Museum Piece (Harlequin American Romance, No. 52)

By Anne Stuart

Book Overview

Museum Piece by Anne Stuart released on Feb 23, 1984 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373160526
• ISBN13: 9780373160525
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Harlequin
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.7" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

A Gem!

Museum Piece is an early Stuart novel, but old or new.....you are guaranteed to enjoy every page. In this story Molly is a buyer for a museum who is fed up with a "James Ellliot" who always seems to snatch her treasures away by paying a higher price. She inadvertently sends him a scathing letter, that she never intended him to see, and he is livid after he receives it. Their first meeting is scorchingly hot and you can tell you're going to be in for a ride. The courtship of Molly and James is what makes this book special. Molly is adopted and is afraid of love and abandonment. She runs away from James many times throughout this book, and James has this remarkable ability to chase her when need be and leave her alone when need be. He never does what you think he'll do, and this keeps both Molly and you, as the reader, on your toes. This book packs quite the punch for only being 255 pages long, and while it was written in 1984....great books stand the test of time!

Stuart is like fine wine!

Anne Stuart has one of the most amazing understandings of the dynamics of male-female relationships, better than any Romance writer I know. Many Romance writers are exceptional storytellers, but often I come away feeling the male is written as we would like men to be, rather than they are. Stuart understands males, the good and the bad parts, and knows the path of love, sex and romance isn't always strewn with rose petals. True passionate romances are complex and often riddled with strong, not always clear, motivations. Stuart starts with this premise and adds a pinch of this and a dram of that and always comes up, book after book, with stories that are emotional rollercoasters. I cannot recall any book she has written that she hasn't give 110% to the characters. From her earliest series works to the present day psychological thrillers, she's never lost the passion for writing Romance. Her clear love of the genre shines in every work, each one written as if this was the "novel of her heart". I see writers at the top suffering from losing that magic. They have their eye on commercial success. Stuart never walks that path; both her eyes are solely on the story she was currently writing. It's quite clear, the story, the characters are what matter to Stuart, anything else just follows in the wake.Museum Piece is another solid Stuart gem that taps into the strong personalities of male and female characters. Written 20 years ago, it has a slight touch of dating, but only slight. Anne Stuart's books hold out against "dating", superior to any writer I know. More over, Stuart's quality of writing is so consistent. A book may not personally work for you for some reason - but no one can say her quality is less. Mary Lindsay McDonough - M.L. to her friends, Molly to her father - works for the San Francisco Museum of American Art. She adores historical pieces of early Americana, but she had been running into an immovable object: James Elliott. James is the front man for J.E. Seaquist - a Howard Hughes Billionaire type - and with the Seaquist fortune at his access, James can afford to out bid Molly at ever turn. She is so furious at losing special pieces to Elliott time after time, she writes him a note venting all her frustration at his "robber baron" tactics - never meaning to send it. After her temper cools, she pens a sedate complaint, but accidentally ends up sending him to tongue-lashing one!She attends a show for the artwork of her former lover, her intend is to buy a painting for the museum. Only, she comes face to face with a very angry Elliott who was not amused. Molly's sworn off men since dumper her artist lover two years ago, but James Elliott is more man than she ever tangled with before. He kisses her, punishment for the note; she kisses him back to show him he cannot get away with it. Thus, the chase begins.Molly is very attracted to James, but he scares her. Molly was adopted, and whileher father was very loving and d