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Come Love A Stranger

  • 1984 first published
  • 501 pages
  • ★ 4.2 (5 ratings)
  • 12 editions

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss's Come Love A Stranger (1984) is a historical romance and historical fiction novel. The story is set in Mississippi. It deals with Amnesia and plantation life.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 73 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 12 editions.

At about 501 pages, most readers finish it in 9–10 hours.

About Come Love A Stranger

A woman with no name and no memory...The two men who claim her:one with love, the other with fear...A dazzling tale of secret passions--and a love tragically lost and miraculously reborn--by the incomparable storyteller.Mere days after Ashton Wingate's wedding to the enchanting Lierin, capricious Fate stole the Mississippi plantation owner's beloved from him. Now, three years later, his carriage has collided with a cloaked rider on horseback: a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the young bride who was swallowed up by the merciless river.She awakens from unconsciousness in his magnificent home with no memory of who she is. Yet the tenderness of this noble, caring stranger who lovingly calls her "Lierin" soon captures her heart and enflames her with wanting. Then another enters their lives, threatening to destroy the happiness they have rediscovered in each other's arms--the dark and dangerous Malcolm Sinclair, who claims the enigmatic beauty is, in fact, his own wife, Lenore. But Ashton has sworn that he will not lose his adored one a second time, and he will risk any peril to preserve their newfound joy--no matter what the unremembered secrets of his lady's past ultimately reveal.LIERINWith no name and no memory, she awakens from a nightmare of madness into the lives of two stranger.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Amnesia
  • Historical Fiction
  • Plantation life
  • Romance
  • Romance fiction
  • Love stories
  • Historical romance

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote Come Love A Stranger?

Come Love A Stranger was written by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and first published in 1984.

What genre is Come Love A Stranger?

It is usually shelved as Historical Romance and Historical Fiction.

How long is Come Love A Stranger?

The median edition has 501 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Come Love A Stranger?

Readers who like it often enjoy Ransom, El amante japonés and Almost Heaven.

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