The Ring

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The Ring
Sylvia Halliday
Sylvia Halliday's enthralling historical romance, SUMMER DARKNESS, WINTER LIGHT, was hailed for its "gutsy heroine, brooding hero and period details" (Publishers Weekly), and proclaimed "funny, poignant, brimming over with bright dialogue a thinking reader's romance." (Romantic Times). Now, with THE RING, she delivers another richly emotional, deeply compelling story—a stunning tale of revenge and high passion that sweeps a young woman across two continents on an unforgettable journey of courage, self-discovery, and love.
The ring. It was the symbol of all Prudence Allbright's hope—and proof that her beloved Jamie, the charming young viscount Lord Hartley—did indeed intend to return and marry her. But how would he find her? Banished from her home in the Cotswolds by her pious and vindictive grandfather, Prudence's only hope is to make her way to the Colonies and find Jamie. It is this wrenching dilemma that brings the innocent young Englishwoman to the... Tovább

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The Ring
Sylvia Halliday
Sylvia Halliday's enthralling historical romance, SUMMER DARKNESS, WINTER LIGHT, was hailed for its "gutsy heroine, brooding hero and period details" (Publishers Weekly), and proclaimed "funny, poignant, brimming over with bright dialogue a thinking reader's romance." (Romantic Times). Now, with THE RING, she delivers another richly emotional, deeply compelling story—a stunning tale of revenge and high passion that sweeps a young woman across two continents on an unforgettable journey of courage, self-discovery, and love.
The ring. It was the symbol of all Prudence Allbright's hope—and proof that her beloved Jamie, the charming young viscount Lord Hartley—did indeed intend to return and marry her. But how would he find her? Banished from her home in the Cotswolds by her pious and vindictive grandfather, Prudence's only hope is to make her way to the Colonies and find Jamie. It is this wrenching dilemma that brings the innocent young Englishwoman to the London docks to mingle with the whores and doxies, selling trinkets and ribbons to earn her passage.
But it is accident, not enterprise, that lands Prudence aboard a British man-o'-war en route to Virginia. And within hours, one ring has been exchanged for another. Caught between the lecherous gaze of a cruel sea captain and the cool appraisal of the ship's surgeon, she has little choice but to accept the widower's ring and pose as the wife of Dr. Ross Manning.
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Her search is daring, desperate, but doorneep to failure. The long voyage forges deep bonds between Ross and Prudence. Yet even as she; clings to Ross's loving support and dazzlefjj colonial society with her ripening beauty, she cannot let go of her illusions and secretsg convinced that only Jamie can restore her happiness.
From the teeming streets of London to the sprawling plantations of the deep South^ Sylvia Halliday enchants her readers in sfa spellbinding novel that comes full circle. Back in the Cotswolds of England, all secrets will be exposed to the harsh light of day and every' illusion shattered, as Prudence faces the shocking, uncompromising truth. She must' come a hairsbreadth from Tosing life itself to fully grasp the treasure that has been found, to seize the answer to all her dreams and longings and, finally, to embrace a love founded on the deepest trust a love meant to last for all time.
SYLVIA HALLIDAY has written a dozen acclaimed historical romances under the pseudonyms of Ena' Halliday and Louisa Rawlings. Her LouissQ Rawlings books include FOREVER WILD, a finalist for the RWA Colden Medallion for Best HistoricaL Romance (1986), PROMISE OF SUMMER, whicR. received the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Romance set in France (1989), and WICKED STRANGER, which was i/t finalist for an RWA Rita Award for Best Historicakbt Romance of 1993. Born in Canada, raised Massachusetts, she now makes her home in NetiM York City. Vissza