Rendezvous by Amanda Quick Published by Bantam on April 26th 2010 (first published November 1991)
Genres: Historical Romance
Pages: 386
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Source: purchased
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Also by this author: Crystal Gardens, The Mystery Woman, Otherwise Engaged, Garden of Lies, 'Til Death Do Us Part, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, With This Ring, Affair, Tightrope, When She Dreams, Wait Until Midnight
From the elegently appointed drawing rooms of London's most exclusive clubs to an imposing country estate in the heart of Dorset, comes a provocative tale of a free-thinking beauty, a dignified lord, and a mad impetuous love that defied all logic . . .
Augusta Ballinger was quite sure that it was all a dreadful mistake. The chillingly pompous and dangerous Earl of Graystone could not possibly wish to marry her. Why, it was rumored that his chosen bride must be a veritable model of virtue. And everyone knew that Augusta, as the last of the wild, reckless Northumberland Ballingers, was a woman who could not be bothered by society’s rules.
That was why the spirited beauty had planned a midnight encounter to warn the earl off, to convince him that she would make him a very poor wife indeed. But when she crawled in through his darkened study window, Augusta only succeeded in strengthening Harry’s resolve: to kiss the laughter from those honeyed lips and teach this maddening miss to behave! How could he possibly know that it was he who was in for a lesson . . . as his brazen fiancée set out to win his heart—and an old and clever enemy stepped in to threaten their love, their honor, and their very lives?
Mini-Review
An engaging romp… Augusta and Harry are a delight: apparent opposites who not only attract, but belong together. A spy-hunt subplot adds a soupçon of mystery and danger, but it’s Augusta’s feminism (though never named as such) that charmed me the most. Well, that and the secretive ladies’ club, Pompeia’s, with its wise founder and eccentric butler. This is the pre-romantic-suspense Amanda Quick, frothy and light in tone, but you can see in Rendezvous the seeds of her later, more gothic romantic suspense novels.
About Amanda Quick
AMANDA QUICK is a pen name of Jayne Ann Krentz. The author of over 40 consecutive New York Times bestsellers, JAYNE ANN KRENTZ writes romantic-suspense, often with a psychic and paranormal twist, in three different worlds: Contemporary (as Jayne Ann Krentz), historical (as Amanda Quick) and futuristic (as Jayne Castle). There are over 30 million copies of her books in print.
She earned a B.A. in History from the University of California at Santa Cruz and went on to obtain a Masters degree in Library Science from San Jose State University in California. Before she began writing full time she worked as a librarian in both academic and corporate libraries.
Ms. Krentz is married and lives with her husband, Frank, in Seattle, Washington.
Pseudonyms: Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick, Stephanie James, Jayne Bentley, Jayne Taylor, Amanda Glass.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- COYER Winter 2018-2019
- The Backlist Reader Challenge 2018
Rita @ View From the Books
This sounds like a fun read, not too heavy for the holidays and a known wonderfully talented author. Thanks for sharing. I’ve only read one Quick title and it was one of her more recent ones.
Lark
She does write some good books, doesn’t she?
Anne
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Historical romance is not a genre I read very much. Anne – Books of My Heart
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Lark_Bookwyrm
Historical romance was my gateway into romance. For a while, I started reading more contemporary than historical, but I enjoy diving back into historical romance on occasion, at least with certain authors.