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Romance of a Lifetime
"Forget him and find someone new."
That was the advice Beth's worldly-wise mother gave her. "It's the only way to get over a disastrous affair."
Beth wasn't sure she really wanted to see more of attractive Marcus Craven. Not that Marcus was giving her any option; his pursuit of Beth following their chance meeting in Verona had been decidedly single-minded.
But something held her back from confiding in him. She had the strange feeling that Marcus knew more about her past than she would ever have revealed. And, to be honest, Beth was also afraid to fall in love again....
That was the advice Beth's worldly-wise mother gave her. "It's the only way to get over a disastrous affair."
Beth wasn't sure she really wanted to see more of attractive Marcus Craven. Not that Marcus was giving her any option; his pursuit of Beth following their chance meeting in Verona had been decidedly single-minded.
But something held her back from confiding in him. She had the strange feeling that Marcus knew more about her past than she would ever have revealed. And, to be honest, Beth was also afraid to fall in love again....
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
About the author
Carole Mortimer
1,301 books911 followersI have written almost 250 romance novels in contemporary and Regency.
I am a USA Today Bestselling Author and recipient of the 2015 RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 I received a Pioneer of Romance Award from Romantic Times in the US and in 2012 I was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for my 'outstanding service to literature'.
I am very happily married to Peter with six sons, and live on the Isle of Man
I am a USA Today Bestselling Author and recipient of the 2015 RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 I received a Pioneer of Romance Award from Romantic Times in the US and in 2012 I was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for my 'outstanding service to literature'.
I am very happily married to Peter with six sons, and live on the Isle of Man
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March 23, 2020
The injustice of the heroine's backstory is more compelling than the H/h romance, but the lingering angst makes this an interesting story.
Backstory:
Her father marries her off to a horrible man and the disinherits her when she divorces him for cheating.
Heroine's ex-husband cheated on her, caused her to miscarry, and then said she cheated on him during the divorce trial.
Heroine's mother stayed married to her odious husband out of stubbornness and started her own business of boutiques. She is annoying in that she tries to push the heroine to date/marry before she's ready.
And the hero? Heroine meets him in Verona while watching an opera. Hero is also ready to betray heroine because of misinformation.
Unfortunately, there is no cleansing fire to take out the ex-husband and father. But the truth does come out and the hero is responsible for it. Plus he takes the heroine's
Backstory:
Her father marries her off to a horrible man and the disinherits her when she divorces him for cheating.
Heroine's ex-husband cheated on her, caused her to miscarry, and then said she cheated on him during the divorce trial.
Heroine's mother stayed married to her odious husband out of stubbornness and started her own business of boutiques. She is annoying in that she tries to push the heroine to date/marry before she's ready.
And the hero? Heroine meets him in Verona while watching an opera. Hero is also ready to betray heroine because of misinformation.
Unfortunately, there is no cleansing fire to take out the ex-husband and father. But the truth does come out and the hero is responsible for it. Plus he takes the heroine's
October 17, 2017
Re Romance of a Lifetime- Carole Mortimer does Revenge - beta lite style and takes us on a nice little tour of Italy to boot.
This one opens with the h at the open air opera of Aida in Verona. She has had a rough couple of months, with the discovery that her evil snot pustule of a father and her coprophagic slime swiller of a husband basically used her to sorta legitimize her now ex husband's claim on the h's father's company and fortune.
The h's mother, in true matron HP h style, has been married to the h's father for over twenty years. She left him in London to return to the Isle of Manx, where she is from when and where the h was raised, when she found out what a user blobfish pustule the h's father really was.
She kept the h pretty much out of contact with the guy growing up and for some odd matronly HP h reason, never divorced his lyin' cheatin' skeevy rear or told the h what he was really like - that really he only wanted a son from the h that he could raise in his own image and so the h's father set a plot up to achieve that.
When the h was 19 and it seemed her father wanted to build a relationship, she went enthusiastically to England to check things out. Once in London her father's hand picked booger eater wooed her and married her and impregnated her and took her last name - which was the same as her father's. Until she came home early one day and found the booger eater and his tarty harlot in her bed and discussing how they were going to screw her over and get her father's money and take her child.
They did not know the h was there and she did not enlighten them. In her shock she fell down the stairs outside the flat, miscarried and now can have no further children. Her mummy (and the h calls her that,) who has a chain of boutiques and now lives in London too, came to rescue her out of the emotional hellhole the h found herself in with the loss of her child.
Then the h's coprophagic ex served her with divorce papers. He accused her of adultery and paid a guy to lie about it. So the h is divorced, her reputation is shattered and she doesn't even care cause she lost her baby.
The h's mum sends her on tour of Italy via Verona and Venice in the hope that this will help the h recover from the blows she has been the recipient of. When the h goes to the opera, she doesn't realize she is being stalked by the other side of the h's unjust divorce accusation and humiliation.
The H is there because the co-respondent to the h's charge of adultery by the sewage gulping ex is his 19 year old orphaned nephew. Who claims the h paid him a ton of money to perjure himself in court.
The H isn't down with that and he wants to put the tarty harlot who would pay and probably try to seduce an innocent 19 yr old boy in her place. Hence his tracking and stalking and imposing himself on the h, he is hoping to woo her and use her and get some revenge.
After systematically imposing himself and random meals and beverages on the h in the various tourist attractions around Italy, the h gradually loosens up and becomes very attracted to the H. he is charmingly romantic because of an Italian grandmother and the h soon finds herself seriously in love. Her mummy keeps in contact too and it seems that the h's father is planning on disinheriting the h and leaving it all to the booger eater ex and the h's mummy hasn't stayed married to the dung beetle all these years to let that happen, she is on the warpath.
Now the h also gets the news that the booger eater has just become engaged to the spoiled daughter of the h's father's business partner and the h is very worried that the whole scenario is going to play out with another innocent 19 year old. The h decides she has to warn the girl, so she and the H head back to London.
Where they go to the girl's engagement party and the h doesn't tell the H that the groom to be is her ex husband. She also doesn't get to warn the girl. The H seems very agitated to find out the h is divorced and the h is disturbed by his obvious turmoil.
(It seems the H was starting to change his opinion of the h and now has mental traumas from trying to use a brain cell to ask the h about her life and her obvious sorrow and past history.)
The next morning the h's ex walks into her apartment, (cause the h only has two brain cells and did not get the locks changed,) threatens her about contacting his new fiancee and telling her about his deviousness and his mistress and then the H shows up. The H is angry when the h confesses that the ex is her ex and then he berates her for being so narcissistically obsessed with her ex that she has to try and ruin people lives.
The H storms off in very beta fashion and the h does the prescribed HP h mopey moment and her mummy doesn't understand why, cause the h is too mopey to explain things. The h does manage to contact the new fiancee's father -who is also her father's business partner- and he and the bride to be explain that they know all about the mistress and the ex's wanna be plans.
But the new fiancee girl is just a slime sewery as the ex, it really is a match made in sewage treatment heaven and the business partner has no problem keeping the cesspool sludge contained if it makes his little OW daughter in the making happy. The h realizes that the two of them, the ex and the new girl, deserve each other and that her father's business partner is a good dad and leaves them all to it.
The h's mummy takes her out to lunch and who should be dining in the same restaurant but the H and a young man. The H comes over and is sugary sweet to the h's mum and a total turkey butt meany to the h. Every body retreats to their respective tables and has a nice lunch, but the h is irate and stops off at the table to tell off the H. She ends up addressing the young man instead and she states her put down about the H as she calls the young man by the H's last name and then strolls off to walk off some fury.
Later the H shows up at her flat and asks her about her divorce. He is REALLY agitated and the h isn't too pleased to see him as he tries to order her about. He finally asks nicely and the h explains her sad story. The H listens to her and then tells her that the young man at lunch was the co-respondent in her divorce, the man she was supposed to have committed adultery with and it was obvious she had no clue who the guy was and he did not know her either. She did not even call him by his correct name, which is not the same as the H's.
So the H determines that they don't know each other and realizes that the h's ex paid his nephew to perjurer himself for monetary gain. Then he tells the h that she has an invalid divorce and the h passes out, as all good HP h's do in that situation. The next bit is a jump in time where the h got to sue for divorce on her terms and the h's father, ex slime gulper and the H's nephew are all in big trouble with the Law.
The H had wandered off after getting the h a good lawyer and the h's own mother is thinking it is time for her own divorce, as the new lawyer and she are very interested in each other. The h's mummy tells the h to go find the H and lurve it up. So the h goes to the H's flat, he claims he was going to seek her out, but he was ashamed of his little revenge stalking and they both declare their true love forever. Even tho the h is barren, the H loves her anyways as she is his and he is hers and it is standard HPlandia HEA time once again.
This was okay and the HEA was believable. The h and H are both very nice people really. But it is probably a good thing they will have to adopt, cause I am not sure their own bio kids would have much of a chance with two parents who have issues with limited brain cells, even in HPlandia.
This one opens with the h at the open air opera of Aida in Verona. She has had a rough couple of months, with the discovery that her evil snot pustule of a father and her coprophagic slime swiller of a husband basically used her to sorta legitimize her now ex husband's claim on the h's father's company and fortune.
The h's mother, in true matron HP h style, has been married to the h's father for over twenty years. She left him in London to return to the Isle of Manx, where she is from when and where the h was raised, when she found out what a user blobfish pustule the h's father really was.
She kept the h pretty much out of contact with the guy growing up and for some odd matronly HP h reason, never divorced his lyin' cheatin' skeevy rear or told the h what he was really like - that really he only wanted a son from the h that he could raise in his own image and so the h's father set a plot up to achieve that.
When the h was 19 and it seemed her father wanted to build a relationship, she went enthusiastically to England to check things out. Once in London her father's hand picked booger eater wooed her and married her and impregnated her and took her last name - which was the same as her father's. Until she came home early one day and found the booger eater and his tarty harlot in her bed and discussing how they were going to screw her over and get her father's money and take her child.
They did not know the h was there and she did not enlighten them. In her shock she fell down the stairs outside the flat, miscarried and now can have no further children. Her mummy (and the h calls her that,) who has a chain of boutiques and now lives in London too, came to rescue her out of the emotional hellhole the h found herself in with the loss of her child.
Then the h's coprophagic ex served her with divorce papers. He accused her of adultery and paid a guy to lie about it. So the h is divorced, her reputation is shattered and she doesn't even care cause she lost her baby.
The h's mum sends her on tour of Italy via Verona and Venice in the hope that this will help the h recover from the blows she has been the recipient of. When the h goes to the opera, she doesn't realize she is being stalked by the other side of the h's unjust divorce accusation and humiliation.
The H is there because the co-respondent to the h's charge of adultery by the sewage gulping ex is his 19 year old orphaned nephew. Who claims the h paid him a ton of money to perjure himself in court.
The H isn't down with that and he wants to put the tarty harlot who would pay and probably try to seduce an innocent 19 yr old boy in her place. Hence his tracking and stalking and imposing himself on the h, he is hoping to woo her and use her and get some revenge.
After systematically imposing himself and random meals and beverages on the h in the various tourist attractions around Italy, the h gradually loosens up and becomes very attracted to the H. he is charmingly romantic because of an Italian grandmother and the h soon finds herself seriously in love. Her mummy keeps in contact too and it seems that the h's father is planning on disinheriting the h and leaving it all to the booger eater ex and the h's mummy hasn't stayed married to the dung beetle all these years to let that happen, she is on the warpath.
Now the h also gets the news that the booger eater has just become engaged to the spoiled daughter of the h's father's business partner and the h is very worried that the whole scenario is going to play out with another innocent 19 year old. The h decides she has to warn the girl, so she and the H head back to London.
Where they go to the girl's engagement party and the h doesn't tell the H that the groom to be is her ex husband. She also doesn't get to warn the girl. The H seems very agitated to find out the h is divorced and the h is disturbed by his obvious turmoil.
(It seems the H was starting to change his opinion of the h and now has mental traumas from trying to use a brain cell to ask the h about her life and her obvious sorrow and past history.)
The next morning the h's ex walks into her apartment, (cause the h only has two brain cells and did not get the locks changed,) threatens her about contacting his new fiancee and telling her about his deviousness and his mistress and then the H shows up. The H is angry when the h confesses that the ex is her ex and then he berates her for being so narcissistically obsessed with her ex that she has to try and ruin people lives.
The H storms off in very beta fashion and the h does the prescribed HP h mopey moment and her mummy doesn't understand why, cause the h is too mopey to explain things. The h does manage to contact the new fiancee's father -who is also her father's business partner- and he and the bride to be explain that they know all about the mistress and the ex's wanna be plans.
But the new fiancee girl is just a slime sewery as the ex, it really is a match made in sewage treatment heaven and the business partner has no problem keeping the cesspool sludge contained if it makes his little OW daughter in the making happy. The h realizes that the two of them, the ex and the new girl, deserve each other and that her father's business partner is a good dad and leaves them all to it.
The h's mummy takes her out to lunch and who should be dining in the same restaurant but the H and a young man. The H comes over and is sugary sweet to the h's mum and a total turkey butt meany to the h. Every body retreats to their respective tables and has a nice lunch, but the h is irate and stops off at the table to tell off the H. She ends up addressing the young man instead and she states her put down about the H as she calls the young man by the H's last name and then strolls off to walk off some fury.
Later the H shows up at her flat and asks her about her divorce. He is REALLY agitated and the h isn't too pleased to see him as he tries to order her about. He finally asks nicely and the h explains her sad story. The H listens to her and then tells her that the young man at lunch was the co-respondent in her divorce, the man she was supposed to have committed adultery with and it was obvious she had no clue who the guy was and he did not know her either. She did not even call him by his correct name, which is not the same as the H's.
So the H determines that they don't know each other and realizes that the h's ex paid his nephew to perjurer himself for monetary gain. Then he tells the h that she has an invalid divorce and the h passes out, as all good HP h's do in that situation. The next bit is a jump in time where the h got to sue for divorce on her terms and the h's father, ex slime gulper and the H's nephew are all in big trouble with the Law.
The H had wandered off after getting the h a good lawyer and the h's own mother is thinking it is time for her own divorce, as the new lawyer and she are very interested in each other. The h's mummy tells the h to go find the H and lurve it up. So the h goes to the H's flat, he claims he was going to seek her out, but he was ashamed of his little revenge stalking and they both declare their true love forever. Even tho the h is barren, the H loves her anyways as she is his and he is hers and it is standard HPlandia HEA time once again.
This was okay and the HEA was believable. The h and H are both very nice people really. But it is probably a good thing they will have to adopt, cause I am not sure their own bio kids would have much of a chance with two parents who have issues with limited brain cells, even in HPlandia.
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October 25, 2017
Boogenhagen does it better. No surprise.
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The h is traveling through Italy to forget the horrific betrayal of her husband and father. Yes, her father. Pops had no use for a daughter until she came of age and she could marry Satan's minion aka her father's protege. Wonder husband is such a wimp he takes his FIL last name. The poor h, a few months pregnant, wanders home and finds him in bed with another woman, a woman that sounds like she is a huge part of his life. The h miscarries and the creep turns it around where she at fault for adultery with perjured testimony.
Her mother, who's estranged but not divorced from the husband from hell, has sent her daughter on a recuperative trip to Italy. Her comment, "Forget him and find someone new." is the sanitized equivalent of "Get over that guy by getting under someone else."
While in Italy she' s stalked by a grey eyed man that is both cool, difficult and alpha. He follows her to England after she gets a disturbing call that her creep of an ex will marry an innocent, a politically connected innocent. The h finally warns the girl only to find out she has the creeps' number but loves/wants him anyway. Gross.
The H thinks the h warning the other girl is merely being spiteful and spurns her in a bad way. It's only when they run into each other at dinner, he with a troublesome nephew, that the truth comes out. Nephew was paid by the h's horrible father to lie at the divorce proceedings that he was the companion. When the h and nephew don't recognize each other the H realizes what a fathead he is, he as well as the nephew.
Groveling ensues when he confesses that he was stalking the h because of her rep with the nephew.
Thankfully the h's father and ex ultimately get in trouble with the law, and the H grovels his way back.
Stars deducted as no one really supported the h. As supportive as the mom her compulsion to get her daughter married off such a short time after the trauma was a turn off as well as her reluctance to get a divorce from the worst husband in the world.
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The h is traveling through Italy to forget the horrific betrayal of her husband and father. Yes, her father. Pops had no use for a daughter until she came of age and she could marry Satan's minion aka her father's protege. Wonder husband is such a wimp he takes his FIL last name. The poor h, a few months pregnant, wanders home and finds him in bed with another woman, a woman that sounds like she is a huge part of his life. The h miscarries and the creep turns it around where she at fault for adultery with perjured testimony.
Her mother, who's estranged but not divorced from the husband from hell, has sent her daughter on a recuperative trip to Italy. Her comment, "Forget him and find someone new." is the sanitized equivalent of "Get over that guy by getting under someone else."
While in Italy she' s stalked by a grey eyed man that is both cool, difficult and alpha. He follows her to England after she gets a disturbing call that her creep of an ex will marry an innocent, a politically connected innocent. The h finally warns the girl only to find out she has the creeps' number but loves/wants him anyway. Gross.
The H thinks the h warning the other girl is merely being spiteful and spurns her in a bad way. It's only when they run into each other at dinner, he with a troublesome nephew, that the truth comes out. Nephew was paid by the h's horrible father to lie at the divorce proceedings that he was the companion. When the h and nephew don't recognize each other the H realizes what a fathead he is, he as well as the nephew.
Groveling ensues when he confesses that he was stalking the h because of her rep with the nephew.
Thankfully the h's father and ex ultimately get in trouble with the law, and the H grovels his way back.
Stars deducted as no one really supported the h. As supportive as the mom her compulsion to get her daughter married off such a short time after the trauma was a turn off as well as her reluctance to get a divorce from the worst husband in the world.
May 8, 2020
A great romance that starts with revenge...
Beth Palmer and Marcus Craven are wonderul characters and i just love the way they first meet in Italy.The beautiful statues,nature and the romantic air was described and i enjoyed every moment of it.
And the way Marcus follow Beth through the story was very funny and cute,and i knew the moment the sparks flew between them.
The fact that Beth´s cold-hearted father still loves her mother was a interesting fact,and i wished for them to somehow reunite despite all the pain and deseptions between them.
This is a GREAT another 5-star by Carole!
Beth Palmer and Marcus Craven are wonderul characters and i just love the way they first meet in Italy.The beautiful statues,nature and the romantic air was described and i enjoyed every moment of it.
And the way Marcus follow Beth through the story was very funny and cute,and i knew the moment the sparks flew between them.
The fact that Beth´s cold-hearted father still loves her mother was a interesting fact,and i wished for them to somehow reunite despite all the pain and deseptions between them.
This is a GREAT another 5-star by Carole!
June 6, 2017
Good story, weak in the telling.
I really liked Beth though, she had gumption.
I really liked Beth though, she had gumption.
March 13, 2022
I swear I've read this before, but Goodreads thinks not, so okay. Beth is a more than usually-beleaguered Mortimer heroine with a positively ridiculous backstory - although she does have a supportive businesswoman mother, who's basically the only other character with a speaking role besides the hero and heroine - and Marcus is a stalker who kind of hates her, although neither Beth nor the reader can figure out why until the book is nearly over. Content warnings: .
May 27, 2024
Hilarious good fun, if only because the heroine is *so not interested* in the hero who 1) thinks he is God's gift to women and 2) is obviously pursuing her hard because he has his own nefarious agenda. He's pulling out all the stops, racing after her like an obsessive mad-man, and she's got way too much on her own plate to spare him even a cursory glance.
Romance of a lifetime? Not really. The romance doesn't have any space to develop because as I said the heroine has a ton of life shit going on that doesn't include the hero or romance. I enjoyed it so much because it turned a few things up-side-down and there was plenty of juicy drama to keep me well entertained.
Romance of a lifetime? Not really. The romance doesn't have any space to develop because as I said the heroine has a ton of life shit going on that doesn't include the hero or romance. I enjoyed it so much because it turned a few things up-side-down and there was plenty of juicy drama to keep me well entertained.
January 4, 2018
254 أين ضاعت ابتسامتي (كارول مورتيمر ) romance of a lifetime
روايات احلام
لن تدع بيث أحدا يبكيها مرة أخرى ! ولن تدع نصيحة أمها تقنعها : أفضل طريقة للتغلب على علاقة فاشلة هي الوقوع في حب جديد !لكن ماذا لو كان لإصرار ماكس غريفين على ملاحقتها وإيقاعها في شباكه أهداف أخرى ؟ ماذا لو كان يعرف عن ماضيها الأليم أكثر بكثير مما تظن ؟ماذا لو كانت تقع بالرغم عنها في فخ جديد صممه صياد ماهر لا يثنيه شيء عن بلوغ هدفه؟
روايات احلام
لن تدع بيث أحدا يبكيها مرة أخرى ! ولن تدع نصيحة أمها تقنعها : أفضل طريقة للتغلب على علاقة فاشلة هي الوقوع في حب جديد !لكن ماذا لو كان لإصرار ماكس غريفين على ملاحقتها وإيقاعها في شباكه أهداف أخرى ؟ ماذا لو كان يعرف عن ماضيها الأليم أكثر بكثير مما تظن ؟ماذا لو كانت تقع بالرغم عنها في فخ جديد صممه صياد ماهر لا يثنيه شيء عن بلوغ هدفه؟
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August 24, 2022Trigger warning: Miscarriage resulting in permanent sterility.
January 28, 2023
This one had a twist I didn't see coming, and it's not often one can say that about a Harlequin romance.
September 9, 2023
Glad that she found her happiness with H in the end
November 16, 2025
Great title but the actual romance doesn’t live up to the hype. Just an OK read.
April 11, 2012
Beth is on a holiday after the recent emotional trauma she has suffered. Her mother says the best way to get over one disastrous affair is to get involved in another – did her mom ever take her own advice though? Enter creepy Marcus Craven, a stranger to Beth, who seems to accost her at the opera in Italy and drag her about like a caveman. He follows her about to her various destinations and it didn’t seem to matter that she wasn’t really interested in him because Marcus has an agenda. However, he isn’t sure how to go about things now as what he thought isn’t living up to the reality of what he seems to know now.
Beth was used in the worst possible way by her husband and father. Then when she proved to no longer be useful, she was kicked aside and declared an adulterer in the divorce proceedings that her husband instigated by falsified evidence and her hubby walked away unscathed. Marcus seems to become more involved w/ Beth in Italy he thinks he knows all about her and when they return he believes she is hiding more than she is revealing. Perhaps what he had heard may just be the truth.
Marcus for his part can be excused a bit for what he believed. He didn’t know any better. As soon as he realizes how wrong he was he wants answers and finally seeks Beth out to get them. There was a lot of interaction w/ her mother and this made it feel like Beth would be okay if Marcus continued to “hate” her. Marcus points out that since her divorce was based on a lie, she isn’t really divorced at all.
Maybe the finding of fault in the whole divorce loses something in the passage of time and as laws changed, because I couldn’t see how it would matter whose fault the whole thing was. I just wanted the creepy villains to pay for their part in things. I needed more of a balance in that area. They took so much from her and Marcus was willing to make her pay for what he believed of her, and yet he didn’t seek retribution against those sleaze bags. That annoyed me! I did enjoy their love story, but I wanted some equality here!! Also given how dirt baggy her father was, why didn’t he and his wife ever divorce? He didn’t seem to mind manipulating things. Surely he could have maneuvered something so that he could have been separated from her. Oh well maybe mom and her new man will make this jerk and his side kick pay for what all they did to Beth.
Beth was used in the worst possible way by her husband and father. Then when she proved to no longer be useful, she was kicked aside and declared an adulterer in the divorce proceedings that her husband instigated by falsified evidence and her hubby walked away unscathed. Marcus seems to become more involved w/ Beth in Italy he thinks he knows all about her and when they return he believes she is hiding more than she is revealing. Perhaps what he had heard may just be the truth.
Marcus for his part can be excused a bit for what he believed. He didn’t know any better. As soon as he realizes how wrong he was he wants answers and finally seeks Beth out to get them. There was a lot of interaction w/ her mother and this made it feel like Beth would be okay if Marcus continued to “hate” her. Marcus points out that since her divorce was based on a lie, she isn’t really divorced at all.
Maybe the finding of fault in the whole divorce loses something in the passage of time and as laws changed, because I couldn’t see how it would matter whose fault the whole thing was. I just wanted the creepy villains to pay for their part in things. I needed more of a balance in that area. They took so much from her and Marcus was willing to make her pay for what he believed of her, and yet he didn’t seek retribution against those sleaze bags. That annoyed me! I did enjoy their love story, but I wanted some equality here!! Also given how dirt baggy her father was, why didn’t he and his wife ever divorce? He didn’t seem to mind manipulating things. Surely he could have maneuvered something so that he could have been separated from her. Oh well maybe mom and her new man will make this jerk and his side kick pay for what all they did to Beth.
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January 4, 2013
typical mortimer book. since it was some time i read one of hers I actually liked it some.
I really liked the other girl.perfect for that jerk of an ex. then again she knows what she wants and how to get it.I can almost pity him.
I really liked the other girl.perfect for that jerk of an ex. then again she knows what she wants and how to get it.I can almost pity him.
September 4, 2019
The title sets a high expectation, but doesn't really deliver on it. Nevertheless, the book was enjoyable. I do wish the ex and her father had received heavier justice. Still, the man was useful once he wized up.
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