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A Wild Yearning
First published 1994 · 448 pages
A sweeping, feverish journey into the rugged wilderness where desperate escapes collide with forbidden, untamed desires.
What it feels like
This vintage historical romance delivers a sweeping, feverish reading experience steeped in the dramatic intensity of the classic bodice-ripper tradition. The narrative moves at a brisk, breathless pace, carrying the reader out of oppressive, impoverished slums and into a rugged, remote wilderness that perfectly mirrors the untamed passions of its protagonists. The mood is thick with the tension of forbidden desire and the high stakes of survival, wrapping the reader in an atmosphere of desperate yearning and inevitable collision. Written with highly emotive, earnest prose, the story leans fully into its melodramatic roots, offering a deeply felt emotional arc of awakening and conflict. It is a perfect match for readers who devour old-school, high-stakes romances where duty fiercely battles with undeniable, fiery attraction.
- Mood
- sweeping
- rugged
- feverish
- tense
- Tone
- melodramatic
- passionate
- earnest
- dramatic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- forbidden desire · escaping poverty · duty versus passion · untamed wilderness
- The writing
- The prose is highly emotive and dramatic, leaning into the sweeping, breathless intensity characteristic of vintage historical romance.
- The arc
- A desperate flight from poverty transforms into a feverish, forbidden awakening of the heart in an unforgiving wilderness.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave old-school, high-stakes historical romances where rugged landscapes mirror the untamed, forbidden passions of the protagonists.
Content notes
- implied domestic abuse
- poverty
- vintage romance tropes
About the book
Desperate to escape her father and brutal home, Delia McQuaid responds to an ad for a mail-order bride and is immediately entranced by Dr. Ty Savitch, whose promise to deliver a wife to his neighbor becomes compromised by his own passions. THE PASSIONATE JOURNEY OF RESTLESS HEARTS
Trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Boston, young Delia McQuaid dreamed of becoming a lady. Answering an advertisement for a mail-order bride, she headed north -- toward a remote Maine settlement, an uncertain destiny and a wedding with a stranger.
But Ty Savitch was leading her up-country. A handsome doctor raised by Indians, he possessed a fiery untamed spirit and blood that ran hot with desires he could barely contain. With one searing kiss Ty carried the lovely Boston spitfire to ecstasy's heights. But a glorious passion suddenly born could never grow. For Delia had promised her future forever to another man.... From the Trade Paperback edition.
Description from Open Library.
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