Lilies on the Lake

by Katherine Kingsley

Book Overview

Once, they'd loved each other with all their hearts. Now fate was giving them a second chance.... Bestselling, award-winning author Katherine Kingsley brings her sizzling blend of romance and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440236029
• ISBN13: 9780440236023
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Dell
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 3.8"

Customer Reviews

First Timer!!!

This is my first time reading any of Kingsley's books, and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Lilies on the Lake. Although it gave WAY to much information about the characters past, it helped focus on why the characters are the way they are. The other thing that caught my attention was Egypt. I love that place and its history. The meeting of 'old friends' on the Egyptian soil solidifies the romantic aspect of the story. Also it was noble of Pip to adopt the baby, and good of John Henry to help them on their way. At the beginning, the two characters didn't fit together, but hey! They DO say opposite attract right? Well, in my opinion, Ms, Kingsley did a wonderful job showing that its small world and that past love never dies.

Pleasant Romantic Adventure

This is a very pleasant romantic adventure--easy to read, full of sexual tension and moving. The hero John Henry and heroine Pip rediscover a deep passion and love for one another through becoming surrogate parents for an unfortunate newborn. This situation becomes increasingly complex, sensual and involving. Pip has a satisfying spiritual enlightenment at the end. Enthusiastically recommended.

Great twist on a tried and true.

Pip Merriem lands herself in a pile of trouble when she finds she is stuck up the Nile River with a friend in the throes of a difficult labor. When she sends for help, the last person she expects to come to her rescue is her childhood friend John Henry Lovell. He is equally stunned to find himself summoned to help the woman he has loved since childhood and whom he fled to India to escape. Determining to wed to protect the now orphaned child and Pip's reputation, the couple is put in close proximity and must face their emotions, past and present. Katherine Kingsley has taken the much clichéd forced marriage scenario and breathed new life in to it. The glory of ancient Egypt comes alive through Pip's love of the civilization. Suppressed passion flares between the couple, manifesting itself as temper. It is this volatile history shared by Pip and John Henry that makes this story such a commanding read.

An entertaining historical romance

In 1835 Alexandria, Egypt, Portia "Pip" Merriem fulfills her life long dream of an Egyptian adventure until her chaperon Isabel admits that she fled England pregnant. Four months later in Luxor, Egypt, Isabel goes into labor. The locals get John Henry Lovell to help with the birthing. John Henry is stunned to see Pip; she is the woman he loves who once rejected his overtures because she felt he wanted to use her to gain social status. Her rejection led to his fleeing England. Isabel dies, but the baby is saved. Pip plans to raise the infant as her own. So Pip can avoid scandal back home in Norfolk, England, John Henry proposes marriage. Pip accepts in order for the baby boy not to become disgraced in the eyes of the Ton. She believes John Henry is using her and the child to gain social prominence. Unbeknownst to Pip, he already has attained that status, but now wants what he always desired from her, her love. LILIES ON THE LAKE is an entertaining historical romance that centers on relationships. The story line is well written but neither John Henry nor Pip hooks the audience until late in the novel. He is desperately manipulative and she is spoiled in spite of adopting the infant. That ultimately changes as love flourishes between the trio, but readers must remain patient and sail with the plot. Fans of historical romances will find enjoy Katherine Kingsley's second chance at love tale.Harriet Klausner