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Informationen zum Autor Beverly Jenkins  is the recipient of the 2018 Michigan Author Award by the Michigan Library Association, the 2017 Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for historical romance. She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature and was featured in both the documentary  Love Between the Covers  and on  CBS Sunday Morning . Since the publication of  Night Song  in 1994, she has been leading the charge for inclusive romance and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of  The Wall Street Journal ,  People magazine, and NPR. Klappentext Ambitious newspaper reporter Kate Love's determination to unmask a railroad stock swindler has led her to the brink of matrimony with the wealthiest, most eligible black man in the East—the very scoundrel she intends to expose! But at the last possible moment a champion appears to whisk her away from the altar: Dix Wildhorse, a Black Seminole marshal from Oklahoma's Indian country. A daring black knight whom Kate's father sent to rescue—and wed—the free-spirited ebony hellion, Dix ignites fires within her with just a touch, a whisper, a brazen kiss. But Kate isn't about to abandon her career to become the dutiful wife of a lawman who wants to keep her wrapped up in a protective cocoon. As the battle of wills intensifies, the heat of their passion blazes with unmatched fury. And only total surrender will unleash the sweet ecstasy of love. Zusammenfassung An updated look and a new format gives a fresh life to this long-time favorite of Beverly Jenkins’s fans, out in time for Black History Month. A Perilous Pursuit Kate Love is an ambitious reporter on the trail of a swindler who has been preying on elderly blacks. But when her investigation leads her into danger, she is snatched by Dix Wildhorse, a Black Seminole Marshal from Oklahoman’s Indian country. Kate has no choice but to flee with the daring knight her father sent to rescue her. Despite the warm simmering fire Dix’s bronzed, muscled embrace ignites, she is determined to hold on to her independence, challenging him at every turn. Yet even as their battle of wills intensifies, the heat of their passion blazes with unmatched fury…a wildfire of love that can only be answered in the sweet ecstasy of surrender. ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Beverly Jenkins, Jenkins Beverly
• Verlag: William Morrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.01.2007
• EAN: 9780061173042
• ISBN: 978-0-06-117304-2
• Seiten: 400
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Historical fiction, Erotic Romance, Contemporary Fantasy, Romance: ‘western’, rural or ‘outback’, Ancient World, c 1000 CE to c 1500, United States of America, USA, Ancient History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Adventure fiction: Westerns, Contains explicit or offensive material or content, c 1811 to c 1820 (Regency period), Romance: fantasy and paranormal, US South, FICTION: Romance / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Regency, FICTION: Romance / Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Medieval, FICTION: Romance / Western, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Ancient World, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern and Contemporary romance