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No second parting
First published 1977 · 192 pages
A snowbound marriage of convenience crackling with unresolved history and the desperate hope for a second chance at love.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage romance feels like stepping into a cozy but emotionally fraught snow globe. The atmosphere is thick with the tension of unresolved history, trapping the reader in a snowbound setting where every glance and clipped conversation carries the weight of past heartbreak. It moves at a brisk, dialogue-heavy pace, leaning into the delicious angst of a marriage of convenience that is anything but convenient for the heart. The prose is straightforward yet melodramatic, perfectly capturing the intense internal turmoil of a heroine caught between self-preservation and lingering desire. It is a deeply satisfying comfort read for fans of classic category romance who love watching icy, guarded walls slowly melt into vulnerable, hard-won affection.
- Mood
- snowbound
- tense
- nostalgic
- emotionally charged
- Tone
- earnest
- melodramatic
- angsty
- intense
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- marriage of convenience · second chances · unresolved history · healing past wounds · motherhood
- The writing
- Straightforward and emotionally heightened, leaning into the dramatic internal monologues characteristic of 1970s category romance.
- The arc
- Moves from guarded bitterness and reluctant duty to the vulnerable surrender of a rekindled, hard-won love.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave the delicious angst of vintage category romances featuring marriages of convenience and snowbound forced proximity.
Content notes
- grief
- past heartbreak
About the book
Could she say goodbye again
Logan Tate had walked out of Marianne's life eight years before, breaking her heart as cruely as he had broken their engagement. Now he was back--a widower, with a little girl who desperately needed a mother.
"I want to marry you for my daughter's sake," Logan said bluntly. "Our relationship would be strictly platonic. I'd provide you with a home and security...."
Marianne had to decide. She could either become Logan's wife in a loveless marriage, or lose him forever.
Description from Open Library.
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