Ястреба и гълъбицата

by Kit Garland

ЖЕНА, СЪЗДАДЕНА ЗА ЛЮБОВ



Мислеше, че сънува. Ала щом се събуди, Теодора Лъвлейс се оказа в пламенните обятия на най-опасния, но и най-желания мъж, когото бе срещала…



МЪЖ, СЪЗДАДЕН ЗА ВОЙНА



Облечен в черно, той язди в тъмнината, издирвайки самозванеца, който петни името му. Майлс Уинчестър е Нощния ястреб, набеден за шпионин. Залавянето на измамника се превръща в негова главна цел, докато не попада на непозната в леглото си — Теодора, изкусителна със синкаво-черни коси и виолетови очи.

Paperback

First published September 2, 1996

Reviews

[Micaela *CLONAZINE*]

Demasiado vintage para mi gusto es de esos en los que el héroe se manda comentarios misóginos y las escenas de sexo son de consentimiento dudoso.

[Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hardened and bitterly cynical Miles Winchester found himself outwitted and unwillingly shackled to a woman he barely knew. Confound it all, was it his fault the silly chit had mistakenly curled herself up in his bed, a very sleepy but willing participant to his skilled advances. Was it his fault he'd mistaken her for someone else? So it was with dumbstruck horror Miles realised his blunder - a split second too late to save himself.

Theodora (Teddie) Lovelace’s Uncle and Aunt drew up a marriage contract that stipulated among other things that there would be no bed sport for a year, yes a year. But Miles is glibly unconcerned except for that one time when he lost all control he's convinced he can resist Teddie and anyway there's no lack for female company when the urge occasionally strikes (he has one housed under his very roof after all but don't fret fellow cheat hating readers all is not as it seems, the author does a superb job of stringing us along) but he does sit up and take notice when he’s threatened by her uncle with the alternative. An alternative that will completely ruin all his carefully laid secretive plans. Grinding his teeth he signs.

It takes another woman to distort a man’s view of all women being duplicitous by nature (naturally) but it’s a state Miles has great difficulty maintaining as he gets to know his mysterious, beguiling, untouchable new wife - a wife who has secrets of her own. Secrets that will seem a mere shadow of his former experience and infuriate him to the very core.



1996 NORTH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ROMANCE Nominee

1996, Dell Publishing, 377 pages.

Great read.