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Three Heroes #1-3
Three Heroes
Two beloved novels and an extraordinary novella, brought together for the first time in this special trade edition... The Demon's Mistress-A wealthy widow hires a war-torn hero to pretend to be her fianc, but what will happen when he learns the truth about the woman he has come to love? The Dragon's Bride-The new Earl of Wyvern arrives at his fortress on the cliffs of Devon to find a woman from his past waiting for him-pistol in hand. Will they find a way to reclaim the love in their hearts? The Devil's Heiress-No one needs Clarissa Graystone's fortune more than Major George Hawkinville...but how will he ignore the hunger in his heart when Clarissa boldly steps into his trap?
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Jo Beverley
142 books1,131 followersMary Josephine Dunn was born 22 September 1947 in Lancashire, England, UK. At the age of eleven she went to an all-girls boarding school, Layton Hill Convent, Blackpool. At sixteen, she wrote her first romance, with a medieval setting, completed in installments in an exercise book. From 1966 to 1970, she obtained a degree in English history from Keele University in Staffordshire, where she met her future husband, Ken Beverley. After graduation, they married on June 24, 1971. She quickly attained a position as a youth employment officer until 1976, working first in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, and then in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
In 1976, her scientist husband was invited to do post-doctoral research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. When her professional qualifications proved not to be usable in the Canadian labour market, she raised their two sons and started to write her first romances.
Moved to Ottawa, in 1985 she became a founding member of the Ottawa Romance Writers’ Association, that her “nurturing community” for the next twelve years. The same year, she completed a regency romance, but it was promptly rejected by a number of publishers, and she settled more earnestly to learning the craft. In 1988, it sold to Walker, and was published as "Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed". She regularly appears on bestseller lists including the USA Today overall bestseller list, the New York Times, and and the Publishers Weekly list. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Golden Leaf, the Award of Excellence, the National Readers Choice, and a two Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times. She is also a five time winner of the RITA, the top award of the Romance Writers Of America, and a member of their Hall of Fame and Honor Roll.
Jo Beverley passed away on May 23, 2016 after a long battle with cancer.
In 1976, her scientist husband was invited to do post-doctoral research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. When her professional qualifications proved not to be usable in the Canadian labour market, she raised their two sons and started to write her first romances.
Moved to Ottawa, in 1985 she became a founding member of the Ottawa Romance Writers’ Association, that her “nurturing community” for the next twelve years. The same year, she completed a regency romance, but it was promptly rejected by a number of publishers, and she settled more earnestly to learning the craft. In 1988, it sold to Walker, and was published as "Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed". She regularly appears on bestseller lists including the USA Today overall bestseller list, the New York Times, and and the Publishers Weekly list. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Golden Leaf, the Award of Excellence, the National Readers Choice, and a two Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times. She is also a five time winner of the RITA, the top award of the Romance Writers Of America, and a member of their Hall of Fame and Honor Roll.
Jo Beverley passed away on May 23, 2016 after a long battle with cancer.
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July 5, 2016
I've reviewed the individual stories separately:
The Demon's Mistress
The Dragon's Bride
The Devil's Heiress
The first two are pretty good and the last abominable. I've averaged to three-stars, though I highly recommend skipping the last. I was very disappointed to see Hawk transformed into Chicken...
The Demon's Mistress
The Dragon's Bride
The Devil's Heiress
The first two are pretty good and the last abominable. I've averaged to three-stars, though I highly recommend skipping the last. I was very disappointed to see Hawk transformed into Chicken...
November 21, 2012
The three Georges are the same age and grew up together and are close as brothers. At 16 and before entering the military they each get a tattoo on their chest. The stories take place after they each return from Waterloo and need to deal with family and financial situations in addition to the ghosts and remnants of their war experiences.
The first story is the novella. When I finished reading I was surprised by this as it was a complete story. I think it is my favorite also. George Vandeimen (Demon) has come home from Waterloo to debt and death. His mother and sister dead from influenza and his father from suicide. He decides to follow in his father's footsteps but the pistol doesn't fire and he is interrupted by the heroine before he can replace the faulty flint. I don't know how to explain the story without giving away the twists but I will say Maria is a widow eight years younger than Lord Vandeimen and believes herself to be barren. She also quite likes fast, hard sex and Demon teaches her the passion of patience. His tattoo is a demon.
The second story is about George Somerford (Con). His tattoo is a dragon. He unexpectedly inherits an earldom (Wyvern) where he once spent two weeks with a local girl exploring and adventuring concluding with the loss of innocence for both of them. I struggled through this story because I didn't like Susan much as she turned on him when she found out he was not the heir but a second son. He was deeply hurt by the rejection and is understandably distrustful of her. Susan is currently the housekeeper at Crag Wyvern and involved in the local smuggling activities which provides the background story. Con's feelings for Susan do pivot with a slight amount of writer's magic (I winced but didn't moan) which was uncomfortable for me but I persevered and am happy I did.
The third story involves George Hawkinville (Hawk) and a woman who was engaged to an older man by her father. He was murdered and his will gives his fortune to her. There is an interesting circle in that Hawk's father is the, previously, unknown heir to the murdered man's title and fortune. Hawk wants to prove the will a forgery in order to obtain the fortune to benefit Hawk in the Vale. It takes him awhile to completely believe Clarrisa not guilty of murder or murder after the fact. Once he does he gives in to his feelings for her. The background story involves solving the murder, who gets the fortune, a French female spy, and a thought dead at Waterloo friend.
The cover photo of this book is one of my favorites.
The first story is the novella. When I finished reading I was surprised by this as it was a complete story. I think it is my favorite also. George Vandeimen (Demon) has come home from Waterloo to debt and death. His mother and sister dead from influenza and his father from suicide. He decides to follow in his father's footsteps but the pistol doesn't fire and he is interrupted by the heroine before he can replace the faulty flint. I don't know how to explain the story without giving away the twists but I will say Maria is a widow eight years younger than Lord Vandeimen and believes herself to be barren. She also quite likes fast, hard sex and Demon teaches her the passion of patience. His tattoo is a demon.
The second story is about George Somerford (Con). His tattoo is a dragon. He unexpectedly inherits an earldom (Wyvern) where he once spent two weeks with a local girl exploring and adventuring concluding with the loss of innocence for both of them. I struggled through this story because I didn't like Susan much as she turned on him when she found out he was not the heir but a second son. He was deeply hurt by the rejection and is understandably distrustful of her. Susan is currently the housekeeper at Crag Wyvern and involved in the local smuggling activities which provides the background story. Con's feelings for Susan do pivot with a slight amount of writer's magic (I winced but didn't moan) which was uncomfortable for me but I persevered and am happy I did.
The third story involves George Hawkinville (Hawk) and a woman who was engaged to an older man by her father. He was murdered and his will gives his fortune to her. There is an interesting circle in that Hawk's father is the, previously, unknown heir to the murdered man's title and fortune. Hawk wants to prove the will a forgery in order to obtain the fortune to benefit Hawk in the Vale. It takes him awhile to completely believe Clarrisa not guilty of murder or murder after the fact. Once he does he gives in to his feelings for her. The background story involves solving the murder, who gets the fortune, a French female spy, and a thought dead at Waterloo friend.
The cover photo of this book is one of my favorites.
November 15, 2020
There's one Novella & two full length novels packed into this book. This makes for a hefty book to prop when you're trying to read it.
Copyright 2001 for all three stories. The three Georges are friends who grew up in Hawk In Vale. They all joined the army together. Con, the 2nd George is a Rogue. By the end of the third story they are all Rogues.
I enjoyed all these stories, but my favorite is probably "The Devil's Heiress". Clarissa from that story is made a honorary Rogue as well.
Copyright 2001 for all three stories. The three Georges are friends who grew up in Hawk In Vale. They all joined the army together. Con, the 2nd George is a Rogue. By the end of the third story they are all Rogues.
I enjoyed all these stories, but my favorite is probably "The Devil's Heiress". Clarissa from that story is made a honorary Rogue as well.
February 28, 2022
These stories were a little slow in the beginning and in no way made me feel any urgency to read the next books. The endings do make up for that in that they wrap up really fast at the very end. That’s why it took me almost 2 years to finish this book.
October 24, 2024
Only one of these heroes was in the Company of Rogues, but these books follow the same timeline and the characters are related. Interesting plot twists in all the books. My favorite is the Dragon's Bride.
January 27, 2025
I was happily entertained.
August 20, 2009
Trash! I couldn't even get all the way through it. Three Heroes is actually 3 stories combined into one book. The first, entitled "The Demon's Mistress" and it's just a novella. The other two, "The Dragon's Bride" and "The Devil's Heiress" are full length. I got through the novella and the first few pages of Dragon's Bride. The dominant theme - sex. If they weren't actually performing it, they were thinking about it. Constantly! I stomached the novella since it was short - thinking that perhaps I needed to know some information before reading the next books, since they're connected. Couldn't do it. "The Dragon's Bride" starts out with smugglers landing on shore, ever watchful, worried that the absent lord of the manor would be arriving after recently inheriting the title and estate. Promising enough, right? Instead, the sister of the smuggler leader, instead of worrying about her brother, worries about the returning lord and how eleven years ago, when they were both 15, they, well,...ahem. Need I say more. Please! That is not skilled writing IMO. I'm glad I only paid $1.99 for the book.
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June 9, 2016
The Three Georges
A collection of three novels concerning the return from Waterloo of three childhood friends all named George. They took new nicknames Van, from Vandimein who tattooed a demon on his chest; Con from Conaught, who was a rogue and heir to the Earl of Wyven or dragon thus had a tattoo of one; and Hawk of Hawkinsville with the appropriate tattoo also. These three books are interrelated and having them together like this is very handy and appropriate. Throughout also there are links to the main Rogue Series. By the last of the three novels the Rogues and Georges merge with the solution to the death of the greatly mourned Lord Dare.
A collection of three novels concerning the return from Waterloo of three childhood friends all named George. They took new nicknames Van, from Vandimein who tattooed a demon on his chest; Con from Conaught, who was a rogue and heir to the Earl of Wyven or dragon thus had a tattoo of one; and Hawk of Hawkinsville with the appropriate tattoo also. These three books are interrelated and having them together like this is very handy and appropriate. Throughout also there are links to the main Rogue Series. By the last of the three novels the Rogues and Georges merge with the solution to the death of the greatly mourned Lord Dare.
January 11, 2017
When Lord Vandeimerr returned from Waterloo he felt as if his life had ended. His family was gone sisters/mother to the flu and his father's suicide. He took up drinking and gaming. Where he was a natuaral in gaming he had lost 10 thousand pounds which he was trying to get to pay off family debts. He was in his rooms drunk and ready to shoot himself but the flint would not hit. Standing in the doorway he thought he had seen an angel where in truth it was Mrs. Maria Celestin who had come to offer a way to pay his debts. What neither had considered in this rouse she offered was what if they truly did fall in love with each other.
December 20, 2015
As I make my way through the Company of Rogues, I have to say these three stories so far have been my favorite. I found the characters well developed and the story lines well written. The version I read was from the library, but if I see this book in my used book hunts I will definitely be adding it to my collection as I feel this will be reread in the future. On a side note, I had a little chuckle reading the other reviews and one person says "too much sex" the next "not enough sex". Ah, that's why there are so many books - everyone likes something a little different from the next person.
August 15, 2012
Came upon this great 3-for-1 in the UBS tonight. Better paper, binding and typeface than normal "mass market paperbacks", so I'll be trading in my old copies of Devil's Heiress and In Praise of Younger Men (which has Demon's Mistress). When I originally read these, Demon's Mistress got 5 stars, Dragon's Bride got 3 stars and Devil's Heiress got 4 stars, so 4 stars for the compendium. Looking forward to rereading these.
January 23, 2014
I enjoyed all three stories, especially the final one The Devil's Heiress (Three Heroes, #3)which had a lively plot and also tied up some loose ends from the beginning of the Company of Rogues series.
October 14, 2014
Three books in this collection. I enjoyed the Demon's Mistress. Loved the story of young love that is lost but then rediscovered a decade later in the Dragon's Bride - reminds me of my own love story. Finally The Devil's Heiress is not only a wonderful story in itself but weaves together more Company of Rogues story lines to an amazing conclusion.
October 1, 2012
Contains The Dragon's Bride which according to one source is Company of Rogues #6, The Devil's Heiress and The Demon's Mistress which also appeared in "In Praise of Younger Men" and according to another source is either #6 or #7 in A Company of Rogues.
September 19, 2013
I really loved the characters & the stories themselves. This author is just a little TOO conservative for my likening. If you like basic romance or love stories this author is for you! Again her characters & stories are GREAT, just not for me.
April 18, 2023
Two long novels and a novella. I'd read the novella, The Demon's Mistress, and the first novel, The Dragon's Bride, before, and liked them then. The second novel, The Devil's Heiress, I don't remember reading before. It's kind of nice that the three stories were gathered into one volume.
July 25, 2011
An enjoyable entry in the Rogues' series by Jo Beverley.
March 6, 2014
Not enough angst :)
October 27, 2015
Sexy, fun. Fluff of the kind.
May 13, 2016
Best three stories
I never felt like I was reading shortened stories. Each one was more fascinating than the one before I loved each and every one
I never felt like I was reading shortened stories. Each one was more fascinating than the one before I loved each and every one
January 16, 2022
Three connected stories in one, and all connected to the Company of Rogues and events in previous books in that series. Very enjoyable.
April 24, 2017
I just finished reading this after 7 years. Two out of the three stories encompassed in this book are worth keeping it for
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August 1, 2017I miss Jo Beverley & am re-reading her Company of Rogues / Regency Romances! Not many authors can match her Excellence!
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August 3, 2018This is a sort of omnibus - I hesitate to call it an anthology, because that makes me think of short stories or novellas. In this case, the first story is relatively short, but the other two are full novels. It turns out I had read both of those. I didn't mind reading them again, but I would have loved to discover two more novels my this author who I appreciate a lot. This was a funny mix between the three Georges and the Rogues... but Beverley was, in my opinion, a super romance writer, so her books are always worth the read. So sorry she's no longer with us.
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