Sarah A. Hoyt
Author of DarkShip Thieves
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Works by Sarah A. Hoyt
Whom the Gods Love 4 copies
Imperial Magic 2 copies
What She Left Behind 2 copies
The Counterfeit Gypsy 2 copies
Blood of Dreams 2 copies
Elvis Died For Your Sins 2 copies
With Unconfined Wings 2 copies
Trafalgar Square [Short Story] 2 copies
Traveling Traveling 1 copy
Ariadne's Skein 1 copy
Heart's Fire 1 copy
Heart's Place [short story] 1 copy
But World Enough 1 copy
Barbarella (2021-) #6 1 copy
Titan 1 copy
Unawares 1 copy
Waiting for Juliette 1 copy
Thirst 1 copy
Juggler 1 copy
The Blonde 1 copy
Counterfeit Gypsy 1 copy
Scraps of Fog 1 copy
Like Dreams of Waking 1 copy
Dear John 1 copy
Songs 1 copy
Thy Vain Worlds 1 copy
Another George 1 copy
Only the Lonely 1 copy
Things Remembered 1 copy
From out the fire 1 copy
Rising Above 1 copy
A Matter of Blood 1 copy
The Green Bay Tree 1 copy
A Cog in Time 1 copy
Super Lamb Banana 1 copy
Where Horse and Hero Fell 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Hoyt, Sarah de Almeida
- Other names
- D'Almeida, Sarah
Hyatt, Elise
Gardner, Laurien (shared pseudonym) - Birthdate
- 1962-11-18
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Portugal (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Granja, Aguas Santas, Maia, Portugal
- Places of residence
- Colorado, USA
- Relationships
- Hoyt, Daniel M. (husband)
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- 98
- Also by
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- Members
- 2,406
- Popularity
- #10,661
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 87
- ISBNs
- 85
- Favorited
- 2
After his promise to Nigil, the hero of HEART OF LIGHT, to return the second of two legendary magical jewels said to have been in Charlemagne's (yes, that Charlemagne) possession once upon a time, Peter sets off to British occupied India in pursuit of the jewel. He doesn't expect to become embroiled in a family's dark secret, a young girl's bid at freedom or the truth behind the whispered rebellion of the natives.
If you read HEART OF LIGHT before this, then you'll know all the references Peter makes throughout the book without help. For those who haven't read the first book, there is enough referencing to the events of HEART OF LIGHT to cover anything that might be mentioned.
Peter is a likeable hero. Maybe because I went into the book expecting it to be like other historical romances I read and I thought he would be less flawed than he was. Those flaws endeared him to me, however, from the eye patch to his mixed emotions over his father's death, and his almost clumsy courtship with the heroine, Sofie. Peter seemed real to me.
Sofie at times annoyed me. She was a little younger then I would have liked (she was only seventeen) and at times acted very much the spoiled brat she insisted she wasn't. I don't think she meant any of her selfish tendencies out of spite, but all the same, they more often then not landed folks in trouble because she didn't think things through. She was all impulse and determination. She does mature however, and I did enjoy her and Peter's relationship as it progressed along.
The others in the story—Sofie's (mercenary) parents, handmaiden/friend Lalita, the other weres and even the natives that came and went, were all well written and interesting. I especially liked Lalita's Uncle, who fit his title quite well.
As previously mentioned, this is the second book in Hoyt's Magical British Empire series, preceded by HEART OF LIGHT (out now) and shortly to be followed by HEART AND SOUL (due out end of October 2008).… (more)