A PERILOUS ATTRACTION
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
The Altar Made An Inauspicious Start To Marriage
But because dire financial straits had bound her to the enigmatic Earl of Caldbeck, Catherine Maury resolved to make the best of it. Yet could she break through his mysterious restraint and uncover the secret of his true nature?
Charles Randolph, Earl of Caldbeck, had always guarded his emotions closely, and an insidious danger to his people only deepened his reserve. But now that he'd taken fiery, greathearted Catherine to wife, he could feel that the walls around his heart were close to tumbling down!
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.
