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Remembrance, Indiana #4
Everything But Marriage
Devlin Russel spent nearly a decade in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Finally free, he wanted nothing more than to live a life free of walls and, most especially, free of people and the entanglements that went with them.
Then he pulled a beautiful young woman from a flooded river. He brought her into his home, into his life. He told himself he was just letting her stay until she got back on her feet but Annalise St. John soon worked her way into the heart he would have sworn he didn’t have anymore.
Annalise had lost everything that mattered. Nearly losing her life didn’t seem to matter much one way or another but then Devlin pulled her from the water and gave her shelter. He gave her warmth and a gruff, undemanding care. As the days passed, she felt herself starting to see the world in color again, remembering how to smile, how to laugh. How to love.
Devlin had let her into his life. Would he be willing to let her open the walls he’d built around his heart?
Then he pulled a beautiful young woman from a flooded river. He brought her into his home, into his life. He told himself he was just letting her stay until she got back on her feet but Annalise St. John soon worked her way into the heart he would have sworn he didn’t have anymore.
Annalise had lost everything that mattered. Nearly losing her life didn’t seem to matter much one way or another but then Devlin pulled her from the water and gave her shelter. He gave her warmth and a gruff, undemanding care. As the days passed, she felt herself starting to see the world in color again, remembering how to smile, how to laugh. How to love.
Devlin had let her into his life. Would he be willing to let her open the walls he’d built around his heart?
- GenresRomance
250 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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About the author
Dallas Schulze
89 books70 followersBorn and raised in Colorado, Dallas Schulze now lives in California. She sold her first book in October 1983. It was published under her pseudonym Dallas Hamlin in the Candlelight Ecstasy Romance line. She loves happy ending and wrote category romances, contemporaries and historicals for Harlequin, Silhouette, Dell and Mira. Her latest title was published in 2004.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
June 4, 2021
"Everything But Marriage" is the story of Annalise and Devlin.
A beautiful romance in which two scarred souls heal each other.
The hero is a free man after being falsely convicted of a crime he did not commit and suffering imprisonment. Living a loner's life, he does not want any more trouble. That is, until he rescues a woman from drowning, and takes her to his home. The heroine is catatonic and numb, and the hero spends time helping her recover. His aim is to get her going, but something about her sad eyes suck him in. A lost kitten wakes her up, and we soon seeing the heroine come back to life. Feelings emerge between the two, we slowly explore past traumas and inhibitions and see them healing each other. There is angst, super hot lovemaking, a much needed grovel, and a nice HEA.
I enjoyed it and I wish it was longer.
Safe
4/5
A beautiful romance in which two scarred souls heal each other.
The hero is a free man after being falsely convicted of a crime he did not commit and suffering imprisonment. Living a loner's life, he does not want any more trouble. That is, until he rescues a woman from drowning, and takes her to his home. The heroine is catatonic and numb, and the hero spends time helping her recover. His aim is to get her going, but something about her sad eyes suck him in. A lost kitten wakes her up, and we soon seeing the heroine come back to life. Feelings emerge between the two, we slowly explore past traumas and inhibitions and see them healing each other. There is angst, super hot lovemaking, a much needed grovel, and a nice HEA.
I enjoyed it and I wish it was longer.
Safe
4/5
June 4, 2018
3.5 stars
September 25, 2013
Rating 3.25 stars
This book was just decent, that's all I can say. The characters were not bad but they weren't memorable either. The hero was wrongly convicted at the age of 22 and got out eight years later, he is wary and closed off and adrift when he rescues the heroine who is depressed and lifeless. The book is about these two broken people coming alive, becoming lovers to actually living and loving life.
This book was just decent, that's all I can say. The characters were not bad but they weren't memorable either. The hero was wrongly convicted at the age of 22 and got out eight years later, he is wary and closed off and adrift when he rescues the heroine who is depressed and lifeless. The book is about these two broken people coming alive, becoming lovers to actually living and loving life.
April 14, 2014
I am a longtime fan of Dallas Schulze. I have collected as many of her books as I can find, and loved them all. This is part of a story arch that loosely connects several of her books, and it's one of my favorites. Devlin was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, and in a fit of deathbed conscience-cleansing, the real killer - who had buckets of money - confesses. (One doubts the sincerity of a man who confesses when he knows he's past paying the price for his crime!)
Now with enough money to do whatever he wants, Devlin has lost enough of himself to make even the slightest contact with others difficult. When he rescues a woman from drowning on the edge of his property, he doesn't know what to do with her. She is so undemanding, and so lost herself, that he can't bring himself to dump her and her problems on anyone else.
It takes an abandoned mother cat to pull Annalise out of her despair. I loved how real her tragedy felt, and how achingly painful the scenes are where she is faced with the very thing she lost.
Romances are for happy endings, and even though I suspected early on how this one would end, there was always the possibility I guessed wrong. But it was nice to be right.
Now with enough money to do whatever he wants, Devlin has lost enough of himself to make even the slightest contact with others difficult. When he rescues a woman from drowning on the edge of his property, he doesn't know what to do with her. She is so undemanding, and so lost herself, that he can't bring himself to dump her and her problems on anyone else.
It takes an abandoned mother cat to pull Annalise out of her despair. I loved how real her tragedy felt, and how achingly painful the scenes are where she is faced with the very thing she lost.
Romances are for happy endings, and even though I suspected early on how this one would end, there was always the possibility I guessed wrong. But it was nice to be right.
May 28, 2024
Good Series
Dallas Schulze is a great author and I did love this series. But the last two books end abruptly and I feel there isn't any ending. The question I have is what happened to the characters? That's not to say I didnt like all the books in this series. Highly recommend the author.
Dallas Schulze is a great author and I did love this series. But the last two books end abruptly and I feel there isn't any ending. The question I have is what happened to the characters? That's not to say I didnt like all the books in this series. Highly recommend the author.
May 28, 2019
tremendamente repetitivo
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