by Lillian Cheatham
The ending ruined this story. Otherwise it would've been a decent, if not a little stupid, hatefest/revenge plot...despite a hero who couldn't see his nose if someone ripped it off and showed it to him.The heroine covers for a worthless, self-centered stepsister who is indirectly/directly responsib...
I just don't get why someone would write an awesome Old Skool revenge story, complete with deceit and betrayal and evil sisters and jealousy, and then piss it all away with an anticlimactic ending. The balance was really good for most of the book, with the heroine growing a spine nicely. An appropr...
I do not deny that I enjoy the rather unrealistic for the real world, and campy in a very 'this is real to the people participating' way, storylines of the Harlequin Presents line.This story has the marriage for revenge plot. Simon is a writer whose sister is paralyzed in a car accident caused by a ...
I've always been a bit wary to read Hardy because his stories always seem so depressing and this book hasn't dissuaded me of that. He writes much more about the average person, the rural worker people and how poor and hard their lives are.Henchard sold his wife and child at a country fair after a bo...