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Angela's Affair by Vanessa Grant released on Jul 24, 1992 is available now for purchase.
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First published August 1, 1992
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Vanessa Grant
89 books43 followers"I love writing fiction - it's the perfect occupation for someone who can't decide what they want to be when they grow up. With each new story, I get to explore a new world."
Vanessa Grant's love affair with writing fiction began during a protracted illness at the age of 12 when she decided to write a novel of her own, sitting up in bed using the typewriter she'd been given for her birthday. Not a computer, not an electric typewriter, but a then-state-of-the-art manual typewriter. The story ground to a halt on page 50 but Vanessa never forgot the excitement of bringing her own characters to life.
In 1985 Vanessa's novel Pacific Disturbance was published in hardcover by Mills and Boon. She now has over 10 million books sold and has been translated into 15 languages. She also has written what one critic described as, "by far the best writing book I've ever read." Writing Romance, published by Self Counsel Press, won the Under the Covers Best Writing Book Award, and is currently in its third edition.
Over the years her love of storytelling and curiosity about people led Vanessa to study psychology, volunteer on a crisis line, complete individual and relationship counselor training, volunteer as a peer counselor for a family life organization, and tell stories about life, love, and secrets. Vanessa is also a university professor, a publisher of educational materials and eBooks, and has given workshops to writers' groups in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada.
Vanessa and her husband live on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest with their two Australian Shepherd dogs.
Vanessa Grant's love affair with writing fiction began during a protracted illness at the age of 12 when she decided to write a novel of her own, sitting up in bed using the typewriter she'd been given for her birthday. Not a computer, not an electric typewriter, but a then-state-of-the-art manual typewriter. The story ground to a halt on page 50 but Vanessa never forgot the excitement of bringing her own characters to life.
In 1985 Vanessa's novel Pacific Disturbance was published in hardcover by Mills and Boon. She now has over 10 million books sold and has been translated into 15 languages. She also has written what one critic described as, "by far the best writing book I've ever read." Writing Romance, published by Self Counsel Press, won the Under the Covers Best Writing Book Award, and is currently in its third edition.
Over the years her love of storytelling and curiosity about people led Vanessa to study psychology, volunteer on a crisis line, complete individual and relationship counselor training, volunteer as a peer counselor for a family life organization, and tell stories about life, love, and secrets. Vanessa is also a university professor, a publisher of educational materials and eBooks, and has given workshops to writers' groups in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada.
Vanessa and her husband live on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest with their two Australian Shepherd dogs.
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October 31, 2017
Re Anglea's Affair - Vanessa Grant does a widowed h from a bad marriage and an adopted H who is really a seekrit baby and did not know it.
The h is 31 and a boat canvas worker. She makes canvas clothes and sail boat dodger covers while working in her father in law's marine engine shop. Her backstory is that she ran off with her first husband when she was 17 against her rather indifferent parent's wishes.
As these things go in both HPlandia and real life, the marriage soon became rocky as the h wanted a permanent home and children and the husband wanted to roam around and do construction and look at things. When the h became preggers after five years of marriage, her husband abandoned her and the h had a miscarriage and a few weeks later got the news that her husband died in a car accident.
Her in laws came and got her after the marital abandonment. They gave her a home and a place in the family marine engine business. The h happily started there along with the father in law, the mum in law and her husband's younger brother.
When the story starts, the h's mother in law has passed to a higher plain three years earlier and the father in law has fallen in love with a wealthy flighty lady in her fifties. The Flighty lady love interest has a seekrit tho, and because of it and the lady's rather domineering mother, the lady often falls in love and takes off for new pastures when the stress gets too much. Flighty lady has just taken off after the h's father in law declares he loves her and wants to marry her.
Enter the H, ostensibly flighty lady's 16 yrs younger brother. He runs the big family property conglomerate in Canada and continually bails out his older sister when she does her usual bunk from whatever stress she needs to run from. When Flighty lady took off, she abandoned her sailing sloop and the H has come to get it back to Vancouver.
When he first meets the h in the little Washington State port town, the h knows right away who he is and the fact that the H is actually Flighty lady's son and not her brother, but the H doesn't know that.
All he knows is that the h, in her regular canvas clothes and modest lifestyle compared to his very wealthy one, is endlessly fascinating to him. He wants her badly at first sight, but she is very uncomfortable around him and she lets the H think that she is married to her brother in law to ward the H off.
The h and H have that patented HP lurve mojo frisson of awareness, but the h is leery and she has knowledge the H doesn't and so she avoids any thoughts of actualizing that awareness in a physical sense.
However the gods of HPlandia aren't letting a good frisson go to waste. The H soon returns when Flighty lady pops back up on the radar and he takes the h's father in law with him to win his Flighty girl. The H also finds out the h isn't married and the h accepts a bad date in desperation to avoid him. It doesn't work, cause the H and h have an almost mojo consummation in semi desperate acts of passion on the parlor floor after the h escapes the octopus tentacles of her bad date.
The h manages to draw back before the crucial moment, but we are all aware that it is only a matter of time before the lurve club explodes and the power rides begin. The h's father in law and Flighty lady return married after a month or so, and the H soon finds out his true parentage.
After endless fantasy's about the h and a few more roofie kissing moments when the H visits, the h succumbs to the spell of the purple passion pull. She and the H decide to go off for a weekend and everybody and their brother tries to warn the h not to do it. The h's family doesn't want her to go because they think the H is a lady lurver and dumper and the H's mother cause she doesn't want her son to be hurt.
Nevertheless, the HP lurve mojo has it's way and there is a fiery passion weekend. The h wakes up in the middle of the night and realizes she loves the H and panics and runs away to the bus station. The H tries to convince her to return with him and he will make sure she gets home okay, but the h is adamant and goes home to have huge mopey moments for a while.
When the h returns, everybody now wants the h to get back with the H and so we get relative pressure and h unrequited longing moments. Eventually the h's estranged father sends a plane ticket for London and the h has to choose who she will visit. The family wants her to go see the H and the h thinks maybe she should run off and maybe have an awkward visit with her estranged family.
This being almost the last of the book and as we are in HPlandia, the h goes to see the H and declares her love and the H loves her back. The H declares he will move to a tiny town in Washington State cause he only needs a modem and a fax and a private jet to run his business and the h starts planning the wedding, with the H providing the lovin' for a nice little HEA.
This one was nice, fast and fairly uneventful. Just a cozy little day of an HP outing and not a bad read if you run across it.
The h is 31 and a boat canvas worker. She makes canvas clothes and sail boat dodger covers while working in her father in law's marine engine shop. Her backstory is that she ran off with her first husband when she was 17 against her rather indifferent parent's wishes.
As these things go in both HPlandia and real life, the marriage soon became rocky as the h wanted a permanent home and children and the husband wanted to roam around and do construction and look at things. When the h became preggers after five years of marriage, her husband abandoned her and the h had a miscarriage and a few weeks later got the news that her husband died in a car accident.
Her in laws came and got her after the marital abandonment. They gave her a home and a place in the family marine engine business. The h happily started there along with the father in law, the mum in law and her husband's younger brother.
When the story starts, the h's mother in law has passed to a higher plain three years earlier and the father in law has fallen in love with a wealthy flighty lady in her fifties. The Flighty lady love interest has a seekrit tho, and because of it and the lady's rather domineering mother, the lady often falls in love and takes off for new pastures when the stress gets too much. Flighty lady has just taken off after the h's father in law declares he loves her and wants to marry her.
Enter the H, ostensibly flighty lady's 16 yrs younger brother. He runs the big family property conglomerate in Canada and continually bails out his older sister when she does her usual bunk from whatever stress she needs to run from. When Flighty lady took off, she abandoned her sailing sloop and the H has come to get it back to Vancouver.
When he first meets the h in the little Washington State port town, the h knows right away who he is and the fact that the H is actually Flighty lady's son and not her brother, but the H doesn't know that.
All he knows is that the h, in her regular canvas clothes and modest lifestyle compared to his very wealthy one, is endlessly fascinating to him. He wants her badly at first sight, but she is very uncomfortable around him and she lets the H think that she is married to her brother in law to ward the H off.
The h and H have that patented HP lurve mojo frisson of awareness, but the h is leery and she has knowledge the H doesn't and so she avoids any thoughts of actualizing that awareness in a physical sense.
However the gods of HPlandia aren't letting a good frisson go to waste. The H soon returns when Flighty lady pops back up on the radar and he takes the h's father in law with him to win his Flighty girl. The H also finds out the h isn't married and the h accepts a bad date in desperation to avoid him. It doesn't work, cause the H and h have an almost mojo consummation in semi desperate acts of passion on the parlor floor after the h escapes the octopus tentacles of her bad date.
The h manages to draw back before the crucial moment, but we are all aware that it is only a matter of time before the lurve club explodes and the power rides begin. The h's father in law and Flighty lady return married after a month or so, and the H soon finds out his true parentage.
After endless fantasy's about the h and a few more roofie kissing moments when the H visits, the h succumbs to the spell of the purple passion pull. She and the H decide to go off for a weekend and everybody and their brother tries to warn the h not to do it. The h's family doesn't want her to go because they think the H is a lady lurver and dumper and the H's mother cause she doesn't want her son to be hurt.
Nevertheless, the HP lurve mojo has it's way and there is a fiery passion weekend. The h wakes up in the middle of the night and realizes she loves the H and panics and runs away to the bus station. The H tries to convince her to return with him and he will make sure she gets home okay, but the h is adamant and goes home to have huge mopey moments for a while.
When the h returns, everybody now wants the h to get back with the H and so we get relative pressure and h unrequited longing moments. Eventually the h's estranged father sends a plane ticket for London and the h has to choose who she will visit. The family wants her to go see the H and the h thinks maybe she should run off and maybe have an awkward visit with her estranged family.
This being almost the last of the book and as we are in HPlandia, the h goes to see the H and declares her love and the H loves her back. The H declares he will move to a tiny town in Washington State cause he only needs a modem and a fax and a private jet to run his business and the h starts planning the wedding, with the H providing the lovin' for a nice little HEA.
This one was nice, fast and fairly uneventful. Just a cozy little day of an HP outing and not a bad read if you run across it.
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April 21, 2021
A very passionate, smitten H. The scenes in which they were making out, made my toes curl.
Vanessa Grant’s writing in describing what the H says and does, is so skilled. Breathtaking. He is a sweep-you-off-your-feet kind of guy.
The h is annoying, always wondering if he is serious about her, always insecure, lying about her feelings, always trying to escape or hide.
She is a 31-year old widow who has been married for a couple of years, she has been pregnant, so it just seems a bit silly with all her life experience that she acts like that.
I usually take one star off in rating when the h is annoying. And I usually don’t like HP’s in which the H and/or h have been married to someone else before.
But the H more than makes up for it. So 5 stars.
Vanessa Grant’s writing in describing what the H says and does, is so skilled. Breathtaking. He is a sweep-you-off-your-feet kind of guy.
The h is annoying, always wondering if he is serious about her, always insecure, lying about her feelings, always trying to escape or hide.
She is a 31-year old widow who has been married for a couple of years, she has been pregnant, so it just seems a bit silly with all her life experience that she acts like that.
I usually take one star off in rating when the h is annoying. And I usually don’t like HP’s in which the H and/or h have been married to someone else before.
But the H more than makes up for it. So 5 stars.
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