Rogue's Salute (Super Historical Romance) (Super Historical Romance) [Import] [Paperback]

Jennifer Blake (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263855368
• ISBN-13: 978-0263855364
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,661,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jennifer Blake has been called "the steel magnolia of women's fiction" for her enduring career as an author. She has also been lauded as a "pioneer of the romance genre" and an "icon of the romance industry." A New York Times and international best selling author from the publication of "Love's Wild Desire" in 1977, she is a charter member of Romance Writers of America, member of the RWA and Affaire de Coeur Halls of Fame, and recipient of the RWA Lifetime Achievement Rita. She holds numerous other honors, including two Maggies, two Holt Medallions, multiple Reviewer's Choice awards, the Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times BookReviews Magazine, and the Frank Waters Award for literary excellence. She has written 65 books with translations in 20 languages and more than 30 million copies in print. Jennifer and her husband live on a lake in northern Louisiana.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating dialogue, January 25, 2007

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D. Corbin (Fort Myers, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rogue's Salute (Mass Market Paperback)

I absolutely couldn't put the book down. I've read every Jennifer Blake written and the interaction between these two main characters, Juliette and Nicholas, is the finest work she's done to date. Blake's a true professional, capable of drawing us into the world she's created.

Can you can resist the opening lines?
"Send a husband for me, I pray, most Holy Mother. Interced in this
matter, if it be they will, for I have desperate need."

If you enjoy the history on the sword masters of New Orleans, be sure to read the other two books in the Master at Arms series, "Challenge to Honor" and "Dawn Encounter".

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good story, great writing, distracting number of typos, December 29, 2007

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L. Jarlsberg "leahcgo" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rogue's Salute (Mass Market Paperback)

Blake uses beautiful language to tell an engaging story. I would have rated the book 4 stars except for the numerous typographical errors and the weak ending. There were more than 40 errors (I counted them), some subtle and ignorable, others as blatant as mis-spelling the heroine's name (p.188). A large part of my disappointment in the ending was due to a continuity error: in a substantial chunk of the story the heroine stews about the hero having lied to her, but in the final confrontation, he speaks as though she knows the truth behind the lie and she responds in kind. Maybe a scene was missing from the final print?

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars heated historical romance, January 5, 2007

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rogue's Salute (Mass Market Paperback)

In 1842 New Orleans, fencing master Nicholas "La Roche" Pasquale meets church-pledged Juliette Armonte when she rescues his three year old ward from an angry male pursuer, who happens to be him. Nicholas tells her that Gabriel could use a mother so he proposes a marriage of convenience. To save the family legacy, a marriage chest, she accepts.

Juliette's twin sister Paulette wants to keep the marriage chest so she does her best to cause trouble in order for the relationship between Nicholas and her sibling to fall apart. For the most Nicholas ignores the irritating machinations until someone tries to kill Juliette; Nicholas assumes a desperate Paulette is behind the dastardly but potentially lethal attempts and he vows to stop her. Julietee knows the rivalry is intense due to the marriage chest, but she cannot accept her sibling would want her dead.

ROGUE'S SALUTE is a heated historical romance starring the latest Maitres des Armes (see DAWN ENCOUNTER and CHALLENGE TO HONOR) hero and the woman who proves his fencing equal. The story line focuses on a marriage of convenience turning into a marriage of love and passion and the suspense in the storyline enriches a fast-paced mid nineteenth century tale.

Harriet Klausner