Through Night and Day (Harlequin Superromance No. 147) [Paperback]

Irma Walker (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 380 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (December 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373701470
• ISBN-13: 978-0373701476
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,230,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Every time I read this book I cry, October 7, 2008

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This review is from: Through Night and Day (Harlequin Superromance No. 147) (Paperback)

Since there's absolutely no description of this book on amazon, I'll start with what it's about.

Mayi never knew who her father was and was raised by the system after her grandmother died when she was nine. When one of her friends died, leaving his insurance money to her, she decides to go to his home and make sure his family didn't need it and speak to them, while the place he lived was also where she had family roots.

While there she meets Laurens, who basically runs the town. Although they have a rough start they wind up falling in love and getting married. All that comes crashing down when she realises that Laurens is the brother of her friend that died, and Laurens gets a letter from the PI he hired to investigate his brother's death saying that Mayi was the only girl his brother had any involvement with, so she must be the girl that he'd written about who was a tart, using and leaving him.

To be honest, this book starts out in the typical older style romance where a young girl meets the powerful guy and they have horrible misunderstandings only to find out in the end they're madly in love and get married.

The beauty of it is, where other stories would end at that point, this one continues and that's where the true torment lies.

Not long after their happily ever after should happen something comes up that seems to completely destroy their love. Laurens's trust in Mayi is destroyed, and his lack of faith in her also hurts her as well.

What I like about this is that it goes into both sides of the story, Laurens's love and faith are completely dashed to find out the woman he thought he could be happy with and finally not alone had been using him for his money and was instrumental in his brother's death. Mayi knows that she's not the woman his brother described in the letter but all the proof is against her, she feels the only way she has hope of proving to Laurens that he's wrong is to stay and try to work things out.

The struggle and torment that they go through happens over a long period of time and is shown through songs that should be happy but show things they thought they could have that will never be theirs, and holidays that will forever have a twinge of remembered pain even if they can work things out.

I only rated this four stars because I thought the beginning part of the book was fairly boring. Still, even though my book has now fallen into three separate parts, I still keep it on my bookshelf and take it out now and then to read it.