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Dreams #2
Lost in a Dream
She'd been cossetted, and overprotected
Jeanne Lester knew that. Yet it wasn't easy to claim her independence without hurting her family.
Surprisingly, her big brother Seth came to her rescue. He gave her an extended European holiday as a birthday present. But there was a catch--Jeanne had to check in with a number of Seth's friends.
Everything went well until she reached England--and met Gray Caldwell. Somehow, by accident, Gray got entirely the wrong opinion of Jeanne. And nothing she did seemed to change his mind....
Jeanne Lester knew that. Yet it wasn't easy to claim her independence without hurting her family.
Surprisingly, her big brother Seth came to her rescue. He gave her an extended European holiday as a birthday present. But there was a catch--Jeanne had to check in with a number of Seth's friends.
Everything went well until she reached England--and met Gray Caldwell. Somehow, by accident, Gray got entirely the wrong opinion of Jeanne. And nothing she did seemed to change his mind....
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Sandra Marton
674 books540 followersI've been a writer, one way or another, all my life. Before I could read, I made up poems and my mom wrote them down for me. In elementary school, my teachers almost always let me write poems or stories instead of requiring me to do art projects. Always, I dreamed of becoming a published writer...and that dream came true! I write novels about sexy, powerful men and independent-minded women, and what happens when they find each other and fall in love. My books are sexy and romantic, and they've very often full of romantic suspense. I write the kinds of books I love to read, and I hope that makes my readers happy.
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October 1, 2020
فكرة القط بيحب خناقو مقرفة للأبد
والله لازلت لا افهم كيف لشخص ما ان يهوى من يهينه ويحزنه ويغضبه ويرفضه ؟ سواء عن عمد او بدون
وللأسف هذا الوضع ليس مقتصر على الروايات المغضب انه شيء نراه كثيرًا بحياتنا 🙎🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
اي علاقة تهينك وتسحقك وتحزنك لا تستحق الصبر عليها لثانية
ومالها الوحدة جميلة ومريحة 🙄🌚😂
والله لازلت لا افهم كيف لشخص ما ان يهوى من يهينه ويحزنه ويغضبه ويرفضه ؟ سواء عن عمد او بدون
وللأسف هذا الوضع ليس مقتصر على الروايات المغضب انه شيء نراه كثيرًا بحياتنا 🙎🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
اي علاقة تهينك وتسحقك وتحزنك لا تستحق الصبر عليها لثانية
ومالها الوحدة جميلة ومريحة 🙄🌚😂
October 5, 2017
Re Lost in A Dream - Sandra Marton continues her Dream Duology with this book's h being the little sister of the H in By Dreams Betrayed. (This h is the one we thought was the OW in the last one.)
This one starts with lil sister h getting ready to be married to a friend of her brother's. She is the 23 yr old baby of the family and because her parents married late and had her and her half brother is the usual SM domineering male, she is a little tired of having her family arrange and run her life for her.
She made an attempt at independence by moving in with another actor and trying to be an actress, but that went south when the guy she moved in with proved to be some kinda nematode - she wasn't sleeping with the guy and she still grooms unicorns, but things became intolerable for her so she had to move out. (SM is vague about this and it gets lost in the mists of HPlandia, but the big thing we need to know is that it was a bid for freedom from family manipulations and the h's heart isn't broken. )
Now the h is having major doubts about marrying her brother's friend. She went along with it and she likes the guy, but she figures out she doesn't love him thirty minutes before she is supposed to be at the altar. So what does an immature SM HP h do? She dumps the wedding dress and runs off down the back stairs. She thinks she will hitch a ride to the train station and crash on a friend's couch. The night is really cold tho, so when she tries to flag a ride down, she almost gets run over and this leads to a confrontation with a dark mysterious man. They argue, the h is exasperated and upset and attracted and then the h's bridegroom shows up to collect her.
We jump to the h some time later, now living on her own and getting the offer of a three week trip to Europe from her brother and his wife for her birthday. Obviously big brother still has matchmaking on his mind as he tells her that her former bridegroom has met a girl and they are in love and then wants her to look up his old college roommates and give them messages from him as she arrives at various destinations on her trip. The h is well aware of the manipulation, but she goes along with it anyways.
Until she gets to England and has a run in with the same mysterious man she met on the night of the non-wedding. She doesn't recognize him at first and since they almost wrecked their cars and she got a flat tire, she spends the entire time trying to recollect where she has met the very angry and rude man before. They part ways and she goes to a B&B for the night, where who should appear in her bed but the mysterious man from before. It seems the owners of the B&B got their wires crossed and rented the same room to both of them. There is some mean verbal exchanges and an almost forced seduction before the H storms off, but not without making an offer for the h to hook up with his lurve club later.
The h doesn't go, instead she goes to local tourist attractions and looks at castles. Then her wallet gets stolen and she is forced to try and contact the school friend of her brother's for a place to stay while she gets things replaced. She had initially just left a message for the guy and had no intentions of following up, but the missing wallet means she has to try and track him down as he is expecting her and left a number for her to call. She ends up at his country home and meets the lady she thinks is wife, but is actually his aunt. She is having a cozy little cup of tea when in walks the stranger she keeps literally running into.
It is the H and the brother's friend of course and as soon as the aunt goes off to do things, he becomes the nastiest tart shaming nematode in England. He assumes she was running off to a lover when he met her the first time and he accuses her of sleeping with every man she meets based on what her brother has said about her. (Why he felt he should say anything or why her brother said she was a tart is beyond me. He is no stranger to the lurvely lady buffet, as we will soon find out, and really the tart shaming in this was just incredible - even for SM.)
The h hold her own verbally tho and since she is leaving in a few days anyways, she doesn't really care. Then the H comes up with the idear of hiring the h to act as his girlfriend for the summer, his aunt is a total matchmaker and keeps throwing lots and lots of ladies at him. He is not adverse to sampling the wares, but he really doesn't want to marry any of them as the lady buffet is always open and too tempting to settle on a main dish. The h agrees, she likes England and she wants to see more of it and there is also that persistent nagging attraction to the H.
So the big charade begins, there are lots of OW to run off, ( the OW scenes were really boring,) lots of roofie kisses and almost seductions and ton of tart shaming when the h backs off. Until eventually the h doesn't say no on her last night in England. They have a big lurve mojo explosion and the h's unicorn grooming license is permanently revoked. This is the get out of jail free card for the h, as the H decides she is not so terrible after all and goes for another round. The h leaves England without a goodbye the next morning. She is in love, but the H was really clear on his revolving door status, so she thinks there is no hope for anything more.
She goes back to the States and waitressing and auditioning and gets a small part in a Broadway play. She also gets her brother's wife giving her the "go after your man and make a fool of yourself" speech, but the h tells her things are definitely over with the H and she will soon be able to move on. She tells her brother to stay out of arranging her life for her and to please quit matchmaking for sure. Then she has a few sad little mopey moments and a dream about the H.
The h's sister in law doesn't concede defeat so easily tho. The h thinks she feels the H's presence during the last performance of her play, but she doesn't see him and she agreed to go over to her brother's that night to help the sister in law out. When she gets there, no one is home and the sister in law calls and asks the h to stay, then the H shows up.
He was watching her at her play but he thought she wouldn't want to see him, until her brother called him up and sent him over to meet the h. Big lurve and proposal declarations ensue and the H explains that his buffet days are over, he only wants prime rib at home on demand from now on. The h is happy, cause she only wants prime rib too and then she has a little explosion about how her family will not stop meddling in her life for the HEA.
This one was a pretty average HP adventure. SM continues with the slightly metaphysical bit she started in the first book by having the H and h literally crashing into each other as acts of fated destiny and she throws in a prophetic dream or two as well. I wasn't a big fan of the H for most of the book, but the h was okay and for an HP outing, well I have read worse.
This one starts with lil sister h getting ready to be married to a friend of her brother's. She is the 23 yr old baby of the family and because her parents married late and had her and her half brother is the usual SM domineering male, she is a little tired of having her family arrange and run her life for her.
She made an attempt at independence by moving in with another actor and trying to be an actress, but that went south when the guy she moved in with proved to be some kinda nematode - she wasn't sleeping with the guy and she still grooms unicorns, but things became intolerable for her so she had to move out. (SM is vague about this and it gets lost in the mists of HPlandia, but the big thing we need to know is that it was a bid for freedom from family manipulations and the h's heart isn't broken. )
Now the h is having major doubts about marrying her brother's friend. She went along with it and she likes the guy, but she figures out she doesn't love him thirty minutes before she is supposed to be at the altar. So what does an immature SM HP h do? She dumps the wedding dress and runs off down the back stairs. She thinks she will hitch a ride to the train station and crash on a friend's couch. The night is really cold tho, so when she tries to flag a ride down, she almost gets run over and this leads to a confrontation with a dark mysterious man. They argue, the h is exasperated and upset and attracted and then the h's bridegroom shows up to collect her.
We jump to the h some time later, now living on her own and getting the offer of a three week trip to Europe from her brother and his wife for her birthday. Obviously big brother still has matchmaking on his mind as he tells her that her former bridegroom has met a girl and they are in love and then wants her to look up his old college roommates and give them messages from him as she arrives at various destinations on her trip. The h is well aware of the manipulation, but she goes along with it anyways.
Until she gets to England and has a run in with the same mysterious man she met on the night of the non-wedding. She doesn't recognize him at first and since they almost wrecked their cars and she got a flat tire, she spends the entire time trying to recollect where she has met the very angry and rude man before. They part ways and she goes to a B&B for the night, where who should appear in her bed but the mysterious man from before. It seems the owners of the B&B got their wires crossed and rented the same room to both of them. There is some mean verbal exchanges and an almost forced seduction before the H storms off, but not without making an offer for the h to hook up with his lurve club later.
The h doesn't go, instead she goes to local tourist attractions and looks at castles. Then her wallet gets stolen and she is forced to try and contact the school friend of her brother's for a place to stay while she gets things replaced. She had initially just left a message for the guy and had no intentions of following up, but the missing wallet means she has to try and track him down as he is expecting her and left a number for her to call. She ends up at his country home and meets the lady she thinks is wife, but is actually his aunt. She is having a cozy little cup of tea when in walks the stranger she keeps literally running into.
It is the H and the brother's friend of course and as soon as the aunt goes off to do things, he becomes the nastiest tart shaming nematode in England. He assumes she was running off to a lover when he met her the first time and he accuses her of sleeping with every man she meets based on what her brother has said about her. (Why he felt he should say anything or why her brother said she was a tart is beyond me. He is no stranger to the lurvely lady buffet, as we will soon find out, and really the tart shaming in this was just incredible - even for SM.)
The h hold her own verbally tho and since she is leaving in a few days anyways, she doesn't really care. Then the H comes up with the idear of hiring the h to act as his girlfriend for the summer, his aunt is a total matchmaker and keeps throwing lots and lots of ladies at him. He is not adverse to sampling the wares, but he really doesn't want to marry any of them as the lady buffet is always open and too tempting to settle on a main dish. The h agrees, she likes England and she wants to see more of it and there is also that persistent nagging attraction to the H.
So the big charade begins, there are lots of OW to run off, ( the OW scenes were really boring,) lots of roofie kisses and almost seductions and ton of tart shaming when the h backs off. Until eventually the h doesn't say no on her last night in England. They have a big lurve mojo explosion and the h's unicorn grooming license is permanently revoked. This is the get out of jail free card for the h, as the H decides she is not so terrible after all and goes for another round. The h leaves England without a goodbye the next morning. She is in love, but the H was really clear on his revolving door status, so she thinks there is no hope for anything more.
She goes back to the States and waitressing and auditioning and gets a small part in a Broadway play. She also gets her brother's wife giving her the "go after your man and make a fool of yourself" speech, but the h tells her things are definitely over with the H and she will soon be able to move on. She tells her brother to stay out of arranging her life for her and to please quit matchmaking for sure. Then she has a few sad little mopey moments and a dream about the H.
The h's sister in law doesn't concede defeat so easily tho. The h thinks she feels the H's presence during the last performance of her play, but she doesn't see him and she agreed to go over to her brother's that night to help the sister in law out. When she gets there, no one is home and the sister in law calls and asks the h to stay, then the H shows up.
He was watching her at her play but he thought she wouldn't want to see him, until her brother called him up and sent him over to meet the h. Big lurve and proposal declarations ensue and the H explains that his buffet days are over, he only wants prime rib at home on demand from now on. The h is happy, cause she only wants prime rib too and then she has a little explosion about how her family will not stop meddling in her life for the HEA.
This one was a pretty average HP adventure. SM continues with the slightly metaphysical bit she started in the first book by having the H and h literally crashing into each other as acts of fated destiny and she throws in a prophetic dream or two as well. I wasn't a big fan of the H for most of the book, but the h was okay and for an HP outing, well I have read worse.
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August 28, 2024
Old 90s romance book that I decided to read bc it was the check book from Le Moo. Bad book with spelling and grammar errors but not entirely unreadable. The main love interest is portrayed as overtly rapey and I guess that was just okay in the 80/90s
June 12, 2025
This was pretty good, but too much time wasted with both the H and h playing the "noble idiot", each hiding their true feelings because they believe the other wants their freedom, when meanwhile what they really want is each other.
Not the best, but still okay.
Not the best, but still okay.
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March 28, 2018She'd been cossetted, and overprotected
Jeanne Lester knew that. Yet it wasn't easy to claim her independence without hurting her family.
Surprisingly, her big brother Seth came to her rescue. He gave her an extended European holiday as a birthday present. But there was a catch--Jeanne had to check in with a number of Seth's friends.
Everything went well until she reached England--and met Gray Caldwell. Somehow, by accident, Gray got entirely the wrong opinion of Jeanne. And nothing she did seemed to change his mind.... (less)
Jeanne Lester knew that. Yet it wasn't easy to claim her independence without hurting her family.
Surprisingly, her big brother Seth came to her rescue. He gave her an extended European holiday as a birthday present. But there was a catch--Jeanne had to check in with a number of Seth's friends.
Everything went well until she reached England--and met Gray Caldwell. Somehow, by accident, Gray got entirely the wrong opinion of Jeanne. And nothing she did seemed to change his mind.... (less)
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