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The Passionate Touch
Eva lowered her camera and allowed her eyes to meet the sophisticated stranger's challenging gaze. How could she know that soon he would no longer be a stranger? Soon his lips would seize hers, silencing her protests, dominating her with the force of brute animal instinct.
Only weeks a widow, survivor of a loveless marriage, she had left a cold, sheltered world far behind. Had she come so far only to find herself lost in Roberto de Carvalho's arms? What strange new life awaited her here in the hot savage sunlight? What unexplored passions beckoned in the lush shadows of the Brazilian night?
Only weeks a widow, survivor of a loveless marriage, she had left a cold, sheltered world far behind. Had she come so far only to find herself lost in Roberto de Carvalho's arms? What strange new life awaited her here in the hot savage sunlight? What unexplored passions beckoned in the lush shadows of the Brazilian night?
- GenresRomance
188 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1981
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About the author
Bonnie Drake
5 books4 followersA pseudonym used by Barbara Delinsky
Barbara Ruth Greenberg was born on August 9, 1945, in Newton, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, where she raised in a family of lawyers. Her mother died of breast cancer, when she was eight, it was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary. She took piano lessons and flute lessons. She took ballroom dancing lessons. She went to summer camp through her fifteenth year (in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of her stories), then spent her sixteenth summer learning to type and to drive (two skills that have served her better than all of her other high school courses combined). In 1967, she earned a B.A. in psychology at Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology at Boston College in 1969. The motivation behind the M.A. was sheer greed. Her husband, Steve Delinsky, was just starting law school and they needed the money.
Following graduate school, she was a researcher for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After the birth of her first child, Andrew, she took a job as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald newspaper, and later for the Boston Herald. She also filled her time doing volunteer work at hospitals, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and their Women's Cancer Advisory Board.
Barbara's career in writing began in 1980, after having a pair of twins, Eric and Jeremy, when she read a newspaper article about romance fiction. She researched the field, read 40 to 50 category romances and sat down to begin her own. She found that her background in psychology was helpful in "planning the emotional entanglements of (her) characters," and claims that she has "pulled on virtually every aspect of (her) background and of (her) life experience in general (in her writing)."
Barbara Delinsky is nothing if not prolific. Since 1980, she has written well over 80 novels, and shows no sign of slowing down. She began signing her novels as Billie Douglass and as Bonnie Drake, now she signs her novels with her married name: Barbara Delinsky. More than 20 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into over a dozen foreign languages. From Romantic Times Magazine, she's received the Special Achievement Award (twice), the Reviewer's Choice Award and the Best Contemporary Romance Award. She's also received the Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion and Golden Leaf awards.
In 1994, Barbara was diagnosed breast cancer, like her mother. But it had surgery and treatment. And in 2001 she published the non-fiction Uplift: Secrets From the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors.
Now, the Delinsky family resides in Needham, Massachusetts, where Barbara's husband is a prominent local lawyer.
Barbara Ruth Greenberg was born on August 9, 1945, in Newton, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, where she raised in a family of lawyers. Her mother died of breast cancer, when she was eight, it was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary. She took piano lessons and flute lessons. She took ballroom dancing lessons. She went to summer camp through her fifteenth year (in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of her stories), then spent her sixteenth summer learning to type and to drive (two skills that have served her better than all of her other high school courses combined). In 1967, she earned a B.A. in psychology at Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology at Boston College in 1969. The motivation behind the M.A. was sheer greed. Her husband, Steve Delinsky, was just starting law school and they needed the money.
Following graduate school, she was a researcher for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After the birth of her first child, Andrew, she took a job as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald newspaper, and later for the Boston Herald. She also filled her time doing volunteer work at hospitals, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and their Women's Cancer Advisory Board.
Barbara's career in writing began in 1980, after having a pair of twins, Eric and Jeremy, when she read a newspaper article about romance fiction. She researched the field, read 40 to 50 category romances and sat down to begin her own. She found that her background in psychology was helpful in "planning the emotional entanglements of (her) characters," and claims that she has "pulled on virtually every aspect of (her) background and of (her) life experience in general (in her writing)."
Barbara Delinsky is nothing if not prolific. Since 1980, she has written well over 80 novels, and shows no sign of slowing down. She began signing her novels as Billie Douglass and as Bonnie Drake, now she signs her novels with her married name: Barbara Delinsky. More than 20 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into over a dozen foreign languages. From Romantic Times Magazine, she's received the Special Achievement Award (twice), the Reviewer's Choice Award and the Best Contemporary Romance Award. She's also received the Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion and Golden Leaf awards.
In 1994, Barbara was diagnosed breast cancer, like her mother. But it had surgery and treatment. And in 2001 she published the non-fiction Uplift: Secrets From the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors.
Now, the Delinsky family resides in Needham, Massachusetts, where Barbara's husband is a prominent local lawyer.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
September 7, 2022
The Passionate Touch is an excellent book for leisure reading. My mother bought it on October 1980, and I thought to read it. The book was very easy to read and follow the story. The story is well written and keeps you engaged. I gave the book three stars due to the stubbornness and naiveté of the main character towards someone else who, as a reader, could see she was interpreting them wrong. I understand her conflicts and past experiences, or rather a trauma, would not let her accept that there is something different, better. However, at times it was too much. Falling in love in a few days is romantic, but finding a man in your bed when you wake and let him make love to you is questionable at best. However, I liked it a lot. The author was flawless with the ways she told the story, and I will be looking out for more books.
July 9, 2018
Everything was off - characters, timing, and story. Don’t bother.
January 17, 2019
Love it
Loved it! Barbara d. is my favorite author! She has a way of making you feel everything and not be able to put the book down!
Loved it! Barbara d. is my favorite author! She has a way of making you feel everything and not be able to put the book down!
February 25, 2017
Not worth reading. Like a Harlequin romance.
March 1, 2012
1)Bu türdeki kitaplarda karakterler çok cabuk aşık olmakta ve bence bu bazen çok sinir bozucu oluyor.
2)Önce öpüşüp sonra kavga etmeleri yada kavga sonrası öpüşüp tekrar birbirlerine kızmaları çok ilginç.
3)Saçma bir şekilde ve oldukça çocukça tartışıyor ve cevaplarınıda komik buluyorum(mantıksız anlamında)
4)Kızımız Eva Roberto'nun onu sevmediğini düşünmektedir lakin Roberto sevdiğini
söyleyince anında inanmıştır..
bilemiyorum..değişik bir kitaptı..pek sevemedim..diologlar biraz yapmacık ve zorlama geldi..
çeviride pek tatmin edici değildi...
ama kitap oldukça eski..bende durumu buna yordum..
onun dışında kızımız kocasını kaybetmiş ve onun gideceği bir geziye kendisi gitmiştir.
Orda Roberto ile tanışmıştır..işte ilk başta onun beraberlerinde gelmesine karşı çıksada sonunda kabul etmiş ve grup olarak çıkmışlardır brezilya dağlarına..
bu çiftimiz sürekli tartışma içerisindeler..
Roberto bi an iyiyken birden kızıveriyor...
Eva desen ayrı bi alem...neye niye kızdığını bile anlayamadım..
neysem çok kötülemiş olabilirim ama okunabilir seviyede..
benim pek tercih edeceğim türde değildi o kadar =)
2)Önce öpüşüp sonra kavga etmeleri yada kavga sonrası öpüşüp tekrar birbirlerine kızmaları çok ilginç.
3)Saçma bir şekilde ve oldukça çocukça tartışıyor ve cevaplarınıda komik buluyorum(mantıksız anlamında)
4)Kızımız Eva Roberto'nun onu sevmediğini düşünmektedir lakin Roberto sevdiğini
söyleyince anında inanmıştır..
bilemiyorum..değişik bir kitaptı..pek sevemedim..diologlar biraz yapmacık ve zorlama geldi..
çeviride pek tatmin edici değildi...
ama kitap oldukça eski..bende durumu buna yordum..
onun dışında kızımız kocasını kaybetmiş ve onun gideceği bir geziye kendisi gitmiştir.
Orda Roberto ile tanışmıştır..işte ilk başta onun beraberlerinde gelmesine karşı çıksada sonunda kabul etmiş ve grup olarak çıkmışlardır brezilya dağlarına..
bu çiftimiz sürekli tartışma içerisindeler..
Roberto bi an iyiyken birden kızıveriyor...
Eva desen ayrı bi alem...neye niye kızdığını bile anlayamadım..
neysem çok kötülemiş olabilirim ama okunabilir seviyede..
benim pek tercih edeceğim türde değildi o kadar =)
February 1, 2013
Too much squish and not enough substance. Total Harloquin material.
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