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Surrender the Night

by Christine Monson

Published 1987ISBN 978-0-3808-9969-2

BRIDE OF REVOLUTION... SLAVE OF SHATTERING DESIRE Desperate to escape the clutches of her mother, Eliza Hilliard, 17, trades the sumptuous false freedoms of Boston society for marriage to a royal stranger... An innocent in a palace of dark intrigue, Eliza is helplessly captured in a bondage of raw desire--swept on a sea of frightening sensual ecstasy. She swears to flee from the 28 year old notorious Hungarian prince--before she loses her very will to the ruthless hunger which possesses her body and soul. But as the flames of war erupt, the lovers are torn by a scandal of loyalties divided, a private hell of dangerous betrayal. And in a last deadly game of power, they gamble the one thing they cannot live without... the radiant, forever promise of a love too long denied.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthLength not listed
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1987
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3808-9969-2
Language
English
Edition record
OL10754357M
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Good to know

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Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.