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Passionate Intruder
All she wanted was to start over.
The sensational press had ripped her character to shreds, blaming her for the drowning death of her famous fiance.
On an isolated Scottish island Sharon hoped to strengthen her broken spirit. There she met Calum Darwin and fell in love.
Then he recognized her and demanded proof against what he'd read about her. But her side of the story could not be revealed without hurting others, and thus it must remain untold--no matter what it cost her!
'No man is an island,' Sharon had reminded Calum - to which he had replied firmly, 'This man is.' Adding, 'A woman's love is something I don't need.'
And as Sharon had already vowed, after her disillusioning experience with Daryl Irwin, that never again was she going to be any man's puppet, it did seem the wisest thing was not to let herself fall in love with Calum.
Especially as he persisted in believing all those lying stories about her....
The sensational press had ripped her character to shreds, blaming her for the drowning death of her famous fiance.
On an isolated Scottish island Sharon hoped to strengthen her broken spirit. There she met Calum Darwin and fell in love.
Then he recognized her and demanded proof against what he'd read about her. But her side of the story could not be revealed without hurting others, and thus it must remain untold--no matter what it cost her!
'No man is an island,' Sharon had reminded Calum - to which he had replied firmly, 'This man is.' Adding, 'A woman's love is something I don't need.'
And as Sharon had already vowed, after her disillusioning experience with Daryl Irwin, that never again was she going to be any man's puppet, it did seem the wisest thing was not to let herself fall in love with Calum.
Especially as he persisted in believing all those lying stories about her....
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
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About the author
Lilian Peake
132 books69 followersLilian Margaret Peake was born on 25 May 1924 in London, England, UK. During the World War II, she moved to the countryside.
Her early ambition was to be a journalist, and she ended up working at various newspapers and magazines around England. She also married and started a family, and eventually she decided start to writing romance novels. She wrote over 65 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1971 to 1996 as Lilian Peake.
Lilian passed away in 27 May 1997.
Her early ambition was to be a journalist, and she ended up working at various newspapers and magazines around England. She also married and started a family, and eventually she decided start to writing romance novels. She wrote over 65 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1971 to 1996 as Lilian Peake.
Lilian passed away in 27 May 1997.
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December 29, 2017
This isn't worth wasting my time writing a proper review. All the MC's did was argue. The heroine was living in Martyr Central to protect a cheating dead fiance because his selfish parents couldn't bear to see the truth about their disgusting son be aired in the open. The H was an asshole who was living in Double Standards Central and the OW was a sneering bitch in permanent heat with a trail of ex husbands behind her.
Fight.
Kiss.
Insults.
Kiss.
Weep.
Snarl.
Whine.
Kiss.
Weep.
Insults.
Get married.
Make love.
Fight.
Weep.
Insults.
Kiss.
The big denouement that's not that big and way too anti-climactic.
Kiss.
Not enough grovelling from He Who Lives In Double Standards Central.
Happiness galore from She Who Lives In Martyr Central.
A watered down HEA. The end.
And I almost forgot the heroine was almost raped and choked by another man who failed to apologize and tried to rape her again. The H beat him really badly for the first attempt and threatened him for the second attempt. Somehow I still felt the attempted rapist got off lightly...
Fight.
Kiss.
Insults.
Kiss.
Weep.
Snarl.
Whine.
Kiss.
Weep.
Insults.
Get married.
Make love.
Fight.
Weep.
Insults.
Kiss.
The big denouement that's not that big and way too anti-climactic.
Kiss.
Not enough grovelling from He Who Lives In Double Standards Central.
Happiness galore from She Who Lives In Martyr Central.
A watered down HEA. The end.
And I almost forgot the heroine was almost raped and choked by another man who failed to apologize and tried to rape her again. The H beat him really badly for the first attempt and threatened him for the second attempt. Somehow I still felt the attempted rapist got off lightly...
February 22, 2013
Cal was all sorts of a jerk. When you love someone you trust them and believe in them, yet he didn't believe in Sharon and trust her until he came up with his own evidence, bunch of BS if you ask me.
July 14, 2020
This is just awful. Hated the h.
All she wanted was to start over.
The sensational press had ripped her character to shreds, blaming her for the drowning death of her famous fiance.
On an isolated Scottish island Sharon hoped to strengthen her broken spirit. There she met Calum Darwin and fell in love.
Then he recognized her and demanded proof against what he'd read about her. But her side of the story could not be revealed without hurting others, and thus it must remain untold--no matter what it cost her!
'No man is an island,' Sharon had reminded Calum - to which he had replied firmly, 'This man is.' Adding, 'A woman's love is something I don't need.'
And as Sharon had already vowed, after her disillusioning experience with Daryl Irwin, that never again was she going to be any man's puppet, it did seem the wisest thing was not to let herself fall in love with Calum.
Especially as he persisted in believing all those lying stories about her
All she wanted was to start over.
The sensational press had ripped her character to shreds, blaming her for the drowning death of her famous fiance.
On an isolated Scottish island Sharon hoped to strengthen her broken spirit. There she met Calum Darwin and fell in love.
Then he recognized her and demanded proof against what he'd read about her. But her side of the story could not be revealed without hurting others, and thus it must remain untold--no matter what it cost her!
'No man is an island,' Sharon had reminded Calum - to which he had replied firmly, 'This man is.' Adding, 'A woman's love is something I don't need.'
And as Sharon had already vowed, after her disillusioning experience with Daryl Irwin, that never again was she going to be any man's puppet, it did seem the wisest thing was not to let herself fall in love with Calum.
Especially as he persisted in believing all those lying stories about her
October 27, 2025
September Readathon
A book where there's no one to root for and like nothing they decide to do with themselves.
The heroine goes to a (wonderful sounding) distant island for solitude and to get herself together after losing her fiance. Instead she immediately attaches herself to a film crew--two men in particular--who happens to be there same time as her would-be solitary retreat. Then she's soppy and lonely but simultaneously brittle and telling everyone to leave her alone.
The hero is mean and distrustful and more mercurial than he ever accuses the heroine of being. He's also a writer who complains bitterly how movie adaptations make hash of his books and that he doesn't trust popular media, and then allows himself to be dominated by doubts of the heroine based solely on reports about her in popular media.
They bicker, they belittle, they're hot and cold. Sure this is a well-trodden dynamic, but here it leads *nowhere* except making both seem smaller, meaner, and a bit pathetic.
The "I've always loved you" few pages at the end are far too skint for how aggressively unlikable the majority of the book is. It's also hard to believe they are for-real in love for the same reasons.
Toss in a few near-rapes of the heroine, and the hero being sexually aggressive toward her and her willing to take it because "no matter what he does I love him and thus will endure it," due to his stubborn misconceptions and frustration and her stubbornly not defending herself against them and him, and ugh. I can't root for these people.
I think I've read at least a few books by Peake, and I think she does this dynamic and "harsh is the way to love" plot a lot. I'll have to remember that in the future when I see her name in the piles at various book sales.
A book where there's no one to root for and like nothing they decide to do with themselves.
The heroine goes to a (wonderful sounding) distant island for solitude and to get herself together after losing her fiance. Instead she immediately attaches herself to a film crew--two men in particular--who happens to be there same time as her would-be solitary retreat. Then she's soppy and lonely but simultaneously brittle and telling everyone to leave her alone.
The hero is mean and distrustful and more mercurial than he ever accuses the heroine of being. He's also a writer who complains bitterly how movie adaptations make hash of his books and that he doesn't trust popular media, and then allows himself to be dominated by doubts of the heroine based solely on reports about her in popular media.
They bicker, they belittle, they're hot and cold. Sure this is a well-trodden dynamic, but here it leads *nowhere* except making both seem smaller, meaner, and a bit pathetic.
The "I've always loved you" few pages at the end are far too skint for how aggressively unlikable the majority of the book is. It's also hard to believe they are for-real in love for the same reasons.
Toss in a few near-rapes of the heroine, and the hero being sexually aggressive toward her and her willing to take it because "no matter what he does I love him and thus will endure it," due to his stubborn misconceptions and frustration and her stubbornly not defending herself against them and him, and ugh. I can't root for these people.
I think I've read at least a few books by Peake, and I think she does this dynamic and "harsh is the way to love" plot a lot. I'll have to remember that in the future when I see her name in the piles at various book sales.
September 23, 2015
Hard to believe that a seasoned reporter and author would take what he read in the papers as fact. He couldn't take her on trust he had to dig up the truth himself. As far as it goes she lacked trust too. She didn't seem to believe that he could be trusted with the truth. Disliked this book so it goes on my "Books I don't want read again" list.
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