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At seventeen, Beautiful Victoria Farraday’s life should have been filled with love, laughter and joy. But it was December, 1864, when Sherman’s troops were carving a path of destruction through the South and Farraday Plantation, Victoria's home, was directly in their path. Alone, frightened, she burned down the plantation, rather than let the Yankees have it, and fled to her grandmothers home in Texas.
Amidst the wild flowers and never-ending sky, Victoria met the handsome, wealthy ranch owner, Edward Hanover. Passion burst into a raging blaze as his fingers brushed across her silky skin. But it quickly turned to hatred and rage when she learned that he had fought for the Union. No matter how she tried to fight it, the facts tore at her heart: the man who took her to the heights of ecstasy was a Yankee--the enemy--and the only man she would ever love!
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Re: Ecstasy's Promise
這本書應該是作者的處女作,雖然是這麼遙遠的作品,劇情也有點老套,但歐班揚阿姨寫起來仍然相當好看,剛開始看文案其實不是很愛,沒想到一看下去就停不了,想知道男女主角會如何的發展,不過看完到現在也有幾個月,大概快忘光了,只能憑記憶補一下。
故事背景是南北戰爭,女主角父兄都因參戰身亡,未婚夫也去打戰還沒回家,一日北軍軍人經過女主的家園,遂起歹念要玷辱女主,女主自衛以為自己殺了人,就和僕人逃亡投奔外婆(大概?),半路上遇到一位軍官(男主角的好友)盤查,寫得讓我以為這個是男主角,還好戲份很快就沒了。
男女主角倆初遇時彼此都可以感受到強烈的吸引力,女主角因為自以為深愛著未婚夫,所以對其他男性都保持著距離,而我們高帥富又不想結婚的男主角知道女主角是純潔的之後,便保持距離不再接近她,但是男主角嫉妒自己的獸醫好友和女主角走得很近,就一廂情願的決定女主角應該嫁給他,但是男主角在追求女主的過程中屢踢鐵板,為愛傷神,女主角深受吸引但又不能背叛未婚夫,在愛與不愛之間掙扎,寫得相當有張力,後來結婚之後也有段相處的磨合期,並且發生一些事情考驗彼此,通常男女主角結婚之後我就會這本書喪失興趣,但是作者創造的劇情讓我無法停止閱讀,這本書很長但讓我熬夜看得相當過癮。
這本書仍然有歐班揚阿姨早期寫作的男女主角互虐模式,有時會說傷人的話,做傷人的事,不能接受者慎讀,推薦給喜歡看橫刀奪愛、花花公子為愛傷神、婚後相處、男主想馴服女主反被馴服、互虐的類型,有在看影集的感覺。