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The Wish Club

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Max Rossmara can never repay everything he owes his adoptive parents. They rescued him and his sister from the London streets and treated them like their own children. But now it's time for payback. Max must take his position in the family, and that includes marrying well. But for Max, marrying the woman his father has chosen will mean losing the only woman he has ever loved.

Kirsty and Max made a promise to each other as children, but now Max is grown and Kirsty knows her position as tenant farmer's daughter on the Rossmara land. The two understand they cannot marry, but understanding doesn't douse desire. When Max forces things by installing Kirsty as his personal assistant and moreover that she live in his wing of the castle, Kirsty's reputation is ruined and Max's relationship with his parents is threatened. He and Kirsty are unable to stay away from each other. Max's selfishness unleashes heartache and shame. But Kirsty remains loyal to Max, stoically ignoring the gossip. Will two families may be destroyed in the name of love?

Stella Cameron forces the reader to swallow a cruel, selfish, heart-broken hero, a hero who very nearly destroys everything he's ever wanted as he juggles loyalty to his family and love. Then Ms.Cameron dares us to love Max. The magnificence of Ms. Cameron's writing compels us to accept and even cheer for Max as much as we do for Kirsty. THE WISH CLUB is a deeply moving story that will stir passion in every reader's heart.

Rickey R. Mallory

I finished this book simply because I will finish most any book that I start reading, no matter how horrible. This was one of the WORST books I have ever read. The characters were stiff and undeveloped and unappealing. I wanted to smack them all upside the head and tell them exactly what was going on that they were too dumb to see. The plot is convoluted and full of holes - for example, there is a plot to find a book belonging to a 'Gentlemen's club' that detailed their sexual adventures. Now, the book is in Max's possession, even though he doesn't know what it is about. The book is later seen in the possession of a bulter, who is actually using it. But in the end, the book doesn't exist! Surprise! I guess everyone imagined it. And somethings, like the mysterious rider, are never explained.

Don't bother. I reccommend Forbidden Magic by Jo Beverly if you want an historical romance with a mystery-filled plot and engaging characters.

Cameron's novels tend to be hit and miss for me. This particular one was a miss. I simply couldn't get interested in either the plot or the characters. To be honest, I found the villains a bit more interesting! I'd advise skipping this one and heading for another Cameron instead.

How could I have missed the story of Max and Kirsty? He was a boy, a pickpocket in London, who was adopted by Struan, Viscount Rossmara, and she's a girl who grew up as a member of a crofter's family on the lands surrounding Castle Kirkcaldy--the Rossmaras home. These two have always loved each other but he feels responsible for doing his adoptive parents wishes and her family don't believe the lairds have serious interests in peasants. They say they'll disown her if she goes anywhere near him. There is hot sex in the book--but I surely didn't stop reading, in fact I turned the pages faster. And the sensuality between Kirsty and Max (don't miss the blowing bubbles scene) is incredible.

I'm glad Ms. Cameron wrote this book--I'm glad she writes all of her books!

The characters are both unbelievable and unlikable, for the most part. Rough, bizarre, kinky sex scenes pop up at the most unexpected times, contributing little to the plot or character development. And I'm being kind.

I read this book after previewing a chapter at the end of another book. It certainly lived up to its teaser. It's not the best Stella Cameron ever but it pretty darned good. The struggle that both characters endure are very real.

I enjoyed the other books about the Rossamara family but this one just went too far in the yucky, kinky, disgusting sex scenes, and not far enough in giving the hero and his family the intelligence to see that they were being duped by the "bad" people on the neighboring estates. Not much thought could have gone into developing the plot or the characters. Too bad... I really liked the other Rossamara stories, every one of them. This was just a book too far in this series

I love reading Stella Cameron present day novels, but frankly am disappointed in her historicals. The dialogue is obscure, the characters slightly stilted. Stick with her books such as "Pure Delights" and "Sheer Bliss".

This book was a good twist on the much done star-crossed lovers thing. The couple are two tortured souls, with Max being the more so with Kirsty willing to do anything, even become his mistress, just to be with him.

So the story goes: poor boy turned rich loves poor girl but his feelings of obligation to the family that took him in won't allow them to be together and her family's adamant that she "know her place" - a peasant - and stay there.

The twist here, the missing journal, leads the story's villains, Horace Hubble, Lady Hermoine and Countess Grabham to Max Rossmara, believing that he is in possession of it. Max loves his childhood friend Kirsty Mercer, a crofter's daughter, but cannot marry her due to pressure from his family (mostly his father, Struan the hero from Cameron's "Bride").

The story is good, although there are a few disturbing sex scenes between the villains, regardless of their blood ties - ICK!

Don't let that stop you from reading the book.

I always enjoy it when the man is the one being forced to marry -- but I didn't particularly care for Cameron's propensity to include explicit scenes between characters who are NOT the hero and heroine. In spite of that, I'd buy it again - which is my personal standard for romance novels.