Countess - Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s very first novel, rewritten as a Gothic. A woman who makes the wrong choice for a husband may not live to marry the man of her dreams....
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About the Author:
The Countess was my very first novel, published in 1978 under the title The Autumn Countess. Even at that amazingly young age, I still realized that I should write about something I knew. Since I'd grown up reading Georgette Heyer and my master's degree is in nineteenth-century European history, it wasn't much of a mental stretch -- a Regency romance. Well, sort of.
As it turned out, The Autumn Countess danced into the bookstores not as a Regency, but as a Gothic masquerading as a Regency.
I've rewritten the novel extensively to make it even more unabashedly Gothic in form, texture, and content, including use of the first-person narration in the classic Gothic style.
Andrea Jameson, unlike the conventional Gothic heroine, isn't a destitute governess. She's young, rich, and toothsome, and adores her Dandie Dinmont terrier, George. However, Andrea doesn't have a single dream of meeting Mr. Right, marrying, and living happily ever after. Go figure.
She strikes a bargain with an older widowed earl who promises her all the razzle-dazzle without the obey part. She's perfectly happy with the deal until she meets the earl's nephew and realizes fairly quickly that she might have made an exceptional blunder.
But she doesn't have much time to ponder her dim-witted choice of husband because someone is trying to kill her. Will she survive to marry the man of her dreams?Do tell me if you enjoyed the rebirth of my Gothic tale.
Catherine Coulter
Write me at P.O. Box 17, Mill Valley, CA. 94942
Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh Hour, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take, TailSpin, KnockOut, Whiplash, Split Second, Backfire, Bombshell, and Power Play. She is also the author, with J. T. Ellison, of the New York Times bestselling The Final Cut and The Lost Key. Coulter lives in Sausalito, California.
ANNE FLOSNIK is an award winning audiobook narrator, with Earphones Awards, an ALA Award, Best Audiobook of the Year awards from both Library Journal and AudioFile magazine for Little Bee, and has been an Audie Finalist three times. She has over 300 titles to her credit.
ANNE FLOSNIK is an award winning audiobook narrator, with Earphones Awards, an ALA Award, Best Audiobook of the Year awards from both Library Journal and AudioFile magazine for Little Bee, and has been an Audie Finalist three times. She has over 300 titles to her credit.
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- PublisherDoubleday Direct
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0739405721
- ISBN 13 9780739405727
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages549
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