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The Silken Web
First published 1992 · 522 pages
A glamorous, angst-drenched romance where duty and desire collide in a messy, passionate love triangle.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like stepping into a glamorous, high-stakes 90s soap opera, where every glance is loaded with tension and every secret threatens to shatter a carefully constructed life. The narrative moves at a brisk, addictive pace, pulling you through a tangled web of duty, deception, and undeniable attraction. It is drenched in angst, capturing the suffocating weight of choosing between what is expected and what is desperately wanted. The prose is emotionally heightened and accessible, leaning into the sensory details of repressed longing and explosive passion. It is a perfect escape for readers who love classic, melodramatic romance, offering a fraught but deeply satisfying journey through the messy complexities of the human heart.
- Mood
- angsty
- glamorous
- fraught
- emotionally charged
- Tone
- melodramatic
- earnest
- passionate
- tense
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- duty versus desire · tangled love triangles · hidden secrets · the burden of choice · romantic entanglement
- The writing
- Accessible and emotionally heightened, focusing heavily on the sensory details of attraction and inner turmoil.
- The arc
- Moves from repressed longing and dutiful resignation to explosive revelations and passionate, hard-won resolution.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave classic, soapy 90s romance with high-stakes love triangles and glamorous, angst-filled drama.
Content notes
- emotional infidelity
- deception
- family conflict
About the book
ONE WOMAN, TWO MEN... ALL TRAPPED IN THE SILKEN WEB...
Kathleen, a young sophisticate marrying one man while still in love with another --- and hiding her turmoil behind elegance.
Erik, a talented videographer who let Kathleen know he found women easy to seduce, but not to marry.
Seth, the wealthy heir to a department store fortune who could give Kathleen everything she wanted... except true fulfillment.
Now all would be caught in a web of lies so fragile that one fateful encounter could tear it apart --- and force Kathleen to make a choice between the family that needs her and the needs of her own heart.
Description from Open Library.
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