Jade has been promised to Dimitri by her father. Dimitri is
possessive and an abusive man. Jade tried to escape the
Romany and had run away once before.
Evan Dark is in England to discover the truth of his
heritage. His mother's death six months before has led to
some astonishing discoveries. Now, he is ready to return to
his home in South Carolina. He has stolen the uniform of a
British soldier to escape. His attempts to leave are
thwarted when he encounters Jade.
Now he has the Gypsies after him as well as the British. He
is determined to protect Jade and return her to her tribe
with honor. Neither will be as easy as he thinks.
Evan and Jade end up married in a Romany ceremony. He takes
Jade and her sister to South Carolina with him even though
he intends to marry the woman he is engaged to.
On his arrival, events spiral out of control. Evan's half
brothers are at odds and his fiancée is determined that she
won't lose Evan. His relationship with Jade is rocky but he
is drawn to her despite his desire to marry Glorianna.
If you like books with angst, this might appeal to you. It
didn't work for me on several levels. Some of the
situations seemed improbable. The relationship between Jade
and Evan seems to alternate between them desiring to kill
each other or just desiring each other. Jade was a little
pugnacious and she annoyed me.
Her conviction that no one could care for her was wearing.
Her insistence on always doing things her own way caused
many of the fights with Evan. I just wanted to slap both of
them and tell them to talk to each other for a few minutes.
Just when I thought the book was coming to an end, there was
another dramatic situation thrown in. It wasn't needed for
the happy ending and contributed to the improbability for
me.
Cultures clash and
passions collide when a stunning deathbed confession by his
mother sends Evan Dark, the heir to a sprawling South
Carolina plantation, to England in search of information
about the father he never knew. Evan, a Southern gentleman
who has just discovered his Gypsy heritage, cannot resist
coming to the aid of a spirited young Gypsy woman, Jade of
the Lowara tribe, who has fled her campsite after learning
she is betrothed to a brutal clansman. Jade's father, seeing
an opportunity to bring wealth to his clan through marriage,
pegs Evan as Jade's bridegroom. Coerced into marrying Jade,
Evan intends to abandon his Gypsy bride and return to South
Carolina, where his own fiancée awaits him, unaware that she
has been unfaithful with his half brother and that the
two are plotting to challenge Evan’s status as heir. When
loyalties divide and fortunes are at risk, will Jade's love
be enough?
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