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Hijacked Heart
Hijacked Heart by Sally Cook released on Oct 25, 1990 is available now for purchase.
- GenresHarlequin Presents
189 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1989
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Sally Cook
59 books4 followersaka Susan Curran
Susan Griffin was born on 14 May 1952 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, daugther of Maureen McGinnity and Norman Griffin. She obtained a Bachelor in English at University Sussex on 1973. On 1976, she married Tim Curran, and they divorced on 1980. On 1980, she remarried Ray Curnow, and they divorced on 1988. On 1997, she remarried Paul Frederick Simmonds, and they live between in central Norwich, England and in the Loire valley, France. She has two children: Rufus and Evan.
She is a professional writer since 1979, and has since written or co-written more than 30 published books, including a wide range of non-fiction books and novels for Collins and Constable, she also wrote under the pseudonym of Sally Cook for Mills & Boon. She researches the life of real people to her novels, and now also to write biographies. During the course of her researches she visited many of the places in both England and France.
In the 1990s Susan set up with a group of writer friends and ran a small fiction publisher, Rampant Horse. Since 1997 she has run Curran Publishing Services Ltd, www.curranpublishing.com, which specializes in preparing mostly non-fiction books for press under subcontract from major publishers. In this capacity she has copy edited, typeset and indexed hundreds of books. For eight years until 2009, CPS had its offices in a redundant medieval church in Norwich, St Mary Coslany. Susan has been also a trustee of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust, which oversees many of Norwich’s redundant churches, since the early 1990s.
Susan Griffin was born on 14 May 1952 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, daugther of Maureen McGinnity and Norman Griffin. She obtained a Bachelor in English at University Sussex on 1973. On 1976, she married Tim Curran, and they divorced on 1980. On 1980, she remarried Ray Curnow, and they divorced on 1988. On 1997, she remarried Paul Frederick Simmonds, and they live between in central Norwich, England and in the Loire valley, France. She has two children: Rufus and Evan.
She is a professional writer since 1979, and has since written or co-written more than 30 published books, including a wide range of non-fiction books and novels for Collins and Constable, she also wrote under the pseudonym of Sally Cook for Mills & Boon. She researches the life of real people to her novels, and now also to write biographies. During the course of her researches she visited many of the places in both England and France.
In the 1990s Susan set up with a group of writer friends and ran a small fiction publisher, Rampant Horse. Since 1997 she has run Curran Publishing Services Ltd, www.curranpublishing.com, which specializes in preparing mostly non-fiction books for press under subcontract from major publishers. In this capacity she has copy edited, typeset and indexed hundreds of books. For eight years until 2009, CPS had its offices in a redundant medieval church in Norwich, St Mary Coslany. Susan has been also a trustee of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust, which oversees many of Norwich’s redundant churches, since the early 1990s.
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May 21, 2017
Re Hijacked Heart - Sally Cook takes us out of England and to some unnamed tropical island in the Mediterranean where the young would-be photojournalist h is knocking on random hotel room doors. Eventually one opens and the h rather worriedly asks if she can borrow the balcony of the rather attractive but barely dressed man who answers it.
We soon find out that this is the h's first big international photo journalism assignment and she is very keen to do a good job of it. She is photographing a little known and newly built resort and to get the best shot of the bay and surroundings for her article, she needed to use one of the sea side room's balcony. Since she is rather naive and very new to photo journalism, she doesn't show her credentials and ask the hotel staff to help her get her shots via an empty room or the roof, she just goes around knocking on stranger's doors instead.
The H is nice tho, and offers her a cold beer while she is doing her pictures, then he asks her out to dinner. She accepts, cause she is attracted but doesn't want to admit it, as she has a Dr. boyfriend back home in England. The Dr. boyfriend isn't keen on her new career, but the h thinks she ought to give it a go anyways. So she goes to dinner with the H and after a lecture about going into a strange man's hotel room, we find out the H is a roaming structural engineer who doesn't believe in marriage or love.
Still, they have a lovely time at dinner and do a lot of talking. Until the H kisses her during a moonlight walk around the harbour and tells the h she isn't in love with her boyfriend. In fact she is completely innocent and unawakened and the H claims she doesn't even dress like a woman in love or who is loved. The night ends on a somewhat disgruntled note for the h, but she soon reflects that she will never see such a disturbing man again.
However the h gets a big shock on boarding the plane for Paris the next day, her seat mate is the H and they have some casual conversation and hold hands for comfort as the plane takes off. The h later gets up to use the lavatory and notices a weird guy staring at her. She also gets a bit jealous over the attractive flight attendant talking to the H. Then the drama strikes as the plane is taken hostage, ( hence the title Hijacked Heart,) and the H is really, really strong and comforting over the whole ordeal. There are several hours of waiting as the plane is moved from one place to another and the H does a great job of distracting the h with stories from his life and getting her to talk about hers or playing little word games and tic tac toe.
Eventually negotiations succeed and they are going to be allowed off the plane. The hijackers surrender but the weird guy who turned out to be one of the bad guys makes the h walk off the plane with him and he holds a gun to her head. The H freaks out but the h is pretty brave until they get to the police and then she passes out. She and the H are put in the same room, as everyone around them assumes they are a couple and the h panics at the thought of his leaving.
They wind up climbing the heights of passion and the h is in love. But the H starts distancing himself right away and tells her she should go back to her boyfriend, this was just a reaction to the trauma of being hijacked and the h should get on with her regularly planned life. Then the h finds out the police at the airport destroyed all her photos, so her career is kinda tanked too. The h and H part at Heathrow and the h assumes that she will just have to get on with things and goes back to her parent's house and her regular boutique retail job.
Things aren't good on the boyfriend front tho, he wants to get married and she is worried she might be preggers and plus he is very against her resuming her photo journalist career when she gets another offer to continue in her chosen work. The H pops up again to check that there weren't any unwarranted consequences to their night of love and the h realizes that it is a good thing she wasn't preggers, cause the H just isn't interested. After some dithering, her boyfriend gets really pushy and the h finally makes her choices.
She dumps the boyfriend and his controlling ways, tells her parents she is moving to London and her parents are sad she isn't getting married and having grand kids, but they are happy to help her get set up for her new career. A year goes by as the h firmly establishes herself in her new career and meets a lot of people and has a lot of dates that don't go anywhere cause she is too busy photo journaling things - including a return to the island she got hijacked on. She has also changed her look and her hairstyle and is now a seriously attractive woman. Then the H tracks her down and asks her out.
They have a few dates, but the h is still in love with a man who travels as much as she does and doesn't want anything but flings. The h decides that she needs to stop seeing the H, cause he is still distant and she can't see how they can work around her job and his and she just isn't feeling any lurve mojo from him.
The H calls again, after a month of traveling with no contact, to ask her out and the h tells him no. He asks her meet him to talk about things and she reluctantly agrees to go. When they get to the restaurant, the H tells her he can't live without her and he loves her and wants to get married. He will adapt to her career but he plans on taking a management position with his company which means that he won't have to travel so much anymore for his work.
The h tells him she planned on cutting back the travel when she had kids, but she wanted some more time to get really established and the do art gallery photo exhibitions. She also figures that if she and the H marry, she can do some travelling and arty tourist photos if she goes with the H if he gets any foreign jobs in his new position, and they both think they are geniuses for being able to reach a compromise. They celebrate their newly discovered high intelligence with a diamond scattered Victorian love knot engagement ring and plans to meet the H's family and her own with a honeymoon in Java, after they get all lurved up for the HEA.
This one was pretty interesting. The opening with the h knocking on hotel room doors was definitely different. The hostage part was really well done, but I wasn't a keen fan of the long separation at the end. The h did need that time to grow, but her ditheryness over dumping the ex took up too much time and the reunion period with the H was too short. I did like how she was willing to dump the H cause just casually seeing him was causing her too much pain and she had her own interests.
Overall this is a nice story, and I mostly believed the HEA at the end, cause the H was willing to change his life to accommodate the h and she did a convincing job of adapting too. This one isn't the greatest HP adventure ever, but it was nicely done and worth a read if you run into it.
We soon find out that this is the h's first big international photo journalism assignment and she is very keen to do a good job of it. She is photographing a little known and newly built resort and to get the best shot of the bay and surroundings for her article, she needed to use one of the sea side room's balcony. Since she is rather naive and very new to photo journalism, she doesn't show her credentials and ask the hotel staff to help her get her shots via an empty room or the roof, she just goes around knocking on stranger's doors instead.
The H is nice tho, and offers her a cold beer while she is doing her pictures, then he asks her out to dinner. She accepts, cause she is attracted but doesn't want to admit it, as she has a Dr. boyfriend back home in England. The Dr. boyfriend isn't keen on her new career, but the h thinks she ought to give it a go anyways. So she goes to dinner with the H and after a lecture about going into a strange man's hotel room, we find out the H is a roaming structural engineer who doesn't believe in marriage or love.
Still, they have a lovely time at dinner and do a lot of talking. Until the H kisses her during a moonlight walk around the harbour and tells the h she isn't in love with her boyfriend. In fact she is completely innocent and unawakened and the H claims she doesn't even dress like a woman in love or who is loved. The night ends on a somewhat disgruntled note for the h, but she soon reflects that she will never see such a disturbing man again.
However the h gets a big shock on boarding the plane for Paris the next day, her seat mate is the H and they have some casual conversation and hold hands for comfort as the plane takes off. The h later gets up to use the lavatory and notices a weird guy staring at her. She also gets a bit jealous over the attractive flight attendant talking to the H. Then the drama strikes as the plane is taken hostage, ( hence the title Hijacked Heart,) and the H is really, really strong and comforting over the whole ordeal. There are several hours of waiting as the plane is moved from one place to another and the H does a great job of distracting the h with stories from his life and getting her to talk about hers or playing little word games and tic tac toe.
Eventually negotiations succeed and they are going to be allowed off the plane. The hijackers surrender but the weird guy who turned out to be one of the bad guys makes the h walk off the plane with him and he holds a gun to her head. The H freaks out but the h is pretty brave until they get to the police and then she passes out. She and the H are put in the same room, as everyone around them assumes they are a couple and the h panics at the thought of his leaving.
They wind up climbing the heights of passion and the h is in love. But the H starts distancing himself right away and tells her she should go back to her boyfriend, this was just a reaction to the trauma of being hijacked and the h should get on with her regularly planned life. Then the h finds out the police at the airport destroyed all her photos, so her career is kinda tanked too. The h and H part at Heathrow and the h assumes that she will just have to get on with things and goes back to her parent's house and her regular boutique retail job.
Things aren't good on the boyfriend front tho, he wants to get married and she is worried she might be preggers and plus he is very against her resuming her photo journalist career when she gets another offer to continue in her chosen work. The H pops up again to check that there weren't any unwarranted consequences to their night of love and the h realizes that it is a good thing she wasn't preggers, cause the H just isn't interested. After some dithering, her boyfriend gets really pushy and the h finally makes her choices.
She dumps the boyfriend and his controlling ways, tells her parents she is moving to London and her parents are sad she isn't getting married and having grand kids, but they are happy to help her get set up for her new career. A year goes by as the h firmly establishes herself in her new career and meets a lot of people and has a lot of dates that don't go anywhere cause she is too busy photo journaling things - including a return to the island she got hijacked on. She has also changed her look and her hairstyle and is now a seriously attractive woman. Then the H tracks her down and asks her out.
They have a few dates, but the h is still in love with a man who travels as much as she does and doesn't want anything but flings. The h decides that she needs to stop seeing the H, cause he is still distant and she can't see how they can work around her job and his and she just isn't feeling any lurve mojo from him.
The H calls again, after a month of traveling with no contact, to ask her out and the h tells him no. He asks her meet him to talk about things and she reluctantly agrees to go. When they get to the restaurant, the H tells her he can't live without her and he loves her and wants to get married. He will adapt to her career but he plans on taking a management position with his company which means that he won't have to travel so much anymore for his work.
The h tells him she planned on cutting back the travel when she had kids, but she wanted some more time to get really established and the do art gallery photo exhibitions. She also figures that if she and the H marry, she can do some travelling and arty tourist photos if she goes with the H if he gets any foreign jobs in his new position, and they both think they are geniuses for being able to reach a compromise. They celebrate their newly discovered high intelligence with a diamond scattered Victorian love knot engagement ring and plans to meet the H's family and her own with a honeymoon in Java, after they get all lurved up for the HEA.
This one was pretty interesting. The opening with the h knocking on hotel room doors was definitely different. The hostage part was really well done, but I wasn't a keen fan of the long separation at the end. The h did need that time to grow, but her ditheryness over dumping the ex took up too much time and the reunion period with the H was too short. I did like how she was willing to dump the H cause just casually seeing him was causing her too much pain and she had her own interests.
Overall this is a nice story, and I mostly believed the HEA at the end, cause the H was willing to change his life to accommodate the h and she did a convincing job of adapting too. This one isn't the greatest HP adventure ever, but it was nicely done and worth a read if you run into it.
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avoid
May 21, 2017Reasons Kiki needs to avoid this book:
1. She (the h, not Kiki!) had a boyfriend! Ummm...that's cheating!
2. She took WAY too long to dump him!
3. A WHOLE year of separation wasn't enough for hero. He still had to continue along with notion of a fling with the heroine and couldn't offer her anything better until SHE decided to kick HIM out of her life. It seems more of a bruised ego than love to me.
4. Remember how I get really mad when MCs find out about true feelings when the person ALMOST dies! Apparently I get even more pissed when the MCs STILL can't figure shit out when the love of their life almost dies! Her being held at gunpoint wasn't enough for him to gather his feelings together. He still dumped her. For a WHOLE FREAKEN YEAR, or may be more. And even then: see point 3
1. She (the h, not Kiki!) had a boyfriend! Ummm...that's cheating!
2. She took WAY too long to dump him!
3. A WHOLE year of separation wasn't enough for hero. He still had to continue along with notion of a fling with the heroine and couldn't offer her anything better until SHE decided to kick HIM out of her life. It seems more of a bruised ego than love to me.
4. Remember how I get really mad when MCs find out about true feelings when the person ALMOST dies! Apparently I get even more pissed when the MCs STILL can't figure shit out when the love of their life almost dies! Her being held at gunpoint wasn't enough for him to gather his feelings together. He still dumped her. For a WHOLE FREAKEN YEAR, or may be more. And even then: see point 3
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November 24, 2021Claire thought she was prepared to meet the challenges which came her way on her first assignment as a photo-journalist, but she wasn't ready for Jake Eagleton. Dynamic, footloose and wedded to his career, Jake made it plain he was here today but he would be gone tomorrow, and Claire knew the attraction growing between them could only end in heartbreak. She resolved that Jake Eagleton was a man to be put down to experience - until she found herself in a situation she couldn't control, and Jake changed her mind
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