Books › Taken on Trust
Taken on Trust
192 pages
A vintage, angst-filled journey across the sea where emotional baggage is the heaviest cargo.
What it feels like
This vintage romance delivers a deeply nostalgic and emotionally turbulent reading experience, anchoring its drama in the heavy baggage of family betrayal and the terrifying vulnerability of new love. The narrative moves at a steady, character-driven pace, trapping its protagonists in the delicious forced proximity of a long sea voyage where simmering tensions have nowhere to hide. The prose is earnest and heavily focused on internal emotional landscapes, capturing every ounce of the heroine's bitter reluctance and the hero's determined pursuit. It feels like a classic, stormy melodrama, drenched in the specific, high-stakes angst of twentieth-century category romance. Readers who love watching a fiercely guarded heart slowly dismantle its defenses will devour this tempestuous, sea-swept love story.
- Mood
- emotionally turbulent
- sea-swept
- nostalgic
- tense
- Tone
- dramatic
- earnest
- angsty
- romantic
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- healing from family trauma · learning to trust · forced proximity · vulnerability of love · overcoming bitterness
- The writing
- Straightforward and emotionally charged, leaning into the dramatic internal monologues characteristic of vintage category romance.
- The arc
- The protagonist moves from a place of bitter, guarded isolation to a vulnerable, hard-won acceptance of love and trust.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave the nostalgic, high-angst emotional push-and-pull of classic vintage Harlequin romances.
Content notes
- family estrangement
- parental divorce
- emotional manipulation
About the book
Heroine is living on a kibbutz after her parents divorce. She is very bitter about her fathers remarriage. Her father sends the hero, morgan, to bring her back to england. He has picked up a classic car to take back for a friend so they embark on a one month voyage on a ship. On the voyage they fall in love and marry but her ongoing hurt over her parents divorce, her dislike of her stepmother and her distrust of Morgan's motives get in the way of their happiness.
Description from Open Library.
Books like Taken on Trust
See why they match
Trust Me, My LoveSally HeywoodA tense, swoony romance where undeniable attraction collides with hidden agendas in the rugged world of horse training.
UltimatumSally WentworthA stormy vintage romance where a whirlwind marriage is tested by a high-stakes clash of wills and the terrifying specter of loss.
Liberated LadySally WentworthA fiery, vintage battle of the sexes where forced proximity turns ideological clashes into undeniable chemistry.
BelongingSally CookA nostalgic blend of family mystery and classic romance set against the backdrop of a secretive English country estate.
Inherit Your LoveSally CookA crackling, emotionally heightened clash of wills where duty and undeniable attraction collide across continents.
The man from TripoliMarisa CarrollA whirlwind vintage romance of impulsive decisions, sun-drenched locales, and the turbulent journey from resentment to passionate surrender.