Daughter of Fortune

By Carla Kelly

Book Overview

Maria Espinosa should not have survived the 1679 cholera epidemic in Mexico City that killed her parents, already reeling from the loss of their fortune, nor should she have survived an Apache raid on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917657233
• ISBN13: 9780917657238
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"

Customer Reviews

One of those stories that stay with you!

I am a Regency Romance reader and an avid fan of Carla Kelly's. Because she wrote this novel, I decided to try it even though nothing about the storyline attracted me. When I read romance, I almost exclusively read Regencies. But her writing is so outstanding, I tried this book set in Mexico and in what is now present-day New Mexico with the Spanish and Indians duking it out but not how you saw in Westerns. This was painful for both sides and Kelly brings it all to life. This book was superb and very informative historically. The hero, heroine and some secondary characters tear your heart out while they endure a lot. I am not one for lots of anguish in my recreational reading; that's why I like Regencies. But this story and the writing was so exceptional that by the end I really was glad I had read it. The story and its poignancy has stayed with me even years later.

A fantasic book

This is not a Regency like her later works. The book is set in the 1600's. It is extremely powerful and moving. There are some grisly scenes so beware. Ms. Kelly is one of the most talented writers around today. If you can find this book I suggest you hold on to it.