Midnight Bright

Informationen zum Autor Susan Carroll is an award-winning romance author whose books include The Bride Finder and its sequel The Night Drifter as well as The Painted Veil and Winterbourne. She lives in Rock Island! Illinois. Klappentext In her award-winning historical novel The Bride Finder! bestselling author Susan Carroll bewitched readers with the legend of the St. Leger men--the descendants of a medieval sorcerer haunted by an unnatural past. Now Carroll once again conjures the unforgettable castle by the sea--a place where love is as mysterious and invincible as the family legacy. . . . Valentine St. Leger is a healer with a wounded heart. Born with the amazing gift to eliminate the suffering of others by taking their pain into his own body! Val's gentle hands cannot change a tormenting truth: he will never marry. According to history! should he defy his destiny and wed! his unfortunate bride would be doomed to an early death. Though he aches for the one woman who knows all his secrets! he cannot return her passion. Until a night of magic transforms Val into a different man! a man with desires he can no longer resist. Kate Fitzleger has loved Val almost her entire life and is not about to let a foolish superstition ruin her chance for happiness. Venturing into a forbidden room of the St. Leger castle to steal an ancient book of sorcery! she desperately hopes to find a powerful love potion. On All Hallow's Eve! when the spirits of good and evil mingle upon the earth! Kate tempts fate with an unholy spell that goes awry. When Val awakens! he has no memory of the bizarre events that have changed him--the visit from an old enemy or the return of a lost heirloom that has altered his soul. All he knows is that life is for the living . . . and his fair Kate is ripe for seduction. He will tempt heaven and hell to have her--even if it means he could lose her forever. Brimming with enchanting characters and stunning atmosphere! Valentine's Bride is a romantic masterpiece that will hold your imagination captive and provide a glimpse of a timeless world found only in dreams or the most treasured love stories. Chapter One The wind rattled the cottage windowpanes, the pale sun presiding over a day that seemed endless to the young woman who writhed upon the bed. As the next contraction hit in a hard wave, Carrie Trewithan clutched her fingers across her distended belly and was unable to stifle a sharp cry. The midwife hovered over her, patting a cool cloth to Carrie’s perspiring brow. “There, there, dearie. Try to hold on. ’Twill all be over soon enough, I’ll be bound.” Sarah gave her a broad toothless smile, but the fear in the old woman’s eyes was unmistakable. Something was going terribly wrong this time. Carrie had labored hard for seventeen hours, all through last night, the morning and into the afternoon, longer than she’d ever done before, and still no babe. She sank back weakly against the pillows of the rough wooden bedstead, her lank brown hair tumbling about her. She couldn’t endure much more of this. She could feel her strength fading with each fresh wave of pain. I’m going to die, she thought, closing her eyes tight to stem the flood of tears. Not for herself but for the helpless little ones she’d be forced to leave behind. The new babe if it lived and her other children, Janey, Tom, Sam, and Aggie. What would become of them with no mother to look after them? Lost in the haze of her own misery, Carrie was only vaguely aware of Sarah moving away from the bed to whisper fiercely to someone attempting to enter the room. No doubt little Tom, crying again, wanting his mama. Lord knows, Carrie didn’t want any of her children seeing her this way. It took a great effort, but she turned her head to deliver a gentle admonishment, her eyes fluttering open. Her breath caught in her throat instead. It wasn’t Tom. A man filled her t...

Product details

• Authors: Susan Carroll
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.12.2006
• EAN: 9780345436368
• ISBN: 978-0-345-43636-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 175 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature