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Michael's Silence
Jennie Kearney hasn't seen Michael Winters in six years. Not since the night her brother died. Once, she thought she loved him....
Michael Winters never looked back after he left Texas. He could barely live with what happened, and he couldn't face Jennie.
Now Michael's been hired to find Jennie's sister, Clare, and the trail leads him right to Jennie. But she isn't about to tell anybody where Clare is. Especially not Michael--the man she blames for killing her brother.
Michael Winters never looked back after he left Texas. He could barely live with what happened, and he couldn't face Jennie.
Now Michael's been hired to find Jennie's sister, Clare, and the trail leads him right to Jennie. But she isn't about to tell anybody where Clare is. Especially not Michael--the man she blames for killing her brother.
184 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1994
About the author
Kathleen O'Brien
147 books91 followersSince the day Harlequin bought her first novel, Kathleen has published more than 30 titles with them- everything from hot, sexy contemporaries to dark, brooding suspense. Read in more than 30 countries and 29 languages, she's a five-time finalist for the prestigious RWA RITA Award, a winner of the Maggie Award, and a three-time finalist for Romantic Times' Reviewer's Choice.
Kathleen comes from a family of writers, poets, and journalists- though she may be the one shameless romantic in the bunch. A true Cancer, she values home and family above everything and wouldn't dream of ditching a single friend, memory, gift, or love letter. Consequently, her office is a mess, full of books, colored cut glass, photo albums, Madame Alexander dolls, and a cockatiel who whistles the theme from "The X Files." She is addicted to Mozart and Elvis, Dancing With the Stars, Dorothy Dunnett novels, and sugar-free Popsicles.
Kathleen comes from a family of writers, poets, and journalists- though she may be the one shameless romantic in the bunch. A true Cancer, she values home and family above everything and wouldn't dream of ditching a single friend, memory, gift, or love letter. Consequently, her office is a mess, full of books, colored cut glass, photo albums, Madame Alexander dolls, and a cockatiel who whistles the theme from "The X Files." She is addicted to Mozart and Elvis, Dancing With the Stars, Dorothy Dunnett novels, and sugar-free Popsicles.
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June 3, 2018
Re Michael's Silence - Kathleen O'Brien brings a little suspense to this non HP HP set in the great state of Texas.
The h is 23 and a handmaiden to her wheelchair bound domineering extremely rich father. She works for his computer software division and is currently helping her older society witch of a sister hide out on a remote off-shore Texas island.
The h's father hires the H, an old family friend, to drag the h's older sister out of hiding. Why he thinks it is his business is never explained and after a few scenes of him bellowing and shouting and generally being unpleasant, he retires to his ground floor room with his bullied nurse and we don't hear from him again. He is lost to the mists of HPlandia secondary characters who no longer serve a purpose.
The h has a huge problem with the H being hired by her father and lets him know it no uncertain terms, mainly because she holds the H responsible for the death of her older brother six years earlier.
It seems that her older brother met the H in the Army and brought him home to the family fold. The h was a teenager at the time and had a huge crush on the then 21 yr old H. After a few years of the H always being around and being in the private investigator business with the h's brother and the man who would become the older society witch sister's husband, the h's crush developed even further.
The H always had time for the h in her awkward teen phase and the h let her fantasies run amok over the hot bodied handsomeness and kindness of the H. Then the H met a woman the h refers to as a The Beautiful Bimbo.
One night, when the H and her brother were supposed to be guarding a warehouse for some dubious businessmen, the H was off with his Bimbo and the brother was at the warehouse alone. There was a robbery and the h's brother was killed, the police couldn't catch anybody and he died in the H's arms when the H heard the commotion from his girlfriend's apartment a few blocks away and ran over to see what was up.
The h hates the H, cause she thinks his abandonment got her brother killed and shortly after the sad event, the Bimbo came up preggers and the H married her and moved to Seattle. Six years later the H is a huge Latoya Jackson Online Detective School success story and ready to roofie kiss the truth out his sweet and shy h.
The H's marriage only lasted for six months, his unloved wife and desperately wanted unborn son died in a car accident in Seattle and the H spent a month in a black hole of alcoholic destruction before he got himself together, quit drinking and eventually specialized in corporate security.
The h's father called him up and the H came, because his only happy memories of family life were with the h's family and he owed them. The h isn't the sweet and shy girl he remembered either, she is kinda a witch herself and determined to keep on hating the H. So there is lots and lots and lots of the h evading the H, as she travels to the off-shore Texas island to visit her sister in hiding.
Even tho the h doesn't trust the H and can't understand why her pregnant sister is so determined to hide out, the h can't stop the Treacherous Body Syndrome that makes her want to throw herself into the H's arms whenever he is within ten feet of her.
After a few roofie kissing sessions while the h is drunk and watching the Joan Fontaine version of Jane Eyre and some more when the h's sister calls with the seekrit emergency phone ring in the middle of the night, the h evades the H again to go save her sister.
We find out that the sister's husband is in deep debt to the same bad businessmen whose warehouse was robbed six years earlier. The sister recently came into a large trust fund and thinks her husband is planning to kill her for it. Threatening phone calls have been made and the sister's husband has shown up at the h's father's house, trying to bully the h, tho the H ran him off.
After some more ducking and weaving and a late night h office visit where she is followed by the H, the two of them have a full Lurve Force Mojo lurve club event. The H leaves the h on the couch in her office the next morning and the h sneaks out to go to her sister again.
While the h is helping the sister pack, the H, one of his detectives and the sister's ex-husband show up at the sister's beach equivalent of a grotty flat. We find out that the both the sister's husband and the h's brother owed money to the dubious bad businessmen and that the H's Bimbo was more than amendable to keeping him occupied at the h's brother's and sister's husband's suggestion. So the h's brother was complicit in his own demise and the sister's husband was too cowardly to tell the police about the arrangement that got the h's brother killed.
The sister's husband wants the sister to divorce him, but she decides she wants her husband instead and resolves to use the money in her trust fund to pay off the bad guys. The h then apologizes to the H for not trusting him and the H says it is okay, he loves her madly and they can now share their love together forever. The h has brought him to life again and we leave the two on the beach, planning the wedding for the big HEA.
This one was okay, but the chasing about and the back and forth about trusting the H was drawn out and tedious. Really the only thing the two had was some Lurve Force Mojo and a lot of old memories, the whole possible murder of the sister scenario kinda overshadowed the H and h's relationship and it took too long to get to that point.
I did believe the true love avowal tho, K O'B gives us enough of both the h and H's inner thoughts to make their feelings seem real, I just wasn't sure how they got them to begin with. Still, there have been worse outings in HPlandia and this isn't a terrible day at the HP office, just kinda mediocre and boring.
The h is 23 and a handmaiden to her wheelchair bound domineering extremely rich father. She works for his computer software division and is currently helping her older society witch of a sister hide out on a remote off-shore Texas island.
The h's father hires the H, an old family friend, to drag the h's older sister out of hiding. Why he thinks it is his business is never explained and after a few scenes of him bellowing and shouting and generally being unpleasant, he retires to his ground floor room with his bullied nurse and we don't hear from him again. He is lost to the mists of HPlandia secondary characters who no longer serve a purpose.
The h has a huge problem with the H being hired by her father and lets him know it no uncertain terms, mainly because she holds the H responsible for the death of her older brother six years earlier.
It seems that her older brother met the H in the Army and brought him home to the family fold. The h was a teenager at the time and had a huge crush on the then 21 yr old H. After a few years of the H always being around and being in the private investigator business with the h's brother and the man who would become the older society witch sister's husband, the h's crush developed even further.
The H always had time for the h in her awkward teen phase and the h let her fantasies run amok over the hot bodied handsomeness and kindness of the H. Then the H met a woman the h refers to as a The Beautiful Bimbo.
One night, when the H and her brother were supposed to be guarding a warehouse for some dubious businessmen, the H was off with his Bimbo and the brother was at the warehouse alone. There was a robbery and the h's brother was killed, the police couldn't catch anybody and he died in the H's arms when the H heard the commotion from his girlfriend's apartment a few blocks away and ran over to see what was up.
The h hates the H, cause she thinks his abandonment got her brother killed and shortly after the sad event, the Bimbo came up preggers and the H married her and moved to Seattle. Six years later the H is a huge Latoya Jackson Online Detective School success story and ready to roofie kiss the truth out his sweet and shy h.
The H's marriage only lasted for six months, his unloved wife and desperately wanted unborn son died in a car accident in Seattle and the H spent a month in a black hole of alcoholic destruction before he got himself together, quit drinking and eventually specialized in corporate security.
The h's father called him up and the H came, because his only happy memories of family life were with the h's family and he owed them. The h isn't the sweet and shy girl he remembered either, she is kinda a witch herself and determined to keep on hating the H. So there is lots and lots and lots of the h evading the H, as she travels to the off-shore Texas island to visit her sister in hiding.
Even tho the h doesn't trust the H and can't understand why her pregnant sister is so determined to hide out, the h can't stop the Treacherous Body Syndrome that makes her want to throw herself into the H's arms whenever he is within ten feet of her.
After a few roofie kissing sessions while the h is drunk and watching the Joan Fontaine version of Jane Eyre and some more when the h's sister calls with the seekrit emergency phone ring in the middle of the night, the h evades the H again to go save her sister.
We find out that the sister's husband is in deep debt to the same bad businessmen whose warehouse was robbed six years earlier. The sister recently came into a large trust fund and thinks her husband is planning to kill her for it. Threatening phone calls have been made and the sister's husband has shown up at the h's father's house, trying to bully the h, tho the H ran him off.
After some more ducking and weaving and a late night h office visit where she is followed by the H, the two of them have a full Lurve Force Mojo lurve club event. The H leaves the h on the couch in her office the next morning and the h sneaks out to go to her sister again.
While the h is helping the sister pack, the H, one of his detectives and the sister's ex-husband show up at the sister's beach equivalent of a grotty flat. We find out that the both the sister's husband and the h's brother owed money to the dubious bad businessmen and that the H's Bimbo was more than amendable to keeping him occupied at the h's brother's and sister's husband's suggestion. So the h's brother was complicit in his own demise and the sister's husband was too cowardly to tell the police about the arrangement that got the h's brother killed.
The sister's husband wants the sister to divorce him, but she decides she wants her husband instead and resolves to use the money in her trust fund to pay off the bad guys. The h then apologizes to the H for not trusting him and the H says it is okay, he loves her madly and they can now share their love together forever. The h has brought him to life again and we leave the two on the beach, planning the wedding for the big HEA.
This one was okay, but the chasing about and the back and forth about trusting the H was drawn out and tedious. Really the only thing the two had was some Lurve Force Mojo and a lot of old memories, the whole possible murder of the sister scenario kinda overshadowed the H and h's relationship and it took too long to get to that point.
I did believe the true love avowal tho, K O'B gives us enough of both the h and H's inner thoughts to make their feelings seem real, I just wasn't sure how they got them to begin with. Still, there have been worse outings in HPlandia and this isn't a terrible day at the HP office, just kinda mediocre and boring.
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October 2, 2025
Every single person in this book needs so much therapy, and now having finished it I do too
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