My Enchanted Enemy
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Weaving a spellbinding paranormal tale, Tracy Fobes seals her reputation as an innovative star of distinctive and intriguing romantic novels to treasure.
My Enchanted Enemy
Posing as a gypsy bride, Juliana St. Germaine vows to wed Cole Strangford, the sole heir to the gypsy clan that cursed her family in centuries past. Marrying Cole and bearing his child would at last break a dark spell cast amid the moonlight and salt spray of the English coast. The task at hand is a trick of mistaken identity to seduce Cole and win his hand.
Cole is more consumed with locating a legendary gem and turning the tide on his family's ill luck than with thoughts of marriage. His uncle's urgent matchmaking had left him cold -- until he meets the newest candidate: a beautiful widow with haunting, captivating eyes. Now, the power of love can change the course of their entwined destinies. And though Juliana's mission may succeed, she realizes -- too late -- that she has lost her heart to the one man she should call her enemy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fobes (To Tame a Wild Heart) draws readers into a world of mysticism and magic once again in this beguiling, early-19th-century romance between an inventor and a sea maiden. Centuries ago, an old gypsy witch consigned the descendants of the St. Germaine family to life as half-human, half-dolphin creatures because they stole her family's lucky Sea Opal and killed the leader of her clan. Cole Strangford is the final descendent in the gypsy witch's family line, and Juliana St. Germaine knows it's imperative she marry him to break the curse on her people. When out of water, the sea people can take on human forms, so Juliana and her brother, George, devise a clever scheme to seduce Cole and his prospective bride, Lila. The seduction goes as planned, but Juliana soon finds herself falling in love with Cole and regretting her deception. While Juliana's transformation into a half-dolphin is unattractively explicit, the beauty and power of the sea creatures more than compensates for the jarring description. Likewise, Fobes's stilted dialogue ("...we must share confidences, no?") doesn't detract from the refreshing originality of this fanciful fable.
