The Rogue and The Runaway (Signet Regency Romance) [Paperback]

Mary Jo Putney (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Signet (July 3, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451166027
• ISBN-13: 978-0451166029
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,498,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USAToday bestselling author, Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. Her entire romance writing career is an accidental byproduct of buying a computer for other purposes.

Her novels are known for psychological depth and intensity and include historical and contemporary romance, fantasy, and young adult fantasy. Winner of numerous writing awards, including two RITAs and two Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, she has five times had books listed among the Library Journal's top five romances of the year, and three times had books among the top ten romances of Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association.

Her favorite reading is great stories, but in a pinch she'll settle for the backs of cereal boxes. She's delighted that e-publishing can now make available books that have been out of print.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First version of 'Angel Rogue', April 12, 2006

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This review is from: The Rogue and The Runaway (Signet Regency Romance) (Paperback)

This is one of MJPs early Regency romances later expanded to Angel Rogue. I enjoy and have reread both versions. The plot is the same just the fleshing out and sensuality is more intense in Angel Rogue.

The unusual heroine, Maxie, is half Native American and doesn't fit in too well with her British relatives at their country home and comes to suspect that her uncle is hiding something about her father's death. She decides to go to her other aunt in London and sets out on foot from the country estate.

Robin, a retired spy, is restless on his brother's estate and not over distressing events in France. He encounters Maxie on the road and rather than whistling up a coach decides to accompany her in the persona of a footloose ne'er-do-well.

Of course it is the duty of a good English family to protect their young women, even the strange half-Indian ones, and when Maxie's aunt shows up for an unexpected visit she immediately joins in the hunt and tracks Maxie far enough to find out that she is travelling with a known rogue and harangue Robin's brother about it. Add a determined Bow Street Runner and realize that they're hunting a slippery Indian girl and an equally slippery British spy.

The plot has a great deal of humor along with a very believeable sober side. Maxie and Robin not only get to know each other but help each other with some tough issues. Enjoyable and memorable read.