Midnight Lady

by Rosemary Rogers

Book Overview

Kyla Van Vleet has journeyed from India with proof of her right to share in the late Duke of Wolverton's estate and repay the many kindnesses of the stepfather who raised her. But this ravishing young woman hasn't counted on the cold cunning of the Duke's acknowledged heirs--or the disarming gaze of the brash American who is next in line for the title. The charming but arrogant new Duke is Brett Banning, and to him Kyla is a gypsyish hoyden bent on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568655738
• ISBN13: 9781568655734
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

He's a brute and a bully

I'm giving it 5 stars because I think the other reviewers have been unfair. This is not a happy story about a charming people being charming. It's a story about passion, revenge, lust and greed. It's the kind of story that makes you feel things. Not necessarily good things. I mostly felt angry and sad. So that's why I think it was good book. A book is like art, if you feel something, then the artist has accomplished his goal. In this case the story lingered with me after I turned the last page, because of the feelings it invoked. So that's why I think it is a good book. The hero is no hero. The heroine is tragic. She has very few choices, and most of what happens to her is beyond her control. It's hard to believe any woman could love her abuser, but it happens all the time in real life. Maybe that's why some people can relate to the story better than others.

Great Book

I loved the book. I read it 3 times. I would suggest it to someone who loved romance. Rosemary Rogers gets into a lot of detail in this story. You easily understand the storyline, and you can almost imagine what is going on n detail in your head.

Still Queen of Romance, But Disappointing

Unlike the other 'modern romance reviewers' here, my disappointment in this book is the fact that Rogers seems to have joined the mass of the "popular" romance genre writers as seen today in the market. Most romance authors today write fluff for the eighteenth century time period. The herione is always a virgin and the hero will always stay true to the herione while he is pursing a relationship with herione. Right.Really, do you honestly believe that a woman without any means of funds or title could actually be the strong-willed woman of today's society in that time period? I'm sick and tired of reading the disappointing reviewers of Rogers previous books of how rude and sadistic the hero was or how the herione slept around. Let me ask you, were you a virgin when you got married? How many women and men can answer that with a yes today? Men were commonly known to behave that way then, mistresses for that matter were quite common and the women, if they were smart and strong-willed, did whatever they could to survive, by either offering themselves to a protector and or offering their lives to a marriage to someone they did not love.Please, wake up and smell the coffee! Rogers' previous books were reality smothered with intense romantic conflict! It's got to take a woman of persistant nature and rigor to change a man whose used to doing things his way for eons, and honestly, it ain't going to happen over night to accomplish such a feat. I only wished that Rogers didn't listen to her editors by 'toning down' her books to fit the current fashion of romance books on the shelves today.Michelle Harris

Compelling characters....

Midnight Lady has compelling characters and an intriguing storyline that kept me turning the pages to the end. While not as adventurous as her earliest novels, this one has all the elements a classic romance should have. I enjoyed it very much!