ليل وقمر.. وأسوار

by Sophie Weston, صوفي ويستون

لم يكن السير فيليب هاردستي من البشر... أو هذا على الأقل ما كان يعتقده الناس! إلى أن فقد، للمرة الأولى في حياته، توازنه ووقع أسيراً لامرأة... كيت روماني!

لكن هذا الهالة التي تحيط بفيليب لن تخدع كيت بسهولة... إذا كان فيليب راغباً بها، عليه أن يدفع الثمن!

مع ذلك وافقت على أن تكون مساعدته المؤقتة وأدرك فيليب أنه في منتصف الطريق إليها. والآن، عليه أن يبذل جهده لجعلها عروساً له في أقرب وقت.

Genres: Harlequin, Romance

160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Jenny Haddon was born in London, England, where she always returns after the travels that she loves. When she was small, her mother couldn't bear reading aloud, so her mother taught her to read at an appallingly precocious age. She wrote her first book with her own illustrations at the age of four but was in her 20s before she produced her first romance as Sophie Weston.

She studied English Language and Literature at university. Choosing a career was a major problem. It was not so much that she didn't know what she wanted to do, as that she wanted to do everything. So she filed and photocopied and experimented. She worked as consultant at the Bank of England and all the time she drew on her experiences to create her Mills & Boon books. She edited press releases for a Latin American embassy in London (The Latin Afffair); lectured in the Arabian Gulf (The Sheikh's Bride); waitressed in Paris (Midnight Wedding); and made herself hated by getting under people's feet asking stupid questions under the grand title of consultant all over the world (The Millionaire's Daughter). She also is an active member of the UK's Romantic Novelists' Association's Committee, and was its twenty-three Chairman (2005-2007).

Jenny has one house, three cats, and about a million books. She writes compulsively, Scottish dances poorly, grows more plants than she has room for, and makes a mean meringue.

Reviews

[Ellyn (Mrs. Darcy in my Dreams) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a strange book. The blurb is way off the mark. The conversations didn’t flow well. I just didn’t buy the chemistry or the love between the H and h. I was more interested in the marital problems of her sister!

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. (not my usual kind of book) It was an easy read and hard to put down. It included alot of topics common today being a mediator of some sort, anorexia, college romances - mental cruelty, lack of communication, long distance relationships, terrorists. I appreciated that this was romantic without explicit sex scenes. I enjoyed the dialog and wit employed by a simple young woman with hangups about nobility. I'd probably be in the same boat and as nervous as she was in unique circumstances. The bond she had with her sister and single mom was very supportive. Addresses, how do you know if you love someone. Nice. A good change of pace from my usual regency setting.

[More Books Than Time · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is in my Excellent shelf with the books I reread. This one is better each time.
Original: Lovely story, different. One difference is the emotional content, usually Weston’s romances are intense. This one maintains a sense of judicious distance, emotions there but muted, fits H’s personality.

Settings are gorgeous and author describes in loving detail so we feel we are walking up the waterfall at night with full moon.

Reread an as usual with Sophie Weston I liked better 2nd time. I didn’t feel as much distance this read.