Storm and the Splendor

Name: Storm and the Splendor
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780449131961

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40 pages1987FawcettISBN 9780449131961

Romance History Fiction

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Julia Dupre was the proud belle of New Orleans when she first fell under the mocking gaze of Captain Rudyard Thorpe. His self-assurance angered her, his insolence enraged her, yet he was the one man who could help her carry out her desperate plan. Caught up in a dangerous scheme of international revenge, she found herself orphaned... penniless... forced to become Rudyard Thorpe's bride. Against her will, the marriage became an affair of passion only to be shattered by the treacherous tides of fate... Tides that would sentence Julia to a life of exotic decadence... Tides of lust and violence that would rise again and again before she would learn to embrace the love that had branded her heart... Love and Adventure Collection: The Storm and the Splendor (Love and Adventure Collection #1) Love's Wild Desire (Love and Adventure Collection #2) Surrender in Moonlight (Love and Adventure Collection #3) Notorious Angel (Love and Adventure Collection, #4) Golden Fancy (Love and Adventure Collection #5)

Publication Details

Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1987
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9780449131961

About Unknown Author

Patricia Ann Ponder was born on March 9, 1942 in a one hundred-twenty year old house constructed by her grandparents near Goldonna, Louisiana, where her family resided during seventh generation. She grep up in her parent's farm in Northern Louisiana. At 15, Patricia married with Mr. Maxwell and they formed a happy family. At 21, she needed to be something more than a housewife and she began writing, she sold her first book at 27. She start writing gothic novels with her real name, Patricia Maxwell; she wrote one book in collaboration as Elizabeth Trehearne and she singed a murder mystery and a romantic suspense story as her maiden name, Patricia Ponder. When the gothic genre began to decay, she began to publish only romance genre, contemporany romances as Maxine Patrick and historical romances as Jennifer Blake, the only pseudonym that she uses now. This legend of the romance genre is called the "Steel Magnolia of women's fiction" and gained New York Times Best Seller status since 1977, with "Love's wild desire". An international best seller as well, she has been published in 18 languages with worldwide sales approaching 30 million. She was honored with the position as Writer-in-Residence for the University of Northeastern Louisiana, and is a charter, and honorary, member of Romance Writers of America. Since 1998, Patricia and her husband have resided in a lakeside Caribbean-styled retreat in North Louisiana where they often entertain friends and family.