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The Kingsblood Family #2
Moon Shadow
JULIANNA......PROUD AND SOLITARY ... WITH A HEART AS WILD AS HER WEST COUNTRY HOME
Despite rich dark hair and striking green eyes, Lady Julianna Kingsblood had far too independent a spirit to win a husband in London's cynical marriage market. Retreating from scandal and heartbreak to her ancestral home on the Devonshire coast, the determined young woman was undaunted by whispers that the place was haunted. But who was the figure who came only in darkness, invading her bedchamber, tempting her with kisses, taunting her with his searing touch? And was it only in her dreams that their bodies melded into one?
Mesmerized by these nocturnal visions, Julianna faced a daytime world where a roguish gardener challenged her to drop her upper-crust defenses and face the hunger she tried so desperately to deny ... and where an uprising among local miners brought the countryside to the brink of class warfare. Standng alone, Julianna courageously confronted the passions raging around her ... even as she dared find exquisite pleasure in the twilight realms of Moon Shadow.
Despite rich dark hair and striking green eyes, Lady Julianna Kingsblood had far too independent a spirit to win a husband in London's cynical marriage market. Retreating from scandal and heartbreak to her ancestral home on the Devonshire coast, the determined young woman was undaunted by whispers that the place was haunted. But who was the figure who came only in darkness, invading her bedchamber, tempting her with kisses, taunting her with his searing touch? And was it only in her dreams that their bodies melded into one?
Mesmerized by these nocturnal visions, Julianna faced a daytime world where a roguish gardener challenged her to drop her upper-crust defenses and face the hunger she tried so desperately to deny ... and where an uprising among local miners brought the countryside to the brink of class warfare. Standng alone, Julianna courageously confronted the passions raging around her ... even as she dared find exquisite pleasure in the twilight realms of Moon Shadow.
440 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1992
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July 25, 2016
Running from a broken heart, Julianna gets a bit drugged (or drunk? I can't quite remember right now) on her first night in her ancestral home in mining country. Just drugged enough so she mistakes a stranger in her room as her lover. The man feels barely alive, still recovering from wounds that should have killed him; he's 'haunting' the house to hide out from those that attacked him. He can't help but be intrigued by Julianna, especially after the first meeting.
By day, Julianna deals with the issues with the miners, union talk, poor conditions and an increasingly belligerent working class. Her grumpy, mouthy, mysterious gardener doesn't help matters. By night, Julianna is slowly seduced by the man 'haunting' her home. As tensions increase in the town, Julianna goes from wanting to know exactly who is in her bed, to embracing the escape his anonymity offers. But the man knows it can't continue, especially when Julianna needs him.
I read this many years ago and it's one of my favorite romances. Sure, the writing has it's rough spots (head hopping, for example), but Laura Parker handles the characters well. And she does an excellent job of keeping the daytime identity of the 'ghost' secret until nearly the end. Julianna is sometimes foolish, but engrossing to read as she copes and changes. Also, I quite enjoy the actual lusty, ghost lovers supervising Julianna and her man and doing things to push them together.
Admittedly this may not be to everyone's taste. The first sex scene may rub some the wrong way since Julianna's not truly present. Then there's the ghost angle. But I've read it a good half dozen times over the past 15 years and I jealously guard my used copy.
By day, Julianna deals with the issues with the miners, union talk, poor conditions and an increasingly belligerent working class. Her grumpy, mouthy, mysterious gardener doesn't help matters. By night, Julianna is slowly seduced by the man 'haunting' her home. As tensions increase in the town, Julianna goes from wanting to know exactly who is in her bed, to embracing the escape his anonymity offers. But the man knows it can't continue, especially when Julianna needs him.
I read this many years ago and it's one of my favorite romances. Sure, the writing has it's rough spots (head hopping, for example), but Laura Parker handles the characters well. And she does an excellent job of keeping the daytime identity of the 'ghost' secret until nearly the end. Julianna is sometimes foolish, but engrossing to read as she copes and changes. Also, I quite enjoy the actual lusty, ghost lovers supervising Julianna and her man and doing things to push them together.
Admittedly this may not be to everyone's taste. The first sex scene may rub some the wrong way since Julianna's not truly present. Then there's the ghost angle. But I've read it a good half dozen times over the past 15 years and I jealously guard my used copy.
October 16, 2018
This is one magical and wonderful book!
March 7, 2021
I remember liking this when I read it years and years ago.
June 16, 2014
Pretty good book. It has a great start with a wonderful plot. The end seemed to drag on, yet at the same time there was so much that just didn't close well enough to my taste, so I had to take away a star.
February 18, 2013
A man pretends he's a ghost to get the attention of a young heiress. I think I liked this book, but read it so long ago, I cant remember.
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