With One Look
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Set in New Orleans in the early 1800 just as Americans began influencing trade and culture, here is Jennifer Horsman’s most intense and compelling story. Jade Terese Devon is a green eyed enchantress; one of this famous city’s most beautiful, charming, vivacious and well loved citizens. Tragically, since the day she witnessed her beloved parent’s gruesome and mysterious murder, she is also blind. The murderer was never apprehended. Every time something reminds her of that day, she is struck with a painful seizure and upon waking, she has no memory of it.
Now someone is trying to kill her.
Only Jade Terese could have captured the handsome young shipbuilder Victor Knolte’s heart. Strong, willful, richer than a king, only Victor can save Jade Terese, first from an unthinkable slavery and then from dark and threatening past. Yet Jade Terese will never be truly safe until Victor forces her to see again, a violent process that first endanger Jade’s very sanity and then imperils the precious love and passion, a passion that began with one look…
The downfall of this book is… too many erotic, love scenes, but readers can just skip them. Too steamy! Otherwise, it is suspenseful page turner!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Can there be any event that is so terrible that the sole surviving witness blocks out the memory by loosing her vision? Unfortunately, Horsman's ( Virgin Star ) new novel does not live up to its intriguing premise. Blind since she witnessed her parents' murder, Jade Terese Devon is the darling of post-Louisiana Purchase New Orleans society, able to cross the racial and class systems of the city because of her disability. Clearly, however, not everyone loves Jade: someone arranges to have her kidnapped and sold to a brothel. She is rescued by American shipbuilder, Victor Nolte, who, although unable to reconcile his love for Jade with her blindness, searches for the person who murdered her parents and who now threatens her. Jade's feistiness is one of the more engaging aspects of the book, especially in one humorous episode in which she prevents a pirate from raping her by acting like a dog. Likewise, once Jade's sight is restored, her struggle to accept her new vision rings true. Too often, voodoo and mystical powers are substituted for plot development, but still the writing grabs the reader's attention.
