Return to Silvercreek

by Elizabeth Graham

Return to Silvercreek

Genres: Second Chance, Harlequin Romance

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Elizabeth Graham (1):
E. Schattner wrote as Elizabeth Graham and Emma Church.

Reviews

[StMargarets · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hated the heroine in this one. Rancher hero thought his wife was having an affair with his visiting bff and kicked them both out. Heroine stopped the bff from confessing to the hero that he had set up his presence in the heroine's bedroom as a practical joke.

Fast forward three years:

The hero has a half-hearted revenge scheme against the heroine, involving hiring the film production company she works for. That gets her back to the ranch so she can see how he has improved the house according to her plans. He has kept all of her clothes, mean old grandma is dead. It's all an obvious ploy to get her back. He even explains how he could forgive her for wanting an adventure with his "fun" bff, since she was so young when they married.

Instead of picking up on these cues, heroine lets the hero think she's been having an affair with her boss. And then when she is busted as a mother of a toddler, she lets the hero think he is the son of the now dead bff. She keeps her secret even when the hero thinks he's sterile since he wasn't able to get her pregnant in their six months of marriage.

The deception goes on way too long before the heroine finally comes clean. Hero is happy, so there's that, I guess.

[Beeg Panda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lying liar of a h.
Lies about EVERY damn thing.
From start to finish.
😤😤😤😤

[MissKitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

An older harlequin, second chance story and quite a sad one. The Hero and heroine had a whirlwind courtship and married young. The heroine is an orphan and the Hero assures her that he is now her family and she will never be alone again. He takes her to his ranch where they live blissfully in love despite his disapproving grandma. One day a friend of the H comes to visit, they joke that the friend (who is very similar in looks and coloring as the H) in the past, would always take away the girlfriends of the Hero. Anyway hero leaves on a business trip for a few days and when he returns the friend thinks it would be a big joke if he finds him in bed with the wife. Of course H does not take it as as joke. Rapes his wife and throws them both out.

Three years later the wife is working for a film company who want to do a film in Hero's ranch. Since the film company needs the contract, she is forced to go along. She has a baby by her husband but she doesn't want him to find out since she is convinced he hates her and will take her son away from her.

They go to the ranch but the H manipulates it So the h has to stay in his house while the film crew goes off without her. The H convinces her she is there for revenge purposes only. She needs to call to check up on her son, and during the call the H finds out she has had a child. He convinces her to bring the child to the ranch so she can look after him while she works as his housekeeper.

This is where it gets a bit sad. When the child arrives, the Hero looks very devastated when he sees him, convinced it's the child of his friend (btw friend is dead) whom his wife still loves. And the wife is still convinced the husband is bent on revenge and will take the child from her if he knows the truth. So they go on in this bittersweet manner, acting like the family they always intended to be. The kid is totally cute. The husband is so willing to claim the child and raise him as his own, despite thinking he belongs to the friend, but the heroine continues to mistrust him. Both of them are still in love with each other but unwilling to admit it.

Finally the husband finds out the child is his and gets angry. So the next morning, while he is out, the heroine tries to run away with her son. Suffice it to say, they don't get far and the hero finds them, they confess their real feelings to each other and clear up the misunderstanding w the friend. They finally get their second chance and HEA.

[Kiki]

I personally thought her mistrust was justified. She should’ve lied some more if that confirmed his absence from her life.

I don’t think he deserved any explanation or truth after the way he treats her. You can’t have your revenge and apologies and rape someone at the same time mate. No matter when this was written.

Read MissKitty's 4-star review of Return to Silvercreek by Elizabeth Graham
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[Lu Bielefeld]

hero is rapist

[Debby · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is worth reading because her lies are like a freakshow. It will make your hair rise to the ceiling.

Warning: there is a rape in the book.

[Last Chance Saloon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remember reading this one years ago - the poor hero (32) was so besotted with his wife that nothing could put him off. The heroine (22) was a mixed up kid when they broke up (3 years before), who, because of her orphaned isolated upbringing, would not forgive the lack of trust her husband had (after seeing her in bed with his best friend - the beat friend’s idea of a joke!!) to the extent she kept his son from him (she can’t seem to put things into perspective). You have to feel for the poor hero who just can’t catch a break (although he did try kissing the OW a couple of times during their separation).
I still liked it though and totally believe in the HEA.

[Bea Tea · Rating 4 out of 5]

It had so many tropes that I despise - including secret baby, a plot hinged upon lies and deceit, a plot that was also paper thin and convoluted as all get out, a 'forceful' 70s era man who wrenches the heroines arm behind her back while delivering 'punishing' kisses (he calls her a bitch as well, mere pages before the love confession, which makes my piss boileth over), and a whole lot of OM/OW drama. And yet this book was so bat-shit crazy, and filled with so much angst and off the wall drama, that I devoured it in a single afternoon. I drank tea, I ate choc, I read a Mills & Boon in one sitting. That gets a good score from me.

[magz · Rating 2 out of 5]

j’ai pas détesté, la lecture etait assez fluide et captivante, je voulais mettre 2.5 tho pcq j’ai gaaalerer a finir les dernières pages, une fois que la tension passe le livre a du mal a rester intéressant.
j’ai un peu tiqué aux descriptions des personnages masculins forts et puissants et féminins élancés et galbés, ainsi que tout ce truc de kidnapping bref

[Xai Xai · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reminds me of one of Michelle Reid's novel, intense and emotional....I enjoyed this one.

[Tapa in lovezone]

The h lying too much.