The Countess (Paperback)

by Claire Delacroix (Author) "EGLANTINE WAS GROWING TO LOATHE THEOBALD with a most uncharacteristic vigor ..." (more)

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Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Dell (Aug 8 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440236347
ISBN-13: 978-0440236344
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 182 g

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Don't miss the Acclaimed Bride Quest Series:
"The Bride Quest series brings back the glorious time of knights and their ladies in living color, filling our world of dreams with rainbow streams of magnificent adventures, mysteries, ribald humor, and divine lovers."
-- The Belles and Beaux of Romance
The Princess
The Damsel
The Heiress
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Don't miss the Acclaimed Bride Quest Series:

"The Bride Quest series brings back the glorious time of knights and their ladies in living color, filling our world of dreams with rainbow streams of magnificent adventures, mysteries, ribald humor, and divine lovers."
-- The Belles and Beaux of Romance

The Princess
The Damsel
The Heiress

Available from Bantam Dell

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Bride Quest continues ....wonderful!, Oct 17 2000

By	Vyvyan Dunlap "annievyv" (Middlebury, IN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After reading the trilogy Bride Quest series; The Princess, The Damsel, and The Heiress...I was more than thrilled when Claire Delacroix gave us The Countess. The interweaving of each character unfolds into a dynamic historic setting that draws you in til the very end. These books are not just average ..they are well researched and well written. I look forward to reading more in, The Beauty, when it comes out.

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4.0 out of 5 stars And the Bride Quest Continues!!, Sep 7 2000

By	Deborah L. Kepler "Deb Kepler" (Carthage, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When Countess Eglantine de Crevy leaves her late husband's estate for the wilds of Scotland, she expects to find the castle Kinbeath. Instead, she finds a ruin and a clan chieftain claiming the ruin as his own. Duncan MacLaren has no intention of giving up his claim on Kinbeath, espically to a highborn, spoiled Countess, even if she does hold the deed to the land. Eglantine is determined to rebuild Kinbeath and turn it into a fine manor once again, and she will not let some barbarien Scotsman stand in her way. She intends to launch a bride quest for her three daughters, so that they may have a match made in love instead of being made for money. Little does she know that Duncan is just as determined to get the Countess into his bed and into his heart. He sets out on a bride quest of his own: To win the heart of the icemaiden Eglantine de Crevy and make her his bride, whether she likes it or not!!

If you have read the first three 'Bride Quest" books, make sure you read this one too. Claire Delacroix is a wonderful writer with a flair for writing of Scotish lore with all of their fantasies and fairy beliefs.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Countess, Aug 15 2000

By	Affaire de Coeur (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews

The newly widowed Countess Eglantine de Crevy finds that her husband has illegally sold the property given to the couple by her brother. And the purchaser is none other than the man whom she abhorred. Shamed and angered, she gathers up her family and entourage and heads north to a piece of property her husband inherited. In the far Scottish highlands, she arrives at the rundown Kinbeath only to find that it is occupied by Duncan MaClarn. Each is proud and vows not to give up Kinbeath, a bargain is struck and a hand fast marriage of a year and a day takes place. Though Duncan awakens passions, Eglantine vows not to surrender. Duncan has other plans. A must for fans of Claire Delacroix. A light tale of romance that lacks the realism usually provided by background and description. And how does a woman with two children and a few knights and her servants travel from England to Edinburgh than on the far northern Highlands with no finances?

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