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With all my heart

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Dell Publishing Company 12 views
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0440195438, 9780440195436
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Barbara Dawson Smith

A member of Romance Writers of America since 1981, Barbara Dawson Smith sold her first historical romance two weeks after sending it to a publisher. Herbooks have won the Golden Heart Award from RWA, and Best Historical Romantic Suspense and Best Regency Historical from Romantic Times. She has been a finalist for the National Readers' Choice Award, Romance of the Year by Affaire de Coeur magazine, the Golden Quill, and the Booksellers' BestAward. She has also been a five-time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award, and realized a lifetime dream in 2002 when she won the award forTEMPT ME TWICE. Barbara lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, two daughters, two cats,and who knows how many neighbor children running up and down the stairs.When she's not finishing a chapter or teaching a seminar on writing, sheenjoys browsing in her collection of over a thousand research books.

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This is a fictionalized biography about Catherine of Braganza, queen consort of Charles II, King of England (1368-1705). Charles II was openly adulterous throughout his marriage to Catarina (Catherine), and beautiful women are constantly being paraded through his bedchamber. Catarina loves her husband dearly and maintains her dignity in the face of such humiliation, yet the numerous miscarriages she suffers are too much to bear. For all his flaws, Charles stands by her steadfastly, and at times he could be nurturing and caring. The scene at his deathbed is devastating. Although the story focuses on Catherine of Braganza and her marriage to Charles II, it also covers the plague and the Great Fire of London, and the enormity of the situation to Londoners. Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the historical figures of the time that are also portrayed.

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