Dark fire / Elizabeth Lowell.

Title :

Dark fire

Author:

Lowell, Elizabeth, 1944-

Format:

Books

Summary:

Pampered and rich, Cynthia is traveling to Ecuador, and her father insists that she hire a survival specialist to accompany her. Both she and the hired "tour guide" are unhappy with the situation; however, she finds that he is all the man she needs, and he finds her the exception to all his rules--especially the one about falling in love.

Language:

English

ISBN - ISSN:

9780727868145

0727868144

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 23 cm

General Note:

Originally published: New York: Silhouette, 1988.

Subject:

Ecuador -- Fiction.

Love stories.

Fiction.

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Dark fire / Elizabeth Lowell.

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Romantic suspense set in exotic surroundings - The Andean Cloud Forest in Ecuador is mysterious and beautiful. Trace Rawlings is a man who lives by his own rules. Ruthless and domineering, he takes what he wants. But Cynthia is used to someone trying to manipulate her, having dealt with her father all her life. She feels sure she can handle Trace. After all, he's just there to guide her through the treacherous forest, right?

Author Notes

Elizabeth Lowell is actually a pen name for the real person named Ann Charters Maxwell. Maxwell was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1944. She was educated at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Riverside, where she received a B.A. in 1966. She married Evan Maxwell, a journalist, on September 4, 1966. They have published numerous novels together including The Silk Strategy, The Ruby, Steal the Sun, Redwood Empire, and The Golden Mountain.

Maxwell started her writing career in 1975 with the science fiction novel Change. She has written over 60 novels and one non-fiction book. The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense. She has written under numerous pen names including A. E. Maxwell, Annalise Sun, and Lowell Charters. In 1982, she began publishing romance novels as Elizabeth Lowell. She was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1994, Romance Writers of America Best Historical Romance in 1994, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Her title Beautiful Sacrifice made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Booklist Review

Cindy is worried about her business partner and best friend's disappearance in Ecuador, so she travels to Quito to find her. Because her wealthy, powerful father insists that she hire a guide, she reluctantly retains the extremely macho Trace, who views her as a spoiled American princess with too much money and no sense. She doesn't know that her father has offered Trace an astronomical amount of money, and neither knows that Cindy's father is hoping that Trace will seduce his daughter. He's bribed men before in the hope of grandchildren. Trace pushes Cindy to the limits of her endurance to make her give up and go home, while fighting his desire for her. Thanks to her father's meddling, Cindy has doubts about her attraction to men. Sparks and steam abound when these two get together, but will it last? This first hardbound editon of an early Lowell title will please romance fans and showcase the seeds of her later, hugely popular romantic thrillers.--Engelmann, Patty Copyright 2009 Booklist

Library Journal Review

In the Ecuadorian cloud forest on the hunt for her missing business partner, a wealthy, headstrong woman and the sexy guide her powerful father insists she hire find passionate adventure. This lushly descriptive sizzler was a Silhouette Desire classic (1988) and one of a number of Lowell's earlier works reprinted by Severn House in hardcover. Lowell also writes under her own name, Ann Maxwell. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.