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Saving Grace

Saving Grace

by Julie Garwood

1993Fiction, Romance, HistoricalcollectionID:Mbodice_ripperJohn, 1199-1216Love stories fictionBodice Ripper
4.3
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When Lady Johanna learned that she was a widow, she vowed she would never marry again. Only sixteen, already she possessed a strength of will that impressed all who looked past her golden-haired beauty. Yet when King John demanded that she remarry -- and selected a bridegroom for her -- it seemed she must acquiesce, until her beloved foster brother suggested she wed his friend, the handsome Scottish warrior Gabriel MacBain. At first Johanna was shy, but as Gabriel tenderly revealed the splendid pleasures they would share, she came to suspect that she was falling in love with her gruff new husband. And it was soon apparent to the entire Highlands clan that their brusque, gallant laird had surrendered his heart completely. But now a desperate royal intrigue threatened to tear her from his side -- and to destroy the man whose love meant more to her than she had ever dreamed! (From the Author's web-site.)

Themes & subjects

Fiction, Romance, HistoricalcollectionID:Mbodice_ripperJohn, 1199-1216Love stories fictionBodice RipperMedieval Romance
First published 1993

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Setting

Great BritainScottish HighlandsJohn, 1199-1216

About the author

Julie Garwood
Julie Garwood

26 December1944 – 8 June 2023

Julie Murphy was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri. She is the sixth of eight children in a large Irish family. At the age of six, Julie had her tonsils removed and complications from the surgery resulted in a long period of recuperation. She fell hopelessly behind in school and never caught up. "I was a slow, slow reader," Julie says. "I hated it." At the age of 11, her mother discovered her daughter's secret and promptly enrolled her in a summer remedial reading class at the local high school. "When I got there the nuns immediately realized I wasn't even remedial. By chance, Sister Mary Elizabeth passed us in the hall and was drafted to tutor me." They spent the summer together, and Ju…

Author

Julie Garwood

First published

1993

Pages

432

Read time

≈ 11h

Editions

13

Language

English

Publisher

Brilliance Audio

ISBN

9780517154717

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