Dearly beloved / Mary Jo Putney.

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Dearly beloved

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Large print

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A sheltered life in the countryside has left Diana Lindsay restless to see the wider world, for both herself and the son she is raising alone. She cannot marry, but perhaps as a courtesan she will find love and protection despite her painful past. Gathering her courage, she moves to London--and finds herself the city's most desired woman, as admired for her charm as for her beauty. But it is one man who captivates her--handsome, haunted, and harboring a secret as deep as her own.

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English

ISBN - ISSN:

9781432866334

1432866338

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679 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Single mothers -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Manners and customs.

Secrecy.

Single mothers.

London (England) -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

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Thorndike Press large print romance series.

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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA USA Today Bestselling AuthorA sheltered life in the countryside has left Diana Lindsay restless to see the wider world, for both herself and the son she is raising alone. She cannot marry but hopes for love and protection as a courtesan. After moving to London, Diana finds herself the city's most desired woman. But the handsome man who captivates her is haunted and harbors a secret. Gervase Brandelin, the Viscount St. Aubyn, serves England as a spymaster and must not be distracted from his duties. When he meets Diana, his burdens lift. Though she can never truly be his, their love fills him with hope, until a treacherous deceit -- and a deadly enemy -- threatens to tear them apart forever.

Author Notes

Romance writer Mary Jo Putney was born in New York and graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in English literature and Industrial design. She served as the art editor of The New Internationalist magazine in London and worked as a designer in California before settling in Baltimore, Maryland in 1980 to run her own freelance graphic design business Her first novel was a traditional Regency romance, which sold in one week. Signet liked the novel so much that it offered Putney a three-book contract. In 1987 that first novel, The Diabolical Baron, was published. Since then, she has published more than twenty-nine books. Her books have been ranked on the national bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Most of her books have been historical romance. She has also begun writing fantasy romance and romantic fantasy. Putney has won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award twice, for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and has been a RITA finalist nine times. She is on the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll for bestselling authors, and has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards and four Golden Leaf Awards. Her titles include: Dark Mirror, Dark Passage, No Longer a Gentleman, Never Less than a Lady, and Nowhere Near Respectable.

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Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Putney ( The Diabolical Baron ) sugarcoats the unsavory premise of this story about two people who, thrown together by an accident of fate, heal each other from the wounds of childhood. In 1799 Scotland, Gervase Brandelin, the victim of a sexually abusive mother, is livid when forced to wed Mary Hamilton, a deranged clergyman's innocent daughter whom he has unwittingly compromised, and promptly rapes her following the ceremony. After years of separation, they meet again, but Gervase does not recognize his wife. Instead, he knows her as Diana Lindsay, whom he believes to be an accomplished courtesan and whom he woos to become his mistress. Through the tender courtship and through Gervase's kindness to the epileptic son conceived in the brutality of their wedding night, the pair experiences unsullied love for the first time and discovers the joys of family. Gervase's involvement in the super-secret espionage service working to undermine Napoleon adds spice and atmosphere. (Mar . ) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved