Against the Wind (Candlelight Ecstasy Supreme)

By Anne Stuart

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440100518
• ISBN13: 9780440100515
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Another Stuart gem

I wish I knew what Anne Stuart ate! She is a writer extraordinaire; she never fails to mesmerize me with her heart pounding prose. Does not matter if it is Stuart's most recent psychological thriller or going back to some of her earliest works. Candlelight Ecstasy Supreme was a Dell series Romance line back twenty years ago. They were not around long, but some top writers of today got their wings under this line Jayne Ann Krentz (under one of her various names), Heather Graham, Lori Copeland and Anne Stuart are some of the names that jump out when you look up CES backlist.This is another in the long line of Stuart's novels that grabs the reader and holds them nearly breathless from start to finish. Maddy Lambert was an unloved child. Raised by indifferent parents too wrapped up in their world grabbing for power, she was little more than a glorified prop in photo opportunities to her parents. Her father was an idealist in a world of dirty politics, her mother wanted to be first lady at all costs.Seventeen-year-old Maddy fell in love with her father's Secret Service bodyguard Jake Thomas Murphy. Everyone knew it, but no one took it seriously. When her father's presidential bid ended in his withdrawal, he left his wife, son and daughter behind going to a small country in Central America to work for Freedom Fighters. Murphy followed him.Now fourteen years later, her father is dying of cancer, and Maddy's mother insists she go to Central America to bring him home. Maddy is unprepared for the war torn situation, for her father's new wife who is two years younger than her, but most of all, Maddy is unprepared to face Jake. She is shocked by his appearance; gone is the clean, uptight bodyguard, in his place is a harden rebel leader. She is more shocked when Jake claims she is a spy and refuses to believe she is Maddy.It's double-crossing, triple-crossing to where you are so confused which side is good and which side as bad, and you need a score card to keep up with Jake's loyalties. And in the end, you might stop and realize a lot of questions were never answered.But it's a compelling read. A must for all Stuart fans or those just discovering her. Jake is another soul-stained devil Stuart loves to conjure and Maddy is the strong woman willing to give all for the man she loves.