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Red Petals
With her one chance at love taken from her, a dispirited Rosaline avoids spinsterhood and becomes the wife of a proper foreign diplomat, only to find a second chance at love as intrigue and danger bring the couple closer together. Original.
349 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1997
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July 18, 2016
Red Petals by Debra Hamilton
I like this story. It was a easy read.
The description of the book I am listing below is from the back jacket of the book. I'm adding it because I believe the one on the Goodreads page does not depict this story.
Jack Darlington was too handsome, too self-assured, too splendid by half for a plain, twenty-six-year-old diplomat's daughter from Edinburgh. Rosaline's one chance at love had been cruelly stolen, and now she had little choice but to be married off to this charming opportunist who would use her to enhance his career ... and his pleasures.
The raffish Foreign Office operative wanted little from his prim, level-headed bride, except a gentleman's home and a gentleman's way of life. Rosaline's good breeding ensured her ability to take his disorderly house and two ungovernable boys in hand. In return, he offered a reprieve from spinsterhood. Many marriages were made of less.
From the wild, forbidding shores of Scotland's Orkney Islands, to the warm, mysterious beauty of golden Egypt, Rosaline blossoms as a diplomat's wife and hostess as she forges a tentative bond with a man who possesses secrets she cannot fathom and a past that shadows their lives. But when danger and intrigue bring them closer together; a woman who refused to dream of the impossible will allow her heart a second chance at love...
I like this story. It was a easy read.
The description of the book I am listing below is from the back jacket of the book. I'm adding it because I believe the one on the Goodreads page does not depict this story.
Jack Darlington was too handsome, too self-assured, too splendid by half for a plain, twenty-six-year-old diplomat's daughter from Edinburgh. Rosaline's one chance at love had been cruelly stolen, and now she had little choice but to be married off to this charming opportunist who would use her to enhance his career ... and his pleasures.
The raffish Foreign Office operative wanted little from his prim, level-headed bride, except a gentleman's home and a gentleman's way of life. Rosaline's good breeding ensured her ability to take his disorderly house and two ungovernable boys in hand. In return, he offered a reprieve from spinsterhood. Many marriages were made of less.
From the wild, forbidding shores of Scotland's Orkney Islands, to the warm, mysterious beauty of golden Egypt, Rosaline blossoms as a diplomat's wife and hostess as she forges a tentative bond with a man who possesses secrets she cannot fathom and a past that shadows their lives. But when danger and intrigue bring them closer together; a woman who refused to dream of the impossible will allow her heart a second chance at love...
May 24, 2016
Are you kidding me? I can't believe this book. *shake head*
I started to skip text, because I didn't want to drop it... but it would've been better if I had done so.
Despicable characters, annoying book.
I started to skip text, because I didn't want to drop it... but it would've been better if I had done so.
Despicable characters, annoying book.
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