White Lily (Topaz Historical Romances) [Paperback]

Linda Ladd (Author)

Book Description

Series: Topaz Historical Romances | Publication Date: August 1, 1993

Blessed with the gift of second sight, Lily Courtland is nonetheless helpless as the captive of the men who have abducted her, and only Harte Delaney can save her.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Ladd ( Dragon Fire ) packs this lifeless historical romance, the first in a trilogy, with twists and turns that rarely make sense. In 1864 Union spy Harte Delaney rescues Australian maiden Lily Courtland from white slavers. Lily and two aboriginal boys she calls the Kapirigis have traveled from her family's ranch to find Lily's brother Derek, a ship's captain whose last letter came from the Carolinas. Harte recognizes the name of her brother's ship and realizes that Derek is a Confederate blockade runner. As it happens, Lily is clairvoyant and has been seeing explicit visions of Harte and herself for years. She does not intuit, however, that he is helping her search for Derek in order to imprison him. Aside from her special gift, Lily is a naive cipher while Harte is sullen due to his wife's suicide and his estrangement from his family; both he blames on his controlling and wealthy grandmother. Attitudes towards the people of color in this book go beyond historical accuracy to offensiveness: Harte's black women servants are portrayed as Aunt Jemima stereotypes who say things like "Lawsy me."
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Topaz (August 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451403630
• ISBN-13: 978-0451403636
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,166,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars White Lily, March 30, 2003

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K. Hill (Windsor, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Lily (Topaz Historical Romances) (Paperback)

Lily Courtland came to America looking for her brother. She ends up meeting Harte Delaney, the man she's dreamed of all her life. She agrees to help Harte with the war effort. In exchange, he agrees to help her look for her brother. What Lily doesn't know is that her brother is helping the opposition and that Harte is using her to lure her brother into a trap. White Lily has interesting characters and does a good job of preparing the reader for sequels. Lily was a lovely, innocent character, and as the author says, she's hard not to love. I thought Harte was unforgiving and a hypocrite. He wasn't detestable though. Overall, White Lily is a good book.

3.0 out of 5 stars This first book of the white flower triology was the weakest, August 27, 2002

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stacey renee (rochester new york) - See all my reviews

This review is from: White Lily (Topaz Historical Romances) (Paperback)

but it may be because I read "white Rose" first and really enjoyed it. It's a hard act to follow. The white lily story line is about a heroine who is clairvoyant and although it is set in the civil war era and her "gift" is used to help the war effort, I don't esp enjoy clairvoyance as a storyline. The hero was wonderful and the writing as always was excellent and in all fairness, the story line got stronger as it went along.. You may enjoy it more than I did but if not, search out "white Rose". .