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23 days 8 hours 47 minutes left until Christmas (Pacific Time Zone) |  | WILD JASMINE
Historical
by BERTRICE SMALL |
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From Publishers Weekly<br>Set in the early 17th century, the sixth volume about the magnificent Skye O'Malley and her family follows her granddaughter Yasaman Kama Begum, daughter of Indian Grand Mughal Akbar and Velvet O'Malley. Yasaman's husband is murdered by Salim, her half-brother, who wishes to resume his former incestuous relationship with her. Yasaman's friends have her spirited off to England, where Jasmine, as she is now called, joins Skye's household and the beautiful, sexually uninhibited widow dazzles the men. When Jasmine remarries, her husband has King James deed her an Irish estate; the tale detours through rural Ireland and Small's superficial assessment of Anglo-Irish problems (Why can the Irish not learn to get along with the English? One nation conquering another is nothing new) before tragedy strikes again. Small's ( A Moment in Time ) pointless repetitions and details that simply pad the story could have been pruned by editing, but more than editing is required to repair a tale in which the characters' costumes are almost as well developed as their personalities. <br>Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. <br><br>Book Description<br>SPELLBINDING.<br>--Romantic Times<br>From the palaces of pashas in seventeenth-century India to the scandalous court of James Stuart of England, one woman struggles against fate to find true love....<br>Princess Yasaman had been blessed with rapturous beauty, fierce intelligence, and an innocent sensuality that captivates two formidable men--her scheming half brother, Salim, and her loving husband, Prince Jamal. But her days of bliss and nights of steamy passion are shattered when Jamal is murdered and... read more
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