My Steadfast Heart by Jo Goodman

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Synopsis

To coincide with Zebra's upcoming April 1999 publication of "With All My Heart", Jo Goodman's final installment of her Thorne Brothers Trilogy, we are reissuing the book that started it all. "My Steadfast Heart" begins the saga of the three Thorne brothers, robbed of their inheritance and separated as children, who fight to be reunited and to take back all that is theirs.

Annotation

Penniless aristocrat Mercedes Leydon is beautiful and desperate. Colin Thorne is claiming the estate of her dissolute uncle, the Earl of Weybourne, as payment for a gambling debt. Now Mercedes will use anything--lies, promises--even her own body--to stop Thorne from destroying her life and the lives of the Earl's children. Ads in Romantic Times. Original.

Publishers Weekly

Mercedes Leyden comes-with a dagger hidden in her underwear-to the Passing Fancy Inn to murder a clipper captain, Colin Thorne, who has won her family's estate in a boat race. This sensual Regency by the author of Only in My Arms launches a trilogy about the Thorne boys, who were separated in a London workhouse after their aristocratic parents had been slaughtered by highwaymen. Like Colin, Mercedes, who has been physically abused by her uncle and guardian, has had to survive by using her wit. And it is to Goodman's credit that her heroine often sounds just as intelligent as she's supposed to be. Although he's masterful and powerful, Colin is no bully. He sets out to win Mercedes with kindness, trust and good sex, and to be a father to her four young cousins. The complicated plot breaks down as the book goes on, and there is the unattractive mixture of sex and brutality that seems to be increasingly popular in the genre. ("The braided leather whip snapped against her shoulder, raising an immediate welt beneath her nightshirt.") (Mar.)