Beloved [Mass Market Paperback]

Stella Cameron (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1996

In Beloved, Saber, the mysterious Earl of Avenall can no longer resist Ella, a young woman he met 5 years ago. He has to win her trust by divulging his murky past. She has scandalous secrets too that have to be confronted if they are to win each other.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Bestselling author Cameron's at the top of her form in this suspenseful, tightly written historical romance set in the late Regency period and featuring Scotland's aristocratic Rossmara family, last seen in Bride. Saber (yes, Saber), Earl of Avenall, scarred in body and mind from wounds received in India, believes he's going mad when his nightmares escalate. Ella Rossmara, in love with Saber since she was 16, can't persuade him to marry her, though she knows he reciprocates her feelings. Both Saber's present and enemies from Ella's past (as a girl she was rescued from a brothel auction) conspire to keep them apart, but true love will out. This is a satisfying, highly sensual read with some unexpected twists.
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About the Author

Stella Cameron is the New York Times/USAToday/Washington Post best-selling, award-winning author of sixty historical and contemporary novels and novellas. Each of her single-title releases has appeared on the WALDENBOOKS mass market, and romance lists, and on the BARNES AND NOBLE list.

Stella has won the ROMANTIC TIMES Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense and the ROMANTIC TIMES best Romantic Suspense of the Year Award. She has been a RITA finalist, and is the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Writers' Association Achievement Award for distinguished professional achievement and for enhancing the stature of the Northwest literary community.

Current titles include 7B, the third book in the 1820s Mayfair Square series (THE ORPHAN is the fourth book and due out in March, 2002), FRENCH QUARTER, KEY WEST, GLASS HOUSES, all contemporary romantic suspense novels, and the contemporary romantic drama, FINDING IAN. TELL ME WHY, contemporary romantic suspense, is due out in September (2001) and SLOW HEAT, a contemporary anthology is now on sale.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Vision (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446601764
• ISBN-13: 978-0446601764
• Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 0.9 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,172,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stella Cameron is the New York Times best selling author of the acclaimed Court of Angels Series, the Bayou Books and many others. There are fourteen million copies of her books in circulation worldwide. She is the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Achievement Award for distinguished professional achievement and for enhancing the stature of the Northwest Literary community. She lives in Washington State.

Stella's current titles include OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF BODY and OUT OF MIND from her critically acclaimed Court of Angels series as well as her recent exclusive eBook releases BREATHLESS (contemporary romantic-suspense) and BARGAIN BRIDE: A NOVELLA (historical romance).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a wonderful story!, July 8, 2000

By 

Summer Belle "Word Affectionado" (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beloved (Mass Market Paperback)

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Saber, Earl of Avenall, was severely wounded, inside and out, during the war in India. Today, we would call it Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He has nightmares, he feels terrible amounts of guilt, etc. But he thinks he's going insane.

Ella, his beloved, needs him. She loves him and he pushes her away, not willing to tie her to a madman. But someone threatens to expose Ella's past and hurt her.

Saber decides to marry her, make her his heir, so when he does finally go completely insane, Ella will be taken care of.

This was a good story, with deeply emotional characters whose love for each other was tangible and real.

The only thing I don't usually like about Stella Cameron's writing is the way she often *hints* at what people want to say. I wish she would just have them *say* what is on their minds.

But I did think this was a very good book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully romantic!, November 4, 2005

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Susie Wayne - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beloved (Mass Market Paperback)

I had first come across this book at the library, got it on a whim and have not regretted it since. Such a romantic book and so believable! you felt the chemistry between the characters, Saber and Ella and know that their's was a true love. Quite unusual circumstances but it adds to the dramatic esssence of the novel.this has become an old favourite of mine and whenever i need a pick me up its straight to the library. Maybe i should buy it? anyway if you like stella cameron, read this!

2.0 out of 5 stars Repetitive and confusing, February 8, 2011

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D. Elder "Faira" (Albany, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beloved (Mass Market Paperback)

I found this book very repetitive and also confusing. You knew the mad man Pomeroy was mad, but the motives of the others like Develin and Countess Perruche were a little too vague. Develin's love for Ella and wanting to marrying her and the Countess for a few trinkets and precious beyond anyone's understanding? Hard to believe! Develin doesn't mind that the woman he shows love for and has asked to marry is mauled and raped by a mad man, before he gets her? The Countess does what she does, for a few trinkets from Saber? Saber thinks he is going mad, but other than a few disjointed dreams he has of India, you never really know the whole story of that madness, even at the end as he has gotten better but not whole. I didn't see where Ella improved Sabers slide into madness at all, you can't call the sex they had rolling around in the mud and rain a lead to a cure, although Saber did? Ella, with a knife at her throat a couple of times at Sabers hands, would have had me getting to the bottom of Sabers problems mighty fast, but for a couple half hearted attempts, she doesn't. I have heard of loving a man blindly but Ella takes it to a new level. The end was fast, too fast with not enough of the threads pulled together for my liking. Saber ends up an ineffective hero at the last, as he supposedly was in India. Pomeroy's stabbing poker was hard to believe, too. I couldn't visualize the poker being used as a knife in Sabers back at that close a range, and how did he manage to get to Sabers back with the poker in the first place. Pomeroy ended up running, as some of the guilty were gathered up, but not all and you never hear what happened to any of the guilty except Pomeroy who made a fatal trip down the stairs. This could have been a good book, I still read it from beginning to end, but I got so tired of the repetitiveness of Ella's I love you and Sabers I can't marry you and can't tell you why,on and on! It is worth the read if you get it from your library but I wouldn't actually pay money to read it, and I didn't!