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Bezig met laden... Discovery of Desire (London Explorers)door Susanne Lord
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  WhiskeyintheJar | Feb 14, 2019 |   The Fishing Fleet! Fascinatingly ironic! This is the term used by the local English for the women who came to India looking for husbands from the marriageable men employed by the East India Company. A not very complimentary description but historically young women did leave England in droves to far flung places where the Empire was present, gambling on opportunities they might never have had at home. One such young woman is Wilhelmina Adams who has accompanied her sister Emma. Seth Mayhew is on the same ship. He's an explorer, or as he terms it, a finder. Amongst his finds has been orchids from South America. But now he is searching for his missing sister, last heard from near the Tibetan border where a massacre occurred. Seth is not here to find a wife or fall in love with Mina whom he refers to as, 'His little officer quelling insubordination and giving orders. And always on his side.' Indeed it was Mina's attempts to calm the Venture girls as they made landfall that he first noticed. Mina notices Seth but she has contracted to marry Thomas Grant, just as her sister Emma has come out to marry Colin Rivers. Colin however seems to have gone up country and not returned. So between disappearing sisters, reluctant bridegrooms-to-be and disappearing fiancés, the forbidden attraction that Mina and Seth feel for each other flares into life. But it is not to be. A fascinating story with interesting characters and situations and the elusive presence of orchids that were a coveted object by the very wealthy at this time. A NetGalley ARC (  ) eyes.2c | Sep 9, 2016 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)London Explorers (2)
Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: "Beautifully written, deeply romantic, and utterly magnificent." â??Courtney Milan, New York Times bestselling author on In Search of Scandal The winds of fate are restless and so is Mina's heart, but a brave yet brash explorer knows just how to put the wind in her sails Seth Mayhew is the ideal explorer: fearless, profitable, and unmarried. There is nothing and no one he can't findâ??until his sister disappears en route to India. His search for her takes him to Bombay, where Seth meets the most unlikely of alliesâ??a vulnerable woman who's about to marry the wrong man. Teeming with the bounty of marriageable men employed by the East India Company, Bombay holds hope for security for Wilhelmina Adams. But when the man she's traveled halfway around the world to marry doesn't suit, Mina finds instead that she's falling in love with a man who offers passion, adventure, intimacyâ??anything but security... "Powerful and poignant." â??RT Book Reviews, 4 ½ stars for In Search of Scandal London Explorers series: Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3)
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First half seemed to meander pretty slowly as their situations were gone over and over without much advancement.
The writing is good but the structure and pace needed work. (