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Potential Danger
There would never be another man for Kate...
Schoolteacher Kate Seton returning on vacation with her daughter, to her parents' farm, was shocked to see Silas Edwards again. Now he was a biologist running a government project on a nearby estate. It was Silas who was responsible for Kate's rift with her family. But Kate could not tell him the truth, nor why she had left him suddenly eleven years before.
Schoolteacher Kate Seton returning on vacation with her daughter, to her parents' farm, was shocked to see Silas Edwards again. Now he was a biologist running a government project on a nearby estate. It was Silas who was responsible for Kate's rift with her family. But Kate could not tell him the truth, nor why she had left him suddenly eleven years before.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Penny Jordan
1,127 books668 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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February 7, 2017
RE Potential Danger - PJ brings us a second chance with seekrit baby story.
The h and H were in love and about to be engaged until she happened to see him kissing with another woman and two kids. Instead of asking him what is up, she runs off and then finds out she is preggers. The preggers part is too much for her very conservative parents to handle, so they kick her out and she goes to London for 10 years. With the help of her godmother she becomes a teacher and a single mum to a very perspicacious daughter about all things animal and farming, named Cherry, who wants to be a vet when she grows up.
The h finally comes back to her Yorkshire Dale home to mend fences with her parents and then winds up getting into quarantine with the H. The H is the new government appointed animal disease research head and he has taken over an empty estate next to the h's parents farm, where periodically the entire staff is quarantined because of the diseases they research- they are trying to develop big wool producing, disease resistant sheep.
The h wanders into the estate to chase her mum's stray goat, (Bad Annabel,) and they fall in lurve all over again while the H is doing the trademark PJ sponging technique on the h's wounds from a barbed wire fence -tho it was more of a dabbing this time. (There is h sponging too, when the H has an Ethiopian fever recurrence.)
Then the h finds out that it was a big misunderstanding, the woman the H was kissing was his widowed sister with her two kids up for a visit. But the H is now sterile and won't commit to her, cause he thinks she wants more kids. The h is afraid that the H will reject her daughter, so she holds back too.
Then the H's sister shows up and explains the H's sterility issues. The h has figured out via her teaching career that one well raised child beats three in the bush and she hunts down the H, forces him to admit eternal love, tells him about their daughter and HEA. Which is about what we can expect given this is PJ, HPlandia and a romance.
Considering that the H and h were about as assertive as concussed ducklings and only the mighty lurve club mojo forced them to overcome their internal shyness, you might think this is a bit of a disappointing book. You would be wrong tho, cause PJ gives us a secondary romance that really spotlights the H in a very favorable way, and it concerns the h's daughter Cherry.
Cherry is a big animal rights activist, and has all the Alphaness that the h and H lack. She is out wandering the Dales with her grandfather, when she comes across another farmer's dog named Meg. The farmer has a long standing feud with Cherry's grandfather and tho the dog is obviously mistreated - she was tied up with no food or water- the farmer refuses to sell and the h's father won't take another man's dog, it just isn't done and no comments can made because no one in the Dales would dream of interfering with a man's treatment of his dog or his wife.
That doesn't suit Cherry at all, she doesn't care about what is "Done in the Dales" and she is going to save Meg. So she plans a sneaky nighttime covert operation and manages to smuggle Meg out of the mean farmer's land - avoiding the other dogs and detection. (If Cherry changes her mind about being a vet, she will make a great undercover operative, it is clear she has inherited her dad's intelligence as the h is rather dippy, but her assertiveness must come from somewhere else in the genetic line.)
Cherry hides Meg in the H's abandoned barn, (he had bought a farm next to the h's parents and close to the research estate.) Then, being a truthful child, she tells the h about what she has done. The h is terrified her beloved daughter is going to get twenty to life for dog-napping, but she isn't much good at covert operations (or thinking much for that matter,) so she tries to sneak into the H's barn to return the dog.
She is waylaid by the H, who shows he has totally earned his PHD by having the h remove the dog's collar and he dirties her up a bit and then takes Meg to an RSPCA shelter just outside the local area. He leaves his card with the staff and tells them that if no shows up to claim the dog, to please call him and he will give Meg a forever home. The H figures the mean farmer will never check the shelters, and the H proves to be right when he is allowed to collect Meg ten days later.
By that time the H and h are lurvin it up for the big HEA, so when the mean farmer shows up at the H's house and demands his dog back, the H calmly explains that he found Meg astray and if the mean farmer would like to claim her, he needs to go speak with the RSPCA - who might have something to say about the treatment Meg has suffered thru. This makes the H a true hero in Cherry's eyes, tho she really liked him anyways, and so Meg and Cherry get an excellent HEA with lots of doggie/kid adventures together, and PJ pulls in another win for an excellent HPlandia outing and really happy doggie forever home HEA.
The h and H were in love and about to be engaged until she happened to see him kissing with another woman and two kids. Instead of asking him what is up, she runs off and then finds out she is preggers. The preggers part is too much for her very conservative parents to handle, so they kick her out and she goes to London for 10 years. With the help of her godmother she becomes a teacher and a single mum to a very perspicacious daughter about all things animal and farming, named Cherry, who wants to be a vet when she grows up.
The h finally comes back to her Yorkshire Dale home to mend fences with her parents and then winds up getting into quarantine with the H. The H is the new government appointed animal disease research head and he has taken over an empty estate next to the h's parents farm, where periodically the entire staff is quarantined because of the diseases they research- they are trying to develop big wool producing, disease resistant sheep.
The h wanders into the estate to chase her mum's stray goat, (Bad Annabel,) and they fall in lurve all over again while the H is doing the trademark PJ sponging technique on the h's wounds from a barbed wire fence -tho it was more of a dabbing this time. (There is h sponging too, when the H has an Ethiopian fever recurrence.)
Then the h finds out that it was a big misunderstanding, the woman the H was kissing was his widowed sister with her two kids up for a visit. But the H is now sterile and won't commit to her, cause he thinks she wants more kids. The h is afraid that the H will reject her daughter, so she holds back too.
Then the H's sister shows up and explains the H's sterility issues. The h has figured out via her teaching career that one well raised child beats three in the bush and she hunts down the H, forces him to admit eternal love, tells him about their daughter and HEA. Which is about what we can expect given this is PJ, HPlandia and a romance.
Considering that the H and h were about as assertive as concussed ducklings and only the mighty lurve club mojo forced them to overcome their internal shyness, you might think this is a bit of a disappointing book. You would be wrong tho, cause PJ gives us a secondary romance that really spotlights the H in a very favorable way, and it concerns the h's daughter Cherry.
Cherry is a big animal rights activist, and has all the Alphaness that the h and H lack. She is out wandering the Dales with her grandfather, when she comes across another farmer's dog named Meg. The farmer has a long standing feud with Cherry's grandfather and tho the dog is obviously mistreated - she was tied up with no food or water- the farmer refuses to sell and the h's father won't take another man's dog, it just isn't done and no comments can made because no one in the Dales would dream of interfering with a man's treatment of his dog or his wife.
That doesn't suit Cherry at all, she doesn't care about what is "Done in the Dales" and she is going to save Meg. So she plans a sneaky nighttime covert operation and manages to smuggle Meg out of the mean farmer's land - avoiding the other dogs and detection. (If Cherry changes her mind about being a vet, she will make a great undercover operative, it is clear she has inherited her dad's intelligence as the h is rather dippy, but her assertiveness must come from somewhere else in the genetic line.)
Cherry hides Meg in the H's abandoned barn, (he had bought a farm next to the h's parents and close to the research estate.) Then, being a truthful child, she tells the h about what she has done. The h is terrified her beloved daughter is going to get twenty to life for dog-napping, but she isn't much good at covert operations (or thinking much for that matter,) so she tries to sneak into the H's barn to return the dog.
She is waylaid by the H, who shows he has totally earned his PHD by having the h remove the dog's collar and he dirties her up a bit and then takes Meg to an RSPCA shelter just outside the local area. He leaves his card with the staff and tells them that if no shows up to claim the dog, to please call him and he will give Meg a forever home. The H figures the mean farmer will never check the shelters, and the H proves to be right when he is allowed to collect Meg ten days later.
By that time the H and h are lurvin it up for the big HEA, so when the mean farmer shows up at the H's house and demands his dog back, the H calmly explains that he found Meg astray and if the mean farmer would like to claim her, he needs to go speak with the RSPCA - who might have something to say about the treatment Meg has suffered thru. This makes the H a true hero in Cherry's eyes, tho she really liked him anyways, and so Meg and Cherry get an excellent HEA with lots of doggie/kid adventures together, and PJ pulls in another win for an excellent HPlandia outing and really happy doggie forever home HEA.
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October 11, 2019
So either or this heroine is just plain stupid. I’m going with the latter.
They met in college, she was 18 and he 26, doing his PhD after working. They fell in love, got engaged, then she found out he was married with two sons.
She broke it off, sending back the engagement ring with a note, not explaining she was pregnant or the real reasons why she's leaving him. Because it is a small town/village, her conservative father sends her away ashamed of her single, pregnant status.
She lives with godmother and raises the child herself but grandpa is getting mellow, all is forgiven and she is convinced to go back home to the village when the daughter is 10.
Hero is also moving into the village, working on some top secret government project which seems very important to PJ but was a total yawn fest for me; something about protecting livestock from viruses. Stuff to set female readers’ loins on fire. Not.
Then we find out why heroine is so thick in the head that even her hearing is affected. . Heroine never confronted him, just took off, then convinced herself he didn’t love her because he didn’t come looking for her.
Thank goodness her daughter didn’t inherit the stupid gene. Though she did seem to be a strange hybrid one minute resembling mother, the next her grandfather, and after that, her father.
But at least she gets along with her crabby but sweet grandfather and knows how to rescue an abused puppy. Unlike her mother who fell over, scratched herself chasing after a lamb/sheep or something and puts herself under quarantine for a week.
She has to stay with the hero in his company quarters. 11 years of almost-celibacy can do that I guess.
Unlike some PJ Heroes who guess the identity of their child within seconds, this one doesn’t. And if it’s not enough that he’s such a nice guy who has been pining for her for 11 years, PJ decides to He lets her believe he isn’t interested in having families so the ninny feels justified in keeping in the dark.
He’s a sweet PJ Hero and oddly, never gets mad when he is finally informed of his paternity. 10 whole years of missing out on his daughter’s childhood!
She doesn’t apologize and instead talks about refurbishing his farmhouse. Why he didn’t tell her to stand in front of the wall she's going to demolish is beyond me.
I’m not a fan of heroines who don’t tell Heroes of their paternity for the dumbest of reasons so it didn’t work for me, sorry PJ. Didn't help that H only shows up at around page 50.
Read if you like animal rights issues in your romance. That plus Grandpa and granddaughter stole the show.
They met in college, she was 18 and he 26, doing his PhD after working. They fell in love, got engaged, then she found out he was married with two sons.
She broke it off, sending back the engagement ring with a note, not explaining she was pregnant or the real reasons why she's leaving him. Because it is a small town/village, her conservative father sends her away ashamed of her single, pregnant status.
She lives with godmother and raises the child herself but grandpa is getting mellow, all is forgiven and she is convinced to go back home to the village when the daughter is 10.
Hero is also moving into the village, working on some top secret government project which seems very important to PJ but was a total yawn fest for me; something about protecting livestock from viruses. Stuff to set female readers’ loins on fire. Not.
Then we find out why heroine is so thick in the head that even her hearing is affected. . Heroine never confronted him, just took off, then convinced herself he didn’t love her because he didn’t come looking for her.
Thank goodness her daughter didn’t inherit the stupid gene. Though she did seem to be a strange hybrid one minute resembling mother, the next her grandfather, and after that, her father.
But at least she gets along with her crabby but sweet grandfather and knows how to rescue an abused puppy. Unlike her mother who fell over, scratched herself chasing after a lamb/sheep or something and puts herself under quarantine for a week.
She has to stay with the hero in his company quarters. 11 years of almost-celibacy can do that I guess.
Unlike some PJ Heroes who guess the identity of their child within seconds, this one doesn’t. And if it’s not enough that he’s such a nice guy who has been pining for her for 11 years, PJ decides to He lets her believe he isn’t interested in having families so the ninny feels justified in keeping in the dark.
He’s a sweet PJ Hero and oddly, never gets mad when he is finally informed of his paternity. 10 whole years of missing out on his daughter’s childhood!
She doesn’t apologize and instead talks about refurbishing his farmhouse. Why he didn’t tell her to stand in front of the wall she's going to demolish is beyond me.
I’m not a fan of heroines who don’t tell Heroes of their paternity for the dumbest of reasons so it didn’t work for me, sorry PJ. Didn't help that H only shows up at around page 50.
Read if you like animal rights issues in your romance. That plus Grandpa and granddaughter stole the show.
July 15, 2015
Hero was so beta so sweet i cant believe PJ wrote that. And heroine was a bitch for abandoning him and hiding away his child for 10 years!
March 26, 2023
Nobody can write an idiot misunderstanding as PJ and make it likely.
The heroine was engaged to the hero at 18 and had just found out she was pregnant when she saw him with a woman and two children and thought he was married and the children were his.
So she jilted him and run away.
Ok she was 18 but she wasn’t mentally challenged or at least it is never mentioned so why didn’t she ask him? Why didn’t she face him and the woman?
After all there was more at stake than her pride, she was pregnant!
Ten years later she’s back to her lil quaint Yorkshire village because her father and mother forgave her ( really? In the 80s in England were they so bigot? I can’t believe it).
Of course she meets the hero again and after five minutes she understands she’s made a big huge mistake because guess what, the woman was his sister with her children.
Aaaaaannnddddd …. What does she do? Does she grovel and ask him forgiveness and reveal that they have a child? No! Because the hero told her he doesn’t want a wife and children any more. You see, he’s had a bad infection and can’t have any more children so he doesn’t want her to marry him out of pity. Wtf???
So, after angst and more angst because both of them are still in love with each other, they finally talk like two adults, being her 30 yo and him 38 and thank god all is well in the end.
I rated 3 stars because:
There’s the best lil girl ever. She’s sweet and loves animal and sets free a much abused dog. And hides it in the barn, where she feeds and take care of it. She really is an amazing girl. The heroine has been really a good mother to her. Well done.
The hero has very probably been celibate for 11 years, it’s not confirmed but there are hints. Sometimes PJ does this.
There’s so much past here that it seems sometimes like a historical romance. Animal abused in test labs, parents who ask their daughter to leave because she’s pregnant.
Some cringeworthy things: a man can do what he wants with his dogs and wife. No joke, I swear! 1988 Yorkshire England! Jayzuz!
And the worst misunderstanding ever. The heroine has really a dirty and convoluted mind to think those kind of things. I wouldn’t be able to imagine the things she did with so little help.
But she’s sweet and caring and very motherly in the usual PJ ways.
Oh and let’s not forget that the hero has the usual tropical disease that causes him to have fevers during which he reveals his feelings to the heroine. Precious and so much PJ.
The heroine was engaged to the hero at 18 and had just found out she was pregnant when she saw him with a woman and two children and thought he was married and the children were his.
So she jilted him and run away.
Ok she was 18 but she wasn’t mentally challenged or at least it is never mentioned so why didn’t she ask him? Why didn’t she face him and the woman?
After all there was more at stake than her pride, she was pregnant!
Ten years later she’s back to her lil quaint Yorkshire village because her father and mother forgave her ( really? In the 80s in England were they so bigot? I can’t believe it).
Of course she meets the hero again and after five minutes she understands she’s made a big huge mistake because guess what, the woman was his sister with her children.
Aaaaaannnddddd …. What does she do? Does she grovel and ask him forgiveness and reveal that they have a child? No! Because the hero told her he doesn’t want a wife and children any more. You see, he’s had a bad infection and can’t have any more children so he doesn’t want her to marry him out of pity. Wtf???
So, after angst and more angst because both of them are still in love with each other, they finally talk like two adults, being her 30 yo and him 38 and thank god all is well in the end.
I rated 3 stars because:
There’s the best lil girl ever. She’s sweet and loves animal and sets free a much abused dog. And hides it in the barn, where she feeds and take care of it. She really is an amazing girl. The heroine has been really a good mother to her. Well done.
The hero has very probably been celibate for 11 years, it’s not confirmed but there are hints. Sometimes PJ does this.
There’s so much past here that it seems sometimes like a historical romance. Animal abused in test labs, parents who ask their daughter to leave because she’s pregnant.
Some cringeworthy things: a man can do what he wants with his dogs and wife. No joke, I swear! 1988 Yorkshire England! Jayzuz!
And the worst misunderstanding ever. The heroine has really a dirty and convoluted mind to think those kind of things. I wouldn’t be able to imagine the things she did with so little help.
But she’s sweet and caring and very motherly in the usual PJ ways.
Oh and let’s not forget that the hero has the usual tropical disease that causes him to have fevers during which he reveals his feelings to the heroine. Precious and so much PJ.
January 22, 2018
Sweet with just the right angst and minus any asshattery!
Doesn’t feel like PJ but is….one of her very few nice Hs.
Long separation with a secret child to show for it, the H is soo non-accusatory about what he perceived as the h’s dumping of him 10 years ago. He feels maybe she was too young for a long commitment and so handles the reunion in a calm mature way.
He was the sort of man a woman would always feel comfortable with: protected by his masculinity but never threatened by it. He was male, without being macho.
And the kid in the story is named Cherry.
'Cherry . . . what kind of name is that to give the child?' her father snorted.
(The grandfather, btw, is the best kind of grandfather even if he took his time to actually become one!)
Hmmm it's a pretty enough name even if not a common one, I thought...
...and then I read Ed Sheeran’s announcement! :D
Doesn’t feel like PJ but is….one of her very few nice Hs.
Long separation with a secret child to show for it, the H is soo non-accusatory about what he perceived as the h’s dumping of him 10 years ago. He feels maybe she was too young for a long commitment and so handles the reunion in a calm mature way.
He was the sort of man a woman would always feel comfortable with: protected by his masculinity but never threatened by it. He was male, without being macho.
And the kid in the story is named Cherry.
'Cherry . . . what kind of name is that to give the child?' her father snorted.
(The grandfather, btw, is the best kind of grandfather even if he took his time to actually become one!)
Hmmm it's a pretty enough name even if not a common one, I thought...
...and then I read Ed Sheeran’s announcement! :D
November 20, 2019
Pretty blah read. Not a real solid reason for the secret baby. I don't mind that trope as long as there is a good reason for it but as others have mentioned the heroine misunderstood something she saw, neglected to confront the hero about it and the hero just went off with his tail between his legs. For 10 years.
The story involves breeding a super secret new kind of sheep which has to be approved by the government somehow. Pretty sure that's now how it works although I understand the quarantine aspect of it all. In fact I'm not sure enough precautions were taken considering how devastating some of these diseases can be.
Beta hero and stupid cruel heroine. Two stars for the cute daughter who is more really than just a plot moppet.
The story involves breeding a super secret new kind of sheep which has to be approved by the government somehow. Pretty sure that's now how it works although I understand the quarantine aspect of it all. In fact I'm not sure enough precautions were taken considering how devastating some of these diseases can be.
Beta hero and stupid cruel heroine. Two stars for the cute daughter who is more really than just a plot moppet.
June 18, 2020
1.5 ⭐️
TW/CW:
Heroine’s parents are second cousins, past parental disownment, animal cruelty discussions, quarantine.
I actually really like the premise but I found both the hero and the heroine dull. I found they just had no chemistry together. This is also more telling and not showing. We are told they are in love but I didn’t get to believe it, the story was just unemotional.
Quote from the book that I’m like hmmm... idk:
“Powerful drugs of any kind have to be tested,’ Silas told her quietly. ‘It’s an unfortunate fact of life that sometimes this means that they have to be tested on animals—not always with happy results.”
TW/CW:
Heroine’s parents are second cousins, past parental disownment, animal cruelty discussions, quarantine.
I actually really like the premise but I found both the hero and the heroine dull. I found they just had no chemistry together. This is also more telling and not showing. We are told they are in love but I didn’t get to believe it, the story was just unemotional.
Quote from the book that I’m like hmmm... idk:
“Powerful drugs of any kind have to be tested,’ Silas told her quietly. ‘It’s an unfortunate fact of life that sometimes this means that they have to be tested on animals—not always with happy results.”
December 22, 2017
A lovely story of reunited lovers and a secret child.
Silas and Kate were lovers in college and about to get married when Kate see him with another woman and two small boys. She makes the wrong assumption and runs away. She returns to her small town farming community and is kicked out by her father for being pregnant and unmarried.
Eleven years later, she returns him for the first time, with her daughter, Cherry. Her parents are delighted to meet their grandchild for the first time. Kate also finds out that Silas is working for the government, doing research at the farm next door to her parents.
They meet again. There is a lot of angst and hostility. Silas has secrets that he will not share and Kate has the biggest one of all. They ignore the love between them until Silas’s sister comes to town and straightens them out.
A sweet ending with no anger and lots of acceptance. There’s also a happy dog named Meg and a very happy girl named Cherry.
Silas and Kate were lovers in college and about to get married when Kate see him with another woman and two small boys. She makes the wrong assumption and runs away. She returns to her small town farming community and is kicked out by her father for being pregnant and unmarried.
Eleven years later, she returns him for the first time, with her daughter, Cherry. Her parents are delighted to meet their grandchild for the first time. Kate also finds out that Silas is working for the government, doing research at the farm next door to her parents.
They meet again. There is a lot of angst and hostility. Silas has secrets that he will not share and Kate has the biggest one of all. They ignore the love between them until Silas’s sister comes to town and straightens them out.
A sweet ending with no anger and lots of acceptance. There’s also a happy dog named Meg and a very happy girl named Cherry.
November 29, 2012
A reunion read with heaps of angst and emotion and a wounded hero to die for.
Young Kate was insecure but madly in love with the much older Silas when in college. Seeing him with a woman and children, looking like a family, sent her running, keeping her pregnancy secret.
Fast forward over ten years and Kate and her daughter Cherry arrive home to find Silas installed in a government facility right next door.
If these two could have simply communicated better there would have been no need for so much of what happened. So both of them carry some guilt for what happened in the past. Silly lies based on pride kept them from each other in the present.
At times that lack of communication became irritating but Silas was a wonderful hero and Kate a fine heroine with a lovely daughter so it was a good read.
Young Kate was insecure but madly in love with the much older Silas when in college. Seeing him with a woman and children, looking like a family, sent her running, keeping her pregnancy secret.
Fast forward over ten years and Kate and her daughter Cherry arrive home to find Silas installed in a government facility right next door.
If these two could have simply communicated better there would have been no need for so much of what happened. So both of them carry some guilt for what happened in the past. Silly lies based on pride kept them from each other in the present.
At times that lack of communication became irritating but Silas was a wonderful hero and Kate a fine heroine with a lovely daughter so it was a good read.
May 21, 2016
Kate and Silas were together when Kate was 18. Soon after that Kate got pregnant with Cherry. When Kate went to tell Silas, she saw him with another woman and two young boys. Being eighteen, immature and frightened, she assumed the worse. She thought that Silas was married and had two sons. So she ran.
Eleven years later Kate is coming back to her village, to see her parents and let them meet Cherry. Silas turns back up on the scene and a lot of problems occur.
The characters are likable, lovable and totally down to earth. The novel is written in such a way that you can relate closely and understand where they are coming from.
Eleven years later Kate is coming back to her village, to see her parents and let them meet Cherry. Silas turns back up on the scene and a lot of problems occur.
The characters are likable, lovable and totally down to earth. The novel is written in such a way that you can relate closely and understand where they are coming from.
August 18, 2022
She returns with her 10 yr old daughter Cherry to her parents' farm in the Dales. She'd been cast out when pregnant at 18 but it's all happy families now. Child's father unaware. She'd seen him kiss a woman who was telling him "the boys are missing you" and assumed he was married 🙄 without so much as a question or conversation.
Anyhoo, H doesn't even appear til p50 so yes, this one is on the slow side.
Contemporary mention of Chernobyl as H is chief of mysterious govt research station doing work on what is locally thought to be rabies or something nefarious. There is patrolling and quarantine and report of anti vivisection protest. It's actually breeding sheep to withstand poor conditions in places like Ethiopia where the H has been suffering, celibately it is hinted, for 10 years. Oh and spoiler ahead
He contracted an illness there which has put paid to his little swimmers. Just to add some piquancy to the whole secretly a father thing.
It was a bit too slow. And, regardless of some of the sensitivity in this, I really can't get my head round a hot guy (or girl) in their twenties and early thirties going for years of celibacy. The waste. Time enough for that decades down the line 😂
Anyhoo, H doesn't even appear til p50 so yes, this one is on the slow side.
Contemporary mention of Chernobyl as H is chief of mysterious govt research station doing work on what is locally thought to be rabies or something nefarious. There is patrolling and quarantine and report of anti vivisection protest. It's actually breeding sheep to withstand poor conditions in places like Ethiopia where the H has been suffering, celibately it is hinted, for 10 years. Oh and spoiler ahead
He contracted an illness there which has put paid to his little swimmers. Just to add some piquancy to the whole secretly a father thing.
It was a bit too slow. And, regardless of some of the sensitivity in this, I really can't get my head round a hot guy (or girl) in their twenties and early thirties going for years of celibacy. The waste. Time enough for that decades down the line 😂
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 18, 2019
This is an older HP book. They had been together years ago. But after she saw him with another woman broke off with him and left. Not knowing that she took a piece of him with her. He is now next door to her parents land. His is a secret project and with many safe guards to keep civilians off his land. But after an unexpected incident she ends up in quarantine until all is cleared. More ways than both realize. When all the secrets come out will they get their happy ending?
July 23, 2017
You know, this is another Penny Jordan book that I originally read when it was originally released in 1989 as Potential Danger. It was OK back then and it's OK now. The biggest problem I have with it is the new title. Her Shock Pregnancy Secret doesn't really roll off the tongue and feels stilted. Sighs.
December 6, 2024
I didn't like it, an 11 year separation is way too long. At least they were both celibate (wasn't outright stated that he was, just implied that he was).
Hero and heroine were both nice and not annoying, they were boring though. Not a fan of the misunderstanding and that heroine never confronted him with what she thought she heard. K.
Hero and heroine were both nice and not annoying, they were boring though. Not a fan of the misunderstanding and that heroine never confronted him with what she thought she heard. K.
May 14, 2024
I read this in 1988 when it first came out. Are some of the plot points a little ridiculous now? Yes but I still love this story. I suspend my disbelief over their misunderstanding.
hq-to-read
May 11, 2021Own as Her Shock Pregnancy Secret
here would never be another man for Kate...
Schoolteacher Kate Seton returning on vacation with her daughter, to her parents' farm, was shocked to see Silas Edwards again. Now he was a biologist running a government project on a nearby estate. It was Silas who was responsible for Kate's rift with her family. But Kate could not tell him the truth, nor why she had left him suddenly eleven years before
here would never be another man for Kate...
Schoolteacher Kate Seton returning on vacation with her daughter, to her parents' farm, was shocked to see Silas Edwards again. Now he was a biologist running a government project on a nearby estate. It was Silas who was responsible for Kate's rift with her family. But Kate could not tell him the truth, nor why she had left him suddenly eleven years before
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