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The Dysarts #5
Sweet Surrender
He was back--and he wanted her
Kate hadn't planned to settle old scores with Alasdair Drummond. But when he reappeared in her life, she realized that here was her chance He had been her first love, yet he hadn't even considered her as more than a friend.
This time around, Alasdair made it clear he found Kate desirable, so she was going to make him surrender to passion--on her terms. Only, just when she thought she had Alasdair where she wanted him, the tables were turned on her....
Kate hadn't planned to settle old scores with Alasdair Drummond. But when he reappeared in her life, she realized that here was her chance He had been her first love, yet he hadn't even considered her as more than a friend.
This time around, Alasdair made it clear he found Kate desirable, so she was going to make him surrender to passion--on her terms. Only, just when she thought she had Alasdair where she wanted him, the tables were turned on her....
186 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2002
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About the author
Catherine George
443 books73 followersDeirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
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November 25, 2017
A hodge podge of Harley tropes - unrequited love, second chance, Big traumatic secret, amnesia, OM drama - which the author didn't really successfully blend together and sell. Even the setting of the English villages, ye olde pubs, extended family reunions, antiquing, etc., didn't really charm. The heroine didn't know her own mind and was a bit too smug at having two men fight over her. Hero was very unlikable and OM seemed the better proposition by far. This one might remain memorable because of the big production made around an antique, spotted-fur hat reminiscent of Dr. Jhivago that the heroine dons to her nephew's christening. I just thought it was an odd fashion choice and if I was a baby, I think a hat like that might finish the job of terrifying me if the water-splashing and priest mumbling over me hadn't. English women and their hats are like French women and their scarves. Incomprehensibly obsessed.
February 17, 2018
Seriously disappointed in both H/h in this book. The h especially comes across as a lady who shouldn't be teaching young children as she doesn't know herself - metaphorically through the book and also quite literally when she actually ends up amnesia. She actually drops her phone and tries to pick it up when she is driving in the rain! Wish the author had chosen Jack Spencer as the H as he comes across as more real than Alisdair Drummond who the h had a huge crush on back in college days. Since he was oblivious she leads a guy on and he rapes her. h blames herself and the H to an extent for the incident, even H blames himself to an extent rather than the rapist! Disappointing as Catherine George usually has a stronger female protagonist who are truly independent and likable.
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Genre: Romance, Harlequin
Genre: Romance, Harlequin
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December 31, 2017He was back--and he wanted her
Kate hadn't planned to settle old scores with Alasdair Drummond. But when he reappeared in her life, she realized that here was her chance He had been her first love, yet he hadn't even considered her as more than a friend.
This time around, Alasdair made it clear he found Kate desirable, so she was going to make him surrender to passion--on her terms. Only, just when she thought she had Alasdair where she wanted him, the tables were turned on her....
Kate hadn't planned to settle old scores with Alasdair Drummond. But when he reappeared in her life, she realized that here was her chance He had been her first love, yet he hadn't even considered her as more than a friend.
This time around, Alasdair made it clear he found Kate desirable, so she was going to make him surrender to passion--on her terms. Only, just when she thought she had Alasdair where she wanted him, the tables were turned on her....
August 16, 2020
An old friend walks back into your life, and immediately treats you like an old girlfriend?
This book has very old fashioned ideas about men and women (the daughters of the house will serve tea) and also the couple behave peculiarly both in the past and present. But all's well that end's well I suppose, of course there's a HEA.
This book has very old fashioned ideas about men and women (the daughters of the house will serve tea) and also the couple behave peculiarly both in the past and present. But all's well that end's well I suppose, of course there's a HEA.
April 9, 2019
Dreary. I reached the end and was still waiting for the story to begin.
April 25, 2011
biasaaaa.....
June 28, 2012
Suka sama tokoh perempuan di novel ini, ngga "murahan" trus ngga juga suka sama adegan kecemburuan dari tokoh prianya...
January 17, 2016
Very dull.
April 12, 2017
Loved the family. Plenty of drama. Not so keen on the hero.
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