توأم التنـــين

Stephanos #2

by Violet Winspear

The Savidges of Dragon Bay were as wild and savage as their name, bitter and totally unable to love. But Kara did not realize this until after she had married Lucan Savidge...

Pryde sat in a wheelchair, yet he made it look like a throne. He made Kara feel the helpless one.

'The news reached me last night, Lucan, that you had married.' His voice was deep and harshly attractive.

'This Is Kara.' Lucan said it a shade defiantly. 'We met in Fort Fernand ten days ago, just after I returned from Paris. Kara Is Grecian.'

'I see.' Pryde seemed to see into the secret regions of Kara's mind, and the shock it had suffered.

'Welcome to Dragon Bay, Kara.' A faint smile dispelled the severity of Pryde's expression. 'It Is about time a young woman brought the promise of children to this old house.'

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, Gothic, Mystery Thriller

Unknown Binding

First published March 1, 1969

About the author

Violet Winspear was a British author renowned for her prolific output of romance novels, publishing seventy titles with Mills & Boon between 1961 and 1987. In 1973, she became a launch author for the Mills & Boon-Harlequin Presents line, known for its more sexually explicit content, alongside Anne Mather and Anne Hampson, two of the most popular and prolific British romance writers of the time. Winspear began writing while working in a factory and became a full-time novelist in 1963, producing her works from her home in South East England, researching exotic settings at her local library. She famously described her heroes as lean, strong, and captivating, “in need of love but capable of breathtaking passion and potency,” a characterization that provoked controversy in 1970 when she stated that her male protagonists were “capable of rape,” leading to considerable public backlash. Her novels are celebrated for their vivid, globe-spanning settings and dramatic tension, often employing sexual antagonism to heighten conflict between the alpha male hero and the heroine, who is frequently portrayed as naïve or overwhelmed by his dominance. Winspear never married or had children, and she passed away in January 1989 after a long battle with cancer, leaving a lasting influence on the romance genre.

Reviews

[*CJ* · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Dragon Bay" is the story of Kara and Lucan.

A pretty intriguing romance with a gothic twist to it. Our heroine goes on a solo vacation when her boyfriend abandons her and marries someone else. She meets the very enigmatic hero, who slowly courts her, before proposing a marriage of convenience- to which she agrees. He then whisks her away to Dragon Bay, a remote castle, where his paraplegic brother, tortured sister and loving niece reside. But as danger mounts and spooky incidents start happening around them, will love prevail?

I enjoyed this book. Oblivious heroine, obviously smitten hero. Mystery and deceit form the background. I would have rated this higher if it didnt end so abruptly! What happened to the niece? Can we not see more of their HEA? How was the villains death swept off so easily? So many questions!

Safe
3/5

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is the one of the rare VW's book I remembered liking a lot and after reading it again I found I still liked it only that as much as I liked the angst and tension between the MCs toward the latter half of the book, I would have also liked a little more intimate interaction between them, also that the end wasn't so abrupt, but then I realize it is a vintage HP of the seventies low on intimacy and yet had depth.

As other reviewers have said, the book had a gothic feel to it and was quite different from other HPs. There are two parts to the book. The first part that is from the moment Lucan and Kara met until their marriage was fun, cheerful and happy whereas the second part, that is post-marriage when they go to live at Lucan's place, Dragon Bay, felt sinister giving me goosebumps at time, as it was infused with mystery, drama, spookiness, keeping me intrigued right through.

There was also intrigue in every character, every place and the most intriguing character, also the most misunderstood one, was Lucan Savidge, who turned out to be my favorite -- the man everyone loved to hate, a hatred all the more evoked by his devilment streak of damn-you-all think me Cain or the devil himself, as his sister, Clare, put it. Yet, even though Lucan was rumored to be a ruthless savage and a heartbreaker, he was never cruel to Kara.

The book starts with twenty-one year old Kara Stephanos arriving at an island in the French Caribbean having left her homeland, Greece, to escape humiliation because everyone there knew about her plans to marry her childhood friend, Nikos, who before leaving for the US had pledged to marry her on his return, but then he found his soul mate and sent Kara a letter to tell her he's now married and hopes she too finds her true love.

On her first day on the island, she visits the local fair where she encounters a fortune reader who tells her she's about to meet a man on the island. Kara pays no attention for she's heard it all. Usually it's the dark and handsome, however, this lady said the man she'd meet had fire in his hair and had warned Kara to leave the island before morning. On her return to the hotel, she takes a shower --the hotel's shower room was outside her room at the end of the corridor-- then fell in an exhausted sleep the moment she touched the bed, little knowing she'd entered the wrong room. The misunderstanding occurred because the stranger whose room she'd gone into, had slammed his door shut and his room number 9 fell down to form a 6, which was Kara's room number. The following morning scene was amusing when the waiter comes in with morning tea for the man and both men find Kara in the other twin bed.

Needless to say the man turns out to be Lucan. Kara had heard about him and his famous family the previous day. The Savidges are of Irish descendants and are part of the Dragon Bay history. They have huge sugar and cocoa plantations and their crest is a scarlet dragon crouched on a bronze shield and their family motto declares that the Savidge Dragon Guards His Own. The porter boy had told her that Lucan is known as the devil man for he's done things that has people whispering, a savage who asks mercy of no one and gives none in return. He's also referred to as Cain for because of him his twin brother, Pryde, older to him by an hour, is crippled from the waist down from the age of seventeen. Over breakfast Lucan surprisingly confides to Kara about his hand in his brother being crippled.

The two apparently had been inseparable growing up, doing everything together. They also loved challenging and competing with each other. One day Pryde challenged Lucan to climb the most challenging of cliffs with him, the consequences would be death if they failed. Having recently been made to feel that he was unfit to be the master of Dragon Bay by their Nanny called Da, a formidable woman who ran their entire household and who was overtly fond of Pryde, Lucan in a fit of jealousy accepted the challenge and wouldn't give up, forging ahead as Pryde kept instigating him asking him if he wanted to give up. He'd managed to get a lead on Pryde when all of a sudden Pryde fell and broke his back. When Lucan ran to the house to tell the family, his mother, who also doted on Pryde, struck him on the cheek with the riding whip she was holding leaving him with a life-long scar. Da later lied to the mother and everyone else telling them that Lucan was the one who challenged Pryde.

Lucan somehow manages to coerce a reluctant Kara into having dinner with him. They have a nice time and by the end of it she accepts Lucan's offer to stay back until he leaves for Dragon Bay the following week and let him be her guide and show her around the island. They spend the next ten days touring the island, swimming, dining and dancing. The news of her having spent the first night in Lucan's room spreads and with the two of them being seen together everywhere, they become the talk of the island. Kara found she did not care that she was being thought of as a scarlet woman. She was having the time of her life. I liked the camaraderie between them and also all the festivities and gala they participated in. Yet, as much as Kara was enjoying herself she was still unsure of Lucan. He had a strong personality unlike the easy going Nikos, his 'I am what I am' attitude intrigued her and she was beginning to realize that the passion she felt for Lucan had been sadly lacking in her love for Nikos.

She was even more drawn to his mysterious aura as he spoke to her about his home that's rumored to have a ghost of a Savidge bride who'd met with tragic death in their sugar mill. There have been similar tragic deaths of few other Savidge brides causing the Caribs to believe that the Savidge dragon bears a grudge against Savidge brides. Pryde, who is now the master of the house, gives great importance to tradition which is why he wanted Lucan to marry and give the family an heir as he himself is hindered by his disability. There are so many things that Lucan would've done different from Pryde, like giving up past traditions and razing down unwanted and dangerous parts of Dragon bay, but his guilt over his role in his brother's disability gags him and instead he tries to do his best to fulfill everything his brother desires. That's why when it was time for Lucan and Kara to part, he proposes marriage to her telling her truthfully about Pryde's desire and believes that she has the courage and spirit to live in the Great House with him.
‘Lucan, why ask this of me ?’
‘I ask, but you can of course refuse.’ He spoke whimsically. ‘You take me, or you leave me. It’s as simple and as final as that.

Kara didn't know if she loved Lucan, but she did know that she could not bear to part from him. She accepted his proposal and soon after their wedding in the local church they set out for Dragon Bay by raft through the river stopping overnight in the forest. They were almost about to consummate their marriage, but both of their pride comes in the way when Lucan tells her to forget about everything and pretend he'd married her for his sake, which reminded Kara of the real reason he married her causing her to reply, ‘I married you because my pride could not bear pity from those who thought Nikos wanted me. There, now we start even! You married me for Pryde’s sake—I married too for pride’s sake.’ Nevertheless, after that small skirmish, they managed to have a nice, friendly evening, with him even tucking her sweetly into the make-shift bed with him, ‘Go to sleep,’ he cut in. ‘Dream of the boy-lover who never bruised you with a kiss, but who knew how to break your heart.’ Kara who at first had been dismayed that she was going to spend her wedding night in the forest began to wish that she and Lucan spend all their tomorrows and all their nights alone like this in the forest, forgetful about the world and their obligations. Things take a sinister turn when they arrive at Dragon Bay.

There are spoilers ahead At the Great house, the two were given the best suite, but it overlooked the cliffs from where Pryde fell and Kara wondered if it was a deliberate attempt on Pryde's part to play on Lucan's guilt as he takes his wife in his arms for Pryde was incapable of doing it. He sits on the wheelchair as if sitting on a throne and seemed to be living in the past. Besides Lucan, Pryde and Da, also living in the house with them is Lucan's sister, Clare, who has no interest in anything else than the cold stone she sculpts, Rue, the eight year old girl whom his twin adopted after she'd been abandoned on their doorstep as a newborn and Nil Ericsson, who is Rue's tutor as well a masseur for Pryde and is romantically interested in Clare.

Kara begins to feel as if every person living in the house was wearing a mask. Each one was hiding something and seemed different from what they showed of themselves. Furthermore, she started to discover alarming things about her husband, such as him supposed to bring back a bride named Caprice. Also, that Rue had his green eyes and red hair. The more she sees Lucan's total devotion to the child, comforting her when she's in distress, reading her a princess story, practically raising her even though she was adopted by his brother, the more she's convinced that the child is his. I loved the interaction between Lucan and Rue, her calling him Yunk (young uncle), he calling her monkey. She and Lucan's dog, Jet, and the Carib worker, Julius, were the only ones who blindly adored Lucan. Rue and Kara also got along very well even though Da had poisoned the child's mind against Kara. That woman was one scary witch. I don't how Rue turned out to be such a sweet and cheerful child despite all that black magic the woman was quietly performing, like the needle in the child's doll that Kara later discovers.

Nevertheless, the discovery that she wasn't Lucan's first choice of bride upsets Kara which is why she avoids the consummation of their marriage. With Lucan doing nothing to make her change her mind and staying away from the house, spending long hours on the plantation, a barrier fell between them. They did ride together, had picnics with Rue and put up a pretence of a married couple in front of the others, but there was constant tension between them. The few times they did have an amicable moment but then something would take place trigger back tension between them.

Then, one day as Kara was out walking she comes across the old mill where the Savidge bride died and her ghost rumored to roaming around. While exploring it something spooks her. As she flees from the place she finds herself being chased by a huge golden horse whose black mane hid rider's face as he rode low. She faints after the horse kicks her in the shoulder and is later found by Lucan. When she tells him and Clare about the horse, neither believe her because the horse was rare and they had one by the name of Satan who was Pryde's horse, but after his injury they gave it away. Kara however was sure someone was trying to frighten her away from Dragon Bay and that it was a human; not a ghost. On the other hand, seeing her injured, Lucan tells her he should never have brought her to Dragon Bay, but Kara misunderstands and asks him if he wished he'd brought Caprice instead and he tells her he'd known Caprice off and on and he'd gone to Paris to ask her to marry him but he'd changed his mind because he couldn't do it. With that things become even more strained between them. She was becoming jealous of everything and everyone he loved, the house, even little Rue.
Her eyes filled with tears. Little Rue. I must not mind that he loves you, and does not love me, she told herself with firmness.

As the story is told from Kara's point of view, we never get to know Lucan's real feelings whether her growing distrust of him made him distance himself from her or the fact that he regretted the danger he'd brought to Kara by marrying her, which is what I'm assuming. Gone was the fun, mischievous guy we'd known at the island before marriage, who coerced her into having dinner with him, then into giving him company until he left the island or sneaking a few kisses here and there. In his place was a more withdrawn man who let her have her wish of not having any physical intimacy. The only time he initiated physical intimacy was when he was driven to anger and jealousy. They were stranded at the beach house because of the thunderstorm when Lucan sees the necklace around Kara's neck that had been gifted to her by Pryde as a wedding gift and tells her that the necklace belonged to the Savidge bride who's rumored to be the resident ghost, which angers Kara. Having seen the unhappy look on his face when she'd worn it to dinner the previous evening, she accuses him of always being jealous of his brother. Consumed with anger and jealousy, he tells her since she is too keen to please his brother they shall give that brother the one thing he wants and they end up making love. It was a fade away scene. It wasn't a forced sex, but since it was her first time, Kara was upset by his lack of tenderness.

The following morning she decides to leave him and Lucan finds her in the main house packing. As they argue over it, they hear a scream and find that the chandelier above the main hall had fallen and beneath its debris lay an unconscious Rue. Everyone is horrified. Fortunately, Rue ended up with only a concussion. With the child she's grown so fond of needing care, Kara cancels her plans of leaving Lucan and as she tends to the child a truce settles between her and a grateful Lucan.

There's lots of strange stuff happening, secrets stumbling out one of them being about Rue's parentage. And, Kara was getting more suspicious that Lucan is out to harm her. Then one night her suspicion turns to conviction when she happens to look of the window in the middle of the night and sees the same horse that had run her down in the cane field, which everyone refused to believe was on the land. I don't know how no one else in the house saw that horse. Nevertheless, when the rider jumped into the saddle, she found he matched the body frame of her husband was also wearing the field hat Lucan usually wore. This is where she got me really pissed because after giving a thought about going to Lucan's room and seeing if he was there or away, which would've clarified whether he was the rider she changes her mind, preferring to strengthen her distrust of him.

She was no better than Pryde and Clare, who used Lucan's 'I don't care attitude' to their advantage, allowing the blame of their weaknesses and faults to fall on his head. I found it equally stupid and suicidal of her to stay back at the house when everyone else had left for the silver wedding still believing that Lucan was the one who was out to harm her and that she would rather die at his hands than live without him. It was only after seeing the real villain in action that she believed in her husband and ran in search of him. I love that scene and visualise it --also the crumbling down of the house and swallowed by the sea-- like an old western movie being played on a big screen.

‘Lucan!’ She cried out his name and ran through the cane to the horseman who was galloping towards her. The cane stood tall, petrified by the heat. The cicadas shrilled, and then as if in a dream Kara was being lifted bodily on to the horse and strong arms were holding her shaking body close to a hard, warm chest. Her hands clenched his shoulders, her whole being trembled with reaction, and the sudden overwhelming joy of being close to him, safe with him.

Their declaration of love in the end I felt was too rushed and as I'd already said at the start the end too was abrupt. Even though, Kara irritated me with her distrust of Lucan, I still quite liked her. She and Lucan made a good pair.

Overall, it is an engaging and enjoyable book.

[Jacqueline J · Rating 2 out of 5]

Trying to work my way through a stack of vintage HPs. This one had quite the gothic feel. I found the first half of the book better than the second half. The reason for that is that the heroine started doubting the hero in the second half. Also more characters were added in so there was actually very little interaction between the hero and the heroine in the second half. This one was quite vintage in writing style with everything extremely fade to black and barely any I Love Yous at the end.

[Bookaddict · Rating 3 out of 5]

#12 of first 100 HP. This had a gothic feel to it!

[Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is book 2 in a 3 book series, Kara the leading lady in this book is the sister of the hero from book 1. Kara has left her home in Greece after hearing her childhood sweetheart had married another girl. Supposedly broken-hearted she travels to far flung shores, where she meets Lucan, their first meeting was unconventional inasmuch she finds herself in the wrong hotel room. Shortly after she marries Lucan and returns with him to his island home where she meets his twin brother and sister who all live in a creepy old house.

This one wasn’t for me, I felt no connection between the two main characters and that was understandable as they were more or less strangers. The supporting cast all had their own agendas and secrets. There was more mystery than romance here. This had the feel of a Victorian gothic melodrama where the despicable villain is twirling the ends of his moustache while laughing evilly. I didn’t get why Kara the heroine didn’t just leave.

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

The same, then again different...

This is a Harlequin Romance originally published in 1969, though, reprinted many times. But it's a bit different for an HQN of that time is that it's more dark than normal and suspenseful. what we would expect for 1969.

There was DRAMA and some angst, but very little romance.

The mystery shrouded the story comes to a climax at the end as expected, however it overrides importance with that of mystery leaving a feeling that the HEA is rushed and second place also leaving some elements left hanging making me wonder if the story was truly finished or some pages were lost prior to publishing.

[MissKitty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very vintage book with a gothic feel to it. It felt more like a mystery with some romance and the author did a good job of keeping up the suspense so it did hold my attention until the end.

Kara is heartbroken so she goes to a Caribbean island to forget. She meets Lucan who is on his way home, he lives in a great plantation island nearby. While both guests at the hotel, Kara and Lucan spend most of their time together. Lucan has a reputation of being wild but he treats Kara gently for most of the time. However she is warned that her reputation can suffer by being seen so often in his presence. Lucan has told Kara his story and how his crippled twin brother is master of their plantation, but it is Lucan's duty, as the healthy brother, To provide the heirs. Lucan proposes to Kara and brings her to his plantation. There are a lot of mysteries there, the house is old and huge with a lot of ghost stories, the antagonistic crippled twin brother, a small child who looks exactly like Lucan but calls him uncle; a vile old nurse who practices voodoo. The setting and secondary characters all add to the feel of the book and the readers are kept in good suspense as to the outcome. As in most older harlequins, the ending was very abrupt and no satisfactory explanation of when Lucan fell in love w Kara.

[Caroline · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a trainwreck. Heroine marries this dude on the rebound for no real reason. He kisses her like one time and he's rough when he does it, but she marries him? Uh why? There is zero love story in this book, the only sex is fade to black and the motivation of all the characters is murky. Plus, an entire house slides into the ocean with people in it and everyone is oddly calm about the matter. WHAT???

[Megzy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very different. I don't want to give away the plot but the book is a cross between mystery and romance. The characters are very well developed. The plot and subplots held my attention enough that I had to read it in one sitting.

[Hasnamezied · Rating 4 out of 5]

احدى اساطير روايات عبير و هي كانت تحت اسم توأم التنين
الجزء الثاني من شهر عسل مر

رائعة بحق

[IRE · Rating 3 out of 5]

"You are a man who could have any woman. Many would be only too flattered, I prefer to be loved."

"You can take me, or leave me. It's as simple and final as that"
His had drew away from her face an he pulled off his mask and he put back his head to show himself unmasked in the moonlight. There was a magnificent insolence about the action. He was straight out of Shelley, Kara thought, full of a pagan pride that said: I am what I am, and cannot pretend to be otherwise.

Mon coeur diable, she thought. My heart's devil

Its not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

She would have died at his hands rather than live without him. She had known for days that she could not live without him. Separation, wide seas, days and nights without him would not have killed the love she felt for him.

-Violet Winspear
Dragon Bay

[Mudpie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another WTH abrupt ending. But at least the exotic settings and mysteries kept me intrigued as the plot unfolds.

[Amy Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, as a '70s melodramatic romantic story. This book had more suspense than most, and the setting is described in poetic detail. The Isle de Luc is a tropical paradise, where the sea is "melted emeralds" and the Carib punter who ferries the H and h to the h's home is "outlined by the sun like a carved idol."

The depiction of island life is probably PC enough by '70s standards, but there are a few moments that are cringey today.

The main storyline is that Kara has just been jilted by the boy she loves, so she leaves her Greek homeland and travels to a Caribbean resort, where she meets Lucan Savidge, inhabitant of the grand house called Dragon Bay. Locals gossip about Lucan because of his family. His brother was injured in a fall while the two brothers were climbing a cliff. A baby who bears a striking family resemblance to Lucan was left on the doorstep, and a ghost may haunt the family manor.

We never really understand why Kara agreed to marry Lucan only 10 days after meeting him, and their marriage is soon on the rocks, mainly because they just won't talk!!!

Pros: plot is suspenseful, Kara is not a doormat, and secondary characters are mostly not clichéd

Cons: love story not well developed or explained

[Kay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well i just finished it and it was a fantastic read. however i would argue that this book was more suitable as a queen gothic than a harlequin for a number of reasons. It was a bit low on romance especially after the couples arrival at dragons bay. Plus it became too chilling, creepy and scary towards the end, with revelations and all (i dont want to give spoilers). I mean to say that its not what i would expect from a harlequin book of romance because it was a heavy read for me and the book was dark (in terms of its gothic atmosphere) and quite tragic too ( like for the other characters). Otherwise, hats off to Violet Winspear. It amazes me how the older harlequin stories had so much variety and depth. The characters were very well developed and the settings were beautifully described.

[Flora · Rating 5 out of 5]

Violet Winspear’s writing has more depth and lyricism than most Harlequin/Mills and Boon novels, (and I’ve read a lot). I wish I could have liked the young heroine, Kara, as much as the hero, Lucan, but she was verbally cruel like many VW young heroines (which behavior he excuses as spirited). He is probably one of the most noble of her heroes (except for one desperate lapse). High on atmosphere and wit, the banter was highly entertaining. I wish Kara’s growing realization of her love and respect for Lucan and the resolution of their misunderstanding had been better developed—the novel ended too abruptly.

They are featured in The Pagan Island as happily married, with Kara’s childhood friend Nikos commenting that Kara grew into “a most attractive creature.” He was somewhat bemused that Kara and Lucan’s two sons seemed not to look Greek at all with their fiery red hair.

Also, I would think that an honest conversation (as we are advised today) would have cleared the air sooner. K: Is Rue your child? Do you love me or do you just want a child to inherit Dragon Bay? I feel you don’t. L: Why did you marry me (tactfully said). Are you angry with me? Why?

He should have been honest with his feelings instead of expecting Kara to read his mind.

Kara was remarkably free of vanity or conceit, or maybe unsure of her own attractiveness, and dense. It was clear that the “devastatingly attractive” Lucan had fallen hard for her.

That said, this is one of my top 3 of Mills and Boons/Harlequin romance. I keep returning to their courtship. A keeper.

[Daisy Daisy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Our h Kara has moved on from strangely curling up in her big brothers lap to sulking that her cousin has fallen in love with an American and married her. poor ikkle spoiled miss takes herself off sailing around the Caribbean on big bros yacht and decides to disembark on a random island to mope some more and bumps into the scarred face H.

Turns out he has a twin bro in a wheelchair who is the eldest by a few mins. Due to him being the elder he is to inherit everything but its clear he doesn't give a rats ass about his inheritance he just likes to spend and lord it over the H. The accident happened because older A'hole brother challenged the H to a freeclimb up the cliffs and he fell, paralysing him. The H got the blame and mommy dearest hit him across the face with a whip because she preferred the elder boy.

The housekeeper is evil too and enables evil bro with his shenanigans throughout the story whereas mummy dearest is gone.

H proposed the h marry him to salve her pride over the cousin whereas H has to provide a heir to the estate because the bros man bits apparently don't work. He takes her to his house and its totally creepy and the brother is smarmy yet creepy too. There is also a plot moppet which everyone suspects is the H's but she in fact turns out to be the sisters who abandoned her as a baby and let the bro take the blame as everyone thinks he is a devil.

More shenanigans ensue as the h is mown down by a mysterious rider and ghostly type thinks may or may not happen. Brother is truly evil, it turns out he is recovered and just wants his bro to suffer the torments. He tries to attack the h and she runs outside only for the entire house to fall into the sea along with the brother.

These 2 idiots declare their love (hers rather dubiously as she thought the H was trying to kill her) and they vow to rebuild (further inland).

Total bonkers but nice to hear how H & h from first book are getting on.

[Melody · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually the story is interesting...well for me haha. It's more about the dragon bay and the people living in that great house. I was actually curious about the lives of the Hero's family to the point that I wanted this story to be longer. There were mysteries and intrigues but the ending was anti-climactic and rushed.

It's like reading Rebecca or the likes. The romance between the Hero and heroine were not really focused because as I've said, it's more about the vacation, the place, the castle and its little mysteries lelsss...

[Gary Branson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Surprise ending I was not expecting.

[CR · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Inez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this many years ago. Think I enjoyed it in my late teens and early twenties...

[RomLibrary · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Savidges of Dragon Bay were as wild and savage as their name, bitter and totally unable to love. But Kara did not realize this until after she had married Lucan Savidge...

Pryde sat in a wheelchair, yet he made it look like a throne. He made Kara feel the helpless one.

'The news reached me last night, Lucan, that you had married.' His voice was deep and harshly attractive.

'This Is Kara.' Lucan said it a shade defiantly. 'We met in Fort Fernand ten days ago, just after I returned from Paris. Kara Is Grecian.'

'I see.' Pryde seemed to see into the secret regions of Kara's mind, and the shock it had suffered.

'Welcome to Dragon Bay, Kara.' A faint smile dispelled the severity of Pryde's expression. 'It Is about time a young woman brought the promise of children to this old house.'

[ANGELIA · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one wasn't bad, and what a riot, the way the H and h first met! (This book is a sequel, and the h is the kid sister to the H in the first book. She was looking forward to a future with her childhood sweetheart, but in this second book, you find out he had other ideas.)

In this book, you have the h getting used to her new life with the H, which includes his family: his paralyzed brother, his free-spirited sister and a little girl who was left with the family as a baby and adopted by the brother, but who is she really?

There's also some mystery/suspense, as it appears someone wants the h dead, but who?

This book had its flaws, but it was definitely different, and worth reading.

[Melinda · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was more like a gothic romance novel than your average HP.

[هدى خورشيد · Rating 3 out of 5]

i hate Braid brother's Locan he's stupid jealous .. but finally Loca make Kara falling in love with him :3

[Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not what I was expecting

[Heba Gamal · Rating 4 out of 5]

هي الجزء التاني من رواية "شهر عسل مر "
حبيت الجو بتاعها
والاوصاف والمكان