Synopsis
Sheridan Bromleigh Had Spent Most Of Her Early Life As A Happy Vagabond With Her Unruly American Father And His Vagrant Friends. Then, Given Over To The Care Of A Strict Maiden Aunt, She Was Taught To Be A Lady - Poor But Genteel - And Finally A Teacher. When She Was Hired To Act As Chaperone To A Pretty But Spoilt Heiress Travelling To England To Join An Aristocratic Fiance, Sheridan Was Delighted. Now, At Last, She Could Visit Her Family'S Country. But Somehow Everything Went Wrong.For Miss Charise Lancaster, Not Over-Gifted With Intelligence, Eloped With A Stranger Before She Could Meet Her Suitor. And Sheridan Was Left With The Horrid Task Of Telling Lord Burleton She Had Somehow Misplaced His Bride. As She Gazed At The Tall, Confident Man Before Her, Her Courage Failed. She Was Doubly Shocked When She Heard His News. Lord Burleton, A Drunkard And A Wastrel, Had Been Killed The Night Before. At Which Point Fate Took Over. Sheridan Was Knocked Unconscious On The Quayside, And Recovered To Find Herself In The Handsome Stranger'S Care, Not Knowing Who She Was.It Was To Be The Beginning Of A Dazzling, Witty, Dramatic, And Romantic Sequence Of Events In Which Every Possible Confusion Was To Take Place.
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About Judith McNaught
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Judith McNaught
Born 1944
Judith Spaeth was born in May 10, 1944 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA, and grew up all over the country, the oldest of three children of an appliance-store franchiser and a housewife. Before majored in Business at Northwestern University, Judy married with a dentist from St. Louis, Missouri, and they had two children, a daugther, Whitney (b. 1967), and a son, Clay (1969). But the marriage didn't work out, and at 25, she became a divorced mother to two. She worked as comptroller of a major trucking company and was the first female executive producer at a CBS radio station. In 1974, while working as an assistant director on a TV-commercial film crew in St. Louis, she met an advertising director at General Motors, Michael McNaught, a divorced father of five. The pair married later that year and moved with her children to a Detroit suburb. Judy devoted herself to homemaking and slowly went little crazy. She started to read in her spare time, and she bought by accident her first romance: "The Flame and the Flower" by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, and she loved it. With her husband encouragement, who buying her a new typewriter, she decided to try writing a novel herself in 1978. She wrote her first manuscript, "Whitney, My Love", a historical novel with the names of her childrens as protagonist, but she cannot found a publisher. She decided wrotre a contemporary romance, "Tender Triumph" and she sold in January 1982, the next month her sister Debbie died of an allergic reaction to medication. In June 19, 1983, her husband Mike, a hunter, was killed in an acciden while cleaning his guns, he died in her arms. The next day, the cover art for "Tender Triumph" came in the mail, but she had lost the interesting in write. She and her children moved to Dallas, Texas, close to friends. Her books "Double Standards" and "Whitney, My Love" had been published, and after two years lost to mourning, she began writing again. She remarried a third time with Don Smith, a engineer and professional golfer, and moved to Friendswood, but the marriage ended friendly after three years in May 1993. Judy lives in a white-columned waterfront mansion near Galveston, Texas. Her children have grown up, her daugther was now a teacher, and her son an accounts manager.
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