- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Onyx (MM) (Jan 19 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451404424
- ISBN-13: 978-0451404428
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
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In 1860 Trevor Shelby and Leah Reese are lovers who are thwarted both individually and as a couple. Trevor's sadistic father refuses to allow him to become a doctor; Leah's parents want her to wed, in spite of her own wishes for an education. Class also separates the two: Trevor's family owns a plantation; Leah's father is an overseer for Trevor's friend, Robert De Moise. Trevor must go away in order to set right the destiny of his sister, Bella, whom he has not seen for nine years; in his absence, the jealous Robert lies and tells Leah that Trevor has no plans to return and later fails to deliver a letter from Trevor in which he asks her to wait for him. Meanwhile, Leah's parents marry her off to a crude farmer, and before long she starts showing with Trevor's child. The Civil War adds to the torment of the separated lovers. Some elements, such as Trevor's father's decay from syphilis, have impact, and the initial chemistry between the lovers is sweetly convincing, but Cantrell ( Calico ) draws out her plot with artificial complications. Leah's interest in Tennyson and her affection for Trevor raise interesting questions about class, which are then avoided by positing that Leah is an exception in her family.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Torn apart by class differences, deception, and the Civil War, Trevor Shelby and Leah Reese are reunited amid the ashes of the Old South, and they try to rediscover their romance.
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Complex and heart-rending story, Mar 18 2007
By Sarah E. Oliver "biogirl50" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tarnished Hearts (Paperback)
This is the first book I have read by this author. I will read more of her work. I began reading Tarnished Hearts about 6pm in the evening and was so captured by it that I finished it in the wee hours of that same night. The main characters are complex and you quickly become engrossed in their lives. They are more than the one dimensional characters that often appear in this type of novel. And in the course of the story, they grow and change and in the end they are not really the same people they were in the beginning. I liked that about this book. These people seemed more like real people than in most stories of this kind. The plot is more complicated than in most as well. There are threads of Trev's (hero) painful and tortured past with his family, Leah's (heroine) near slavery to her own family's plans for her and her desire to live her own dreams, betrayal by those you trust most, a country torn apart by civil war, and so much more. And as the Trev and Leah struggle to overcome all the obstacles and fight to be together, you will find yourself not wanting to put down the book for even a few minutes. I highly recommend this book to any fan of true love conquering all!
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