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Princess of Thieves
Captivated by the enchanting beauty of forbidden temptress Saranda Sherwin, con artist Mace Blackwood risks everything to help her when her latest romantic charade turns tragic and she flees for her life. Original.
Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1993
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Katherine O'Neal
16 books7 followersKatherine O'Neal is the USA Today best-selling author of twelve historical romances. Her 1993 debut novel, The Last Highwayman, earned Romantic Times' honors for Best Sensual Historical Romance, and she is the recipient of the magazine's coveted Career Achievement Award.
Dubbed by Affaire de Coeur magazine, "the Queen of Romantic Adventure," Katherine lives for travel and has made extensive research trips to all the glamorous locations where her novels are set. "The spirit of place is very important to my work," she says. "To me, nothing is sexier than travel."
Katherine lives in Seattle with her husband, the author and film critic William Arnold, and their four guinea pigs--all of whom have had one of her books dedicated to them.
Foreign language editions of Katherine O'Neal's books are available in more than a dozen countries. Her 2008 novel, Just for Her, will be published this year as a Japanese Manga comic.
Dubbed by Affaire de Coeur magazine, "the Queen of Romantic Adventure," Katherine lives for travel and has made extensive research trips to all the glamorous locations where her novels are set. "The spirit of place is very important to my work," she says. "To me, nothing is sexier than travel."
Katherine lives in Seattle with her husband, the author and film critic William Arnold, and their four guinea pigs--all of whom have had one of her books dedicated to them.
Foreign language editions of Katherine O'Neal's books are available in more than a dozen countries. Her 2008 novel, Just for Her, will be published this year as a Japanese Manga comic.
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March 1, 2022this book was buck fucking WILD
cw: rape
this is part noir part thriller part western part wilderness survival and it genuinely manages a cohesive and interesting story for about 70% of itself (which is like 500+ pages lmao).
it also has doc holliday and wyatt earp (and their gay subtext) in it which is a major fucking selling point.
sharanda is the last daughter of an old con artist family and she’s trying to destroy mace, the last son of the rival con family. mace’s brother killed her parents and raped her, leaving her orphaned and pregnant at 13, and she’s really struggling with the trauma. the plot is whip quick and the twists are sharp. there’s a tornado?? they briefly own and operate a circus??? they have sex on a hot air balloon??? the emotional development was nice and there were a lot of really good lines about forgiveness and violence and unhealable hurts.
i ultimately think the ending is quite awful! (which ruined a lot of the aforementioned nice qualities) and completely shoots the really good emotional development in the fucking foot. and for every cogent point o’neal has about classism, she has ten thousand racist things to say about indigenous people.
horny! wacky! distasteful! approach with caution
cw: rape
this is part noir part thriller part western part wilderness survival and it genuinely manages a cohesive and interesting story for about 70% of itself (which is like 500+ pages lmao).
it also has doc holliday and wyatt earp (and their gay subtext) in it which is a major fucking selling point.
sharanda is the last daughter of an old con artist family and she’s trying to destroy mace, the last son of the rival con family. mace’s brother killed her parents and raped her, leaving her orphaned and pregnant at 13, and she’s really struggling with the trauma. the plot is whip quick and the twists are sharp. there’s a tornado?? they briefly own and operate a circus??? they have sex on a hot air balloon??? the emotional development was nice and there were a lot of really good lines about forgiveness and violence and unhealable hurts.
i ultimately think the ending is quite awful! (which ruined a lot of the aforementioned nice qualities) and completely shoots the really good emotional development in the fucking foot. and for every cogent point o’neal has about classism, she has ten thousand racist things to say about indigenous people.
horny! wacky! distasteful! approach with caution
October 23, 2016
Perfect! The book keeps your attention from the very start until the end. Two strong con artists denied a touchable attraction from the very beginning although coming from rivalry of their two families as for three hundred years of hate. There is a burden of past for both of them, lots of action, explicit scenes and tension. An excellent writing style. One of the best books I've read about con artists. 5+ stars!
June 25, 2012
Predictable but in the way that that most romance novels are predictable.
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