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Tokyo Tryst
Alex had dropped Greg Wilde, a successful London photographer, from her life two years earlier. She'd believed he had been unfaithful. Now on assignment with him in Japan, she discovered she'd been wrong--she'd let foolish pride rule her heart. — No more, Alex decided. But her decision came too late. While Greg still desired her, he seemed to hold everything else about her in contempt.
And it was heartbreakingly obvious to Alex he felt quite differently about the beautiful Yuki, his sophisticated Japanese "friend."
And it was heartbreakingly obvious to Alex he felt quite differently about the beautiful Yuki, his sophisticated Japanese "friend."
- GenresHarlequin Presents
288 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1988
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Kay Thorpe
181 books65 followersKay Thorpe was born on 1935 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. An avid reader from the time when words on paper began to make sense, she developed a lively imagination of her own, making up stories for the entertainment of her young friends. After leaving school, she tried a variety of jobs, including dental nursing, and a spell in the Women's Royal Airforce from which she emerged knowing a whole lot more about life - if only as an observer.
In 1960, she married with Tony, but didn't begin thinking about trying her hand at writing for a living until she gave up work some four years later to have a baby, John. Having read Mills & Boon novels herself, and done some market research in the local library asking readers what it was they particularly liked about the books, she decided to aim for a particular market, and was fortunate to have her very first, completed manuscript accepted - The Last of the Mallorys, published in 1968. Since then she has written over seventy five books, which doesn't begin to compare with the output of some Mills & Boon authors, but still leaves her wondering where all those words came from.
Sometimes, she finds she has become two different people: the writer at her happiest when involved in the world of books and authors; and the housewife, turning her hands to the everyday needs of husband and son. Once in a while, she finds it difficult to step from one role to the other. She likes cooking, for instance, but she finds that it can be an irritating interruption when she's preoccupied with work on a novel, so the quality of her efforts in the kitchen tend to be a little erratic. She says, "As my husband once remarked, my writing gives life a fascinating element of uncertainly: one day a perfect coq au vin, the next day a couple of burned chops!"
Luckily Kay has daily professional help with her housework, and that leaves her time to indulge in her hobbies. Like many other Mills & Boon authors, she admits to being a voracious consumer of books, a quality she shares with her readers. She likes music and horseback riding, which she does in the countryside near her home. But her favorite hobby is travel - especially to places that will make good settings for her books.
Kay now lives on the outskirts of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, along with husband, Tony, and a huge tabby cat called Mad Max, her one son having flown the coop. Some day she'll think about retiring, but not yet awhile.
In 1960, she married with Tony, but didn't begin thinking about trying her hand at writing for a living until she gave up work some four years later to have a baby, John. Having read Mills & Boon novels herself, and done some market research in the local library asking readers what it was they particularly liked about the books, she decided to aim for a particular market, and was fortunate to have her very first, completed manuscript accepted - The Last of the Mallorys, published in 1968. Since then she has written over seventy five books, which doesn't begin to compare with the output of some Mills & Boon authors, but still leaves her wondering where all those words came from.
Sometimes, she finds she has become two different people: the writer at her happiest when involved in the world of books and authors; and the housewife, turning her hands to the everyday needs of husband and son. Once in a while, she finds it difficult to step from one role to the other. She likes cooking, for instance, but she finds that it can be an irritating interruption when she's preoccupied with work on a novel, so the quality of her efforts in the kitchen tend to be a little erratic. She says, "As my husband once remarked, my writing gives life a fascinating element of uncertainly: one day a perfect coq au vin, the next day a couple of burned chops!"
Luckily Kay has daily professional help with her housework, and that leaves her time to indulge in her hobbies. Like many other Mills & Boon authors, she admits to being a voracious consumer of books, a quality she shares with her readers. She likes music and horseback riding, which she does in the countryside near her home. But her favorite hobby is travel - especially to places that will make good settings for her books.
Kay now lives on the outskirts of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, along with husband, Tony, and a huge tabby cat called Mad Max, her one son having flown the coop. Some day she'll think about retiring, but not yet awhile.
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January 24, 2017
Re Tokyo Tryst - This one is a bit of a 180 for KT - usually she has the cheating or probably cheating H's and the h's who have to trust that their H will stay with them.
This time she has an h who is completely OTT mistaken in her willingness to believe that her H is cheating and so after a brief affair, she dumps the H. Two years later they wind up doing a magazine article and pictorial essay together in Japan and the h finds that she was really horribly wrong about the H cheating but that it may be too late to recover her lost love.
The story starts with h finding out that she is being sent to Japan to write a series of articles for her magazine about various aspects of Japanese life. She is really not happy to find that the photographer that will be doing the pictorial side is her ex lover, the H.
Two years earlier, she and the H had an intense but brief affair and moved in together - the H was trying to gentle the h into accepting a marriage proposal and started with shacking up. The H is a famous photographer and discovered a new IT girl of the fashion world. When the h came back to their shared apartment after an out of town assignment, she found the model's makeup compact in her makeup drawer in the bathroom. Since the h was very young and wildly insecure, she had been imagining that the H was interested in the model in a physical way and when she found the makeup compact, she figured that the H was having an affair while she was out of town.
She did not confront the H with her suspicions tho, instead she moves out and basically tells the H that it was fling and now she is bored and moving on. The H was hurt by this, but he lets her go and gets on with his life. The H spent a few years living in Japan before he became famous and before he met the h, he has a lot of contacts there and one of them happens to be a lady that he greatly admires and is good friends with.
As he and the h travel around the sites of Japan and the h learns that she was wrong about his past relationship with the now married model, the h realizes that her feelings for the H haven't died. Unfortunately, tho the H is definitely willing to start up the lurve machine again, the h is frightened that his real love is their Japanese lady tour guide. It seems the Japanese lady is in love with a man she can never have and the h is afraid it is the H and they can't be together because the Japanese lady's family will not accept the H.
There is a lot of internal h angsting and fretting and a lot of Japanese travelogue. KT makes it pretty clear to the reader that the h is irrational about the H being in love with a Japanese lady that he can't have, so the impetuous to the story isn't will the H cheat or not, it is when will the h get her head out of her hiney and see the light. (The Japanese lady is in love with a Japanese man who isn't in her class and her family hates his family - the two of them do get together off stage in the end.)
The H really does love the h and wants to marry her, sure he had past relationships but they weren't who or what he wanted because they weren't the h. He does have a few moments of wanting to make the h suffer like he did and so he does a bit of h baiting with the Japanese lady, but it isn't much and more a hint, that the h completely exacerbates in her mind. Finally after the h cogitates and agonizes, she figures out that the H loves her. Tho he has to shout and argue his case a few times, the h eventually takes the plunge and admits her love for the big HEA of mutual devotion, kids and marriage.
This one was definitely different for KT, because she was obvious in her plot manipulations of the h's feelings of jealousy and insecurity that were totally misguided. But in this instance those ploys worked, because we are reading to see if the h will grow up enough to realize that she is being blinded by her own fears and will she figure out that she only needs to wake up to the reality that she is truly loved.
There is not a lot of action in this one, another unusual thing for KT, this one is much more internally focused on the h's growth rather than her usual H and h fight, love and fight again and the ever present underlying KT theme of will the H actually cheat. It made a refreshing change for those of us familiar with the KT backlist.
This one will not be for everyone, it moves a bit slow, but it is an interesting look at how fear and insecurity can cripple a relationship and it is a great look at another side of a long time author of HPlandia.
This time she has an h who is completely OTT mistaken in her willingness to believe that her H is cheating and so after a brief affair, she dumps the H. Two years later they wind up doing a magazine article and pictorial essay together in Japan and the h finds that she was really horribly wrong about the H cheating but that it may be too late to recover her lost love.
The story starts with h finding out that she is being sent to Japan to write a series of articles for her magazine about various aspects of Japanese life. She is really not happy to find that the photographer that will be doing the pictorial side is her ex lover, the H.
Two years earlier, she and the H had an intense but brief affair and moved in together - the H was trying to gentle the h into accepting a marriage proposal and started with shacking up. The H is a famous photographer and discovered a new IT girl of the fashion world. When the h came back to their shared apartment after an out of town assignment, she found the model's makeup compact in her makeup drawer in the bathroom. Since the h was very young and wildly insecure, she had been imagining that the H was interested in the model in a physical way and when she found the makeup compact, she figured that the H was having an affair while she was out of town.
She did not confront the H with her suspicions tho, instead she moves out and basically tells the H that it was fling and now she is bored and moving on. The H was hurt by this, but he lets her go and gets on with his life. The H spent a few years living in Japan before he became famous and before he met the h, he has a lot of contacts there and one of them happens to be a lady that he greatly admires and is good friends with.
As he and the h travel around the sites of Japan and the h learns that she was wrong about his past relationship with the now married model, the h realizes that her feelings for the H haven't died. Unfortunately, tho the H is definitely willing to start up the lurve machine again, the h is frightened that his real love is their Japanese lady tour guide. It seems the Japanese lady is in love with a man she can never have and the h is afraid it is the H and they can't be together because the Japanese lady's family will not accept the H.
There is a lot of internal h angsting and fretting and a lot of Japanese travelogue. KT makes it pretty clear to the reader that the h is irrational about the H being in love with a Japanese lady that he can't have, so the impetuous to the story isn't will the H cheat or not, it is when will the h get her head out of her hiney and see the light. (The Japanese lady is in love with a Japanese man who isn't in her class and her family hates his family - the two of them do get together off stage in the end.)
The H really does love the h and wants to marry her, sure he had past relationships but they weren't who or what he wanted because they weren't the h. He does have a few moments of wanting to make the h suffer like he did and so he does a bit of h baiting with the Japanese lady, but it isn't much and more a hint, that the h completely exacerbates in her mind. Finally after the h cogitates and agonizes, she figures out that the H loves her. Tho he has to shout and argue his case a few times, the h eventually takes the plunge and admits her love for the big HEA of mutual devotion, kids and marriage.
This one was definitely different for KT, because she was obvious in her plot manipulations of the h's feelings of jealousy and insecurity that were totally misguided. But in this instance those ploys worked, because we are reading to see if the h will grow up enough to realize that she is being blinded by her own fears and will she figure out that she only needs to wake up to the reality that she is truly loved.
There is not a lot of action in this one, another unusual thing for KT, this one is much more internally focused on the h's growth rather than her usual H and h fight, love and fight again and the ever present underlying KT theme of will the H actually cheat. It made a refreshing change for those of us familiar with the KT backlist.
This one will not be for everyone, it moves a bit slow, but it is an interesting look at how fear and insecurity can cripple a relationship and it is a great look at another side of a long time author of HPlandia.
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August 18, 2025i find that a lot of these romantic Authors do..is....what i would call " gaslight" the reader emotions.
For more than two third of the book we keep " hearing" the female voice narrative Who is saying she is all in love with that man!
But when it comes to action. ..she does nothing about it. Indeed at some point in the story they are ending "together" in the same room and nothing happens!
It doesnt add up.
Same with Him! 10 pages before the end of the book he anguishly admits to her that he was waiting for months for her return!!
But does he do something about it? Nope!
He does no action to chase her! How old is he? 3 years old? If you love someone like he says he does, you do something about it. You dont let à situation rot for months!
So both characters are all about saying they love the other" but no action!
Ridiculous is the discovery also that we find out that 10 pages before the end that all her assumption that he had an affair was ( spoiler) ...due to the female main character Nylene finding
another woman toiletry bag in his bathroom!!
Admitedly any woman could feel seriously worried to see another pair of women affair in the bathroom of her lover.
But do you think he is concerned? Not at all.
When confronted with this excuse that it was their friend Samantha who must have left her toiletry bag by mistake one evening, does he understand her? Nope. Or feel sorry for both of them that they lot 2 years of their relationship? Nope.
Does he hug her from relief knowing what happened for her at the time? Nope.
He drops the subject and stays cold towards her.
And that is the Guy Who says he loves her deeply?
Stranger is the fact Samantha stuff stays there and that doesnt surprise him. Nor does she claims it back?
So to me this Author " gives" one side of the story. ..for two third of the book, then when confronting with writing the truth, she back paddles. ..re arranges the story in a complete New Light. ..erasing what was previously Said what was happening between the two main characters as two New things!
She is Ré arranging the truth as Author sees fit.
As a reader we feel we have been manipulated into one story that is suddenly coming out completely different at the end. Disregarding what happened throughout the main story.
Sad really.
Shame really.
Because apart from the non sense regarding their love story, the setting was original, written with poetry in parts. And their job" him a photographer, her à writer of articles of japanese culture was interesting And original.
The description of some part of Japan or inside family lives or houses feel genuine. I wouldnt be surprised to know that the Author had travelled there because it does feel very authentic in parts.
For more than two third of the book we keep " hearing" the female voice narrative Who is saying she is all in love with that man!
But when it comes to action. ..she does nothing about it. Indeed at some point in the story they are ending "together" in the same room and nothing happens!
It doesnt add up.
Same with Him! 10 pages before the end of the book he anguishly admits to her that he was waiting for months for her return!!
But does he do something about it? Nope!
He does no action to chase her! How old is he? 3 years old? If you love someone like he says he does, you do something about it. You dont let à situation rot for months!
So both characters are all about saying they love the other" but no action!
Ridiculous is the discovery also that we find out that 10 pages before the end that all her assumption that he had an affair was ( spoiler) ...due to the female main character Nylene finding
another woman toiletry bag in his bathroom!!
Admitedly any woman could feel seriously worried to see another pair of women affair in the bathroom of her lover.
But do you think he is concerned? Not at all.
When confronted with this excuse that it was their friend Samantha who must have left her toiletry bag by mistake one evening, does he understand her? Nope. Or feel sorry for both of them that they lot 2 years of their relationship? Nope.
Does he hug her from relief knowing what happened for her at the time? Nope.
He drops the subject and stays cold towards her.
And that is the Guy Who says he loves her deeply?
Stranger is the fact Samantha stuff stays there and that doesnt surprise him. Nor does she claims it back?
So to me this Author " gives" one side of the story. ..for two third of the book, then when confronting with writing the truth, she back paddles. ..re arranges the story in a complete New Light. ..erasing what was previously Said what was happening between the two main characters as two New things!
She is Ré arranging the truth as Author sees fit.
As a reader we feel we have been manipulated into one story that is suddenly coming out completely different at the end. Disregarding what happened throughout the main story.
Sad really.
Shame really.
Because apart from the non sense regarding their love story, the setting was original, written with poetry in parts. And their job" him a photographer, her à writer of articles of japanese culture was interesting And original.
The description of some part of Japan or inside family lives or houses feel genuine. I wouldnt be surprised to know that the Author had travelled there because it does feel very authentic in parts.
October 30, 2024
I was not intrigued. The author tried telling us the heroine had loved the hero so much but I’m not buying it. She was uncanny and had never uttered the words of love while it was indeed the hero who confessed early on before she agreed to move in with him. Heroine then fancied herself his mistress. I didn’t see that coming…Frankly, I didn’t expect heroine to live with him. The story gives that they have history but for her to move in with him for three short months was not my ideal of a proper romance. She knew she didn’t care for marriage nor expect much from him since she was mostly career-oriented. That’s how I know. Love was absent on her end. Not much of a lost for her. When the relationship quickly went south, she easily left him. She may think he cheated, but it was evident she never was in that deep. No real heartache, no heartfelt pain. And when they meet again two years later, the author once more lose out on her opportunity to build-up on love, chemistry and tension. While I can sense the angst to come, oh, the potential! I expected the hero to be crueler per the plot, maybe he was at a later time but I never got there. He seems pretty chill and average for a wounded hero. The entire direction of the story and characters proceeds to be lacking without intensity and emotions. Right after they reunited, after some work and personal related bicker-talk, she ran out and got soaked in the rain so he offered her a lift. They go to his place, nothing happens but they do share each of their own a glass of whatever while she waited for her clothes to get washed and dried but it just didn’t do anything. I didn’t sense anything going on for them. Too casual or just too plain tactless. No tension. Mostly a poor execution!
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July 8, 2022Alex had dropped Greg Wilde, a successful London photographer, from her life two years earlier. She'd believed he had been unfaithful. Now on assignment with him in Japan, she discovered she'd been wrong--she'd let foolish pride rule her heart. — No more, Alex decided. But her decision came too late. While Greg still desired her, he seemed to hold everything else about her in contempt.
And it was heartbreakingly obvious to Alex he felt quite differently about the beautiful Yuki, his sophisticated Japanese "friend."
And it was heartbreakingly obvious to Alex he felt quite differently about the beautiful Yuki, his sophisticated Japanese "friend."
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July 18, 2013لن أخون حبي
Would he never forgive her?
Alex had dropped Greg Wilde, a successful London photographer, from her life two years earlier. She'd believed he had been unfaithful. Now on assignment with him in Japan, she discovered she'd been wrong--she'd let foolish pride rule her heart.
No more, Alex decided. But her decision came too late. While Greg still desired her, he seemed to hold everything else about her in contempt.
And it was heartbreakingly obvious to Alex he felt quite differently about the beautiful Yuki, his sophisticated Japanese "friend."
Would he never forgive her?
Alex had dropped Greg Wilde, a successful London photographer, from her life two years earlier. She'd believed he had been unfaithful. Now on assignment with him in Japan, she discovered she'd been wrong--she'd let foolish pride rule her heart.
No more, Alex decided. But her decision came too late. While Greg still desired her, he seemed to hold everything else about her in contempt.
And it was heartbreakingly obvious to Alex he felt quite differently about the beautiful Yuki, his sophisticated Japanese "friend."
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