Taboo
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3.3 • 6 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Through eleven nationally bestselling books, award winner Susan Johnson has won a legion of fans for her lushly romantic historical novels. Now she delivers her most thrilling tale yet--a searing blend of rousing adventure and wild, forbidden love...
Married against her will to the brutal Russian general who conquered her people, Countess Teo Korsakova has never known what it means to want a man...until now. Trapped behind enemy lines, held captive by her husband's most formidable foe, she should fear for her life. But all Teo feels in General Andre Duras's shattering presence is breathless passion. France's most victorious commander, Andre knows that he should do the honorable thing, knows too that on the eve of battle he cannot afford so luscious a distraction. Yet something about Teo lures him to do the unthinkable: to seduce his enemy's wife, and to let himself love a woman who can never be his.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The brutality of war and sexual excess are the dominant themes of Johnson's latest (after Wicked). Borrowing historical facts and figures from the decade following the French Revolution, the author fictionalizes a steamy love affair between Russian Countess Teo Korsakova and French General Andre Duras--a character fashioned after real-life General Andre Massena. When Teo is detained in Andre's camp after crossing into enemy territory, she is drawn to the benevolent French officer who is so different from her brutal husband. The courtship isn't exactly an exquisite dalliance, but a rather wham-bam affair (by their second meeting on page 13, she's asked Andre to "give her a child"). Andre eagerly complies, and then decides he wants to marry Teo--after, that is, he's divorced his wife who's currently involved in an incestuous relationship with her uncle, and then eliminated Teo's husband, General Korsakov. Some scenes, such as the one involving dairy products and orifices, are more erotic than romantic, but there's plenty of solid history to cool down the pages--complete with lengthy footnotes.
