Ravished by Amanda Quick

Published: May 20, 2023, 6:31 p.m.

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Buckle up Jane, it\'s the Regency!\\xa0 Harriet is a fossil hunter!\\xa0 Gideon is a viscount, which is evidently a job!\\xa0 He\'s grim and broody and has an Evil Past full of Scandals and also a cool scar!\\xa0 She\'s Tracy Flick in a pelisse!\\xa0 There are smugglers!\\xa0 And parties!\\xa0 It\'s Amanda Quick\'s\\xa0Ravished!

Surprise - nobody actually gets ravished in this book.\\xa0 I know, right?\\xa0 There\'s an attempted rape that\'s foiled by Wile E. Coyoteing a boulder onto the guy, which is the way I\'d like to see all rapists handled from here on out.\\xa0 There is also an exceedingly gentle kidnapping, some ugly murders in the past including one set up to make a young woman look like she died by suicide, and an awful lot of fossil talk.\\xa0 This author, who also writes as Jayne Ann Krentz and several other pseudonyms,\\xa0 often writes men who are, ahem, very forceful\\xa0- in this book he\'s absolutely met his match and I think this one will be fine even for people who are turned off by that aspect of her earlier books.

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