A PERILOUS ATTRACTION (HISTORICAL ROMANCE S.) - Softcover

Patricia Frances Rowell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0263839788 ISBN 13: 9780263839784

Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon, 2004

Synopsis

It was really a marriage of inconvenience. Fiery Catherine Maury found it exceedingly inconvenient for her trustee to have lost her entire fortune just before she gained control of it. She found it inconvenient to be obliged to consider marriage at all, but the most serious inconvenience lay in the fact that the offer which promised her salvation came from the icy Earl of Caldbeck.

His lordship, on the other hand, did not find the situation inconvenient whatsoever. It provided him just the opportunity he had been waiting for to make the beautiful Catherine's fire his own.

What neither of them realized was, as they learned to tread the treacherous path of marriage to a stranger, that they would be obliged to deal with a murderous mind so depraved that it defied imagination.

What happens when Fire meets Ice?

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Frances Rowell

Patricia Frances Rowell lives in the woods of northern Louisiana with her husband, Johnny, in a home that they built themselves. There they enjoy visits from their collective seven children, numerous children-in-law, and eight grandchildren as well as making friends with the local wildlife.

She has placed in several writing contests, and A Perilous Attraction won the 2001 Daphne du Maurier Award for the unpublished division under its working title.

From Publishers Weekly:

Catherine Maury, a woman of passion, determination and joie de vivre, lights up the pages of A Perilous Attraction, Patricia Rowell's promising Regency-era debut. At the start of the book, Catherine's guardian announces that he has frittered away her fortune and sold her in marriage to Charles, the seemingly cold but considerate earl of Calbeck. Left with no other options, Catherine proceeds with the nuptials and, while teaching her stoic husband how to embrace life, she slowly grows to love him. The only obstacle they must overcome is a maniacal killer who is determined to terrorize Catherine. This outlandish subplot is one of the book's weaknesses, as is Charles, who doesn't come into focus until midway through the novel. Still, Rowell has drawn a memorable heroine who succeeds in capturing the hero's heart as well as the reader's.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0263839788
• ISBN 13: 9780263839784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296