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Second Time Loving
Once bitten, twice shy
No man would make a fool of Angelica again--not after the way Giles had treated her.
She certainly wasn't interested in the attractive and charming Daniel Forbes. Although Daniel was at least honest enough not to offer her protestations of undying love.
But when he let Angelica know--in a way that only Daniel could--that he found her a highly desirable woman, Angelica finally began to realize just how hard it was going to be to resist this man's brand of persuasion
No man would make a fool of Angelica again--not after the way Giles had treated her.
She certainly wasn't interested in the attractive and charming Daniel Forbes. Although Daniel was at least honest enough not to offer her protestations of undying love.
But when he let Angelica know--in a way that only Daniel could--that he found her a highly desirable woman, Angelica finally began to realize just how hard it was going to be to resist this man's brand of persuasion
192 pages, Paperback
First published December 7, 1990
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Penny Jordan
1,125 books666 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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October 20, 2017
Re Second Time Loving - Penny Jordan does a sweet story with very little actual action aside from a very bad case of food poising. This is classic PJ lite and fluffy, with a kind, caring, considerate H who even holds the h's hair back when she is throwing up and PJ's usual great business lady but emotionally stunted h, who just needs a nice man to belong to.
This time, our 28 year old unicorn groomer h is taking a long time off because of stress. The h has her own organic cosmetics company and is the sole support of her widowed mother. The h is also a deeply unhappy woman because of falling in love with the wrong man over a year earlier. The h fell into infatuation with a bang, after coming up for air from making over the decrepit, failing family cosmetics firm into a huge success. (Think the HPlandia version of Lush.)
Unfortunately, the h's potential lover was not into her AT ALL, but he was into conning the ladies out their money. Fortunately things did not get that far and so the h and her business is financially secure, it is only emotionally that the h is devastated and rejected - mainly cause she returned from a business trip early and found her would be lover gettin' a groove on with someone else and she dumped him.
Her ego is broken tho and she thinks men don't want her. Between her heart break and exhaustion from 16 hour days for years, the h has a mini collapse and her Dr. sends her off for six weeks of stress free living. One of her friend's has a tiny cottage on the Pembrokeshire coast and the h decides she will take her stress reduction vacation there. Things get dicey tho when the h develops food poisoning from lunch along the way and she kinda passes out while hurling on the duplex cottage steps.
The h's new duplex neighbor is the H, who is recovering from trying to rescue his father from a home fire and tearing up the muscles in his leg really badly. Sadly the H wasn't able to save his dad and he has a terrible limp, so progress is slow while he also has to decide what to do with the family electronics business. However, bad leg and all, when the h collapses and has icky sick moments, the H very kindly and compassionately takes her into his home and cares for her.
Then we have several chapters of H and h back and forth. They share their back stories and the h has a LOT of vacillation between believing the H when he claims he wants her and the usual PJ h inner angsting over her rejection insecurities. We get both h and H POV view for this and it is a bit nerve wracking while the h makes up her mind.
FINALLY, the h just goes for the lurve club gusto and every thing is delightfully magenta in details. Then the h runs away to her mum's house and has a mopey moment she isn't preggers, cause that is what a PJ h just does. Tho for once in a PJ book, the h's mum regrets not paying more attention to the details and not being a better parent to her daughter. Also, mum announces that she is quite capable of supporting herself by gambling on the stock market and the h notices she is probably going to have a step father soon too.
This H is determined tho and he tracks the h down to a business conference and she is scared and happy to see him and they both finally admit that they are in PJ approved pink unicorn rainbow sparkly true love. Everybody is going to take a back seat in their businesses and have deputies so that they can focus on loving each other and we get back to the Magenta Force of the PJ HP Lurve Mojo HEA, for a nice little HPlandia outing.
This time, our 28 year old unicorn groomer h is taking a long time off because of stress. The h has her own organic cosmetics company and is the sole support of her widowed mother. The h is also a deeply unhappy woman because of falling in love with the wrong man over a year earlier. The h fell into infatuation with a bang, after coming up for air from making over the decrepit, failing family cosmetics firm into a huge success. (Think the HPlandia version of Lush.)
Unfortunately, the h's potential lover was not into her AT ALL, but he was into conning the ladies out their money. Fortunately things did not get that far and so the h and her business is financially secure, it is only emotionally that the h is devastated and rejected - mainly cause she returned from a business trip early and found her would be lover gettin' a groove on with someone else and she dumped him.
Her ego is broken tho and she thinks men don't want her. Between her heart break and exhaustion from 16 hour days for years, the h has a mini collapse and her Dr. sends her off for six weeks of stress free living. One of her friend's has a tiny cottage on the Pembrokeshire coast and the h decides she will take her stress reduction vacation there. Things get dicey tho when the h develops food poisoning from lunch along the way and she kinda passes out while hurling on the duplex cottage steps.
The h's new duplex neighbor is the H, who is recovering from trying to rescue his father from a home fire and tearing up the muscles in his leg really badly. Sadly the H wasn't able to save his dad and he has a terrible limp, so progress is slow while he also has to decide what to do with the family electronics business. However, bad leg and all, when the h collapses and has icky sick moments, the H very kindly and compassionately takes her into his home and cares for her.
Then we have several chapters of H and h back and forth. They share their back stories and the h has a LOT of vacillation between believing the H when he claims he wants her and the usual PJ h inner angsting over her rejection insecurities. We get both h and H POV view for this and it is a bit nerve wracking while the h makes up her mind.
FINALLY, the h just goes for the lurve club gusto and every thing is delightfully magenta in details. Then the h runs away to her mum's house and has a mopey moment she isn't preggers, cause that is what a PJ h just does. Tho for once in a PJ book, the h's mum regrets not paying more attention to the details and not being a better parent to her daughter. Also, mum announces that she is quite capable of supporting herself by gambling on the stock market and the h notices she is probably going to have a step father soon too.
This H is determined tho and he tracks the h down to a business conference and she is scared and happy to see him and they both finally admit that they are in PJ approved pink unicorn rainbow sparkly true love. Everybody is going to take a back seat in their businesses and have deputies so that they can focus on loving each other and we get back to the Magenta Force of the PJ HP Lurve Mojo HEA, for a nice little HPlandia outing.
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September 7, 2016
Heroine's bf cheated on her and she is determined to stay away from men until she meets Daniel our charming hero! They resist each other but true love wins :))
Sweet love story with loving characters!
Sweet love story with loving characters!
July 16, 2023
2.5 ⭐️⭐️ This was annoying because of all the internal neurosing!' I skimmed a lot. Then they threw in the H POV which I don't like because all the mystery goes out of the plot. So too much internal monologues. Boring
September 22, 2023
2.5
Long sentences are hard to read.
MC needs therapy, her mom sucks. She is well written, but so pathetic I had an urge to write a fanfic for the first time in my life.
Surprisingly, male lead is not the problem here.
Long sentences are hard to read.
MC needs therapy, her mom sucks. She is well written, but so pathetic I had an urge to write a fanfic for the first time in my life.
Surprisingly, male lead is not the problem here.
May 22, 2020
A bit more complex than some Harlequins with interesting characters.
hq-to-read
September 4, 2021Once bitten, twice shy
No man would make a fool of Angelica again--not after the way Giles had treated her.
She certainly wasn't interested in the attractive and charming Daniel Forbes. Although Daniel was at least honest enough not to offer her protestations of undying love.
But when he let Angelica know--in a way that only Daniel could--that he found her a highly desirable woman, Angelica finally began to realize just how hard it was going to be to resist this man's brand of persuasion
No man would make a fool of Angelica again--not after the way Giles had treated her.
She certainly wasn't interested in the attractive and charming Daniel Forbes. Although Daniel was at least honest enough not to offer her protestations of undying love.
But when he let Angelica know--in a way that only Daniel could--that he found her a highly desirable woman, Angelica finally began to realize just how hard it was going to be to resist this man's brand of persuasion
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