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Rate: 500 million stars “If you'll kiss me back," he whispered huskily, brushing his lips along the curve of her jaw, "I'll make it six million. I have the strangest – the uneasiest – feeling,” she admitted, lifting her head and looking at him with unguarded candor, “that something is happening, or going to happen, and it’s terrible. This is their story, it spans about 12 years, from when she is 18 until she turns 30. It is set in Chicago, actually the last few books I have read have been set in Chicago, is this an omen that I must return to visit this wonderful city! But theirs is not a straightforward Happily Ever After.
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Meredith Bancroft, the Princess, living in the mansion, attending the Country Club… Matthew Farrell, the farmboy, from Indiana, with his Irish roots … Loved the two main characters, Matt and Meredith. But it does not take away from the fantastic writing and characters in the book. Does it seem dated? A little bit, the fact that there are no mobile phones, some of the descriptions of the dresses etc.
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This book was written nearly 25 years ago. I have read her Historicals and they have been solid, five stars for me. This is my first contemporary by Ms McNaught. Won’t say too much about it and won’t give too many quotes as it just needs to be read and felt…. Does it seem dated? A little bit, the fact that there are no mobile phones, som As good, if not better the second (or maybe it is the third) time around. EXQUISITE TORMENTING MAGIC Yes, this book had it all. moreĪs good, if not better the second (or maybe it is the third) time around. Will they be able to believe in each other - and grasp the tender miracle that is before them?. As tensions build between them, bittersweet memories rise to the surface, leaving them suspicious, restless, and uncertain. Now, as the Bancroft firm is threatened by a hostile takeover, Meredith is forced to confront Matt. Now world leaders courted him, the media watched his every move, and he was ready to move in on the Bancroft empire.Ī cool, poised executive in her family's legendary department store chain, Meredith had once defied her father for the sexually magnetic, intense Matt Farrell - and their brief, ill-fated marriage was the disastrous outcome. A long way from the country club where, feeling like an outsider, he had dared to fall in love with a beautiful blonde named Meredith Bancroft, and known a once-in-a-lifetime passion and betrayal that still haunted his memory. Now world leaders courted him, the media Corporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana's steel mills. Corporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana's steel mills.