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Surrender to Marriage
Surrender to Marriage by Sandra Field released on Dec 28, 2004 is available now for purchase.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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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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September 9, 2014
DNF at 15%. The h is just the most selfish bitch of a character I've ever encountered. Normally with the Mills & Boon secret baby plots, there's some kind of reason for the woman not telling the guy about the baby. In this one, they were young and in love but he had ants in his pants to leave their cruddy wee town. Not a crime, right? So, he asked her to come, she refused to leave the town, said she didn't love him and broke his heart. He, understandably, leaves and never looks back. Then when he comes back 13 years later and discovers she had his child 12 years previously, she acts like the injured party because he never phoned her after she crushed him so completely. I mean, it never occurred to her to get in contact with him to tell him about his son? Like he should somehow have telepathically gleaned that she was actually pregnant with his child? I mean...
I mean, what level of stupid is that? It's got to be down there with the wood lice and George Bush, right? It's just so... I mean I...
I mean, what level of stupid is that? It's got to be down there with the wood lice and George Bush, right? It's just so... I mean I...
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December 16, 2018
This is not a typical HP. This is a short novel, largely from the hero's POV. Strong heroine, loving hero, great child.
February 29, 2016
2.5 Jake stars
This book was fun to read but the Heroine is a head ache. Majority of the time it was from Jake's POV. I thought of Jake to be a good character compared to usual accidental pregnancy books in which heroes just blame the heroines for missing out the time from their child's life.
However Jake was a bit wussy to take up all the guilt and feeling sad and guilty. He was impulsive and hurt and that is why he did not return for thirteen years. I think the mindset of Jake and the heroine are exchanged meaning Jake thinks like a women half of the time and Heroine vice versa. I liked it though. Men can be emotional and women crude.
The heroine who's name I've forgotten was a boring character! She contradicted everything she said. I thought that her only redeeming quality was her honesty about the need she felt for Jake which she kept thinking as lust. However she blamed Jake for leaving and never checking on him while she was the one who broke his heart and broke her promise to him. She also never bothered to contact Jake about their child. Mean crazy women. Plus she gains sympathy vote from all the village occupants and blame Jake for wanting to go out and get a life outside their tiny village. Even though she wants the same thing... Duh! Jealous much?
The conversations between them were nice. Their kid is also a good kid.
This book was fun to read but the Heroine is a head ache. Majority of the time it was from Jake's POV. I thought of Jake to be a good character compared to usual accidental pregnancy books in which heroes just blame the heroines for missing out the time from their child's life.
However Jake was a bit wussy to take up all the guilt and feeling sad and guilty. He was impulsive and hurt and that is why he did not return for thirteen years. I think the mindset of Jake and the heroine are exchanged meaning Jake thinks like a women half of the time and Heroine vice versa. I liked it though. Men can be emotional and women crude.
The heroine who's name I've forgotten was a boring character! She contradicted everything she said. I thought that her only redeeming quality was her honesty about the need she felt for Jake which she kept thinking as lust. However she blamed Jake for leaving and never checking on him while she was the one who broke his heart and broke her promise to him. She also never bothered to contact Jake about their child. Mean crazy women. Plus she gains sympathy vote from all the village occupants and blame Jake for wanting to go out and get a life outside their tiny village. Even though she wants the same thing... Duh! Jealous much?
The conversations between them were nice. Their kid is also a good kid.
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March 29, 2018Seemingly, Jake Reilly has it all: power, wealth, property. But the internationally successful entrepreneur has come back to Cranberry Cove to claim the one thing that still eludes him....
For fiery Shaine O'Sullivan, Jake's return spells the start of something she can't control. She has never fallen out of love with him, but how can she turn from her roots and embark upon the life of glamour and riches to which Jake has grown accustomed? Especially when she is concealing a secret.
For fiery Shaine O'Sullivan, Jake's return spells the start of something she can't control. She has never fallen out of love with him, but how can she turn from her roots and embark upon the life of glamour and riches to which Jake has grown accustomed? Especially when she is concealing a secret.
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