Enslaved [Paperback]

Virginia Henley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• ASIN: B002VC20OE
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,162,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

New York Times best-seller Virginia Henley is the author of 26 lush and lusty historical romances and 5 short stories. Her books are published in 16 languages around the world. She is the recipient of a dozen awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times, A Maggie Award for Excellence from the Georgia Romance Writers, and a Waldenbook Award for top-selling long historical for 1994.

The St. Petersburg Times calls Henley "The Queen of Steamy Romance."

Kathe Robin, RT Book Reviews says: "Henley's gift for bringing remarkable women to life in colorful, turbulent times is what turns her romances into keepers. Henley heats up the pages with her love scenes, and her skill at portraying actual historical personages with humanity while maintaining historical accuracy wins our minds. Henley knows what historical romance is all about and always gives the readers what they want."

Henley says: "My hero is always dark, dominant and dangerous. Then I create a woman who is a match for him...or more than a match!
Men come up to me at conferences and thank me for writing my books. One man said, "I don't read them, but I always know when my wife is reading a Henley!"

My next book The Dark Earl goes on sale September 6 and is the third in the series following The Decadent Duke, and The Irish Duke.

I have just turned two of my backlist books into Kindle ebooks. Wild Hearts and Bold Conquest are historical romances. My novella Hot As Fire, also available on Kindle, is my only contemporary. I have a short story up on Kindle called Letter of Love that is FREE.

Next month I will be offering a new ebook that is a Southern family saga.
MASTER OF PARADISE tells the story of Nicholas Peacock who is disinherited of his title and wealth in England. He sails to Charleston, South Carolina, and starts a cotton plantation just before the Civil War disrupts everyone's life.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Time Travel Read, December 8, 2001

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Kristi Ahlers (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enslaved (Mass Market Paperback)

This was a great time travel book. Diana travels back in time from the rule of Mad King George to the time of Roman rule in England. Diana is intrigued with anything from the Elizabethan era and finds her contemporary male counterparts lacking. While on a stroll from her plotting family she walks into a antique store and tries on for size a Roman Helmet. The next thing she knows she is in Bath during Roman Rule. While in Bath Diana falls in love with Roman General Marcus Magnus much to her dismay for to him she is nothing but a slave. But her situation can't come in between these two because they are soul mates and will experience many ups and downs before they will have their "Happily Ever After" ending. Such is the price when finding true love.

This is one of my favorite books by Henley. The Characters are likeable, and Diana is not one of those insipid, selfish, nasty characters that sometime find there way into her novels.

There is plenty of suspense, and of course there are the love scenes that Virgina is famous for. There is also the hisoric information that I love about her books. You almost can see yourself in Bath during the rule of the Romans. This is a book that I will keep.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars People Scare Me, December 20, 2004

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Melinda Bennett "sed mulier cupido quod dicit... - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enslaved (Mass Market Paperback)

I find it humorous that people don't like this book because it is unbelievable. It is a story about TIME TRAVEL! It is a ROMANCE novel! If you are looking for a believable story then get a non-fiction book. If you are looking for something deep try The Odyssey, The Illiad, The Forsyte Saga, Great Expectations, Meno, Phaedo, Crito, Apology, The Republic, Meditations on the First Philosophy...Something other than a romance novel.

If on the other hand you like fantasy romance novels, this was a good one.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sexy, steamy and sweet, January 3, 2001

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Candace (Bulverde, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enslaved (Mass Market Paperback)

I thought this was one of the best books I have ever read. It was fanciful and heart touching. Virginia is a wonderful writer and has a firm grip on passion (or at least what it should be.) Marcus and Mark made my heart sigh with their handsome good looks. I have always gone for the tall, dark and hansome, and these also had a wealth of passion to share with the woman they loved, it also seems they were also generously blessed with well... ya know... (Now isn't that fiction!) Our heroine is an idependant minded, strong-willled woman. She feels stifled in the strictures of society and yearns for freedom, she also yearns for a real man to have and to hold, not the prissy men of her time. We are transported back to an ancient England that is controlled by Romans. Diana becomes enslaved in more ways than one by Centurion Marcus Magnus. Diana becomes the apt pupil as Marcus teaches her about wild passion and tender love. A cruel twist of fate wrenches her from her beloved and she is back in her modern England where she must face not only the scandal of her disapperance but her money grubbing relatives. Mark, the brother of her fiancee and reincarnate of her beloved, teaches the heart broken more than she ever thought to know about love, life and the joy of good sex. In the end, Diana not only finds her freedom from her relatives and society, but from the chains of her lonely heart. Virginia Henley is one of my favorite authors and I have enjoyed this book most of all. She has a way with words that is both touching and witty. This book will make you laugh and sigh and perhaps even blush. You are enamored (and perhaps slightly jealous) with both our hero and heroine and you feel no sympathy towards the villian when he is ultimately defeated. The only word that can describe this book is vivid. Virginia has not only mastered passion, romance, tenderness and love in a book she has captured a braod range of emotions that you not only picture in your mind but feel in your heart. This book is a must read for those jaded individuals who think they have read it all. I have read hundreds of romance novels, and sometimes they all seem to run together. However this book stansd out among the rest!