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Legend of Morgan #3
Amor Extraviado
THE FEVER! THE FIRE! THE ECSTASY!
Theirs was a love that could never be tamed, yet the whims of fate and their own reckless desires were destined to tear Virginia Brandon and Steve Morgan from the rapturous heights of reuinion - and carry them to opposite ends of the earth.
Through the fiery tumult of the Cuban Revolution to the lush prison of a Sultan's harem, across burning desert sands and Europe's most provocative boudoirs, the lovers pursue their separate fates.
Until, in a mounting tide of restless longing, the sweet fires of their exalted love draw them closer, burning brighter, across time, across worlds -- in the ultimate marriage of lust and love!
Theirs was a love that could never be tamed, yet the whims of fate and their own reckless desires were destined to tear Virginia Brandon and Steve Morgan from the rapturous heights of reuinion - and carry them to opposite ends of the earth.
Through the fiery tumult of the Cuban Revolution to the lush prison of a Sultan's harem, across burning desert sands and Europe's most provocative boudoirs, the lovers pursue their separate fates.
Until, in a mounting tide of restless longing, the sweet fires of their exalted love draw them closer, burning brighter, across time, across worlds -- in the ultimate marriage of lust and love!
367 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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Rosemary Rogers
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Rosemary Jansz Navaratnam Rogers Kadison
Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in Panadura, British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara "Allan" and Cyril Jansz. Her father was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants, no work, summers at European spas, a chaperone everywhere she went. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.
At 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where she studied three years. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London.
In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman." After getting a divorce from her first husband, she married Rogers in his home town, St. Louis, Missouri. They moved with her family to California, where she had two sons. Six years later, when that marriage broke up, Rosemary was left with four children to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist for the Solano County Parks Department. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only ?100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield.
Every night for a year, Rogers worked to perfect a manuscript that she had written as a child, rewriting it 24 times. When she was satisfied with her work, she sent the manuscript to Avon, which quickly purchased the novel. That novel, ''Sweet Savage Love'', skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists, and became one of the most popular historical romances of all time. Her second novel, ''Dark Fires'', sold two million copies in its first three months of release. Her first three novels sold a combined 10 million copies. The fourth, ''Wicked Loving Lies'' sold 3 million copies in its first month of publication. Rosemary Rogers became one of the legendaries "Avon Queens of Historical Romance". The difference between she and most of others romance writers is not the violence of her stories, it is the intensity. She says: "My heroines are me", and certainly her life could be one of her novels.
In September of 1984, Rosemary married a third time with Christopher Kadison, but it was a very brief marriage and they soon began to live apart. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit and sex all rolled up together."
Today single, Rosemary lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her four children are now away from home and she continues to write.
Rosemary passed away at the age of 87 on November 12, 2019 in Carmel, California where she called home since the early 1970s.
Rosemary Jansz Navaratnam Rogers Kadison
Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in Panadura, British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara "Allan" and Cyril Jansz. Her father was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants, no work, summers at European spas, a chaperone everywhere she went. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.
At 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where she studied three years. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London.
In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman." After getting a divorce from her first husband, she married Rogers in his home town, St. Louis, Missouri. They moved with her family to California, where she had two sons. Six years later, when that marriage broke up, Rosemary was left with four children to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist for the Solano County Parks Department. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only ?100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield.
Every night for a year, Rogers worked to perfect a manuscript that she had written as a child, rewriting it 24 times. When she was satisfied with her work, she sent the manuscript to Avon, which quickly purchased the novel. That novel, ''Sweet Savage Love'', skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists, and became one of the most popular historical romances of all time. Her second novel, ''Dark Fires'', sold two million copies in its first three months of release. Her first three novels sold a combined 10 million copies. The fourth, ''Wicked Loving Lies'' sold 3 million copies in its first month of publication. Rosemary Rogers became one of the legendaries "Avon Queens of Historical Romance". The difference between she and most of others romance writers is not the violence of her stories, it is the intensity. She says: "My heroines are me", and certainly her life could be one of her novels.
In September of 1984, Rosemary married a third time with Christopher Kadison, but it was a very brief marriage and they soon began to live apart. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit and sex all rolled up together."
Today single, Rosemary lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her four children are now away from home and she continues to write.
Rosemary passed away at the age of 87 on November 12, 2019 in Carmel, California where she called home since the early 1970s.
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January 22, 2015
Prequel to Sweet Savage Retirement. From the glittering Buick dealerships of West Palm Beach to themed mini golf outside Orlando, Steve and Ginny have sex until they just can't anymore.
July 29, 2013
LOVED, LOVED Sweet Savage Love when it hit the book stands in the late 70's (yes, I was alive then LOL).
This book, and the follow up series, was shocking and HOT at that time and, like 50 Shades in recent years, revolutionized the entire romance genre then.
As much as I loved Sweet Savage Love, I really didn't like the follow up books as much as they put Ginny and Steve through too much continued melodrama and trauma. Frankly it became somewhat absurd that they kept surviving and forgiving each other. They even had twin children which they virtually ignored! It just became a bit sordid and sad. We fans has to beg for a happy ending!
Still nostalgic about the whole series so giving it a 4 stars.
This book, and the follow up series, was shocking and HOT at that time and, like 50 Shades in recent years, revolutionized the entire romance genre then.
As much as I loved Sweet Savage Love, I really didn't like the follow up books as much as they put Ginny and Steve through too much continued melodrama and trauma. Frankly it became somewhat absurd that they kept surviving and forgiving each other. They even had twin children which they virtually ignored! It just became a bit sordid and sad. We fans has to beg for a happy ending!
Still nostalgic about the whole series so giving it a 4 stars.
April 20, 2016
This is one of the last of the Steve and Ginny series, and it's pretty weak and watery. But I do like the part where Ginny goes blind and marries a weak, manipulative, but very well-to-do English doctor (not necessarily in that order) and ends up living in a palace in the decaying Ottoman Empire.
Only Rosemary Rogers could bring out the sensual side of blindness -- the way Ginny gradually grows accustomed to lounging around the secluded courtyard, listening to the splashing fountains, smelling the perfume of the garden flowers, and being massaged on soft cushions by a soft-spoken female slave who is both gentle and loyal.
Pure escape!
Only Rosemary Rogers could bring out the sensual side of blindness -- the way Ginny gradually grows accustomed to lounging around the secluded courtyard, listening to the splashing fountains, smelling the perfume of the garden flowers, and being massaged on soft cushions by a soft-spoken female slave who is both gentle and loyal.
Pure escape!
August 24, 2017
My full review is here on my personal website. I'll post a few excerpts here, though:
4.5 out of 5.0 stars
The very worst thing about this book is that it’s scattered. The plot is everywhere and even though the characters are supposed to be much older, they haven’t matured. It’s disappointing.
The very best thing about this book is that, due to the lack of character development, Ginny and Steve are quite familiar and since their age is seldom mentioned you can pretend that they’re still young and will grow into their love. Also, it’s Steve and Ginny. That alone keeps the book at 4.5 stars! :-D
4.5 out of 5.0 stars
The very worst thing about this book is that it’s scattered. The plot is everywhere and even though the characters are supposed to be much older, they haven’t matured. It’s disappointing.
The very best thing about this book is that, due to the lack of character development, Ginny and Steve are quite familiar and since their age is seldom mentioned you can pretend that they’re still young and will grow into their love. Also, it’s Steve and Ginny. That alone keeps the book at 4.5 stars! :-D
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March 1, 2020So the back flap of the books cover say this is the ‘conclusion’ of this series but no such luck I’m afraid. Dumb and Dumber strike again! But the big question is, WHY do I keep putting myself through this....!! 🤯
May 26, 2019
The fourth book in the Morgan-Challenger series. Back to Steve and Ginny.
October 7, 2012
I love this novel as it's Ginny and Steve all grown up with children. I could read all 3 books over and over again.
December 14, 2013
This book has the dubious honor of being the first book I ever wanted to throw in a lake! I love books! I love to read books, but when I read this sixteen years ago, it was a chore! It was pretty hard to follow, as far as plot was concerned, and the two "main" characters only had a brief interaction before she was abducted, and he went off on his own or something. To boot, their interaction wasn't even positive! I failed to grasp the Romance in this book, and learned a very good lesson that day, if I feel like throwing a book when I just started it, the feeling will just intensify by the time I finish it, so don't bother.
That is my recommendation for this book, don't bother.
That is my recommendation for this book, don't bother.
November 14, 2010
I would have liked a more definite ending, a more romantic ending. But Ginny and Steve will always be my favorite couple
November 28, 2010
Read this many years ago and liked it.
August 26, 2012
One of the fist great romance novels I have ever read ! Was given to me by my Mother when I was 18 .
November 24, 2013
Again, Rosemary Rogers works her magic. Had me on the edge of my seat the time. Rogers' style of writing makes the characters so vivid that I feel they are in the room with me. Love, love and love!
August 27, 2018
This was a big one for me. "Sweet Savage Love" was the book that made me fall in love with reading romance novels and "Lost Love, Last Love" is the third book in that series. I first read it in the early 70's. Before that I was a big fan of Gothic novels but "Sweet Savage Love" was so different. There was a heroine at odds with the hero. They were attracted and yet sometimes I thought they were enemies. So much chemistry, so much cruelty. I think if this book was the one that started the term "bodice ripper" it should have been. Feminism has come a long way since this book was published and it doesn't suit women but back in the day it was a page turner!
June 17, 2024
These people confuse me terribly and the story is disjointed. Yet, I keep reading the series. The end was semi-satisfying but there's another book following. I really wish these two would get their act together and decide to be a couple because it's too late now to think of them riding off into the sunset with someone else. These Morgan/Brandon books are a great way to read during summer downtime.
January 15, 2021
Read it when I was younger want to read it again
March 4, 2021
I will read anything she writes. One of my HS favorites.
June 17, 2021
what a rollecoaster!
I did not enjoy the long separation but the plot was incredible
I did not enjoy the long separation but the plot was incredible
October 10, 2021
It’s very late on a Sunday morning and I just woke. Why? Because I started this book yesterday and did not stop reading and up all night. Skipped a lot of the historical
not-for-me
July 11, 2025Continuation of vile disgusting books.
Avoid.
Avoid.
July 12, 2023
Dark Fires (1975) and Lost Love, Last Love (1980) by Rosemary Rogers continue the epic love story of Steve and Ginny that began in Sweet Savage Love and that would be completed in Savage Desire. It has been decades since I read them and this reread was emotionally painful. I’d forgotten how intense and how savagely awful Steve and Ginny were to each other! It was a contest of wills… full of mistrust, misunderstanding, melodrama, meanness and infidelity.
Both books which begin and end with Steve and Ginny together, reconciled, professing love for each other, are convoluted bodice ripping stories where their paths cross but they are not together for long. Much of the stories are about them with other people… lovers, mistresses … infidelity and cruelty in abundance. Steve while suffering amnesia doesn’t know who Ginny is and accosts her, ties her to a bed, gags her and rapes her. He kills others, gets imprisoned, tortured, and nearly hung twice. Ginny runs off with other men, becomes addicted to opium, takes lovers, has two other husbands, suffers blindness, and taunts Steve with scandalous behavior. Throughout the stories Steve comes to Ginny’s rescue.
These two books as far as I can tell, are not available as ebooks. Absolutely great writing… Steve and Ginny come alive on the pages. However, we don’t see very much character development for Steve and Ginny … both are still impetuous and selfish.… that happens in the next book Savage Desire.
Both books which begin and end with Steve and Ginny together, reconciled, professing love for each other, are convoluted bodice ripping stories where their paths cross but they are not together for long. Much of the stories are about them with other people… lovers, mistresses … infidelity and cruelty in abundance. Steve while suffering amnesia doesn’t know who Ginny is and accosts her, ties her to a bed, gags her and rapes her. He kills others, gets imprisoned, tortured, and nearly hung twice. Ginny runs off with other men, becomes addicted to opium, takes lovers, has two other husbands, suffers blindness, and taunts Steve with scandalous behavior. Throughout the stories Steve comes to Ginny’s rescue.
These two books as far as I can tell, are not available as ebooks. Absolutely great writing… Steve and Ginny come alive on the pages. However, we don’t see very much character development for Steve and Ginny … both are still impetuous and selfish.… that happens in the next book Savage Desire.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 11, 2016
This is absolutely Book #3 in the series. The numbering listed in Goodreads is wrong.
In the beginning I was getting quite annoyed with Ginny and Steve. Both stubborn and immature. Their pride gets the best of them. Trust is everything in a relationship and reading this book is proof of that. It's amazing all that these two endure. Ginny, I admire her toughness and the determination in her to never give up and be respected, she gets through these crazy ordeals with her chin up and she continues to remain strong and resilient. However, after the first two books, I was hoping she would have matured, but she still acts like a spoiled brat and her jealousy gets in the way. Same with Steve, his jealousy and pride and stubbornness breaks them apart so many times, that you would think they would have learned by now. Neither giving in, neither giving the benefit of the doubt. It's a good read to continue the series and you still want to know where they end up in the end. Can't wait to read #4.
In the beginning I was getting quite annoyed with Ginny and Steve. Both stubborn and immature. Their pride gets the best of them. Trust is everything in a relationship and reading this book is proof of that. It's amazing all that these two endure. Ginny, I admire her toughness and the determination in her to never give up and be respected, she gets through these crazy ordeals with her chin up and she continues to remain strong and resilient. However, after the first two books, I was hoping she would have matured, but she still acts like a spoiled brat and her jealousy gets in the way. Same with Steve, his jealousy and pride and stubbornness breaks them apart so many times, that you would think they would have learned by now. Neither giving in, neither giving the benefit of the doubt. It's a good read to continue the series and you still want to know where they end up in the end. Can't wait to read #4.
December 30, 2017
When I go back and re-read some of these, it is like what was I interested in, but at the time these books were an exciting hot mess. Perhaps it was the being home with small kids, and a . husband who traveled, but we talked , and shared our ideas about Ms Rogers, and this big hot mess of a book, and others she wrote, and shared them.
July 16, 2012
well the story starts off really slow and lterally crawls uptil book2 but then the separated story telling of ginny and steves lives are fun but the ending is definitely boring and predictable end though the turn in turkey and france was good all in all a one tym read and just fine story telling
October 11, 2014
ok read
April 24, 2016
Read between July and December 1987.
January 26, 2024
Unreadable
The Kindle version is literally unreadable. It looks like the book was translated to English from a non-English book poorly.
The Kindle version is literally unreadable. It looks like the book was translated to English from a non-English book poorly.
December 18, 2012
When I started reading the book I really liked it but at the end it got boring
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March 2, 2019I have the german edition: Letzte Liebe
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