Review ~ The Prize by Brenda Joyce

Anything Brenda Joyce Writes, I Buy! I Am Never Disappointed! She Is One Of The Very Best Authors And I Run To The Bookstore When I Know She Has A New Novel Available.

What can you say, A stong beautiful headstrong woman who has never know passion and a strong, drop dead gorgeous, masculine, very virle man who abducts her for revenge against her uncle. Well, you put those two together and you know fire works will go off and boy does it! Brenda Joyce writes so good that you know but can’t wait until the two main characters realize that love will conquer all…even revenge!! Loved it!

Great Historical Romance

In 1798 Ireland ten years old Devlin O¿Neill watches English Captain Harold Hughes cut off the head of his father and burn his family property. He vows to one day avenge his sires murder……………………….

In 1812 with her parents recently dead, her aristocratic English uncle sends eighteen years old Virginia Hughes to finishing school for the next three years before he plans to marry her off. She hates the school so she leaves and returns to her familys Virginia plantation Sweet Briar where she learns the place is bankrupt and will be sold to pay off debts. Virginia decides to visit her Uncle Harold to obtain funding for her plantation……………………

Also in 1812, Devlin is the best of His MajestyPirates so Lord Liverpool reassigns him and his crew of the Defiance from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic to frighten American ships into turning around. Though he has had much success financially destroying Harold, he learns that his enemy’s niece is sailing from America. Devlin abducts Virginia on the high seas to use as a pawn. However, her courage and conviction begins to mend his heart as they fall in love, but Uncle Harold stands between them……………………..

This is an exciting early nineteenth century romance starring two terrific protagonists with different agendas that converge over the same man that both detest. The storyline provides insight into the beginnings of the War of 1812, but clearly focuses on Devlin thirst for revenge dampened as he gets to know Virginia. Harold is too vile of a villain to matter, but the lead couple and the intrigue her abduction brings to the highest levels of government make this novel a prize for historical readers.