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Overview

Now or Never. . .

It's the last chance for Cynthia Brightly, the ton's most bewitching belle. Driven out of London by a secret scandal, she must find a grand husband at the Redmonds' house party before word of her downfall spreads all over England. Unfortunately, someone at Pennyroyal Green is already privy to the whispers of broken engagements and dueling lovers: Miles Redmond, renowned explorer and—thanks to his brother's disappearance—heir to the family's enormous fortune.

Miles set his sights on Cynthia once, at a time when the ambitious beauty thought herself too good for a second son. But now he's heir apparent, relishing his control. He strikes a bargain with her: he'll keep Cynthia's steamy secrets and help her find a husband among the guests—in exchange for a single kiss.

What could be the harm in a simple kiss? Cynthia is about to discover that it's enough to unleash fierce passion—and that Miles Redmond is most certainly like no other lover in the world.

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Hoping to make a suitable match before word of a London scandal reaches the house party she is attending, the lovely but orphaned and penniless Cynthia Brightly is offered a surprising bargain by her aristocratic host. Entomologist Miles Redmond will protect her secrets and supply her with the information to help her find a suitable husband if she will give him one kiss. That simple gesture, however, is more than either had expected. What is expected is that Miles will court a rich, well-connected heiress while Cynthia considers a wealthy widower, but love has a way of changing things. References to insects and arachnids of all types add an intriguing touch to this beautifully written, exquisitely sensual story that features a host of exceptionally well-developed secondary characters and a pair of unforgettable protagonists. This latest in Long's tales featuring the Eversea and Redmond families is a delightful, urbane, and witty story that readers will savor. Long (The Perils of Pleasure) is a rising star among historical romance writers; she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.


—Kristin Ramsdell

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  • ISBN-13: 9780061341595
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 10/28/2008
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 144,686
  • Series: Pennyroyal Green Series, #2
  • Product dimensions: 6.78 (w) x 4.14 (h) x 1.05 (d)

Meet the Author

San Francisco Bay Area native Julie Anne Long originally set out to be a rock star when she grew up (and she has the guitars and fringed clothing stuffed in the back of her closet to prove it), but writing was always her first love. She began her academic career as a Journalism major, until she realized Creative Writing was a better fit for her freewheeling imagination and overdeveloped sense of whimsy. And when playing guitar in dank, sticky clubs finally lost its "charm," Julie realized she could incorporate all the best things about being in a band—namely drama, passion, and men with unruly hair—into novels, while also indulging her love of history and research. Since then, her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the RITA®, Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice, the Holt Medallion, Bookseller's Best, and The Quills, and reviewers have been known to use words such as "dazzling," "brilliant," and "impossible to put down" when describing them.

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Like No Other Lover

Chapter One

"You've gone an alarming shade of russet in the face, Redmond."

This observation from Mr. Culpepper, Pennyroyal Green's resident historian, ended a pronounced lull in conversation, which had begun when the door of the Pig & Thistle swung open, admitting a rush of damp air, a rustle of laughter, and three people. One of the people was Miles Redmond's sister Violet. As Violet was invariably emphatically Violet, she bore watching. Particularly because the person best at goading Violet, his brother Jonathon Redmond, came in the door beside her. The third person . . .

The third person was responsible for Mile's russet color.

Miles watched Cynthia Brightly—of all people, Cynthia Brightly—pull at the fingers of her gloves until her hands were free of them, hang up her cloak on a peg near the door, and say something to Violet that caused his sister to tip back her head and laugh merry peals calculated to draw looks.

Every head in the pub drifted helplessly toward the sound the way flowers turn to the sun.

Normally Miles would have rolled his eyes.

Instead he watched, riveted, as Miss Brightly took a general look about the pub: at the table full of laughing Everseas, at Miss Marietta Endicott of Miss Marietta Endicott's Academy for Young Ladies having supper with what appeared to be two concerned parents and one sullen young lady. At him. Her remarkable blue eyes neither brightened nor darkened in recognition when they brushed his—why would they?—and her faint smile, the aftermath of laughter, remained unaltered. He might well have been the pillar ora hat rack for how seen he'd been.

Whereas the brush of her gaze left Miles buzzing like a struck tuning fork.

What in God's name was she doing in Sussex? In Pennyroyal Green? With Violet?

"I would have said he's gone more of a claret," Culpepper said to Cooke. He threw the words down like a gauntlet. He was irritable this evening, as Cooke had won three chess games in a row, and Culpepper hungered for a controversy, any controversy.If none other was forthcoming, Miles's complexion would have to do.

The two scholarly gentlemen had known Miles since he'd been born, and they'd been particularly proprietary about him since he returned from his now renowned South Seas expedition two years ago. He'd in fact thrilled them into silence when he confided he was in the midst of planning a much grander return expedition and offered them an opportunity to invest in it.

Which was when the door opened and Miles had apparently changed color.

His bloody sister had a gift for controversy, but he never would have anticipated this.

He found his voice. "I've gone claret? Perhaps it's just that we're too close to the fire."

Across from him, two pairs of furry brows dove in skeptical unison. At the Pig & Thistle, Culpepper and Cooke and, by association, Miles, were always close to the fire, as this was where the chessboard lived.

Miles gave what was meant to be an illustrative good-heavens-isn't-it-warm-in-here tug at his cravat. He was surprised to encounter the hard thump of his pulse in his throat.

This, too, was Cynthia Brightly's fault.

He dropped his hand flat to the table and stared hard at it, as though he could read in its veins and tendons the reasons for his response. The scientist in him wanted to know precisely what it was he felt about the woman. Strong emotions visited him so seldom—he could hardly blame them, as he was hardly a hospitable host—it was difficult to know whether it was anger or something else.

Certainly anger was a part of it.

He recalled that help was literally at hand. He closed his fingers around his tankard and poured the rest of Ned Hawthorne's famous dark brew down his throat with long inelegant gulps. It was both cure and courage.

He swiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

"What color am I now?" He asked defiantly.

It was, in a way, the fault of his first South Sea expedition that he'd noticed Cynthia Brightly at all.

It happened at a ball. The guest list for the enormous annual Malverney affair ranged in pedigree from Prinny to far less discriminate choices. Miles, as second son of the staggeringly wealthy and influential Isaiah Redmond, wasn't certain where he fell in the ranking, and didn't care.

Miles's ship had docked in England again so recently his complexion was still fading in degrees from tropical brown to a proper English shade of parchment, and had reached the sallow stage. He was still too thin for his large frame; fevers, bad food, and a long ocean voyage did tend to strip flesh from a man. Roasts of beef and Yorkshire puddings were replenishing his.

He'd taken a ragtag crew on a barely seaworthy ship to a swollen, pulsing, fever dream of a land: brilliant flowers the size of parasols tangling with vines thicker around than a man's arms; snakes as supple and long as the vines themselves; beetles the size of St. Giles rats; ants the length of thumbs. Noisy rainbow-feathered birds and iridescent butterflies the size of Chinese fans spangled the air; dusky-skinned women as entangling as the flora shared his bed at night. Everything was abandoned, moist, outsized and excessive. He learned to move slowly, languidly; he learned he would never be dry or cool, regardless.

Death was as surprising and thickly everywhere as the life, hidden and overt: scuttling through the undergrowth as tiny scorpions, emerging from the trees as a tribe of cannibals with whom he successfully negotiated for his life, as a tenacious fever that nearly killed him anyway.

Miles wasn't immune to awe, but the strangeness and dangers of Lacao never frightened him. Fear was usually rooted in ignorance, and he'd long ago learned to vanquish ignorance with preternatural patience, and acute observation and tempered-steel determination. And he recognized beauty, but he never exalted it. He understood the purpose of beauty in nature was to attract mates or prey—which, he'd decided dryly after more than two decades of observing his parents, his family, and the ton, was, in fact, its purpose in every society.

Like No Other Lover. Copyright © by Julie Long. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Posted November 12, 2009

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    This engrossing, powerful love story is about the science-oriented Miles Redmond who uses observation and detail to understand nature, and impoverished beauty Cynthia Brightly who uses observation and detail to manipulate her way in society.

    Neither Miles nor Cynthia believes in that ephemeral thing called love or losing their hearts, etc., and both of them are adventurers in their own way: his dream is to get funding for a return expedition to the South Seas and hers is to marry well despite her tarnished reputation and be forever sheltered from struggling to survive. Much can happen - and does after an impulsive kiss - at a two-week house party hosted by Miles, the Redmond heir, when his parents are called away. Miles sets out to court wealthy Lady Georgina who adores him, and Cynthia sets out to capture one of three potential bachelor guests while trying to fight against their intellectual compatibility and ever increasing sensual pull. Secondary characters: Lords Milthorpe and Argosy, Mr. Goodkind and some gypsies move the plot along hilariously. The youngest Redmond, Violet, shows signs of growing up.

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  • Posted May 8, 2012

    Lovely

    Cynthia is beautiful. She knows it, and she'd a bit of a snob. It just so happens that she is totally out of money and somewhat disgraced in the eyes of the ton. Miles is a bit of a nerd. He has spent his time and money on exploration to Lacao where he studies the natives and insects. What could these two have in common? While Miles thinks Cynthia is the most beautiful woman he has seen, he thinks little of her character after overhearing her dismiss him.

    This second book in the Pennyroyal Green series is a wonderful love story. I does stand alone particularly since this is the first Redmond story in the series. However like any series, if you are going to read them all just read them in order to get the full effect.

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  • Posted December 3, 2008

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    Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long

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    Yippee! Now I have yet another author to add to my `watch¿ list. I just finished Julie Anne Long¿s latest historical ¿Like No Other Lover¿ and I¿ll be heading to the store shortly looking for her backlist. If you¿ve been reading my reviews, then you know I don¿t throw out superlatives like confetti, but this book was so very, very good! When I¿m ten pages in thinking I¿ll never like the heroine and then end up cheering for her, you know the author is a talent. I laughed, I cried, and I finished the book wanting more. `Nuff said?

    Cynthia is two weeks from being homeless and destitute. In one week she went from being the toast of the ton to a social pariah, from being engaged to a rich, titled `catch¿ to being `cut¿ on the street. So the invitation from a friend to spend two weeks at a country estate house party is a godsend. Hopefully, the news from London won¿t make it to the party until Cynthia has snagged a husband¿a rich husband; because if she doesn¿t, her chance at marriage and children will be crushed by a job as companion to a crotchety old lady.

    Miles Redmond is a rational scientist who lives to discover the reasons `why¿. So when his first glimpse, two years ago, of Cynthia stopped his breath and caused his thoughts to become a morass of descriptive poetry, he immediately wanted to understand `why¿. Unfortunately, he overheard her description of him then, which wasn¿t flattering, and it pricked his pride and caused severely uncomfortable feelings in his chest! But now, two years later, she is a guest of his sister¿s at their estate house party¿and she¿s apparently desperate to find a husband. It¿s just a good thing his illusions were dashed at that long ago ball because all he needs to do to please his family and finally receive financing for a return scientific expedition to Lacao is marry his father¿s choice. Not a problem.

    How delicious. The scientist and the social butterfly. Of course, the further you read the more you understand that while those descriptions may be accurate to all appearances; people, including our hero and heroine, are much more than just what appears on the surface. I am truly impressed by how intensely Ms. Long managed to touch my feelings. Slowly, over the course of the story, she drew me deeper and deeper under the surfaces of the hero and heroine. They become real, at times heartbreakingly real; and their efforts to find happiness without hurting each other or disappointing friends and family were, at times, almost painful. These are characters whose story will stay with me for quite a while.

    For a historical romance novel, ¿Like No Other Lover¿ had it all. Setting, pace, dialogue, and characters were all exquisitely drawn and there were no overused plot devices or `too stupid to live¿ moments or `terrible misunderstandings¿ to suffer through. Julie Anne Long wrote a story about two people who faced challenge and change¿and found love in the process. Bravo!

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