I've had these sitting on my shelf for four months now, and I'm thinking of making SMOKESCREEN my holiday live-blog read. Y/N? #romance #romancelandia #harlequinpresents #AggressivelyMasculine #HerOwnStepson

The front covers, with art by Will Davies and William Biddle, respectively. They're numbers 500 (THE DARK ABYSS) and 509 (SMOKESCREEN).

The back covers. Respectively, they read: AMNESIA WRAPPED HER IN ITS SOFT COCOON Luce had awakened in hospital with no memory. And the New Zealand police, despite an extensive search, had found no trace of her former self. So for two years she had simply got on with living. Then she met Conn Ramsay...and something stirred in her darkened mind. Every glance he gave her, every touch evoked a passionate response. Surely she must have known him intimately in the past. Luce couldn't help falling in love with Conn. But she feared him, too. He held the power to make her remember... [and] ALEX WAS NOT THE MAN SHE EXPECTED HIM TO BE The time for Olivia's revenge had come. Her elderly husband, Henry Gantry, was dead. She'd take Henry's monument to himself, his fabulously wealthy corporation, and either sell it or put it in the hands of the son he'd disowned! But Alex Gantry was an unknown quantity. Suave and clever, he was too aggressively masculine for his own good. Then why did he affect her as he did? Her own stepson! She'd never felt a physical attraction for any man before. Why this one?

Went to a book sale and found these two bonkers-looking vintage (1982) Harlequin Presents: THE DARK ABYSS by Robyn Donald, and SMOKESCREEN by Anne Mather.

Amnesia and getting revenge on your late husband by fucking his estranged son? CLASSIC, 10/10, no notes.

#romance #romancelandia #herownstepson