by Madeleine Brent
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by Peter O'Donnell
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by Lady Mary Stewart
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by Lady Mary Stewart
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Brent's ninth romantic suspense novel (Stormswift; Moonraker's Bride, etc.) takes us from the Australian outback to Victorian England in pursuit of a heroine raised by aborigines. Mitji, later Meg, still later Lady Moira Glencullen, is a ravishing 15-year-old with flaming red hair, small features, and a snub nose, therefore considered an ugly outcast by the large-featured aboriginal tribe that reared her following her infant kidnap. She's so ugly, in fact, that none of the tribal boys will "lie with" her. Mitji takes her boomerang and escapes this hostile environment, meeting Luke, a handsome blond Englishman whose life she saves, and who teaches her English, affixing such weapon-names as nyyyf and ry-ful to her vocabulary. Later, she is adopted by Luke and his beautiful, consumptive wife, Rosemary, who calls her "Meg." On Rosemary's death, Luke falls in love with Meg, pining for her for four years while a "benefactor" pays to educate the young savage at a Swiss finishing school: for "Meg" is really Moira, an Irish heiress abandoned by kidnappers in the outback years earlier, and now pursued by enemies intent on stealing her vast estate. After considerable murder and mayhem in the process, Mitji/Meg/Moira makes the usual escape into strong, safe arms. A wonderful opening with its odd aboriginal detail - but the more mundane Victorian suspense routine is a letdown. All in all: an average, not very tightly plotted offering this time. (Kirkus Reviews)
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