Love Under Fire

By Barbara Cartland

Book Overview

Elvina stood before the ship's captain feeling more afraid than she'd guessed she would. She watched him appraise her black hair, dyed the night before, her skin, darkened with berry juice, her skinny frame of a figure. She could see that he believed her story-- that she was an orphaned Portugese child. "What is your name?" he asked. "Elvina?" She said. "What is your surname?" "I haven't one," she lied. "Everyone has a surnsme," he said patiently. "Come child, why don't you answer my question?" "IT is a lady's privilege," Elvina said with a toss of her head, "to be unpredictable." With that Lord Wyse laughed heartily. "I am ashamed to admit it," he told her frankly, "but I think I shall enjoy having you aboard."

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515027685
• ISBN13: 9780515027686
• Release Date: November 1976
• Publisher: Pyramid Books
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A VERY GOOD BOOK FOR A YOUNG FIRST TIME READER OF ROMANCE

I first read this book when I was only 15. It was about the third book I have ever read (the first being Black Beauty). My parents kept urging me to pick up a book and read, but I was stubborn and didn't want to read a book without pictures, and lets face it, I was too old to be reading pop up books. So when my parents and I went to Harrisburg, I bought Love Under Fire just to keep my parents off my back. Imagine my surprise when I couldn't put the book down! I actually finished it in less than a day. It took me three months to finish Black Beauty (and it had pictures). From then on, I was a Barbara Cartland fan. I don't read much of her books now since my taste has change to a different type of romance (with smut). But I would recommend her as an author for the young budding romantic. Her books are never tactless nor filled with too much descriptions of sexual nature that parents would be horrified to have their young children read it. I plan on introducing my daughter to her when she is old enough. The books I tend to read now would be too desciptive for her young mind.