The Reef - Hardcover

Roberts, Nora

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399144412 ISBN 13: 9780399144417

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1998

Synopsis

Tate Beaumont, a beautiful student of marine archaeology, finds adventure, danger, and passion when she reluctantly joins forces with diver Matthew Lassiter and his uncle to find a legendary jeweled amulet said to be lost at the bottom of the sea

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About the Author

Nora Roberts is the #1���New York Times-bestselling author of more than 200 novels. She is also the author of the bestselling���In Death���series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.

Reviews

With her happy balance of love, sex, and the supernatural, Roberts has become the fairy godmother of escapists and the queen of formula romance. Leaving the ``Jones curse'' of last spring's Homeport, Roberts dives now into Anguelique's Curse and the life of another ambitious career girl. It seems that Anguelique Maunoir was a 16-year-old healer who in 1533 was burned for witchcraft, but not before putting her double-whammy on the gold and bejeweled amulet her lover gave her before his own death. Now, Matthew Lassiter and his family of salvage divers have known nothing but bad luck since starting their search for the necklace. Matthew's father was murdered by Silas VanDyke, another of this authors sadly two-dimensional villains, while his uncle Buck lost a leg to a shark. Matthew, though, still hits pay dirt when he and Buck team up with Tate Beaumont and her loving parents to dive for a 16th-century Spanish ship off the coast of Nevis and St. Kitts. Young Tate is the logical, reasonable one of this pair of lovers, studying to become a marine archaeologist and dreaming of one day having her own museum; Matthew, on the other hand, is the stormy one who's had a tougher row to hoe and now loves Tate's mother's home-cooked dinners. Yet, true to the familiar type of honorable ravishers and responsible rogues, he gives Tate up rather than see her drop out of school to follow a lowlife diver like himself. Eight years later, when no one seems particularly happy, the Beaumonts and Lassiters reunite to search for Anguelique's Curse: Tate hopes to establish her professional credentials, Matthew to avenge his father's death. After lots of salty sea and sex, as well as a short course in treasure hunting and marine salvage, the lovers will discover (no surprise) that their fortune is in each other. Clunky denouement aside, Robertss legion of fans will swarm to this. (First printing of 250,000; Literary Guild main selection; $250,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Feisty marine archaeologist Tate Beaumont lives for the challenge of retrieving sunken treasure from the depths of the ocean. Years ago, her life had a more personal focus, namely, one Matthew Lassiter, but he destroyed her hopes, and work became her passion. She returned to college with a vengeance, and Matthew retreated to the frozen North where he works as a salvage diver. Now Tate's father plans to ask Matthew and his uncle to help him find "Angelique's Curse," a ruby-and-diamond-encrusted amulet, rumored to have been worn by the witch Angelique as she was burned at the stake centuries before. The Beaumonts and the Lassiters weather their new and tentative partnership on turbulent waters, united by an obsession matched in intensity by only one man--an insane collector who has already committed murder in pursuit of "Angelique's Curse": Matthew's father. Perennial best-seller Roberts has crafted a thrilling treasure-hunt with a trademark edge. One of her most suspenseful tales to date, this novel, a Literary Guild main selection slated for national television advertising, will surely lure a veritable feeding frenzy of fans. Melanie Duncan

When Tate, a student of marine archaeology, joins with the mysterious Matthew Lassiter to dive in search of a jeweled amulet called Anguelique's Curse, she hardly expects the dangerAand the passionAshe encounters.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399144412
• ISBN 13: 9780399144417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 440