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Wild Nights
Emma Louise Vaughan arrived in Cambodia in 1952 with a dream: to leave behind her frivolous life as a Nebraska beauty queen and prove herself as a foreign correspondent, covering the escalating French military presence in Southeast Asia.
Alan Hazen was the first man she met. Hazen, who claimed to be a geologist for Chrome Petroleum, saved Emma from sniper fire, took her into the jungle, and helped her capture her first stories. In spite of himself, he also fell in love with her.
Captain Robert Janvier of the French Foreign Legion was the man who captured Emma's heart. He introduced her to the pleasures of opium and the sensuality of her own young body. But the same smooth hands that set Emma's flesh on fire often struck that flesh in anger. And Emma, brave enough to march into a battlefield, smart enough to chase her wildest dreams, beautiful enough to have any man she wanted, was too obsessed with Janvier to let him go.
Alan Hazen was the first man she met. Hazen, who claimed to be a geologist for Chrome Petroleum, saved Emma from sniper fire, took her into the jungle, and helped her capture her first stories. In spite of himself, he also fell in love with her.
Captain Robert Janvier of the French Foreign Legion was the man who captured Emma's heart. He introduced her to the pleasures of opium and the sensuality of her own young body. But the same smooth hands that set Emma's flesh on fire often struck that flesh in anger. And Emma, brave enough to march into a battlefield, smart enough to chase her wildest dreams, beautiful enough to have any man she wanted, was too obsessed with Janvier to let him go.
- GenresHistorical Romance
381 pages, Paperback
First published February 12, 1986
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About the author
Natasha Peters
16 books39 followersNatasha Peters is a pesudonym for Elizabeth Jordan, who also wrote as Anastasia Cleaver.
Her ideas for her books have taken her to many foreign lands in the East and West, and through the volumes of history and biography. She was also an actress, an artist, a singer, and loved to grow roses.
Her ideas for her books have taken her to many foreign lands in the East and West, and through the volumes of history and biography. She was also an actress, an artist, a singer, and loved to grow roses.
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September 20, 2020
I dnf @ p.242 and skimmed to the end.
The writing was engaging. Natasha Peters has this way of writing vivid scenes that come to life. The writing is so good, the start to this story so promising I'm feeling letdown this book did not go in the direction I was hoping it would.
The beginning of this book started out promising until Janvier, the handsome French Legionnaire, beats up the heroine in a fit of rage. I thought the last male main character I read by Natasha Peters was abusive, but he doesn't hold a candle to Janvier. This beating was more brutal than anything Seth Garrett from Dangerous Obsession dished out to Rhawnie.
This is a love triangle, but the heroine's obsession with the abusive Janvier really put a damper on the romance with the other guy. She spends the entire book pining after him. There's of course cheating. She gets upset over that for a split second, but always returns to him. When Janvier learns the heroine, Emma, is pregnant, he tells her to get an abortion. He doesn't wait to see what she does before heading out to a bar to hang out with his pals and cheat on her though. Emma almost dies from the abortion (the procedure is graphically described, btw). When Janvier is told Emma is sick and could die he laughs it off and makes crude jokes.
He ends up deserting from the FFL and shooting his best friend and his mistress; leaving his bastards with Emma. On top of that he steals all of Emma's savings and belongings before leaving her. At this point there had been so much Janvier, and absolutely no way for the author to redeem him, I was really wondering where Natasha Peters was heading with this story. Well, when Emma travels back to America the other love interest is there waiting on her and takes in Emma as well as her new adoptive children. The end.
The writing was engaging. Natasha Peters has this way of writing vivid scenes that come to life. The writing is so good, the start to this story so promising I'm feeling letdown this book did not go in the direction I was hoping it would.
The beginning of this book started out promising until Janvier, the handsome French Legionnaire, beats up the heroine in a fit of rage. I thought the last male main character I read by Natasha Peters was abusive, but he doesn't hold a candle to Janvier. This beating was more brutal than anything Seth Garrett from Dangerous Obsession dished out to Rhawnie.
This is a love triangle, but the heroine's obsession with the abusive Janvier really put a damper on the romance with the other guy. She spends the entire book pining after him. There's of course cheating. She gets upset over that for a split second, but always returns to him. When Janvier learns the heroine, Emma, is pregnant, he tells her to get an abortion. He doesn't wait to see what she does before heading out to a bar to hang out with his pals and cheat on her though. Emma almost dies from the abortion (the procedure is graphically described, btw). When Janvier is told Emma is sick and could die he laughs it off and makes crude jokes.
He ends up deserting from the FFL and shooting his best friend and his mistress; leaving his bastards with Emma. On top of that he steals all of Emma's savings and belongings before leaving her. At this point there had been so much Janvier, and absolutely no way for the author to redeem him, I was really wondering where Natasha Peters was heading with this story. Well, when Emma travels back to America the other love interest is there waiting on her and takes in Emma as well as her new adoptive children. The end.
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December 30, 2022
3.5 stars
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