Stormy Surrender

by Robin Lee Hatcher

Married to a man she does not love, stunning Taylor Bellman finds herself drawn to a gallant Yankee visitor and torn between her loyalty to the South and her love for this man. Reissue.

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Civil War, Historical

432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 7, 1983

About the author

Robin Lee Hatcher is the author of over 95 novels and novellas with more than five million copies of her books in print. She is known for her heartwarming and emotionally charged stories of faith, courage, and love. Her numerous awards include the RITA® Award, Christy Award, Carol Award, HOLT Medallion, National Reader’s Choice Award, and the Faith, Hope & Love Reader’s Choice Award, and she is also the recipient of prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards from both American Christian Fiction Writers and Romance Writers of America®. When not writing, she enjoys being with her family, spending time in the beautiful Idaho outdoors, Bible art journaling, reading books that make her cry, watching romantic movies, and decorative planning. A mother and grandmother, Robin makes her home on the outskirts of Boise, sharing it with a demanding Papillon dog.

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Reviews

[Misfit · Rating 2 out of 5]

Taylor Bellman's father gambled away the family fortune, and then upped and died leaving her in the care of her elder half-brother. With the family plantation heavily mortgaged, she's married off to much older David Lattimer, since he's willing to pay off the mortgage in exchange for a bride who will give him the entrance to society he craves. Not exactly a marriage made in heaven, but David is kind and Taylor makes do, until David's son Brent arrives for a visit and it's insta-love. Even with a husband complicating the path to true love, Taylor's Southern bred to the core and Brent's a Yankee and with war between the States looming things look pretty bleak...

That's the gist of it and I won't spoil, but you will guess every plot development coming a mile away, with plenty of foreshadowing to let you know it's a-coming. This is very much a wall-paper type of romance, light on the history and historical details. While there's nothing wrong with that (to each their own taste in books), I suspect potential readers looking at that cover and expecting a sexed up romance will be sorely disappointed. The big love scene lasted all of a few sentences and then fades to black, otherwise you'll just get a few steamy kisses here and there, and a very odd ending leaving you hanging. Meh. The font is huge so this can be read in a few hours, but I wouldn't recommend picking this up unless there's nothing else in the house to read.

[Alicia · Rating 2 out of 5]

It wasn't the type of romance novels I'm used to reading but it was still decent. When I found out that the "yankee visitor" was the step-son I just knew the book would be intense...well it kinda failed me on that aspect. There was some predictable parts as well. Taylor's husband for one, you knew something would have to happen to him for her & Brent to be together. Of course, I was imagining something more along the lines of him giving her & Brent permission to be together so that she could have a child, or something like that to put a shocking twist on things. I couldn't believe she married Jeffrey however, it was so predictable that he would die during the war because you knew in the end she would be with Brent. And when she was taken by Yankees and they asked if the colonel had returned, you knew right then who the colonel would be before he even showed up. I was most disappointed in the end of the book. It ended so bad with him leaving and going back to the war, and there wasn't even an epilogue to tell if he survived (which you knew he would) or how long he remained gone/how long the war lasted, what happened after. It was just a bad way to end that story.

[Lesley · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVED it!!! My one criticism - I doubt a young Southern girl would have been named Taylor. Occasionally I was reminded of GWTW, but it didn't feel like plagarism.