Obsessive Love: When Passion Holds You Prisoner

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Is it impossible to let go — despite the pain?

• Do you yearn for someone who is not physically or emotionally available to you?
• Do you believe that if you love him enough he will have to love you?
• When you feel insecure, does it drive you only to want her more?
• Do you find yourself phoning repeatedly or waiting long hours for the phone to ring?

Do you wish someone would let go of you?

• Does an ex-lover or ex-spouse refuse to believe that it’s over?
• Do you receive unwanted phone calls, letters, presents, or visits?
• Is this pursuit of you creating so much anxiety that it affects your physical or emotional well-being?

In this invaluable self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward presents vivid case histories as well as the real-life voices of men and women caught in the grip of obsessive passion.

Whether you’re an obsessive lover or the target of such an obsession, here is a proven, step-by-step program that shows you how to recognize the “connection compulsion,” what causes it, and how to break its hold on your life so that you can go on to build healthy, lasting, and pain-free relationships.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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It was a pretty good book.......2007-01-16

I can't remember how I found out about Obsessive Love. I started looking up things on the internet and came on to this topic. I have been going to counseling for Co-Dependency which has not helped, but I started reading and before I knew it I realized I am a OBSESSIVE LOVER.
But a passive one. Not into hurting anyone, I was hurting myself with worry, and hoping, not wanting to give up what love I had, not hardly sleeping only constant worrying if she would ever come back.
The book was pretty good during the main reading but I got boored and skipped to the main stuff as to getting help, whick is about 2/3rds on back in the book.
I am now making a log, which is what she said to do of 6 things every time you think of that person write it all down. Take it to a counselor if you have one for help.
The part about talking to a chair as if you are in it, is a good thing and I have started using that process also. I think that is a good idea.
The book was informative and I learned who I was, and going to a Counselor is also important. BTW: Take a tape recorder and record your sesson.
I got the book at the library after reading off the internet about it, then I found her book. Got it at a good price used. Will keep around if needing it again. WISHED there was a CD or TAPE about this process to heal. Haven't found one yet. We all will get better, there is no ONE PERSON for you or a SOUL MATE , there are many out there, this I know because after you get over the Obsessive Love you have for this person, you will find someone else and the person you WERE Obsessive over will be a momory. I have been there before. GOOD LUCK AND I KNOW YOU WILL HEAL.
Please Let me know some way how your doing.

A great book.......2004-11-01

Its a great book for those in a painful relationship. Its just worth reading.

Superb!.......2000-03-09

There are a lot of people who think that divorce is wrong, or a full-blown sin. I believe all of those people, as well as others, should read this book. Dr. Forward points out that leaving a relationship is a right, not a privilege, and gives an insightful portrait into the motivations of people, married, divorced, or single, who just can't let go. PLEASE READ!

In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years

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WAR - A REAL TRUE IMPACT STORY
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In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years
Jim Stockdale , and Sybil Stockdale
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WAR - A REAL TRUE IMPACT STORY.......2007-04-23

I first read this when first release and just purchased another copy. If you want to read about two real heros, James Stockdale and his wife Sybil Stockdale read this book. They write side by side in spirit, him in a Vietnames prison, the Hanoi Hilton, and she home with thier children. One of the best love, war and a story that you will remember.

Gripping and Tender.......2005-12-20

The late Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale was the highest ranking POW to return from captivity in North Vietnam. His wife Sybil kept the family focused and hope alive all throughout his long imprisonment.

They present alternating chapters that chronicle their personal challenges which are a microcosm of the nation's challenges at that time.

This should be required reading for all Americans.

For more on the plight of the families of those who were MIA in Vietnam, read Louis Stockstill's epoch-making article:

"The Forgotten Americans of the Vietnam War" By Louis R. Stockstill, at:

http://www.afa.org/magazine/perspectives/Vietnam/1069vietnam.asp

Don't pass this up.......2005-01-26

The BEST book I have ever read. His recount of what he went through is outstanding. I cannot believe the personal, physical, emotional and spiritual strength it took to endure 8 years as a prisoner of War... and the ways in which he communicated with other POW's, his wife and the US government is unbelievable... brilliant. I read this book 2 years ago and gave it to a friend who gave it to another couple friends cross country... eventually I got it back and gave it to my brother who gave it to his buddy... I think either my dad or my uncle has it now. The best book I have read. I reccommend it to anyone. and I can't wait to read it again.

book good, bad seller.......2003-12-12

Buyer beware of bookin2002@yahoo.com. I paid $60.00 for a book that was supposed to be in very good condition. When it arrived, the front cover was water damaged and the book was a third edition. $60.00 for a third edition? Not a very good deal.

True American Hero on Vietnam and his country.......2000-04-27

Remember James Stockdale running for Vice President in the early 90's under the third party? He was perhaps the candidate with the greatest personal integrity in ages.

This book is just as genuine and is a vivid examination of what it's like to be a POW in brutal captivity for years. The book also has his reflections on the present-day U.S.. Here, he is refreshing, and can be brutally candid on such institutions as the South's best-known anachronistic walled military place.

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Eric Newby escapes through a hospital window to become a POW on the run in Italy in 1943. With the Nazis moving in from the north and no certain way back to England, his situation appears grim. But with the help of local farmers and villagers, who risk their lives to shelter him, he survives. Hiding in shepherds' huts and even a cave, he achieves three precious months of freedom - and meets the determined and courageous woman who would become his wife.

Love and War in the Apennines is an intimate account of the horror and surrealism of war, and of the heroism and selflessness of those caught up in its madness. Eric Newby creates an unforgettable record of the resilience of human nature in the face of despair, and forcefully remind us of the pointlessness of war.

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An Epic Adventure..........2007-02-24

Eric Newby knows how to tell a story. This is one of the few books that I started over again immediately after finishing it the first time. The insight into the minds of these extraordinary Italian farmers who hid prisoners of war without thought to their own lives and safety is one of the great adventure reads to come out of World War II. Having passed through this countryside so many times traveling between Milan and Florence, I know first hand how rugged it is. Just to get through these mountains by train is an adventure, as there are dozens of tunnels to pass through after one leaves Bologna. Newby brings the setting to life for the reader, and we walk in his footsteps as he falls upon adverture after another. There is almost an unreal quality to this story, expecially his meeting the wonderful mountain men who live in the most remote parts of these mountains. If you want a really good read, grab a copy of this book. You will not be disappointed.

endurance and inspiration.......2004-08-22

Newby's writing can be rather dry, but in this recounting of his escape from the Germans in WWII Italy, he strikes a fine balance between mawkish sentimentalism and tough-guy posturing. An engrossing narration about the extraordinary measures ordinary people can and will resort to, to stay alive and to do what they think is right. Encouraging, inspiring, and highly recommended.

Extraordinary.......2003-02-12

During World War II, the rural citizens of northern Italy vowed to assist Allied soldiers on the run in their mountainous region. They were operating on an informed heart, on the Golden Rule, wanting to give aid to those who opposed the hated Fascists and Nazis as they would hope someone would help their own sons. And while the Allies were protected by the Geneva Convention should they be captured, the citizens were not and they were subject to less humane punishment, sometimes torture and death, if their actions were found out. But they did it anyway. It is these people, who otherwise lived a pastoral, ancient way of life, whom travel writer extraordinaire Eric Newby profiles in his memoir, LOVE AND WAR IN THE APENNINES.

Those familiar with Newby's other books will find his signature wit, self-deprecating humor and descriptive powers at work here, but his curiosity and appreciation of other people and cultures is in highest gear. He comes to meet the peasantry of northern Italy after fleeing a prison during the chaos following the ouster of Mussolini in September 1943. He is helped by a succession of individuals and families, including the woman who would become his wife and companion in later adventures, the estimable Wanda. The book ends with his unfortunate recapture by the Germans and in an epilogue he revisits the people who took him in ten years after.

Newby is a hugely gifted writer, his sentences are knowing and clear as a bell. He orders information rhythmically, always knows when less is more and more is more. He never bows to sentimentality, never sells anyone out. He does a remarkable job of expressing the fear and dispiritedness that politics and war heave on a people, at the same time revealing their resilience. There is much to admire in this book.

One of Newby's best.......2001-02-13

The Italians Newby depicts in this memoir (and also in his "A Small Place in Italy") are often funny, but never buffoonish. Newby's warm admiration for country folk is always evident, as in this passage where a retired stonemason helps remove an enormous boulder from the hideout the locals are making for him:

"He went over it with his hands, very slowly, almost lovingly. It must have weighed half a ton. Then, when he had finished caressing it, he called for a sledgehammer and hit it deliberately but not particularly hard and it broke into two almost equal halves. It was like magic and I would not have been surprised if a toad had emerged from it and turned into a princess who had been asleep for a million years."

One of Newby's best.......2001-02-13

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Setting: The East Indies and London, 1834

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Lovely widow Alexandra Warren and her young daughter are sailing from Australia to the haven of her family in London when pirates attack their ship and they are captured, separated, and Alex is sold into slavery. Six months later, Captain Gavin Elliott drops anchor at the island of Maduri and is shocked to find a European woman being auctioned in the slave market. Alex clings to hope when the handsome sea captain offers to buy her, but the ruling Sultan of Maduri has plans for Gavin and shrewdly views Alex's plight as a means to control him. Through strength, courage, and wisdom, Gavin thwarts the Sultan's plans, but after surviving the dangers of the South Seas, Alex and Gavin are faced with a more lethal threat when they arrive in London. This time, whether either of them will survive the evil that threatens their lives is anyone's guess.

The exotic locale of the East Indies contrasts vividly with polite London society in this third tale in Ms. Putney's trilogy (The Wild Child and The China Bride). The plot has enough twists and turns to satisfy the most devoted of mystery fans while the relationship between hero and heroine is complicated and the secondary characters well drawn. The author's exploration of British politics, slavery in the 1830s, and London society adds depth and texture to the novel. --Lois Faye Dyer

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After building a fortune in the exotic East, American adventurer and merchant prince Gavin Elliott sets his sails for London to begin a new life. Then fate intervenes on an infamous island in the East Indies where a European woman faces degradation and peril. Though saving her may cost Gavin his life, he cannot refuse to help the fierce beauty who touches his heart and soul with her indomitable spirit.

Alexandra Warren is returning home from Australia as a widow and mother when a pirate attack condemns her to a life of servitude. A miracle arrives in the form of a steely-eyed Yankee captain, whose reckless courage wins them freedom and a safe passage home to London. Intimate strangers joined by too many secrets, they slowly begin to heal the past with attraction and tenderness—until an old enemy reaches out to threaten the passionate love Gavin has found with his irresistible bartered bride.

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Some good parts, but overall, it needs some work........2007-03-01

I like books that start off with a bit of a bang. This one certainly does.

In the Tower of London, an adventurer is awaiting trial for the murder of his wife, whom he loves quite dearly. For Gavin Elliot life on the seas and dry land has been a long series of hairbreadth escapes, and winning the love of not one, but two women. Now he's lost everything.

We get the heroine, the blond and beautiful Alexandra Warren in the middle of a pirate attack in the East Indies. Recently widowed, and with her young daughter, Katie, in tow, she's seeking to return to England and her family. But captured by pirates from a close by island, not only is she separated from her beloved daughter, she is subjected to a life of horrors.

Noted romance author Mary Jo Putney gives us another entry in her "Bride" series, with the title in this one coming from the events surrounding Alex's captivity by the decadent Sultan Kasan. The Sultan offers Elliot a choice -- to rescue Alex he must win at the challenges of the Lion's Game, or help the sultan build a merchanting empire. The fact that the sultan uses piracy to terrorize local shipping is a little matter here as well -- and Elliot has pressing business in England over a touch of revenge. How he manages to outwit the Sultan and rescue Alex and her daughter makes for one of the more entertaining sections of the novel.

Returning to England, our two main characters have managed to make a marriage of convenience, but further troubles await in persistant would-be lovers, a pack of in-laws (mostly characters from previous Putney novels that I found to be distracting), and that murder charge that the novel opened with. While I don't mind flashbacks as a plot device, sometimes it gets annoying. To the author's credit, her handling of the old tried-and-true "captured by pirates" storyline is here told in an inventive style, and kept my interest until the end of the novel. Both of the characters have emotional baggage that they cart along with them, and Putney handles the sensitive issue of rape and abuse in a dignified manner, much different than the usual "forcible seduction" that's a stock in trade of bodice rippers.

The bad part of the novel is that the villains are pretty much stock characters here, with only the Sultan being at all interesting (enough to make me wonder if Putney was setting him up as a future hero in a forthcoming book), but the others are pretty much one-notes. The really bad part is that the novel could have been more interesting if the extra characters had been cut out -- I kept getting distracted and bogged down with the little tidbits that Putney kept tossing here and there. Still, it's an interesting read for those of you who like their romance novels with plenty of adventure, and Putney has a deft touch in her writing style. Even the erotic bits are tasteful, and that's rare thing to find these days.

Interesting.......2006-08-24

This is my first book by this auothor. I found it to be exteremely different from the conventional historical romances which I'm used to reading. I do have to admit, that Gavin was described as the epitome of male perfection - which obviously is very unrealistic. I found many facets of the story quite realistic, for instance how the characters dont immediately fall - like how its usually portrayed in other novels...it took them a good 6 - 8 months to fall in love.... i found this idea quite close to reality. The initial attraction is present of course, and it wasnt overstated.
All in all...i enjoyed this book and the writing style of Mary Jo.

Dragged 2.5 stars.......2006-06-08

This was my first book by this author. I was quite excited because of all the good reviews for her writing. I could not connect with these characters. I didn't find that there was any chemistry between the two. I found it quite annoying that Gavin always said and did the perfect thing. He had no passion whatsoever. Very boring book.

One of her best.......2006-05-10

Mary Jo Putney has added another book onto the list of must reads. No disappointment here. From Australia to the East Indies, pirate ships, slave trade and of course, the happy ending. The story is fast paced and I couldn't put it down; a book to grab off the shelf and add to the shopping basket.

A Pleasant Surprise.......2005-06-29

I was prepared to not like this book. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that I picked it up, read the first page and put it down in favor of something else.

A few months later it was still sitting in my book bin, and I suppose I must have felt sorry for it, being neglected as it was, so I chanced it and cracked it open.

I'm so glad to be wrong! I really, honestly and truly, enjoyed this book from start to finish. I found the hero refreshing, engaging, and a man I could really cheer for in the end.

In reading many of the other reviews, I will agree that the way the book begins was the reason I didn't wish to read it at first. I just simply wasn't in the mood to deal with the possible let-down of the heroine dying before the book's end. Having finished it, however, I think the beginning was a rather brilliant stroke on Ms. Putney's part, as I spent most of the book in fevered anticipation of when "the bomb" would drop.

It was a well-crafted bit of work, and I would recommend this author to anyone.

Prisoners of love: A guide for anyone wanting to cultivate, maintain and strengthen relationships with loved ones during times of incarceration

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Prisoners of love: A guide for anyone wanting to cultivate, maintain and strengthen relationships with loved ones during times of incarceration
T. K Cyan-Brock
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Prisoners of Love is a self-help guide for the families, friends and other loved-ones of those who are incarcerated. It provides realistic information and guidance to help deal with the difficulties affecting those whose lives are tourched by the incarceration of someone whom they hold dear.

Convict Love Tokens: The Leaden Hearts the Convicts Left Behind

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Convict Love Tokens: The Leaden Hearts the Convicts Left Behind

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Intriguing and poignant messages from the past are borne by the "love tokens" produced by British convicts sentenced to transportation to Australia. Expelled from the known world, usually never to see their loved ones again, convicts defaced cartwheel pennies - sanding back the King's head on one side and Britannia on the other - and engraved their keepsakes with a variety of hopes, fears, messages and predictions.

"Convict Love Tokens" catalogues and describes the small coins containing messages to family and loved ones from British convicts about to be exiled to Australia. The authors include photographs of these miniature works of art and sorrow, as well as accounts of the lives of the men and women who made them to leave behind as remembrances. A moving and fascinating account of a little known aspect of Australian and British history.

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In Love and War
Jim Stockdale , and Sybil Stockdale
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A travel memoir, a masterpiece which can never be equaled

intense,compelling as he allows, Genet a poet,a writer,first

A great and unique work.

Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics)
Jean Genet
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ASIN: 1590170288
Release Date: 2003-01-31

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Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personal—the last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.

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A travel memoir, a masterpiece which can never be equaled.......2006-10-26

If the reader is looking for easy explanations to the Palestinian refugees' war with the nation of Israel, Jean Genet's book is not the place to seek them. And I don't advise readers to pick through the text looking for the succinct sentences in which Genet clearly states why he's on the side of the Palestinians, or if he's anti-Israel, or anti-American. There is no proof of reviewer Tim Keane's conclusion that Genet "seethes with hatred of Israel"; there are no such violent emotions in Prisoner of Love. At 430 pages, be prepared to find subtleties of experience shaded by conflicting responses--nuances completely unavailable via print journalism or network news, CNN, or Al Jazeera. But the very fact that Genet wanted to observe life in the refugee camps shows that he had to make a choice. Nearly all the protagonists of his memoir, this textual "souvenirs," are Palestinians and generally Muslim. Indeed, the compelling force which drives the relatively plotless Prisoner of Love are the individuals to whom Jean attachments himself: the dynamic Lieutenant Mubarak, Dr. Mahjoub and the charismatic female doctor, Dr. Nabila, Khaled Abu Khaled and Abu Omar, and an accomplished woman friend, a blond Lebanese guide and translator, Nidal, and dozens of other people. Genet was particularly attached to Hamza and his mother, who he attempts to find again after his absence from Palestine for nearly 14 years. We cannot forget the common fedayee rebel, the fedayeen as a whole who fought to make the Palestinian plight known.

When evaluating Prisoner of Love, it's important to remember that Genet is a writer. Throughout his work, Genet tells us how difficult it is to recount his experiences since he's not sure at times what he's seeing, and he must make his writing conform to the necessities of craft. And whatever writing craft decisions Jean made it is clear that the Palestinians "wrote" him as well; Jean was seldom in control of his experience. As I read, I realized that Genet is the ultimate refugee; he seeks to be with people who are like him. My conclusion is this: Palestine chose him.

Only Genet could have written this book. He is a bruised romantic searching for a resting place that will caress both his homeless intellect and his orphaned body: "A little while ago I wrote that though I shall die, nothing else will. And I must make my meaning clear. Wonder at the sight of a corn-flower, at a rock, at the touch of a rough hand--all the millions of emotions of which I'm made--they won't disappear even though I shall. Other men will experience them, and they'll still be there because of them. More and more I believe I exist in order to be the terrain and proof which show other men that life consists in the uninterrupted emotions flowing through all creation" (361). As an orphan with prison experience, and disaffected from France, Genet was willing to try on other peoples' lives; I suspect that without the structure dictated by the craft of writing, and his talent coming to the attention of well-known writers, Genet would have disappeared into the French prison system.

Another conclusion I came to: Genet shows us the difference between terrorism and Arab nationalism. Is there any hope that the U.S., of which I am a native-born citizen, will ever figure out this difference?

Overwhelmingly, the single image I have of Prisoner of Love is that to read it is to travel the land that dwelled *in* Jean Genet, this traveler who was intelligent enough to let his emotions guide him. And only by reading can I share in living a life which speaks so eloquently of rebellion and blood, of life and death.

intense,compelling as he allows, Genet a poet,a writer,first.......2000-10-11

Genet allows you to feel the immediacy of the Palestinian situation with particles from lives,from ill-defined fragments of lives disrupted with no future,he stayed with a family in 1980 a half-day and a whole night where the young son,Hamza a fedayee went off at night to fight. Genet hearing gun fire in the distance inhabited his bed and was brought Turkish coffee and water in the night as a replacement for the young man,by his mother. Genet is a writer/poet,a political thinker,but never a man of politics, a deeply sensitive man,a virtuoso of the sensual image, as the starry-night reflected against the curtain in his room with the small blue table. "Of course it's understood that the words,nights,forests,septet,jubilation desertion and despair are the same words that I have to use to describe the goings on at dawn in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris when the drag queens depart after celebrating their mystery,doing their accounts and smoothing banknotes out of the dew."

Genet was allowed with special permission to visit the massacre site at the camps at Sabra and Chantila,smelling the rotting flesh, "They happened I was affected by them. I talked about them. But while the act of writing came later, after a period of incubation,nevertheless in a moment like that or those when a single cell departs from its usual metabolism and the original link is created of a future,unsuspected cancer,or a piece of lace, so I decided to write this book."

Genet has an intense need for passion of any dimension,scouring the vigours of whatever parts of fragments of the lifeworld's complexity presents itself to him. I once thought of this book as a romantic means of portrayel a betrayel of a political situation,one, the only one that excited Genet.It means something that only encounterings lives in struggle,bent into a repressive state that Genet finds the only life worth encountering,sensing and feeling about. This book was completed in 1986 after suffering from throat cancer, he died on the night of 14-15th of April,1986,while correcting proofs.

A great and unique work........1999-06-26

This book is absolutely essential to any understanding of the Palestinian situation. It is also the mostimportant work of Genet's entire career.

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Three things that really bugged me
weak for a third book
I want Annie & Strat backk !
Everyone NEEDS to read this!

Prisoner of Time
Caroline B. Cooney
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Release Date: 1999-08-10

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Tod Lockwood has never wanted to be anyone's knight in shining armor. In fact, he wants to avoid having anything to do with girls, at least for the present. But that's before Devonny Stratton steps into his life out of the nineteenth century.

As for sixteen-year-old Devonny, she has no plans for marriage until her father arranges to wed to the contemptuous but well-connected Lord Winden. Devonny has only one hope. Someone must rescue her. Can Tod Lockwood be Time's answer to her prayers? Life never seems simple to Devonny, but do the solutions to her problems await her in the future? Or will she only become a prisoner of a different time?

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hmm..........2007-05-21

I loved the first two books before this one and she seems to make it a filler book. Like the author needed to get this part of the story out of the way so she could write the rest. I see how meeting each other changed Devonny and Todd, but it really was sort of a waste because Devonny ends up marrying Lord Winden anyway, and Todd...well he does whatever. and where was there father in this book? because in the next and last book it says that their parents had gotten back together, so shouldnt they have been talking in this one?

Three things that really bugged me.......2005-09-01

Okay, so I really, really adored the otehr two books in this series, but a couple things in this particular book really annoyed me:
1.) The characters all seem to have split personalities, because their mood changes in the blink of an eye.
2.) Tod fell in lvoe with Devonny, who's brother Strat fell in love with Annie, Tod's sister. This absolutely SCREAMS incest. Eew.
3.) Um, hello? Isn't this series suposed to be more about Strat and Annie, the much more developed and inruiging characters of the story?

Otherwise, I'd say this book is pretty good. It'd just be better if it was independent instead of in a series, is all.

weak for a third book.......2003-12-25

I have read the whole series by Ms. Cooney, but to me this one's the weakest of the four. The story of Anne and Strat was going good, and then she has to bring Devonney and Tod in to the scene. But I do believe that she had her reasons. During the period, women were suppressed by male, and Devonney was way ahead of her time. It did both Tod and Devonney good to learn about the past and present(or future) and realize their potential as a human. Although it was an odd-one-out from the Quatret, it was a good read.

I want Annie & Strat backk !.......2003-03-10

Ok this book was alright.... I thought the point of this book was Devonny & Tod, and their romance. But then, it spent a lot of the time, focusing back on Devonny's time. This bored me greatly!!!
I also didn't know what to make of Lord Windon, Devonny's fiance. In the book it was stressed that he was evil, but then towards the end it was showing a gentler side of him, so I was kind of stunned. I do admit, I wish Annie and Strat were more in this though!
Also, I thought Devonny and Tod would have more of a romance. It was kind of like Tod fell in love with her, and Devonny fell in love with him. But there wasn't any words or emotions to back their statements up!! And when Devonny left, it seemed like Tod showed no emotion. I wish it was better, and I can't wait to get my romance-lovin paws on the final one!!!!!!

Everyone NEEDS to read this!.......2003-01-11

This book is woderful! It shows the struggles of a wealthy 16 year old girl living in the late 1800's. Devonny is forced into a marriage with a snobby englishman that doesn't care for her at all, as long as she can make him rich. She is rescued by Tod Lockwood (Annie's brother) and brought through time to the late 90's. She is hoping to find her brother Strat their, but it turns out he is in Egypt! She sees how the women of our time provide for themselves. Finally, she understands she must go back to her own time to save her mother who is imprisoned it by her father. Many people think Annie and Strat should be in these books, but I find it just fine without them.

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Prisoner of My Desire
Johanna Lindsey
Manufacturer: Avon Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000B58SQC

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In a phenomenal string of 23 best sellers, Johanna Lindsey has delighted readers with sensual stories of unforgettable romance. Now she triumphs again with a breathtaking tale of two medieval lovers who become each other's captives in a dangerous struggle for power - and a passionate fight for love. In war-torn England of 1152, Lady Rowena Belleme is forced by her brutal step-brother, Gilbert d'Ambray, to marry a powerful, wealthy and elderly lord. When Rowena's aging groom dies on their wedding night, Gilbert coldly kidnaps a substitute to sire her child. But he unwittingly captures her worst enemy, Warrick deChaville - a magnificent knight who awakens Rowena's deepest desires! Warrick vows to resist his petite young captor's amorous whims, but he is intoxicated by her beauty and betrayed by his own virility. Yet all the while he plans a sweet revenge - and when Rowena falls into his hands at last, he makes her suffer the same raptuous torment he has endured. While Gilbert prepares to storm Warrick's stronghold, Rowena fights a very different battle with this silver-eyed warrior, trying to win his heart as surely as he has won her own.

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