Wealthy, powerful and majestically handsome, he is a man of dark secrets–a master of the ancient martial arts of an exotic distant land. Scarred by a childhood of shocking degradation, he has sworn to love chastely… but burns with the fires of unfulfilled passion. THE STAR Lovely, innocent and nearly destitute, she is drawn to him by a fevered yearning she could never deny — following her enigmatic “shadow warrior” into a dangerous world of desire and righteous retribution.
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: January 1, 1991 by Avon
ISBN: 9780380761319 (ISBN10: 0380761319)
Language: English
She become a romance writer after six years as a geologist–a career which consisted of getting out of bed in the middle of the night and driving hundreds of miles alone across west Texas to sit drilling rigs, wear a hard hat, and attempt to boss around oil-covered males considerably larger than herself. This, she decided, was pushing her luck. So she gave all that up to sit in a chair and stare into space for long periods of time, attempting to figure out What-Happens-Next. She and her husband David currently divide their time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Texas
The Shadow and the Star is a historical romance novel by Laura Kinsale. It tells the story of Samuel Gerard, a young man who has been scarred by his childhood of abuse. He is taken in by Lady Ashland and her family, and he begins to learn the ways of the martial arts from Dojun, a Japanese butler. Samuel soon becomes a skilled warrior, but he is still haunted by his past.
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