A Season Beyond a Kiss

In her groundbreaking masterwork, The Flame and the Flower, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss first introduced readers to a remarkable love story. The incomparable author captivated her devoted audience again with the long-awaited sequel, The Elusive Flame. Now the magnificent story comes around full circle with . . . A Season Beyond a Kiss Her marriage to dashing American shipping magnate Jeff Birmingham signals the beginning of a wonderful new life for Raelynn Barrett. In the loving shelter of her husband's embrace, the pain of loss is diminished, as is her anger over her family's tragic and undeserved disgrace. But try as she might, Raelynn cannot close her ears to the cruel accusations and whispered rumors about her new spouse that buzz around her head like bees. And she cannot deny what her own eyes see, though the images before her seem to brand her darling Jeff as the worst sort of criminal, forcing her to flee his desire and his love. Yet Jeff knows he is innocent -- though he is unaware of the conspiracy that has shrouded his marriage in secrets and now imperils it with lies. And he will oppose the treachery with every fiber of his being in order to preserve his threatened happiness -- to win back the trust of the woman he cherishes...and secure his place forever in his beloved Raelynn's heart.

I looooved this book!! I cannot believe the awful reviews it got!!! I could not wait for it to come out after reading the first two Birmingham books and on the date it was released I ran out and bought it!!! I read it in one evening and to this day it sits on my favorites shelf with ALL of KW's books!! Thank you KW for another wonderful romance!

Well I must say that I have loved every book this woman has written. It all started twenty years ago when I read "The Flame and The Flower" I was hooked. This is Jeff's story and there are only two things that bothered me about this book. One was that "The Elusive Flame" which is Brandon's son's story came out before this and in it we found out that Jeff had married Raelynn and that they were deeply in love so we knew that everything had worked out well before this book made it's apprearance. The second was that this book seemed to start in the middle. The are already married and its a bit confusing finding out the whys and the hows. I did like the secondary characters in this book very much. I will still recommend this book to anyone but I think I'll tell them to read it before reading Beau's story.

I have never read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, and I don't even recall where I picked up A Season Beyond a Kiss. I loved this book! After reading some of these other reviews that rip apart this book, I don't understand... I fell in love with the love that Jeffrey had for Raelynn, and while it was frustrating that she took so long to come around, it was still very entertaining to read. I am now going to have to run out and get Kathleen Woodiwiss's other books, since all the reviews seem to rave about her other books...if Woodiwiss's fans felt this was a bad book, I can't wait to read what they rave about. I didn't feel there was anything wrong with this book.