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Viking Fantasy #1
Wild Is My Love
Rescued from her father's beleaguered kingdom by a mysterious stranger, the bewitchingly lovely Princess Alysa joins that stranger in a fiery, forbidden passion. Reprint.
374 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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About the author
Janelle Taylor
101 books243 followersThe legendary Janelle Taylor was born on June 28, 1944 in Athens, GA. In 1965, she married Michael Taylor with whom she had two children, Angela Taylor-MacIntyre and Alisha Taylor Thurmond. Ms. Taylor attended the Medical College of Georgia from 1977 to 1979 and Augusta State University from 1980-1981. She withdrew from the latter after she sold her first two novels. Today, she is the author of thirty-nine novels, three novellas, and many contributions to other collections. There are thirty-nine million copies of her works in print worldwide and she has made The New York Times Bestseller List eight times. Ms. Taylor's works have also been featured ten times on the "1 million +" bestseller's list at Publisher's Weekly.
Some of Ms. Taylor's most recent books include By Candlelight, Someday Soon, Lakota Dawn, and Lakota Winds (due out in paperback in May 1999). She has also made contributions to other books including The Leukemia Society Cookbook, Christmas Rendezvous, and Summer Love. In addition, readers can see her as co-host of the QVC/TV Romance Book Club Show.
Ms. Taylor's interests include collecting spoons, coins from around the world, ship models, dolls, and old books. She loves to fish, ride horses, play chess, target-shoot, travel (especially in her motorhome and out West), hunt for Indian relics, and take long walks with her husband. Reading, in particular books set before 1900 and current Biographies, Thrillers, Horror, or Fantasy novels, is also one of Ms. Taylor's favorite activities. She is also extremely active with charity work and was even featured on the cover of Diabetes Forecast in February of 1998.
She lives in the country on seventy-nine acres of woods and pasture with a lake and a catfish pond. She writes her novels in a Spanish cottage which overlooks a five-acre lake, a working water mill, gazebo, and covered bridge.
Some of Ms. Taylor's most recent books include By Candlelight, Someday Soon, Lakota Dawn, and Lakota Winds (due out in paperback in May 1999). She has also made contributions to other books including The Leukemia Society Cookbook, Christmas Rendezvous, and Summer Love. In addition, readers can see her as co-host of the QVC/TV Romance Book Club Show.
Ms. Taylor's interests include collecting spoons, coins from around the world, ship models, dolls, and old books. She loves to fish, ride horses, play chess, target-shoot, travel (especially in her motorhome and out West), hunt for Indian relics, and take long walks with her husband. Reading, in particular books set before 1900 and current Biographies, Thrillers, Horror, or Fantasy novels, is also one of Ms. Taylor's favorite activities. She is also extremely active with charity work and was even featured on the cover of Diabetes Forecast in February of 1998.
She lives in the country on seventy-nine acres of woods and pasture with a lake and a catfish pond. She writes her novels in a Spanish cottage which overlooks a five-acre lake, a working water mill, gazebo, and covered bridge.
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November 14, 2013
This is the first Romance Novel I ever read! I loved it and it fueled my desire for this type of book! And it also helped Janelle Taylor become one of my favorite authors. I prefer the historical romance the lives of those long ago, and their loves.
July 12, 2013
I loved this book because there was an abundance of intrigue, magic, conniving, plots within plots, conspiracies, and romance.
It takes place before England was united as one country and when there was more than one kingdom.
It was fun watching the two MCs dance around the truth and each other with their lies as they fall in love.
It takes place before England was united as one country and when there was more than one kingdom.
It was fun watching the two MCs dance around the truth and each other with their lies as they fall in love.
January 27, 2022
DNF- Seemed to be Taylor's version of The Wolf and the Dove. I really tried, but I didn't care for it. :/
May 13, 2020
I enjoyed this tale of deceit, treachery, potions, magic, Vikings, prince, princess and death.
Alysa is a princess whose life is in danger from her stepmother. Gavin is a prince in disguise as an adventurer who was sent by Gavin's grandfather to rescue Alysa.
The author did not limit this story to only the primary characters. She included bits and pieces of the secondary characters lives as well. It helped readers to understand the betrayal and treachery of each secondary character that was afoot.
Each page I turned, there is always something happening which keeps me on my toes and keeps this story interesting. I had a Game of Thrones feeling whilst reading this book because of the amount of deceit from loved ones that happen in this book. My one complaint is that I wish Alysa's stepmother and half brother had died a more painful slow brutal death for all the harm they caused innocent people. The battle scene at the end of this story was not explained thoroughly and it was rushed.
Nevertheless I enjoyed this one and the story continues in the second book Wild Sweet Promise so I cant wait!
Alysa is a princess whose life is in danger from her stepmother. Gavin is a prince in disguise as an adventurer who was sent by Gavin's grandfather to rescue Alysa.
The author did not limit this story to only the primary characters. She included bits and pieces of the secondary characters lives as well. It helped readers to understand the betrayal and treachery of each secondary character that was afoot.
Each page I turned, there is always something happening which keeps me on my toes and keeps this story interesting. I had a Game of Thrones feeling whilst reading this book because of the amount of deceit from loved ones that happen in this book. My one complaint is that I wish Alysa's stepmother and half brother had died a more painful slow brutal death for all the harm they caused innocent people. The battle scene at the end of this story was not explained thoroughly and it was rushed.
Nevertheless I enjoyed this one and the story continues in the second book Wild Sweet Promise so I cant wait!
November 6, 2014
Princess Alyssa hides her identity from the handsome brigand in the woods near her castle. She seeks aid for her father, ill from poison administered by Alyssa’s stepmother in a ploy for power. She doesn’t know that the mysterious stranger is Prince Gavin, sent by their king to investigate presumed treachery. Tossed together by fate, Alyssa and Gavin try to deny their attraction but destiny weaves their paths. Can Alyssa rely on Gavin’s help to save her father? Or will the evil Isobail prevail? A classic historical romance, this fantasy setting enhances a delightful tale.
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