Jamintha

by Beatrice Parker

Young Jane Danver was coming home to a past she could not remember...to a guardian who terrified her...to a handsome, violent cousin who shocked her and filled her with desire at the same time...to an evil that had let her escape once but surely would not again... And in all the hostile world there was just one person to whom Jane Danver could turn for help--the beautiful, bewitching, yet fearfully mysterious creature called Jamintha...

Genres: Gothic, Romance

283 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Beatrice Parker is the pseudonym of T. E. Huff aka Thomas Elmer Huff.

He was born in Tarrant, Texas, USA. He graduated from Poly High School and from Texas Wesleyn College in 1960. For several years, he was a English teacher at R.L. Paschal High School. Published since 1968, during the first nine years he wrote under the female pseudonyms Edwina Marlow, Beatrice Parker, and Katherine St. Clair. In 1976, when he began writing historical romance novels, he created his most famous female pseudonym Jennifer Wilde. His first release, Love's Tender Fury, had 41 printings in its first five years and sold more than 2.5 million copies, and his second historical romance, Dare to Love, spent 11 weeks on the New York Times paperback bestseller list. He earned a Career Achievement Award in 1987-1988 from Romantic Times. Single, he lived with her mother in Fort Worth, where he was buried after he died suddenly of a massive heart failure.

Reviews

[Joyce Sheffield · Rating 2 out of 5]

a fun fairytale!

I did actually read what seemed like a fairytale where the dull girl becomes a princess in the end. Plenty of bad people and murders and scary haunted halls. It was fun and quick.

[Sarah Mck · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book when I was, maybe 16. I borrowed it from the Library, then afterwards I went on a hunt to find a copy of it to buy, I had to own it. It wasn't until years latter I stumbled on it at a Sunday marketplace. It totally took my breath away especially as a 16 year old. I didn't know until then that books could absorb you so much, or shock you so much. I remember having to take my brother to the doctors, and I took the book and read the entire way. Into the car, on the drive, at the doctors, and on the way home. I plan to re-read it again now that Im older and I hopefully will discover that same enthusiasm I felt for the book now as I did then.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It has mystery, romance, and a Victorian setting all wrapped up with a pretty bow. The characters were well written and developed, and the author's descriptions of the various settings really let the reader envision it as though they were in the book themselves. I first read this by plucking it of my sister's shelf when I was bored 40 years ago. I wish I still had it today to read over. It was that enjoyable that I've often wished that.