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Original Title:	The Secret Pearl
ISBN:	0440242975 (ISBN13: 9780440242970)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Isabella Fleur Bradshaw, Adam Kent
Setting:	United Kingdom

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He first spies her in the shadows outside a London theatre, a ravishing creature forced to barter her body to survive.

To the woman known simply as Fleur, the well-dressed gentleman with the mesmerizing eyes is an unlikely savior. And when she takes the stranger to her bed, she never expects to see him again. But then Fleur accepts a position as governess to a young girl…and is stunned to discover that her midnight lover is a powerful nobleman. As two wary hearts ignite—and the threat of scandal hovers over them—one question remains: will she be mistress or wife?

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Title	:	The Secret Pearl
Author	:	Mary Balogh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 401 pages
Published	:	November 29th 2005 by Dell (first published September 3rd 1991)
Categories	:	Romance. Historical Romance. Historical. Regency. Historical Fiction

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Ratings: 3.9 From 5963 Users | 353 Reviews

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This book, a Mary Balogh classic from 1991, is gripping, dark, and ultimately uplifting. In the opening chapter, a man hires a young, sad looking woman outside Covent Garden and proceeds to have swift and rather brutal sex with her, realizing only after it's too late that she is a virgin. Afterward, he is haunted by the memory and sends his secretary to track her down. Upon his master's order, the secretary hires her to be a governess to the master's five-year-old daughter. It's hard to know



5 stars despite my issues with the book. This is your typical Balogh, well written, borderline cheesy, emotional and probably my favorite Balogh I've read thus far. I will get to my issues shortly, but overall I adore this book and will cherish it for years to come. Just one of those that will sit with me for a while long after I've read it (I even added it to my favorites shelf). Adam, oh Adam, do men like you exist? Even though his character is a little OTT, he is still on my top hero list.

The Secret Pearl is another book where Mrs. Balogh uses a different, and for many authors and readers, forbidden theme as a plot device. At the beginning of the story, the heroine decides to work as a prostitute! This is not a spoiler as it does happen in the first pages. The hero is leaving the theatre one night when he sees a prostitute in the shadows, he asks her her price and he takes to an inn where the consummate the act. However she touches him in some way and realising she had been a

*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighOkay, for starters this had to be one of the looooongest books I've read in the sense that it just seemed to go on and on and on and on and on and....you get the picture.I usually enjoy books featuring courtesans, prostitutes and the like (not every heroine need be a virgin must they?!) and was excited to begin this read. It actually had a pretty good beginning that drew me in rather quickly. That excitement waned a bit when I found out that the hero

Mary Balogh books are just so hard for me to rate. 3.5 for The Secret Pearl. My 2 main issues are 1. I found it way to long. Balogh often alternates POV on the same scene and it just seems redundant. I never felt I learned anything new from the other characters POV. Just one Scene with the h/h POV in 3rd person would have done the trick for me. 2. We know that Fleur's first time was horrid and she is extremely weary of our hero but do you have to beat us over the head with it?? I got the

Supposed to be her best or one of her most beloved. I thought it was bad. Not horrible, but the two characters were pretty awful. Commenters on Amazon claim that he's "very honorable" I think because he only slept with her once, kissed her 2-3 times and castigated himself for it. I think he was NOT very honorable for the way he kept his wife believing a lie even knowing that it was killing her and making him miserable. How was it protecting her to know that she was pining for a loser? And how