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A Dangerous Man by Rosemary Rogers
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First published November 1, 1996
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Rosemary Rogers
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Rosemary Jansz Navaratnam Rogers Kadison
Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in Panadura, British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara "Allan" and Cyril Jansz. Her father was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants, no work, summers at European spas, a chaperone everywhere she went. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.
At 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where she studied three years. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London.
In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman." After getting a divorce from her first husband, she married Rogers in his home town, St. Louis, Missouri. They moved with her family to California, where she had two sons. Six years later, when that marriage broke up, Rosemary was left with four children to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist for the Solano County Parks Department. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only ?100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield.
Every night for a year, Rogers worked to perfect a manuscript that she had written as a child, rewriting it 24 times. When she was satisfied with her work, she sent the manuscript to Avon, which quickly purchased the novel. That novel, ''Sweet Savage Love'', skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists, and became one of the most popular historical romances of all time. Her second novel, ''Dark Fires'', sold two million copies in its first three months of release. Her first three novels sold a combined 10 million copies. The fourth, ''Wicked Loving Lies'' sold 3 million copies in its first month of publication. Rosemary Rogers became one of the legendaries "Avon Queens of Historical Romance". The difference between she and most of others romance writers is not the violence of her stories, it is the intensity. She says: "My heroines are me", and certainly her life could be one of her novels.
In September of 1984, Rosemary married a third time with Christopher Kadison, but it was a very brief marriage and they soon began to live apart. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit and sex all rolled up together."
Today single, Rosemary lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her four children are now away from home and she continues to write.
Rosemary passed away at the age of 87 on November 12, 2019 in Carmel, California where she called home since the early 1970s.
Rosemary Jansz Navaratnam Rogers Kadison
Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in Panadura, British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara "Allan" and Cyril Jansz. Her father was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants, no work, summers at European spas, a chaperone everywhere she went. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.
At 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where she studied three years. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London.
In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman." After getting a divorce from her first husband, she married Rogers in his home town, St. Louis, Missouri. They moved with her family to California, where she had two sons. Six years later, when that marriage broke up, Rosemary was left with four children to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist for the Solano County Parks Department. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only ?100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield.
Every night for a year, Rogers worked to perfect a manuscript that she had written as a child, rewriting it 24 times. When she was satisfied with her work, she sent the manuscript to Avon, which quickly purchased the novel. That novel, ''Sweet Savage Love'', skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists, and became one of the most popular historical romances of all time. Her second novel, ''Dark Fires'', sold two million copies in its first three months of release. Her first three novels sold a combined 10 million copies. The fourth, ''Wicked Loving Lies'' sold 3 million copies in its first month of publication. Rosemary Rogers became one of the legendaries "Avon Queens of Historical Romance". The difference between she and most of others romance writers is not the violence of her stories, it is the intensity. She says: "My heroines are me", and certainly her life could be one of her novels.
In September of 1984, Rosemary married a third time with Christopher Kadison, but it was a very brief marriage and they soon began to live apart. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit and sex all rolled up together."
Today single, Rosemary lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her four children are now away from home and she continues to write.
Rosemary passed away at the age of 87 on November 12, 2019 in Carmel, California where she called home since the early 1970s.
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January 30, 2015
It was surprising to learn that this was written in 1996, because it had many of the hallmarks of an old school bodice ripper - which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I enjoy reading bodice rippers because they're so deliciously angsty. The heroine was incredibly stubborn and in many respects TSTL. Tory returns home to California to learn that her father is doing illegal things and is about to marry her off to a neighbor. She's encountered the hero, Nick Kincade (who is undercover investigating the heroine's father) on a number of occasions. He's gruff and rude and kind of a manwhore and when he meets up with Tory in California he has no idea who she is. These two fight like cats and dogs. And they have lots of angry and resentful sex. Not very romantic in that regard. There's even one or two forced seductions that walk a very fine line between outright non-con and dub-con. I honestly couldn't figure out how these two could fall in love with all the bitter and negative emotions swimming between them.
And some of the behavior was quite unrealistic and frankly astounding And frankly, I wasn't a huge fan of the ending. This was also somewhat slow starting, but once it gets going the angst never stops.
And some of the behavior was quite unrealistic and frankly astounding And frankly, I wasn't a huge fan of the ending. This was also somewhat slow starting, but once it gets going the angst never stops.
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August 3, 2020
A good ride. A Texas Ranger - Who you can't help fall in love with. A woman who is forced into an arranged marriage - Strong willed and determined. A good romance read where they slowly fall in love with each other. Neither wants to admit their feelings, but their journey only strengthens their bond. Many villians, sadness, suspense, drama, romance, and a pretty good ending.
July 19, 2009
Victoria Ryan (after being sent to Boston to be schooled with her uncle) returns home to California to discover that her dad has arranged for her to be married. She's into the new women's movement and won't comply, but dad isn't the nice guy she's always thought he was. Ex-Texas Ranger has been sent to California on special assignment to find proof of her father's illegal gun sales. Great story!! Lots of action and a good old fashioned bodice ripper. Will be reading more books by Rosemary Rogers in the future!!!
April 14, 2015
Thank God, I am not the only one who didn't care for how slow this book was. Yes, the sexiness was good, but the situations were unrealistic. They COULD happen, but not too many virgins out there would bed down on a beach with a man who she believes murdered someone in front of her a week before, after being engaged to a different man two weeks before... I couldn't stand Tory, and Nick is just too much... Just, no... Then all the slow going! I just skipped to the end and read the last two chapters. It got the point across, the end.
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October 30, 2024
I'm biased when I say this book was too slow paced for me since I enjoy faster reads. However, It was wonderfully written just too slow and too much info. I really liked the characters but didn't understand how the main character Tory was so forgiving of this man that constantly left her and showed no interest in being with her...other than bedding her. I'd be so detached. Then again it's just a story and it's the author's choice. Her discriptive narrative is rich which I enjoyed throughout the book so that's a big plus.
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July 24, 2011Hot...sexy...amazing!!! They meet randomly and the tension between them builds...for once it's not about love or marriage its about passions!! Though it does concern me, because it is one of the few romance novels with parts as well as chapters this is an amazing romance!
April 6, 2013
This book is one of my favorites, ever. It's the pinnacle of historical adventure romance. I have read it so many times over the past decade or so that its binding is frayed. I rarely re-read books, so that says something.
April 16, 2014
What is wrong with me? I love Rosemary Rogers but wow I got to page 34 and just can't do it. I know some books are slow to get into but I've been spoiled by some great authors and if an author does not grab me quickly I may just have to shelve you under dnf.
April 6, 2009
Ok, so I skipped to the end of this book and read the ending because it was so slow moving I couldn't take it any more.
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August 24, 2021Not only was this boring, the H didn't didn't make it better. He was cold and uncaring, it was not attractive.
June 15, 2025
Extremely frustrating. Main characters aren’t terribly likable. Some pretty spicy scenes, but it doesn’t make up for the pride, stubbornness, and lack of communication.
August 23, 2020
PUB. INFO: Avon, 11/1996
GENRE: Historial Romance
SETTING: California, 1848
SERIES? No
MY GRADE: C
I was so uninterested in this story. Though it was released in 1996 it does read like one written at least ten years earlier and I mean that as a compliment. The story was even divided into five parts which was a common thing back then the 70s and 80s). I think the story spans about a year and most of the story takes place in California. At the beginning the story takes place in Boston, Massachusetts and Mexico. The majority of the story is Nick trying to hunt down the two men who raped and murdered Gisela Perez, a woman he had a sexual relationship with when he was in Mexico. I didn't care for any part of the story. Too much stuff was going on; Nick trying to find the murderers, her father, then uncle, wanting/forcing her to marry a man named Rafael, the government trying to find where her father hid money he'd earned by selling guns to 'foreign powers' and so on.
Tory was engaged to Peter Gideon in Boston, months before meeting Nick. We never met Peter. She's from California but has been living with her aunt and uncle in Boston for years. I feel a bit bad for her because when she wouldn't marry Rafael she felt she had to flee...and it was downhill for her from there. She and her maid were being chased by her brother and uncle Sebastian and then she met up with Nick, who helped her get away from them.
There's one part near the end where Tory is kidnapped and almost raped by two men. What annoys me about that is if they'd wanted to rape her they'd have done it when she was first kidnapped. Nick came along and saved the day.
Tory confesses her love for Nick at the end but I'm not buying it. They weren't together much throughout the entire novel and she couldn't stand him and all of a sudden she's in love? This is certainly no love match. They get married in the epilogue but I just don't see why they're married. They only spent a lot of time together while he was helping her escape. Their relationship is severely underdeveloped. I don't see Nick as a 'dangerous man' as the title says.
This was a huge disappointment and I can't recommend it to anyone. The author died in November 2019.
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April 24, 2016
Good action and adventure. Sexy.
July 30, 2016
Finished 1st Reading: 12/17/1996
Finished 2nd Reading: 05/09/2010 3:36a
Finished 3rd Reading: 01/16/2016 10:50p Saturday
Purchased New - Paperback
ISBN 0-380-78604-4
Finished 2nd Reading: 05/09/2010 3:36a
Finished 3rd Reading: 01/16/2016 10:50p Saturday
Purchased New - Paperback
ISBN 0-380-78604-4
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July 3, 2012This an excellent read. I really like this story Nick and Tory are great.
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