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The Secret Passion of Simon Blackwell
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060896454
ISBN: 0060896450
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: April 01, 2007
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Studio: Avon
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Editorial Review: A cruel twist of fate changed Simon Blackwell's life irreparably. A man of intense passions, he resolved to deny his emotions and desires forever, taking refuge in the wilds of the moorlands and shutting himself off from the world. But on one extraordinary night, on a rare trip to London, the unthinkable occurs. An intoxicatingly beautiful stranger stirs the sensuous hunger he has sworn to resist. Simon Blackwell believed that no woman could tempt him.
No woman . . . save Annabel McBride.
Annabel knows nothing of Simon's secret pain. But one irresistible kiss plunges her into marriage with a man she scarcely knows, a man who hides a shattered past. She can feel the blistering heat of the fire that smolders within this exquisitely handsome man, making her yearn for much more than the union in name only he has promised her.
But Simon dares not love again—for fragile love can be lost in an instant. And now Annabel must find a way to open his heart to the most glorious risk of all . . .
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Light and Easy
This is a cute book. It does have a great beginning and I, like some of the other reviewers, felt like it went down after the marriage. As far as Simon's secret, I thought it was pretty obvious what had happened and would have preferred for it to be a bit more mysterious to his secret heartache. I was also thrown off by the time line. I'm thinking months are rolling by then you find out toward the end of the book that it was simply a few weeks. There was no real obstacle preventing this couple from ... Read More
Rating:  - Historical research needed
This author should have learned a lot more about 19th century English divorce law before she designed her plot.
Theres actually a handy pa;erback; Lawrence Stone, Road to Divorce: A History of the Making and Breaking of Marriage in England 1530-1987 (Oxford University Press, 1995).
Rating: - not bad...not good either
This book started off pretty exciting...from the exciting first kiss. Once being married, Anne and Simon don't really do anything except dislike each other and it takes so long for them to finally get together. It has a predictable happy ending. I just wish there was something more...
Rating: - HORRIBLE, DREARY, DEPRESSING.
I'd give this a minus zero if I could. Unless you enjoy tragedy, don't waste your time. I kept hoping this would get better but it just kept getting more and more depressing. Should have been titled: The Secret TRAGEDY of Simon Blackwell. Passion, what passion? Oh yes, there was that terrific kiss in the beginning then, nearly the whole book with nothing till nearly the end.
Rating:  - Not bad- could have been better.
I'm not going to give a synopsis here but I will say, Secret Passions pretty much fit the bill for what I had been looking for- a good ol' fashioned historical romance novel.
As a whole, I liked the story. Still, I felt like it seemed to be missing ... something. Something bogged the novel down. Some have suggested that Simon's secret took too long to reveal. My feeling was more that it took too long for Simon to give in to his attraction to Anne. Believe me I love sexual tension being ... Read More
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