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The Enchantment

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Emaline "The mad hatter" Hatter is ruthless, cold, experienced investment banker... And... Entirely female!

When Emaline decides to help out an old family friend, by hosting a dinner party for HIS friend, a struggling professor.... Little does she realize that she will be suckered into investing in him, entirely out of sympathy!

Professor Larence Digby has a dream. Finding the LOST city of Cibola. Unfortunately, that means finding rich investors who will finance him, because he is dead broke! When he meets Emaline Hatter he knows that he would like more from her than money- Can Larence convince Emaline to give love a chance?

I /really/ cannot say enough positive things about this book! Emaline Hatter is a really great romance heroine. No 'twittering' virgin, Emaline loves one thing... MONEY! And she intends to have a lot of it! Larence is a naive 'absent minded professor type' who enjoys all the details that life provides. These two make a great pair!

I recommend this novel for people looking for something different in romance!

Others have done a good job summarizing the plot, so let me just say this. I like romance novels, but i don't like pointlessly sentimental tripe. This book tugged my heart strings and made me smile without making me gag. Emmaline's anguish over the specter of poverty, Larence's self righteousness and vulnerability...I recommend it to anyone who still wants to believe in magic.

Wow for being a historical novel, this book defintly had a modern flair. I found it refreshing to have a heroine who wasnt A a virgin in her late twenties and B a heroine who didnt have an awful experience with sex.

The chemistry was great and the love scenes were steamy.

I recomend this book highly especially if you like take charge heroines!

I'm a guy and a reader of "guy" books. You know, Nelson DeMille, Tom Clancy, Ludlum, Follett. I suppose Nicholas Sparks got me started on romanaces with stuff like The Notebook and The Rescue. Then one day I found myself reading Kristin Hannah, and I ended in tears. Me! One thing led to another, and The Enchantment is the fifth of hers I've read. It's not her best - it's only the second book she wrote - but it's awfully good nevertheless. The initial interplay between the abrasive, arrogant rich lady and the calm professor-turned-adventurer is especially well-written and warmly amusing. Well worth your time.

Emmaline is a wealthy investor, cold and untouchable. Larence, a bookish professor, is a dreamer in search of a lost city. Emmaline becomes Larence's financier, the fulfillment of a promise to an old friend. When Emmaline, who had worked hard to overcome the humiliating and degrading poverty of her childhood, loses everything, she decides to accompany Larence on his quest in order to protect her investment and, hopefully, make a fortune.

Larence is a compelling character unlike most romance novel heros. He's a fairly optimistic fellow, in spite of a rather sad childhood, and in spite of what he calls his "deformity;" a malformed ankle which causes a pronounced and painful limp. It is only when he's with the cold and beautiful Emmaline that he becomes acutely self-conscious of his physical deformity and his complete (I do mean complete) lack of experience with women. He was aware of these things, of course, but, in keeping with his good nature, had grown to accept them. Trust, friendship and, eventually, love blossom during their quest together.

I was somewhat surprised at some of the negative reviews because I really felt a true abiding loving connection developed between these two, who taught each other so much; Emmaline gave Larence the confidence and self-worth he'd been lacking and Larence, in return, taught Emmaline how to trust and to love.

There are some mystical scenes which require a brief suspension of reality, and one's appreciation, or lack thereof, of fantasy fiction will determine one's appreciation for these scenes. I was pleased that, though Larence's deformity sort of magically disappeared while in the lost city, it returned again back in the "real world," (and made no difference to the lovely Emmaline.)

After a devastating crash on Wall Street, Emmaline Hatter finds herself completely broke with no one to turn to. Deciding that she really has NOTHING to lose, she joins Dr. Larence Digby's search for the lost city of Cibola. Cibola is rumored to have a wealth of riches & Emmaline wants her share of them. Larence has his own reasons for the search but he's unwilling to share them with Emmaline who scorns his beliefs & ideals at every given opportunity. However, the two find true magic & their love story will enchant you.

34-year-old Professor Larence Digby wants to find the lost city of Cibola; a dream he's had for half his life, to find such a lost, yet miraculous civilization. If he were to find it, he'd claim his destiny and be completely whole for just one unforgettable moment. In order to achieve such a heavily yearned for moment? Needs 10 grand to finance this once-in-a lifetime expedition.

After hours of monotone speaking, "bottle green" eyes bright with a believer's passion, he takes his eyes off his drawings to find his audience who were MEANT to be swayed to fork over cash...asleep. Being the cool and calculating businesswoman that she is, Emmaline Hatter strains to hand over the check. One catch: 1/2 of whatever is found goes to her in order to make a profit. Larence doesn't truly believe she'd sell the treasure of the past, and so he agrees... Then comes a great market crash and Emma is back to where she never wanted to be again; poverty-stricken. She decides to journey with the "dim-wit" and thus the adventure begins to New Mexico! (the most unromantic setting ever, it appeared)

This tale was an absolute adventure to read BECAUSE it was rather peculiar. The heroine is actually the one who is withdrawn, self-centered, cold, yet a brilliant financial businessperson. She had to be in order to get out of the slums of her youth when she was left alone without parents; felt compelled to seek security in the feel of cold, hard cash. She views poverty as a weakness and loathes ever having to go back.

Then you've got a beta-male, not an alpha-male... One who is the "smiling, boyish type." A virgin professor with a trademark "the world's a great place" smile, youthful energy about him, and a dream. So ever hopeful. I swear, the moment he first appeared sopping wet in outdated clothing and walking with a limp, I wanted to bear hug him then and ravish him later =)

There's so much DEPTH to the lives of these two leads. This quest essentially started as one to find Cibola, but later...Accidentally, or perhaps was it fate; became a quest to find themselves. Larence and Emma both had such tragic pasts, yet it was how they grew from it that was simply marvelous. One with hope and optimism, the other with resentment. This story makes you question and think twice as you find these characters having to be challenged by the building blocks of who they WERE, who they are, and who they want to be. Love is SUCH a key to this story. Everything having to do with love was brought up in this read and is was epic to see how it developed between Larence and Emma.

This book really is enchanting. There's these rich and deep notions of love, hope, the future, dreams, the past. Really, it's about how the couple wanted to live their lives. It was an adventure of self-discovery in the face of finally finding their home. Yet, will they accept or reject it? There's absolute gorgeous vividness and clarity in every page. There's actual humor, as well! (I did burst out laughing.) The character development was steady, yet sure and powerful. The love scenes were unforgettable and just another treasured facet. This story hit me really hard. I will never forget what I witnessed transpire between the gorgeous, hopeful professor and his hardened partner :D

Happy Reading!

Kristin hannah is a good storyteller. My wife says she enjoys her narrative style which is enthralling. Hannah is gifted at describing relationships between females of all ages. My wife says the book was hard to put down once she started reading it- a compellng story.

This product was very good to read and the merchant was very fast and efficient with their shipping of it! Very satisfied!

I am quickly reading everything, which Kristin Hannah has written, yet I have read her most current books first and find them absolutely magical, and am now reading my way through her earlier novels. The Enchantment, her second book, pales in comparison to her more recent books, especially Angel Falls, Mystic Lake, and Home Again, to name a few.

I devoured her other books, but found The Enchantment relatively slow going and a tad bit sophomoric at times. Disappointingly, this book is not as good as her later books in which she draws the reader straight into the heart of her characters as well as into the plot. I really could not find the characters really that believable. Yet, once again and true to form, Hannah delivers her "message" of hope and renewal, as both characters learn to shed their old haunting habits and persona by learning to trust and letting love in. The setting was just not believable at all to me, searching for the lost city of Cibola in New Mexico in the late 1800's.

This is not one of Hannah's better novels and the title of the book would not have caught my eye either. This is an OK story with a few redeeming passages! But don't let this review discourage other readers from reading and savoring Hannah's other books - they are definitely delightful and sure to earn Hannah new fans!