Blood Royal - Hardcover

Harold Robbins; Junius Podrug

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765308118 ISBN 13: 9780765308115

Publisher: Forge Books, 2005

Synopsis

Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy tale wedding, she threw herself down a flight of stairs when she was pregnant with a future heir to the throne. Suicide attempts, illicit affairs, and paranoia that there were plots by the Royals to kill her became the norm as the fairy tale turned into a horror story.

After suffering degradation and humiliation at the hands of her husband, the heir to the British throne, she shot him with one of his own antique pistols.
Paranoid that her own attorneys would deceive her, the princess reaches across the Atlantic to hire someone she knows for certain has no ties to the Crown. Marlowe James is an American trial lawyer. Running away from an abusive home, she supported herself by working as a waitress, rising to become a famous trial lawyer.

Marlowe James has been dubbed the "burning bed lawyer" by the news media because of her successful defense of women who killed their abusive husbands. And to top that, she was the accused in her first murder trial. Now she not only has to do battle in the Old Bailey with barristers loyal to the Crown, she has to come to grips with her own feelings about a woman who has been handed everything any woman would desire---and throws it all away.

The explosive tale that will be exposed in the courtroom is one of jealous rage and unfulfilled desires, of sexual deceit by one of the most powerful men on earth---and the bloody revenge enacted by a woman scorned.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in New York City, Harold Robbins is one of the world's bestselling authors, writing novels that often mirrored his own experiences and that were peopled by characters he had met.

Junis Podrug was selected by the Robbins Estate to carry on the ideas, uncompleted works, and tradition of Harold Robbins because he was both a friend of Harold's and a writer whose books Harold admired. He is the author of Harold Robbins' Sin City and Heat of Passion.

Review:

"Robbins's books are packed with action, sustained by a strong narrative
drive, and are given vitality by his own colorful life." The Wall Street Journal

"Robbins faithful fans will be lining up for this one. The plot is spiced
with loads of fantastical sex and nymphomaniacal women." Booklist on Sin City

"International settings . . . steamy sex scenes . . . a genuine feel for the turmoil
of the times." Romantic Times on The Betrayers

"Robbins is a master."--Playboy

"Robbins's sixth posthumous novel finds new cowriter Podrug outwriting the hormonal ghost. . . . Podrugs's strong, crisp style excels."---Kirkus Reviews on The Betrayers

About this edition

• Publisher: Forge Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0765308118
• ISBN 13: 9780765308115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384