The Secrets of the Heart [NOOK Book]

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Overview

The author of The Legacy of the Rose has created a novel that evokes the desire lurking beneath the glittering splendor of Regency England. A most eligible bachelor, whose secret alter-ego--the mysterious Peacock--champions the cause of Britain's poor, woos a beautiful nobody and elevates her in status to the toast of London. Original Regency Romance.
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Overview

The author of The Legacy of the Rose has created a novel that evokes the desire lurking beneath the glittering splendor of Regency England. A most eligible bachelor, whose secret alter-ego--the mysterious Peacock--champions the cause of Britain's poor, woos a beautiful nobody and elevates her in status to the toast of London. Original Regency Romance.
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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Now here's a Regency romp with a writing style, voice and sense of humor perfectly suited to the era and the genre. Michaels (Illusions of Love) has created a deliciously different hero in foppish Lord Christian St. Clair, alias The Peacock, defender of the downtrodden. The dual personality ploy sounds familiar, but Michaels puts a new spin on it by having St. Clair keep to his foppish persona for most of the book, resulting in one of the most engaging heroes in a long while. His heroine, Gabrielle Laurence, is just as fully drawn. Nearly penniless, Gabby fishes the waters of the London season, hoping to hook herself a wealthy husband. Unexpectedly, St. Clair, favorite of the ton, takes her under his wing, thereby making her the darling of the social scene. The problems ensue when everyone who is anyone attempts to uncover The Peacock's true identity. Michaels dispenses with distracting love scenes and heroic derring-do in favor of fine writing and delivers what promises to be one of the best-loved books of the year. It's refreshing to find a humorous romance that stretches the accepted boundaries of the genre-here's hoping Michaels starts a new trend. (Feb.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781460305577
  • Publisher: Harlequin
  • Publication date: 10/15/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 209,026
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author



The hallmarks of New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Kasey Michaels' writing are humor, romance and happy endings. The importance of upbeat, entertaining fiction was brought home to Kasey when her eldest son became very ill. During the long months while he was in the hospital after his kidneys failed, she noticed that the nurses who cared for the sick children and the mothers who spent long hours at their bedsides often had a romance novel in their back pockets. She began carrying her own romances to the hospital in a small suitcase, reading and then sharing and trading them with the other moms.

"We were living in a world too real in that hospital," Kasey says today. "We all functioned at the highest level--there was no choice but to function, to persevere--and we all occasionally escaped that world into the hope and happy endings of romance novels."

Kasey had actually written her first book just before her son's illness. She penned her second book during those long months in the hospital, and it became The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane.

Since then, Kasey has gone on to write about 100 more books, and to receive a trio of coveted Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly. The third was for her first HQN title, The Butler Did It, which was also a 2005 nominee for the Romance Writers of America's (RWA) highest award, the RITA Award and Publishers Weekly's Quills Award. She is already a recipient of the RITA Award, a Waldenbooks and BookRak Bestseller Award, and many awards from Romantic Times magazine, including a Career Achievement Award for her Regency-era historical romances.

Kasey has alsoappeared on the Today Show, and was the subject of the Lifetime Cable-TV show A Better Way, in conjunction with Good Housekeeping magazine, a program devoted to women and how they have achieved career success in the midst of motherhood (short version: "with great difficulty").

Kasey has written Regency romances, Regency historicals, category books including novellas and continuities and a few series "launch" books, and single-title contemporaries. Hers is also the twisted mind behind her ongoing Maggie Kelly mystery series that stars a former romance writer turned historical mystery writer. She is also the author of the highly praised nonfiction book, written as Kathryn Seidick, Or You Can Let Him Go, which details the story of Kasey and her family during the time of her eldest son's first kidney transplant.

Kasey and her husband of more than 40 years live in Pennsylvania with their two neurotic Persians, Princess and Peaches. They are proud parents of four and grandparents of two. Each summer the entire family volunteers to help out with the golf tournament her grown son founded to benefit the Gift of Life Donor Program of Philadelphia. Monies raised contribute to the costs of transporting the youngest members of Team Philadelphia to the annual Transplant Olympics.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 2, 2007

    Great read!

    When Christian St. Clair talks, people listen. Whether it be on fashion, people or politics, St. Clair has the ear of the ton. Only his support of the Peacock have given them pause. .... Gabrielle Laurence¿s only hope of saving her home is to marry a wealthy man. Having no dowry - her father has gambled away all their money - she has no choice but to allow Christian St. Clair¿s championing of her, raising her to the status of belle of the season. ..... In public, Christian is a dandy, one whose main interest is in fashion. Simple, but revered. In private, he is the Peacock, fighting to right wrongs against those who cannot stand up for themselves. So different are the personas that no one suspects he is the Peacock, and he intends to keep it that way. ..... Although Gabrielle appreciates what Christian¿s support has done for her, she also resents it. Resents him. She knows that one word from him can destroy her chances of a good match. As such, she forms a plan that will allow her to remain in society¿s good graces while removing the need to be pleasant to Christian. She will unmask the Peacock. ..... As Christian fights to keep his identity a secret and Gabrielle is intent on discovering the identity of the Peacock, they find that it is a fine line between love and hate. Will it be too late for them when Gabrielle, unable to ascertain with any certainty who the Peacock really is, sets in motion her plan to bring Christian down, revealing him as the Peacock? ..... Kasey Michaels has a knack for writing characters that leap from the page and into your heart. This re-release of The Secrets of the Heart is a perfect example of why, when Kasey Michaels writes, people read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 23, 2012

    Please learn the difference ---

    between a REVIEW and a SYNOPSIS! Don't appreciate having the entire plot laid out before me when I read a review before buying a book--If you want to write this much, go write your own book- What you're doing can hurt sales for this excellent and well established author

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