Dream Fever Katherine Sutcliffe | ISBN : 1-55410-373-8

Dream Fever

Author: Katherine Sutcliffe

Publisher: Zumaya Publications LLC

Publication Date: 15 May, 2003

ISBN: 9781554103737

Pages:

Subjects: Romance, History

Available as: , Trade Cloth, 978-0-7278-4372-2 Trade Paper, 978-1-894942-22-5 E-Book - Multiple Formats, 978-1-55410-373-7

Description:

Nicholas--A proud and gallant aristocrat, he was exiled to New Zealand for a crime committed in defense of a woman's honor. Now disgraced and disowned, he lives as a simple sheep farmer--nursing his bitterness in silence ... and solitude. Summer--The lovely and spirited daughter of an English courtesan, she flees the dire circumstances of a tragic, impetuous act to seek sanctuary in Nicholas' lonely world--only to be surprised by the handsome, secretive stranger who spurns the healing powers of her giving heart. Dream Fever--A ruined nobleman and a beautiful child of the streets, their dreams unite them in an untamed paradise--inflaming their souls with passion's fire ... awakening within them both a raging fever of sensuous desire and rapturous love.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 1991-10-11

Readers who prefer their romance spiced with anguish and melodrama will take to Sutcliffe's ( Shadow Play ) tale of love between a plainspoken young Irish maid and a tortured, reclusive sheep-farming aristocrat. Nicholas Sabre was deported from England in 1861 when, duped by the woman he loved, he killed his rival in a duel. A few years later, Nick is just barely surviving--financially and emotionally--on his New Zealand sheep station when Summer O'Neilesp ok lands on his doorstep, claiming to be the proxy bride he sent for. Nick (who signed the proxy form when drunk) bluntly indicates he has no use for a wife but decides she can stay until shearing is finished; then she and the wool can be disposed of during a single trip to town. Summer, who has no life back in Britain, wants to remain and struggles to make herself useful, and Nick reluctantly warms to her kind, forgiving nature. But only when an escalating feud between farmers and Cockatoos (who, like Nick, raise sheep) threatens lives as well as property does Nick acknowledge his growing affection for the young woman. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved