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Bond of passion / Bertrice Small.

Small, Bertrice, (author.).

Summary:

Angus Ferguson, Earl of Duin, lives a quiet life. Now, in exchange for a piece of land he has long coveted, he has taken a wife: Annabella Baird, the plain-faced daughter of the laird of Rath. Reluctant at first to bed the unassuming Annabella, when he finally accepts his duty as husband he finds his new wife is a wildcat with a spark waiting to be ignited. But when they accept an invitation to the court of Scotland's Queen Mary, they find themselves caught up in royal intrigue.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0-451-23476-6
  • ISBN: 9780451234766 (trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780451236319 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 416 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : New American Library ; 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Oct 11
Target Audience Note:
All Ages.
Subject: Clans > Scotland > Fiction.
Family > Fiction
Husband and wife > Fiction.
Infidelity > Fiction.
Kings > Fiction
Knights > Fiction
Male-Female Romance > Fiction
Marriage > Fiction
Marriages of royalty and nobility > Fiction.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 > Fiction.
Kings and rulers > Succession > Fiction.
Genre: Love stories.
Romance fiction.
Erotic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Love stories.
Erotic fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 6 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Elkford Public Library FC SMA (Text) 35170000292771 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    In the sixth novel in the historical romance series from the author of The Border Vixen a mysterious nobleman and the bride he bartered for must navigate betrayal, seduction and a royal intrigue that may turn deadly. Original. 75,000 first printing.
  • Baker & Taylor
    A mysterious nobleman and his bartered new bride untangle a plot of illicit seduction, daring betrayal, and deadly royal intrigue in the sixteenth-century Scotland of Queen Mary.
  • Baker & Taylor
    A mysterious nobleman and the bride he bartered for must navigate betrayal, seduction, and a royal intrigue that may turn deadly.
  • Penguin Putnam
    Bertrice Small's breathless Border Chronicles continues as a mysterious nobleman and his bartered new bride untangle a plot of illicit seduction, daring betrayal, and deadly royal intrigue...

    Called the handsomest man in the Borders, Angus Ferguson, earl of Duin, lives a quiet life avoiding the constant political intrigues of his neighbors in order to keep his small clan safe. Now in exchange for a piece of land he has long coveted he has taken a wife. Annabella Baird, the plain-faced daughter of the laird of Rath.

    Reluctant at first to bed the unassuming Annabella, Angus finally accepts his duty as a husband only to discover that beneath his bride's modest demeanor is a wildcat with a spark waiting to be ignited. When, however, they accept an invitation to the court of Scotland's Queen Mary they find themselves caught up in royal intrigue.

    Mary's unfortunate marriage to her cousin, Lord Darnley, has proven a disaster. Worse it has driven her into the arms of another man, James Hepburn, the dashing, powerful earl of Bothwell. When Darnley is murdered in spectacular fashion, and his body barely cold Mary and Bothwell wed, the queen's adversaries retaliate with a war that divides Scotland, and tries the long friendship between the earl of Duin and James Hepburn even as it tests the bond of passion between Angus and Annabella in ways they never expected.

  • Random House, Inc.
    Bertrice Small's breathless Border Chronicles continues as a mysterious nobleman and his bartered new bride untangle a plot of illicit seduction, daring betrayal, and deadly royal intrigue...

    Called the handsomest man in the Borders, Angus Ferguson, earl of Duin, lives a quiet life avoiding the constant political intrigues of his neighbors in order to keep his small clan safe. Now in exchange for a piece of land he has long coveted he has taken a wife. Annabella Baird, the plain-faced daughter of the laird of Rath.

    Reluctant at first to bed the unassuming Annabella, Angus finally accepts his duty as a husband only to discover that beneath his bride's modest demeanor is a wildcat with a spark waiting to be ignited. When, however, they accept an invitation to the court of Scotland's Queen Mary they find themselves caught up in royal intrigue.

    Mary's unfortunate marriage to her cousin, Lord Darnley, has proven a disaster. Worse it has driven her into the arms of another man, James Hepburn, the dashing, powerful earl of Bothwell. When Darnley is murdered in spectacular fashion, and his body barely cold Mary and Bothwell wed, the queen's adversaries retaliate with a war that divides Scotland, and tries the long friendship between the earl of Duin and James Hepburn even as it tests the bond of passion between Angus and Annabella in ways they never expected.


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