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A Woman To Remember
A night never to be forgotten!
Luke St. Clair had it all: looks, international success, females at his feet. But was his life-style the recipe for lasting happiness? Luke wondered if he should marry a nice Australian girl and start a family....
But would that ever happen? Eighteen months ago Luke had met the girl of his dreams in Sydney, but she'd disappeared into thin air after their brief, passionate encounter. Then a stroke of luck led him to discover her name.
Now what should Luke do--die woman he'd always remember was Mrs. Rachel Cleary!
Affairs to Remember--stories of love you'll treasure forever
Luke St. Clair had it all: looks, international success, females at his feet. But was his life-style the recipe for lasting happiness? Luke wondered if he should marry a nice Australian girl and start a family....
But would that ever happen? Eighteen months ago Luke had met the girl of his dreams in Sydney, but she'd disappeared into thin air after their brief, passionate encounter. Then a stroke of luck led him to discover her name.
Now what should Luke do--die woman he'd always remember was Mrs. Rachel Cleary!
Affairs to Remember--stories of love you'll treasure forever
188 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 5, 1996
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About the author
Miranda Lee
815 books236 followersMaureen Mary was born on 1945 at Port Macquarie, a popular seaside town on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and is the youngest of four children. Her sister was the novelist Wendy Brennan (Emma Darcy). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. When Miranda was ten, her father was transferred to Gosford, another coastal town in the countryside, much closer to Sydney. After leaving her convent school, she briefly studied the cello before moving to Sydney, where she embraced the emerging world of computers. Her career as a programmer ended after she married, had three daughters and bought a small acreage in a semi-rural community. Following this, she attempted greyhound training, as well as horse and goat breeding, but was left dissatisfied.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
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November 13, 2018
Re A Woman to Remember - Miranda Lee concludes her Affairs to Remember series with this utter Typhoon of Tackiness Trainwreck of a book.
Methinks Miranda Lee listened to a little too much Heart's "All I Wanna Do" back in the 90's. Cause while I love Ann Wilson's voice, even she hates that song.
So huge spoiler coming up! Do not read if you don't want to know.
This opens with the former model married h tarting herself up, complete with white stretch g-string, to go have a one night fling to get pregnant to please her dying husband.
The h supposedly feels horrible about this and considering she is pretty neurotic throughout the story, I guess she does.
But that doesn't compare to the angst the H goes through when he realizes that he had unprotected sex with an unknown woman who disappeared before dawn and also realizes that he fell head over heels in love.
ML makes a big issue of the unprotected sex thing, AIDS was very much a public awareness campaign in the late 80's and 90's and ML is doing her public service duty by pushing the protection.
For the public service awareness of our story, the H and h do use protection the first time, but subsequent events that same night were excused by an excessive author application of the Lurve Force Mojo - our hapless H couldn't help himself, but it is HPlandia so it is okay - do not try this in the real world.
The story then picks up 18 months later. The Australian photographer H, who usually lives in Los Angeles, is taking a long sabbatical with his mum back home in Australia. He sees the h's picture in a magazine from four years earlier, announcing her retirement from modeling to marry her geneticist husband.
The H is livid that he got cozened into a one night stand with a married woman, but that doesn't stop him from hiring the h when he needs a model for a photo shoot. The h tries to pretend she doesn't recognize him, but the Lurve Force Mojo is bothering them both.
After the h's admission of widowhood and some evasion tactics by the h, they wind up having another lurve club extravaganza in ML's typical overblown style. The h figures she will just have a brief fling with the H and then kick him to the curb again.
Then the H learns that the h has a son and he is very suspicious that the little boy is his own. He asks the h outright and there are MANY moments where the h flat out lies to the H about who the little boy's father is.
First she claims she was pregnant when she slept with the H, but actually her son was born premature, so the timing is right. Then she lies and claims that she had a DNA test done and it proved that her late husband was the father.
(Based on the sheer number of times the h lies, the H should have demanded his own DNA test right away. 'Cause really anyone who lies about something that much is hiding the truth, but the H was too besotted to realize it.)
The H doesn't really care if the little boy isn't his, he is massively in love with the h and his mum hints that if he does the home handyman routine and fixes stuff in the h's house for her and her mother in law, (who lives with the h and her son), the h will like him more.
So the H grabs a toolbelt and does his very best to help the h by showing her he is trustworthy and nice and can fix a leaky faucet. Then he buys a mobile for the h's son and the h has a hysterical meltdown and throws the H out.
The H goes home and his mother is really concerned about him. The H is having a huge mopey moment and is in tears and then the h shows up.
In the meantime, the H's mother has taken a look at the H's photos of the little boy and realizes right away that the child is her grandson, he looks just like his dad at that age and the H's mum has the pictures to prove it.
The H's mum gives the h the third degree for a minute, then she lets the h go see the H. The h explains that her marriage wasn't very great. Her own mother pushed her to get married after she started modeling and met a few losers, so when the geneticist proposed, the h thought she was in love and agreed.
But really the h's dead husband was all about the h being prime genetic material to have his offspring. He was getting irate that she wasn't getting pregnant right away, so he insisted on fertility tests.
The fertility tests picked up on his leukemia and so the husband stored his motilators and made the h go get inseminated every month while he was on chemo. On one of the insemination attempts, the desperate-to-please-her-husband h had a fling with the H, cause he had brown eyes, then the h got preggers and her husband died.
The h did not want to confess what she had done because her son is the only family her mother in law has left in the world and plus the h was a lying tramp and she knew it. But now the h is overwhelmed with the force of her feelings, plus the H is really rich and famous, so she has come to declare her love and the H is so overcome, he declares his love, again, right back.
The two of them decide to marry and keep the h's former mother in law as their children's future other grandmother too. The H's mum is happy to welcome the h to the family and we leave the two of them lurving it up in Purple Passion ML style for another HP outing HEA.
I wasn't too impressed with the h's utter lack of integrity and character in this one. ML tries to play it off as a desperate h and has her cry a lot, but this woman was a gold digger bimbo who needed to get herself sorted.
It is one thing to have a fling and have a baby or get dumped and have a baby, but it is entirely another thing to go out and steal a man's motilators cause you want to keep your preferred lifestyle.
I did not get the feeling that this was an in love woman trying to fulfill the dearest wish of a beloved husband, I could have tolerated that. This h's acts were all about keeping herself safe and secure and I wasn't admiring that.
The H was very nice and so besotted I felt bad he had to get stuck with an h like that. The story is mostly in his POV too, so we get lots of H insight about his feelings. The writing is well done and the plot twist is very unusual, so I rated this at about a 2.5 rounded up to three for the H's very nice mum bonus.
Give this one a go if you have a taste for the extremely unusual HP voyage. But if continually lying, amoral h's are not your cuppa, you will be better off with another HPlandia adventure.
Methinks Miranda Lee listened to a little too much Heart's "All I Wanna Do" back in the 90's. Cause while I love Ann Wilson's voice, even she hates that song.
So huge spoiler coming up! Do not read if you don't want to know.
This opens with the former model married h tarting herself up, complete with white stretch g-string, to go have a one night fling to get pregnant to please her dying husband.
The h supposedly feels horrible about this and considering she is pretty neurotic throughout the story, I guess she does.
But that doesn't compare to the angst the H goes through when he realizes that he had unprotected sex with an unknown woman who disappeared before dawn and also realizes that he fell head over heels in love.
ML makes a big issue of the unprotected sex thing, AIDS was very much a public awareness campaign in the late 80's and 90's and ML is doing her public service duty by pushing the protection.
For the public service awareness of our story, the H and h do use protection the first time, but subsequent events that same night were excused by an excessive author application of the Lurve Force Mojo - our hapless H couldn't help himself, but it is HPlandia so it is okay - do not try this in the real world.
The story then picks up 18 months later. The Australian photographer H, who usually lives in Los Angeles, is taking a long sabbatical with his mum back home in Australia. He sees the h's picture in a magazine from four years earlier, announcing her retirement from modeling to marry her geneticist husband.
The H is livid that he got cozened into a one night stand with a married woman, but that doesn't stop him from hiring the h when he needs a model for a photo shoot. The h tries to pretend she doesn't recognize him, but the Lurve Force Mojo is bothering them both.
After the h's admission of widowhood and some evasion tactics by the h, they wind up having another lurve club extravaganza in ML's typical overblown style. The h figures she will just have a brief fling with the H and then kick him to the curb again.
Then the H learns that the h has a son and he is very suspicious that the little boy is his own. He asks the h outright and there are MANY moments where the h flat out lies to the H about who the little boy's father is.
First she claims she was pregnant when she slept with the H, but actually her son was born premature, so the timing is right. Then she lies and claims that she had a DNA test done and it proved that her late husband was the father.
(Based on the sheer number of times the h lies, the H should have demanded his own DNA test right away. 'Cause really anyone who lies about something that much is hiding the truth, but the H was too besotted to realize it.)
The H doesn't really care if the little boy isn't his, he is massively in love with the h and his mum hints that if he does the home handyman routine and fixes stuff in the h's house for her and her mother in law, (who lives with the h and her son), the h will like him more.
So the H grabs a toolbelt and does his very best to help the h by showing her he is trustworthy and nice and can fix a leaky faucet. Then he buys a mobile for the h's son and the h has a hysterical meltdown and throws the H out.
The H goes home and his mother is really concerned about him. The H is having a huge mopey moment and is in tears and then the h shows up.
In the meantime, the H's mother has taken a look at the H's photos of the little boy and realizes right away that the child is her grandson, he looks just like his dad at that age and the H's mum has the pictures to prove it.
The H's mum gives the h the third degree for a minute, then she lets the h go see the H. The h explains that her marriage wasn't very great. Her own mother pushed her to get married after she started modeling and met a few losers, so when the geneticist proposed, the h thought she was in love and agreed.
But really the h's dead husband was all about the h being prime genetic material to have his offspring. He was getting irate that she wasn't getting pregnant right away, so he insisted on fertility tests.
The fertility tests picked up on his leukemia and so the husband stored his motilators and made the h go get inseminated every month while he was on chemo. On one of the insemination attempts, the desperate-to-please-her-husband h had a fling with the H, cause he had brown eyes, then the h got preggers and her husband died.
The h did not want to confess what she had done because her son is the only family her mother in law has left in the world and plus the h was a lying tramp and she knew it. But now the h is overwhelmed with the force of her feelings, plus the H is really rich and famous, so she has come to declare her love and the H is so overcome, he declares his love, again, right back.
The two of them decide to marry and keep the h's former mother in law as their children's future other grandmother too. The H's mum is happy to welcome the h to the family and we leave the two of them lurving it up in Purple Passion ML style for another HP outing HEA.
I wasn't too impressed with the h's utter lack of integrity and character in this one. ML tries to play it off as a desperate h and has her cry a lot, but this woman was a gold digger bimbo who needed to get herself sorted.
It is one thing to have a fling and have a baby or get dumped and have a baby, but it is entirely another thing to go out and steal a man's motilators cause you want to keep your preferred lifestyle.
I did not get the feeling that this was an in love woman trying to fulfill the dearest wish of a beloved husband, I could have tolerated that. This h's acts were all about keeping herself safe and secure and I wasn't admiring that.
The H was very nice and so besotted I felt bad he had to get stuck with an h like that. The story is mostly in his POV too, so we get lots of H insight about his feelings. The writing is well done and the plot twist is very unusual, so I rated this at about a 2.5 rounded up to three for the H's very nice mum bonus.
Give this one a go if you have a taste for the extremely unusual HP voyage. But if continually lying, amoral h's are not your cuppa, you will be better off with another HPlandia adventure.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 7, 2016
Secret Baby stories suck. The "Heroine" lied to the very bitter end about it.
Oh, and there was adultery too for all you pearl-clutchers.
There was a scene at the end of Luke bawling like a little punk because Heroine was such a b!tch to him. I felt like bawling for wasting my time reading this.
Oh, and there was adultery too for all you pearl-clutchers.
There was a scene at the end of Luke bawling like a little punk because Heroine was such a b!tch to him. I felt like bawling for wasting my time reading this.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 1, 2020
The worst heroine ever , such a vicious person ,selfish , manipulative, conniving , no child deserve to be conceived like that and never knowing his real father , the hero is this book salvation, wonderful kind person ,the heroine didn't deserve him
July 22, 2022
Model falls in love with genetic scientist who wants to produce the perfect baby. Her beauty and his brains. But nothings happening. No baby. Then he finds out he has leukaemia. So he freezes his sperm. Now he’s forcing heroine to go get inseminated every month when she ovulates. Still nothing is happening.
Finally heroine gets tired of the nonsense. She decides she’s going to pick up a brown eyed man and go to bed with him. Produce a brown eyed baby. Husband happy. She is happy. All is well. But of course husband is gonna die because this is the 90s.
Enter our hero. Brown eyed. Beautiful.
So. One night stand. They both apparently fall madly in love. Who knows. Didn’t seem like it from heroines angle to me. Bad writing by author. Not heroine’s fault.
Baby is born.
Hero finds out heroines name, place, thing… when he’s in a dentist waiting room. He uses brain. He has to engineer meeting.
They meet again. She says it’s husband’s baby.
I got bored after that. Read ending.
It was not husband’s baby.
Quite boring frankly.
Read if you like this kind of stuff.
Finally heroine gets tired of the nonsense. She decides she’s going to pick up a brown eyed man and go to bed with him. Produce a brown eyed baby. Husband happy. She is happy. All is well. But of course husband is gonna die because this is the 90s.
Enter our hero. Brown eyed. Beautiful.
So. One night stand. They both apparently fall madly in love. Who knows. Didn’t seem like it from heroines angle to me. Bad writing by author. Not heroine’s fault.
Baby is born.
Hero finds out heroines name, place, thing… when he’s in a dentist waiting room. He uses brain. He has to engineer meeting.
They meet again. She says it’s husband’s baby.
I got bored after that. Read ending.
It was not husband’s baby.
Quite boring frankly.
Read if you like this kind of stuff.
September 29, 2018
I've read this story more than once and it's stuck in my mind so while there are aspects I don't like, I think it deserves four stars.
The hero, Luke, is the narrator of this story which makes it a little unusual to start with. He's back in Australia to visit his mother and feeling restless. He has been living a typical rich bachelor lifestyle in the US but he can't forget a woman he had an encounter with eighteen months ago.
When he finds out who he is, she's shocked to realise she is a married woman. Or was at the time. Now she's a widow with a young child.
Luke does not come across well at this point with his reaction to the news and his determination to seduce her one more time. However as they get to know each other he starts to change.
The romance between the two worked surprisingly well and the secondary characters were well drawn. I couldn't give it the full five stars as I was uncomfortable about a couple of things. This is part of a trilogy "Affairs to Remember" by the author but this one is my favourite of the three.
The hero, Luke, is the narrator of this story which makes it a little unusual to start with. He's back in Australia to visit his mother and feeling restless. He has been living a typical rich bachelor lifestyle in the US but he can't forget a woman he had an encounter with eighteen months ago.
When he finds out who he is, she's shocked to realise she is a married woman. Or was at the time. Now she's a widow with a young child.
Luke does not come across well at this point with his reaction to the news and his determination to seduce her one more time. However as they get to know each other he starts to change.
The romance between the two worked surprisingly well and the secondary characters were well drawn. I couldn't give it the full five stars as I was uncomfortable about a couple of things. This is part of a trilogy "Affairs to Remember" by the author but this one is my favourite of the three.
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September 10, 2023
More like a book to forget!! Talk about disgusting!! Not the first of Ms. Lee's books I've read, but definitely the last!! I finally figured her out: she's like those aging women who think Botox and fillers and other crap will make them young again, when they're only kidding their delusional selves, or some old fool who pumps himself full of Viagra and convinces himself he's a young stud again, what a joke! Ms. Lee is an older woman who found herself in a world of changing moral standards (what some call Sodom and Gomorrah 2.0) so she tries too hard to fit into the hookup culture ideology by writing characters that have one-night stands, h's who not only aren't virgins but have meaningless affairs, mothers (like the one in this book) who think nothing of telling their sons their dad was a bore in bed and she almost got naked with a guy she got the horndogs for, and replaces romantic love scenes with porno style lust fests!
In other words, a woman desperate to fit in where she knows she's on the outside, and always will be. Truly pathetic!
Not to mention a sleazy wife who seduces a guy while dressed like a pro, after just getting a shot of her dying husband's sperm that afternoon! GROSS BARF FEST!!!!
And a TSTL H who, despite his overactive, meaningless sex life, becomes obsessed with a one-night stand that was no better than a night with a sex worker, can't get her out om his mind after over a year of similar one-nighters, then decides she's his "true love", despite his low opinion of her morals! This makes about as much sense as blowing your nose with a toothpick!
And the "Is that my kid?" "Yes, he is!" "No, he's not." "Yes, he has my eyes!" "No, he doesn't." "Could he be????" "Maybe????" "Maybe not???"
COME ON, ALREADY!!!!!
I admit, I didn't finish this, but I doubt I missed much. I'm just wondering how anyone could be dumb enough to publish this, maybe they owed her a favor? Or is she a relative they feel sorry for?
In other words, a woman desperate to fit in where she knows she's on the outside, and always will be. Truly pathetic!
Not to mention a sleazy wife who seduces a guy while dressed like a pro, after just getting a shot of her dying husband's sperm that afternoon! GROSS BARF FEST!!!!
And a TSTL H who, despite his overactive, meaningless sex life, becomes obsessed with a one-night stand that was no better than a night with a sex worker, can't get her out om his mind after over a year of similar one-nighters, then decides she's his "true love", despite his low opinion of her morals! This makes about as much sense as blowing your nose with a toothpick!
And the "Is that my kid?" "Yes, he is!" "No, he's not." "Yes, he has my eyes!" "No, he doesn't." "Could he be????" "Maybe????" "Maybe not???"
COME ON, ALREADY!!!!!
I admit, I didn't finish this, but I doubt I missed much. I'm just wondering how anyone could be dumb enough to publish this, maybe they owed her a favor? Or is she a relative they feel sorry for?
August 29, 2017
Steamy, sweet, Australian romance, with clear writing. Enjoyed the inclusion of the "mothers" on both sides of the union but found some of that POV a little far fetched. Male character kept veering toward the violent a little too much for my taste, but was ultimately a "good guy" with anger issues. Perhaps a realistic portrayal of the male psyche, but hope things have gotten better since the 90s.
July 19, 2023
I hated this book so much. I hate that I wasted my time reading this. Horrible dialogue, annoying characters who were childishly selfish. The adultery was unnecessary and done in poor taste. Just an overall horrible read. I struggled to get through it wanting to just stop but figured I’d already invested the time.
December 17, 2025
SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT THIS BOOK (AND THERE'S A LOT TO SAY) BUT READING THIS AS A TEEN I TRULY DID BELIEVE THAT NO WOMAN WAS ANGEL, DEVIL, MADONNA, WHORE, SEX ON LEGS, A WALKING TEMPTRESS, A FEMME FATALE, WHATEVER, LIKE RACHEL FUCKING MANNING
June 24, 2018
A night never to be forgotten!
Luke St. Clair had it all: looks, international success, females at his feet. But was his life-style the recipe for lasting happiness? Luke wondered if he should marry a nice Australian girl and start a family....
But would that ever happen? Eighteen months ago Luke had met the girl of his dreams in Sydney, but she'd disappeared into thin air after their brief, passionate encounter. Then a stroke of luck led him to discover her name.
Now what should Luke do--die woman he'd always remember was Mrs. Rachel Cleary!
Luke St. Clair had it all: looks, international success, females at his feet. But was his life-style the recipe for lasting happiness? Luke wondered if he should marry a nice Australian girl and start a family....
But would that ever happen? Eighteen months ago Luke had met the girl of his dreams in Sydney, but she'd disappeared into thin air after their brief, passionate encounter. Then a stroke of luck led him to discover her name.
Now what should Luke do--die woman he'd always remember was Mrs. Rachel Cleary!
June 9, 2021
Luke St. Clair had it all: looks, international success, females at his feet. But was his life-style the recipe for lasting happiness? Luke wondered if he should marry a nice Australian girl and start a family....
But would that ever happen? Eighteen months ago Luke had met the girl of his dreams in Sydney, but she'd disappeared into thin air after their brief, passionate encounter. Then a stroke of luck led him to discover her name.
Now what should Luke do--the woman he'd always remember was Mrs. Rachel Cleary!
Affairs to Remember--stories of love you'll treasure forever
But would that ever happen? Eighteen months ago Luke had met the girl of his dreams in Sydney, but she'd disappeared into thin air after their brief, passionate encounter. Then a stroke of luck led him to discover her name.
Now what should Luke do--the woman he'd always remember was Mrs. Rachel Cleary!
Affairs to Remember--stories of love you'll treasure forever
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