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Summary: Indecent Proposal!
Review: Daniel Thorpe walked into an empty art studio and sees Miranda Stuart naked! He assumes that she's the mistress of the person who owns the studio and he can't be farther from the truth! It turns out that Miranda was posing to get some extra money and the owner was late but Daniel doesn't listen to this. Daniel drags her off to a restaurant to feed her when Miranda was about to faint from starvation and during her meal, Daniel looks down on her on her supposed profession as being a prostitute. Then he proposes that she become his Aunt Sylvia's companion. She agrees only when he blackmails her through her friends. Daniel takes Miranda to Paris and Miranda starts to worry because besides being Sylvia's companion, he plans to sleep with her!I found YESTERDAY AND FOREVER to be a good read. Damiel has his problems and he could be very overbearing but I guess the hero can't be perfect. Miranda has spirit and it shows when she slaps him and in her drawings. I found myself hooked in the beginning when they first met and I got a little bit turned off when Daniel seems to turn hot and cold sometimes, especially when he seems to win against Miranda in every little way. But YESTERDAY AND FOREVER is a good read. ^_^ ~ Izzy
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Summary: Yesterday & Forever? Nope.
Review: From the back cover: "Daniel Thorpe was tall, dark & gorgeous, with money to burn. And from the first moment he saw Miranda Stuart - naked! - he knew she was going to be trouble...and that he wanted her whatever the cost! Miranda might be financially challenged, but that didn't mean she was ready to be bought! However, when a man like Daniel offered to take you to Paris, it was tempting to accept, and think about what he really had in mind - later..." I was attracted to this book because of the international setting, and the 'letter' from the author, inside, describing this as a "what if" story, about a young woman artist and a fascinating man she meets. The first few pages were interesting, describing Miranda's dilemma, and something of her life as an art scholarship recipient in Amsterdam. Sadly, then we get to the hero. He's awful. He fits all the worst stereotypes of the old style "romance" hero. He walks in to the Art studio where she is waiting to model, sees her waiting, nude, jumps to conclusions, will not listen to the heroine, is mean to her (grabbing her arm, accusing her of being a prostitute, etc.) He bosses her around and generally behaves very disrespectfully. We're supposed to excuse this because he assumes she is a bad person? Because forces her to let him buy her a meal, takes her to a very nice place and then bullies the waiter to seat them in the window, making a spectacle of the heroine in a place where other patrons are described as laughing at her? Frankly, I don't have time in my life to read "romance" novels that leave me with a distaste of the hero.
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Summary: Sandra's Comments
Review: Hi: I'm Sandra Marton, and I wrote YESTERDAY AND FOREVER. I wrote it after I saw a beautiful young American art student gazing at a painting in an Amsterdam museum. A very handsome man stood nearby, supposedly looking at a painting, but I could see that he was actually watching the girl. She looked poor; he looked rich and just a little bit dangerous. I began to wonder what would happen if they actually met, especially if they met in an artist's studio, where she was about to pose nude...
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Summary: Yesterday and Forever
Review: I read it in 2 hours and couldn't put the book down. I was hooked. I was sympathetic to Daniel's and Miranda's plights-and Sophie was a riot. At one point I nearly cried. You(Sandra)have a knack of getting your characters to show their true selves with words and deeds. Keep writing! Reading your books are great inspiration. Keep writing those wonderful books. They are great reads and I often read them again and again.
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Summary: A FAN'S REVIEW
Review: I read it in 2 hours and couldn't put the book down. I was hooked. I was sympathetic to Daniel's and Miranda's plights - and Sophie was a riot. At one point I nearly cried. You have a knack of getting your characters to show their true selves with words and deeds. Keep writing those wonderful books. They are great reads and I often read them again and again. Sincerely, Toni Kroening
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Summary: Yesterday and Forever
Review: I read it in 2 hours and couldn't put the book down. I was hooked. I was sympathetic to Daniel's and Miranda's plights-and Sophie was a riot. At one point I nearly cried. You(Sandra)have a knack of getting your characters to show their true selves with words and deeds. Keep writing! Reading your books are great inspiration. Keep writing those wonderful books. They are great reads and I often read them again and again.
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