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A Song In The Wilderness
First published 1990 · 188 pages
A tense, emotionally charged exploration of what happens when a carefully buried past walks back into a meticulously ordered present.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like watching a carefully constructed dam begin to crack under the pressure of a rising tide. The narrative maintains a steady, emotionally charged pace, trapping the reader in the suffocating tension of forced proximity and unresolved history. It is a deeply angsty, introspective experience that thrives on the friction between a desire for safety and the undeniable pull of a disturbing, instantaneous attraction. The prose is earnest and focused on internal emotional turbulence, capturing the messy reality of resentment tangling with unwanted desire. It will delight readers who crave intense, character-driven relationship dramas where the ghosts of a teenage past refuse to stay buried, threatening to upend a perfectly ordered adult life.
- Mood
- emotionally charged
- unsettled
- claustrophobic
- yearning
- Tone
- earnest
- tense
- angsty
- dramatic
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- unresolved past · forced proximity · undeniable attraction · disruption of safety · second-chance tension
- The writing
- Emotionally direct and introspective, focusing heavily on internal conflict and visceral physical reactions.
- The arc
- Moves from a state of carefully maintained emotional safety into a turbulent, overwhelming reawakening of buried desires and resentments.
- Who it's for
- Readers who devour intense, character-driven relationship dramas centered on forced proximity and the messy collision of past history with present reality.
Content notes
- workplace proximity
- emotional distress
About the book
It was a shock to have him back in her life... — Lucas Tremayne had played an overwhelming role in her teenage past. Now, as the new writer-in-residence at the university where Amber was secretary to the dean, there was no way she could avoid him. — While Amber hoped the past could stay buried, it nevertheless gave her a strange feeling of rejecti... more »on to find that she no longer held his interest.
Because whatever else she might feel about Luke--anger, resentment, fear of his upsetting her careful little world--her physical response to him was still instantaneous and disturbing!
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