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This is a hauntingly poignant tale dealing with the myriad experiences of a once-in-a-lifetime love, and the devastating force of its ultimate impact on the psyche of a devoted and sensitive man, dating from the naivete of early youth to the acculturation of mature manhood. This is a novel about one man’s relationship with life and burgeoning love in a world of a bygone era (America, circa 1920 -1945), when innocence was the acceptable standard of moral conduct and honor foremost in the vanguard of human experience. Passionate in theme and spiritual in its inexorable premise of true love and character-driven destiny, The Blue Marionette is a story about one man’s efforts to salvage happiness and redemption from the pernicious ...
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Unmarried, thirty-year-old Sophy Metcalfe told a little white he to soothe her nagging mother. The white lies name was "Dominic," the ideal boyfriend: charming, successful, the kind of prospective son-in-law that would make any mother proud. But now that Sophy's thin and beautiful sister, Belinda, is getting married, Dominic is going to have to make an appearance in the flesh -- which should be a pretty neat trick ... since the genuine article vanished from Sophy's life after a single, singularly unmemorable evening. So she resorts to a very drastic measure -- aka Josh Carmichael, the escort she hires at the very last minute, sight unseen.But the trouble with white lies is that they tend to multiply. The trouble with rugged, too-sexy, and...
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Review:Bill Riepe, book reviewer and literary critic for the CHEESEQUAKE VILLAGE VOICE, says:
Employing all the artistry of the gifted writer, Margaret Marr has crafted a marvelously inventive tale of sorcery, mystery, suspense and excitement, guaranteed to fascinate the reader from the first page to the last. The raw virility of the male protagonist, Ty, played against the engaging vulnerability of the heroine, Chely, provides an undercurrent of sexual tension to the plot. Ms. Marr handles this tastefully and with so light a touch it is never a diversion from the story line.
Some fantasy writers wander aimlessly into a maze of fright and horror and then attempt a conclusion which demands an act of faith from the reader. Margaret Marr p...
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