- Mass Market Paperback: 422 pages
- Publisher: Avon (July 9 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061235245
- ISBN-13: 978-0061235245
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.9 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #325,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Anne St. Georges may be Marchioness of Waverly, Countess of Campton and Highglow, Baroness of Feldstone, Viscountess of Lyons and one day Duchess of Rutherford?but she is not happy. Four years earlier, Dominick St. Georges compromised her in a garden, married her and then left his unconsummated marriage to travel, raise horses and entertain assorted mistresses. Anne, derided as an American adventuress and shunned by society, has lived a quiet life managing her husband's estate and making friends with his grandfather, the powerful Duke of Rutherford, who actually engineered the match. When Dom returns home for his father's funeral, he sees how well Anne has developed and naturally decides to stay. Will she have him? With interminable heaving of her (small) breasts, Joyce's heroine vacillates passionately and unendingly. Someone is understandably trying to kill her. Could it be Dom? Or perhaps the beautiful, buxom Felicity, whom Dom jilted? Or Felicity's brother Patrick, who supposedly loves Anne but is in the throes of an emotional crisis? And who is trying to frame Dom for the murder of his father's male lover? This heavy-handed, sexual melodrama set in Victorian England is weighted down by a supposedly sensible heroine who is in fact perpetually overwrought and denser than a hedge.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.
From Library Journal
Compromised, married, and abruptly abandoned, Anne St. Georges spends the next four years hating her errant husband, Dominick, and trying to get on with her life. But when Dom returns to Waverly Hall for his father's untimely funeral, old passions resurface, and Anne and Dom are forced to face a past that holds secrets they had never imagined. Gothically dark and filled with hot, ungentle sex, this page-turner is typical of much of Joyce's (The Game, Avon, 1994) work. While readers may like the intriguing premise and plot twists, they may also be put off by the hero's near-rape of the heroine and the leaden dialog and uneven writing. [Joyce lives in New York City.]
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Gotta love it,
By Gisele (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beyond Scandal (Mass Market Paperback)
I must say that I was fortunate enough to have found a copy of this book recently.. I am a new fan to the old writtings of Brenda Joyce... I have read several of her true romance books.. Like splendor... and captive as well as others and just like those I found this one just a good.. I love a good book that takes you away and gives you such superb writting that it is so easy to visualize everything that you are reading..I would recommend this and any other of Brenda Joyce's works..
1.0 out of 5 stars
BORING AND UPSETTING,
By A Customer
This review is from: Beyond Scandal (Mass Market Paperback)
I am sorry but I felt no simpathy for both heros ! HIM: his disappearance for 4 years is unacceptable if only based on his fear of love (not really realistic ). They didn't have a good conversation about that. HER : I think she is very very weak, not at all in phase with what she accomplished for 4 years (running the estate by herself). She was too influencable for my liking. She didn't back up her husband when he needed it.
1.0 out of 5 stars
BORING AND UPSETTING,
By A Customer
This review is from: Beyond Scandal (Mass Market Paperback)
I am sorry but I felt no simpathy for both heros ! HIM: his disappearance for 4 years is unacceptable if only based on his fear of love (not really realistic ). They didn't have a good conversation about that. HER : I think she is very very weak, not at all in phase with what she accomplished for 4 years (running the estate by herself). She was too influencable for my liking. She didn't back up her husband when he needed it.
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