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This Triumphant Fire
HER PAST DESTROYED, HER DESTINY WAS A HIGHWAYMAN'S LOVE
The family and home she'd lost as a girl in the French Revolution were now only shadows in Carlotta's haunted dreams. And when murder forced her from the English manor where she'd been reduced to servitude, she was penniless and alone in the world.
Dressed as a boy, Carlotta sought safety with Simon, a roguish highwayman--who quickly saw the exquisite beauty beneath her disguise and possessed her with a passion that left her consumed by desire.
THIS TRIUMPHANT FIRE
But Carlotta's beauty caught the eye of a vicious aristocrat who took what he wanted. What he wanted was Carlotta--to bear him a son and heir. Her happiness, her life, meant nothing to him.
Carried off to a Caribbean Island throbbing with slave rebellion, then to New Orleans stirring with French intrigue--Carlotta endured her degrading captivity, hoping against hope that her highwayman wouldn't forget her... That if her heart was her fate, Simon was her destiny.
The family and home she'd lost as a girl in the French Revolution were now only shadows in Carlotta's haunted dreams. And when murder forced her from the English manor where she'd been reduced to servitude, she was penniless and alone in the world.
Dressed as a boy, Carlotta sought safety with Simon, a roguish highwayman--who quickly saw the exquisite beauty beneath her disguise and possessed her with a passion that left her consumed by desire.
THIS TRIUMPHANT FIRE
But Carlotta's beauty caught the eye of a vicious aristocrat who took what he wanted. What he wanted was Carlotta--to bear him a son and heir. Her happiness, her life, meant nothing to him.
Carried off to a Caribbean Island throbbing with slave rebellion, then to New Orleans stirring with French intrigue--Carlotta endured her degrading captivity, hoping against hope that her highwayman wouldn't forget her... That if her heart was her fate, Simon was her destiny.
- GenresHistorical Romance
352 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1982
About the author
Anne Carsley
8 books3 followersAnne Carsley is a prolific romance writer who has traveled throughout Europe, cruised the Atlantic and Caribbean, visited the Bahamas and Venezuela but prefers her home state of Mississippi to them all. Anne mingles love and idealism with history in her novel, Lady Defiant, as she believes people throughout the ages honor the brave and are charmed by lovers. Anne enjoys gardening, driving on the Natchez Trace in Mississippi, and sitting in her garden amid her flowering plants while reading and writing.
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June 24, 2017
MINI-REVIEW:
(I have long ago put this book in storage, and it’s too much of a pain to dig out, but before I forget it all, here’s a review):
Anne Carsley’s “This Triumphant Fire” is an ok bodice ripper with a more interesting villain than hero. The heroine is a beautiful French girl living off the charity of her English guardians. If I recall correctly, the hero is a rakish fellow who is having a romance with one the daughters in the family. He also has a secret life as a highwayman. After a brutal rape attempt by one of the sons, the heroine kills her attacker and flees in to the night. The h & H meet again, and he takes her to his cabin in the woods. They make passionate love and spend an idyllic time together before the hero abandons her. The heroine catches him cheating on her with another woman. She confronts him, and in typical jerky-hero style he is unrepentant.
They are separated and she finds her the way on a ship to the American south, where she enters in a marriage of convenience with a suave, attractive, older man. Her husband is virile in the bedroom but only needs her for her womb, as he prefers hot voodoo lovemaking sessions with his male lover. The heroine is eventually taken to the harsh jungles of Haiti where she is saved by the hero who shows up out of the blue. While Carsely’s prose was very poignant and romantic, I remember enjoying this book for everything EXCEPT the love story. The villain was magnetic, and the action-packed pacing combined with the author’s style of writing were strong points, but not enough to make this one a favorite.
One pet-peeve/minor factoid: the cover portrays the heroine with the wrong hair color--she’s got reddish hair not black; Carsely also had the same issue with her lovely cover of “This Ravished Rose.”
3 ½ stars
(I have long ago put this book in storage, and it’s too much of a pain to dig out, but before I forget it all, here’s a review):
Anne Carsley’s “This Triumphant Fire” is an ok bodice ripper with a more interesting villain than hero. The heroine is a beautiful French girl living off the charity of her English guardians. If I recall correctly, the hero is a rakish fellow who is having a romance with one the daughters in the family. He also has a secret life as a highwayman. After a brutal rape attempt by one of the sons, the heroine kills her attacker and flees in to the night. The h & H meet again, and he takes her to his cabin in the woods. They make passionate love and spend an idyllic time together before the hero abandons her. The heroine catches him cheating on her with another woman. She confronts him, and in typical jerky-hero style he is unrepentant.
They are separated and she finds her the way on a ship to the American south, where she enters in a marriage of convenience with a suave, attractive, older man. Her husband is virile in the bedroom but only needs her for her womb, as he prefers hot voodoo lovemaking sessions with his male lover. The heroine is eventually taken to the harsh jungles of Haiti where she is saved by the hero who shows up out of the blue. While Carsely’s prose was very poignant and romantic, I remember enjoying this book for everything EXCEPT the love story. The villain was magnetic, and the action-packed pacing combined with the author’s style of writing were strong points, but not enough to make this one a favorite.
One pet-peeve/minor factoid: the cover portrays the heroine with the wrong hair color--she’s got reddish hair not black; Carsely also had the same issue with her lovely cover of “This Ravished Rose.”
3 ½ stars
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October 26, 2020There’s nothing wrong with this...I’m just not into the setting right now (go to hell, 2020). It shall return to the TBR until I’m in a French Revolution mood.
wrong-hair-color-heroines-avoid
September 25, 2014Wrong hair colour on the woman. Bah hate that :(
Reviewed by Wendy at a 3 star as well....pass
Reviewed by Wendy at a 3 star as well....pass
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