The Pursuit
an escapist package of love, passion, and conflict from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Electric dialogue, enticing characters, and a fantastic setting, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey, for fans of Bridgerton, Georgette Heyer and Jenny Hambly.
'First-rate romance' - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
'A dreamspinner extraordinaire' - ROMANTIC TIMES
'This book was just so good, I couldn't put it down.' -- ***** Reader review
'LOVE LOVE LOVE her work!!' -- ***** Reader review
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THE HEART WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO GET WHAT IT WANTS
It was to be a great adventure for Melissa MacGregor - an escape from the wilds of her Scottish home into the world of the London Season.
There she hopes to find a suitable husband who will not be intimidated by her sixteen uncles, six of whom are called Ian. But before she begins her pursuit of a new life, she encounters an intriguing stranger on her grandfather's lands.
Lincoln Ross Burnett, the seventeenth Viscount Cambury, once called Scotland his home, until he was sent away to London after his father's death, the subject of a bitter family feud. Now, as he roams the countryside of his youth, he still feels the bitterness of his exile - until he meets Melissa, and is struck by her beauty and liveliness.
He pursues her to London, where even their shared passion may not be powerful enough to overcome the devastating hatred of those who have sworn his destruction...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Energetic and expansive, good-natured and lusty, with enough flouncy dresses and galloping steeds to equip a comic opera, the sequel to Say You Love Me should delight Lindsey's many fans. From the moment that Melissa MacGregor and Lincoln Burnett set eyes on each other, they know they must be together. There's just one little problem actually, 16 very big problems: Melissa's uncles, who remember Lincoln as an out-of-control kid when they were growing up in Scotland. (After losing his father in an accident when he was a little boy, Lincoln was sent away by his mother to live with an aunt and uncle in England, and his bitterness toward his mother has grown ever since.) The uncles' obsession with Melissa's safety is just the excuse the clan of six-footers needs to treat Lincoln with brutish incivility for instance, conniving to stow him on a slow boat to China. But love cannot be shanghaied in a Lindsey novel, at least not for long, especially when it has a heroine like the strong-willed Melissa. The lovers pass one test after another, in the drawing rooms of the London season and the rugged terrain of the Highlands, meanwhile sharing hot kisses and the requisite night during which nothing goes unsaid or undone. What makes Lindsey special is that all her characters, major and minor, seem thrilled to be in the story; they manage even to have fun while pining or punching. There are no villains, only flawed human beings, occasionally misdirected by their loving hearts.
