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Seascape #4
For the Love of Pete
Jillian Westworth returns to the Seascape Inn after a nine-year absence and a bout of unrequited love, and meets an old flame who is the unwitting father of her eight-year-old son, Pete. Original.
298 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
About the author
Rosalyn Alsobrook
31 books11 followersRosalyn Alsobrook, who lives in Gilmer, Texas, attended Kilgore College where she was features editor for the college newspaper. She enjoys doing intricate research for the authentic details she includes in her historical romances, and is the author of twelve books, including the bestselling Mail-Order Mistress, Wild Western Bride, Desire’s Gamble and Brazen Heart. Rosalyn, who married her high school sweetheart Bobby, has two sons and recently became a grandmother—but a very young one, she adds. Rosalyn would like to hear from her readers. Write to her c/o Zebra Books, 475 Park Ave. So., New York, N.Y. 10016. Please include a stamped self-addressed envelope if you’d like a reply from the author.
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July 14, 2023
It's been 9 years since the hero broke the heroine’s heart by breaking up with her after 2 summers of a love affair which should have ended - the heroine's dreams with marriage. Instead he told her he they wouldn't work as man and wife and turned him back on her. Pregnant with his child, she kept the baby a secret, her pride refusing to allow her to receive any more rejection. Now, 9 years later she and her son are back in the small town where she loved and lost. She never imagined herself capable to returning to a place where memories cause so much heart ache but her fiancé has plans with a potential business plan and he needs her to help close the deal. Arriving at the Seascape hotel surrounded by familiar faces and the sense of home, the heroine has steeled herself to survive the next 2 weeks and return home to Texas. That is until the man who's haunted her dreams shows up. At the scheming of the hotel owner, the hero finds himself in the company of a woman who he loved more than life itself and gave away. He convinced himself that it was for the best, that someone of her lifestyle could never truly be happy with a man like himself.
So, he pushed her away. But did she have to sleep with some guy so soon after their break up? The idea of her with another man, sleeping with him and having a child with him makes the hero sick. They spend the first week of their vacations in awkward silence or when they do speak, it generally ends with sore feelings. Only her son has found his way into the hero's heart and he bonds deeply with the boy. He tries to speak with the heroine about her fiancé, that the man is selfish and doesn't care about her son but the heroine stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the less the pleasant aspects of her fiancée’s personality. It's partly because the hero is one pointing these flaws out and because she's still hurt by his behavior all those years ago, she doesn't want to let on her own doubts regarding the fiancé and her son. And keeping the secret of the boy's father is becoming a heavy burden on her shoulders, one she tries to release and tell the hero the truth but something always comes up. Her fear of rejection at first, her fear that he would take the boy away second and finally the fear of anger when he does realize the truth third. But regardless she must find a way to tell him the boy he's bonded with is in fact his son.
This book was so boring that I was mentally exhausted by the finish of it. Nothing happened. Nothing. They were in a hotel. They ate. They talked. They asked questions inside their heads but did nothing. I wanted to slap the heroine because she was incredibly stupid to deny the fact that the fiancé was a massive asshole and she was just using him as a substitute father for her son. The hero was an idiot not to see the obvious and blatant resemblance between himself and her son. The lack of plot, the less than likable characters and the total absence of any chemistry between the characters made this book a hardship to finish. For two people who supposedly loved each other so deeply, I felt none of that connection. In fact they do nothing more than kiss for the entire book and there was nothing but awkwardness between them not sexual tension. Disappointing book.
So, he pushed her away. But did she have to sleep with some guy so soon after their break up? The idea of her with another man, sleeping with him and having a child with him makes the hero sick. They spend the first week of their vacations in awkward silence or when they do speak, it generally ends with sore feelings. Only her son has found his way into the hero's heart and he bonds deeply with the boy. He tries to speak with the heroine about her fiancé, that the man is selfish and doesn't care about her son but the heroine stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the less the pleasant aspects of her fiancée’s personality. It's partly because the hero is one pointing these flaws out and because she's still hurt by his behavior all those years ago, she doesn't want to let on her own doubts regarding the fiancé and her son. And keeping the secret of the boy's father is becoming a heavy burden on her shoulders, one she tries to release and tell the hero the truth but something always comes up. Her fear of rejection at first, her fear that he would take the boy away second and finally the fear of anger when he does realize the truth third. But regardless she must find a way to tell him the boy he's bonded with is in fact his son.
This book was so boring that I was mentally exhausted by the finish of it. Nothing happened. Nothing. They were in a hotel. They ate. They talked. They asked questions inside their heads but did nothing. I wanted to slap the heroine because she was incredibly stupid to deny the fact that the fiancé was a massive asshole and she was just using him as a substitute father for her son. The hero was an idiot not to see the obvious and blatant resemblance between himself and her son. The lack of plot, the less than likable characters and the total absence of any chemistry between the characters made this book a hardship to finish. For two people who supposedly loved each other so deeply, I felt none of that connection. In fact they do nothing more than kiss for the entire book and there was nothing but awkwardness between them not sexual tension. Disappointing book.
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