break before his exhaustion lead to a deadly accident. He'd inherited land deep in the interior from his grandfather, and now was as good a time as any to make his visit and maybe get some answers to his past. The last thing he needs is a female guide, but it seems she's the only one available and she knows the terrain. From first sight, Jenessa and Finn throw off sparks, while Finn recognizes it as the sexual chemistry it is, Jenessa can't figure out what it is about him that rubs her wrong. It's been 13 years since she'd been as deep into the interior as Finn wanted to go, but it was land she'd grown up on and could navigate with her eyes closed. A week in by portage and then another week out, and as they'd be travelling through the land Finn's grandfather had stolen from her father, this would be a bittersweet trip for Jenessa.
I had forgotten that Ms. Field is a Canadian author. Her love of Canadian wilderness shines, and through her words the Labrador interior seems to have a life of it's own. Finn and Jenessa's adventure into the bush is a journey for both of them to make peace with the ghosts from their pasts. There are some rather fun moments where Finn deals with his physical attraction to Jenessa, while she seems oblivious to the fact he's a man. But close quarters and their heated debates, soon have Jenessa achingly aware of Finn. I really enjoyed their sparring matches and admired the way Jenessa held her own, no matter what Finn threw at her. This was a fun read all around.
I had forgotten that Ms. Field is a Canadian author. Her love of Canadian wilderness shines, and through her words the Labrador interior seems to have a life of it's own. Finn and Jenessa's adventure into the bush is a journey for both of them to make peace with the ghosts from their pasts. There are some rather fun moments where Finn deals with his physical attraction to Jenessa, while she seems oblivious to the fact he's a man. But close quarters and their heated debates, soon have Jenessa achingly aware of Finn. I really enjoyed their sparring matches and admired the way Jenessa held her own, no matter what Finn threw at her. This was a fun read all around.
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September 23, 2023Lessons in Seduction Technically, Finn Marston was Jenessa's new employer and she ought to be nice to him…. But thirty seconds in his company was enough for her to establish that Finn would try the patience of a saint! Trouble was he was also georgeous. Men had never held much fascination for Jenessa Reed, but Finn Marston was certainly a persuasive argument! She wanted him, and he didn't seem averse to being target practice for a twenty-six-year-old virgin! But could Jenessa take into her bed a man she didn't even like, let alone love?
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