Lonely Season [Import] [Hardcover]

Susan Napier (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon (May 9, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263111040
• ISBN-13: 978-0263111040
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still The Best After 16 Years!!, October 23, 2003

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Dr. Braxy "Brax :o)" (Alexandria, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Lonely Season (Harlequin Presents, No 940) (Paperback)

When I was in 11th grade, The Lonely Season was released and I read it. It was one of the most magnificent books I'd read because it didn't follow the usual archaic romance formula. This was a story with a twist and one of the first with a book within a book (Gina, the main character, is writing a book).

The interesting thing about The Lonely Season is that it remains my very favorite romance book. And, by now, I've ready nearly thousands of them.

Basic plot (purely from memory) is about a wonderful little girl who suffers a tragic accident which not only harms her, but helps her, too. It's a "silver lining on the storm cloud" situation where without this accident which robbed her of her confidence, her flair, and her voice, Gina would have become the same self-centered, pampered and materialistic Barbie's that her mother and sisters have become. Instead, Gina is forced to endure operation after operation, learn sign language, and develop a personality sans voice. All of this assists her in reaching other children with disabilities through touch, sign language, art and love.

Unfortunately, with the good comes the bad in the form of Nevin, the man whom she thinks loves her and SEES her despite her handicap. While she gives her young heart in gratitude to Nevin, he is secretly using her to escape a wife and her demanding brother, Leo (A Publisher). The encounter of all these characters culminates in an incredibly humiliating experience for Gina and immediate hatred for her by Leo.

So, years later, Gina takes solace in writing a novel under a psuedonym and is given use of a cabin on an island where she can really concentrate. She meets a little boy she assumes is a Native and befriends him; discovering that he is hearing impaired. As they grow closer, a hurricane rips apart her cabin and her stability when she is forced to move to the main house on the island owned by Nick's father -- LEO!!

Again, if you have been reading romance novels for ever, or are a beginner, The Lonely Season is one of the absolute BEST!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most romantic - reality isn't so far away after all., October 27, 1998

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This review is from: The Lonely Season (Harlequin Presents, No 940) (Paperback)

I love this book, because when I was 11 years old I had asthma pretty bad and this book gave me hope that despite a handicap, love isn't just a fantasy. The way she united with the child and touch him when he couldn't be, was fantastic. The redemption of love is beyond all disadvantage, reason and despair. Great book- don't dismiss this one because it's short and a romance. Sometimes, romance is short and sweet.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Love--we all need it., February 22, 2003

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This review is from: The Lonely Season (Harlequin Presents, No 940) (Paperback)

Back Cover description: Self-control was only a mask she wore. Gina Bennett, victim of a freak accident, had suffered plenty. She wasn't about to let her publisher, Leo Sterne, open old wounds--especially the memory of her disastrous first infatuation. It was bad enough that Leo thought she'd ruined his sister's marriage....Now he wanted much more than an admission of her guilt. He needed her to help his deaf young son. And against his will, he wanted her. All Gina wanted was to forget--forget the past, her loneliness and her need for love. But Leo and the boy made that impossible.

Gina had an accident at 16; she lost the use of her voice. She finally has it back, and runs into Leo on his island. Leo is dragging his own emotional baggage around and to top it off he finally gets custody of his son. Lots of different plot threads here and an unusual storyline. Fans of Ms. Napier should give this a try.