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The Gathering Darkness
Julia knew she could cope with Luc --
And as long as they were in England, where she was nursing his little niece, Justine, she did just that. It was when Luc insisted on her accompanying them back to his home in the Camargue that her troubles began.
Julia felt like an outsider--and Luc was preoccupied, though his presence was strangely disturbing. After one betrayal Julia didn't need a man in her life.
Perhaps she should return to England and leave him to Roseanne, who seemed to think she was destined for Luc. Except that Julia was already in love with him.
189 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1989
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Patricia Wilson
122 books181 followersPatricia Wilson (1929 – 2010) was a best-selling writer of 53 romance novels for the Mills & Boon publisher from 1986 to 2004. She placed her novels primarily in England, Spain or France.
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February 11, 2017
Re the Gathering Darkness - PW with her angelic ministering cuddlesome h and her fierce Marquee Gardian (cowboy) just waiting to be stalkerific H takes us to the French Camargue in Languedoc. The Camargue area is a big river delta and often referred to as France's Wild West. From a historical perspective this area has traditionally been very independent, and if you read Dan Brown, there is a whole lot of other wild things going on around there. Leave it to PW to do a French H and make him the most bossy manly Alpha H with almost NO typical HP French gallantry.
This H is no French fashion plate courtier oozing suave charm and sophistication. Instead he is a man who rides his ancient breed Camarguais horses while he is rounding up the famous Camargue Black Bulls he breeds. (Unfortunately these bulls are semi feral and used for bull fighting in France where they are not killed and in Spain in which they are, of which I do NOT approve, but they have a lot of meaning for the area culturally.) Also just a little side note, Camarguais horses are white but always described as gray in colour. That is because when they are born they are either black or brown and their undercoats don't change - actually that is typical of almost all white colored horses, they have a dark undercoat and the white only comes out when they are grown and thus they are called gray.
So little Camargue area lessons aside, the story actually starts in England. Our h is a nursing Sister - which means she gets to run her own ward and she is angelically blonde and caring. Her father is a brilliant neurosurgeon who hasn't operated in a few years. The h has had some serious tragedy, her little baby sister died while her father was operating and trying to save the child from a brain tumor. Both the h and her father knew it was a long shot, but the tumor was so severe that the father felt he had to try. The failure was devastating, and the father has been unable to perform surgery ever since.
The h was also engaged to be married to a young doctor, but the swill slurper dumped the h for another girl whose father was willing to buy him his own practice. Just because the swill slurper broke the engagement doesn't mean that he wants to dump the h, he is more than willing to make the h his bit on the side. The h pretty much despises him tho, so nothing doing there. The h isn't comfortable working anymore at the hospital where her father teaches and the ex slime slurper works, she has put in her resignation and will be leaving at the end of the month.
The H bursts in upon the h and her father one afternoon. His little niece, who was in a car accident where the H's brother and wife died, needs life saving brain surgery. He is adamant that the h's father operate, but the father doesn't want to do it and the h has to explain why. When the h gets to work, she sees the little girl is failing and needs an intervention right away, so she makes her dad do the surgery. It is a big success and the H pretty much appoints himself custodian of all things h related. He runs off the ex-slime slurper, commandeers the h's time and attention when she isn't caring for his beloved niece, and essentially takes over the h's life. The h is more worried about the little girl not speaking, and she is sure there is some kind of psychological trauma going on as the little girl is physically undamaged.
The h decides that the little girl will need to live with her and her father after her hospital stay, the h hopes to get to the bottom of why she won't speak and she is also becoming very fond of the little girl - it seems the hole left in her heart after her sister's death is being filled by the affection she feels for the H's little niece. The H is in full agreement, he will try to stop being a bossy boots about the h, at least until she gets used to it, and the h will be his very personal ministering angel and forget about any other man and only focus her attention on him and his niece too.
There is lots of funny little h and H verbal battles and the H complains that the h thinks he is a lunatic, but eventually the little girl speaks again when she thinks she might be separated from the h. The H insists that since the h is sans employment at the moment, she can go back to France with them. So is off to Camargue and the H's Grande Manade we go.
There is some underlying tensions at the H's Manade (which is the local name for big estate,) and the h is alarmed when the H confides that his niece has decided that the h should be her new mother. We get a little local HP travelogue and the H's younger brother decides he likes what he sees in the h, if he can stop baiting his brother the H long enough to talk to her. There is also the H's stepmother, the H's half sister who wants to be a nurse and the h is soon settling in and also indulging her hobby of painting the local bird population for which the area is famous for.
The niece is coming along nicely and the h is thinking of returning to home, most especially when the OW, who is the daughter of the Manade next door shows up and is all over the H. The h is totally in love with the H at this point, but she is also convinced that she has no chance with such a perfect example of OWness inflicting herself on the H all the time. We find out that the Manade where the h and niece are staying actually belongs to the H's little brother, (the H has his own, but is helping to run things where they are at,) and there may be a bit of a love triangle between the neighbor OW, the H and the little brother. The niece has a nightmare and the h finds out that the car accident may have been caused by the little girl's mother who apparently got into a fight with the H's brother, (her father,) while he was driving and the little girl doesn't want the H to know for some reason.
The H and h spend more time together when the H takes the h to see his own home and there is the usual roofie kisses and more h/H banter. The H buys the h a little car to motor around in and paint things. There is more h painting excursions and the OW tries to get the h killed by sending her to the area where they are driving the horses for the annual round up. The H rescues her in a dramatic fashion and we get more roofie kissing scenes. There is a dramatic scene with the H having to take a rosette off his most dangerous bull during the bull round up festival, and the H claims the h in front of everyone by offering the h the rosette to wear as a favor.
The h is completely oblivious to the symbolic declaration and when the ex slime slurper shows up and tries to make up with the h, the H finds them as the h is being assaulted by the ex and loses his mind. He hits the ex, who has dumped his rich fiance, and blames the h for leading him on. The h decides enough is enough and packs to go home. The H's little brother takes her to the airport and we find out that the niece thinks her mother grabbed the wheel of the car her father was driving and caused the wreck when she told her husband that the niece was fathered by the H.
The little girl is afraid that the H will reject her if he realizes that her mother tried to kill them because of him. The h tells the little girl that the H isn't her father, her mother was lying to hurt her real father and the h leaves for the airport, convinced the niece's trauma will soon be forgotten now that it is all out in the open.
When she gets to the airport, she is paged to go back to the Manade, the niece is hysterical and no one can calm her. The h goes back and the niece was faking it, but it does give the H- who stormed off in jealous fury earlier- an opportunity to declare his love for the h and her to admit she loves him back. The H poetically declares that the light of the h's hair is his only defense against the gathering darkness of the H's massive responsibilities. They decide to marry and the epilogue is set at the next year's bull gathering where the h has baby son, the H's sister is in England being a nurse, the h's father visits frequently, the H is besotted with the h and the h is firmly refusing to let any of the men in the family take the rosettes off the bulls for the HEA.
This one was pretty sweet, but the dangling OW plot thread, (she just disappears into the mist and the H never says sorry for encouraging her,) was an annoyance. But really the most dramatic thing about this was the title and truthfully the H's responsibilities did not seem all the maddeningly cumbersome to me. PW is always fun for her extremely likable but feisty h's tho and this one was no exception. Give this one a go for an entertaining escape in a setting not usually used in HP's but don't expect a really challenging read.
This H is no French fashion plate courtier oozing suave charm and sophistication. Instead he is a man who rides his ancient breed Camarguais horses while he is rounding up the famous Camargue Black Bulls he breeds. (Unfortunately these bulls are semi feral and used for bull fighting in France where they are not killed and in Spain in which they are, of which I do NOT approve, but they have a lot of meaning for the area culturally.) Also just a little side note, Camarguais horses are white but always described as gray in colour. That is because when they are born they are either black or brown and their undercoats don't change - actually that is typical of almost all white colored horses, they have a dark undercoat and the white only comes out when they are grown and thus they are called gray.
So little Camargue area lessons aside, the story actually starts in England. Our h is a nursing Sister - which means she gets to run her own ward and she is angelically blonde and caring. Her father is a brilliant neurosurgeon who hasn't operated in a few years. The h has had some serious tragedy, her little baby sister died while her father was operating and trying to save the child from a brain tumor. Both the h and her father knew it was a long shot, but the tumor was so severe that the father felt he had to try. The failure was devastating, and the father has been unable to perform surgery ever since.
The h was also engaged to be married to a young doctor, but the swill slurper dumped the h for another girl whose father was willing to buy him his own practice. Just because the swill slurper broke the engagement doesn't mean that he wants to dump the h, he is more than willing to make the h his bit on the side. The h pretty much despises him tho, so nothing doing there. The h isn't comfortable working anymore at the hospital where her father teaches and the ex slime slurper works, she has put in her resignation and will be leaving at the end of the month.
The H bursts in upon the h and her father one afternoon. His little niece, who was in a car accident where the H's brother and wife died, needs life saving brain surgery. He is adamant that the h's father operate, but the father doesn't want to do it and the h has to explain why. When the h gets to work, she sees the little girl is failing and needs an intervention right away, so she makes her dad do the surgery. It is a big success and the H pretty much appoints himself custodian of all things h related. He runs off the ex-slime slurper, commandeers the h's time and attention when she isn't caring for his beloved niece, and essentially takes over the h's life. The h is more worried about the little girl not speaking, and she is sure there is some kind of psychological trauma going on as the little girl is physically undamaged.
The h decides that the little girl will need to live with her and her father after her hospital stay, the h hopes to get to the bottom of why she won't speak and she is also becoming very fond of the little girl - it seems the hole left in her heart after her sister's death is being filled by the affection she feels for the H's little niece. The H is in full agreement, he will try to stop being a bossy boots about the h, at least until she gets used to it, and the h will be his very personal ministering angel and forget about any other man and only focus her attention on him and his niece too.
There is lots of funny little h and H verbal battles and the H complains that the h thinks he is a lunatic, but eventually the little girl speaks again when she thinks she might be separated from the h. The H insists that since the h is sans employment at the moment, she can go back to France with them. So is off to Camargue and the H's Grande Manade we go.
There is some underlying tensions at the H's Manade (which is the local name for big estate,) and the h is alarmed when the H confides that his niece has decided that the h should be her new mother. We get a little local HP travelogue and the H's younger brother decides he likes what he sees in the h, if he can stop baiting his brother the H long enough to talk to her. There is also the H's stepmother, the H's half sister who wants to be a nurse and the h is soon settling in and also indulging her hobby of painting the local bird population for which the area is famous for.
The niece is coming along nicely and the h is thinking of returning to home, most especially when the OW, who is the daughter of the Manade next door shows up and is all over the H. The h is totally in love with the H at this point, but she is also convinced that she has no chance with such a perfect example of OWness inflicting herself on the H all the time. We find out that the Manade where the h and niece are staying actually belongs to the H's little brother, (the H has his own, but is helping to run things where they are at,) and there may be a bit of a love triangle between the neighbor OW, the H and the little brother. The niece has a nightmare and the h finds out that the car accident may have been caused by the little girl's mother who apparently got into a fight with the H's brother, (her father,) while he was driving and the little girl doesn't want the H to know for some reason.
The H and h spend more time together when the H takes the h to see his own home and there is the usual roofie kisses and more h/H banter. The H buys the h a little car to motor around in and paint things. There is more h painting excursions and the OW tries to get the h killed by sending her to the area where they are driving the horses for the annual round up. The H rescues her in a dramatic fashion and we get more roofie kissing scenes. There is a dramatic scene with the H having to take a rosette off his most dangerous bull during the bull round up festival, and the H claims the h in front of everyone by offering the h the rosette to wear as a favor.
The h is completely oblivious to the symbolic declaration and when the ex slime slurper shows up and tries to make up with the h, the H finds them as the h is being assaulted by the ex and loses his mind. He hits the ex, who has dumped his rich fiance, and blames the h for leading him on. The h decides enough is enough and packs to go home. The H's little brother takes her to the airport and we find out that the niece thinks her mother grabbed the wheel of the car her father was driving and caused the wreck when she told her husband that the niece was fathered by the H.
The little girl is afraid that the H will reject her if he realizes that her mother tried to kill them because of him. The h tells the little girl that the H isn't her father, her mother was lying to hurt her real father and the h leaves for the airport, convinced the niece's trauma will soon be forgotten now that it is all out in the open.
When she gets to the airport, she is paged to go back to the Manade, the niece is hysterical and no one can calm her. The h goes back and the niece was faking it, but it does give the H- who stormed off in jealous fury earlier- an opportunity to declare his love for the h and her to admit she loves him back. The H poetically declares that the light of the h's hair is his only defense against the gathering darkness of the H's massive responsibilities. They decide to marry and the epilogue is set at the next year's bull gathering where the h has baby son, the H's sister is in England being a nurse, the h's father visits frequently, the H is besotted with the h and the h is firmly refusing to let any of the men in the family take the rosettes off the bulls for the HEA.
This one was pretty sweet, but the dangling OW plot thread, (she just disappears into the mist and the H never says sorry for encouraging her,) was an annoyance. But really the most dramatic thing about this was the title and truthfully the H's responsibilities did not seem all the maddeningly cumbersome to me. PW is always fun for her extremely likable but feisty h's tho and this one was no exception. Give this one a go for an entertaining escape in a setting not usually used in HP's but don't expect a really challenging read.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 17, 2017
Another good story with great potential that suffers from jelly-spined ninny syndrome and by the lack of comeuppance for a really egregious OW.
It was bizarre how the heroine, after leaving her native England, seemed to instantly lose her integrity and dignity once on French soil, in the hero's territory. Maybe she fell under a spell? The author's depiction of the French province of Camargue, where the majority of the story is set, certainly suggests it.
In Patricia Wilson's view, the Camargue is a quasi-magical kingdom set apart from the rest of the country, and stuck in a time-warp that does not allow for the contemporary pace of life. Its inhabitants seem eerie, sinister, almost fey-like, not quite human beings. Their local flora and fauna, especially its famed wild horses, are almost mythical in their beauty and majesty.
I almost think this would have worked better as a paranormal romance! As it was, I could only blame the heroine for willingly putting herself into the clutches of the hero, even while suspecting the whole time that he was using her for his jollies while planning to marry the OW in a marriage of convenience.
She previously had refused to forgive her jilting jerk of an ex-fiance so why couldn't she be equally strong and rational vis-a-vis the jerky "hero"?
The hero was more than willing to keep the heroine in limbo and callously dangling the OW before her. He fought his attraction for her, taunting her repeatedly that she was not from the Camargue, that she would never understand him and his people, that she did not fit in with them, and suggesting that he was angry that he was attracted to her despite himself.
His reaction to the OW setting the heroine up to be, like, KILLED, by a stampede of wild horses was...ummm...exactly nothing. Not even a light slap on the wrist. Nope, I guess he planned to punish the OW by dancing with her, inviting her to dinner some more, and generally letting her act possessively over him, giving credence to the idea that they were unofficially engaged. Yeah, way to go, "hero."
It's too bad because the author's setting of Camargue was superbly rendered, the idea of a French cowboy romance, as ludicrous as it may sound, brilliantly executed, and the beginning of the book, with the heroine showing herself to be so strong, capable, and admirable filled me with hope that I would read about a strong heroine for once. Quel dommage.
It was bizarre how the heroine, after leaving her native England, seemed to instantly lose her integrity and dignity once on French soil, in the hero's territory. Maybe she fell under a spell? The author's depiction of the French province of Camargue, where the majority of the story is set, certainly suggests it.
In Patricia Wilson's view, the Camargue is a quasi-magical kingdom set apart from the rest of the country, and stuck in a time-warp that does not allow for the contemporary pace of life. Its inhabitants seem eerie, sinister, almost fey-like, not quite human beings. Their local flora and fauna, especially its famed wild horses, are almost mythical in their beauty and majesty.
I almost think this would have worked better as a paranormal romance! As it was, I could only blame the heroine for willingly putting herself into the clutches of the hero, even while suspecting the whole time that he was using her for his jollies while planning to marry the OW in a marriage of convenience.
She previously had refused to forgive her jilting jerk of an ex-fiance so why couldn't she be equally strong and rational vis-a-vis the jerky "hero"?
The hero was more than willing to keep the heroine in limbo and callously dangling the OW before her. He fought his attraction for her, taunting her repeatedly that she was not from the Camargue, that she would never understand him and his people, that she did not fit in with them, and suggesting that he was angry that he was attracted to her despite himself.
His reaction to the OW setting the heroine up to be, like, KILLED, by a stampede of wild horses was...ummm...exactly nothing. Not even a light slap on the wrist. Nope, I guess he planned to punish the OW by dancing with her, inviting her to dinner some more, and generally letting her act possessively over him, giving credence to the idea that they were unofficially engaged. Yeah, way to go, "hero."
It's too bad because the author's setting of Camargue was superbly rendered, the idea of a French cowboy romance, as ludicrous as it may sound, brilliantly executed, and the beginning of the book, with the heroine showing herself to be so strong, capable, and admirable filled me with hope that I would read about a strong heroine for once. Quel dommage.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 11, 2021
I really enjoyed the first half of this story that shows the 24 year-old heroine as a very skilled nursing sister and her interactions with the worried (and impressed) hero and his injured niece. The story then dragged when the setting changed.
The heroine accompanies the little girl back to the hero’s ranch in The Camargue part of France. There, unfortunately, the heroine has nothing to do but paint the native flamingos and be jealous of the neighboring OW.
The intense hero blows hot and cold until the author runs out of pages and finally has him confess his love (that we had guessed in the first chapter). I did enjoy reading about this part of France, but the diminishment of the heroine and melodrama with the OW got old.
Boogenhagen has all the details in her spoiler review.
The heroine accompanies the little girl back to the hero’s ranch in The Camargue part of France. There, unfortunately, the heroine has nothing to do but paint the native flamingos and be jealous of the neighboring OW.
The intense hero blows hot and cold until the author runs out of pages and finally has him confess his love (that we had guessed in the first chapter). I did enjoy reading about this part of France, but the diminishment of the heroine and melodrama with the OW got old.
Boogenhagen has all the details in her spoiler review.
June 5, 2019
“Gathering Darkness” is the story of Julia and Luc.
Our h is a nurse, who is recovering from not just a nasty breakup with a cheating fiancé, but also the death of her beloved sibling, who her and her neurosurgeon father could not save. Her life changes, when an eccentric Frenchman named Luc enters her life, demanding that she and her father help his recently orphaned niece Justine, who is in a coma since being in the accident that killed her parents.
Initially reluctant to accept, she soon agrees to help Luc, and miraculously Justine recovers- at first having selective mutism, but the threat of leaving the h makes her speak- prompting the H to whisk the h with him to France as Justine’s companion.
There they meet his loving family, deal with their mutual attraction as well as interfering exes, hash out misunderstandings, and after a much revealing confession, soon find their HEA.
An average read. Could have been so much better!
Safe
2/5
Our h is a nurse, who is recovering from not just a nasty breakup with a cheating fiancé, but also the death of her beloved sibling, who her and her neurosurgeon father could not save. Her life changes, when an eccentric Frenchman named Luc enters her life, demanding that she and her father help his recently orphaned niece Justine, who is in a coma since being in the accident that killed her parents.
Initially reluctant to accept, she soon agrees to help Luc, and miraculously Justine recovers- at first having selective mutism, but the threat of leaving the h makes her speak- prompting the H to whisk the h with him to France as Justine’s companion.
There they meet his loving family, deal with their mutual attraction as well as interfering exes, hash out misunderstandings, and after a much revealing confession, soon find their HEA.
An average read. Could have been so much better!
Safe
2/5
February 25, 2017
Lacking in real drama/angst but sweet nonetheless. Heroine is a veritable angel: a beautiful, brilliant, tender-hearted nurse who practically single-handedly saves the H's injured niece AND cures her mental trauma to boot. The H is a Frenchman who owns some kind of bull ranch in France. Honestly, most of the story seemed practically completed a third of the way in and I wondered what kind of big drama would come into play to keep the story going. Nothing really big ever happened; the OW was more of an afterthought, the OM made a small sparky appearance near the end, but overall it was a pretty uneventful read. Still, I liked it. It was kinda nice how the H loudly, conspicuously put the h up on a pedestal and thought she was some kind of superhuman angel the whole time. Pleasant change from the usual cheating-liar-gold-digger-slut misconception. Although a little less fun!
January 7, 2018
‘The Gathering Darkness’ is a soft no for me, because I don’t really approve of Wilson heroines being health care professionals. They are meant to be injured and sick, not deal with injury and sickness in others.
Julia is a nursing sister, and her father is a neurosurgeon. He hasn’t operated since he failed to save his 8 year old daughter 4 years ago, and Julia and her father’s lives are still tinged with sadness.
Julia has also recently experienced heartbreak: the doctor she’d thought she would marry instead proposed to a richer woman, whose daddy could buy a practice. Julia is quitting the hospital so she no longer has to be around him.
Frenchman Luc shows up demanding that Julia’s father operate on his niece. The little girl is 8, her parents died in a car accident and now, sometime later, the child is failing.
After an initial no, the operation happens, the child is saved, and Luc is soon asking Julia to come to France to keep an eye on the girl while she’s in recovery.
And Julia does. There’s some secret the child is keeping. It had kept her mute after the surgery, and while Julia managed to get her talking again, she suspects that there’s something going on in the family that the child fears.
All of this is interestingly problematic, because Julia and her father saving a child and then getting involved in her life sets off some mild alarm bells for me on whether this is healthy or helpful in their grief. Julia is conscious of making sure that she detaches from the child because she’s a professional, but she’s still ... involved.
Ultimately, I decided that I had to get over it, because Wilson’s world is set up around rewardING kindness and selflessness, without anyone having to delve too deeply into how important unconscious motivation is when the outcome is positive.
What really lets this book down is Luc. He’s weird. And it’s not just the early scenes where him being an oddball is completely understandable because of the stress over his near-death niece, he stays ... off. Wilson occasionally throws me off with heroes who say and do things a certain way that just have me scratching my head, because I can’t quite work out why he’s so off-putting, I just know he is. It’s serial killer vibes, without me actually really believing he’ll turn out to be a serial killer. That’s crazy! Although ...
There’s a fun anti-gothic moment when Julia is introduced to Luc’s step-family and realises that everyone is super nice and likes each other, and are definitely not behind whatever trauma had silenced the niece.
The Camargue sounds amazing (see Boogenhagen’s review for more details), and there’s a spoiled OW girl who does something to the heroine that reads slightly more murdery than perhaps intended? This isn’t one of my favourites - I’m hoping that Wilson doesn’t have any more healthcare professional heroines for me.
Julia is a nursing sister, and her father is a neurosurgeon. He hasn’t operated since he failed to save his 8 year old daughter 4 years ago, and Julia and her father’s lives are still tinged with sadness.
Julia has also recently experienced heartbreak: the doctor she’d thought she would marry instead proposed to a richer woman, whose daddy could buy a practice. Julia is quitting the hospital so she no longer has to be around him.
Frenchman Luc shows up demanding that Julia’s father operate on his niece. The little girl is 8, her parents died in a car accident and now, sometime later, the child is failing.
After an initial no, the operation happens, the child is saved, and Luc is soon asking Julia to come to France to keep an eye on the girl while she’s in recovery.
And Julia does. There’s some secret the child is keeping. It had kept her mute after the surgery, and while Julia managed to get her talking again, she suspects that there’s something going on in the family that the child fears.
All of this is interestingly problematic, because Julia and her father saving a child and then getting involved in her life sets off some mild alarm bells for me on whether this is healthy or helpful in their grief. Julia is conscious of making sure that she detaches from the child because she’s a professional, but she’s still ... involved.
Ultimately, I decided that I had to get over it, because Wilson’s world is set up around rewardING kindness and selflessness, without anyone having to delve too deeply into how important unconscious motivation is when the outcome is positive.
What really lets this book down is Luc. He’s weird. And it’s not just the early scenes where him being an oddball is completely understandable because of the stress over his near-death niece, he stays ... off. Wilson occasionally throws me off with heroes who say and do things a certain way that just have me scratching my head, because I can’t quite work out why he’s so off-putting, I just know he is. It’s serial killer vibes, without me actually really believing he’ll turn out to be a serial killer. That’s crazy! Although ...
There’s a fun anti-gothic moment when Julia is introduced to Luc’s step-family and realises that everyone is super nice and likes each other, and are definitely not behind whatever trauma had silenced the niece.
The Camargue sounds amazing (see Boogenhagen’s review for more details), and there’s a spoiled OW girl who does something to the heroine that reads slightly more murdery than perhaps intended? This isn’t one of my favourites - I’m hoping that Wilson doesn’t have any more healthcare professional heroines for me.
June 8, 2021
Julia knew she could cope with Luc --
And as long as they were in England, where she was nursing his little niece, Justine, she did just that. It was when Luc insisted on her accompanying them back to his home in the Camargue that her troubles began.
Julia felt like an outsider--and Luc was preoccupied, though his presence was strangely disturbing. After one betrayal Julia didn't need a man in her life.
Perhaps she should return to England and leave him to Roseanne, who seemed to think she was destined for Luc. Except that Julia was already in love with him.
And as long as they were in England, where she was nursing his little niece, Justine, she did just that. It was when Luc insisted on her accompanying them back to his home in the Camargue that her troubles began.
Julia felt like an outsider--and Luc was preoccupied, though his presence was strangely disturbing. After one betrayal Julia didn't need a man in her life.
Perhaps she should return to England and leave him to Roseanne, who seemed to think she was destined for Luc. Except that Julia was already in love with him.
May 12, 2023
I liked that the h had a decent backbone, although she was a total div when it came to the OW. Plot mopper alert, and she's a cock-blocker of the worst order.
July 5, 2023
Didn't much care for this. In fact I read it a couple years ago, forgot to note and forgot story until I started reading it again today.
April 9, 2026
mega długie i powtarzalne
June 5, 2012
A little better then the last ones but not the best one. It had some misspelled words that had me going over the words again. It did have a better plot. But waiting until the last of the book to find out they were in love that just makes me mad. I rather they find out as soon as possible because it just makes it a better story. It did give us an ending that I liked telling us that they had a baby and what happened to the others.
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