July 4, 2016
This repackaging of Jeffries's 1995 novel unites an English lady with a daring Welshman in late 18th-century Wales. Lady Juliana St. Albans, sister of the Earl of Northcliffe, is about to hear the announcement of her engagement to Stephen Wyndham, Marquess of Devon, when she comes face to face with Rhys Vaughanâher husband, whom she had believed was dead. Rhys believes that Juliana was responsible for helping her brother get him impressed into the navy on their wedding night six years before, and he is ruthlessly determined to get back at her by forcing her to continue being his wife, under his absolute dominion. She continues protesting her innocence, and though Rhys greatly doubts her, his attraction to her grows. He gradually comes to the realization that she may not have betrayed him after all. The romantic angst simmers as Rhys aches and snarls and Juliana hopes and pleads. The depth of their emotions makes them believable characters, and their fast-paced story is intensely moving.
June 15, 2016
Stunned when her husband, a man she thought lost at sea six years earlier, returns just as her betrothal to another is announced, a young woman struggles to regain her husband's love and trust. This intense, rather dark Regency is graced with a dusting of Welsh culture and was first published by Topaz in 1995. Not as lighthearted as the author's more recent romances written under the Sabrina Jeffries pseudonym, this is a gripping read.
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May 15, 2016
How dare Rhys Vaughan show up at Juliana St. Albans' wedding to Stephen Wyndham! Rhys is supposed to be dead. Six years ago, Juliana secretly married Rhys without her family's consent. The couple planned on running away to London, but when Juliana awoke in the room at the inn where they spent their wedding night, Rhys was gone. Juliana never gave up hope that Rhys would return to her until she learned that he had perished in a shipwreck. Yet here he is, alive and well with every intention of reclaiming his wife. Best-selling Sabrina Jeffries (The Art of Sinning, 2015) originally wrote Stormswept in 1995 as Deborah Martin, and she has now gone back to that novel and carefully revised it for republication. The end result is a fast-paced historical romance that not only delivers all the boldly sensual passion Jeffries' readers have come to expect but also makes wonderful use of its refreshingly different Welsh setting.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)