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Surrender to a Stranger
From Karyn Monk, author of The Witch and the Warrior and Once a Warrior , comes an enthralling love story that is as passionate as it is suspenseful....
She trusted him with her life....
Sentenced to death, Jacqueline never expected to be rescued from her filthy cell by an unlikely visitor--a man whose disguise hid a devastatingly handsome British agent. Now the two were on the run--and for as long as he was there to protect her, she felt strangely safe....
But could she trust him with her heart?
They called him the Black Prince, and to save the unjustly condemned he took hair-raising risks, slipping in and out of courtrooms and prisons, brazenly defying the threat of capture and death. The reckless spy tried to tell himself that Jacqueline was just another prisoner to be spirited away to safety. Yet there was something about her fierce dignity, her unrelenting sense of honor, her unbreakable spirit that made him never want to let her go....
HE RISKED HIS LIFE TO SAVE HERS....
She thought she was about to die when her family's farm came under attack. Instead, a handsome stranger rode to her rescue and took a bullet to save her. But when the bloodshed and terror were over,Josephine Armstrong discovered that the man she owed her life to was a British soldier. She could not betray Lt. Col. Damien Powell -- not after what he'd done for her. But she would pay dearly for harboring the enemy, forced to prove her patriotism by becoming the rebels' most beautiful spy....
BUT WOULD SHE GIVE HIM HER HEART IN RETURN?
When he saw the lovely young woman struggling with her captor, Damien didn't care which side of the bloody war she was on. He only knew that he had never seen such an incredible mixture of extraordinary beauty and raw courage in his life. Yet Damien couldn't know that one day this innocent farm girl was destined to betray him. She would become Charles Town's most irresistible spy, dazzling officers with her charms even as she stripped them of strategic secrets. But when a twist of fate brings Josephine back into his life again, Damien will gamble everything on the chance that he can make this exquisite rebel surrender...if only in his arms. -->
She trusted him with her life....
Sentenced to death, Jacqueline never expected to be rescued from her filthy cell by an unlikely visitor--a man whose disguise hid a devastatingly handsome British agent. Now the two were on the run--and for as long as he was there to protect her, she felt strangely safe....
But could she trust him with her heart?
They called him the Black Prince, and to save the unjustly condemned he took hair-raising risks, slipping in and out of courtrooms and prisons, brazenly defying the threat of capture and death. The reckless spy tried to tell himself that Jacqueline was just another prisoner to be spirited away to safety. Yet there was something about her fierce dignity, her unrelenting sense of honor, her unbreakable spirit that made him never want to let her go....
HE RISKED HIS LIFE TO SAVE HERS....
She thought she was about to die when her family's farm came under attack. Instead, a handsome stranger rode to her rescue and took a bullet to save her. But when the bloodshed and terror were over,Josephine Armstrong discovered that the man she owed her life to was a British soldier. She could not betray Lt. Col. Damien Powell -- not after what he'd done for her. But she would pay dearly for harboring the enemy, forced to prove her patriotism by becoming the rebels' most beautiful spy....
BUT WOULD SHE GIVE HIM HER HEART IN RETURN?
When he saw the lovely young woman struggling with her captor, Damien didn't care which side of the bloody war she was on. He only knew that he had never seen such an incredible mixture of extraordinary beauty and raw courage in his life. Yet Damien couldn't know that one day this innocent farm girl was destined to betray him. She would become Charles Town's most irresistible spy, dazzling officers with her charms even as she stripped them of strategic secrets. But when a twist of fate brings Josephine back into his life again, Damien will gamble everything on the chance that he can make this exquisite rebel surrender...if only in his arms. -->
496 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1994
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July 19, 2010
i thought I just grabbed another used book store historical romance novel, but this was amazing it was a real story not just the same old formula. sort of like Diane Galbaldon
August 9, 2017
Set in 1793, during the Reign of Terror, Monk's plot is a version of:
The Scarlet Pimpernel. She even gives her hero the name of a secondary
character in the original story: Armand St. James.
The Scarlet Pimpernel. She even gives her hero the name of a secondary
character in the original story: Armand St. James.
June 7, 2013
DNF.
Read about a third before I gave up.
The French aristocratic heroine has lost her father and brother to the Revolution. Her two younger sisters are safe in England. The hero rescues her from rape, execution and a murderous mob. She makes decisions that lable her TSTL, constantly fighting her rescuer, treating him with mistrust and hatred.
The only thing on her mind is revenge for the death of her father, brother and the priveledged life she once lived - revenge against the man who turned them all in as traitors. Apparently she is so filled with hatred and the need for revenge, she is prepared to die after she suceeds.
She is not a nice person. Nor is she, well, intelligent (TSTL, right?). She displays few emotions except apathy and haughty distain - how dare anyone tell her what to do!
I stopped reading when she asks the hero to take her back to France to rescue her betrothed. In that sceen, she lies, she schemes, she trows a tantrum when the hero recognizes her deception. Ah, but he still wants to bed her, damn him.
It is obvious the letter she received from her betrothed is a trap set up by the villain, to find her and the man who rescued her. How else could a letter from a prisoner in France make its way to her hiding place in England, by a special courier no less. She doesn't love her betrothed but blames herself for his arrest (if she hadn't escaped, he would not have been arrested).
I had enough of this heroine with a death wish. I didn't like anything about her. I had hoped the plot would be enough to keep the sotry interesting, but alas, not enough to make up for an unlikeable heroine or a romance novel that lacks, well, romance.
Read about a third before I gave up.
The French aristocratic heroine has lost her father and brother to the Revolution. Her two younger sisters are safe in England. The hero rescues her from rape, execution and a murderous mob. She makes decisions that lable her TSTL, constantly fighting her rescuer, treating him with mistrust and hatred.
The only thing on her mind is revenge for the death of her father, brother and the priveledged life she once lived - revenge against the man who turned them all in as traitors. Apparently she is so filled with hatred and the need for revenge, she is prepared to die after she suceeds.
She is not a nice person. Nor is she, well, intelligent (TSTL, right?). She displays few emotions except apathy and haughty distain - how dare anyone tell her what to do!
I stopped reading when she asks the hero to take her back to France to rescue her betrothed. In that sceen, she lies, she schemes, she trows a tantrum when the hero recognizes her deception. Ah, but he still wants to bed her, damn him.
It is obvious the letter she received from her betrothed is a trap set up by the villain, to find her and the man who rescued her. How else could a letter from a prisoner in France make its way to her hiding place in England, by a special courier no less. She doesn't love her betrothed but blames herself for his arrest (if she hadn't escaped, he would not have been arrested).
I had enough of this heroine with a death wish. I didn't like anything about her. I had hoped the plot would be enough to keep the sotry interesting, but alas, not enough to make up for an unlikeable heroine or a romance novel that lacks, well, romance.
January 18, 2020
Pozytywnie zaskoczyła mnie ta książka! Spodziewałam się czegoś w rodzaju tandetnego harlequina, a tu proszę, wartka akcja, dający się lubić bohaterowie, ciekawie ukazane realia Rewolucji Francuskiej. Kolejne etapy fabuły były dosyć łatwe do przewidzenia, ale jeśli potraktuje się tę pozycję jako lekką lekturę, jak najbardziej można czerpać z niej przyjemność.
June 30, 2013
i read this novel mre than 2 yrs ago. i enjoyed the story like nythin. love a simple formula which made an aristrocratic women to take errands which no one culd ever do(she was about to be raped by a man frm whom the black prince rescues her nd takes hr to his town and he was trapped by that man in her country nd c single handedly came for his rescue, her lover) made my heart melt. a very lovely love story . classic novel.
the beauty of former europe really attracted me. 'love made it all happen' makes me applaud fr their true love.
the beauty of former europe really attracted me. 'love made it all happen' makes me applaud fr their true love.
August 31, 2014
After being sentenced to death, the heroine is rescued by a British Agent who calls himself The Black Prince. He slips into prisons and rescues people who have been unjustly convicted.
Great story set during the French Revolution. This book very much reminds me of "The Scarlet Pimpernel". We need more books with this setting.
Great story set during the French Revolution. This book very much reminds me of "The Scarlet Pimpernel". We need more books with this setting.
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October 25, 2012I love this book so much,I read it 6years ago and still wanna read it all over again.best novel ever
June 5, 2016
This book was both thrilling and sweet.
February 20, 2016
I really enjoyed this book. The heroine, Jacqueline, was TSTL many times. However, I liked that she was a character that changed over the course of the book.
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