A blood affair [Hardcover]

Jan Roberts (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1991

A young British woman, who blocks the horrors of her past and tries to get on with her life, unwittingly marries into the Mafia and begins a love affair with the priest to whom she turned for solace. A first novel.

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Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

When three masked men burst into a beauty salon, one of the clients is raped and one of the three men present kills the rapist. Subsequently, India, the rape victim, suffers from amnesia and becomes involved with two men--the son of the head of the Mafia and a priest. She marries the former and becomes pregnant by the latter, the rapist's killer. The intricate plot also involves the Catholic Church, arms for IRA terrorists, and more killings than the reader can keep track of. The denouement of this first novel is as unbelievable as the rest of the story. Trash, but great trash and fun to read.
- Robert H. Donahugh, formerly with Youngstown & Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews

A high-concept first novel: unwitting Mafia bride falls in love with renegade priest who's working for the IRA. You need details? After getting raped during a beauty salon robbery and blacking out just before her attacker is killed, British nanny India Grey finds herself pursued by handsome, sexy Washington lawyer Jack Donovan. Not until after a whirlwind romance ends when they're married by Father Michael Fitzgerald--the marriage remaining unconsummated because of India's traumatic memories--does she learn from Father Michael that Jack's the oldest son of feared Sicilian don Salvatore Coltelli. Not even the revelation that Michael is one of the beauty-salon thieves--after all, he and his mates were just trying to recover some money that the Church, through its Northern Irish brethren, had unwisely allowed to slip into one of the Coltellis' private banks--can keep India out of his bed. ``Their lovemaking, as usual, was perfect,'' reports Roberts--but it's about the only thing that is, as India's jitters about being followed everywhere by Jack's faithful goon Paulie and Jack's sibling rivalry with his kid brother Angelo both come to a head with the news that India is pregnant. Can she get a quick Manhattan abortion without Jack finding out? If Paulie follows her to the clinic, can she prevent him from telling Jack? Is she really any safer with hot-and-cold Michael anyway? And after the last cast member has been blown away, will there be anyone left to share India's happy ending? Grave questions, indeed, but all dwarfed by a graver still: Should you read this book, or wait for the inevitable miniseries? Decisions, decisions. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002236699
• ISBN-13: 978-0002236690

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