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Theatre #2
The Silvery Moon
The Actor's Daughter...
Beautiful Hannah Darling had the theater in her blood - as daughter of Blayne Darling, the American West's most beloved matinee idol. In her blood was passion as well, waiting to be ignited. Yet, in the late nineteenth century, fear and shyness kept Hannah from stardom on the stage, just as it kept her from fulfillment as a woman. Only in the hands of the dashing acting coach Kyle Harper did she dare face the public behind the footlights - from the raw camps of the Wyoming Territory to glittering New York. And only in driving tycoon Gray Dylan did she dare come face to face with fiery desire as she was torn between the intoxication of being an adored actress and the ecstasy of being a beloved woman.
This is the sequel to The Gilded Cage.
Beautiful Hannah Darling had the theater in her blood - as daughter of Blayne Darling, the American West's most beloved matinee idol. In her blood was passion as well, waiting to be ignited. Yet, in the late nineteenth century, fear and shyness kept Hannah from stardom on the stage, just as it kept her from fulfillment as a woman. Only in the hands of the dashing acting coach Kyle Harper did she dare face the public behind the footlights - from the raw camps of the Wyoming Territory to glittering New York. And only in driving tycoon Gray Dylan did she dare come face to face with fiery desire as she was torn between the intoxication of being an adored actress and the ecstasy of being a beloved woman.
This is the sequel to The Gilded Cage.
- GenresRomance
First published January 1, 1992
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About the author
Edith Layton
87 books103 followersEdith Layton wrote her first novel when she was ten. She bought a marbleized notebook and set out to write a story that would fit between its covers. Now, an award-winning author with more than thirty novels and numerous novellas to her credit, her criteria have changed. The story has to fit the reader as well as between the covers.
Graduating from Hunter College in New York City with a degree in creative writing and theater, Edith worked for various media, including a radio station and a major motion picture company. She married and went to suburbia, where she was fruitful and multiplied to the tune of three children. Her eldest, Michael, is a social worker and artist in NYC. Adam is a writer and performer on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Daughter Susie is a professional writer, comedian and performer who works in television.
Publishers Weekly called Edith Layton "one of romance's most gifted writers." Layton has enthralled readers and critics with books that capture the spirit of historically distant places and peoples. "What I've found," she says, "is that life was very different in every era, but that love and love of life is always the same."
Layton won an RT Book Reviews Career Achievement award for the Historical genre in 2003 and a Reviewers' Choice award for her book The Conquest in 2001. Amazon.com's top reviewer called Layton's Alas, My Love (April 2005, Avon Books), "a wonderful historical." And her recent release, Bride Enchanted, is a Romantic Times 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee.
Edith Layton lived on Long Island where she devoted time as a volunteer for the North Shore Animal League , the world's largest no-kill pet rescue and adoption organization. Her dog Daisy --adopted herself from a shelter-- is just one member of Layton's household menagerie.
Edith Layton passed away on June 1, 2009 from ovarian cancer.
Graduating from Hunter College in New York City with a degree in creative writing and theater, Edith worked for various media, including a radio station and a major motion picture company. She married and went to suburbia, where she was fruitful and multiplied to the tune of three children. Her eldest, Michael, is a social worker and artist in NYC. Adam is a writer and performer on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Daughter Susie is a professional writer, comedian and performer who works in television.
Publishers Weekly called Edith Layton "one of romance's most gifted writers." Layton has enthralled readers and critics with books that capture the spirit of historically distant places and peoples. "What I've found," she says, "is that life was very different in every era, but that love and love of life is always the same."
Layton won an RT Book Reviews Career Achievement award for the Historical genre in 2003 and a Reviewers' Choice award for her book The Conquest in 2001. Amazon.com's top reviewer called Layton's Alas, My Love (April 2005, Avon Books), "a wonderful historical." And her recent release, Bride Enchanted, is a Romantic Times 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee.
Edith Layton lived on Long Island where she devoted time as a volunteer for the North Shore Animal League , the world's largest no-kill pet rescue and adoption organization. Her dog Daisy --adopted herself from a shelter-- is just one member of Layton's household menagerie.
Edith Layton passed away on June 1, 2009 from ovarian cancer.
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November 20, 2010
The main story is fairly simple so I will keep this short and sweet. This is the story of Gray Dylan (his older brother Josh's story was told in The Gilded Cage) and Hannah Darling. Hannah is a less than successful drama coach (her father is a famous actor) and when down on her luck accepts an offer to work with a theatre group heading to work the circuit in Colorado. She meets Gray, who is smitten with Hannah but she has some *feminine issues* that arose in her first marriage and she fears she's not able to be a proper wife (no spoilers, this is revealed early on). The rest of the book is filled with the ups and downs of Hannah's life in the theatre along with her desperate search for a doctor who can give her the answers she craves so she can be a wife in every sense to Gray. Or will a successful part on stage fire her blood and she'll choose the stage instead?
*Yawn*
Sorry, this one just didn't work well for me, and I found myself skimming quite a bit. I didn't care for Gray much at first (all he did was pick up actresses, buy them dinner and have sex), although his character did improve in the latter half after he lost his womanizing tendencies. I liked Hannah, even though she was a bit dull and I give kudos to Layton for touching on a sensitive feminine issue at a time when women didn't really couldn't speak so frankly with a doctor. And I did enjoy seeing Gray's older Brother Josh and his wife Lucy from the first book having their own little HEA.
Certainly not the worst book ever, but not great either. Fans of all things theatre might enjoy this better than I did.
*Yawn*
Sorry, this one just didn't work well for me, and I found myself skimming quite a bit. I didn't care for Gray much at first (all he did was pick up actresses, buy them dinner and have sex), although his character did improve in the latter half after he lost his womanizing tendencies. I liked Hannah, even though she was a bit dull and I give kudos to Layton for touching on a sensitive feminine issue at a time when women didn't really couldn't speak so frankly with a doctor. And I did enjoy seeing Gray's older Brother Josh and his wife Lucy from the first book having their own little HEA.
Certainly not the worst book ever, but not great either. Fans of all things theatre might enjoy this better than I did.
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