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"This sequel to SWEET RELEASE is perfection!"
Reviewed by Suzanne Tucker
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted February 16, 2004

It's just a glance but all that's necessary. He's English Protestant, she's Irish Catholic. Heaven help them! Jamie Blakewell has come to England on behalf of his brother-in-law to encourage the use of naval vessels in the war against the French. He's counting on the influence his friend, Sheff, has Read more...

"A wonderful historical"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 23, 2004

English Protestant Jamie Blakewell hopes his Oxford University friend Lord Sheffield Tate III can influence the House of Lords to employ a navy against the French. However, Sheff is not the same caring person Jamie knew and respected. Instead he seems abusive, mean spirited and obsessed, especially with Read more...

"The sequel to SWEET RELEASE"
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted March 23, 2004

As much as I enjoyed Pamela Clare's first book SWEET RELEASE, when I received her second book, CARNAL GIFT, which is the sequel to SWEET RELEASE, I was eager to jump right in. I'm delighted to say that CARNAL GIFT was as good as SWEET RELEASE and was very Read more...

Summary

Her body and her virginity are to be offered up to a stranger in exchange for her brother's life. Possessing nothing but her innocence and her fierce Irish pride, Brighid's has no choice but to comply.

But the handsome man she faces in the darkened bedchamber is not at all the monster she expected. His tender touch calms her fears while he swears he will protect her by merely pretending to claim her. And as the long hours of the night pass by, as her senses ignite at the heat of their naked flesh, she makes a startling discovery: Sometimes the line between hate and love can be dangerously thin.