Escapade [Mass Market Paperback]

Susan Kyle (Author), Diana Palmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1992

Made owner of a nearly bankrupt San Antonio newspaper by her father's death, Amanda Todd must first fly to the Carribbean to convince the paper's co-owner that she can save the paper.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Amanda Todd wants two things: Josh Lawson's love and control of the family firm, a combination of weekly newspaper and job press in San Antonio. Josh, executor of Amanda's father's will, makes things tough on both counts. He won't marry Amanda because he has what he sees as a serious medical problem (although he isn't above a bit of sexual teasing), and he won't help her stop Ward Johnson, the press's manager, from running it into the ground. Amanda skirts both Josh and Ward, determinedly systematizing and beefing up the job press business by working directly with employees. Ward's management abilities deteriorate further when he and employee Dora Jackson begin an adulterous affair. Amanda tells Josh they should fire Dora to "get the problem off our property," a comment so blatantly sexist that one wonders if a male writer would dare attempt it these days. Meanwhile Dora feels "too tainted" to go to church. Facile moral judgments such as these are more attention-getting than Kyle's ( True Colors ) flat characters and a mediocre plot that drags despite being punctuated with melodramatic crises.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Warner Books Inc (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446362719
• ISBN-13: 978-0446362719
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Escapade, January 29, 2005

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Alicia E. Flores "Simply Ali" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Escapade (Mass Market Paperback)

Back cover reads:
SHE WAS FIGHTING FOR HER INHERITANCE...
AND RISKING HER HEART
Amanda Todd wondered if other battles had been fought on lush, breeze-kissed Lawson Island in the Bahamas. Her father's death had made her co-owner of a nearly bankrupt San Antonio newspaper, but controlling interest lay with handsome millionaire Joshua Lawson. Lithe, pretty Amanda had flown to his Caribbean estate to convince him that she could save the failing business-and to get the hard-driving young tycoon to see her as a desirable woman instead of Harrison Todd's virginal daughter. Romantic sugar-white beaches gave her the perfect setting for seduction, yet it was Josh's playboy brother who made a pass. Now, Amanda was a pawn in a competition between brothers, making enemies, and awakening volatile passions in powerful men in a breathtaking...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected., April 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Escapade (Mass Market Paperback)

I purchased this book on the strength of the reviews. If you are a Diana Palmer fan this book may disappoint. We have four different stories of people and their romances. I was not expecting as many sexual scenes and felt the story could have been simpified or expanded.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous story line and richly defined characters, December 12, 1999

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[e-mail] (littleton colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Escapade (Mass Market Paperback)

i absolutely love this story. its one of my all time favorites (and i have read hundreds of romance novels). i especially love the secondary story going on between Mirri and Nelson. it is what draws me to read the book again and again. it would be very gratifying to see a book that is dedicated to the story of Nelson and Mirri. they are such wonderfully developed characters that it almost feels like i was short changed by only catching a snippet of their story. i read around the main story anticipating the developments in the shy couples relationship. ms. palmer please consider expounding on the details of Mirri and Nelson. thanks.