Others talk about Alice's naivity and purity as being annoying or stupid. Other reviewers have mentioned the unlikelyhood that these two could ever actually get together. The scene and circumstances to which they meet for the first time is perhaps my favorite meeting of all time, and there are scenes throughout this book that make it UNFORGETTABLE (ie.the rain scene, the hot springs scene, the key scene.just to name a few). A naive, innocent, virgin who has never seen half the things that haunt Lucian. He has seen, experienced, and performed dispicable acts of humanity and is completely disenfranchised with everyone and everything. A man who is the verge of personal collapse. A spy who hosts 'orgies' in his underground grotto to gain useful information for national security. The 'fallen' twin who just never quite measures up to his brother. (See She is hard at work on her next book.įirst read Oct. Gaelen lives in western Pennsylvania with her college-sweetheart husband, Eric, a schoolteacher, with whom she co-writes middle grade fantasy adventure novels under the pen-name, E.G.

It was here, while studying the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats that she first fell in love with the Regency period in which her novels are set. in English literature with a minor in Philosophy from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, a quaint lakeside village where Mark Twain once owned a home.

Her books are available in sixteen languages and have won numerous genre awards, such as the Bookseller's Best, the NJRW Golden Leaf (three times), the CRW Award of Excellence, the National Reader's Choice Award, the Beacon, and the Holt Medallion.Ī Pennsylvania native, Gaelen holds a B.A. Gaelen Foley is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of twenty historical romances set in the glittering world of Regency England.

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