Angel In My Bed

by Melody Thomas

Book Overview

Angel . . . or the devil in disguise? On one final mission for the Crown, David Donally is hunting for a missing treasure. His only clue is a dazzling, gem-encrusted earring, and it is leading him to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006074233X
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Avon
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful romance and so much more!

Meg and David meet and marry in Calcutta. Meg does not know that David is an agent for the Crown, seeking evidence against her father, who is not a nice man to say the least. Meg comes home to find another agent, mortally wounded, in their house, and when David arrives, he thinks Meg is the shooter (she has the gun). Meg escapes and flees Calcutta, and is presumed dead when the steamer she is traveling on blows up and sinks. Nine years later, enter Victoria, who has a son and a stepdaughter, and we very quickly realize she is Meg, who has built a new life for herself. And enter David, who still wants desperately to solve the crimes of Calcutta, and who has just discovered that Meg is alive. They distrust each other, and both despise the other for what they think was betrayal in Calcutta. We know almost immediately what Victoria has been doing for the past 9 years, but finding out what David did for those 9 years gives an interesting aspect to his character. The drama is intense, and it's what makes this such an excellent story. The conflict between David and Victoria is believable and understandable, and the reader feels the emotional pain of both. When events transpire that cause Victoria to begin admiring David all over again, she realizes that it's because he's a man of deep principle and courage, but she is unable to see herself in the same light, and only sees herself as a former thief whose life was filled with duplicity and deception. Her journey to redemption - in David's eyes and in her own - make for excellent reading. My only complaint is minor, and the proofreaders should have caught it. In one confrontational scene, David grabs both of Meg's wrists, and holds them in one hand, so she tries to hit him 'with her other hand' - the mental picture of that extra hand sure did break the tension of that scene, but didn't keep me from a second reading of the book, which actually caused me to raise my rating from a '4' to a solid '5'

Another winner from Melody Thomas!

Melody Thomas is an author that delivers a great read every time she puts a book on the shelf. Her stories and characters are interesting and passionate all the time. I picked up A Match Made in Scandal a year ago from a shelf in a drugstore. Melody Thomas was an author I'd never heard of so I had no great expectations that the book would be a worthwhile read. It turned out to be one of the best historical romances I've ever read. If you enjoy historical romance, you can never be disappointed with one of her books. She rates right up there with Julia London, Gaelen Foley and Julia Quinn.

Complex, deeply moving and worthwhile

This well done novel delivers a little more toughness in tone that is refreshing. Not only are the two lead characters unpredictable in the results of their relationship--rare in a romance novel!--but there are a good half-dozen supporting characters each memorable and written with personality and shading. The combination of international politics-Calcutta, India--plus an overlapping story of one of the leads set in Ireland really gives a depth to the writing as well as quite a few giggles when the infamous "F" word is delivered in an Irish accent. Took several times for me to catch that one!! Overall, great writing with a welcome twist.

exhilarating Victorian romantic suspense

In 1873, David Donally is on his last mission for his country before retiring. He searches for stolen loot from a theft in India over nine years ago with the lone clue to its whereabouts a recently surfaced gem-laden earring. He questions Sheriff Skilling who sends his men to attack David. Afterward Skilling visits tall tough Lady Victoria Munro who realizes her past has found her. Instead of the booty he seeks, the earring leads David to the most beautiful woman he has ever known, his wife Meg Faraday, a woman he thought dead back in Calcutta. Meg cannot believe her luck that the man she has avoided for years has found her and believes others will follow. David demands the truth of why she faked her death while Meg believes he betrayed their love when he pawned her to get at her father, a smuggler. Both still feel the heated attraction, but neither trusts the other. However, neither realizes that if they want to live, they need each other as someone else has plans for the treasure and killing an estranged couple is not a problem for this avaricious assailant. ANGEL IN MY BED is an exhilarating Victorian romantic suspense tale starring two individuals burned by love as each assumes the other betrayed their relationship. The story line is action-packed as both struggles against their feelings while reluctantly joining forces to seek the jewels and to stop an unknown culprit from succeeding in putting them six feet under. Melody Thomas provides a fine nineteenth century thriller fueled by the distrustful lead couple needing one another to survive. Harriet Klausner