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Summary: As always a masterpiece.
Review: Carla Kelly has a rare gift for storytelling. Her books are ripe with characters that are so real you can almost feel them breathe. This book is no exception. A touching and romantic tale that very well may bring tears to your eyes. I seldom make it through a Kelly novel dry eyed! The heroine, Onyx Hamilton is one you will remember. Jack, the hero, is a man any woman would want to know. Yet none of her characters are trite or typical. Good show Ms. Kelly!
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Summary: As always a masterpiece.
Review: Carla Kelly has a rare gift for storytelling. Her books are ripe with characters that are so real you can almost feel them breathe. This book is no exception. A touching and romantic tale that very well may bring tears to your eyes. I seldom make it through a Kelly novel dry eyed! The heroine, Onyx Hamilton is one you will remember. Jack, the hero, is a man any woman would want to know. Yet none of her characters are trite or typical. Good show Ms. Kelly!
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: I read this book ages ago, years even. My apologies because I can't remember much of the plot, but I do recall that it was very good, very sweet and pure Carla Kelly.
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: I read this book ages ago, years even. My apologies because I can't remember much of the plot, but I do recall that it was very good, very sweet and pure Carla Kelly.
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Summary: Like all the old Carla Kellys: Wonderful!
Review: I've recently had the good fortune to acquire a number of books from Kelly's backlist, and Summer Campaign is the first I read. And I loved it. It's heartwarming and tear-jerking, just like all the best Kellys.Onyx, our heroine, is - in the tradition of much of Kelly's writing - not of the best ton. In fact, she's illegitimate, though brought up in a good family. All her life, though, she's felt that she has to hide, and almost apologise for existing. Now, she has a proposal of marriage: a vicar, Andew Littlewood, has sought her hand. Grateful for the chance to escape her stepmother's tyranny, Onyx accepts. En route to her fiance's home, however, her carriage is held up by a rough band of robbers who also threaten her virtue. Onyx is rescued by a shabbily-dressed soldier, who is shot and almost killed as a result. The soldier is Major Jack Beresford, returning from the Napoleonic Wars - and, it turns out, he knew Onyx's twin brother. Onyx feels a definite bond with Jack, but what can she do? She's already engaged to another man, and anyway, once she discovers that Jack is the brother of a marquess, she knows that he's well out of her reach. She has to put him out of her mind, no matter how much he teases and flirts with her. And yet she knows that he needs her too, in several different ways - to help heal the wounds of war, both physical and mental. This is a wonderful book, ranging from humorous to wistful to angsty to downright tearjerking. I couldn't help but like and feel sorry for Onyx, and who could help falling in love with Jack? And then there's Emily and Adrian, Jack's brother and his wife - also characters I loved getting to know. A classic Carla Kelly, and well worth the collectors' price!
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Summary: Soldier comes home to find trouble on the estate, & love.
Review: Summer Campaign was my first Regency Romance. After the release of Daughter of Fortune, my agent suggested that I might try a Regency Romance. She said, "Send me four chapters or 150 pages, and I'll sell it." I did, and she did. My chief interest in writing in the Regency period is due to my interest in the Napoleonic War, particularly as it played out on the Peninsula, and at sea. That's why I've written as many as I have.
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