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He said he had come back for a reason
Six years ago, an ambitious Andreas Phedonos had deserted his island home of Cyprus and his childhood sweetheart, Anna. Now he'd returned, a charming and successful businessman.
Anna, independent and with a life of her own, was still bitter over his sudden departure. She couldn't help but be suspicious of this new Andreas and his reasons for returning.
But neither could Anna stop the memories and feelings of the warm summer nights of their youth from coming back with him.
Six years ago, an ambitious Andreas Phedonos had deserted his island home of Cyprus and his childhood sweetheart, Anna. Now he'd returned, a charming and successful businessman.
Anna, independent and with a life of her own, was still bitter over his sudden departure. She couldn't help but be suspicious of this new Andreas and his reasons for returning.
But neither could Anna stop the memories and feelings of the warm summer nights of their youth from coming back with him.
- GenresHarlequin Romance
192 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1986
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Jean S. MacLeod
141 books15 followersJean Sutherland MacLeod was born in 20 January 1908 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Allen and John MacLeod. Her father, who was a civil engineer, moved with jobs. Her education began at Bearsden Academy, continued in Swansea and ended in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She moved to North Yorkshire, England to marry with Lionel Walton on 1 January 1935, an electricity board executive, who died in 1995. They had a son, David Walton, who died two years before her. She passed away on 11 April 2011 at 103 years.
Jean S. MacLeod started writing stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before sold her first romance novel in 1936. She wrote contemporary romances, most of them were set in her native Scotland, or in exotic places like Spain or Caribbean, places that she normally visited for documented. From 1948 to 1965, she also published under the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. She published her last novel in 1996, a year after her husband death. She was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.
Jean S. MacLeod started writing stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before sold her first romance novel in 1936. She wrote contemporary romances, most of them were set in her native Scotland, or in exotic places like Spain or Caribbean, places that she normally visited for documented. From 1948 to 1965, she also published under the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. She published her last novel in 1996, a year after her husband death. She was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.
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February 8, 2025
Bummer. My first read of 2021 was boring, repetitive, and unromantic.
The setting in this story is Cyprus and there is quite a bit of travelogue devoted to the history of the island, and its mixed cultural heritage. It says a lot about the plot and the characters that all the paragraphs devoted to Byzantine mosaics and Roman villas were more interesting than the tedious romance between the heroine, her childhood sweetheart, and the beautiful Scandinavian hotel tycoon who is the Other Woman of this tale.
The hero was an orphan who was raised by heroine’s parents. Heroine grew up loving him and believing they would marry. Instead, hero left the island as soon as he reached adulthood, never looking back. He met the beautiful Scandinavian hotelier OW and leeched onto her and her husband to learn everything about the industry and enjoy the perks of their jet setting lifestyle. He only came back to his native island because the OW was interested in developing some beachfront property there.. Guess who owned the coveted land? The jilted heroine, of course!
Far from apologizing for ghosting heroine, hero makes it clear he is not interested in rekindling their relationship, he is only interested in buying her land. It is pretty obvious the OW is his mistress. He treats her like a saintly, perfect specimen of femininity. OW is a master at playing the frail, tragic wife who has relied on the "tower of strength" hero in the face of the tragedy of her husband's terminal illness. But the author allows glimpses of the real woman behind the social mask: a hard-as-nails, calculating, clever businesswoman.
I think the OW's poor terminally ill husband realized that his wife and his protege, the hero, were "in love" (if that term can be applied to two equally cold, reptilian predators). So he decided to drown himself at sea rather than make his wife endure the traumatic months ahead caring for him. But everyone pretended it was an unfortunate drowning accident. OW, who is ultra conscious of her image and social status probably realized it would be a terrible ESCANDALO to marry the hero after her husband committed suicide. So she decided to return to Europe at warp speed after telling the heroine a cockamamie story about her looking on the hero as a "mother to a son." (OW was only 10 years older than hero!!!)
Once the OW left, hero made the most sudden marriage proposal to the heroine, days after he had told the heroine he was perfectly happy living a bachelor life. The dumb-dumb heroine said yes, and the hero finally got what he wanted, which was the heroine's house and her primo, beachfront land. He never had to give up the OW other than temporarily. As he himself told his wife-t0-be in the same breath as his dubious love declaration, she needs to tolerate his OW staying in their lives for the rest of eternity because he and OW are "something more than friends.” Of course they are!
The setting in this story is Cyprus and there is quite a bit of travelogue devoted to the history of the island, and its mixed cultural heritage. It says a lot about the plot and the characters that all the paragraphs devoted to Byzantine mosaics and Roman villas were more interesting than the tedious romance between the heroine, her childhood sweetheart, and the beautiful Scandinavian hotel tycoon who is the Other Woman of this tale.
The hero was an orphan who was raised by heroine’s parents. Heroine grew up loving him and believing they would marry. Instead, hero left the island as soon as he reached adulthood, never looking back. He met the beautiful Scandinavian hotelier OW and leeched onto her and her husband to learn everything about the industry and enjoy the perks of their jet setting lifestyle. He only came back to his native island because the OW was interested in developing some beachfront property there.. Guess who owned the coveted land? The jilted heroine, of course!
Far from apologizing for ghosting heroine, hero makes it clear he is not interested in rekindling their relationship, he is only interested in buying her land. It is pretty obvious the OW is his mistress. He treats her like a saintly, perfect specimen of femininity. OW is a master at playing the frail, tragic wife who has relied on the "tower of strength" hero in the face of the tragedy of her husband's terminal illness. But the author allows glimpses of the real woman behind the social mask: a hard-as-nails, calculating, clever businesswoman.
I think the OW's poor terminally ill husband realized that his wife and his protege, the hero, were "in love" (if that term can be applied to two equally cold, reptilian predators). So he decided to drown himself at sea rather than make his wife endure the traumatic months ahead caring for him. But everyone pretended it was an unfortunate drowning accident. OW, who is ultra conscious of her image and social status probably realized it would be a terrible ESCANDALO to marry the hero after her husband committed suicide. So she decided to return to Europe at warp speed after telling the heroine a cockamamie story about her looking on the hero as a "mother to a son." (OW was only 10 years older than hero!!!)
Once the OW left, hero made the most sudden marriage proposal to the heroine, days after he had told the heroine he was perfectly happy living a bachelor life. The dumb-dumb heroine said yes, and the hero finally got what he wanted, which was the heroine's house and her primo, beachfront land. He never had to give up the OW other than temporarily. As he himself told his wife-t0-be in the same breath as his dubious love declaration, she needs to tolerate his OW staying in their lives for the rest of eternity because he and OW are "something more than friends.” Of course they are!
June 24, 2013
This is an interesting story with the heroine a girl from Cyprus. Her childhood sweetheart left six years ago and has now returned having made his fortune. Anna was bitter about his seeming abandonment of her and her parents and is deeply suspicious of his motive for returning and the glamorous woman who accompanies him.
Anna's father's death, not long after Andreas left, put her family home at risk and she is running it as a hotel. Right next door to the more lavish modern edifice that Andreas is to manage on behalf of the woman who accompanies him.
This is all complicated by her mother's ill health and the pressure being put on her by another childhood friend who wants to marry her which would allow her mother to retire.
An easy relaxing read with a nice happy ending.
Anna's father's death, not long after Andreas left, put her family home at risk and she is running it as a hotel. Right next door to the more lavish modern edifice that Andreas is to manage on behalf of the woman who accompanies him.
This is all complicated by her mother's ill health and the pressure being put on her by another childhood friend who wants to marry her which would allow her mother to retire.
An easy relaxing read with a nice happy ending.
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December 31, 2017He said he had come back for a reason
Six years ago, an ambitious Andreas Phedonos had deserted his island home of Cyprus and his childhood sweetheart, Anna. Now he'd returned, a charming and successful businessman.
Anna, independent and with a life of her own, was still bitter over his sudden departure. She couldn't help but be suspicious of this new Andreas and his reasons for returning.
But neither could Anna stop the memories and feelings of the warm summer nights of their youth from coming back with him.
Six years ago, an ambitious Andreas Phedonos had deserted his island home of Cyprus and his childhood sweetheart, Anna. Now he'd returned, a charming and successful businessman.
Anna, independent and with a life of her own, was still bitter over his sudden departure. She couldn't help but be suspicious of this new Andreas and his reasons for returning.
But neither could Anna stop the memories and feelings of the warm summer nights of their youth from coming back with him.
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