When Love Commands

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Marietta Danver: book 3 Savagery & Splendor This tumultuous love story continues the rapturous adventures of Marietta Danver, a woman whose beauty sets men's hearts aflame. Marietta races to London by carriage to start a new life with the only man she has ever truly loved-Jeremy Bond, the renegade soldier of fortune who has saved her life more than once. But after a horrifying crash, her whole world goes black. When she regains consciousness ten days later, she finds herself in the care of Lucie Orlov, and her uncle-- the tall, broodingly handsome, wildly passionate Russian--Count Gregory Orlov, notorious as Catherine the Great 's uncrowned emperor and now her banished lover. Never has Marietta encountered such frank sensuality in a man-never has she been so vulnerable. For she has learned that Jeremy left London, taking all of her money and a bewitching blonde with him! With no place else to turn to, Marietta agrees to act as Lucie's companion during the Orlovs' journey back to Russia, and thereby earn her return passage to America. As her conveyance sped across the wintry Russian landscape, not even her sumptuous furs could keep out the sudden chill of apprehension. Was she letting wounded vanity lead her into danger? Her heart had been broken... but could she really forget by running off to St. Petersburg with Count Gregory Orlov? Soon it was too late for regrets. Gregory revealed the violent nature which took pleasure in her torment. Forced to masquerade as his mistress in the imperial court, she finds she is no more than a prisoner under his iron rule. Snar…

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Jennifer Wilde

08 January 1938 – 16 January 1990

Thomas Elmer Huff was born on 08 January 1938 in Tarrant, Texas, USA. He graduated from Poly High School and from Texas Wesleyn College in 1960. For several years, he was a popular English teacher at R.L. Paschal High School, remembered as a spinner of first-person yarns and a resolutely independent soul. "He got peeved at the principal one day," recalls history teacher Zelma Rhodes, "and he up and quit." Single, he lived quietly in a plain, two-story brick home with his mother, Beatrice, in Fort Worth, Texas. To preserved his identity, he made himself as elusive and reclusive as possible during years. Long a dabbler at writing, Tom researched laboriously and wrote and rewrites with his t…