Temptation
Apr 2002 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux’s warm and wonderful historical romance set in 1909 Scotland features a feisty heroine, a hidden family treasure, and a Scottish laird who would rather die than be married.
It is 1909 and Temperance O'Neil is a woman ahead of her time. She's happy and devoted to her career helping single mothers on the streets of New York. But her new stepfather, Angus McCairn, does not approve. He makes her an unlikely offer: to go to the Scottish Highlands, pose as housekeeper to his nephew James, and find him a wife, secretly. If she succeeds, he'll allow her back to New York.
Temperance—smart, passionate, as stubborn as her stepfather—is determined at any cost to win her return passage. But she has taken on far more than she expected. James McCairn, Laird of Clan McCairn, is no cultured gentleman but a strapping, rough-mannered farmer, rude and brusque. There are pigeons roosting in the kitchen and chickens in the bedroom. Marriage is the last thing on his mind...
It is 1909 and Temperance O'Neil is a woman ahead of her time. She's happy and devoted to her career helping single mothers on the streets of New York. But her new stepfather, Angus McCairn, does not approve. He makes her an unlikely offer: to go to the Scottish Highlands, pose as housekeeper to his nephew James, and find him a wife, secretly. If she succeeds, he'll allow her back to New York.
Temperance—smart, passionate, as stubborn as her stepfather—is determined at any cost to win her return passage. But she has taken on far more than she expected. James McCairn, Laird of Clan McCairn, is no cultured gentleman but a strapping, rough-mannered farmer, rude and brusque. There are pigeons roosting in the kitchen and chickens in the bedroom. Marriage is the last thing on his mind...
New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux’s warm and wonderful historical romance set in 1909 Scotland features a feisty heroine, a hidden family treasure, and a Scottish laird who would rather die than be married.
It is 1909 and Temperance O'Neil is a woman ahead of her time. She's happy ...
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January 15, 2008
This was a great read. I started this book in less than 24 hours it was read. It takes a lot and a story line to make it in less than 24 hours. It starts off with a confindent and head strong girl set in the early 1900s. She is teaching the women of New York that they do need a man to live and prosper and is causing all kind of problems so the men say. Then her mother swiftly marries a man from Scotland and everything changes for Temprance. Not only is her mother moving to Scotland but her step father say if she does not go he will stop all funds that her late father left to her. They get to Scotland and she makes her step fathers life misrable and he send her to try and find is head strong nephew a wife but suddenly she starts feeling feelings that she has never expierenced before and she has warned other women about. Does she become a woman that she was trying to help.
Casey Viator
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September 28, 2016
Finally a.heroin with her wits about her, laugh out loud funny, with sweet moments, and emotional moments,.just a lovely read.
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March 18, 2017
A really great read!
About the author
Jude Deveraux is the author of more than forty New York Times bestsellers, including A Knight in Shining Armor, The Summerhouse, My Heart Will Find You, and Order of Swans. Her novels span historical and contemporary romance, women’s fiction, mystery, and fantasy. More than sixty million copies of her books are in print worldwide. To learn more, visit JudeDeveraux.com.
Jude Deveraux is the author of more than forty New York Times bestsellers, including A Knight in Shining Armor, The Summerhouse, My Heart Will Find You, and Order of Swans. Her novels span historical and contemporary romance, women’s fiction, mystery, and fantasy. More than sixty million copies o...
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