The Enchantment
Emmaline Hatter was a beautiful, brilliant, and rich Wall Street financier in the nineteenth century until the crash of 1893 wiped her out completely. Desperate to recoup her losses, she joins Dr. Larence Digby in his search for the legendary lost city of Cibola, rumored to be rich in gold....
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Emmaline Hatter was a beautiful, brilliant, and rich Wall Street financier in the nineteenth century until the crash of 1893 wiped her out completely. Desperate to recoup her losses, she joins Dr. Larence Digby in his search for the legendary lost city of Cibola, rumored to be rich in gold. Emmaline was used to getting her own way, but Larence was not about to give up control of his expedition to a woman. Somehow, in a world of enchantment, each would have to learn to believe -- to trust the other with their lives, their secrets, and their hearts . . .
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780449147733 (0449147738)
ASIN: 0449147738
Publish date: 1992-06-22
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
This historical romance had an interesting plot but it just kept going on and on about the heroine's coldness and I skimmed quite a bit. The ending started to pick up but I didn't like the very last part. Emmaline loses all her money in a stock market crash and joins Dr. Larence in a search for a l...
Wow... Such a beautiful story.I know a lot of people didn't like the heroine. But as imperfect as she may be, she had, honest to God, good reasons for them.So no I didn't hate her. I felt sorry for the woman who grew up bitter because of the hand life had dealt her. She stood up on her own two feet,...
This was a very atypical romance. Larence is not the alpha male, brash, arrogant, brawny type hero. He's a virginal nerd who has a bad limp. I loved him to death. He was the most wonderful man who believed in dreams and had his head in the clouds. He had a heart as big as Texas, which he did a terri...