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Deception
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Shane Driscoll was in desperate need of a woman --- though not for the obvious reasons. The dashing lord was actually quite the ladies' man, but when capricious King Charles decided to marry him off, Shane came up with his own choice: the enchanting Lady Claire.
Claire had certainly picked the wrong sheep to fleece this time! Caught red-handed, she had no option but to play her part in the nobleman's bizarre scheme. Yet acting her way through the opulent charade was surprisingly easy compared to hiding her heart from the irresistible Shane.
Shane Driscoll was in desperate need of a woman --- though not for the obvious reasons. The dashing lord was actually quite the ladies' man, but when capricious King Charles decided to marry him off, Shane came up with his own choice: the enchanting Lady Claire.
Claire had certainly picked the wrong sheep to fleece this time! Caught red-handed, she had no option but to play her part in the nobleman's bizarre scheme. Yet acting her way through the opulent charade was surprisingly easy compared to hiding her heart from the irresistible Shane.
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1993
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Ruth Ryan Langan
167 books113 followersRuth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
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February 22, 2015
Love this author. Have been reading all her books since this one.
August 4, 2017
My Fair Lady versione seicentesca.
Premio l'ambientazione insolita alla corte di Carlo II, che non è certo la più comune, per un romanzetto abbastanza insignificante.
Naturalmente a differenza del film con la Hepburn, qui la nostra eroina non è davvero una stracciona delle strade di londra raccattata dall'eroe di turno che la veste, trucca e parrucca per spacciarla per la sua fidanzata (ah, i soliti re che pretendono che i loro migliori amici si sposino quando loro stessi sono allergici alla cosa...).
La condiscendenza/ingenutà dei domestici sarebbe degna di plauso, se non per il fatto che con questi atteggiamenti valletto e governante non sono molto idonei alla loro professione.
La RIVELAZIONE finale, poi, potevano anche evitarla, non sarebbe stato Carlo II a mettere un veto sulle amanti dei suoi amici, considerando che nella sua lista si annoverava Lady Castlemaine, giusto per dirne una, o la venditrice di arance Nell Gwynn e in quanto a scandali il nostro re non era secondo a nessuno a corte.
Premio l'ambientazione insolita alla corte di Carlo II, che non è certo la più comune, per un romanzetto abbastanza insignificante.
Naturalmente a differenza del film con la Hepburn, qui la nostra eroina non è davvero una stracciona delle strade di londra raccattata dall'eroe di turno che la veste, trucca e parrucca per spacciarla per la sua fidanzata (ah, i soliti re che pretendono che i loro migliori amici si sposino quando loro stessi sono allergici alla cosa...).
La condiscendenza/ingenutà dei domestici sarebbe degna di plauso, se non per il fatto che con questi atteggiamenti valletto e governante non sono molto idonei alla loro professione.
La RIVELAZIONE finale, poi, potevano anche evitarla, non sarebbe stato Carlo II a mettere un veto sulle amanti dei suoi amici, considerando che nella sua lista si annoverava Lady Castlemaine, giusto per dirne una, o la venditrice di arance Nell Gwynn e in quanto a scandali il nostro re non era secondo a nessuno a corte.
July 29, 2019
Remember the cloak-and-dagger movies of the 1950/60s? With passion that runs 1/2 inch deep at the most and the suspense (show of violence) was suitable for all ages?
This describes this book in a nutshell
I had to force myself to finish reading this book
This describes this book in a nutshell
I had to force myself to finish reading this book
December 5, 2017
Preso in scambio per un libro assieme ad altri due, ma se mi ispirava poco un motivo c’era. Intanto gli intrighi non fanno per me, poi la narrazione è davvero fiacca. Peccato.
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