Beloved

by Jean Innes

Gentian Valmar Mallory awakens in the rocking hold of a ship, rope-bound and unable to remember where she is... or who she is. She is convinced she has been kidnapped by pirates, or worse. Until the ship's captain, Lord Trevis Mallory, stuns her with the news that he is her husband. — Is Trevis really who he claims he is -- or a devilish villain who threatens her very life? Haunted by visions of her brother's death, Gentian knows that she dare not trust the man who may have been responsible... even as Trevis's soft words and searing kisses stir memories of happier times -- and a passion that filled her heart.

Now, on a perilous voyage to Cyprus, the secrets of Gentian's life begin to unfold like a late-blooming flower, revealing a ruthless plot to seize her fortune. Soon Gentian will have to place her faith -- and fate -- in the man who seems to know her like no other -- a man more beloved than life itself....

336 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1997

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.