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Anonymous
Posted April 11, 2002
If life was fair and simple, Stephen Kirton would be happily married to a respectable lady. However, as far as Stephen is concerned life is unreasonable and complex so he knows his dream will never happen, as Polite Society will never accept a person born on the wrong side of the sheets let alone his commerce with the ¿lower classes¿.
Instead, he seeks a night of revelry at the hedonistic Ormstead Park where he is shocked to see Annabelle Winston, an unattainable fantasy from his less complicated youth. They share drunken kisses at night, but that morning she rejects his proposal of marriage to avoid scandal. BELLE flees, but Stephen follows because he knows she is the one person who could bring happiness into his bleak dismal world.
BELLE is a warm historical romance though readers will wonder if the hero is a Regency adult or a disenchanted 1960s youth failing to score during the summer of Love. Stephen is the duel edge sword of the exciting plot. Readers will either moan along with him as a charmer who deserves the love of a good woman or tell him to get a life. Belle is an intriguing individual whose fall from grace contrasts with her letters to her mother. Melanie Jackson provides a well-written tale, but readers need to decide whether Stephen is an immature whiner or a misfortunate antihero.
Harriet Klausner
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Posted January 14, 2002
Belle is the story of an elopement gone horribly awry. It should have been a simple-- if scandalous-- matter for two lovers to make a run-away match to Gretna Green. All they needed to do was get on the highroad and head north to the border. However, Fate had other plans for them. Belle and Stephan were going to Scotland via the less-traveled scenic route, which included enraged former-fiancés, irate parents, highwaymen, horse thieves, kidnappers, cattle reavers, homicidal innkeepers, and one extremely stubborn Bow Street runner. Neither of them suspected at the outset of their journey that the road to wedded bliss could be so rough.
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Posted April 30, 2012
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Overview
With the letter breaking his engagement, Stephan Kirton's hopes for respectability and happiness went up in smoke. It was inevitable that his travels abroad and "intereaction with the lower classes" would put him beyond the scope of polite society. That and he was born a bastard. Ormstead Park was a place for dancing and flirting, for drinking and gambling, and for less innocent sports. It was a place where he could find a woman for the night. Instead she found him.He didn't recognize her at first; real ladies didn't come to Lord Duncan's masked balls. Her descent into this netherworld had brought her within reach. Annabelle Winston was sublime. If he ...