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Surrender to the Fury
A beautiful Southern belle meets her match in a handsome Yankee cardsharp
Aimee Fortune LaMotte hated Nick Drummond, and with good reason. The rogue gambier had swindled her father out of everything he owned. And then the handsome Yankee had demanded a passionate night with Aimee to pay off her own gambling debts, leaving her with an illegitimate child in the bargain.
Years later, an officer in the despised Union army, Nick reentered Aimee's life as the South lay in flames. And though the beautiful belle's heart cried out for revenge, she was undone by the unexpected gentleness and nobility of the man who had wronged her five years before. She could not deny the irresistible desire that drew her into the powerful, loving arms of her enemy, and forced her to...
Surrender to the Fury.
384 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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Connie Mason
140 books534 followersConnie Mason or Cara Miles is the best-selling author of more than fifty historical romances and novellas. Her tales of passion and adventure are set in exotic as well as American locales. Connie was named Story Teller of the Year in 1990 by Romantic Times and was awarded Career Achievement award in the Western category by Romantic Times in 1994. Connie makes her home in Tarpon Springs, Florida with her husband Jerry.
Prior to her first published work in 1984, Connie was a full time homemaker. Always an avid reader, writing was one of Connie's dreams.
In 1995 Connie was featured on a segment of the CBS news show 48 Hours, a television production that devoted an entire program to the romance novel industry. Connie was also featured in an article published by National Inquirer.
In addition to writing and traveling, Connie enjoys telling anyone who will listen about her three children and nine grandchildren, and sharing memories of her years living abroad in Europe and Asia as the wife of a career serviceman. In her spare time Connie enjoys reading, dancing, playing bridge and freshwater fishing with her husband.
Prior to her first published work in 1984, Connie was a full time homemaker. Always an avid reader, writing was one of Connie's dreams.
In 1995 Connie was featured on a segment of the CBS news show 48 Hours, a television production that devoted an entire program to the romance novel industry. Connie was also featured in an article published by National Inquirer.
In addition to writing and traveling, Connie enjoys telling anyone who will listen about her three children and nine grandchildren, and sharing memories of her years living abroad in Europe and Asia as the wife of a career serviceman. In her spare time Connie enjoys reading, dancing, playing bridge and freshwater fishing with her husband.
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November 20, 2011
Really annoying!
Aimee meets Nick Drummond on a river boat. Her father has died leaving her impoverished. We are told that she has taken up poker in order to make ends meet.
At the start the author says that the h has managed to put enough money away to make a new start, but somehow she manages to lose everything in one night to the hero. She accuses him of cheating and he offers her a deal of high card draw, if she wins, she recovers everything; but if he wins, he gets his choice of the prize. Of course he wins. He demands that she sleeps with him. We are told that she is a virtuous virgin but she does not seem to object to this at all. He doesn't even notice that she was a virgin as he thinks her a whore and he abandons her the next morning before she awakes. She is left impoverished and pregnant.
5 years later she had married and been widowed due to the civil war. The hero is a captain in the Union army and comes to occupy her plantation. She is terrified that he will recognise that he is her son Brand's father. Almost from the get go, the hero accosts the heroine and seems to feel entitled to grab her breasts and stick his hand up her skirts whenever he feels like it.
The heroine gets inveigled into trying to find out information contained in his dispatches. He finds her in his room and they have sex. He later realises what she was up to and catches her and the neighbour and arrests them. Thereafter he locks Aimee in her room and threatens her. He tells her she must be grateful to him and sleep with him or else he will have her imprisoned. She tells him she hates him but they go at it like rabbits. All night long. Again and again. In tedious detail.
She runs away as she does not want to be treated as a whore. Brand gets ill so she sends him back. She is accosted by deserters who try and rape her but is rescued by nick. They go at it like rabbits.
Nick goes back to war and is injured. Aimee goes to find him and saves his life. They go at it like rabbits.
They do start to come to terms with ( slightly ) deeper emotions and the relationship improves.
However then Nick's fiancee turns up and the heroine realises that he's a scum bag whom she hates.
By this stage the hero has a good idea that Brand is his son but every time they start to discuss this, something happens....
Nick goes off to Washington leaving the heroine with hardly any money and no food. The plantation is burnt down by union forces and she, her companion and Brand almost freeze/ starve to death.
Eventually she tries to get work but ends up in a whore house as there is nothing else available. The Madame feeds her up for a week and then arranges her debut. Nick arrives just in time and they argue and again go at it like rabbits. He wants to take her away but she's not quite sure - I mean, maybe she would rather be a ho than get married to her son's father. That's right, she is officially TSTL
They go to Washington. Initially for some reason, the heroine refuses to marry Nick. I don't know why as i was skim reading at this point. They argue. Eventually marry and go at it some more.
She eventually declares her love and comes to believe the hero's declaration but by this stage, frankly I didn't give a damn...
There is a return to the rebuilt plantation and the birth of twins to end the book.
The heroine hates the hero yet gets it on with him at every opportunity and I found it really hard to have any respect for her. Despite what happened before, at no stage does it ever seem to occur to her that all the sex ( and there is a lot of it) could lead to consequences and a further pregnancy. Given her social pariah state before her marriage, I would have expected this to be a significant fear which would have put her off the constant sex. No such luck. Neither party even comments on the risk or takes any preventative measure. The author makes comment that Aimee hates having the sex because it is lust rather than love, but it does not seem to stop her in practical terms.
The hero has a lack of awareness of appropriate boundaries and sees nothing wrong with lifting her skirts and grabbing/ groping her without invitation. He treats her like a whore locking her in at night and then demanding that she service him but yet saying that she is not mistreated.
The hero impoverishes Aimee, impregnates her, abandons her, leaves her with a lost reputation and in desperate straights, he then further accosts her, locks her up, threatens her with imprisonment, treats her like a whore, fails to propose, fails to mention her is engaged to another woman despite all the rabbit esque behaviour, he leaves her and his son to starve.....to the casual observer he is a pretty unattractive fellow. He seems to struggle to grasp the fact that the h may not be overly impressed with him given her experiences of him to date and he doesn't really understand why she is not casting herself at him as soon as he knocks on the door. Really , he is not the sharpest tool in the box....
The descriptions of sex, which must fill at least a quarter of the book, are just tedious and given the lack of emotion are pretty cold and unattractive as well as repetitive. There is more to love than sex , although it would be hard to tell from this book.
The writing style was also problematic in other ways and it really annoyed me that the proper forms of address were not adhered to. Although this may seem petty, it compromised the historical context of the book.
All in all, not my cup of tea.
The hero was not particularly attractive and the heroine fell into the too stupid to live category.
I'm not sure if this should be classified as a bodice ripper but it was definitely a sex fest.
Aimee meets Nick Drummond on a river boat. Her father has died leaving her impoverished. We are told that she has taken up poker in order to make ends meet.
At the start the author says that the h has managed to put enough money away to make a new start, but somehow she manages to lose everything in one night to the hero. She accuses him of cheating and he offers her a deal of high card draw, if she wins, she recovers everything; but if he wins, he gets his choice of the prize. Of course he wins. He demands that she sleeps with him. We are told that she is a virtuous virgin but she does not seem to object to this at all. He doesn't even notice that she was a virgin as he thinks her a whore and he abandons her the next morning before she awakes. She is left impoverished and pregnant.
5 years later she had married and been widowed due to the civil war. The hero is a captain in the Union army and comes to occupy her plantation. She is terrified that he will recognise that he is her son Brand's father. Almost from the get go, the hero accosts the heroine and seems to feel entitled to grab her breasts and stick his hand up her skirts whenever he feels like it.
The heroine gets inveigled into trying to find out information contained in his dispatches. He finds her in his room and they have sex. He later realises what she was up to and catches her and the neighbour and arrests them. Thereafter he locks Aimee in her room and threatens her. He tells her she must be grateful to him and sleep with him or else he will have her imprisoned. She tells him she hates him but they go at it like rabbits. All night long. Again and again. In tedious detail.
She runs away as she does not want to be treated as a whore. Brand gets ill so she sends him back. She is accosted by deserters who try and rape her but is rescued by nick. They go at it like rabbits.
Nick goes back to war and is injured. Aimee goes to find him and saves his life. They go at it like rabbits.
They do start to come to terms with ( slightly ) deeper emotions and the relationship improves.
However then Nick's fiancee turns up and the heroine realises that he's a scum bag whom she hates.
By this stage the hero has a good idea that Brand is his son but every time they start to discuss this, something happens....
Nick goes off to Washington leaving the heroine with hardly any money and no food. The plantation is burnt down by union forces and she, her companion and Brand almost freeze/ starve to death.
Eventually she tries to get work but ends up in a whore house as there is nothing else available. The Madame feeds her up for a week and then arranges her debut. Nick arrives just in time and they argue and again go at it like rabbits. He wants to take her away but she's not quite sure - I mean, maybe she would rather be a ho than get married to her son's father. That's right, she is officially TSTL
They go to Washington. Initially for some reason, the heroine refuses to marry Nick. I don't know why as i was skim reading at this point. They argue. Eventually marry and go at it some more.
She eventually declares her love and comes to believe the hero's declaration but by this stage, frankly I didn't give a damn...
There is a return to the rebuilt plantation and the birth of twins to end the book.
The heroine hates the hero yet gets it on with him at every opportunity and I found it really hard to have any respect for her. Despite what happened before, at no stage does it ever seem to occur to her that all the sex ( and there is a lot of it) could lead to consequences and a further pregnancy. Given her social pariah state before her marriage, I would have expected this to be a significant fear which would have put her off the constant sex. No such luck. Neither party even comments on the risk or takes any preventative measure. The author makes comment that Aimee hates having the sex because it is lust rather than love, but it does not seem to stop her in practical terms.
The hero has a lack of awareness of appropriate boundaries and sees nothing wrong with lifting her skirts and grabbing/ groping her without invitation. He treats her like a whore locking her in at night and then demanding that she service him but yet saying that she is not mistreated.
The hero impoverishes Aimee, impregnates her, abandons her, leaves her with a lost reputation and in desperate straights, he then further accosts her, locks her up, threatens her with imprisonment, treats her like a whore, fails to propose, fails to mention her is engaged to another woman despite all the rabbit esque behaviour, he leaves her and his son to starve.....to the casual observer he is a pretty unattractive fellow. He seems to struggle to grasp the fact that the h may not be overly impressed with him given her experiences of him to date and he doesn't really understand why she is not casting herself at him as soon as he knocks on the door. Really , he is not the sharpest tool in the box....
The descriptions of sex, which must fill at least a quarter of the book, are just tedious and given the lack of emotion are pretty cold and unattractive as well as repetitive. There is more to love than sex , although it would be hard to tell from this book.
The writing style was also problematic in other ways and it really annoyed me that the proper forms of address were not adhered to. Although this may seem petty, it compromised the historical context of the book.
All in all, not my cup of tea.
The hero was not particularly attractive and the heroine fell into the too stupid to live category.
I'm not sure if this should be classified as a bodice ripper but it was definitely a sex fest.
August 24, 2013
Two stars because of the promising start. I skipped a lot trough the rest. Connie could have made a short story out of this by deleting the sex scenes. The remaining 100 pages are about the hero declaring his undying love and the heroine declaring her undying hate for about 1 million times. In between, Connie keeps repeating the reasons for her hate. There is also some minor plot here but I do not bother to go into details. All in all, definitely no keeper for me.
July 26, 2020
If you are worried you might forget the title of this book while you are reading it, don't be. The term 'surrender to the fury' is used several times within the text. Nick Drummond and Aimee Fortune LaMotte Trevor had a one night stand which resulted in a secret baby. Five years later the Civil War conveniently throws them back into each other's arms. Normally when I complain about a story's pacing it is because its too slow. In this case, at least for the first part of the book, too much is being thrown at me from all directions. Points I thought needed more time and attention were instead glossed over and merely mentioned in passing. For awhile there I was in "Whoa, wait, what?" mode.
Aimee's main motivation is trying to keep Nick from finding out he is her son Brand's true father. And that's it. That's really all I can say about her character. I despised Nick. He's a straight up rapist who isn't honest enough with himself to admit he's a straight up rapist. He's all, "You came to me. You wanted it. You enjoyed it."
There is another review here where it describes these characters as constantly going at it like rabbits. Yep, that pretty much nails it. Sex is about the only interaction Nick and Aimee have. Even after being wounded in battle and having a chunk of his lung destroyed, Nick still has the energy to feel Aimee up. When they're not having sex, they're not doing anything with each other. I'm seriously trying to think of a moment with these two that didn't involve surrendering to the fury. There was a card game but that just led to sex. She nurses him back to health but that just led to sex. They talk about the war and the defeat of the South but that just led to sex. Man, I am stumped.
Aimee's main motivation is trying to keep Nick from finding out he is her son Brand's true father. And that's it. That's really all I can say about her character. I despised Nick. He's a straight up rapist who isn't honest enough with himself to admit he's a straight up rapist. He's all, "You came to me. You wanted it. You enjoyed it."
There is another review here where it describes these characters as constantly going at it like rabbits. Yep, that pretty much nails it. Sex is about the only interaction Nick and Aimee have. Even after being wounded in battle and having a chunk of his lung destroyed, Nick still has the energy to feel Aimee up. When they're not having sex, they're not doing anything with each other. I'm seriously trying to think of a moment with these two that didn't involve surrendering to the fury. There was a card game but that just led to sex. She nurses him back to health but that just led to sex. They talk about the war and the defeat of the South but that just led to sex. Man, I am stumped.
September 9, 2011
Why do I even bother trying to read Connie Mason books? I don't think I've started one that I could actually finish. This one is no exception.... just terrible!
December 28, 2012
Disappointing. I usually enjoy Connie Mason. But I really didn't like the heroine. She put her pride above all else, even those she loves, and shockingly even her own son. Impossible to identify with such a heroine. A real tête-à-claques, as we say in French.
April 14, 2018
I like this book. Quite long but taking into account the description of the war it's fine by me. Nice story.
February 7, 2019
This might have been good, but the heroine is challenged intellectually. She's emotionally stunted as well, so that makes matters worse.
February 17, 2014
It isn't often that I complain about too much sex, but this book would have been better with more relationship development and less sex. The outline and plot structure were very interesting and imaginative, but the follow through was less than spectacular. By the end of the book Aimee's protests seem less being loyal to a cause that she really isn't all that loyal to, but more the fact that she has to complain about something. Or more cynically just something to keep them apart to make the book longer. The characters just seem unfinished. I wish I liked it better because if you take it down to the outline stage, it seems like a great book.
June 19, 2013
Sad to say, this book seemed to be a very blatant---I hate to say "rip-off"---twin to "Gone With the Wind." Yes, it was entertaining, but there were many areas of the story where I stopped & tried to recall if a similar plot point had occurred in GWTW.
Disappointed that Connie Mason did not come up w/a more original story.
Disappointed that Connie Mason did not come up w/a more original story.
January 4, 2014
The h was the most annoying person. I have no idea how this, romance got so many good reviews. I like Mason romances but this was just annoying and stayed annoying through out.
I should of just stop reading but for some reason I thought it would get better.
I would not recommend unless you love whiny h.
I should of just stop reading but for some reason I thought it would get better.
I would not recommend unless you love whiny h.
May 22, 2012
I didn't really liked this book, But the end was perfect. The book ended the way it was supposed to and the way I like the most.
It was a civil war romance and in my opinion it wasn't written very well.
It was a civil war romance and in my opinion it wasn't written very well.
July 11, 2013
This was such a disappointment.
For the love of god woman, have some self respect, he took your virginity, left you for years, comes back into your life man handles you and treats you like a whore and you just let him??? WOW.... And NOT in a good way!!
For the love of god woman, have some self respect, he took your virginity, left you for years, comes back into your life man handles you and treats you like a whore and you just let him??? WOW.... And NOT in a good way!!
February 1, 2014
the story is set in the background of civil war. It's very different from the ones I usually read.since I don't know all that much about the civil war... I couldn't get into the story. I read the bare bones of the story and it was okay but the lady doth protests too much :P
July 12, 2024
Surrender
Good read. Second time I’ve read this book. Contains some historical facts about the American Civil War. The story is mainly about a woman and her struggle with being a sole parent and the man who created the problem. He eventually finds her to save the day. HEA ending.
Good read. Second time I’ve read this book. Contains some historical facts about the American Civil War. The story is mainly about a woman and her struggle with being a sole parent and the man who created the problem. He eventually finds her to save the day. HEA ending.
February 23, 2008
This was a wonderful civil war romance! I thoroughly enjoyed the characters, theme, how they developed and grew. I didn't think I was going to like Nick, but he surprised me.
July 4, 2012
This book made me think of "Gone With The Wind".
July 30, 2013
Awesome!! There where time it was a bit annoying because Amy couldn't admit her love for Nick but all ended well and pretty good story! :)
August 12, 2013
Finally a romance book that has an interesting plot! Full of twists and turns, misunderstanding and secrets. This book is really worth reading due to its fantastic historical setting and characters.
December 5, 2013
enjoyed this book will love to read more of her books
February 10, 2014
Intoxicating
April 25, 2016
All of Connie Mason's books are fantastic!!!! Absolutely love her books!!!!
Not sure of the dates that I read her books.
Not sure of the dates that I read her books.
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