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The Price of Passion
The Price Of Passion by Elizabeth Oldfield released on Nov 23, 1990 is available now for purchase.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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June 3, 2017
Re The Price of Passion - Elizabeth Oldfield does her favorite second chance lovers trope here. The h is a career driven entrepreneur who has devoted the last eight years to developing a chain of unique tchotchke gift shops. She is suddenly confronted with the new chairman of the conglomerate she is in partnership with.
Unfortunately she and the new chairman have a sad and tragic history together and the h is worried that not only are her plans for expanding her market share in danger, but the H is going to rip apart her business too. Cause the conglomerate needs a lot of capital finance injection and the h's stores are sitting on prime real estate, plus the H has a history of asset stripping in his management of companies.
The h has also purchased a mews house in somewhat dubious circumstances. It seems the owners were in big hurry to sell. So much so that they accepted the h's minimal but fully in cash offer and turned the house over so quickly that they didn't even take their things - right down to the chicken kiev waiting in the freezer. However, since the legalities of the sale were all aboveboard and the title transfer went through without a hitch, the h figures they were just in a hurry to move on with their life overseas and did not want the hassle of dumping things they wouldn't use.
When the book opens the h is fretting about her new alarm system in the house and the impending arrival of the H. She tries to evade meeting the H, but is soon showing him around her stores, discussing her business plans and learning that the H has halted her expansion plans.
We go into flash back mode then and we find out that when the h was 19 she met the 28 yr old H at uni. He was working on dissertation, she was getting a degree. They soon became lovers and moved in together. Then the h became pregnant, the H became distant and when she miscarried, the h blamed the H and left him.
Eight years on the underlying attraction is still there, but the h is a workaholic and the H is pretty enigmatic. Then they get kidnapped when some dubious characters show up at the h's new house and the scalawags believe the H when he claims that he and the h are the couple the h bought the house from. The h tries hard to convince the kidnappers that she isn't the former shady owner, but they believe the H and not her (the H thought it was safer to go along with the mis-identification,) and the baddies haul the two of them off to another secure location.
It soon becomes clear that the former owners of the h's house were into international drug smuggling and the kidnapper claim the H and h have double crossed the head honcho, so now everyone has to await his arrival from Spain. While the h and H are locked up and awaiting the kingpin, they work on escape plans and spend a lot of time talking about their lives now and their past. There is a LOT of discussion about the problems in their former relationship and the H is very worried that the h has made her business empire her life at the expense of everything else.
As the two discuss their feelings from the past more, the h realizes the H did not cause her to lose her baby, she was just suffering from misplaced guilt. The H admits that he really did care that the baby did not make it, but he was pretty emotionally inept and unable to convey his grief. The H also doesn't want to destroy or hinder the h's business empire, he just wants her to sell her store idea as franchises so she doesn't drive herself into collapse trying to keep up with the management of several stores.
Eventually the kidnappers find out the head honcho has been arrested by Interpol and they let the H and h escape. All that time and talking has made the H and h fall in love all over again and they decide to marry and lurve it up for the big HEA.
This one is pretty placid, but EO does a great job on having them thoroughly discuss and talk out how they went so wrong the first time around. All the discussion makes the HEA really believable, but it does make for a rather uneventful tho pleasant outing in HPlandia with a nice but unexciting HEA.
Unfortunately she and the new chairman have a sad and tragic history together and the h is worried that not only are her plans for expanding her market share in danger, but the H is going to rip apart her business too. Cause the conglomerate needs a lot of capital finance injection and the h's stores are sitting on prime real estate, plus the H has a history of asset stripping in his management of companies.
The h has also purchased a mews house in somewhat dubious circumstances. It seems the owners were in big hurry to sell. So much so that they accepted the h's minimal but fully in cash offer and turned the house over so quickly that they didn't even take their things - right down to the chicken kiev waiting in the freezer. However, since the legalities of the sale were all aboveboard and the title transfer went through without a hitch, the h figures they were just in a hurry to move on with their life overseas and did not want the hassle of dumping things they wouldn't use.
When the book opens the h is fretting about her new alarm system in the house and the impending arrival of the H. She tries to evade meeting the H, but is soon showing him around her stores, discussing her business plans and learning that the H has halted her expansion plans.
We go into flash back mode then and we find out that when the h was 19 she met the 28 yr old H at uni. He was working on dissertation, she was getting a degree. They soon became lovers and moved in together. Then the h became pregnant, the H became distant and when she miscarried, the h blamed the H and left him.
Eight years on the underlying attraction is still there, but the h is a workaholic and the H is pretty enigmatic. Then they get kidnapped when some dubious characters show up at the h's new house and the scalawags believe the H when he claims that he and the h are the couple the h bought the house from. The h tries hard to convince the kidnappers that she isn't the former shady owner, but they believe the H and not her (the H thought it was safer to go along with the mis-identification,) and the baddies haul the two of them off to another secure location.
It soon becomes clear that the former owners of the h's house were into international drug smuggling and the kidnapper claim the H and h have double crossed the head honcho, so now everyone has to await his arrival from Spain. While the h and H are locked up and awaiting the kingpin, they work on escape plans and spend a lot of time talking about their lives now and their past. There is a LOT of discussion about the problems in their former relationship and the H is very worried that the h has made her business empire her life at the expense of everything else.
As the two discuss their feelings from the past more, the h realizes the H did not cause her to lose her baby, she was just suffering from misplaced guilt. The H admits that he really did care that the baby did not make it, but he was pretty emotionally inept and unable to convey his grief. The H also doesn't want to destroy or hinder the h's business empire, he just wants her to sell her store idea as franchises so she doesn't drive herself into collapse trying to keep up with the management of several stores.
Eventually the kidnappers find out the head honcho has been arrested by Interpol and they let the H and h escape. All that time and talking has made the H and h fall in love all over again and they decide to marry and lurve it up for the big HEA.
This one is pretty placid, but EO does a great job on having them thoroughly discuss and talk out how they went so wrong the first time around. All the discussion makes the HEA really believable, but it does make for a rather uneventful tho pleasant outing in HPlandia with a nice but unexciting HEA.
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February 28, 2022
The H and h had a relationship 8 years before. Now they meet again,
It was a very good read until the H and h got kidnapped and I woke up from the romantic dream I thought it was going to be.
I then felt like I was reading some crime novel, with the H getting beaten so often by the two kidnappers. That was brutal.
Their time in captivity took half of the book. Such a shame.
It was a very good read until the H and h got kidnapped and I woke up from the romantic dream I thought it was going to be.
I then felt like I was reading some crime novel, with the H getting beaten so often by the two kidnappers. That was brutal.
Their time in captivity took half of the book. Such a shame.
October 10, 2018
Not that great.
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November 24, 2021he was supremely confident in business
Gabrielle had built up a successful business empire single-handedly. She positively thrived on challenge and stress.
Personal affairs were another matter. Handling Saul O'Connor when he resurfaced in her life after an eight-year gap was a different ball game entirely. Whenever Saul was around she seem incapable of handling anything. Her usual composure deserted her.
The past is gone, Gabby, he told her. But it wasn't that easy for her to forget what he had once meant to her -- and still did
Gabrielle had built up a successful business empire single-handedly. She positively thrived on challenge and stress.
Personal affairs were another matter. Handling Saul O'Connor when he resurfaced in her life after an eight-year gap was a different ball game entirely. Whenever Saul was around she seem incapable of handling anything. Her usual composure deserted her.
The past is gone, Gabby, he told her. But it wasn't that easy for her to forget what he had once meant to her -- and still did
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