When Brandon's memory returns and realizes that Emma is the woman that saved him and nursed him.the woman he has loved for years.I expected these two to start to work towards being together. (Huge Plot Hole) They have many interactions that mostly consist of Emma avoiding Brandon. Emma has somehow moved up into the ranks of surgeon during a time when women are not even allowed to be referred to as Doctor let alone surgeon. But when his aristocratic family located him and took him home to heal, she realized she was too far beneath him to ever have a chance. She fell in love with Brandon as she nursed him. She found redemption in volunteering to care for the sick. He grew to love her for her kindness and her beauty.Įmma used to be a prostitute turned madam. When he ended up a nameless nobody in the public hospital, Emma became the guardian angel that took care of him when he was on the brink of death. Too bad it was very disappointing and not executed well.īrandon returned home from the war wounded and scarred. They had the perfect build up for the perfect storm.

I was really looking forward to Emma and Brandon's story. When she’s not traveling, she’s at home in Northern Vermont with her luscious husband of thirty-six years, an empty nest, three cats, four sewing machines, and one Springer Spaniel, and when she’s not working she’s watching movies, listening to rock and roll (preferably Japanese) and spending far too much time quilting.Īnne Stuart also writes as Kristina Douglas. Her general outrageousness has gotten her on Entertainment Tonight, as well as in Vogue, People, USA Today, Women’s Day and countless other national newspapers and magazines. She’s won numerous awards, appeared on most bestseller lists, and speaks all over the country. Martins Press, Berkley, Dell, Pocket Books and Fawcett. Since then she's written more gothics, regencies, romantic suspense, romantic adventure, series romance, suspense, historical romance, paranormal and mainstream contemporary romance for publishers such as Doubleday, Harlequin, Silhouette, Avon, Zebra, St.

Her first novel was Barrett's Hill, a gothic romance published by Ballantine in 1974 when Anne had just turned 25. Anne Stuart is a grandmaster of the genre, winner of Romance Writers of America's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, survivor of more than thirty-five years in the romance business, and still just keeps getting better.

Heartless by anne elisabeth stengl