Turbulent Covenant [Paperback]

Jessica Steele (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harlequin Books (September 1, 1980)
• ISBN-10: 0373023553
• ISBN-13: 978-0373023554
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 3.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,424,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a pretty good book, February 17, 2004

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Merry Reader "Sissy" (Indianapolis IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbulent Covenant (Paperback)

Tiffany Nicholls couldn't do any thing right when she was on the same flight with Ben Maxwell the pilot. He always found fault and he didn't mind doing it loudly before everyone and his mom.
Tiffany had been seeing a man named Nick, she had broken off with him when he let her know he wanted a closer relationship, but he wasn't talking marriage. He had asked Tiffany to go away with him, and she thought it was for a platonic weekend, her friend told her to ask Nick if it was, and Nick thought she was being silly. Of course it was for sex.
Tiffany was upset by this and when she got home, her Aunt Margery, the woman who raised her since Tiffany was 10, phoned her and wanted to know when she was going to meet the special man in Taffany's life, Tiffany had told her Aunt about the man, but not his name.
Margery wanted Tiffany to be as happy as she was with her husband, but she was afraid Tiffany was scarred from her parents bad marriage, and divorce.
Tiffany asured her she was fine, Margery pressed her to give her the name of the special man, since Tiffany had just had a run-in with Ben she gave his name. Thinking her Aunt in the country won't ever meet Ben.
When Tiffany got home again from a long interval of time. She saw Margery in the parking lot talking to Ben.
Ben played as if he knew all about his being Tiffany's special man.
Now we find out, Ben had been in love with Tiffany all along, but she just didn't see him as a man.(I don't blame her, he was so mean) But he was jealous of man going out with Tiffany or even asking about her, before this happened.
Now he gave Tiffany a ring, and they became engaged. Ben made a decided to ask that Tiffany not be put on any plane he was flying.
Tiffany found out and she was so angry. Then Ben's plane went down, and no one knew if he was alive or dead.
When Tiffany found he was alive, she ran to him and hugged and kissed him.
Ben told her he couldn't concentate when they were on the same plane, because all he thought about was Tiffany, and not what he was supposed to be doing.
This is one of those books that you want to throw against the wall, Ms Steele writes lots of books like that, but if you keep in mind, the hero is jealous of the object of his affections from the begining of the story it's easier to see things from his point of view.
I disagree with the choice given as also reads, I like Susan Fox, Rebecca Winters, Helen Brooks, the late Essie Summers, late great Betty Neels, and Eva Rutland, both her regencys and her contemporaries.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible--portrays abuse as love, June 25, 2009

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Ann "Supporter of Liberty" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbulent Covenant (Paperback)

This book was awful. The male lead, Ben, is mean, arrogant, harsh, domineering, and to top it all off, an abuser. He chokes his wife, Tiffany, forces unwanted attentions on her twice, ripping her clothes both times and once leaving "red marks that would turn into bruises," and another time when he is speaking harshly to her, she "felt sure he would have shaken her had they been alone." He's a jerk, doing things like ordering HER to make him coffee when he takes her to HIS place before they're even married. Yet Tiffany is still somehow head over heels in love with him--for absolutely no reason I could figure out. He's always getting mad at her, and then when she reflects on his getting mad, she usually concludes that it was her fault and she needs to apologize. At the end of the book when he finally says he loves her, it all rings hollow because he never really acted like he loved her. I cannot believe this trash got published under the guise of "romance." Not only wasn't it romantic in the least, but the message was that this is how a man acts when he loves his wife, and that women apparently love men who treat them this way. In actuality, Ben was an abuser, and women should be warned to stay away from men like him.

1.0 out of 5 stars ABUSE...How could the author think this is love?, October 27, 2011

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Shar - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbulent Covenant (Paperback)

So I read a review about this book and I think it is right. The guy in the book is nothing, but abusive. Why is it that the female lead can only think things are her fault? She folds extremely easily and is not confident in the least! When there is a scare about his life all I could think was: "Yes! he should die!" I would have strangled him myself if I could have!Please don't waste your money on this!!! This is not romantic. There are bouts of jealousy, but they seem more like obsession and abuse. I did not see love I saw abuse.