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Stranger by the Lake
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Pretty Susan Marlow had always loved Greenwood Manor and its crusty, delightful mistress, her aunt, Lady Agatha Gordon. But now, when Susan returned to the stately old mansion, all seemed utterly changed. There was a man at Greenwood now, a tall, powerful, breathtakingly handsome man. His name was Craig Stanton, and Lady Agatha had made him her permanent guest. She called him a genius, a man who would shed new light on the Gordon family history, and the only one in the world she could trust.
But for Susan, Craig Stanton was something else...a man of strange powers who had woven a sinister spell over her aunt...a figure of mystery and dark and devious purposes...and a lover whom Susan was helpless to resist as he took her, trembling, in his arms...
Pretty Susan Marlow had always loved Greenwood Manor and its crusty, delightful mistress, her aunt, Lady Agatha Gordon. But now, when Susan returned to the stately old mansion, all seemed utterly changed. There was a man at Greenwood now, a tall, powerful, breathtakingly handsome man. His name was Craig Stanton, and Lady Agatha had made him her permanent guest. She called him a genius, a man who would shed new light on the Gordon family history, and the only one in the world she could trust.
But for Susan, Craig Stanton was something else...a man of strange powers who had woven a sinister spell over her aunt...a figure of mystery and dark and devious purposes...and a lover whom Susan was helpless to resist as he took her, trembling, in his arms...
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1971
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Jennifer Wilde
47 books95 followersJennifer Wilde is a pseudonym of T. E. Huff (Thomas Elmer Huff). He also wrote under the names Edwina Marlow and Beatrice Parker.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
April 30, 2015
This book featured a boisterous Great Dane named Earl. Earl was awesome.
...Unfortunately, everything else sucked. The writing (including the same repetitive costume porn filler as every other Huff novel) sucked. The plot (what little there was) sucked. The heroine (a flip-flopping, inconsistent, whingy moo) sucked. The hero (a sack of useless, blustering, alpha-for-no-reason incompetence) sucked. The villains (predictable & Scooby-Doo to the max) sucked. The conflict (some moldering manuscript by a blatant Richard Burton knockoff) sucked. The setting...well, okay, the setting wasn't too bad. But it was described so flatly that it had no life whatsoever, which sucks by proxy.
BLARGH.
Never again. This is my final Huff novel, & I couldn't be happier to part ways.
...Unfortunately, everything else sucked. The writing (including the same repetitive costume porn filler as every other Huff novel) sucked. The plot (what little there was) sucked. The heroine (a flip-flopping, inconsistent, whingy moo) sucked. The hero (a sack of useless, blustering, alpha-for-no-reason incompetence) sucked. The villains (predictable & Scooby-Doo to the max) sucked. The conflict (some moldering manuscript by a blatant Richard Burton knockoff) sucked. The setting...well, okay, the setting wasn't too bad. But it was described so flatly that it had no life whatsoever, which sucks by proxy.
BLARGH.
Never again. This is my final Huff novel, & I couldn't be happier to part ways.
April 23, 2024
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March 31, 2008Wilde, Jennifer
October 9, 2020
I have attempted to read this three times. I literally can't make it through more than five chapters. Tedious, repetitive writing and a heroine who changes her mind every two pages. Hard pass.
January 24, 2021
Predictable.
April 28, 2013
very well writen, got a lot of mistery going on,. i wish it have had more romance but i trully enjoy every word :)
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