SATIN AND STEELE (Loveswept) [Hardcover]

Fayrene Preston (Author)

Book Description

Series: Loveswept | Publication Date: June 1, 1993

Five years after the tragic auto accident that claimed the lives of her husband and child, executive secretary Skye Anderson finds love again with James Steele, the head of a multinational corporation.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Veteran romancer Preston ( The Swansea Destiny ) first published this novel 11 years ago under the name Jaelyn Conlee, and it reads like a journeyman effort. Skye Anderson, widowed at age 19 in a car accident that also killed her unborn child, has spent the past five years burying herself in her work as personal secretary to Jonathan Hayes, the kindly head of a Dallas corporation. When dynamic young James Steele purchases the company, he threatens Skye's carefully preserved privacy with his forceful, almost menacing wooing. Skye thinks he seeks only another conquest, and even after she succumbs to his passion, she remains convinced that James will soon desert her. Although any tale of unexpected love achieved after tragedy and despair is likely to offer some satisfaction, the impact of this romance is limited by its superficial characterizations and cliched, overwrought narrative style, turgid with unfulfilled foreshadowings of doom.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1St Edition edition (June 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 038547010X
• ISBN-13: 978-0385470100
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,841,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A simple, sweet & lazy novel, December 20, 2005

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Andrew Glass "Andy" (Bangalore, India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SATIN AND STEELE (Loveswept) (Hardcover)

I've read Satin & Steele... twice. It's an okay book. The author did make a sinciere effort to write one of the most romantic love story set in the modern world. But somewhere along the way, the story goes lazy. And there are times when you know what's coming next. I would remember Satin & Steele, just like Romeo & Juliet. If you think about it, the most famous love stories are boring, just like its characters. But somehow we remember them & continue doing so. We relate to them as well. Maybe that's what love stories are all about. Well, that's what this book is all about!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Typical 80's romance... and a bit UN-PC (C- Grade), November 11, 2003

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K. Garrabrant "Katiebabs" (Bloomfield, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SATIN AND STEELE (Loveswept) (Hardcover)

Hero wants the heroine, won't take no for an answer, tries to seduce heroine. Heroine is closed off from the world because of an event from her past, is dead inside... till the hero comes and sweeps her off her feet.
Satin and Steele is your typial un-PC short novel from the eighties. Skye is a young woman who lost her husband and unborn child in a car crash 5 years ago. She wants to leave the company she has worked for since then so she can travel and since it is being taken over by a former-pro football player, she feels this is the perfect chance.
Enter James Steele (catch the last name). One look at Skye and he knows she is the one. He sees her cold exterior but knows underneath she is a woman for passion and she must belong to him. He will be the one to break the shell she has hidden herself in all these years.
This story has been told countless times. The reader never gets into the mind of the hero and the heroine's inner dialogue becomes annoying.
Overall a quick read if there is nothing else out there to catch your eye.

Katiebabs