Once a Princess
Once Upon A Time...In a rustic Missiissippi tavern, a beautiful exiled
princess was forced to dance for the pleasure of others - unaware of her
regal birthright...and infuriated by a magnificent golden-eyed devil who
crossed an ocean to possess her. From A Far Off Land...
A bold and brazen prince came to America to claim his promised bride.
But the spirited vixen spurned his affections while inflaming his royal
blood with passion's fire...impelling virile Stefan Barany to take in
sensuous and searing conquest the love Tatiana vowed never to yield.
You Belong to Me
With anger and bitterness permeating nearly every page, it's doubtful
Lindsey's sequel to Once a Princess will attract any new readers. Set
in 1836 Russia-though the novel is conspicuously short on historic
atmosphere and long on contemporary terminology-Baroness Alexandra
Rubliov is a woman beyond her own time, something of a female cossack
who wields a whip and breeds and trains her own line of white horses.
Her unconventionality and blunt way of speaking her mind make her
undesirable in the marriage market. Her desperate father presents what
he swears is a long-standing betrothal between Alexandra and Count
Vasili Petroff. It is, in fact, a contract of his own creation, but
conveniently indisputable because Vasili's father is dead. Alexandra
is incensed but honor-bound to comply. Only if the count should break
the contract would she be free. So she sets out to insult and ridicule
him at every turn and strives to be as physically repulsive as possible,
eating like a pig and going for days without bathing. Vasili is a too-
handsome man who beds women as easily as elephants eat peanuts.
Of the two, however, Vasili is the more sympathetic, especially as
Alexandra proves time after time, by word and deed, that she is a better
man than he. Reminiscent of the movie The War of the Roses, the couple
scrap it out all the way, but in the very last pages they declare a semi-
peace and hope for love and romance looms on the horizon.
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