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Legal name: Gettler, Nina
Birthdate: 20th Century
Gender: female
Nationality: Austria
USA (naturalized)
Birthplace: Salzburg, Austria
Places of residence: Salzburg, Austria
Massachusetts, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Education: University of Massachusetts
Occupations: translator
Short biography: Nina Gettler was born in Salzburg, Austria, home to Mozart and the Von Trapp family. She is of Russian descent, whose family tree includes the Stroganoff family, Count Zhubov, who is reputed to have been Catherine the Great's last lover, and several other interesting historical characters. She grew up in Massachusetts, USA, and after spending her first two years of college in Austria, graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.A. in French and an M.A. in German.

Returning to Austria in 1970, Nina worked for sixteen years as a translator for Russian, French and Italian before turning to writing full-time. Her life-long interest in history and her fluency in several languages has been of great help in the in-depth research she does for her books, which includes traveling to where the stories are set. After spending 25 years in Austria, she relocated to Seattle in July 1995 on the strength of a gut feeling that this was the right place for her to go.
Disambiguation notice: Nina Gettler writes as Nina Beaumont.

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Across Time (Big Book) by Nina Beaumont

On the run from an abusive and blackmailing suitor, the heroine finds refuge in the past and in the arms of a man who should be her enemy. In the body of her ancestor, the heroine is quick to learn that the woman had been cruel and evil but she vows to never be that way. She has been betrothed to the bastard son of the family's enemy and awakens in her new body during her wedding night. From the moment she meets him however, she's overcome with lust and attraction to the standoffish male. He doesn't trust her and certainly doesn't like her and he makes no qualms about hiding it. For most of the book, despite his growing feelings, he's distrustful of his new bride. He doubts her innocence due to rumors that she had sexual encounters with her own brothers among others but he's pleased when she turns out to be a virgin. He's convinced that she's working with her brothers to kill him despite the fact that she latterly falls on a blade to save his life when as assassin tries to kill him, almost dying herself and killing the unborn child within her. And he's convinced that she's sleeping around despite the fact that he knows she loves him more than life itself. I was frustrated with the hero for most of the book. He was always angry or pissed off about something she's done or hasn't done. He's angry when she's not the evil bitch she's made out to be. He's angry when she willingly surrenders her body to him. He's angry when she admits she loves him. He's angry when he realizes he loves her back. He's angry when other men flirt with her. I didn't like him as a character. Whenever he was displeased with something he was grab her and bruise her wrists, even at one time, almost raping her in his possessive anger. I don't mind possessive men but not when that jealousy turns to abuse and I feel that's what his behavior bordered on. I did like the heroine as she was strong but complant at the same time. She came from the past to the past so she wasn't that sassy modern woman, she could handle herself in the time period she found herself in. And she was loyal to her husband. She fought with everything she had to change fate and save his life. Overall it was a decent book. Some things bothered me, others bored me. But I was entertained for the most part.… (more)

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Eden00 | May 14, 2016 |

Surrender The Heart (Harlequin Historicals #362) by Nina Beaumont

Being dragged to Paris for the season, Ariane de Valmont had to find a way to get her father to back off, not to mention all the eligible men that were paying unwanted attention to her. She was just not interested in marriage, it was just another way a man could gain control over a women and Ariane didn’t want anything to do with it. After the death of his father, Christopher Blanchard had very few reasons to be in Paris and every desire to get it over with. The ghosts of his past were following him through out Paris and as he did his best to ignore them, Ariane approached him with a most inappropriate deal, one that he saw as an amusing way to pass his time in Paris.

A typical Historical Romance, one where the main plot of the story is all about both people not feeling comfortable telling the truth about how they really feel. The author showed just how matched they were with each decision not to admit to their feeling by doing an almost word for word - he thought she thought - a couple of different times. Some part of me found that funny, another part found it a bit obvious, but the effect in the end was overall a good one.… (more)

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