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Author: Meagan McKinneyFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Kensington Pub CorpISBN-10: 0821758039
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780821758038
Subject: RomancePublication Year: 1997
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Language: EnglishCondition: Good
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As a child, Lord Damien Newell was sexually abused by his governess, Miss Ursula Pole, and it instilled in him a taste for sexual violence. When Miss Pole mysteriously disappeared, Damien's brother, Sam, was struck mute. Years later, Damien returns to his childhood home to care for Sam, and calls the family doctor to treat him. The person who arrives is not the doctor, who died some time before, but his beautiful young daughter, Alexandra Benjamin. Damien becomes sexually obsessed with the lovely Alexandra. She spends her time trying to cure Sam. All the while, the ghost of Miss Pole is wreaking havoc on the household. Damien and Alexandra realize that the only way to uncover the truth about Miss Pole's disappearance, and set their world to rest, is to unlock Sam's prison of silence.

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Length:352 pages
Height:7.3 in.
Width:4.3 in.
Thickness:1.0 in.
Weight:5.6 oz.

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To celebrate this month's paperback release of McKinney's sizzling new historical novel, "The Fortune Hunter", Zebra is proud to reissue her classic tale of romance and suspense, dark shadows, and menacing secrets.

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The bleakness of the Yorkshire moors provides an appropriate backdrop for this unconventional Victorian romance by veteran McKinney (A Man to Slay Dragons). Sexually abused as a young boy by his governess, Miss Ursula Pole, the handsome Lord Damien Newell has learned to associate sex with violence. Now, years after his trauma and Miss Pole's mysterious, sudden disappearance, Newell has returned to his family's Cairncross Castle in York, and to his younger brother Sam, who was struck mute when Miss Pole vanished. Newell writes to the esteemed Dr. Horace Benjamin, inviting him to York to treat Sam, unaware that Dr. Benjamin is dead. The doctor's daughter, Alexandra, responds to Newell's missive, offering to treat Sam herself, ambiguously signing her letter "Alex." Expecting Dr. Benjamin's son, Newell is furious when the pretty young lady arrives. He quickly becomes obsessed with Alexandra's virtue, and she with his barely suppressed potential for cruelty and violence. While Alexandra attempts to coax Sam into speaking, the malevolent ghost of Miss Pole harasses her, pushing her down stairs, hiding her belongings and, eventually, painting a Star of David on her mirror. Terrified, Alexandra perseveres. She knows that locked in Sam's unspeaking, childish mind is the answer to what happened to Miss Pole. His revelation provokes the climactic twist that puts the poltergeist in her place eternally. In this gothic morality tale, Damien's victory over his violent sexual abuse is a counterpoint to Alexandra's rebellion against anti-Semitism. In the end, what is truly haunting about this novel is not the mischief of the undead Miss Pole but the questions McKinney raises about the seductive nature of evil. (Feb.)
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