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Double doubting
191 pages
A sun-drenched, emotionally intense vintage romance about letting go of ghosts to embrace a terrifyingly passionate future.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage romance feels like stepping into a sun-drenched, emotionally charged time capsule of the 1980s. The atmosphere is thick with yearning and a delicious, almost claustrophobic tension as the protagonist finds herself stranded in a glamorous French estate. It reads at a brisk, breathless pace, driven by the sheer force of an overwhelming, all-consuming attraction that threatens the heroine's carefully constructed emotional walls. The prose is wonderfully melodramatic and earnest, leaning heavily into the high-stakes internal conflict of choosing between the safe, fading memory of a past love and the terrifying vulnerability of a new one. It is a perfect, indulgent escape for readers who love the fierce alpha heroes and dramatic emotional arcs of classic Harlequin Presents.
- Mood
- sun-drenched
- tense
- yearning
- claustrophobic
- Tone
- earnest
- melodramatic
- intense
- romantic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- moving on from grief · fear of vulnerability · overwhelming attraction · second chances · surrender to passion
- The writing
- Emotionally heightened and dramatic, focusing heavily on internal conflict and the physical presence of the love interest.
- The arc
- The protagonist moves from clinging to the safe, fading memory of her past to risking her heart on an overwhelming, all-consuming new love.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave the intense, high-stakes emotional drama and glamorous European settings of vintage 1980s category romance.
Content notes
- grief
- widowhood
- vintage romance power dynamics
About the book
Her defenses were dangerously weak
Liz had tried to keep her husband's memory alive after his death, but with the years, his image had misted over and receded from her. In Avignon, where they'd been happy, she hoped his image would crystallize and comfort her again.
But on her way to Avignon, Liz became stranded at the home of Jean-Marc St. Clair, a man who invaded her thoughts and threatened her security. Jean-Mares eyes promised everything she'd lost--and more.
He promised nothing less than a fearsome kind of love that would require Liz's complete surrender--heart, soul, body and mind.
Description from Open Library.
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