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Heroine: Jasmine De Marco

  

Publisher: Ballintine Historical Romance

Hero: Rowan Lindley/ Jamie Leslie

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ISBN: 0-345-40134-4

Location: England/ India

Copyright: 1992

Historical (1597)

  

Pages: 529

Princess Yassman has been blessed with rapturous beauty, fierce intelligence, and an innocent sensuality that captivates two formidable men- her scheming half brother, Salim, and her loving husband, Prince Jamal.  But her days of bliss and nights of steamy passion are shattered when Jamal is murdered, and Yassman flees to England and the court of James I.  Calling herself Jasmine, she is reunited with her beautiful mother, Velvet, and her grandmother, the legendary Skye O’Malley de Marisco.
Before long, Jasmine is caught up in the tangled intrigues of the court of the Stuart king, James I, where she is admired by the most powerful men in England: Rowan Lindley, Marquess of Westleigh, her good natured second husband; the Earl of Glenkirk, who tempts her with forbidden passion; and hot blooded Henry Stuart, prince of England.  It is here that she truly becomes Wild Jasmine, a woman who lives and loves with fierce abandon and who surrenders to the deepest pleasures of love.

"Look, my princess!  The moon is rising."
She looked in the direction that he was pointing and said, "It was full on, my birthday a few days ago.  Alas, it has begun to wane."
"Even as my love for you begins to grow," he promised her.
Yassman blushed again.  His words were so wonderfully thrilling.  She had never imagined that a man could say such lovely things, and what was more, he sounded so sincere.  Perhaps, just perhaps, this marriage was not a bad thing and would work out.  Still, she knew not what to answer him back.  So she remained quiet.
He took her hand in his and squeezed it gently.  Then, raising it up, he turned it up, he turned over and placed a warm kiss upon her palm.  "Such a dainty hand, my princess," he murmured low.  "I am overcome with the thought that soon that hand will caress me."
The touch of his mouth upon her skin set her heart to leaping in her chest. "Ohhh," she gasped as the sensation suffused her body, leaving her weak with the simple pleasure his first kiss had created...