A Wilder Shore

From the back cover: She gave five years away to the wrong man. At eighteen Elise had eagerly accepted Peter Westwood's engagement ring. He was handsome and ambitious and her parents approved. Then she met Shard Cortland - a construction man whose effect on her she found hard to resist. But she opted for the "good" life and hastily married Peter. Now, after Peter's death and five years later, Shard had reappeared wanting to marry her. Their mutual attraction remained unchanged, but marriage with Shard would be risky: she doubted his integrity and knew he had no use for love! MY THOUGHTS: Wow, what can I say, this book was kinda angsty 0_0 My Mom lent me this book only cause I did her a favor and found the HP novels she was desperately searching for. AKA this is one of my Mom's favorite HP novels. Initially when my Mom told me the synopsis, I was semi turned off/not interested. She said something about the hero becoming poor later and giving the heroine whatever she wants to make her happy and I'm like: what??? you mean the hero is gonna be in poverty? why??? (I know I'm such a greedy person 0_0, but I figured it was fiction, so I want my usual mega rich heroes =P ) and why does the heroine sound like a "b" Mom??? I don't wanna read it! Mom's like, No, its good, its good. Needless to say I did read it, and yes, its good. But oh man!!! Just like the other novel I read, sometimes, its painful to me to read so much angst. SPOILERS ALERT Since my Mom basically spoiled the story for me, I already knew what to expect. The back cover already tells you most of the plot. Bottomline is, this is the story of a man who REALLY loves the heroine and does whatever he can to have her and keep her and make her happy 0_0 even though he knows (or should i say thinks =P) the heroine married him for his wealth. Now isn't that sweet!!! His love is one of those -> I only want her happiness even if I can't have her heart - awww......! As usual with angsty HP novels, it'll take me a few months to re-read coz <sniff> I feel bad. It's not really a super angsty book its just that with my knowing that the hero loves the heroine more than she does him (or so he thinks) I kinda feel bad for the hero. But the heroine is not a bad cookie. In the beginning she ran away from her feelings and married someone else but after, she does make some sort of amends. Also usually I don't like those novels where the heroine was married before and if they were, I'd prefer their exhusband/dead husband was a bastard so I would love the hero more 0_0 But in this particular book, he seemed like a nice guy and I wasn't disappointed/mad or felt it retracted from that story. Yeah, poor dead husband, but at least he never knew that the heroine had deeper feelings for someone else. But yeah, I definitely still feel bad for the hero coz he really did love the heroine and she married someone else... awww... anyway, I'm repeating myself. This book is really good. I wish I could say I'm gonna keep this