![]() ![]() The dancing around each other is so delightful to read. She lays her palm against the window and simply says "Good morning Mr. Truly heartbreaking when Lucy is confided to her room and looks out her window to see Gerard watching her window leaning against a tree in the wind. Claremont your spectacles are fogging up." Oooh loved the scene where Gerard and Lucy have supper in the carriage and Gerard's game of teasing Lucy backfires and she tells him "Why Mr. Medeiros does a spectacular job of showing how Gerard brings Lucy alive. I can already sense Lucy is going to have a lot of growing up to do and I can't wait to see how Gerard pushes her into it. I delight in stories where the characters conflict with each other and you can literately see as you read the characters change, grow, and come together. "The little wench damn near got my heart." I do believe folks this is called foreshadowing. When Captain Doom says with a hand flat over his chest. ![]() This book had me at hello, great beginning. Yet only when Lucy's path crosses the captain's once more, will she learn who is on a voyage of retribution, and who is out to steal her heart. And even when Gerard's smile turns seductive, no one can make her forget Doom. Everything about him, from his forbidding size to his impertinent manner, sparks her defiance. Now safely at home, the alluring waif is tormented by treacherous memories-and by the presence of Gerard Claremont, her mysterious new bodyguard. Ruthless and mocking, tender and virile, the notorious pirate awakened all Lucy's passionate longings, then abandoned her with nothing but a kiss. Prim and pampered, Lucinda Snow knew little of men and nothing of danger, until the fog-shrouded night she found herself abducted-and at the mercy of the legendary Captain Doom. She must kill an innocent king if she hopes to save the man she loves.From the storm-lashed decks of a pirate schooner to the elegant grounds of an English estate comes a spellbinding tale of love and deception.as only the remarkable bestselling author, Teresa Medeiros can tell it. He's controlled by black magic and is the most dangerous one of them all.Įven if she can overcome these obstacles, Zaina is left with only one choice. There's the witch and her brother, a sheriff, a companion, a dragon-slaying queen and a horde of dragons. But in order to fulfill her oath to the dragon-wielding witch, she must infiltrate the court of Lorentia, which is no easy feat because she is not the only one hell-bent on revenge. Heartbroken and disguised once more as Little John, vengeance is Zaina's whether she wants it or not. If anyone should find out who she truly is, all those she loves will find themselves at the mercy of a horde of merciless dragons. Not only is she fighting for her life, she must continue to keep her true identity a secret, no matter what her feelings are for Hood. However Zaina may never get the chance to fulfill her mercenary task, for once Hood awakes-healed by black magic-darkness festers inside his soul and Zaina finds herself on the wrong end of the sharp tip of his sword. In order to save him, she must make a deal with a scale-covered-dragon-wielding witch-a potion to heal Hood in exchange for a vow to assassinate a king. Lord Hood, her good and noble master, hovers between life and death because of Zaina's betrayal. How could Zaina have made such a horrible mistake? For one day soon he will return home to avenge the murder of his betrothed and perhaps that will ease the dark stain upon his heart. In the meantime, he will continue to steal from the rich and give to the poor and evade the bounty hunters who pursue him. And the newest member of his troupe, the lad Little John, is lying about something. THE OUTLAW: If there is one thing Lord Hood is good at, it's sniffing out a lie. It ends up in the wrong hands, causing everyone to fall in love with her except the one she desires most. Oh, but don't forget the potion, the one that's intended for the villain who ruined her. Now revenge on the other hand.All she has to do is: cut her hair, dress up as a boy, call herself Little John, join the traveling circus, guard her soul against the evil sorceress, battle dragons and avoid the lethal tip of the mysterious Lord Hood's blade. THE PRINCESS: Happily ever after? Zaina doesn't believe in it. Perhaps time and distance are the best antidotes for a vengeful heart. ![]()
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