Passionate Exile

by Helene Thornton

She risked everything for love.

Lady Jane Digby, a beautiful, accomplished noblewoman, lived in the post-Regency world of high romance. Love was what truly mattered to Lady Jane, and finding it was her goal, no matter what society might think or do. Scandal did not stop her from plunging into a passionate affair outside her marriage when her blue-blooded husband gave her nothing but his name. And not even betrayal could put out the burning flame within her as she searched for the one man who matched her in daring and desire.

Based on one of history's most enthralling heroines, this Scarlet Ribbons Romance sweeps from the elegant country manors of England to the windswept sands of Arabia...and from the depths of a woman's search for true love to the heights of her ecstasy...

351 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 7, 1984

About the author

Helene Thornton is the stage name of Elaine Smith, a former Bluebell girl and author of 17 novels, but she is perhaps best known as the mother of Welsh TV presenter Paula Yates.
She is also known as Heller Toren

Reviews

[Sarah Mac · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. There's a decent story here, but the prose was bland & the characters were superficial in their episodic, time-gap plotline. I'm not sure, as I know nothing of the source material (apparently based on some RL lady of the period), but it felt like the author was too concerned with sticking to incidents that were factual and/or created to substantiate factualities re: incident or personality. Whether this is true or just my reaction to a bland narrative, I don't know. But either way, I was bored...not the least because the sheik stuff didn't appear until 200 pgs into a 350-pg novel. Again, this isn't a deal killer per se, but if you advertise your romance as a sheik ripper, methinks the sheik should actually, y'know, appear in the story.

Not an especially terrible book...just not my style.