Amanda Davenport seems unprepared for the harshness of the place O’Reilly calls home, and yet he finds himself inexplicably drawn to this proud woman and the fire he knows exists beneath her refined exterior. The last thing he wants is the prim and proper Englishwoman who arrives to care for his unruly children. All he needs is his land, his work, and the company of the children he adores. Patrick O’Reilly loves life in the wilderness.
In this, her third novel, the multitalented author of Night in Eden returns to the glorious setting of nineteenth century Australia, to the ancient, primal vistas of the outback, to a land as untamed as a man’s soul… And as Jordan seeks to shield her from this unexpected danger, Gabrielle finds herself swept away by a passion as tempting as sin itself… Determined to transform the house of ill repute into an honorable enterprise, Gabrielle soon locks horns with an unscrupulous rival.
Worse, her mother’s business partner, Jordan Hays a rugged, cynical loner embodies everything Gabrielle fears…Īnd secretly desires. ’ The BequestWhen Gabrielle Antoine arrives in the rough mining town, the convent bred beauty is shocked by the decadence she finds there and stunned to learn she has just inherited a bordello from the mother she never knew. ‘What if he backs you up against a wall?’ He pinned her against the soft velvet of the door curtain. ‘What are you going to do the first time a man stalks up to you and puts his hand on you like this?’ At his touch she went rigid and sucked in an audible gasp of air. You don’t.’ ‘I can learn.’ ‘Can you?’ He came at her with that lean hipped walk she found so intimidatingly masculine. ‘Your mother could handle men better than anyone I’ve ever met. Against the sweeping panorama of a harsh, gorgeous, and unforgiving land, two hungering souls learn to trust, to love, and to triumph over the danger that will shadow their lives until destiny and desire become one. But the mother in her cannot turn away from Hayden’s needy infant and the woman in her cannot deny her passion for the rugged, enigmatic man she is bound to serve.
Broken in body but not in spirit she fights for light, and for her life, wanting no part of the man who would save her, Captain Hayden St. Night in EdenBryony Wentworth’s life is shattered when she is unjustly accused and sentenced to indentured servitude in New South Wales.
Here, in her deubt novel, she brings to vivid life a part of the Regency period rarely dramatized…Īnd creates sets of characters you will never forget. CANDICE PROCTOROnce in a great while a dazzling new writer appears on the scene with a historical romance so breathtaking that it sweeps readers off their feet.
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