ADORA
BERTRICE SMALL
ISBN# 978-14-1991386-0/ (10) 0345284933 (13) 978-0345284938
First Published by Ballantine Books (April 12, 1980) Re-Released - October 18 2007
Cerridwen Press
www.Cerridwnpress.com
E-Book
$7.99
268 Pages
Historical Romance
Rating: 5 Cups
Theadora (Adora) was born to John and Zoë Cantauzene. Adora’s father needs help during a war and asks the help of Sultan Orkhan, in agreement he gives his beloved daughter Adora to the Sultan and she becomes his third wife. Adora has always had her father’s strength in mind, very smart she learns at an early age to do as she is told and what is best. Adora is married to a man fifty years her elder, but for years she does not have to be in his bed, and is glad for that. Adora meets one of the Sultans sons Murad, by accident one day, and from there they fall in love. But not long after that Adora is asked to her husband’s bed.
Murad son of Orkhan, meets Adora and becomes enchanted by her, he has plans to have her as his wife one day. Then his father beds her and she becomes pregnant and Murad is furious with both his father and Adora. Years pass and when Murad becomes Sultan he will have his revenge on Adora.
Years pass and during this time Adora is admired and loved by some and hated by others especially her sister Helena who is the Empress of Constantine her old family city. Adora meets with Alex the Great and he also becomes enamored by her. As the Sultan keeps gathering cities of his own he becomes more powerful. Murad is soon the Sultan and he has a plan in mind, and he will get what he has always wanted Adora.
Ms. Small has put to life a fascinating and exotic story that will shock you; make you laugh, cry and just feel. With Adora, just open the book, and you will be captured into the world of a different time and far away places of the east. Ms. Small describes this era so well you feel as if you are Adora and seeing through her eyes. All the characters were well created and masterly placed to come in at the right time. And as always in any of Ms. Small’s work you will find such passion and erotic love scenes, which teases your senses and tantalizes the mind. All this is captured in this book so well, you find you cannot read it but consume it. An absolute must read.
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