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Desperation
A whirlwind courtship, then a year apart
Megan had been fully prepared to wait for Devlin's return from his year-long filming trip to the Amazon. Despite the differences in their backgrounds and their ages, she knew their love was right.
But when Devlin returned from his journey, he found a different Megan, a cold stranger who'd erected a barrier between them. No matter how forcibly he tried to break it down, she would not give in.
She could not. For she was not the same woman Devlin had known, and Devlin must not learn why, nor how....
Megan had been fully prepared to wait for Devlin's return from his year-long filming trip to the Amazon. Despite the differences in their backgrounds and their ages, she knew their love was right.
But when Devlin returned from his journey, he found a different Megan, a cold stranger who'd erected a barrier between them. No matter how forcibly he tried to break it down, she would not give in.
She could not. For she was not the same woman Devlin had known, and Devlin must not learn why, nor how....
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published September 1, 1989
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Charlotte Lamb
261 books315 followersSheila Ann Mary Coates Holland
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
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February 1, 2017
Re Desperation - CL is back with a twisty little story of an h who impulsively agrees to marry her H, then has to back out when she has a life changing accident.
The story opens with the h agreeing to marry the H at his going away party, it seems our Hero is taking himself off to film the Amazon for a year. He and the h have only been dating a few months, but she is convinced she is in the end all be all of love. Sadly it is only lust really, but she won't figure that out until two-thirds into the book. After the H hints about marriage, while complaining that he wanted to meet the h a year earlier but couldn't cause she was still at uni, the h confesses her big love and they kinda sorta tentatively agree to be engaged or are engaged to be engaged or whatever - there was no ring and no announcement and the H makes a big point of telling the h that he will be gone for a year and if she meets someone else, she is to write and he will understand.
The h later overhears the H telling his supreme witch of a sister that he wants a family and a wife waiting for him at home and the h is plain, so she won't be cheating on him and run off with another man like his last beautiful babe did. The h is so in love, she can hardly think after hearing that - tho she does wonder at the wisdom of marrying into a family where the H's relatives obviously and loudly dislike her. Still true love and all that, she doesn't even mind being a brood mare, used for a steady prop to a narcissist.
The h works for a television talk show host (kinda like Graham Norton) and the h is a researcher who also makes arrangements for the guests. Since her boss is at this party too, (they all work for the same tv company,) he wants the h to get the scoop on this interesting guy who claims to be a sculptor. The h asks the sculptor if she can see his work, and the man thinks she is picking up on him - but she really isn't.
The h gets invited to a dinner do with the sculptor, and because the work the sculptor is unveiling at the dinner is a huge public piece with a speech and the h wants to see how the sculptor might work out on tv, the h decides to accept. The H had previously told her that he would be much too busy over the coming days to even say goodbye, so the h figures going to see the sculptor's huge 15 horse water fountain beats sitting home and moping.
On the way back from the dinner, the sculptor's car runs out of gas and it starts to rain. Fortunately the h only lives a block away and she invites the sculptor back to get dried off and call a taxi. The sculptor is cozily ensconced on the h's couch and she has put on a fluffy robe and the H shows up. He makes some snide comments and storms off. The h tries to contact him to explain, but the H is at the airport before the h tracks him down and when she tries to talk to him, he just blows her off. The h is upset and driving back home, she runs into the back of a lorry and in the surgery that follows, she has to have a hysterectomy.
The h eventually recovers, and becomes good friends with the sculptor, even tho he doesn't understand the extent of her injuries. The h decides that since her H only wants her for brood mare capabilities, she will write and tell him she has met someone else, cause she doesn't want to be married out of pity. (Why she even thought she still would be married is beyond me, it was clear the H thought she cheated and he walked away, why even bother to write when the man doesn't want to listen and is only marrying for brood mare capabilities?)
The h is having mopey moments, her family is all dead and she wanted children but now will never have them, but she is getting buy and the sculptor is really becoming a good friend. Then the H returns, he caught a bad bug in the Amazon and became deathly ill and had to come back to England to recuperate.
When the H returns, he sees the h with the sculptor and in a very dog-in-the-manger way, he decides to go after the h. She tries to dissuade him but he manipulates her and blackmails her when her boss wants the H on his tv show. The h doesn't want to lose her job, she has a few career plans of her own, and so she winds up going out with the H, becoming his researcher for a week and going to a weekend house party with the Chairman of the TV studio, who wants the h to convince the H to take a promotion that will keep him in England. The h gradually realizes over the course of these events that she really doesn't know the H at all, and her first big lurve feelings were essentially lust. Of course while she was transcribing his recordings and film for his Amazon series, she got to know the "real" him and now she is REALLY in love.
The h has no success at convincing the H to stay, tho he is looking worse every day, the H is determined to go back to the Amazon if the h won't have him - or at least lurve him up. His witch Queen nasty sister shows up and harasses the h because she claims the H is leaving over her and if he goes he will relapse and die. (So this H is essentially committing suicide over getting his lust thwarted. What an H we have here, he bullies, manipulates and then decides to essentially kill himself cause he can't make a plain little thing succumb to his will.) The h and the sister have a confrontation and the h finally runs her off.
Only to have her sculptor friend call the sister and tell her about the h's hysterectomy, he did it to pay her back because he felt used that he was picking up on the h and she pretended to the H that she was more interested in the sculptor than she was. The sister decides the h can go stop the H at the airport from returning to the Amazon and if she gets kicked to the curb because of her problem, so much the better - the h isn't good enough anyways and maybe it will stop her brother from dying.
The h gets to the airport after the witch Queen drives like a maniac and finds the H and tells him about the accident. The H claims he loves her and is mad that she told him nothing about her accident. The h says she can't marry him and offers to be his mistress. They get a cab back to the h's flat and supposedly the H wants to marry her and he denies ever telling his sister she was plain and a broodmare and the h wants to believe it for the HEA.
Which there isn't really an HEA here, basically the H will swing the lurve club and then dump her, mainly cause she really isn't his type and he just doesn't like people telling him no. The h will be alone probably for a long time, cause she is a very introverted person and the sculptor doesn't want to be her friend anymore cause she won't sleep with him and she isn't perfect after her hysterectomy.
This one was a bit depressing, sure CL has the H say all the appropriate things, but his sincerity comes off more as piqued ego. Just cause CL says it, doesn't make it so - she needed to call Robyn Donald and get a real H declaration to make this HEA a winner.
Still the story moves along and I liked the h, I just felt terrible for her. However I have felt worse for a CL h and she did get what she wanted, so be happy the h is happy and it is another day in HPlandia.
The story opens with the h agreeing to marry the H at his going away party, it seems our Hero is taking himself off to film the Amazon for a year. He and the h have only been dating a few months, but she is convinced she is in the end all be all of love. Sadly it is only lust really, but she won't figure that out until two-thirds into the book. After the H hints about marriage, while complaining that he wanted to meet the h a year earlier but couldn't cause she was still at uni, the h confesses her big love and they kinda sorta tentatively agree to be engaged or are engaged to be engaged or whatever - there was no ring and no announcement and the H makes a big point of telling the h that he will be gone for a year and if she meets someone else, she is to write and he will understand.
The h later overhears the H telling his supreme witch of a sister that he wants a family and a wife waiting for him at home and the h is plain, so she won't be cheating on him and run off with another man like his last beautiful babe did. The h is so in love, she can hardly think after hearing that - tho she does wonder at the wisdom of marrying into a family where the H's relatives obviously and loudly dislike her. Still true love and all that, she doesn't even mind being a brood mare, used for a steady prop to a narcissist.
The h works for a television talk show host (kinda like Graham Norton) and the h is a researcher who also makes arrangements for the guests. Since her boss is at this party too, (they all work for the same tv company,) he wants the h to get the scoop on this interesting guy who claims to be a sculptor. The h asks the sculptor if she can see his work, and the man thinks she is picking up on him - but she really isn't.
The h gets invited to a dinner do with the sculptor, and because the work the sculptor is unveiling at the dinner is a huge public piece with a speech and the h wants to see how the sculptor might work out on tv, the h decides to accept. The H had previously told her that he would be much too busy over the coming days to even say goodbye, so the h figures going to see the sculptor's huge 15 horse water fountain beats sitting home and moping.
On the way back from the dinner, the sculptor's car runs out of gas and it starts to rain. Fortunately the h only lives a block away and she invites the sculptor back to get dried off and call a taxi. The sculptor is cozily ensconced on the h's couch and she has put on a fluffy robe and the H shows up. He makes some snide comments and storms off. The h tries to contact him to explain, but the H is at the airport before the h tracks him down and when she tries to talk to him, he just blows her off. The h is upset and driving back home, she runs into the back of a lorry and in the surgery that follows, she has to have a hysterectomy.
The h eventually recovers, and becomes good friends with the sculptor, even tho he doesn't understand the extent of her injuries. The h decides that since her H only wants her for brood mare capabilities, she will write and tell him she has met someone else, cause she doesn't want to be married out of pity. (Why she even thought she still would be married is beyond me, it was clear the H thought she cheated and he walked away, why even bother to write when the man doesn't want to listen and is only marrying for brood mare capabilities?)
The h is having mopey moments, her family is all dead and she wanted children but now will never have them, but she is getting buy and the sculptor is really becoming a good friend. Then the H returns, he caught a bad bug in the Amazon and became deathly ill and had to come back to England to recuperate.
When the H returns, he sees the h with the sculptor and in a very dog-in-the-manger way, he decides to go after the h. She tries to dissuade him but he manipulates her and blackmails her when her boss wants the H on his tv show. The h doesn't want to lose her job, she has a few career plans of her own, and so she winds up going out with the H, becoming his researcher for a week and going to a weekend house party with the Chairman of the TV studio, who wants the h to convince the H to take a promotion that will keep him in England. The h gradually realizes over the course of these events that she really doesn't know the H at all, and her first big lurve feelings were essentially lust. Of course while she was transcribing his recordings and film for his Amazon series, she got to know the "real" him and now she is REALLY in love.
The h has no success at convincing the H to stay, tho he is looking worse every day, the H is determined to go back to the Amazon if the h won't have him - or at least lurve him up. His witch Queen nasty sister shows up and harasses the h because she claims the H is leaving over her and if he goes he will relapse and die. (So this H is essentially committing suicide over getting his lust thwarted. What an H we have here, he bullies, manipulates and then decides to essentially kill himself cause he can't make a plain little thing succumb to his will.) The h and the sister have a confrontation and the h finally runs her off.
Only to have her sculptor friend call the sister and tell her about the h's hysterectomy, he did it to pay her back because he felt used that he was picking up on the h and she pretended to the H that she was more interested in the sculptor than she was. The sister decides the h can go stop the H at the airport from returning to the Amazon and if she gets kicked to the curb because of her problem, so much the better - the h isn't good enough anyways and maybe it will stop her brother from dying.
The h gets to the airport after the witch Queen drives like a maniac and finds the H and tells him about the accident. The H claims he loves her and is mad that she told him nothing about her accident. The h says she can't marry him and offers to be his mistress. They get a cab back to the h's flat and supposedly the H wants to marry her and he denies ever telling his sister she was plain and a broodmare and the h wants to believe it for the HEA.
Which there isn't really an HEA here, basically the H will swing the lurve club and then dump her, mainly cause she really isn't his type and he just doesn't like people telling him no. The h will be alone probably for a long time, cause she is a very introverted person and the sculptor doesn't want to be her friend anymore cause she won't sleep with him and she isn't perfect after her hysterectomy.
This one was a bit depressing, sure CL has the H say all the appropriate things, but his sincerity comes off more as piqued ego. Just cause CL says it, doesn't make it so - she needed to call Robyn Donald and get a real H declaration to make this HEA a winner.
Still the story moves along and I liked the h, I just felt terrible for her. However I have felt worse for a CL h and she did get what she wanted, so be happy the h is happy and it is another day in HPlandia.
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June 26, 2024
I continue on my intermittent completist journey through CL's catalogue. This was as readable as always although I wasn't madly convinced by the romance. She overhears him saying something which floors her and drives her to doubt the relationship on the eve of his disappearance up the Amazon for a year. She then keeps secret a fertility stealing road accident, lies to him about an affair and in the finale when she comes clean he claims he never said what she heard him say. Mate. She was there. So, idk. She, television chat show researcher Megan, really does love much older explorer/film maker Devlin even though she flirts with sculptor Mark to put an early returned, ill and emaciated Dev off the scent. There's chest beating actual fisticuffs in the street (remember when this was fashionably alpha and not childish and pathetic 🙄) and her skeevy chat show host boss also enjoys a bit of sly manipulation although interestingly not sexual harassment. Women love him and fall for his glib charm but apparently men dislike him. I think I cracked his code in the world of TV. Anyhow, the Hs sister (formerly an enemy) helps reunite them. Perfectly reasonable day at the CL office but not a reread.
June 25, 2024
There were too many pages spent on the h with the sculptor she became friends with. And the man she works for was a snake. But it’s Charlotte Lamb, so there were some good alpha H moments in the story. This is not one of her best HP’s, but okay enough.
November 20, 2014
Worst Charlotte Lamb book I've read and I usually like this author.
It's like the heroine is supposed to feel so special because she's plain and the awesome hero loves her. But it's pretty much explained that he loves her because she's plain and not drop dead gorgeous like his first love who broke his heart. Wow, what a lucky heroine.
It's like the heroine is supposed to feel so special because she's plain and the awesome hero loves her. But it's pretty much explained that he loves her because she's plain and not drop dead gorgeous like his first love who broke his heart. Wow, what a lucky heroine.
April 8, 2020
2 stelle e 1/2
Lettura scorrevole ma non mi ha preso per niente.
Lettura scorrevole ma non mi ha preso per niente.
March 1, 2022
I like CL's heroines when they're like this. Some people really like iron-spine heroines but realistically, iron-spined people are very rare (it's admirable). Of course, I don't like a push-over or hothouse flower but I like realistically flawed people and that's what this h was.
The writing is quite nice in this one (always is with CL) with little descriptions and more dialogue-oriented. Was feeling a little brain-bleh so I liked that a lot as I get lost in descriptions. Good rainy day read.
The writing is quite nice in this one (always is with CL) with little descriptions and more dialogue-oriented. Was feeling a little brain-bleh so I liked that a lot as I get lost in descriptions. Good rainy day read.
November 27, 2011
Decent older one by Charlotte Lamb. Never really explained why the hero said what the heroine overheard him saying to his sister, but other than that there was some good angst in this one. It's older, so pretty tame with the sex.
July 18, 2019
Storia insignificante e banale, altrettanto i personaggi.
La signora Lamb ha scritto di meglio.
La signora Lamb ha scritto di meglio.
February 16, 2024
To preface this, I am not a big fan of the vintage Harlequin presents. They tend to be melodramatic, low on the sex/sensuous scenes, and have submissive/virginal heroines and jerky heroes. They are also very short and have minimal opportunity for real character and plot development. This one seemed to have a romantic setting and had some promise in the first chapter, but sadly devolved badly. First off, the writing was poor. I don't expect "War and Peace" reading these books, but the writing should flow well, be adequately descriptive and clear, and suited towards a slightly more mature reader. The writing in "Desperation" felt sloppy, rushed, and poorly edited. The main heroine was basically a "Justine" character that is bruised and battered by the wider world and a victim of fate and unlucky circumstances. She seems to have no clear idea of what or who she wants in life which also causes her no end of trouble. Furthermore, the relationship between the hero and heroine started prior to the book, and they break up up pretty quickly, so the reader doesn't learn much about their "romance". The hero and his sister are controlling and manipulative, and her marriage will be miserable, I am sure. But she will lack any backbone to ever leave or divorce him. The only slightly interesting part were their jobs in television production, but of course this is not really expanded on much.
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January 8, 2024
I debated between 3 and 4 stars. I really wanted to lean towards 4 stars because I totally got why the h didn't want to tell the H why she wouldn't marry him. She didn't want him to feel he HAD to go through with the marriage because he had already proposed. Obligated in other words. Especially given that she overhead him tell his sister that he wanted a family and children and felt that the h would give that to him.
HOWEVER, I put a 3 on it because 1) the h used a male friend to pretend he was the OM without actually telling the male friend. In other words, she used him and he let her know it when he found out. I felt for him. Totally wronged party. 2) She dragged on and on about not telling the H about her reasons for not marrying him but at the same time giving him mixed messages about it being over with him and yet, giving him looks and her responses to his physical advances. It was just a total mess. Their relationship I mean. Not the book.
However, Lamb writes well and she tackles heavier subjects than I think Harlequin typically puts out. Even her worst books are still a grade above others.
HOWEVER, I put a 3 on it because 1) the h used a male friend to pretend he was the OM without actually telling the male friend. In other words, she used him and he let her know it when he found out. I felt for him. Totally wronged party. 2) She dragged on and on about not telling the H about her reasons for not marrying him but at the same time giving him mixed messages about it being over with him and yet, giving him looks and her responses to his physical advances. It was just a total mess. Their relationship I mean. Not the book.
However, Lamb writes well and she tackles heavier subjects than I think Harlequin typically puts out. Even her worst books are still a grade above others.
February 14, 2018
Some new ideas + some horribly cliched ideas make this book an average read at the end.
AIl characters in the story have kickass jobs, cool ones really, nice and refreshing.
The cliche is ofcourse - "I can't bear children so I must pretend that I am a nasty bitch to save you from an unfulfilling marriage"
So she keeps running, he keeps chasing. And he obviously catches up at the end. Some support characters thrown in to add a jealousy angle.
Ok to read once, 3 stars.
AIl characters in the story have kickass jobs, cool ones really, nice and refreshing.
The cliche is ofcourse - "I can't bear children so I must pretend that I am a nasty bitch to save you from an unfulfilling marriage"
So she keeps running, he keeps chasing. And he obviously catches up at the end. Some support characters thrown in to add a jealousy angle.
Ok to read once, 3 stars.
August 30, 2021
"You said this mean thing-" "no I didn't" "yes you did!" The heroine needs to NOT end up with a guy and sister-in-law who are going to be gaslighting her for the rest of her life. "I don't want you to resent me" he will say she never said that or he never promised he wouldn't. Eh, very choppy book, and I liked the heroine, the hero kinda blew her off like 3 different times but then wouldn't leave her alone. So yeah, I can get behind the heroine, cause that dude is too changeable. Skip.
June 7, 2020
Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
August 16, 2022
a very sweet story but not enough angst and no real build up as to why the hero and heroine love each other.
June 29, 2023
This was a good story, but so sad! I felt so sorry for the h, Megan, because what she went through didn't have to happen, it was the result of a misunderstanding and the H's (Dev) jealousy. (His former girlfriend had dumped him for a man with more money and power, and he found it tough to trust women after this.)
Megan goes through so much pain alone, especially since she chooses to be the "noble idiot" as it's sometimes called, making a sacrifice for the person you love, setting them free for their own good, being cruel to be kind. She ends up suffering more than Dev because of this.
One thing I didn't like was her thoughtlessness when it came to the OM, Mark. She liked him a lot as a friend, and didn't realize how selfish she was being, because he really cared for her and would have liked more than friendship, and was always supportive of her, yet she kept too much from him. And he was the rare OM (the kind I like) as he wasn't either a wimpy beta bore or else a phony nice guy who's actually controlling and possessive. Mark was a strong guy, a sensitive alpha, and without meaning to, Megan took advantage of him.
Both Dev and Megan were at fault, for not opening up to each other enough about their feelings. She lacked the confidence (and didn't think she was pretty enough and too young and unsophisticated), he was afraid to be vulnerable after being hurt before. Too much of their relationship was based on their physical desire, which was overpowering. They both had to work on this.
There's interesting background info, both about TV talk shows (Megan's boss, host Johnny Fabian is a real riot) and the Amazon, where Dev travels, then tells of his adventures.
It's worth reading.
Megan goes through so much pain alone, especially since she chooses to be the "noble idiot" as it's sometimes called, making a sacrifice for the person you love, setting them free for their own good, being cruel to be kind. She ends up suffering more than Dev because of this.
One thing I didn't like was her thoughtlessness when it came to the OM, Mark. She liked him a lot as a friend, and didn't realize how selfish she was being, because he really cared for her and would have liked more than friendship, and was always supportive of her, yet she kept too much from him. And he was the rare OM (the kind I like) as he wasn't either a wimpy beta bore or else a phony nice guy who's actually controlling and possessive. Mark was a strong guy, a sensitive alpha, and without meaning to, Megan took advantage of him.
Both Dev and Megan were at fault, for not opening up to each other enough about their feelings. She lacked the confidence (and didn't think she was pretty enough and too young and unsophisticated), he was afraid to be vulnerable after being hurt before. Too much of their relationship was based on their physical desire, which was overpowering. They both had to work on this.
There's interesting background info, both about TV talk shows (Megan's boss, host Johnny Fabian is a real riot) and the Amazon, where Dev travels, then tells of his adventures.
It's worth reading.
July 17, 2014
this was an absolute disaster ! megan went from being a plain lil nobody to a femme fatale ! dev and mark were both crazy about her. i did not like megan. i thought she manipulated both men to suit her. she used them, especially mark. she played wid mark's feelings to repel dev who she really wanted. maybe she needed therapy. she had been through a fatal accident, had to remove her uterus and the person she needed the most(dev) was not there for her. charlotte is a terrific author. even when i don't like her books, i have to admit it's still well written and never has a boring moment. it's usually the basic plot which i dunt like when i give her 1 star.
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December 31, 2017A whirlwind courtship, then a year apart
Megan had been fully prepared to wait for Devlin's return from his year-long filming trip to the Amazon. Despite the differences in their backgrounds and their ages, she knew their love was right.
But when Devlin returned from his journey, he found a different Megan, a cold stranger who'd erected a barrier between them. No matter how forcibly he tried to break it down, she would not give in.
She could not. For she was not the same woman Devlin had known, and Devlin must not learn why, nor how....
Megan had been fully prepared to wait for Devlin's return from his year-long filming trip to the Amazon. Despite the differences in their backgrounds and their ages, she knew their love was right.
But when Devlin returned from his journey, he found a different Megan, a cold stranger who'd erected a barrier between them. No matter how forcibly he tried to break it down, she would not give in.
She could not. For she was not the same woman Devlin had known, and Devlin must not learn why, nor how....
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