Dream Lover

by Jean Innes

SHE FOUGHT HIS ADVANCES...
Lovely Breda Vivien was livid! The law threatened that unless she married, she might lose her beloved Cornwall estate. The proud, raven-haired Breda refused to barter herself to a man--not even the rugged Richard Delacey, who'd no sooner sailed into town than tempted her with kisses as wild as the moorland's purple heather. His loving left her spellbound, but Breda wondered--was he her dream lover sent by fortune... or a vile fortune-hunter? Until she was certain, Breda would hold her ground. Yet how long could she deny the sweet rapture of Richard's tender embrace?

BUT HE WOULD NEVER RETREAT
A true adventurer, ex-regimental officer Richard Delacey had thought nothing could surprise him after years of world travel, yet he was plainly ambushed by the spirited, sharp-tongued Breda. She was pure innocence with a ripe, sweet body and a spirit more fiery than he could have dreamed! Although she drew her battle lines, he knew she enjoyed his passionate advances, and the flames that leapt from her angry green eyes only tempted him more. She was quite a challenge, but he would soon carry her to the marriage bed--for she was his dream, and he had vowed to become her...

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Jean Innes was born on 8 February 1932 in London, England, but she have lived in the West Country almost all her life. She married with Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, and they have three grown up children. She lived in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where she wrote full time. She passed away on 3 August 2011, after contracting an illness, after being rushed to Weston General Hospital.

Jean began her career as a magazine writer and had published around 600 short stories. She start to published gothic romance novels under her married name Jean Saunders and her maiden name Jean Innes in the 1970s. In 1980s, she created, to wrote historical romances, two pseudonyms, her most popular, Rowena Summers and Sally Blake. In 1991 her novel, "The Bannister Girls," was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of Year award. In 2004, she began to used the penname Rachel Moore.

She was an active member and enthusiast of Swanwick, the Writers' Summer School, which takes place in Derbyshire, England, every August, she was a committee member several times, and also Vice-Chairman. She was elected the seventeenth Chairman (1993-1995) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. As a member of the Romance Writers of America she had given talks at conferences in various venues of the USA. She was a member of the Crime Writers' Association. She also was a member and past committee member of the West Country Writers' Association.

Reviews

[ANGELIA · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book, in part because the Cornwall settings and the workings of the mines reminded me of "Poldark". I like the relationship between the H and h, as it had the misunderstandings, arguments, stubborn pride, hidden feelings of love, marriage of "convenience" that turns to passion, (with love scenes that stressed the romance and didn't O.D. on the hot), fear of revealing true emotions, etc. but none of it was overdone. There was also a false criminal charge that led to a court case that holds your attention without going for melodrama. (And for once, I appreciated that overdone plot device of the h disguising herself as a boy.)

Worth your time and will make you want to check out the author's other books, which I intend to do.