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Summer of the Storm
Summer Of The Storm by Catherine George released on Nov 24, 1994 is available now for purchase.
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First published April 1, 1994
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Catherine George
443 books73 followersDeirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
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May 18, 2018
After she had a miscarriage on their honeymoon, he accuses her of miscarrying another man's child and trying to pass it off as his child. His non-grovel later was that he loves her so much, he gets crazy jealous so he blurts out irrational accusations, and this will continue to happen even as she grows old, fat, and grey. Spineless heroine thinks that's the most romantic thing she's ever heard. Now, please excuse me while I take a hammer to my Kindle :~{
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March 18, 2012
This has got to be one of the worst romance novels ever written.
November 27, 2011
From the back: Was the gap between them too wide to bridge after all this time? Alec Neville thought so, but Cassie wasn't sure what to feel. The overwhelming mutual physical attraction came flooding back as did memories of that long, hot summer ten years before, when she'd fallen in love with a wilder, younger Alec. She'd had to break off their relationship, and it broke her heart; since then she'd fought hard for her independence as a crime writer. Now Alec had come back to shatter her peace. Did she have the courage to love him again?
4.5 stars for this one -- I thought it was a pretty good story! Really good emotional tension. In real life the hero would be an ass for not trusting the heroine repeatedly, but it worked in the story.
4.5 stars for this one -- I thought it was a pretty good story! Really good emotional tension. In real life the hero would be an ass for not trusting the heroine repeatedly, but it worked in the story.
January 15, 2012
It was very stormy weather for the surgeon and crime novelist as they tried to rekindle their past love affair. Unfortunately the H was incredibly jealous and as a result, made the last 30 pages of the book a chore to get though. Too bad I thought it was a well written HR up to that point.
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June 27, 2018The magic was still there
But was the gap between them too wide to bridge after all this time? Alec Neville thought so, but Cassie wasn't sure what to feel. The overwhelming mutual physical attraction came flooding back - as did memories of that long, hot summer ten years before, when she'd fallen in love with a wilder, younger Alec.
She'd had to break off their relationship, and it had broken her heart. Since then, she'd fought hard for her independence and her success as a crime writer.
Now Alec had come back. It was so tempting to love him again - but was she only trying to relive the past, or did they have a future together?
But was the gap between them too wide to bridge after all this time? Alec Neville thought so, but Cassie wasn't sure what to feel. The overwhelming mutual physical attraction came flooding back - as did memories of that long, hot summer ten years before, when she'd fallen in love with a wilder, younger Alec.
She'd had to break off their relationship, and it had broken her heart. Since then, she'd fought hard for her independence and her success as a crime writer.
Now Alec had come back. It was so tempting to love him again - but was she only trying to relive the past, or did they have a future together?
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