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Jasmine
SHE WAS AS SULTRY AND HOT AS THE EXOTIC HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SHE LOVED
Captain Morgan Tucker saw Jasmine dancing one night and assumed she was a tiger in bed. So he had her abducted and brought to his ship. Too late he discovered he had seduced a virgin.
When Jasmine thought she was pregnant, her father forced Captain Tucker to marry her. Though they were united in passion, Jasmine believed Morgan did not really care for her. Morgan thought the beautiful creature in his bed incapable of real love.
Set in the mid 1800s against the struggles of the Hawaiian people to free themselves of foreign rule, here is a passionate tale of two lovers who must learn to express what is in their hearts.
Captain Morgan Tucker saw Jasmine dancing one night and assumed she was a tiger in bed. So he had her abducted and brought to his ship. Too late he discovered he had seduced a virgin.
When Jasmine thought she was pregnant, her father forced Captain Tucker to marry her. Though they were united in passion, Jasmine believed Morgan did not really care for her. Morgan thought the beautiful creature in his bed incapable of real love.
Set in the mid 1800s against the struggles of the Hawaiian people to free themselves of foreign rule, here is a passionate tale of two lovers who must learn to express what is in their hearts.
345 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 12, 1984
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About the author
Marcella Thum
28 books4 followersMarcella Thum, an award-winning author and librarian, died Thursday (July 11, 2002) of lymphoma at St. Mary's Health Center. She was 77 and lived in Affton.
Miss Thum wrote more than 20 books, both fiction and nonfiction, on various subjects.
For her first book, "The Mystery at Crane's Landing," she received an Edgar Award for best juvenile work from the Mystery Writers of America in 1965.
Her nonfiction work, "Exploring Black America," was a guide to points of interest for African-Americans in 1975. For that, she received a Notable Children's Book Award from the American Library Association. She updated it in 1991, and it was published as "A Guide to Black America."
She also collaborated with her sister, Gladys, on several nonfiction books, including "Exploring Military America," which pointed out battlefields and museums of interest, in 1982.
Born in St. Louis, Miss Thum earned a bachelor's degree from Washington University and a master's degree in library science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Throughout the 1950s, she worked as a librarian and writer for the Air Force and was stationed in South Korea, Germany, Hawaii and Okinawa and at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
With her love of traveling and her experience living abroad, she was able to set a few novels in exotic locales. She wrote "Mistress of Paradise" about the takeover of Hawaii by the United States, and "Thorn Trees," which was set in Kenya in World War I.
"When she wrote her stories, she always wanted to teach the history in a way that would be interesting so people would learn," said her niece, Marilee Gilmore. "She always took the underdog side. She educated people, in a gentle way, to see the other side."
She wrote primarily in her spare time. After working for the government, she became librarian at Affton High School in the early 1960s. She later was a librarian at St. Louis Community College at Meramec.
She was honored as a Distinguished St. Louisan at Cupples House at St. Louis University and by the Missouri Writers Guild. Although she received numerous accolades, Miss Thum did not boast about her accomplishments. "She was very humble; nobody would guess that she was such a great writer," Gilmore said.
Years ago, she was active in the St. Louis chapter of Romance Writers of America and several area writers clubs. She was a member of the Rose Society at the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Mount Tabor United Church of Christ and the American Library Association.
She is interred with her sister, Gladys (1920-2005).
Miss Thum wrote more than 20 books, both fiction and nonfiction, on various subjects.
For her first book, "The Mystery at Crane's Landing," she received an Edgar Award for best juvenile work from the Mystery Writers of America in 1965.
Her nonfiction work, "Exploring Black America," was a guide to points of interest for African-Americans in 1975. For that, she received a Notable Children's Book Award from the American Library Association. She updated it in 1991, and it was published as "A Guide to Black America."
She also collaborated with her sister, Gladys, on several nonfiction books, including "Exploring Military America," which pointed out battlefields and museums of interest, in 1982.
Born in St. Louis, Miss Thum earned a bachelor's degree from Washington University and a master's degree in library science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Throughout the 1950s, she worked as a librarian and writer for the Air Force and was stationed in South Korea, Germany, Hawaii and Okinawa and at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
With her love of traveling and her experience living abroad, she was able to set a few novels in exotic locales. She wrote "Mistress of Paradise" about the takeover of Hawaii by the United States, and "Thorn Trees," which was set in Kenya in World War I.
"When she wrote her stories, she always wanted to teach the history in a way that would be interesting so people would learn," said her niece, Marilee Gilmore. "She always took the underdog side. She educated people, in a gentle way, to see the other side."
She wrote primarily in her spare time. After working for the government, she became librarian at Affton High School in the early 1960s. She later was a librarian at St. Louis Community College at Meramec.
She was honored as a Distinguished St. Louisan at Cupples House at St. Louis University and by the Missouri Writers Guild. Although she received numerous accolades, Miss Thum did not boast about her accomplishments. "She was very humble; nobody would guess that she was such a great writer," Gilmore said.
Years ago, she was active in the St. Louis chapter of Romance Writers of America and several area writers clubs. She was a member of the Rose Society at the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Mount Tabor United Church of Christ and the American Library Association.
She is interred with her sister, Gladys (1920-2005).
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September 29, 2018
DEADBEAT, SKANKY SISTER: If you even so much as look at one of my boyfriends, I'll scratch your eyes out! I hate you, bitch!
DUMB-AS-A-POST HEROINE'S INNER MONOLOGUE: I didn't understand why my sister didn't seem to be happy to welcome me home after two years at boarding school.
DEADBEAT, SKANKY SISTER: Hahahahahahahaha! I set you up but good to be gang-raped by a bunch of horny, diseased seamen. You're not such an uptight virgin anymore, are you? I hate you, bitch!
DUMB-AS-A-POST HEROINE's INNER MONOLOGUE: What had happened to me? And what had happened to my poor sister? We must have both walked into a trap to be kidnapped and raped by a bunch of random seamen...who strangely seemed to be familiar with my sister...and...she didn't seem to be overly traumatized by all the kidnapping and gang-raping...and, in fact...was that the sound of her cackling laughter I heard right before I was taken to the rape room?...No, it couldn't be...We were both victims in this scenario, for sure.
DEADBEAT, SKANKY SISTER: Nananana booooooboooooo, I trapped your husband into having sex with me while he was asleep and you were in excruciating child labor next door, nanananaboooooboooo. I hate you, bitch!
DUMB-AS-A-POST HEROINE'S INNER MONOLOGUE: I was very angry at my husband for his treachery and told him so directly and in forceful terms. As for my sister, I didn't breathe a word to her. I had to keep being nice and invite her to my house parties otherwise my stepmother would have suspected that something may be wrong in our sisterly relationship. And nothing was wrong, nothing!!! NOTHING!!!....
DEADBEAT, SKANKY SISTER: Hey bitch, I need you to give me 5000 dollars...because I need it...for...you know...REASONS. You can totally trust me and you should believe this is for an emergency and for a good cause. And I still hate you, bitch!
DUMB-AS-A-POST HEROINE'S INNER MONOLOGUE: I had no choice but to pawn the beautiful, precious, unique pearls that my husband had given me as a symbol of his love upon our wedding since my sister made a convincing case that she needed this money desperately. And I had to do everything my sister told me.
Sadly, the book concludes without any further shenanigans from the deadbeat, skanky sister. I couldn't even concentrate on the worthless hero or any of the other WTFery (a religious fanatic villain who murders by the power of prayer and lusts after the heroine for example) because I was so fascinated by not only the heroine's but the entire cast of characters' complete, willful blindness when it came to the deadbeat, skanky sister from hell.
Amazing.
DUMB-AS-A-POST HEROINE'S INNER MONOLOGUE: I didn't understand why my sister didn't seem to be happy to welcome me home after two years at boarding school.
DEADBEAT, SKANKY SISTER: Hahahahahahahaha! I set you up but good to be gang-raped by a bunch of horny, diseased seamen. You're not such an uptight virgin anymore, are you? I hate you, bitch!
DUMB-AS-A-POST HEROINE's INNER MONOLOGUE: What had happened to me? And what had happened to my poor sister? We must have both walked into a trap to be kidnapped and raped by a bunch of random seamen...who strangely seemed to be familiar with my sister...and...she didn't seem to be overly traumatized by all the kidnapping and gang-raping...and, in fact...was that the sound of her cackling laughter I heard right before I was taken to the rape room?...No, it couldn't be...We were both victims in this scenario, for sure.
DEADBEAT, SKANKY SISTER: Nananana booooooboooooo, I trapped your husband into having sex with me while he was asleep and you were in excruciating child labor next door, nanananaboooooboooo. I hate you, bitch!
DUMB-AS-A-POST HEROINE'S INNER MONOLOGUE: I was very angry at my husband for his treachery and told him so directly and in forceful terms. As for my sister, I didn't breathe a word to her. I had to keep being nice and invite her to my house parties otherwise my stepmother would have suspected that something may be wrong in our sisterly relationship. And nothing was wrong, nothing!!! NOTHING!!!....
DEADBEAT, SKANKY SISTER: Hey bitch, I need you to give me 5000 dollars...because I need it...for...you know...REASONS. You can totally trust me and you should believe this is for an emergency and for a good cause. And I still hate you, bitch!
DUMB-AS-A-POST HEROINE'S INNER MONOLOGUE: I had no choice but to pawn the beautiful, precious, unique pearls that my husband had given me as a symbol of his love upon our wedding since my sister made a convincing case that she needed this money desperately. And I had to do everything my sister told me.
Sadly, the book concludes without any further shenanigans from the deadbeat, skanky sister. I couldn't even concentrate on the worthless hero or any of the other WTFery (a religious fanatic villain who murders by the power of prayer and lusts after the heroine for example) because I was so fascinated by not only the heroine's but the entire cast of characters' complete, willful blindness when it came to the deadbeat, skanky sister from hell.
Amazing.
August 9, 2018
LOL! I don't even know! I bought this because it was the first "bodice ripper" I ever read. I think I was about 15 or 16 when I read it so when I happened across it, I was kind of curious about whether my memory of it was the same. Honestly, it was actually a good deal BETTER than I remembered. A decent bit of Hawaiian history in this pretty typical "romance".
July 29, 2021
Never have been into "tropical reads" it was ok..
Maybe book two will fan my interest more..
Maybe book two will fan my interest more..
August 7, 2015
As sweet and romantic as I remember
May 24, 2020
It's a well written book that's rich in details, the author touched on the realities of life back then by incorporating some Hawaiian history, the lifestyle of seamen with regards to whaling and we got a glimpse of how people lived back then when slavery was legal. I especially loved how the author portrayed the growth in both the hero and specifically the heroine in their relationship, in light of the fact that their union stated off as that of a bodice ripper.
I gave this book 5 stars, I stand by my opinion that it is a great read and well researched. Not just a silly romance novel full of drivel and pompous know it alls traipsing about the countryside in a lust crazed daze\manner. This book has good bones and essence to it.
I gave this book 5 stars, I stand by my opinion that it is a great read and well researched. Not just a silly romance novel full of drivel and pompous know it alls traipsing about the countryside in a lust crazed daze\manner. This book has good bones and essence to it.
September 30, 2021
Really a two and a half for me.
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