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Dangerous Love
Emma Ruskin's flat-mates are amazed when she suddenly abandons her teaching career to become a governess. But Emma, restless and disillusioned with life -- and love -- is desperate for a complete change. She finds it in ample amount at Long Hempdon, the country estate of rich industrialist Herbert Akroyd, with its lifestyle of aristocratic formality, luxury and far removed from her east-end upbringing and cheerfully chaotic flat-share. Instead, Emma faces the irascible Mr Akroyd and his haughty family, all of whom treat her with the utmost contempt -- particularly Gavin, the effortlessly superior eldest son. Soon however, Emma recognises that he alone genuinely cares for ten-year-old Arabella, and their unexpected rapport both flatters and alarms her, since he is quite plainly out of her league. Then disaster strikes as both she and Arabella are violently snatched by kidnappers, intent on holding Akroyd's daughter for ransom. Imprisoned and terrified, Emma knows they'll be killed if the money isn't forthcoming -- unless Gavin can get to them first...
192 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1997
About the author
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
149 books502 followersCynthia Harrod-Eagles (aka Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennett)
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy.
She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC.
She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979. The series was originally intended to comprise twelve volumes, but it has proved so popular that it has now been extended to thirty-four.
In 1993 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year Award with Emily, the third volume of her Kirov Saga, a trilogy set in nineteenth century Russia.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy.
She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC.
She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979. The series was originally intended to comprise twelve volumes, but it has proved so popular that it has now been extended to thirty-four.
In 1993 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year Award with Emily, the third volume of her Kirov Saga, a trilogy set in nineteenth century Russia.
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