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The Ransleigh Rogues #1-2
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2 ROMANZI IN 1 -
SEDOTTA DAL LIBERTINO.
In seguito a uno scandalo, Max Ransleigh è costretto a rinunciare alla carriera diplomatica cui aspirava e a rifugiarsi in campagna a casa del cugino. Quando però incontra l'audace Miss Caroline Denby, cede al gioco che lei gli propone: secondo l'accordo lui dovrà rovinarle la reputazione in modo da liberarla dagli importuni cacciatori di dote che la assillano. Max, che malgrado la fama di gran seduttore è un vero gentiluomo, rifiuta, ma quando i due giovani vengono sorpresi da soli in atteggiamento compromettente, a lui non resta che sposarla. Come limitarsi a un matrimonio di convenienza, però, se scintille di passione scoccano tra loro a ogni contatto?
LA SPIA FRANCESE.
Will Ransleigh si trova a Vienna per riabilitare il nome del cugino Max, coinvolto in uno scandalo e costretto a lasciare la carriera diplomatica a causa di una donna. Si aspetta di trovare una giovane spregiudicata che usa il proprio corpo per sedurre, ma Elodie Lefevre si rivela dotata di un fascino sottile e discreto. Nessuno la noterebbe fra le aristocratiche bellezze alla moda che animano i balli e i ricevimenti nella Vienna del Congresso. Tanto che Will, nonostante l'iniziale convinzione che Madame Lafevre sia una spia coinvolta in un intrigo internazionale, inizia a pensare che anche lei, al pari del cugino Max, sia in realtà una vittima...
SEDOTTA DAL LIBERTINO.
In seguito a uno scandalo, Max Ransleigh è costretto a rinunciare alla carriera diplomatica cui aspirava e a rifugiarsi in campagna a casa del cugino. Quando però incontra l'audace Miss Caroline Denby, cede al gioco che lei gli propone: secondo l'accordo lui dovrà rovinarle la reputazione in modo da liberarla dagli importuni cacciatori di dote che la assillano. Max, che malgrado la fama di gran seduttore è un vero gentiluomo, rifiuta, ma quando i due giovani vengono sorpresi da soli in atteggiamento compromettente, a lui non resta che sposarla. Come limitarsi a un matrimonio di convenienza, però, se scintille di passione scoccano tra loro a ogni contatto?
LA SPIA FRANCESE.
Will Ransleigh si trova a Vienna per riabilitare il nome del cugino Max, coinvolto in uno scandalo e costretto a lasciare la carriera diplomatica a causa di una donna. Si aspetta di trovare una giovane spregiudicata che usa il proprio corpo per sedurre, ma Elodie Lefevre si rivela dotata di un fascino sottile e discreto. Nessuno la noterebbe fra le aristocratiche bellezze alla moda che animano i balli e i ricevimenti nella Vienna del Congresso. Tanto che Will, nonostante l'iniziale convinzione che Madame Lafevre sia una spia coinvolta in un intrigo internazionale, inizia a pensare che anche lei, al pari del cugino Max, sia in realtà una vittima...
484 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 19, 2013
About the author
Julia Justiss
219 books318 followersJulia Justiss grew up breathing the scent of sea air near the colonial town of Annapolis, Maryland, a fact responsible for two of her life-long passions: sailors and history! By age twelve she was a junior tour guide for Historic Annapolis, conducting visitors on walking tours through the city that was a hotbed of revolutionary fervor. (Annapolis hosted its own tea party, dispensing with the cargo aboard the "Peggy Stewart," and was briefly capital of the United States.) She also took tourists through Annapolis's other big attraction, the United States Naval Academy. After so many years of observing future naval officers at P-rade and chapel, it seemed almost inevitable that she eventually married one.
But long before embarking on romantic adventures of her own, she read about them, transporting herself to such favorite venues as ancient Egypt, World War II submarine patrols, the Old South and, of course, Regency England. Soon she was keeping notebooks for jotting down story ideas. From plotting adventures for her first favorite heroine Nancy Drew she went on to write poetry in high school and college, then worked as a business journalist doing speeches, sales promotion material and newsletter articles. After her marriage to a naval lieutenant took her overseas, she wrote the newsletter for the American Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia and traveled extensively throughout Europe. Before leaving Tunis, she fulfilled her first goal: completing a Regency novel.
Children intervened, and not until her husband left the Navy to return to his Texas homeland did she sit down to pen a second novel. The reply to her fan mail letter to a Regency author led her to Romance Writers of America. From the very first meeting, she knew she'd found a home among fellow writers--doubtless the largest group of people outside a mental institution who talk back to the voices in their heads.
Her second goal was achieved the day before her birthday in May, 1998 when Margaret Marbury of Harlequin Historicals offered to buy that second book, the Golden-Heart-Award winning novel that became THE WEDDING GAMBLE. Since then, she has gone on to write fourteen novels, three novellas and an on-line serial, along the way winning or finalling for historical awards from The Golden Quill, the National Reader’s Choice, Romantic Times, and All About Romance’s Favorite Book of the Year.
Julia now inhabits an English Georgian-style house she and her husband built in the East Texas countryside where, if she closes her eyes and ignores the summer thermometer, she can almost imagine she inhabits the landscape of "Pride and Prejudice." In between travelling to visit her three children (a naval officer son stationed in Washington, DC, a textiles and design major daughter who cheers for University of Texas at Austin, and a mechanical engineering major son also at UT Austin) keeping up with her science teacher husband and juggling a part-time day job as a high school French teacher, she pursues her first and dearest love--crafting stories.
To relax, she enjoys watching movies, reading (historical fiction, mystery, suspense) and puttering about in the garden trying to kill off more weeds than flowers.
But long before embarking on romantic adventures of her own, she read about them, transporting herself to such favorite venues as ancient Egypt, World War II submarine patrols, the Old South and, of course, Regency England. Soon she was keeping notebooks for jotting down story ideas. From plotting adventures for her first favorite heroine Nancy Drew she went on to write poetry in high school and college, then worked as a business journalist doing speeches, sales promotion material and newsletter articles. After her marriage to a naval lieutenant took her overseas, she wrote the newsletter for the American Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia and traveled extensively throughout Europe. Before leaving Tunis, she fulfilled her first goal: completing a Regency novel.
Children intervened, and not until her husband left the Navy to return to his Texas homeland did she sit down to pen a second novel. The reply to her fan mail letter to a Regency author led her to Romance Writers of America. From the very first meeting, she knew she'd found a home among fellow writers--doubtless the largest group of people outside a mental institution who talk back to the voices in their heads.
Her second goal was achieved the day before her birthday in May, 1998 when Margaret Marbury of Harlequin Historicals offered to buy that second book, the Golden-Heart-Award winning novel that became THE WEDDING GAMBLE. Since then, she has gone on to write fourteen novels, three novellas and an on-line serial, along the way winning or finalling for historical awards from The Golden Quill, the National Reader’s Choice, Romantic Times, and All About Romance’s Favorite Book of the Year.
Julia now inhabits an English Georgian-style house she and her husband built in the East Texas countryside where, if she closes her eyes and ignores the summer thermometer, she can almost imagine she inhabits the landscape of "Pride and Prejudice." In between travelling to visit her three children (a naval officer son stationed in Washington, DC, a textiles and design major daughter who cheers for University of Texas at Austin, and a mechanical engineering major son also at UT Austin) keeping up with her science teacher husband and juggling a part-time day job as a high school French teacher, she pursues her first and dearest love--crafting stories.
To relax, she enjoys watching movies, reading (historical fiction, mystery, suspense) and puttering about in the garden trying to kill off more weeds than flowers.
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January 2, 2023
The two books that comprise this collection were both quite different, which I enjoyed because I thought I might grow bored reading two similar stories about similar characters by the same author.
I enjoyed the dynamic, almost light-hearted nature of Max and Caro's romance, and the emotional, heart-wrenching tone of Will and Elodie's.
Both books were solid Regency reads. Perhaps not ones I shall remember with clarity in a few months, but I enjoyed as I read.
I enjoyed the dynamic, almost light-hearted nature of Max and Caro's romance, and the emotional, heart-wrenching tone of Will and Elodie's.
Both books were solid Regency reads. Perhaps not ones I shall remember with clarity in a few months, but I enjoyed as I read.
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