Louise, the Restless by Katheryn Kimbroughpublished by Popular Library
Copyright 1978
LOUISE, THE RESTLESS
is one of the spellbinding novels in the greatest
series of gothic romances ever conceived.
You won't want to miss the others,
all exclusively in Popular Library editions.
On the surface, Louise seemed the most perfect of Vic-
torian young ladies - a beautiful, talented, charming
creature, the apple of her physician father's eye, and a
seemingly untouchable ideal to the young suitors who
flocked around her.
Only Louise knew of the fever that burned in her blood,
turning her life into an inferno of forbidden desire ... for
a handsome, worldly aristocrat with too much sensual
experience and seductive skill to be trusted ... for a
dazzling concert pianist with a wife who refused to give
him up ... for any man who promised to quench the rag-
ging fires that threatened to consume all of Louise's
hopes and dreams. There had been many Phenwick
women before Louise - but none so blessed with every
grace, and so damned by a curse that turned passion to
peril and made love another word for fear ...
Wow, who would have suspected the inferno of lust that could not be doused even by a center part and hood. Looks like the boys in town have really beaten a path to Louise's door by the looks of those ... wagon tracks?
Oh those wacky Victorians! Clearly, Louise just needs to get laid.
So, even in the crazy laid-back 1970s they couldn't just use the word "horny" in their blurb?
ReplyDeleteLooks to me like she's about to deliver a basket of goodies to grandma. That is, if a wolf doesn't fall victim to the "fever that burns in her blood" along the way.
~Cheers!
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