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Forgotten Vows
Forgotten Vows by Modean Moon released on Feb 23, 1996 is available now for purchase.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 1996
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October 23, 2025
Hero is a poor little rich boy. Heroine is an orphaned artist. These two damaged souls find each other and marry quickly. On their wedding day they have sex for the first time. Then hero is called away for a work problem. He returns to find the heroine gone with a stiff note telling him she just was in it for the money. $100,000 worth of bonds are also missing.
Hero doesn't report her missing or her look for her. He doesn't want to repeat the experience of waiting for a ransom note and then the police finding her dead later (it's what happened with his parents). It's easier to believe she's alive and an opportunist.
The reader knows that his wife is alive and an amnesiac in New Mexico. The town has taken her in and the sherrif has tasked himself with finding who she belongs to. It takes six months.
Story opens when hero arrives and the mystery unspools.
It's pretty obvious who the culprit is and it's pretty sad that the hero had that much unresolved trauma from his parents' deaths that he could believe the flimsy lies about the heroine for six months. But it is understandable.
I did enjoy how the H/h found their way back to each other. The ending was not satisfying because we don't see justice for culprit. And there were plot threads dangling all over the place.
Still, it was a sweet and unusual romance.
Hero doesn't report her missing or her look for her. He doesn't want to repeat the experience of waiting for a ransom note and then the police finding her dead later (it's what happened with his parents). It's easier to believe she's alive and an opportunist.
The reader knows that his wife is alive and an amnesiac in New Mexico. The town has taken her in and the sherrif has tasked himself with finding who she belongs to. It takes six months.
Story opens when hero arrives and the mystery unspools.
It's pretty obvious who the culprit is and it's pretty sad that the hero had that much unresolved trauma from his parents' deaths that he could believe the flimsy lies about the heroine for six months. But it is understandable.
I did enjoy how the H/h found their way back to each other. The ending was not satisfying because we don't see justice for culprit. And there were plot threads dangling all over the place.
Still, it was a sweet and unusual romance.
August 22, 2018
This was a very intense and sad book. It would have been a 5 star read, except I agree with the other reviewers and it could have used more of an epilogue. Also, I suspected the villain form the start. However, since this is not a suspense but a romance, it’s forgivable.
It opens with the heroine in the hospital, she has been severely injured and is in fact on the point of death. She was found at the bottom of a cliff.
Six months later, the Hero is presented with a picture of his errant wife, The heroine. He goes off to confront her. He finds her in the vicarage of a small town. She has lost her memory and is blind. He and the other secondary characters, the town’s sheriff have to piece together what happened to her. He tells the sheriff that soon after their wedding, when he left her to attend to an office emergency, he returned to find her gone, with the safe open and thousands of dollars worth of bonds missing. He also had a ‘goodbye’ note from her which is why he never looked for her.
The heroine was an artist so it’s additionally tragic that she has gone blind. When she left, the Hero found her studio completely empty of all her paintings. He is surprised to see one of them hanging in the vicarage. He still suspects her, but he wants to know why she left so he stays in town. The heroine is pathetically grateful for whatever pieces of the puzzle he can tell her. He does tell her she left him, but he doesn’t reveal about the note. Since she has amnesia, she cannot supply him with answers either. He does notice that everyone in the town loves her, and acts protectively towards her. She seems like the gentle, kind and sweet girl he fell in love with.
The rest of the story is the couple getting to know each other again, and figuring out more of the mystery. I liked how the husband did slowly come to the realisation that the woman he fell in love with could not have been the woman who wrote him that note and left him after their wedding night. He soon promises to care for and protect her. Of course the readers know that the husband was very in love with the wife when they married and since we see his internal musings, we know that their relationship was one of love and laughter, so it’s suspicious that she would leave him, and in the manner that she did.
He buys a house for her in town where he plans they will stay for the time being. And he moves his staff to the town to set up a satellite office so he can work from there.
SPOILERS...:
There is an OW in the story, his PA. The husband treats her as a valued employee. She always takes the chance to point out that the heroine is a gold digger and bad for the Hero.
Then, the heroine remembers that on the night her husband left her to attend to the business emergency a man arrived, claiming to have a check for her from her husband saying that he changed his mind and wants her out of his life and the apartment ASAP. So now they know that someone was out to split them up.
Many other things happen, someone tries to shoot at them. But in the end it’s the OW who is in cahoots with the security guard, and planned it all, because she wanted to marry the Hero and the heroine foiled her plans.
She gets caught as she kidnaps the heroine and tries, again, to throw her off a cliff. The heroine is rescued by the Hero and the sheriff in time and taken to the hospital where she recovers her sight, to see the anguished face of her husband. It also says she regains her memory and it ends there. Which is why some reviewers thought it was an abrupt ending.
Available on Open library, Including the sequel which is the story of the sherif and the missing sister of the Hero.
It opens with the heroine in the hospital, she has been severely injured and is in fact on the point of death. She was found at the bottom of a cliff.
Six months later, the Hero is presented with a picture of his errant wife, The heroine. He goes off to confront her. He finds her in the vicarage of a small town. She has lost her memory and is blind. He and the other secondary characters, the town’s sheriff have to piece together what happened to her. He tells the sheriff that soon after their wedding, when he left her to attend to an office emergency, he returned to find her gone, with the safe open and thousands of dollars worth of bonds missing. He also had a ‘goodbye’ note from her which is why he never looked for her.
The heroine was an artist so it’s additionally tragic that she has gone blind. When she left, the Hero found her studio completely empty of all her paintings. He is surprised to see one of them hanging in the vicarage. He still suspects her, but he wants to know why she left so he stays in town. The heroine is pathetically grateful for whatever pieces of the puzzle he can tell her. He does tell her she left him, but he doesn’t reveal about the note. Since she has amnesia, she cannot supply him with answers either. He does notice that everyone in the town loves her, and acts protectively towards her. She seems like the gentle, kind and sweet girl he fell in love with.
The rest of the story is the couple getting to know each other again, and figuring out more of the mystery. I liked how the husband did slowly come to the realisation that the woman he fell in love with could not have been the woman who wrote him that note and left him after their wedding night. He soon promises to care for and protect her. Of course the readers know that the husband was very in love with the wife when they married and since we see his internal musings, we know that their relationship was one of love and laughter, so it’s suspicious that she would leave him, and in the manner that she did.
He buys a house for her in town where he plans they will stay for the time being. And he moves his staff to the town to set up a satellite office so he can work from there.
SPOILERS...:
There is an OW in the story, his PA. The husband treats her as a valued employee. She always takes the chance to point out that the heroine is a gold digger and bad for the Hero.
Then, the heroine remembers that on the night her husband left her to attend to the business emergency a man arrived, claiming to have a check for her from her husband saying that he changed his mind and wants her out of his life and the apartment ASAP. So now they know that someone was out to split them up.
Many other things happen, someone tries to shoot at them. But in the end it’s the OW who is in cahoots with the security guard, and planned it all, because she wanted to marry the Hero and the heroine foiled her plans.
She gets caught as she kidnaps the heroine and tries, again, to throw her off a cliff. The heroine is rescued by the Hero and the sheriff in time and taken to the hospital where she recovers her sight, to see the anguished face of her husband. It also says she regains her memory and it ends there. Which is why some reviewers thought it was an abrupt ending.
Available on Open library, Including the sequel which is the story of the sherif and the missing sister of the Hero.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 25, 2018
Wow, that OW was certainly dedicated. Unfortunately, everyone else was just so earnest it took away from it. Put boring people in an exciting environment and they are still boring, unfortunately.
August 5, 2016
It was really a good story but I don't know I felt it just ended abruptly..
January 7, 2019
One of my old favorites
I have an old paperback copy of this book that’s falling to pieces, so I was so excited to see it on Kindle. Edward and Jennie has only been married a few hours when she left him for another man, taking quite a chunk of his change with her.....or so he thought. Then he discovered that actually she’d been thrown off a mountain and left for dead. Due to injuries she’s now blind and has amnesia. Edward has to fight his own emotions and deal with his own past while trying to figure out what actually happened to his wife. Jennie doesn’t understand why Edward acts the way he does, and she is still vulnerable both physically and emotionally. And what neither of them realize is that the danger isn’t over yet.
Highly recommend this if you like vulnerable heroines, angsty heroes, emotions plus plot, and a well crafted book.
I have an old paperback copy of this book that’s falling to pieces, so I was so excited to see it on Kindle. Edward and Jennie has only been married a few hours when she left him for another man, taking quite a chunk of his change with her.....or so he thought. Then he discovered that actually she’d been thrown off a mountain and left for dead. Due to injuries she’s now blind and has amnesia. Edward has to fight his own emotions and deal with his own past while trying to figure out what actually happened to his wife. Jennie doesn’t understand why Edward acts the way he does, and she is still vulnerable both physically and emotionally. And what neither of them realize is that the danger isn’t over yet.
Highly recommend this if you like vulnerable heroines, angsty heroes, emotions plus plot, and a well crafted book.
March 7, 2019
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July 22, 2022
This was a great mystery though I figured out the villain early on in the story. This lost a star when the ending didn’t give a better reveal to all the details the h had blocked out.
August 6, 2016
Normally I'm not a huge fan of amnesia plots, but I always liked this one. It's just so very emotional, mostly because instead of the amnesiac finding new love, the amnesiac is found by her love, but they have to fall in love again. The whole thing was bordering on tear-jerker really. Lucky the villain added a dose of crazy :)
I also really liked that there wasn't a miraculous healing at the end of the book, nor in the sequel, Overnight Heiress, which is even more emotional, and deals with Edward's missing sister.
I also really liked that there wasn't a miraculous healing at the end of the book, nor in the sequel, Overnight Heiress, which is even more emotional, and deals with Edward's missing sister.
September 17, 2011
What made this an okay book is the ending. It needed to have an epilogue.
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