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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  TadAD | Jun 2, 2008 |  My all-time favorite book. I love Kathleen Woodiwiss' way with words, her grasp of historical fiction acrosss many times amazes me. Camlin | Apr 12, 2008 | one of my favorite Woodiwiss books. A read this about 10 years ago and can still remember the excitement and romance of this story. (  ) cal8769 | Jan 28, 2008 | I first read this back around 1980 - hiding the book under my mattress. I don't think my mother had a clue even if she had seen the cover but I knew what I was reading and hid it as much as possible. I would never read this type of novel today yet I remember the impact it had on me at the time and I am rating based on that. Definitely a rite of passage for many a teenage girl at the time (  ) Mendoza | Jul 6, 2007 | For reasons that are difficult to explain, SHANNA remains my utmost favorite romance novel. Roarke is the perfect hero. Shanna lives a life we can only dream about, and isn't this what romance fiction is all about? Fantasy . . . antoher time . . . antoher place . . . A whole different world. ( ) CathyLeming | Dec 31, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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A pact is sealed in secret behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison. In return for a night of unparalleled pleasure, a dashing condemned criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress, thereby rescuing her with his name from an impending and abhorred arranged union. But in the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a solemn promise is broken, as a sensuous free spirit takes flight to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the stranger she married to face the gallows unfulfilled.
But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with that of the tempestuous, intoxicating Shanna. He will be free . . . and he will find her. For no iron ever forged can imprison his resolute passion. And no hangman's noose will deny Ruark the ecstasy that is rightfully his.
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I'd never read another pure romance before, and I don't anticipate reading another again...it's just not a genre that appeals to me. However, although the story was predictable to the Nth degree, the male lead ridiculously noble, the female lead someone I would cheerfully have smacked, I found myself diverted for the afternoon. (