Wanton Angel

by Shirl Henke

Book Overview

A FREE-SPIRITED WOMANAllowed to run wild in the Georgia backwoods with her brothers and Creek Indian cousins, Beth Blackthorne has no desire to do her duty as daughter of a wealthy planter by making a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843949732
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 3.3"

Customer Reviews

Regency with a twist

This book was a pleasant surprise. It had a little of everything. Spies, harems, Naples, America and England. I didn't expect it to have so many twists and turns.In all it was a good and quick read.

non-stop action thriller

In 1811 English spy Derrick Jamison and American painter Elizabeth Blackthorne are attracted to one another, but his assignment for the crown keeps them apart. Besides which they ran in different circles as she is a noted bohemian reputed to pose nude while he is a foppish aristocrat. Though both want it, nothing comes of their first encounter in Washington DC. They next meet in Naples where they fall into each other's arms and make love. However, not long afterward, pirates capture Beth and sell her to the dey of Algiers so though not a virgin she can join his harem. Derrick manages to rescue her, but their adventures have just begun even as that initial attraction turns to love. WANTON ANGEL is such a non-stop action thriller that readers will need oxygen to keep up with the frantic pace. However, the cost of all the action is that the characters are not quite developed so that the audience never understands Beth's attitudes on life, so different from her peers. Still Shirl Henke knows how to spin a heated tale so that Regency fans will enjoy a change of pace caper after caper tale that never slows down until the final safe kiss.Harriet Klausner