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Burning Secrets
She Was The Toast Of Two Continents...
Leita Johnston was born and bred to South Carolina gentility. But the turbulent winds of a reckless destiny carried this headstrong beauty from New World Society to the Old - in Paris where she reigned, an uncrowned queen in the fabled palaces of Louis Napoleon...to Egypt, where she served, a slave in the gilded seraglios of Cairo, the sensual toy of a master determined to own her forevermore!
And A Prisoner On A Third!
Through her troubled life there were many men. But in her heart there was only one: Colonel Breve Pinchon, the rugged soldier she loved and lost so long ago; the man wwho would find her once again, a stranger separated by a veil of mystery....
Leita Johnston was born and bred to South Carolina gentility. But the turbulent winds of a reckless destiny carried this headstrong beauty from New World Society to the Old - in Paris where she reigned, an uncrowned queen in the fabled palaces of Louis Napoleon...to Egypt, where she served, a slave in the gilded seraglios of Cairo, the sensual toy of a master determined to own her forevermore!
And A Prisoner On A Third!
Through her troubled life there were many men. But in her heart there was only one: Colonel Breve Pinchon, the rugged soldier she loved and lost so long ago; the man wwho would find her once again, a stranger separated by a veil of mystery....
604 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1979
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February 9, 2017
DNF. I'm almost 200 pgs into this & the thought of returning to it fills me with ambivalence. No doubt I *could* finish, if I pushed myself (because it reads pretty fast), but I just don't GAF. And after 200 pgs I should feel SOMETHING. But I don't.
The characters are flat, flat, flat; there's exposition & description that somehow fails to expose or describe anything of importance; the setting is thinner than a cheap stage set (& almost as flimsy); Things Are Doing Things; occasional 2-pg WTFery fills a rippery quota yet offers no amusement because there are no highs or lows in plot, dialogue, or personality; purple prose sex sails into the stratosphere & disappears without a whiff of caring.
As a final nail in the coffin, it reminds me of Tom Huff/Jennifer Wilde's plodding bricks-o-boredom, particularly in the Incident Quota & lack of highs & lows. It's just flatter than Kansas & life is too short.
The characters are flat, flat, flat; there's exposition & description that somehow fails to expose or describe anything of importance; the setting is thinner than a cheap stage set (& almost as flimsy); Things Are Doing Things; occasional 2-pg WTFery fills a rippery quota yet offers no amusement because there are no highs or lows in plot, dialogue, or personality; purple prose sex sails into the stratosphere & disappears without a whiff of caring.
As a final nail in the coffin, it reminds me of Tom Huff/Jennifer Wilde's plodding bricks-o-boredom, particularly in the Incident Quota & lack of highs & lows. It's just flatter than Kansas & life is too short.
August 4, 2025
Author on books cover is Susanna Good. Book may also be known as Leita.
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