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* '''Author''': [[Judith Ivory]]
 
* '''Author''': [[Judith Ivory]]
* '''Publisher''': [[Avon/Harper Collins]]
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* '''Publisher''': [[Avon]] [[HarperCollins]]
 
* '''Year''': [[1997]]
 
* '''Year''': [[1997]]
 
* '''Setting''': 1902, On board ocean liner crossing the Atlantic, Southern France
 
* '''Setting''': 1902, On board ocean liner crossing the Atlantic, Southern France
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In this Beauty and the Beast tale, an exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant. . . and bored-which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is a hideous cad-a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless affair with a compelling stranger she never sees in the light of day.
 
In this Beauty and the Beast tale, an exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant. . . and bored-which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is a hideous cad-a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless affair with a compelling stranger she never sees in the light of day.
  
THE BEAST
 
 
Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancee's ship-and seduce the young chit in utter darkness. But the rake's prank backfired. It was he who was smitten-while the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And Charles will never have her heart-unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.
 
Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancee's ship-and seduce the young chit in utter darkness. But the rake's prank backfired. It was he who was smitten-while the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And Charles will never have her heart-unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.
  
 
 
== Awards ==
 
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== Related Titles ==
 
== Related Titles ==
 
Though unnamed, Nardi Saint Vallier, the hero of [[Bliss]], appears briefly in the second half of the novel.  
 
Though unnamed, Nardi Saint Vallier, the hero of [[Bliss]], appears briefly in the second half of the novel.  

Revision as of 21:53, 25 February 2007

In this Beauty and the Beast tale, an exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant. . . and bored-which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is a hideous cad-a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless affair with a compelling stranger she never sees in the light of day.

Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancee's ship-and seduce the young chit in utter darkness. But the rake's prank backfired. It was he who was smitten-while the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And Charles will never have her heart-unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.

Related Titles

Though unnamed, Nardi Saint Vallier, the hero of Bliss, appears briefly in the second half of the novel.

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