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Searching For Her Prince
Sent to America in search of multimillionaire Marcus Cordello, possible heir to the throne of Penwyck, Lady Amira Sierra Corbin found herself entranced by dashing Brent Carpenter. But unbeknownst to her, Brent was in reality Marcus, hiding his identity to steal a few clandestine moments with the violet-eyed beauty.
He meant to reveal the truth...except the touch of her hand made his blood rush faster, and left him yearning to hold on forever. But when Amira uncovered Brent's secret, and fled home, would an ocean between them wash away the hurt or only leave the lovely lady longing for the man she left behind?
144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2002
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Karen Rose Smith
349 books904 followersAward-winning author Karen Rose Smith was born in Pennsylvania. Although she was an only child, she remembers the bonds of an extended family. Family is a strong theme in her books and she suspects her childhood memories are the reason.
In college, Karen began writing poetry and also met her husband to be. They both began married life as teachers, but when their son was born, Karen decided to try her hand at a home-decorating business.
She returned to teaching for a while but changes in her life led her to writing relationship novels. Now she writes romances as well as mysteries full time. Her first book was published in 1992; her 110th novel will be published in 2024. A winner of New Jersey's Golden Leaf Award in Short Contemporary Romance, Colorado Romance Writers Award Of Excellence for short contemporary, as well as the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter's Golden Quill for Traditional Romance, she has also been honored with Cataromance.com's award for Best Special Edition and Washington Romance Writers Career Achievement Award. Her romances have made both the USA TODAY list and the Amazon Romance and Contemporary Romance Bestseller lists. Her mysteries have made the USA TODAY and Barnes and Noble bestseller lists.
She has written for Meteor/Kismet, Kensington, Silhouette and Harlequin. Readers can contact Karen through her website, on Facebook (Karen Rose Smith Author) and on Twitter @ Karenrosesmith, on TIKTOK at karenrosesmithauthor and on Instagram. They can also follow her monthly e-zine IN TOUCH with KAREN ROSE SMITH which has the latest news about her books, recipes and contests.
In college, Karen began writing poetry and also met her husband to be. They both began married life as teachers, but when their son was born, Karen decided to try her hand at a home-decorating business.
She returned to teaching for a while but changes in her life led her to writing relationship novels. Now she writes romances as well as mysteries full time. Her first book was published in 1992; her 110th novel will be published in 2024. A winner of New Jersey's Golden Leaf Award in Short Contemporary Romance, Colorado Romance Writers Award Of Excellence for short contemporary, as well as the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter's Golden Quill for Traditional Romance, she has also been honored with Cataromance.com's award for Best Special Edition and Washington Romance Writers Career Achievement Award. Her romances have made both the USA TODAY list and the Amazon Romance and Contemporary Romance Bestseller lists. Her mysteries have made the USA TODAY and Barnes and Noble bestseller lists.
She has written for Meteor/Kismet, Kensington, Silhouette and Harlequin. Readers can contact Karen through her website, on Facebook (Karen Rose Smith Author) and on Twitter @ Karenrosesmith, on TIKTOK at karenrosesmithauthor and on Instagram. They can also follow her monthly e-zine IN TOUCH with KAREN ROSE SMITH which has the latest news about her books, recipes and contests.
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October 21, 2022
From the friend stack, and passed along without context, so I didn't realize it was part of an interdependent book series. My reading experience suffered from that, but that wasn't the sum total for why it didn't really work for me.
A different friend and I coined what we call "injury of the week!" to describe a certain type of writing. It's crafting a plot around pop-up big events and crises rather than around naturally arising personal or external conflict. This book is most definitely an "injury of the week!" read. There's a fainting and then a mugging and kids stealing a boat, and a variety of suddeny-must-do-this events, all in service of the couple and getting them thrown together, but it feels more like they're being pushed around.
Also these big events are almost all shuttled along to be resolved off-page, which... not great. Hero gets mugged and stabbed so the heroine has to show up and take care of him, and them learn about each other, fine -- but then the mugging disappears after we're assured the guy was nabbed. Just as the kids who steal the boat are adorable and draw the leads out up until they're not needed and then we're assured there's a stable future awaiting them.
Far too much reliance on conveniently timed phone calls to interrupt various amorous activities.
And then enter Another Woman, who is meaningless aside being there to prickle the heroine.
It is kind of hilarious to me the heroine is on a very important mission, and is sincerely serious about it, and then does absolutely nothing toward fulfilling it. Yes it's fine she's so distracted by the hero this gives us over to "...important mission he's making her forget about completely," but there's not even window dressing that she bothered to do more than show up and mill about.
While this book leads into the next, and I get conflicts/questions couldn't be entirely resolved, the ending for this couple isn't enough. I liked the idea of them together and their natural-feeling fit. They have mirroring backgrounds and live in rarefied circumstances and thus understand each other in ways many other people can't, so there was a good sympathy as well as appreciation. But it was somewhat okay, and, what else?
I see there's several more books in the series to get to any answers, but I don't think I'll be tracking them down. Something tells me they'll be as weirdly episodic but a not-quite standalone but not quite satisfactorily resolving the entire huge plot, either.
A different friend and I coined what we call "injury of the week!" to describe a certain type of writing. It's crafting a plot around pop-up big events and crises rather than around naturally arising personal or external conflict. This book is most definitely an "injury of the week!" read. There's a fainting and then a mugging and kids stealing a boat, and a variety of suddeny-must-do-this events, all in service of the couple and getting them thrown together, but it feels more like they're being pushed around.
Also these big events are almost all shuttled along to be resolved off-page, which... not great. Hero gets mugged and stabbed so the heroine has to show up and take care of him, and them learn about each other, fine -- but then the mugging disappears after we're assured the guy was nabbed. Just as the kids who steal the boat are adorable and draw the leads out up until they're not needed and then we're assured there's a stable future awaiting them.
Far too much reliance on conveniently timed phone calls to interrupt various amorous activities.
And then enter Another Woman, who is meaningless aside being there to prickle the heroine.
It is kind of hilarious to me the heroine is on a very important mission, and is sincerely serious about it, and then does absolutely nothing toward fulfilling it. Yes it's fine she's so distracted by the hero this gives us over to "...important mission he's making her forget about completely," but there's not even window dressing that she bothered to do more than show up and mill about.
While this book leads into the next, and I get conflicts/questions couldn't be entirely resolved, the ending for this couple isn't enough. I liked the idea of them together and their natural-feeling fit. They have mirroring backgrounds and live in rarefied circumstances and thus understand each other in ways many other people can't, so there was a good sympathy as well as appreciation. But it was somewhat okay, and, what else?
I see there's several more books in the series to get to any answers, but I don't think I'll be tracking them down. Something tells me they'll be as weirdly episodic but a not-quite standalone but not quite satisfactorily resolving the entire huge plot, either.
August 31, 2019
Que libro más aburrido... 😪😪😪
December 21, 2023
Started off well but very disappointing
July 1, 2008
Kalau di buku pertama diceritakan pengakuan pangeran Broderick tentang ditukarnya pewaris sah kerajaan Penwyck. Nah di buku ketiga ini diceritakan perjalanan Lady Amira ditugaskan oleh ratu Marissa untuk mencari Marcus Cordello, yang dicurigai sebagai pewaris takhta Penwyck.
Sesampainya di Amrik, Amira mengalami kesulitan untuk bertemu Marcus -yang memang sangat tertutup untuk kehidupan pribadinya- dan tidak sengaja bertemu seorang pria. Sebenarnya pria ini adalah Marcus Cordello, hanya saja karena mendengar cerita Amira tentang sang pangeran, Marcus malah berbohong dan bilang namanya adalah Brent Carpenter.
Amira dan Brent saling tertarik satu sama lain, tetapi Marcus/Brent takut untuk mengakui perasaannya karena dua hal. Selain tidak ingin menjadi pangeran, Marcus pernah kehilangan tunangannya yang meninggal akibat diabetes. Sejak saat itu, Marcus menutup diri terhadap hubungan percintaan.
Hanya saja, ketika Marcus berniat untuk mengakui hal sebenarnya kepada Amira, wanita ini mendapatkan foto Marcus dan terkejut bahwa Brent adalah Marcus. Amira kecewa terhadap hal ini dan berangkat pulang ke Penwyck.
Menyadari cintanya pada Amira, Marcus pun segera terbang ke Penwyck.
Satu hal yang bisa saya ambil hikmahnya dari cerita ini, Jangan berbohong...
Sesampainya di Amrik, Amira mengalami kesulitan untuk bertemu Marcus -yang memang sangat tertutup untuk kehidupan pribadinya- dan tidak sengaja bertemu seorang pria. Sebenarnya pria ini adalah Marcus Cordello, hanya saja karena mendengar cerita Amira tentang sang pangeran, Marcus malah berbohong dan bilang namanya adalah Brent Carpenter.
Amira dan Brent saling tertarik satu sama lain, tetapi Marcus/Brent takut untuk mengakui perasaannya karena dua hal. Selain tidak ingin menjadi pangeran, Marcus pernah kehilangan tunangannya yang meninggal akibat diabetes. Sejak saat itu, Marcus menutup diri terhadap hubungan percintaan.
Hanya saja, ketika Marcus berniat untuk mengakui hal sebenarnya kepada Amira, wanita ini mendapatkan foto Marcus dan terkejut bahwa Brent adalah Marcus. Amira kecewa terhadap hal ini dan berangkat pulang ke Penwyck.
Menyadari cintanya pada Amira, Marcus pun segera terbang ke Penwyck.
Satu hal yang bisa saya ambil hikmahnya dari cerita ini, Jangan berbohong...
June 23, 2008
Kalau di buku pertama diceritakan pengakuan pangeran Broderick tentang ditukarnya pewaris sah kerajaan Penwyck. Nah di buku ketiga ini diceritakan perjalanan Lady Amira ditugaskan oleh ratu Marissa untuk mencari Marcus Cordello, yang dicurigai sebagai pewaris takhta Penwyck.
Sesampainya di Amrik, Amira mengalami kesulitan untuk bertemu Marcus -yang memang sangat tertutup untuk kehidupan pribadinya- dan tidak sengaja bertemu seorang pria. Sebenarnya pria ini adalah Marcus Cordello, hanya saja karena mendengar cerita Amira tentang sang pangeran, Marcus malah berbohong dan bilang namanya adalah Brent Carpenter.
Amira dan Brent saling tertarik satu sama lain, tetapi Marcus/Brent takut untuk mengakui perasaannya karena dua hal. Selain tidak ingin menjadi pangeran, Marcus pernah kehilangan tunangannya yang meninggal akibat diabetes. Sejak saat itu, Marcus menutup diri terhadap hubungan percintaan.
Hanya saja, ketika Marcus berniat untuk mengakui hal sebenarnya kepada Amira, wanita ini mendapatkan foto Marcus dan terkejut bahwa Brent adalah Marcus. Amira kecewa terhadap hal ini dan berangkat pulang ke Penwyck.
Menyadari cintanya pada Amira, Marcus pun segera terbang ke Penwyck.
Satu hal yang bisa saya ambil hikmahnya dari cerita ini, Jangan berbohong...
Sesampainya di Amrik, Amira mengalami kesulitan untuk bertemu Marcus -yang memang sangat tertutup untuk kehidupan pribadinya- dan tidak sengaja bertemu seorang pria. Sebenarnya pria ini adalah Marcus Cordello, hanya saja karena mendengar cerita Amira tentang sang pangeran, Marcus malah berbohong dan bilang namanya adalah Brent Carpenter.
Amira dan Brent saling tertarik satu sama lain, tetapi Marcus/Brent takut untuk mengakui perasaannya karena dua hal. Selain tidak ingin menjadi pangeran, Marcus pernah kehilangan tunangannya yang meninggal akibat diabetes. Sejak saat itu, Marcus menutup diri terhadap hubungan percintaan.
Hanya saja, ketika Marcus berniat untuk mengakui hal sebenarnya kepada Amira, wanita ini mendapatkan foto Marcus dan terkejut bahwa Brent adalah Marcus. Amira kecewa terhadap hal ini dan berangkat pulang ke Penwyck.
Menyadari cintanya pada Amira, Marcus pun segera terbang ke Penwyck.
Satu hal yang bisa saya ambil hikmahnya dari cerita ini, Jangan berbohong...
November 11, 2010
OMG. . . .Datar bgt sih crtnya. . .rasanya gak masuk akal,seorg utusan kerajaan tp sulit bgt bwt melacak keberadaan org biasa (walaupun dy miliuner c). . .
Udh gt,cwe utusan ini dgn gmpgnya ketipu ma marcus (cwo yg sbnrny dy cri) halaaaahhh, , ,dan untk mempelengkap ke'datar'an crta,akhrny ngegntung. . .gak jelas,apa marcus ini bnr2 cln raja ato bukan.
Udh gt,cwe utusan ini dgn gmpgnya ketipu ma marcus (cwo yg sbnrny dy cri) halaaaahhh, , ,dan untk mempelengkap ke'datar'an crta,akhrny ngegntung. . .gak jelas,apa marcus ini bnr2 cln raja ato bukan.
August 20, 2016
Una historia disfrutable, con un amor creíble y llena de emociones. Me encantó leerla. Aunque aveces encontraba la protagonista medio sosa, me gustó su personaje. Sencilla de leer, muy buena para cuando estás en un viaje o un vuelo, para así entretenerte. Aunque estoy con la duda si Marcus es el heredero de Penwyck, no dijeron nada. ¿Hay segunda parte? La recomiendo, muy buena.
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