وعاد في المساء

by Mary Wibberley, ماري ويبرلي

To Sacha, La Valaise and its owner, Madame Cassel, had always been a haven. This time, she arrived to find three strangers in residence and herself a prisoner.

What had happened to Madame Cassel? What would happen to her?

Although the mysteriously disturbing Nikolai Torlenkov said no harm would come to her, how could she believe him when he wouldn't let her go? And what was even more disturbing--she was no longer sure she wanted to.

Librarian's note: This book was published without an ISBN but with the SBN # 373-70629-4.

Genres: Romance, Harlequin Presents

Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Alma Tumandao · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had a hard copy of this. Thrice! When my first hard copy ( my sister's book actually) was lent to my friend and she didn't return it to me, I look for another copy in a bookstore. Then when I lost it again, I specially order from a bookstore since they don't have a copy anymore. That was more than 20 years ago. This was my first English Romance pocket book. Since then I got hooked on reading English romance novel. But this book remains my first love. Always in my heart and mind. Love this. ♥ ❤️ ❤️

[Bookgyrl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read it as a young girl. Can still remember the story. Sasha travels to France to the place she and her dad always stay at the villa of La Valaise. But Madame Kassel is not there and Sasha is taken hostage by dark stranger Tor.

How I loved this book. Sasha tries to escape several times but Tor always prevents this. And he is quite nice to her LOL.

[Nightwitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recently went wild on eBay and got a giant box of vintage Harlequins, many of which are "meh" and some of which are absolute hidden gems. This is one hundred percent the latter. Our heroine, Sacha, is headed to a French B&B to nurse a broken heart... only to find that the hotel's been taken over by a bunch of dangerous yet hot Russians who have confiscated her passport but insist that they will be leaving in a few days and the hotel's proprietor is visiting her sister, unharmed. Sacha believes this about as far as she can throw it (it's the 1970s, after all) and makes a number of increasingly half-hearted escape attempts as she becomes gradually more exhausted. Her chief captor, Tor, does the whole "grar I am a Harlequin hero" thing but it's clear throughout that he means what he says - Sacha can't escape but he has no intention of hurting her. The suspense is very well-done as, e.g., Sacha is permitted to visit her aunt or go to the beach but has to watch the cars whiz by without breathing a word of her situation. The final act dark moment manages to not be intensely obnoxious. Not at all what I was expecting, but really fun; definitely a keeper.

[RomLibrary · Rating 3 out of 5]

To Sacha, La Valaise and its owner, Madame Cassel, had always been a haven. This time, she arrived to find three strangers in residence and herself a prisoner.

What had happened to Madame Cassel? What would happen to her?

Although the mysteriously disturbing Nikolai Torlenkov said no harm would come to her, how could she believe him when he wouldn't let her go? And what was even more disturbing--she was no longer sure she wanted to.

[Rana · Rating 3 out of 5]

قرأتها مترجمة بعنوان "وعاد في المساء "

[إسراء الحديدي]

لم يتبق على نهايتها غير بضع صفحات .. وإذ بها تنتقل لأحداث أخرى وأشخاص آخرين
يبدو أنه خلل في النشر -_-

[StMargarets · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun kidnapping story with some unexpected twists and turns. Heroine, smarting from finding out her boyfriend was married, travels to the South of France to stay at the same shabby boarding house where she had vacationed since she was a child.

Unfortunately, a group of men are staying there. The inn keeper is gone. And the leader (hero) won't let her leave.

Heroine spends a lot of time trying to get away - from hitting hero with a pole, to swimming out to a yacht and almost drowning. But hero always catches up with her.

Turns out they are hiding a professor who has just defected from the Soviet Union and they're waiting to send him to the USA. Heroine is free to go once professor is gone. By now heroine has fallen in love with hero - but one of the men mistakenly tells her hero is married.

It's the last straw for heroine, so she cuts her vacation short and returns to England. There she helps another couple with their misunderstanding and mopes around. Hero finally shows up after talking to the innkeeper who knew the whole story. Hero is not married. He had to pose as married when he first defected from the USSR. H/h marry a month later with the couple heroine helped also attending.
This was a lot of fun. I enjoyed both the intrepid heroine and the hero who cooked and reluctantly kept the heroine prisoner.

[MissKitty · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very dated. Set in the 1970’s during the cold war.

The heroine goes to her usual holiday cottage in France and encounters a couple of men there. At first one of them, the hero, acts friendly, but actually keeps her prisoner and never lets her out of his sight.

Of course the heroine tries to escape but this angers him, and he gives her a punishing kisses which, despite her reservations against him, she enjoys.

It turns out, the other man is an important scientist who is defecting to the United States, and the Hero was hiding him. All is cleared and the couple can now indulge freely in their mutual attraction.

However, another character reveals that the Hero is married with kids. So the heroine runs home to England and nurses her broken heart by partying. 😬 Well yey for her! 😂

The Hero eventually follows and clears up the situation…. It is his sister, not his wife. 😏

[Anuradha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Russian scientist in hiding, the Russian hero is safeguarding him. The heroine accidentally spots them. So she has to be kept in captivity , just for precautionary reasons. She struggles to escape a few times. But eventually succumbs to the hero'es suave charm. Now she is happy being captive. And finally discovers the hero was doing something noble after all.

For a 2 line story, that sounds really promising. But the actual execution was dull, too superficial and quite boring. Hints of an international conspiracy across German, french, English borders. No mention of this beyond 2 lines at the start.

The hero is a chef by profession, so why is he a body guard now ? He is not interesting enough to fall for. Not that the girl was any better. Boring leads can be quire tiresome.

[Randee · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars

[Caz · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really disliked this TSTL heroine. She's held prisoner, but in less than a day is letting her abductor fondle and kiss her. She makes some abortive attempts to escape, and is subjected to more punishing kisses and fondling - and of course Treacherous Body Syndrome makes her helpless. Within 2 days she thinks she's in love. Ugh.

[Lynn Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

published march 1973 UK. This was not its original cover.

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even with Stockholm syndrome it takes more than two days to fall in love with your captor.