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Rachel had vowed to reach Diablo In London, it had seemed simple. Go out to Columbia, bring back her brother, Mark. It was her one chance to do something for her beloved grandfather with whom Mark had quarreled. In Columbia, nothing went right. Mark was off in the wilds of Diablo looking for a legendary emerald--and the one man who could guide her to the territory was the handsome, arrogant Vitas de Mendoza. Rachel didn't trust him an inch, but he agreed to take her--at a price. Only when it was too late did Rachel discover that the price was far, far too high....
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Sara Craven
493 books267 followersAnne Bushell was born on October 1938 in South Devon, England, just before World War II and grew up in a house crammed with books. She was always a voracious reader, some of her all-time favorites books are: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "Middlemarch" by George Eliot, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell and "The Code of the Woosters" by P. G. Wodehouse.
She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Divorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.
She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Divorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.
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January 4, 2016
Useless Rachel finally has a chance to prove to her grandfather that she can do more than look pretty and eventually breed. She will go to Columbia to retrieve her brother Mark. Mark has had a huge fight with Grandfather, because Grandfather wants Mark to join the company, and Mark wants to be a geologist. Grandfather is now very sick, and has asked Rachel to go fetch Mark.
Mark has gone off to Columbia. There, Rachel discovers that Mark has perhaps gone to a place called Diablo to find a huge emerald, which he will then smuggle out of the country. Mark’s plan seems to be to wave the huge emerald under Grandfather’s nose, thereby proving that geologists can make money. By, umm, stealing stuff.
Rachel is warned that Diablo is no place for a woman, but she goes anyway. She will rescue Mark from his stupidity without involving the local authorities. Both Mark and Grandfather would undoubtedly be cranky if Rachel got Mark arrested.
In some frontier town Rachel manages to outstare the local hotelier, who suggests Rachel seek out Vitas de Mendoza to guide her to Diablo. Rachel correctly discerns that Vitas de Mendoza is in the back room, and against all advice, goes immediately to confront him.
Vitas de Mendoza is playing cards and smoking cigars with a bunch of pudgy men. Vitas de Mendoza is a 70s god. He is dressed all in black and his shirt is open to the waist. He has chest hair. He is wearing a large silver medallion. HE HAS AN EYE PATCH!!
Vitas de Mendoza is basically everything you could ever want in a man. They don’t make them like this any more. Possibly they never really did, but his very existence, as this sort of complete cliché of a man that I’d begun to doubt was anything more than a romance novel urban legend has completely restored my faith in the genre. I want more of him. I want him with stuck up blonde actresses like Rachel, I want him with princesses, with mousy domestic goddesses, and with buttoned up secretaries.
I especially want him with borderline alcoholic romance novelists. I wonder, when Sara Craven sat in a darkened cinema and beheld ‘Romancing the Stone’ for the first time, did she think of Vitas de Mendoza? Did she think, sure, Michael Douglas as Jack Coulton is sexy, but he’s nothing without an eye patch?
Rachel naturally appreciates Vitas de Mendoza’s charms, even though he is a scruffy guide and leers at her and wins all their feisty verbal battles. She decides that she’ll show him, so she picks another guide. Fortunately, Vitas de Mendoza shows up before the other guide rapes her.
Rachel’s all ‘I was managing fine without you,’ but agrees to allow Vitas de Mendoza to take her the rest of the way to Diablo. In exchange, she will sleep with him. Many, many times, Vitas de Mendoza promises her. He’s all hot eyes and kissable lips. She’s determined not to give in without a fight.
This book is all danger and adventure. There’s a very evil villain. It’s also really interesting that Dianne Thomas was probably working on ‘Romancing the Stone’ in California at roughly the same time Sara Craven was working on ‘Flame of Diablo.’ The universe must really have very strongly wanted a romance around a hunt for a Columbian emerald.
Of course, Vitas de Mendoza is not the simple sexpot guide he appears to be. Rachel sort of works out that he’s probably rich when he takes her to visit his nanny. He also tells her the origin story of how he lost his eye.
I loved this book. I probably loved this book more than it deserves. I knew at times that it was being a bit cosy about the danger Rachel was subjected to, but I forgave it.
I gave Rachel a lot of passes for being kind of an idiot. She was very specifically doing something to just once win her Grandfather’s approval. She was desperate for it, even though she knew it ultimately wouldn’t make any difference. I liked that she knew she was hot, but what she really wanted was to be loved. She was wistful about it. I gave her a pass for only being sort of interested in being an actress.
Vitas de Mendoza was completely perfect in every way.
Mark has gone off to Columbia. There, Rachel discovers that Mark has perhaps gone to a place called Diablo to find a huge emerald, which he will then smuggle out of the country. Mark’s plan seems to be to wave the huge emerald under Grandfather’s nose, thereby proving that geologists can make money. By, umm, stealing stuff.
Rachel is warned that Diablo is no place for a woman, but she goes anyway. She will rescue Mark from his stupidity without involving the local authorities. Both Mark and Grandfather would undoubtedly be cranky if Rachel got Mark arrested.
In some frontier town Rachel manages to outstare the local hotelier, who suggests Rachel seek out Vitas de Mendoza to guide her to Diablo. Rachel correctly discerns that Vitas de Mendoza is in the back room, and against all advice, goes immediately to confront him.
Vitas de Mendoza is playing cards and smoking cigars with a bunch of pudgy men. Vitas de Mendoza is a 70s god. He is dressed all in black and his shirt is open to the waist. He has chest hair. He is wearing a large silver medallion. HE HAS AN EYE PATCH!!
Vitas de Mendoza is basically everything you could ever want in a man. They don’t make them like this any more. Possibly they never really did, but his very existence, as this sort of complete cliché of a man that I’d begun to doubt was anything more than a romance novel urban legend has completely restored my faith in the genre. I want more of him. I want him with stuck up blonde actresses like Rachel, I want him with princesses, with mousy domestic goddesses, and with buttoned up secretaries.
I especially want him with borderline alcoholic romance novelists. I wonder, when Sara Craven sat in a darkened cinema and beheld ‘Romancing the Stone’ for the first time, did she think of Vitas de Mendoza? Did she think, sure, Michael Douglas as Jack Coulton is sexy, but he’s nothing without an eye patch?
Rachel naturally appreciates Vitas de Mendoza’s charms, even though he is a scruffy guide and leers at her and wins all their feisty verbal battles. She decides that she’ll show him, so she picks another guide. Fortunately, Vitas de Mendoza shows up before the other guide rapes her.
Rachel’s all ‘I was managing fine without you,’ but agrees to allow Vitas de Mendoza to take her the rest of the way to Diablo. In exchange, she will sleep with him. Many, many times, Vitas de Mendoza promises her. He’s all hot eyes and kissable lips. She’s determined not to give in without a fight.
This book is all danger and adventure. There’s a very evil villain. It’s also really interesting that Dianne Thomas was probably working on ‘Romancing the Stone’ in California at roughly the same time Sara Craven was working on ‘Flame of Diablo.’ The universe must really have very strongly wanted a romance around a hunt for a Columbian emerald.
Of course, Vitas de Mendoza is not the simple sexpot guide he appears to be. Rachel sort of works out that he’s probably rich when he takes her to visit his nanny. He also tells her the origin story of how he lost his eye.
I loved this book. I probably loved this book more than it deserves. I knew at times that it was being a bit cosy about the danger Rachel was subjected to, but I forgave it.
I gave Rachel a lot of passes for being kind of an idiot. She was very specifically doing something to just once win her Grandfather’s approval. She was desperate for it, even though she knew it ultimately wouldn’t make any difference. I liked that she knew she was hot, but what she really wanted was to be loved. She was wistful about it. I gave her a pass for only being sort of interested in being an actress.
Vitas de Mendoza was completely perfect in every way.
February 22, 2017
Flame of Diablo – a cursed emerald that the h’s geologist brother wants to find to prove to his grandfather that he can be rich without joining the family firm. He is as annoying as the heroine.
After her grandfather’s heart attack, the h is sent to find her brother in Columbia, which makes no sense because the h is an actress and isn’t the most savvy traveler.
She immediately succumbs to altitude sickness at the home of her brother’s friends. Once recovered, she takes a *bus * to some far-flung town in the mountains and looks for a guide in a bar. The bar owner recommends, the H, who looks tough and scary with his eye patch. The h feels a frission of something she has never felt before and does her ice princess routine, which makes the H hostile and sardonic.
In a TSL move, the h pays a sweaty fat man to guide her. Once in the wilderness, the fat man tries to rape her but the H has been following and saves the day. He tells her she’s in his debt and the only way for her to pay is some loving later on. So off they go – bickering along the way.
In a rare moment of peace when the H isn’t rescuing her from a snake or baiting her, the H tells her how he lost an eye as a child. A revolutionary thug killed his father in front of him, and then he began to gouge both his eyes so he couldn’t identify him later, but the thug was stopped with only half of the job done.
They stop at the home of his former nanny and they bathe and change clothes and sleep in the same bedroom. The h gives the H an innocent backrub. The h is disappointed when her bridal white nightgown cools the H’s ardour and nothing happens. The nanny shows the h photos of the H as a child – and recent one with a hot blonde.
The h is devastated since she is now in love with the H and this beautiful creature couldn’t capture him.
They head out the next day and eventually end up at the ruins of a monastery. The H tells her to stay put, so of course the h wanders off and finds her brother tied up. Then the revolutionary bad guy and his gang of thugs (including sweaty fat rapist) show up to hold the h hostage. The H returns and now they are all in the hands of the H’s nemesis.
The H promises to show the bad guy where his family’s cursed emeralds are stashed for safe keeping below the monastery if he’ll let the h and her lover go. (In a blow hot, blow cold moment the heroine told him the guy she was looking for was her lover).
The bad guy says in the morning. The h asks to be put in a cell with the H. The H is not happy with her, but if this is their last night on earth, she wants to show her love. They love it up, the h is no longer an ice princess virgin.
The next morning, the bad guy immediately reneges on the deal and they all go down the tunnel to find the cursed emeralds. They reach the skull with the emeralds for eyes and the H creates a diversion. The H directs the heroine to move down a different tunnel where she is pulled to safety by the Colombian army. (They had been tracking the bad guy along with the hero for months). They hear a shot. The tunnel collapses. The heroine is sure the hero is dead – but he’s well – and her brother has a broken leg.
The heroine says something stupid about the H making up the risk when he knew the army was right behind them and took advantage of her fright to take her virginity. The hero takes offence. He grimly tells her they’re getting married because she might be pregnant. Then he takes the h and her brother to his vast estate to meet his mother and to have a trousseau made. He barely talks to her in the weeks that follow. Then one day she picks up the phone to hear a woman’s voice and her request they change their meeting place in Bogota.
The heroine is convinced it’s the hot blonde from the photo. After she hitches a ride with her brother and the hero’s cousin, she hangs around the lobby of the hotel until she sees the H with the hot blonde (now visibly pregnant) go up to a room.
She returns to the hacienda and plans to leave that night, but the hero catches her sneaking out and they finally talk. The woman was the wife of friend – who had a migraine and had to stay in bed. He hasn’t been talking to the h because he can’t trust himself to keep his hands off of her. He’s been in love with her since he saw her and decided he wanted to marry her when he saw her in her bridal white nightgown. He shouldn’t have had sex with her before marriage and he’s feeling guilty about that one time. Heroine melts. HEA.
The one had a lot going on, but I never bought the romance – mostly because the heroine was so annoying. She incurious about the new land she was in and had no sensitivity for danger or even the good manners to be polite to people who might help her. She leapt to conclusions and blew hot and cold with the hero. The hero was interesting, but we don’t see all that much of him with the huge cast of characters crowding into the plot.
After her grandfather’s heart attack, the h is sent to find her brother in Columbia, which makes no sense because the h is an actress and isn’t the most savvy traveler.
She immediately succumbs to altitude sickness at the home of her brother’s friends. Once recovered, she takes a *bus * to some far-flung town in the mountains and looks for a guide in a bar. The bar owner recommends, the H, who looks tough and scary with his eye patch. The h feels a frission of something she has never felt before and does her ice princess routine, which makes the H hostile and sardonic.
In a TSL move, the h pays a sweaty fat man to guide her. Once in the wilderness, the fat man tries to rape her but the H has been following and saves the day. He tells her she’s in his debt and the only way for her to pay is some loving later on. So off they go – bickering along the way.
In a rare moment of peace when the H isn’t rescuing her from a snake or baiting her, the H tells her how he lost an eye as a child. A revolutionary thug killed his father in front of him, and then he began to gouge both his eyes so he couldn’t identify him later, but the thug was stopped with only half of the job done.
They stop at the home of his former nanny and they bathe and change clothes and sleep in the same bedroom. The h gives the H an innocent backrub. The h is disappointed when her bridal white nightgown cools the H’s ardour and nothing happens. The nanny shows the h photos of the H as a child – and recent one with a hot blonde.
The h is devastated since she is now in love with the H and this beautiful creature couldn’t capture him.
They head out the next day and eventually end up at the ruins of a monastery. The H tells her to stay put, so of course the h wanders off and finds her brother tied up. Then the revolutionary bad guy and his gang of thugs (including sweaty fat rapist) show up to hold the h hostage. The H returns and now they are all in the hands of the H’s nemesis.
The H promises to show the bad guy where his family’s cursed emeralds are stashed for safe keeping below the monastery if he’ll let the h and her lover go. (In a blow hot, blow cold moment the heroine told him the guy she was looking for was her lover).
The bad guy says in the morning. The h asks to be put in a cell with the H. The H is not happy with her, but if this is their last night on earth, she wants to show her love. They love it up, the h is no longer an ice princess virgin.
The next morning, the bad guy immediately reneges on the deal and they all go down the tunnel to find the cursed emeralds. They reach the skull with the emeralds for eyes and the H creates a diversion. The H directs the heroine to move down a different tunnel where she is pulled to safety by the Colombian army. (They had been tracking the bad guy along with the hero for months). They hear a shot. The tunnel collapses. The heroine is sure the hero is dead – but he’s well – and her brother has a broken leg.
The heroine says something stupid about the H making up the risk when he knew the army was right behind them and took advantage of her fright to take her virginity. The hero takes offence. He grimly tells her they’re getting married because she might be pregnant. Then he takes the h and her brother to his vast estate to meet his mother and to have a trousseau made. He barely talks to her in the weeks that follow. Then one day she picks up the phone to hear a woman’s voice and her request they change their meeting place in Bogota.
The heroine is convinced it’s the hot blonde from the photo. After she hitches a ride with her brother and the hero’s cousin, she hangs around the lobby of the hotel until she sees the H with the hot blonde (now visibly pregnant) go up to a room.
She returns to the hacienda and plans to leave that night, but the hero catches her sneaking out and they finally talk. The woman was the wife of friend – who had a migraine and had to stay in bed. He hasn’t been talking to the h because he can’t trust himself to keep his hands off of her. He’s been in love with her since he saw her and decided he wanted to marry her when he saw her in her bridal white nightgown. He shouldn’t have had sex with her before marriage and he’s feeling guilty about that one time. Heroine melts. HEA.
The one had a lot going on, but I never bought the romance – mostly because the heroine was so annoying. She incurious about the new land she was in and had no sensitivity for danger or even the good manners to be polite to people who might help her. She leapt to conclusions and blew hot and cold with the hero. The hero was interesting, but we don’t see all that much of him with the huge cast of characters crowding into the plot.
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February 8, 2022
Ay caramba. Fifth dimension fantasy.
Members of the British Empire do not come off well in this book.
The h, Ice Princess, is asked by her mildly misogynistic grandfather to find her little brother. Little brother wants to be a geologist rather than go into the family business. Ice Princess can’t, of course, as she is WOMAN and lesser creature. Yep, 1979 sexual equality issues rears its ugly head only to get beaten back into submission by a wet blanket heroine and mucho arrogant and jackass male characters. U-G-H!
My first thought of the brother was way to go. Premature thinking. The heroine follows him to the last known sighting, Colombia. The country not the college. She’s worried about the dangers of him being a geologist in such a dangerous country. My father was a geologist, granted a petroleum geologist, but I don’t think he ever mentioned the dangers of being swept off a ledge by a giant condor like the h fears has happened to her brother. For that matter, Dad never mentioned piranhas, Bandidos or falling into rapids.
The heroine, a Harlequin high roller in the stupid stakes, heads for the hills of Colombia with a pudgy guide who tries to rape her and may even have plans to place in her a nice little whorehouse. She’s rescued by the hawk-like, silk shirt, medallion AND eye-patch wearing Rico Suave hero. They’ve already met, shared a punishing kiss, and he’s seen her heart shaped tattoo when he spied on her while napping. My blood pressure is up and eyes are rolling.
She finally finds her brother who is actually a spoiled, petulant brat and deserves to die in the small landslide that occurs later, but sadly lives. His sister has traveled thousands of miles, been kidnapped, her lover is imprisoned, he’s sentenced to die by the man who took his eye and killed his father, she loses her virginity, and all Mark can say is how embarrassing it was to hear the guards talk about her lack of honor. He never straightens up, but continues to bitch and moan about how arrogant and bossy the H is. Excuse me little brother, that honor belongs to the h. Besides if he weren’t arrogant and bossy, you would be pushing up daisies. The heroine aka Ice Princess unthaws when Rico Suave is in his jail.
The hero is no prize, but he deserves much, much better. This is so old school it’s painful.
Members of the British Empire do not come off well in this book.
The h, Ice Princess, is asked by her mildly misogynistic grandfather to find her little brother. Little brother wants to be a geologist rather than go into the family business. Ice Princess can’t, of course, as she is WOMAN and lesser creature. Yep, 1979 sexual equality issues rears its ugly head only to get beaten back into submission by a wet blanket heroine and mucho arrogant and jackass male characters. U-G-H!
My first thought of the brother was way to go. Premature thinking. The heroine follows him to the last known sighting, Colombia. The country not the college. She’s worried about the dangers of him being a geologist in such a dangerous country. My father was a geologist, granted a petroleum geologist, but I don’t think he ever mentioned the dangers of being swept off a ledge by a giant condor like the h fears has happened to her brother. For that matter, Dad never mentioned piranhas, Bandidos or falling into rapids.
The heroine, a Harlequin high roller in the stupid stakes, heads for the hills of Colombia with a pudgy guide who tries to rape her and may even have plans to place in her a nice little whorehouse. She’s rescued by the hawk-like, silk shirt, medallion AND eye-patch wearing Rico Suave hero. They’ve already met, shared a punishing kiss, and he’s seen her heart shaped tattoo when he spied on her while napping. My blood pressure is up and eyes are rolling.
She finally finds her brother who is actually a spoiled, petulant brat and deserves to die in the small landslide that occurs later, but sadly lives. His sister has traveled thousands of miles, been kidnapped, her lover is imprisoned, he’s sentenced to die by the man who took his eye and killed his father, she loses her virginity, and all Mark can say is how embarrassing it was to hear the guards talk about her lack of honor. He never straightens up, but continues to bitch and moan about how arrogant and bossy the H is. Excuse me little brother, that honor belongs to the h. Besides if he weren’t arrogant and bossy, you would be pushing up daisies. The heroine aka Ice Princess unthaws when Rico Suave is in his jail.
The hero is no prize, but he deserves much, much better. This is so old school it’s painful.
June 17, 2019
I loved this. It reads like some 70's western. There is a search for a legendary emerald complete with villians and a sexy latino hero. I am not sure where others didn't like this but I thought there was plenty of sexual chemistry. I also liked the virginal naive h. I have no complaints.
December 22, 2020
Think "Romancing the Stone" with a Conquistador-descended sexy Colombian hero (with an eyepatch!) and a young nitwit heroine bungling in the jungle looking for her spoilt brat geologist brother who has disappeared looking for a legendary emerald (the titular "flame of Diablo"). Good sexual tension between our virginal English miss and the dashing and dangerous hero who saves her from all manner of danger (rape, snakes, bad guys) but wants payment "in kind" (wink wink). It's pretty clear from the beginning that our hero is smitten, and our heroine is in insta-love, but they argue and miscommunicate to the point where all seduction attempts end in mutual frustration.
The heroine (and her brother, for his brief chapters) were annoying but this wildly romantic and improbable story was actually a lot of fun. Great heat between our hero and heroine, some very old skool happenings (bratty, immature heroine; dangerous but patrician alpha hero; a spanking!--SC seems to have liked to throw those into her earlier novels), and a satisfying resolution. I forgot how good SC was--silly escapist fun!
The heroine (and her brother, for his brief chapters) were annoying but this wildly romantic and improbable story was actually a lot of fun. Great heat between our hero and heroine, some very old skool happenings (bratty, immature heroine; dangerous but patrician alpha hero; a spanking!--SC seems to have liked to throw those into her earlier novels), and a satisfying resolution. I forgot how good SC was--silly escapist fun!
December 28, 2017
This was a good one.
Sara Craven for the win with Flame of Diablo.
The h travels to Columbia at the request of her very ill grandfather to find her estranged brother.
She learns that he has travelled to Diablo to try to find the legendary emerald “Flame if Diablo”. To get to her brother, the h hires the H as a guide. Their journey is eventful and there is a constant sexual charge between them.
The story is written like an old 1970’s western with everyone on horseback, traveling through challenging terrain. The H is uber alpha male, surly and hot as hell. The h is the sweet, but spunky virginal beauty that captures the H from the first moment. There is even a despicable villain who injured the H when he was a child.
It has everything you need to write a brilliant story and Sara Craven did just that. And I am so glad she did. This one is a keeper.
Sara Craven for the win with Flame of Diablo.
The h travels to Columbia at the request of her very ill grandfather to find her estranged brother.
She learns that he has travelled to Diablo to try to find the legendary emerald “Flame if Diablo”. To get to her brother, the h hires the H as a guide. Their journey is eventful and there is a constant sexual charge between them.
The story is written like an old 1970’s western with everyone on horseback, traveling through challenging terrain. The H is uber alpha male, surly and hot as hell. The h is the sweet, but spunky virginal beauty that captures the H from the first moment. There is even a despicable villain who injured the H when he was a child.
It has everything you need to write a brilliant story and Sara Craven did just that. And I am so glad she did. This one is a keeper.
February 20, 2022
I enjoyed reading it
August 2, 2021
Rachel had vowed to reach Diablo
In London, it had seemed simple. Go out to Columbia, bring back her brother, Mark. It was her one chance to do something for her beloved grandfather with whom Mark had quarreled.
In Columbia, nothing went right. Mark was off in the wilds of Diablo looking for a legendary emerald--and the one man who could guide her to the territory was the handsome, arrogant Vitas de Mendoza.
Rachel didn't trust him an inch, but he agreed to take her--at a price. Only when it was too late did Rachel discover that the price was far, far too high
In London, it had seemed simple. Go out to Columbia, bring back her brother, Mark. It was her one chance to do something for her beloved grandfather with whom Mark had quarreled.
In Columbia, nothing went right. Mark was off in the wilds of Diablo looking for a legendary emerald--and the one man who could guide her to the territory was the handsome, arrogant Vitas de Mendoza.
Rachel didn't trust him an inch, but he agreed to take her--at a price. Only when it was too late did Rachel discover that the price was far, far too high
March 31, 2024
Worth reading for the hero!!
Aside from that it is a lot of fun, except for the Grandfather and most especially the spoilt younger brother (who I loathed). She is feisty, but jealous and he is a dream hero - lucky, lucky, lucky girl...
The improbable scenarios were enjoyable, and although I might have preferred a slightly different ending, it is charming on the whole.
Aside from that it is a lot of fun, except for the Grandfather and most especially the spoilt younger brother (who I loathed). She is feisty, but jealous and he is a dream hero - lucky, lucky, lucky girl...
The improbable scenarios were enjoyable, and although I might have preferred a slightly different ending, it is charming on the whole.
December 9, 2017
رواية حتى تموت الشفاه من عبير
November 10, 2022
الرواية جوها جميل جدا لكن الترجمة سيئة فوق الوصف الكاتبة حاذفة احداث مهمة وكتير ، موجودة في النسخة الاصلية الانجليزية وغير موجودة في المترجمة
December 18, 2023
Decent read. The overall setting and the jewelery side plot were interesting. Some good angst toward the end.
March 28, 2011
This was one of the first romance novels after a slew of Barbara Cartland's that I read. It was an exotic location, a dashing and exotic Latino male, and a treasure hunt all in one. I loved it. I actually, would love to reread this since it has been many, many years.
August 9, 2013
I just didn't feel the emotional connection to this novel for me to actually relate to. While it was an okay story, it's nothing to me if I cannot relate on an emotional basis.
January 22, 2016
I enjoy Sara Craven books quite a bit. This on just didn't catch my interest and I found myself feeling as though I HAD to finish the book. So much misunderstandings!
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April 5, 2017I could have done with a spunkier, less irritating heroine.
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