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Silver's newest (after His Dark Kiss), set against the wilds of early 19th-century Cornwall, makes a moody gothic romance out of the business arrangement between a crippled innkeeper and a vengeful privateer. Poor innkeeper Gideon Heatherington has only one option when stolid, hardened privateer Aidan Warrick shows up demanding payment on the inn's mortgage; he must sell his daughter, Jane, into indentured servitude to Aidan for a period of seven years. Anger over the innkeeper's past misdeeds fuels Aidan's attempts to keep his distance from the beguiling Jane, but he finds himself protecting her despite himself. Jane, for her part, can't help being intrigued by the man who makes an ugly knot of terror curdle in her stomach. As the attraction between them simmers, Aidan unwittingly reveals his caring side and, eventually, his troubling secrets. Domestic tension and Aidan's mysterious past drive the novel nicely, and the evolving, bittersweet relationship between the two damaged souls is, appropriately, this romance's strongest aspect. (Aug.)
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Silver's darkly atmospheric gothic tale set in Cornwall early in the nineteenth century will allure readers new to the genre, but fans of Victoria Holt, Phyllis Whitney, and Mary Stewart will find it rather predictable. Jane Hetherington, an innkeeper's daughter with a crippled leg, is aghast that her ruined father is losing everything to Aiden Warrick, the mysterious newcomer who has bought Trevisham House, the local crumbling manse. Warrick offers to let Jane's father keep the inn if Jane will sign indenture papers. But rather than going to Trevisham, they visit an inn on Bodmin Moor where, following his own secret agenda, Aiden treats her nothing like a servant. Gleaning bits and pieces about his life, Jane concludes that Aiden is a smuggler, perhaps even a murderer, but she can't help but fall in love with him. Tixier Herald, Diana
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