The Conqueror

Zusatztext The New York Times Bestselling Author of Beyond Scandal "The power of The Conqueror is awesome...potently sensual! powerful in its emotional intensity...This is what Brenda Joyce fans expect! Leave it to...Brenda Joyce to handle the intricate plot! boiling sensuality! complex history and strong characters with such panache." -- Romantic Times Informationen zum Autor Brenda Joyce is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of forty-nine novels and five novellas. There are more than fourteen million copies of her novels in print and she is published in more than a dozen countries. A native New Yorker, she now lives in southern Arizona with her son, dogs, and numerous Arabian and half-Arabian reining horses. Brenda divides her time between her twin passions: writing powerful love stories and her quest to become a nationally ranked top-ten equestrian. Klappentext Like a pagan god! Rolfe the Relentless rode into Castle Aelfgar to claim it as his prize--and Lady Alice as his bride. Lauded for his bravery in France! in England he was the hated enemy. Once ensconced in his new domain! Rolfe became determined to tame the Saxon beauty Ceidre! Alice's illegitimate sister! whose spirit and sensuality make him risk treason to have her--not Lady Alice--in his bed... Mysterious and seductive! she was no lady but a spy for the rebel cause of her noble half brothers. Refusing to bow to this arrogant warrior who ignited her forbidden passion! Ceidre was swept into a dangerous liaison tied to the fate of England and kings. Yet with his kisses on her lips! his skillful hands on her body! she would have to struggle not to surrender to... The Conqueror. She slowly sat up, clutching her torn gown together. She fixed him with a stare of intense hatred. His gaze, cold and vividly blue, held hers. His look darkened and warred with hers. A nerve in his jaw ticked. She could feel his anger now and knew it was directed at her. For what? For her insolence in hating him? For what he had been denied--the rape of her body? Or because he knew who she was? He moved. He came to her swiftly. Ceidre started to shrink away, then caught herself and held her ground, raising her chin with defiance. She could feel the thick, unnatural beat of her heart, the cloying terror. He could rape her and then beat her before killing her, but she would not show fear of this man. But he had seen her initial reaction, and this too displeased him. His anger was a visible thing, darkening his eyes again, and his face. And then his expression changed. He stopped abruptly, staring. Ceidre had seen many people look at her the same way, when they first noticed her eye. Surprise, usually, was the initial reaction, then puzzlement, then comprehension and horror. Behind him, she saw Guy draw back. "I'd heard it but I didn't believe it," he whispered nervously, unable to tear his glance from Ceidre. "'Tis the evil eye." Rolfe's gaze was riveted upon hers. Ceidre hated the deformity that had haunted her her entire life: Her right eye sometimes wandered away at will. It was not a frequent occurrence; usually it happened only when she was extremely tired, and was only noticeable by those in close proximity. People thought she could gaze in two opposite directions at once--'twasn't true. Strangers who did notice this defect crossed themselves for protection when they saw her "evil" eye and kept well away from her.  It had been that way her entire life, since she was a tiny toddler in swaddling. The villagers at Aelfgar, her own people, many her own kin on her mother's side, were long used to her, knew she wasn't evil.  Yet that she could heal the sick as her granny did only confirmed their belief that she was a witch.  So even her kin were overly aware of her, in awe.  Only her brothers, well used to her, seemed entirely indiffe...

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Joyce
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.1996
• EAN: 9780440206095
• ISBN: 978-0-440-20609-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 170 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Dell Paperbacks; Dell Paperbacks
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature