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‘A Forbidden Embrace’ was the first book I ever tried to write. You’ll be glad to know, however, that this is about the twentieth incarnation - same story, but far better written than I could manage then. It’s a regency romance in the style of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, the authors who inspired me to write in the first place, and it takes place in 1818. Like most of my Anna Jacobs books it features a northern heroine, and indeed I called it ‘The Northern Lady’ when I first wrote it!
'Nicely drawn characters, a well-crafted plot, and a keen, clear-eyed portrayal of the Regency social scene result in a solid, thoroughly delightful story.'
Library Journal, USA
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When Cassie’s Trent’s mother dies after a long illness, she is shocked to discover that her mother’s brother and his wife have been appointed as her guardians and bribed to give her a London season. As her mother’s family disowned her for marrying her father, no one is really pleased about that. However, Cassie is determined to fulfil her mother’s last wishes. In London she becomes friendly with her cousin Susannah, but is shocked when her aunt forces Susannah to get engaged to a man of whom she’s afraid. Cassie definitely isn’t afraid of Simeon Giffard, in fact, she’s attracted to him, but he’s the wrong man for her gentle cousin. To complicate matters, Susannah meets Will Trent, Cassie’s northern cousin and falls in love with him. When Cassie decides to intervene to save Susannah from unhappiness, she compromises herself by mistake and then finds that she is the one who must marry Simeon, to save her good name. With her London relatives furious, Simeon’s mother actively working against her and Simeon himself too proud to use her money, does she have any chance of real happiness?
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A Forbidden Embrace (hardback only) was first published in July 2001 in hardback, October in the USA. It is also published in large print. In Australia, buy from the Australian Online Bookshop or elsewhere in the world, buy from Amazon UK. |
| A Forbidden Embrace © Anna Jacobs 2001 ISBN hardback 0 7278 5646 4, large print 0 7278 7122 6 |