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To Begin Again
"You really had me fooled, didn't you?"
Andrea shrank away from him, appalled by the depths of his hatred. "You've got to believe me!" she cried passionately. "I never cheated you!"
Less than a month ago, Stuart had loved Andrea with tenderness & passion. But now he had come to despise her & to regret ever having married her.
How could she ever make him understand what had really happened when he had seen her with Ronald? The task that lay before her seemed impossible...yet she had to try!
Andrea shrank away from him, appalled by the depths of his hatred. "You've got to believe me!" she cried passionately. "I never cheated you!"
Less than a month ago, Stuart had loved Andrea with tenderness & passion. But now he had come to despise her & to regret ever having married her.
How could she ever make him understand what had really happened when he had seen her with Ronald? The task that lay before her seemed impossible...yet she had to try!
186 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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Jan MacLean
14 books2 followersJill MacLean wrote in collaboration with other Maritimer writer under the pseudonym of Jan MacLean.
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August 3, 2018
The H's irrational jealousy evaporated at the end of the book
October 21, 2015
Oh man I hated this book. I hate, hate, hate when an author makes her characters act so stupidly. How on earth could a man who loved his wife take the word of the OW, who he says flat out that he knew wanted to marry him, over his wife's. Even his first wife being an evil person cannot excuse such stupidity. And he never does believe her on her word alone. It takes the intervention of a third party to bring about the reconciliation.
March 8, 2022
I can't even articulate...I have no words...
The main characters....
The male character was the worst. His treatment of the female main character was abuse, emotional and physical and where did it become OK to rape your wife, not once but twice. And he didn't get his comeuppance....un freaking believable!
The main characters....
The male character was the worst. His treatment of the female main character was abuse, emotional and physical and where did it become OK to rape your wife, not once but twice. And he didn't get his comeuppance....un freaking believable!
January 2, 2024
Yes, h should told him about the sleezy OM but definetely no need to apologize to him especially after H's awfully mean treatment!
May 28, 2017
Lekker simpel, voorspelbaar romannetje voor een loze avond. (NL-versie: Tegen een rose avondhemel.)
not-for-me
September 21, 2024A book where H believes ow more than the h.
November 29, 2023
I really appreciated this book and this author's wrting style.
I think that in those years there were many talented authors, with a great insight as regards emotions and feelings, a very good ability to write interesting and very entertaining storie, and most of them didn't really have the chance to write longer and more complex books, so they fell back to writing hp and mills and boon. Charlotte Lamb, Sally Wenthwort, Carole Mortimer were some of them. I honestly didn't know this one, but it was a pleasant surprise anyway.
The emotions and feelings of the characters are described with finesse and expertise, the story is not new but anyway kept me interested.
The heroine has been harassed by the lecherous son of her employer, where she worked in the beginning as a companion for his mother, then since she and her pompous husband are also stingy and mean, she became also maid and sometimes cook.
When their son keeps harassing her once more, she leaves.
There's a snow storm because we're in Canada and the weather is not always nice, and the heroine is saved by the cold and grumpy hero.
He soon offers her a job as a typist that, for those years, was a very good job for any woman.
So the heroine gladly accepts.
She also finds out he's a widower with a couple of kids and she becomes also their nanny. The hero finds out she was a professional skater whose career stopped because of a bad accident.
They fall in love, and get married. The hero's firts wife was a real slut, she wanted to live in New York where she had met the hero, since he's a play writer, but he took her to Canada in his quite remote house. I feel for her. And I think they should have talked this out before.
She also didn't want children and as soon as they were born she went back to her whoring ways and the hero hated her.
Guess what. One of her lovers was the same man who harassed the heroine.
Big mistake: the heroine never tells him why she left her job.
When she meets a woman who clearly is after the hero and is btw om's sister, shit happens.
Om and ow plans to break their marriage. Om pins the heroine on a bed and the hero finds them and thinks they are having fun.
He thinks the heroine is just like his first wife and begins to treats her very bad. This is the most angsty part of the book because the hero really slut shames her repeatedly and leaves her alone, while she, finding out she's pregnant, hides her pregnancy and would like him to believe her before telling him. She's right because he thinks the child is om's.
There's an accident, some other mischiefs, the hero flirting openly with ow, treating the heroine like dirt, until the heroine finally thinking that enough is enough runs away and goes back to her only relative, her aunt.
This aunt was the one who found her the first job and is the one who always told her not to back down, she raised her but never showed her any affection. She knows om and ow are a bad pair and doesn't want them to exploit her niece.
The aunt is actually cold but not unfeeling.
She goes to the hero's place and beats ow and om asses down and then does the same with the hero.
Never I liked a character more. She is neither affectionate nor loving but boy if she does her things!
The hero goes to the heroine and does a little grovel. A little. The writer nas ended the pages available for her so the heroine accepts his apologies and all is well.
Ok, I should have made him apologize for a year or so, but this is an old hp, what can you expect.
Good book, a lot of angst, a cruel hero who is cruel because of a misunderstanding, a lot of misunderstandings and very bad ow and om.
I think that in those years there were many talented authors, with a great insight as regards emotions and feelings, a very good ability to write interesting and very entertaining storie, and most of them didn't really have the chance to write longer and more complex books, so they fell back to writing hp and mills and boon. Charlotte Lamb, Sally Wenthwort, Carole Mortimer were some of them. I honestly didn't know this one, but it was a pleasant surprise anyway.
The emotions and feelings of the characters are described with finesse and expertise, the story is not new but anyway kept me interested.
The heroine has been harassed by the lecherous son of her employer, where she worked in the beginning as a companion for his mother, then since she and her pompous husband are also stingy and mean, she became also maid and sometimes cook.
When their son keeps harassing her once more, she leaves.
There's a snow storm because we're in Canada and the weather is not always nice, and the heroine is saved by the cold and grumpy hero.
He soon offers her a job as a typist that, for those years, was a very good job for any woman.
So the heroine gladly accepts.
She also finds out he's a widower with a couple of kids and she becomes also their nanny. The hero finds out she was a professional skater whose career stopped because of a bad accident.
They fall in love, and get married. The hero's firts wife was a real slut, she wanted to live in New York where she had met the hero, since he's a play writer, but he took her to Canada in his quite remote house. I feel for her. And I think they should have talked this out before.
She also didn't want children and as soon as they were born she went back to her whoring ways and the hero hated her.
Guess what. One of her lovers was the same man who harassed the heroine.
Big mistake: the heroine never tells him why she left her job.
When she meets a woman who clearly is after the hero and is btw om's sister, shit happens.
Om and ow plans to break their marriage. Om pins the heroine on a bed and the hero finds them and thinks they are having fun.
He thinks the heroine is just like his first wife and begins to treats her very bad. This is the most angsty part of the book because the hero really slut shames her repeatedly and leaves her alone, while she, finding out she's pregnant, hides her pregnancy and would like him to believe her before telling him. She's right because he thinks the child is om's.
There's an accident, some other mischiefs, the hero flirting openly with ow, treating the heroine like dirt, until the heroine finally thinking that enough is enough runs away and goes back to her only relative, her aunt.
This aunt was the one who found her the first job and is the one who always told her not to back down, she raised her but never showed her any affection. She knows om and ow are a bad pair and doesn't want them to exploit her niece.
The aunt is actually cold but not unfeeling.
She goes to the hero's place and beats ow and om asses down and then does the same with the hero.
Never I liked a character more. She is neither affectionate nor loving but boy if she does her things!
The hero goes to the heroine and does a little grovel. A little. The writer nas ended the pages available for her so the heroine accepts his apologies and all is well.
Ok, I should have made him apologize for a year or so, but this is an old hp, what can you expect.
Good book, a lot of angst, a cruel hero who is cruel because of a misunderstanding, a lot of misunderstandings and very bad ow and om.
abrierto-to-read-hr-other
September 29, 2022You really had me fooled, didn't you?"
Andrea shrank away from him, appalled by the depths of his hatred. "You've got to believe me!" she cried passionately. "I never cheated you!"
Less than a month ago, Stuart had loved Andrea with tenderness & passion. But now he had come to despise her & to regret ever having married her.
How could she ever make him understand what had really happened when he had seen her with Ronald? The task that lay before her seemed impossible...yet she had to try!
Andrea shrank away from him, appalled by the depths of his hatred. "You've got to believe me!" she cried passionately. "I never cheated you!"
Less than a month ago, Stuart had loved Andrea with tenderness & passion. But now he had come to despise her & to regret ever having married her.
How could she ever make him understand what had really happened when he had seen her with Ronald? The task that lay before her seemed impossible...yet she had to try!
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