Betrayed
2.8
Open LibraryAbout this book
Sarah MacKenzie has always known that she is the bastard child of Lachlan, Duke of Ross (from Highland Rogue). That's why it comes as quite a shock when Lachlan tells her that Neville Smithson, the local sheriff, was in fact her father. Betrayed and brokenhearted, Sarah sets off to Edinburgh, in the hopes that her efforts to open an orphanage will ease her pain. Feisty Sarah has other problems as well, for she had promised to wed Henry Elliot, that is, before he was jailed for gambling debts. Lady Emily Elliot, Henry's mother, simply can not abide losing Sarah or rather the substantial dowry the Elliots need so desperately. So, when Lady Emily's handsome second son, Michael, returns home after years with the East India Company, Lady Emily charges him with wooing and winning the stubborn but most attractive Sarah. Michael finds himself not only drawn to her, but aiding in her plans for the orphanage. Some authors use small children as devices to fill gaps in weak plots, but Lamb's young secondary characters are entertaining, endearing and comic. Nominated for two Romantic Times awards, Lamb is an author whose star is said to be on the rise. In fact, her star has already risen and continues to shine brightly. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review
Themes & subjects
Fiction, Romance, HistoricalScotland fictionLarge print booksSocial life and customsFictionFiction, romance, historical, general
First published 1996Characters & people
Setting
ScotlandEdinburghHighlands18th century
About the authors
Arnette Lamb
12 January 1947 – 18 September 1998
Arnette Lamb was born in 12 January 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She bought a typewriter, and beca a member of the Romance Writers of America, later in January 1987, she was elected the fourth president of the West Houston RWA Chapter. She instituted the self-introduction of members, which added both familiarity and dynamism to the meetings. She sold her first novel in 1990, she published only 11 historical romance novels and 2 novellas until 1998. On 18 September 1998, she died prematurely from cancer at 51. Her funeral service was held in the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas.
Jude Deveraux
20 September 1947
Jude Gilliam was born September 20, 1947 in Fairdale, Kentucky. She has a large extended family, and is the elder sister of four brothers. She attended Murray State University and received a degree in Art. In 1967, Jude married and took her husband's surname of White, but four years later they divorced. For years, she worked as 5th-grade teacher. She began writing in 1976 and her first book, The Enchanted land was published in 1977 as Jude Deveraux. Following the publication of her first novel, she resigned her teaching position. Now, she is the author of thirty-one New York Times bestsellers. Jude won readers' hearts with the epic Velvet series, which revolves around the lives of the Mon…
Judith McNaught
10 May 1944
Judith Spaeth was born in May 10, 1944 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA, and grew up all over the country, the oldest of three children of an appliance-store franchiser and a housewife. Before majored in Business at Northwestern University, Judy married with a dentist from St. Louis, Missouri, and they had two children, a daugther, Whitney (b. 1967), and a son, Clay (1969). But the marriage didn't work out, and at 25, she became a divorced mother to two. She worked as comptroller of a major trucking company and was the first female executive producer at a CBS radio station. In 1974, while working as an assistant director on a TV-commercial film crew in St. Louis, she met an advertising…
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