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Innocent Sins
Innocence betrayed...
Memories of a long-ago summer night still taunt Laura Neill. With all the provocative innocence of youth, she stole into her stepbrother Oliver's bedroom, and discovered love and fleeting happiness in his arms.
Driven away by his apparent betrayal, it's been eight long years since Laura last visited home. Can she now face Oliver without confessing the aching love she still feels for him -- or the secrets she's held all this time?
Memories of a long-ago summer night still taunt Laura Neill. With all the provocative innocence of youth, she stole into her stepbrother Oliver's bedroom, and discovered love and fleeting happiness in his arms.
Driven away by his apparent betrayal, it's been eight long years since Laura last visited home. Can she now face Oliver without confessing the aching love she still feels for him -- or the secrets she's held all this time?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2000
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Anne Mather
798 books358 followersAnne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
Mildred Grieveson began to write down stories in her childhood years. The first novel that she actually finished, Caroline (1965), was also her first book to be published. Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 film.
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August 12, 2019
Re Innocent Sins - Anne Mather continues her long tradition of keeping it in the family Typhoon of Tackiness HPlandia outings with this one.
The backstory is that the ten years before the story starts, the h's father married the H's mother. The H's mother is the stereotypical AM evil, conniving, gold digging amoral OW who has an unhealthy hold over her momma's boy H son.
As these things go in the Province of Anne Matherdom, the stepmother loathed and despised the h as she sees the h as her rival in the h's father's affections. So when the 21 year old H sleeps with the 16 year old h, the stepmother OW is worried that her husband will blame her for not managing the children better.
More importantly, the stepmother realizes that the h is massively in love with the H and in the aftermath of their one night of love, the stepmother realizes she can use her influence with her son to send him off to chase his career while having a threat to hold over the h.
The stepmother also likes the fact that she get some major self esteem blows in against the h, cause now she is a Tarty Tart McTartlet - which hopefully will also drive the h away and she can have the h's father (and his money) all to herself.
The h is very hurt by the H's silent departure and even more devastated by the nasty remarks and taunts of her stepmother when she miscarries the baby she and the H created in their one time event.
The h takes herself off to uni in the aftermath of all this and her relations with her father become distant and there is no contact at all with the H.
A few years later, the h marries an American and the H becomes a famous photographer with a bevy of supermodel girlfriends. Eventually the h gets a divorce and focuses on her career in America, but the H and h are destined to meet again at the funeral of the h's father,
Apparently the h's father died in somewhat mysterious circumstances. His body was found in the house by the stepmother, but it was several hours after he departed this plane of existence. Since the body was literally outside the room where the stepmother had been secluded in all day, there is some question as to why it took so long for him to be found, surely she heard the thump?
There is also the question of the h's father's new will. The house that the father and stepmother lived in was the h's mother's family home, but the h's father originally intended to leave it to his second wife. For some reason the h's father changed his will to leave the house to the h shortly before his death by apparent cardiac incident.
The stepmother wants the money from the sale of the house, (which was left to her in the original terms of the father's will.) But now the stepmother is imploring her son, the H, to hide the second will which invalidates the stepmother's claim.
The H appears to go along with this, for reasons that aren't clearly defined, but do indicate that this H is a lyin', cheatin' nematode snot snarfing pustule. AM lets us know this by having the very unavailable, cause he is hooked to a supermodel, H put the moves on the h, even tho his model girlfriend is calling and trying to visit the H pretty much every other page.
After many tense confrontations between the H and h and ghostly father visitations to the h while she is in the family home, the truth finally comes out. The H's father realized that his wife, the H's mother, was having affairs with the local ladies' husbands - right in the marital home.
After years of believing the stepmother over his own daughter, the father finally realized what a sewer sucking parasite he had allowed to latch on to him. In an attempt to redress the great wrong he had done towards his child, he arranged for the h to inherit her own mother's home.
The final kicker was when the h's father walked into his own bedroom and saw the stepmother with her latest married lover, he dropped dead from the shock and the stepmother was too busy gettin' busy to realize her husband was dead.
The H is only convinced to reveal the existence of the second will when the h's aunt - who is the housekeeper for the family home- calls both the H and h to show up unexpectedly. When the H and h arrive, it is to find the stepmother again ensconced upon her married lover.
There is a HUGE verbal battle and the stepmother reveals the h's miscarriage and the H realizes he has been a right wanker for way too many years. (Plus there is a question of the H's jealousy when another man is getting what this momma's boy H infers to be his.)
In a fit of sudden remorse for his and his mother's actions, (or maybe the H finally gets that it is really tacky to try and tap his own mother,) the H tells the h about the will and the stepmother is moved into a grotty flat the next day.
The H takes off on his next photography assignment and the h goes back to America and her loft in NYC. The h declines to press criminal charges against the H or his mother for trying to circumvent her inheritance.
Several months go by while the h and H have their respective brooding mopey moments, but the h sees that the H has broken up with his supermodel girlfriend and calls the H to express her sympathy - she has to leave a small message as he is unavailable.
The H gets the message the h called a few days later and he goes to NYC to lurve her up and convince her to marry him, supposedly he has longed and pined madly for her all these years and he wants to make up for the baby loss.
The h is all okay with that, cause she loves the H just as madly back and we leave the two of them in dubious domestic bliss for another Typhoon of Tackiness, AM Trainwreck HPlandia outing.
The backstory is that the ten years before the story starts, the h's father married the H's mother. The H's mother is the stereotypical AM evil, conniving, gold digging amoral OW who has an unhealthy hold over her momma's boy H son.
As these things go in the Province of Anne Matherdom, the stepmother loathed and despised the h as she sees the h as her rival in the h's father's affections. So when the 21 year old H sleeps with the 16 year old h, the stepmother OW is worried that her husband will blame her for not managing the children better.
More importantly, the stepmother realizes that the h is massively in love with the H and in the aftermath of their one night of love, the stepmother realizes she can use her influence with her son to send him off to chase his career while having a threat to hold over the h.
The stepmother also likes the fact that she get some major self esteem blows in against the h, cause now she is a Tarty Tart McTartlet - which hopefully will also drive the h away and she can have the h's father (and his money) all to herself.
The h is very hurt by the H's silent departure and even more devastated by the nasty remarks and taunts of her stepmother when she miscarries the baby she and the H created in their one time event.
The h takes herself off to uni in the aftermath of all this and her relations with her father become distant and there is no contact at all with the H.
A few years later, the h marries an American and the H becomes a famous photographer with a bevy of supermodel girlfriends. Eventually the h gets a divorce and focuses on her career in America, but the H and h are destined to meet again at the funeral of the h's father,
Apparently the h's father died in somewhat mysterious circumstances. His body was found in the house by the stepmother, but it was several hours after he departed this plane of existence. Since the body was literally outside the room where the stepmother had been secluded in all day, there is some question as to why it took so long for him to be found, surely she heard the thump?
There is also the question of the h's father's new will. The house that the father and stepmother lived in was the h's mother's family home, but the h's father originally intended to leave it to his second wife. For some reason the h's father changed his will to leave the house to the h shortly before his death by apparent cardiac incident.
The stepmother wants the money from the sale of the house, (which was left to her in the original terms of the father's will.) But now the stepmother is imploring her son, the H, to hide the second will which invalidates the stepmother's claim.
The H appears to go along with this, for reasons that aren't clearly defined, but do indicate that this H is a lyin', cheatin' nematode snot snarfing pustule. AM lets us know this by having the very unavailable, cause he is hooked to a supermodel, H put the moves on the h, even tho his model girlfriend is calling and trying to visit the H pretty much every other page.
After many tense confrontations between the H and h and ghostly father visitations to the h while she is in the family home, the truth finally comes out. The H's father realized that his wife, the H's mother, was having affairs with the local ladies' husbands - right in the marital home.
After years of believing the stepmother over his own daughter, the father finally realized what a sewer sucking parasite he had allowed to latch on to him. In an attempt to redress the great wrong he had done towards his child, he arranged for the h to inherit her own mother's home.
The final kicker was when the h's father walked into his own bedroom and saw the stepmother with her latest married lover, he dropped dead from the shock and the stepmother was too busy gettin' busy to realize her husband was dead.
The H is only convinced to reveal the existence of the second will when the h's aunt - who is the housekeeper for the family home- calls both the H and h to show up unexpectedly. When the H and h arrive, it is to find the stepmother again ensconced upon her married lover.
There is a HUGE verbal battle and the stepmother reveals the h's miscarriage and the H realizes he has been a right wanker for way too many years. (Plus there is a question of the H's jealousy when another man is getting what this momma's boy H infers to be his.)
In a fit of sudden remorse for his and his mother's actions, (or maybe the H finally gets that it is really tacky to try and tap his own mother,) the H tells the h about the will and the stepmother is moved into a grotty flat the next day.
The H takes off on his next photography assignment and the h goes back to America and her loft in NYC. The h declines to press criminal charges against the H or his mother for trying to circumvent her inheritance.
Several months go by while the h and H have their respective brooding mopey moments, but the h sees that the H has broken up with his supermodel girlfriend and calls the H to express her sympathy - she has to leave a small message as he is unavailable.
The H gets the message the h called a few days later and he goes to NYC to lurve her up and convince her to marry him, supposedly he has longed and pined madly for her all these years and he wants to make up for the baby loss.
The h is all okay with that, cause she loves the H just as madly back and we leave the two of them in dubious domestic bliss for another Typhoon of Tackiness, AM Trainwreck HPlandia outing.
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February 26, 2020
Please don't let me read this!
Well I read it, of course, and it's Anne Mather all over the place.
What stands out isn't the awful stepmother aka the real evil OW of the book and of whom nothing will convince me she didn't do something to facilitate the death of her husband. Catching her in flagrante my foot.
Nope, what stands out is the so-called hero, the biggest loser H in HPLand, and let's face it, he has a Hunger Game arena's worth of competition. Wow, he's burning on fire for the heroine. It's been how long since he seduced a 16 year old, left the country for her to carry the bag for his evil mother, hides the real will after a couple of weeks then only hunts her down after she's inherited the lot?
Another for Written in the wrong genre category. This would have been better as a romantic gothic with the young heroine coming back to the house with the spooky housekeeper, resentful stepmother, handsome but shallow stepbrother, and the honest but equally handsome detective. Well, four out of five made it.
Well I read it, of course, and it's Anne Mather all over the place.
What stands out isn't the awful stepmother aka the real evil OW of the book and of whom nothing will convince me she didn't do something to facilitate the death of her husband. Catching her in flagrante my foot.
Nope, what stands out is the so-called hero, the biggest loser H in HPLand, and let's face it, he has a Hunger Game arena's worth of competition. Wow, he's burning on fire for the heroine. It's been how long since he seduced a 16 year old, left the country for her to carry the bag for his evil mother, hides the real will after a couple of weeks then only hunts her down after she's inherited the lot?
Another for Written in the wrong genre category. This would have been better as a romantic gothic with the young heroine coming back to the house with the spooky housekeeper, resentful stepmother, handsome but shallow stepbrother, and the honest but equally handsome detective. Well, four out of five made it.
August 30, 2016
the hero was an ass. the author tried justifying his actions by putting all the blame on his mother. i don't blame the mother yes she had never liked her stepdaughter but she did not create any misunderstanding or did anything dreadful for that matter. it was oliver by himself who preferred to stay away from laura he did not even bother to find out if she was pregnant or how she felt after the sex and them being discovered by his mother. he took the easy way out !! yes he was only 19years old but he was a very selfish young boy..and he proves it again now when he is involved with natalie yet that is not stopping him from kissing and trying to make love with laura. so he had every intention of being unfaithful..once more what a selfish bastard he was, playing with 2 women. not to forget he hid laura's father new will under the pretext of protecting his mum. now again he did not have to do this, to betray laura in such a way. and laura's reaction to this ? was something like "i can understand" she can understand he was trying to protect his mom !? haha !! he has enough money and can provide for his mom. as well in the new will laura's father also provided for his mom only he did not leave her the house but instead gave it to laura. so what was so bad about it ?? that he had to get influenced by his mom and hid the will. the book is worth a read. it showed many emotions. the one star i rated was more for oliver who i disliked intensely. he did not deserve laura. and neway i never felt like he loved her or cared for her. it was more a case of lust and he was a weak person
December 31, 2024
My thoughts a day after. The hero was his mother’s only child and they were living in poverty. She waited tables. They lived in a very tiny house. The mother brought lovers home.
So when she married the heroine’s father the hero’s life must have drastically changed.
Wealth. Comfort. Good education.
The hero was good looking and a good athlete. Was expected to go to Oxford.
But that inconvenient thing. The heroine’s absolute hero worship for him and his budding fixation for her.
The heroine was never treated kindly by step mother. Not unkindly. Just that the woman was insecure, very selfish. A narcissist basically. She kept a tight rein on her husband and on her son too.
The son naturally felt more attached to mother. He was all she had no matter what a c*nt she was. I mean she had a husband but hero just felt love for his mother even knowing she was a lying bitch.
Another thing. Hero low grade assisted her and listened to her Machiavellian thought processes. He wasn’t unaware of how bad she was.
Anyway. Back to their school days. He flirted with the heroine or rather made some loaded remarks. Touchy feely. Was always hovering around her in school.
She went to his room one night. She saw he was sleeping naked. Here I hold her responsible for whatever happened. She did not have a mother to protect her. I guess.
She went and touched him. He was already in lust with her.
But was he so illiterate that he could not protect the heroine? It was truly stupid and selfish and extremely thoughtless in the worst way for him to not get in touch with her to find out if she was pregnant.
His mother found them both. Screamed at them. Told him he had done wrong and his step father would be angry and the best thing to do was stay away from the heroine.
He was ashamed and frankly scared.
His mother orchestrated that they both stay separate. He slunk away like a pie dog with his tail between his legs. A year in Europe back packing.
He came back probably went to Oxford.
The heroine miscarried within a month of conceiving and was wiping out the evidence when her step mother found her and gloated.
The girl quickly found an American boy got married and went away to New York.
The hero meanwhile kept living a comfortable life. Travelling. Writing coffee table best sellers. Meeting heroine’s father supporting his slutty mother. Having a valet cum butler who took his phone calls and cooked for him.
Heroine was left out in the cold. She wasn’t invested in her own marriage. She’d gone through a lot of trauma and rejection. One must remember that. She and her husband were not so mature or invested. The marriage broke. Not unamicably. The husband’s uncle was in fact her employer.
So she lived her life away from her father. I don’t count her living away from the hero as a loss because what they had was a nascent immature relationship if we call it a relationship at all.
Heroine’s father lived alone and died alone. After seeing the step mother in bed with her best friend’s husband.
Hero and heroine met again and were back to the equation. Attraction. Lust. Touchy. Feely. Fascinated by the other.
The hero was truly a low grade narcissist. Not understanding what was happening to anybody but himself and his mother.
But the heroine wanted him.
Hopefully she was able to beat out the selfishness from inside him.
But we never got an epilogue. So we can’t really say.
*****************
The hero is terrible.
A mama’s boy. His mother was a waitress till the heroine’s father who was a vet found her just a few months after the death of his wife.
He married the gold digger. She had no feelings for him or his daughter. Manipulated him.
Hero grew up in the heroine’s house. She was always fixated on him. Went to his bedroom one night when she was 16 and he was 19. Inevitable happened. Too much lust. They slept with each other.
The mother sent hero off convincing him it was the best thing to do.
Several years later. Heroines father is dead. He lived in an old old house belonging to heroine’s mother.
The funeral and will reading are imminent.
Hero and heroine come back. Meet. Still have feelings.
Finally all misunderstandings are solved. They come together again.
I’ve liked it much better on this reading.
Upgrading it to four stars in spite of the mother oppressed hero.
He was basically a selfish bastard. Had his cake and ate it too.
But anyway.
So when she married the heroine’s father the hero’s life must have drastically changed.
Wealth. Comfort. Good education.
The hero was good looking and a good athlete. Was expected to go to Oxford.
But that inconvenient thing. The heroine’s absolute hero worship for him and his budding fixation for her.
The heroine was never treated kindly by step mother. Not unkindly. Just that the woman was insecure, very selfish. A narcissist basically. She kept a tight rein on her husband and on her son too.
The son naturally felt more attached to mother. He was all she had no matter what a c*nt she was. I mean she had a husband but hero just felt love for his mother even knowing she was a lying bitch.
Another thing. Hero low grade assisted her and listened to her Machiavellian thought processes. He wasn’t unaware of how bad she was.
Anyway. Back to their school days. He flirted with the heroine or rather made some loaded remarks. Touchy feely. Was always hovering around her in school.
She went to his room one night. She saw he was sleeping naked. Here I hold her responsible for whatever happened. She did not have a mother to protect her. I guess.
She went and touched him. He was already in lust with her.
But was he so illiterate that he could not protect the heroine? It was truly stupid and selfish and extremely thoughtless in the worst way for him to not get in touch with her to find out if she was pregnant.
His mother found them both. Screamed at them. Told him he had done wrong and his step father would be angry and the best thing to do was stay away from the heroine.
He was ashamed and frankly scared.
His mother orchestrated that they both stay separate. He slunk away like a pie dog with his tail between his legs. A year in Europe back packing.
He came back probably went to Oxford.
The heroine miscarried within a month of conceiving and was wiping out the evidence when her step mother found her and gloated.
The girl quickly found an American boy got married and went away to New York.
The hero meanwhile kept living a comfortable life. Travelling. Writing coffee table best sellers. Meeting heroine’s father supporting his slutty mother. Having a valet cum butler who took his phone calls and cooked for him.
Heroine was left out in the cold. She wasn’t invested in her own marriage. She’d gone through a lot of trauma and rejection. One must remember that. She and her husband were not so mature or invested. The marriage broke. Not unamicably. The husband’s uncle was in fact her employer.
So she lived her life away from her father. I don’t count her living away from the hero as a loss because what they had was a nascent immature relationship if we call it a relationship at all.
Heroine’s father lived alone and died alone. After seeing the step mother in bed with her best friend’s husband.
Hero and heroine met again and were back to the equation. Attraction. Lust. Touchy. Feely. Fascinated by the other.
The hero was truly a low grade narcissist. Not understanding what was happening to anybody but himself and his mother.
But the heroine wanted him.
Hopefully she was able to beat out the selfishness from inside him.
But we never got an epilogue. So we can’t really say.
*****************
The hero is terrible.
A mama’s boy. His mother was a waitress till the heroine’s father who was a vet found her just a few months after the death of his wife.
He married the gold digger. She had no feelings for him or his daughter. Manipulated him.
Hero grew up in the heroine’s house. She was always fixated on him. Went to his bedroom one night when she was 16 and he was 19. Inevitable happened. Too much lust. They slept with each other.
The mother sent hero off convincing him it was the best thing to do.
Several years later. Heroines father is dead. He lived in an old old house belonging to heroine’s mother.
The funeral and will reading are imminent.
Hero and heroine come back. Meet. Still have feelings.
Finally all misunderstandings are solved. They come together again.
I’ve liked it much better on this reading.
Upgrading it to four stars in spite of the mother oppressed hero.
He was basically a selfish bastard. Had his cake and ate it too.
But anyway.
July 30, 2013
talk about momma's boy wow
January 11, 2018
236 خطايا بريئة (آن ميثر ) innocent sins
روايات احلام
مازالت ذكريات ليلة صيف قديمة العهد تعذب لاورا نيل وقت��اك أغرمت باوليفر كيمب وظنت أنها اكتشفت حب حياتها الحقيقى !بعد ثمانى سنوات التقيا تحت سقف البيت الذى جمعهما مرة . في حياتها هي ذكرى رجل آخر , وفى حياته هو أمرأة يحبها, وكان لقاء لاورا به تجربة مرعبة, رغم خيانته القديمة لها فقد ظنت أن باستطاعتها تخطى الماضى , لكنها أدركت أن تاثيره فيها مازال كبيرا .
روايات احلام
مازالت ذكريات ليلة صيف قديمة العهد تعذب لاورا نيل وقت��اك أغرمت باوليفر كيمب وظنت أنها اكتشفت حب حياتها الحقيقى !بعد ثمانى سنوات التقيا تحت سقف البيت الذى جمعهما مرة . في حياتها هي ذكرى رجل آخر , وفى حياته هو أمرأة يحبها, وكان لقاء لاورا به تجربة مرعبة, رغم خيانته القديمة لها فقد ظنت أن باستطاعتها تخطى الماضى , لكنها أدركت أن تاثيره فيها مازال كبيرا .
August 13, 2012
This novel was full of secrets and sins. The hero and heroine grew up at step siblings and fell in love, many issues and secrets kept them apart. Only for them to rekindle their love after the heroines father died suddenly. It was an alright book but I never felt any of the passion I should have for it. Some of it was full of cheese in my opinion.
not-interested-or-bad-reviews
June 30, 2017Note to self - do not read.
*spoilers*
Other reviewers describe a selfish and lying hero who discards the heroine without any thought of making sure she is okay, then cheats on his girlfriend when the heroine comes back into his life by kissing her and trying to sleep with her. He even helps to cheat her out of her inheritance. Not for me.
*spoilers*
Other reviewers describe a selfish and lying hero who discards the heroine without any thought of making sure she is okay, then cheats on his girlfriend when the heroine comes back into his life by kissing her and trying to sleep with her. He even helps to cheat her out of her inheritance. Not for me.
October 2, 2020
The writing and plot here were actually pretty decent in the beginning, sort of modern-day Gothic, with characters who seemed approximately like real people, but the book is spoiled by the fact that the hero is a douchebag: he has a perfectly nice girlfriend throughout the book. Natalie is a fashion model, she feels he does not spend enough time with her (he doesn't), she would like to meet his family, although she is suspicious of his "beautiful, brainy" stepsister since he informed her that (when she admits this he, lying, says he was just teasing Natalie and it never actually happened), and... none of this stops the hero from mauling the heroine (his stepsister) at every available opportunity, attempting to initiate sex, etc., while lying to Natalie about his reasons for constantly leaving London. I mean... this is not heroic behavior, right? At the end we learn that Natalie is now engaged to a Greek shipping magnate so I can only assume that Mather actually meant to write that book - in which gorgeous model Natalie is in love with a louche international photographer who turns out to be a cheating cad and is swept off her feet by a handsome Greek shipping magnate with cheekbones of steel on the rebound, very standard Harlequin Presents stuff - and then somehow got confused and found herself writing the cad's book. That must be what happened, right?
April 6, 2018
Like quite a few other Anne Mather books, this one has a juicy, scandalous plot line. Its story movement, scenes are well thought out and creative. What it lacks is emotional depth between the leads. The author has a very intellectual, skimming the top approach to the story.
No deep emotions invested in the girl and guy who are supposed to have madly loved each other when in their teens. Gone to bed once - hence the book title , surprise surprise !
And then his mother cooks up non sense and both of them walk away from each other for over a decade. She marries some one else, and is divorced too. But that's an inconsequential thing in the story.
They meet each other after about 15 years when her father dies. But the events that unfold are just sexual exploration. Nothing heartfelt, nothing to show how much they pined for each other. Because all they do when they get together is paw at one another. No talk, no feeling. Nothing.
Then suddenly towards the last few pages, both of them declare being lost without the other all their lives.
Ill fated lovers who have lost 15 years of their lives owing to his mother's scheming, they don't sound forlorn at all. They just take off from where they left off, in bed that is. And HEA.
What can I say, sex without emotion is not romantic.
I hope authors keep this simple maxim in mind. We readers are still sentimental enough to expect pining, and longing and extreme passion. Sigh !
No deep emotions invested in the girl and guy who are supposed to have madly loved each other when in their teens. Gone to bed once - hence the book title , surprise surprise !
And then his mother cooks up non sense and both of them walk away from each other for over a decade. She marries some one else, and is divorced too. But that's an inconsequential thing in the story.
They meet each other after about 15 years when her father dies. But the events that unfold are just sexual exploration. Nothing heartfelt, nothing to show how much they pined for each other. Because all they do when they get together is paw at one another. No talk, no feeling. Nothing.
Then suddenly towards the last few pages, both of them declare being lost without the other all their lives.
Ill fated lovers who have lost 15 years of their lives owing to his mother's scheming, they don't sound forlorn at all. They just take off from where they left off, in bed that is. And HEA.
What can I say, sex without emotion is not romantic.
I hope authors keep this simple maxim in mind. We readers are still sentimental enough to expect pining, and longing and extreme passion. Sigh !
January 2, 2025
Re-issue of an older Harlequin
This was a good book of a trope I like (Stepbrother romance) written by an author I have read many times.
Keeping in mind the time this was written is not how things are now, you can appreciate the story. In many ways it was timeless but not all. Not only a Stepbrother romance but also a second chance romance as well.
As we follow the main characters journey through the drama, angst, treachery, we still get the romance and surprising some steam as they navigate to their HEA.
This was a good book of a trope I like (Stepbrother romance) written by an author I have read many times.
Keeping in mind the time this was written is not how things are now, you can appreciate the story. In many ways it was timeless but not all. Not only a Stepbrother romance but also a second chance romance as well.
As we follow the main characters journey through the drama, angst, treachery, we still get the romance and surprising some steam as they navigate to their HEA.
January 11, 2018
236 خطايا بريئة (آن ميثر ) innocent sins
روايات احلام
مازالت ذكريات ليلة صيف قديمة العهد تعذب لاورا نيل وقتذاك أغرمت باوليفر كيمب وظنت أنها اكتشفت حب حياتها الحقيقى !بعد ثمانى سنوات التقيا تحت سقف البيت الذى جمعهما مرة . في حياتها هي ذكرى رجل آخر , وفى حياته هو أمرأة يحبها, وكان لقاء لاورا به تجربة مرعبة, رغم خيانته القديمة لها فقد ظنت أن باستطاعتها تخطى الماضى , لكنها أدركت أن تاثيره فيها مازال كبيرا .
روايات احلام
مازالت ذكريات ليلة صيف قديمة العهد تعذب لاورا نيل وقتذاك أغرمت باوليفر كيمب وظنت أنها اكتشفت حب حياتها الحقيقى !بعد ثمانى سنوات التقيا تحت سقف البيت الذى جمعهما مرة . في حياتها هي ذكرى رجل آخر , وفى حياته هو أمرأة يحبها, وكان لقاء لاورا به تجربة مرعبة, رغم خيانته القديمة لها فقد ظنت أن باستطاعتها تخطى الماضى , لكنها أدركت أن تاثيره فيها مازال كبيرا .
November 6, 2022
Innocent Sins
This is about second chances. Their past clouded what they feel about the other. She had gone to him in the middle of the night. His mother caught them. And they were torn apart by betrayal. Now fifteen years later her father died. And they are both back. Will this be the time to air out the ghosts of their past? Can love survive?
This is about second chances. Their past clouded what they feel about the other. She had gone to him in the middle of the night. His mother caught them. And they were torn apart by betrayal. Now fifteen years later her father died. And they are both back. Will this be the time to air out the ghosts of their past? Can love survive?
June 12, 2021
Sweet story!!
This is another great story from this talented author. I was intrigued throughout this addictive page turner and I look forward to reading more from this talented author whose work I highly recommend.
This is another great story from this talented author. I was intrigued throughout this addictive page turner and I look forward to reading more from this talented author whose work I highly recommend.
June 12, 2022
The writing was good. The H was either stupid or a selfish jerk. I guess he wasn’t mature at nineteen. Still if not for the circumstances he wouldn’t even try to have a second chance with the heroine.
March 11, 2022
I am giving it a 3.5 stars. Very predictable storyline but enjoyable.
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June 17, 2022Not Interested. Did NOT Read. Not My Style.
October 26, 2023
Skip this nonsense!! Bad bad bad. Bad plot/bad characters, bad.
January 21, 2013
The book was so boring. I had to force myself to finish which was disappointed because Mather wrote another book I very much enjoyed. I had higher hopes for this one
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