![]() ![]() She’s loved Lord Harry Osborne all her life, and Genevieve is stunned when he tells her he’s decided to ask their best friend, the lovely Millicent, to marry him. ![]() He’s able to see beyond her stoic exterior to the hurt and betrayal she’s recently suffered, thus he’s found the vulnerability he needs for his plan to succeed. She’s not as beautiful as her sister, but as he steadily gets to know the young woman, his perception of her changes while his intent does not. ![]() When he first meets Genevieve, he’s a little underwhelmed. His sense of humor, bridled with his arrogance and vulnerabilities, that make him such a complex hero, and I fell for him hard.įalconbridge is out for revenge, aiming to take advantage of Ian Eversea’s sister for the man’s seduction of the duke’s fiance. ![]() It’s Alex, Duke of Falconbridge, who steals the show for me. This is my first book by this author and I have fallen in love with her characters from this series. Well, after finishing this book I know I’ve been missing some terrific stories by Julie Anne Long. Historical Romance published by Avon 22 Feb 11 Sandy M’s review of What I Did for a Duke (Pennyroyal Green Series, Book 5)by Julie Anne Long ![]()
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![]() The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies. I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it MAY be true. When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative. Tarzan of the Apes: The Original 1914 Edition (Hardcover) ISBN: 9781645940975 ISBN-10: 1645940977 Publisher: Suzeteo Enterprises Publication Date: September. Tarzan of the Apes Artifact Portfolio (1912-1914) - includes exact. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. You are invited to Pre-Order The Artist Edition of Tarzan of the Apes which will be. ![]() This is the rarest state (for many years unrecorded). ![]() ![]() I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. First Edition, First Binding without the acorn on the spine. ![]() ![]() ![]() The best parts of this novel demand that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeply felt understanding of human psychology. Sheldon is a revealingly autobiographical figure Annie is not merely a monster but is subtly and often touchingly portrayed, allowing hostage and keeper a believable, if twisted, relationship. Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. Studded among the frightening moments are sparkling reflections on the writer and his audience, on the difficulties, joys and responsibilities of being a storyteller, on the nature of the muse, on the differences between "serious'' and "popular'' writing. ![]() Keeping the paralyzed Sheldon prisoner, she forces him to revive the character in a continuation of the series, and she reads each page as it comes out of the typewriter there is a joyously Dickensian novel within a novel here, and it appears in faded typescript. Sheldon has killed off Misery Chastain, the popular protagonist of his Misery series and Annie, who has a murderous past, wants her back. Paul Sheldon, a writer of historical romances, is in a car accident rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes, he slowly realizes that salvation can be worse than death. King's new novel, about a writer held hostage by his self-proclaimed "number-one fan,'' is unadulteratedly terrifying. ![]() |