Alison McLeay, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74096-2
Katherine Summerbee, the spirited heroine of this engaging historical romance by the author of the well-received Passage Home , has been brought up on a boat by her gruff father with no luxuries and little love. She meets handsome, courageous...
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Alison McLeay, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (606p) ISBN 978-0-671-69299-5
It's the lot of plucky 19th-century heroines to dash themselves against the era's stifling propriety, and peppery, once-widowed Rachel Dean is no exception. But as Rachel's meddlesome Aunt Grace observes: ``Widows may do as they like.'' And indeed...
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Alison McLeay, Author Avon Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71532-9
Abandoned by her adventurous first husband, 19th-century heroine Rachel Dean earns a living in a scandalous frontier saloon before settling down with a shipping magnate whose hobby is taxidermy. ``This ambitious, rollicking debut novel scuds along...
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Alison McLeay, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14271-1
McLeay's richly atmospheric novels are always in the service of a good story, and her latest (after The Dream Maker) is again an involving read as she evokes two cultures and a woman torn between them. During the first two decades of the 20th...
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Alison McLeay, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-24423-1
On a rainy November day in 1819, as McLeay's (The Summer House) latest historical romance begins, Flora Elizabeth Louise de Montfort St. Serf is dashing down a London street clutching the family silver under her shawl, in a desperate attempt to save
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Alison McLeay, Author, Allison McLeay, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-15666-4
Set in the English Lake District, McLeay's fifth novel (following After Shanghai) concerns three families: the pearl merchant Kassels, who search for beauty; the acquisitive Dunstans, who seize what they want; and the intellectual Aschams, who...
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