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    Kidnapped: His Innocent Mistress

    By Nicola Cornick

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    If I accept his offer to be his mistress, I could have the finest silks, the best carriage and be transformed from ugly duckling to a pampered, pretty swan! And although I would feel a virtuous pride in turning down the wicked rake, I also have an unmaidenly interest in exactly what the role would entail .

    Catriona is doing her best to resist the skillful seduction of the scandalous heir to the Earl of Strathconan. But kidnapped and shipwrecked with only this rake as company, her adventure has just begun .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Historical
    Release dateMar 1, 2009
    ISBN9781426829963
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    Kidnapped: His Innocent Mistress
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    Nicola Cornick

    USA Today bestselling author Nicola Cornick has written over thirty historical romances for Harlequin and HQN Books. She has been nominated twice for a RWA RITA Award and twice for the UK RNA Award. She works as a historian and guide in a seventeenth century house. In 2006 she was awarded a Masters degree with distinction from Ruskin College, Oxford, where she wrote her dissertation on heroes.

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    • 5/5
      First of all the title implies that the hero kidnaps the heroine and makes her his mistress. This is NOT what happens. The terrible title aside this book was a delightful read. The first person narrative was charming as the heroine is a winning character. Catriona discovers after her father’s death that she is penniless. She is escorted to the family she did not know existed by the Earl of Strathconan, a captain in the Navy. The Earl, Neil Sinclair by name, also appears to have dealings with the smugglers that work around Catriona’s new home. Through a twist of fate Catriona and Neil find themselves kidnapped on the same ship at the same time. As they work together to survive when they are shipwrecked, their feelings for each other grow. But will their newfound relationship survive when they return to the real world?
    • 3/5
      Meh. Nicola Cornick is an author I can normally count on to provide a couple of hours of good historical romance reading, but "Kidnapped: His Innocent Mistress" wasn't one of her better stories. She states in her intro that this book is her homage to RLS and it was easy to see that, however, the light-heartedness usually present was just missing for me in this tale.When Catriona is left destitute and homeless after the deaths of both parents, she discovers her father actually had a brother! She's bookish and rather more fiery that most young women of her day, but she's very glad that she has a family to fall back on, even if it was one she never knew about before. The only downside she can see is the arrogant rogue that's sent to escort her to her new family. Why, less than 48 hours after meeting her, her's offering her carte blanche!Sinclair will be an Earl one day, but he refuses to live the life of leisure his uncle, the Earl, demands. Instead he joined the British Navy at sixteen and has spent his years since then sowing his oats. He's captivated by Catriona's fire from the first, so when they end up kidnapped and shipwrecked together he has a devil of a time controlling his 'urges'. I think I enjoyed the play on RLS's Kidnapped more than anything else in this book. By writing in the RLS style, it was hard for me to get a good 'feel' for the characters and their relationship. It had a more stilted tone and the hero and heroine stayed figures on paper rather than coming alive for me. The romance part of the book was definitely G-rated and the nasty plot at the end seemed more contrived to force a happy ending than something that came up naturally. But even though this one wasn't a winner, I'll continue to read Cornick's books because her normal writing style is one I enjoy.
    • 2/5
      It was a struggle for me to read. I could not relate or feel the characters.