Угадайте кто вернулся! Ее актерская карьера закончилась еще до начала, а банковский счет опустел, и Лила Оуэнс вернулась в свой крошечный родной городок, имея при себе лишь одну вещь - большой секрет в виде ее одиннадцатилетней дочери. Не успев и пяти минут побыть в городе, она столкнулась с невыносимо красивым парнем из неблагополучной семьи, которого она бросила, но никогда не забывала.
Только теперь Гас Хоффман вырос и стал настоящим мужчиной, владел большей частью города, был помолвлен с изысканной невестой и понятия не имел, что является отцом! Гас понимал, что красавица, которую он любил и потерял, скрывает от него что-то важное – и что встреча в полночь, как раньше, раскроет ее секреты.
Но сможет ли Гас справиться с правдой – и со своей все еще пылающей страстью к Лиле?
When Wendy Warren writes, Once More at Midnight — from a book call "Once More, at Midnight," — she knows how a story is usually told: the suspenseful encounter deepens as the hero uncovers more indelicate truths. It's even typical to readily guess the rest: the suburban dishwater-blonde Helen Hooper rebounds against the steely stinginess of Jonathon Vance when a trip to Florida reveals their paths unexpectedly linking again. Vanderloo Horne's solo joyous grandiosity soon finds her shackled with worry as what she could find in Vance is not found in his coldness. No sooner considered heedless than they both grapple with the harrowing ghosts of a war which seemingly had nothing to do with anything and yet is left hanging above them like a kite with a shattered string. Vernon Janklow never really understood that exception squeezed between interpretation and violence.
None of this particularity can fathom through Warren's stories, and she never truly allows readers to falsify within whatever box a hero sets herself — it's all too neatly packaged. Where narrative breaks down, emotions deteriorate, connections blur. Ultimately, if we never recognize familiarities and hesitate to be left with any clue we won't miss — at least Warren doesn't purpose our mystery.
Электронная Книга «Once More, At Midnight» написана автором Wendy Warren в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781408904756
Описание книги от Wendy Warren
Guess Who’s Back?!Her acting career over before it began and her bank account empty, Lilah Owens returned to her tiny home town, with the one thing she did have, a big secret in the form of her eleven-year-old daughter. Not five minutes in town, she ran into the unbearably handsome, born-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks boy she’d left behind but never forgot.Only now Gus Hoffman was all man, owned most of the town, had a fancy fiancée and had no idea that he was a father! Gus knew the beautiful woman he’d loved and lost was hiding something – and that meeting once more at midnight, the way they used to, would reveal her secrets.But could Gus handle the truth – and his still-burning passion for Lilah?
