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Lady Tess knows more about how to raise jaguar kittens than how to curtsy properly to the Queen. But to London she must go, and make a marriage suitable to her station. Her escort for this dreaded journey from the Amazon to the ballroom is Gryphon Meridon--a nobody--a shady, shabby, down-on-his-luck blockade-runner with patrician features and nothing in life but his ship and his dreams...
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Publication: Avon Books first printing 1986; re-issued 1998; second re-issue coming in April 2004 ISBN 0-380-75008-2, Setting: Victorian England Mascot Animal: parrot Laura's Comment: My first book; not my first attempt but the first manuscript I ever managed to get past Chapter 7. I was a geologist by profession when I began it. I knew nothing of British etiquette and so Tess felt as adrift in polite society as I would have. Shy and lonely, self-reliant and naive. By the time I finished The Hidden Heart, I could hardly let the characters go, they seemed so real and precious to me. And one minor character, from a difficult scene, haunted me. For years afterward, I was troubled by what I had "done" to the little boy Samuel in that book. So eventually I wrote another, The Shadow and the Star, to redeem him, and give him a taste of the happiness that he too deserved. Recognition: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice--Best New Historical Romance Author, 1986 Laura's Fave Review of The Hidden Heart: "And once Gryphon sheds his neuroses--along with his clothes--this book proves most satisfying." -- Publishers Weekly, March 2, 1986. (Which only goes to show what really counts, right? LK) |
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