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Thief of Hearts Kindle Edition

by Patricia Gaffney (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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The New York Times–bestselling author “delivers a knockout with the one-two punch of action-packed adventure and heart-pumping romance” (Nora Roberts).

When her husband, Nick, is killed by a masked man just hours after their whirlwind elopement, the sheltered shipbuilding heiress Anna Jourdaine is horrified and heartbroken. The tragedy is only made worse by the authorities’ revelation that Nick was suspected of selling her family’s ships to the American Confederacy—and that he wasn’t at all who he claimed to be.
 
Refusing to believe it and desperate to clear his name, she finds herself in a deceptive plot, pretending to be married to Nick’s brother—who turns out to be far from a gentleman. In fact, Brodie has just been saved from the hangman’s noose. Yet Anna soon feels stirrings of desire for this disreputable character—and uncertain about which brother is the criminal and which is merely a thief of hearts . . .
 
“One of the finest writers to come along in years.” —Romantic Times

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    Open Road Media Romance
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    December 27, 2022
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BLRT43Z2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Romance (December 27, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 27, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1482 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 438 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Patricia Gaffney

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Patricia Gaffney began her writing career with the publication of Sweet Treason, a historical romance set in revolutionary Scotland. Eleven romance novels later, she tried something different--The Saving Graces, a story of women's friendships, that ended up spending 17 weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers List.

Circle of Three, Flight Lessons, and The Goodbye Summer followed, all bestsellers that established Gaffney as a premier mainstream fiction writer.

Her new book is Mad Dash, the story of a happy marriage in trouble. It's due out in Spring 2008.

Gaffney, who lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, is currently at work on a novel about a man who changes his life when he finds out he's dying--then finds out he isn't. Working title: On Second Thought.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling, Emotionally Exhausting, and a Fantastic Time!!
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2001
This was my first book by Patricia and if it wasn't her best book, then I'm WAY behind in my reading! How have I missed this wonderful author? Her story wasn't just the typical love story - this book combined mystery and intrigue from several directions with a surprise ending and blended it all together with a love story that has you laughing or crying one minute and spitting the next. Don't miss it!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not My Cup of Tea
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2009
I really thought I was going to love this one, the 1st 50 or so pages were great, and then the hero tried to rape the heroine, for no other reason I can think of except to show the reader just how attracked Brodie is to Anna. He then suceeded is raping her, it wasn't a forceful rape but she did not want to have sex with him and he forced her to. It was poorly done and seemed to go against everything the author had established for the hero's character.

Sorry but if I were Anna I would have tossed him back in jail, but good. I honestly can't begin to imagine why rape is better than a woman actually following through on her desire for a man. It is much better for a woman brought up to remain a virgin until marriage to have sex before the "I do", than for a man who that woman is suposed to love to be rape her and call it desire. I really wanted to like this one but after a certain point I honestly couldn't finish it.
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Chris Cummings
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Gaffney's best, but still worth a read
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2002
Nicholas, Anna's husband of only a few hours, is murdered on the night of their honeymoon, and, as it turns out, was apparently involved in some shady dealings involving Anna's family's ship-building business and illegal transactions with the Confederate Army during America's Civil War (this story taking place in England).
Anna is urged to pretend John Brodie (Nicholas's twin brother, a prisoner awaiting death for a murder he, of course, did not commit) is really her new husband, until Nicholas's murderer is found.
Brodie finds himself beguiled by his twin's bride, but Anna resents his hints that Nicholas was not as perfect as she'd like to believe. Soon, however, the attraction between Anna and Brodie becomes undeniable.
Anna is a likable heroine; smart, kind, and average-looking. Brodie is darkly handsome and very sensual, bitter and hardened, but with a more refined persona lurking within, needing only Anna's feminine touch and loving encouragement to surface. The problem I had with him, however, was that he exuded just a little too much machismo for my taste. There are a couple of attempted seduction scenes that were rather aggressive, and I was left to wonder why Anna didn't clock him!
The sub-plot of the mystery of Nicholas's nefarious dealings is interesting, though not quite up to snuff compared to some of Gaffney's other books.
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Bonnie Gilbert
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Patricia Gaffney's best
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 1999
I've read almost all of Patricia Gaffney's books and find her a wonderful author. So far my favorite by Patricia Gaffney is Sweet Everlasting. Thief of Hearts was a good story, but not my favorite by Patricia Gaffney. I did enjoy reading the story, but Anna and John's story was a little slow and boring at times. This book took me a long time to read, which isn't typical. When Anna's husband Nick is murdered on their wedding night, his twin brother John Brodie steps in to try to find his murderer, and to try to determine if he is behind a plot to sell ships to the Confederate Army. Needless to say, Anna and John fall in love, Anna realizes that Nick only married her for her money, and of course John is accused of murder. I can't say it wasn't a good book, but I was a little bored.
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