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Summary: Superb!
Review: Bravo Ms. Proctor! Excellent book. One of the best books I have ever read. Definitely a keeper to be read again and again!
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Summary: A Romantic Turn for an Australian Penal Colony
Review: Bryony Wentworth, once a wealthy, privileged English landowner, is convicted of murdering her cheating husband. For her crime, she is transported to a penal colony in New South Wales, Australia while pregnant with her son, and after having her daughter ripped from her arms. Bryony gives birth to her child, then loses it to fever at five months. Captain Hayden St. John takes her from the prison to become a wet nurse for his infant son who's mother died in child birth. Hayden is bitter and untrusting. Bryony, as well as bitter and untrusting is also fearful and angry at the hand that fate has dealt her, but despite how much she resents Hayden she findsthat her heart has left her no choice but to love his child. It isn't but a short time and both Bryony and Hayden find themselves fighting attraction, and the eventually loose the battle to keep themselves apart from one another. It seems that all will work out perfectly for Bryony until Bryony's past comes back to haunt her. Ms. Proctor has an undeniable talent for romance. She weaves a tale that is surprising in every way. She aims to please and rarely dissapoints.
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Summary: First Book! - Impossible - It is too incredibly good!
Review: Everything about this book is fabulous - the plot, the characters, the romance, the history.... How an author can come out with a debut book this phenomenal is beyond imagination. The only drawback in reading "Night in Eden" is that it ruined my interest for other romance books for days. You will need to put this book aside and let the story and writing fade before you will be able to pick up another romance. Every other book I picked up after "Night in Eden" just fell short. I have loved the work of Penelope Williamson and cannot believe my luck in finding another great writer in the family. Please tell me there are more sisters with writing talent!
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Summary: An unforgettable tale of a woman's resilience.
Review: From the first sentence, I was hooked. A romance different from any other I have read. Candice Proctor is a vivid storyteller and an exquisite writer.
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Summary: Definitely worth the read
Review: I liked this book - I especially enjoyed the character of the Captain - he's a real man. However, I would have enjoyed a bit more suspence/action. The overall story was filled with general suspense/action, but there were no mini-dramas along the way. I guess I missed the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl (sigh, a tugging at the heart strings), boy gets girl back."
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. Bryony and Hayden make a wondeful couple... to be able to capture such a fierce romance and translate it into such a great story was a great feat by Candice... I can't wait to read another of her books! Lisa
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Summary: Night in Eden
Review: I would have given this book five stars but I feel it had a really slow start. But after the first few chapters, the sexual tension between the main characters began to heat up. REALLY HEAT UP! I found myself getting into this book and I would recommend reading it. Although you may think it is boring at first, it will seriously grab your attention. Give it a try.
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Summary: Fine Read
Review: I would have given this book five stars but I feel it had a really slow start. But after the first few chapters, the sexual tension between the main characters began to heat up. REALLY HEAT UP! I found myself getting into this book and I would recommend reading it. Although you may think it is boring at first, it will seriously grab your attention. Give it a try.
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Summary: Astonishing debut by an author who has a beautiful voice
Review: In 1808 Byrony Wentworth has been convicted of manslaughter and sent to an Australian penal colony to serve her time as an indentured servant. Still even with her fortunes changed and grieving the deaths of her infant and spouse, Byrony's spirit remains strong. Captain Hayden St. John needs someone to wet nurse his baby Simon since his spouse died in childbirth. He turns to Byrony, still carrying milk from her own recent pregnancy and takes her out of prison. To his utter shock, she is not only ungrateful for his taking her out of prison, she wants nothing to do with him. However, Byrony cannot resist the need of the newborn and begins to feed the lad. Before long Byrony and Haydenfall in love. However, the destructive element from her past has arrived, leaving the trio in danger. If they survive this assault, Byrony and Hayden may find time to explore their budding relationship. NIGHT IN EDEN is an exciting historical romance that freshens up novels that occur during the Regency period by transporting the stupendous story line to Australia. The lead protagonists make a charming pair as they struggle to surmount their restrictive pasts. Candice Proctor may be relatively new on the scene, but her novel reads as if she is one of the grandmasters. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A Magnificent Historical Romance - Great Australian Setting
Review: It is 1808. Bryony Wentworth has been transported to New South Wales after being convicted of manslaughter. Pregnant during her journey, she gives birth but her son dies after only a few months. Imprisoned in the "Female Factory" the distraught Bryony is "bought" by Hayden St. John as a wet nurse for his own infant son - his wife dying in childbirth and his previous wet nurse's milk having dried up. Bryony is grieving not only for the baby she lost, but for the young daughter she was forced to leave behind in England. Bryony naturally assumes she is not only going to be a wet nurse but a victim of her master's sexual desires as well. However Hayden St. John, although he desires Bryony, is too much of a gentleman to act on those desires. He feels guilty for having these feelings so soon after his beloved wife's death. They travel to Hayden's land, a few days' ride from the large town where Bryony becomes cook, housekeeper, as well as wet nurse, staying in the room previous belonging to Hayden's deceased wife, Laura. The book is full of great secondary characters including Gideon - the young Irishman whose wife and children he longs to bring to be near him, Quincy the young boy who is wise beyond his years, and Louisa the common-law wife of an adjacent landowner who has buried four of her five children. As I am writing this, I am struck by how difficult it is to convey how truly wonderful this book is without giving away too much of the story -- the characters were so real, the setting so vividly described, the writing seamless, the sexual tension almost palpable. But what can I say to convince those reading this to run out and get this book ASAP??? Should I tell you it's going on my keeper shelf immediately? Or should I tell you I was so sorry for it to end that I've actually considered re-reading it right away? Or can I say that I hope the next book might be a sequel (perhaps with Quincy as the hero) so I can visit these characters/this setting again? NIGHT IN EDEN is one of the best historical romances I've read. Please, please, do yourself a favor and put this on your TBB list - and don't put off reading it. As Catherine Coulter is quoted on the stepback as saying, "You won't be sorry. Trust me on this."
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