Royal Passion [Hardcover]

Jennifer Blake (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1985

By the bestselling author of "Joy and Anger," the tale of a bold Louisiana beauty who dared to seduce a prince to save her family.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Mara Delacroix, a beautiful Louisiana belle,is blackmailed into seducing Roderic, the gypsy prince of Ruthenia. Eventually she will be called on to betray him in some unnamed way. She pretends to fall in love with Roderic after stumbling into a gypsy camp where Roderic is staying. He in turn falls for her and takes her to Paris, where he installs her as his mistress. Together they entertain such luminaries as George Sand, Alexandre Dumas and Honore Balzac. By the time the blackmailer arrives to tellMara how to betray the prince, however, she has fallen deeply in love with him, making for a strong ending to a fantastic plot.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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By the bestselling author of "Joy and Anger," the tale of a bold Louisiana beauty who dared to seduce a prince to save her family. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 374 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett Columbine (1985)
• ASIN: B00072C2HU
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,297,203 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If only he existed!!, September 27, 2000

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Ms Jenny Briant (Mooroolbark, Vic Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Royal Passion

Jennifer Blake's prince in Royal Passion has a wonderful mix of physical and mental attraction. Nothing needs to be spelt out for him - he just knows! Highly intelligent and intuitive - this man is fathoms deep. There is a great blend of characters, and all of them are unique in themselves. I have read many of Jennifer's books, but keep coming back and re-reading this one as, firstly, I enjoy historical romances, but mainly because the main characters have an integrity that one can only admire. Loved it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book!, July 26, 2008

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bookclubfan (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Royal Passion

This is one of the few romance books that I'll read again and again. It's not perfect. The language can be a bit flowery and sometimes the characters' motivations don't seem perfectly logical, but Blake does an excellent job of creating a sizzling, page-turning chemistry between the two sexy characters. I had tried reading a few other Blake novels and consider them a waste of my time. But this novel will always have a place on my bookshelf.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good for the price/ exactly as described, December 5, 2011

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Paj Kub - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Royal Passion (Hardcover)

This book came exactly as described and was good for the price. I had been looking all year for this book, but when I read it I was a little disappointed by the author. The first book was definitely better, because I couldn't understand what the prince was thinking at all.